The Jade Musical: Goody or Baddy?

After the death of former BB star in March this year, Jade Goody is set to make a comeback on the west end from the beyond. So the question we need to ask ourselves is: Why?

Yes it is all very tragic, a young loss of life and all, but how is it that the British public as well as the English Media are so fickle? Jogging our minds back to her earlier Essex self in 2002, when she featured in the Channel 4 show, Goody became a target of ridicule in the British tabloid press for displaying a severe lack of general knowledge for a British native. Is it me or has the British public developed a severe sense of amnesia?

Not to mention the infamous racist slurs screeched at Bollywood Actress, Shilpa Shetty in 2007, resulting in an international outcry and her eviction from the show. At one point after the controversy, Goody even appeared on This Morning revealing that Social Services had been involved with dealing with her two young sons.

Now after all this, you would think she would want to keep a low profile. However, having become involved in a "vicious fight with a female partygoer at an Essex nightclub before turning her rage onto a security guard" according to the Daily Mail; reveal that Goody had other plans. Whilst, current husband, Jack Tweed pulled a similar stunt and was convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm for attacking a 16-year-old boy in 2006. Consequently we find ourselves pondering over how she was compared to Princess Diana as the “People’s Princess.”

Worldwide it is estimated that there are 473,000 cases of cervical cancer, and 253,500 deaths per year. How is it that this approximation was not even mentioned throughout her illness and the prime focus of the media was just of one case, Jade Goody? I found it incredibly amazing that Goody ‘did all to make her sons comfortable’ yet was happy to splash her ailment across the newspaper on a regular basis as a daily reminder.

So when I was getting my regular fix of news from my reliable source, the BBC one morning; I almost choked on my coffee to see “TV plan to find Jade musical star.” Yes, Goody has done an MJ and come back from the dead. But in Clifford’s words- “She was tabloid gold.”

In the end we shake our heads and scoff, and hope that Britain gets a grip on reality.