UK TV star Jade Goody buried

Born : Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody
5 June 1981
Bermondsey, London, England
Died : 22 March 2009 (aged 27)
Upshire, Essex, England

Nationality: British
Other names: Jade Tweed
Occupation : Television personality
Known for : Big Brother
Religious beliefs: Christian
Spouse(s): Jack Tweed (2009)
Children : Bobby Jack Brazier (b. 2003)
Freddie Brazier (b. 2004)
Parents : Jackiey Budden
Andrew Goody (deceased)


LONDON (AFP) – The funeral of British reality television star Jade Goody, who died of cervical cancer last month, took place Saturday with as much flamboyance to mark her death as she showed in life.

Goody died on March 22 aged 27. She lived her whole adult life in the media spotlight after finishing fourth in the 2002 reality show "Big Brother" and transforming that brief notoriety into a career which made her a millionairess.

She released an autobiography, perfume and exercise video and was a fixture in Britain's tabloids. But her career was nearly ruined when she subjected Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty to racist bullying on 2007's "Celebrity Big Brother", although the two later made up.

Goody's final journey saw her body driven in a black, vintage Rolls-Royce hearse from Bermondsey, a poor southeast London area where she grew up, through the city's East End to a church in Buckhurst Hill, northeast of London, where her funeral took place.

Goody lived near the Saint John the Baptist Church and married her boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, close by in February after being told she had only weeks to live.

Thousands of well-wishers threw flowers at the procession as it passed by, while press photographers ran alongside the hearse, jostling for the best pictures. Funeral directors released a dove in her memory.

Floral wreathes spelling out some of loud-mouthed Goody's best-known catchphrases -- such as "minging" (disgusting) and "East Angular" (her mangled pronounciation of East Anglia, an area of England) -- were also on display.

As members of her family arrived for the funeral, thousands of people had gathered outside to watch the service on giant screens.

Tweed is expected to read a poem at the funeral, after which Goody will reportedly be buried in her wedding dress.

Goody's sons Bobby and Freddy, aged five and four, are not expected to attend the funeral and are thought to have gone on holiday with their father, television presenter Jeff Brazier, to Australia.

Her publicist Max Clifford has said the funeral will be "a very Jade Goody event".

Jade Goody Passes Away

Sad news. She may not have been a mega superstar here in the U.S. however British reality TV star Jade Goody, 27, lost her fight and passed away of cervical cancer this weekend. In the months leading up to her death Goody gave the media unprecedented access to her private life and hired publicist Max Clifford to make sure every step of her struggle was played out in front of the nation.

She'd been all over the media, making her battle with cancer very public. After her death was announced early yesterday morning, hundreds of pople arrived at her home in Essex to leave flowers and cards. She is survived by her two young sons, Bobby and Freddie.

Jade Goody: I think my boys know I’m dying

Reality TV star is preparing them for the worst

Jade Goody has finally found a way of telling her sons Freddie and Bobby that she's dying.

The Big Brother star has been told by doctors that she may only have weeks to live.

‘I have a book that the hospital gave me,’ she says. ‘It’s about a badger that’s dying and it explains about heaven and where people go.

'But I think my boys know now that I’m dying. Yeah, I think they do now. I’m going to read the book to them so they know what happens when I’m gone.’

But Jade, 27, is dreading the moment when she has to leave them.

‘The doctors will know when it’s time and they will tell me when it’s right for me to say goodbye to them,’ she says.

‘It’ll be so hard to do it, knowing I will never see them again, but I want them to see me before I get really poorly.

'Then I’d like to think that Jack and my close friends would be there around me when I do go.’

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Jade Goody marries Jack Tweed in fairytale wedding

Jade Goody, the reality television star diagnosed with terminal cancer, has fulfilled her dying wish by marrying fiancé Jack Tweed.









As with every other stage in Goody's life since she found fame on Big Brother seven years ago, the ceremony took place amid a media circus.

A television crew was on hand to capture the moment Goody, 27, exchanged vows with fiancé Jack Tweed, while a celebrity magazine paid £750,000 for the exclusive picture rights.

Goody organised the wedding in just seven days after learning she has weeks to live. She was diagnosed with cervical cancer in August and chemotherapy treatment failed to halt the spread of the disease
"It was a very heart-rending, happy ceremony. There were lots of tears and lots of smiles. She looked absolutely beautiful," said her publicist, Max Clifford, adding that the wedding had lifted her spirits: "She's absolutely thrilled. She's like a little one who has just woken up on Christmas Day."

Guests at the venue, Down Hall in Hertfordshire, dined on lobster tagliatelle and were serenaded by pop group Sugababes.

The bride wore a £3,500 gown donated by Harrods boss Mohamed Fayed. The 21-year-old groom wore an electronic tag, a condition of his early release from prison where he served a sentence for assault. The couple were able to spend their wedding night together after Jack Straw, the Justice Secretary, relaxed Tweed's curfew.

Despite her failing health, Goody was determined to walk down the aisle and a pocket was sewn into the lining of her dress to conceal an intravenous morphine supply. Nurses from the Royal Marsden Hospital were in attendance.
She was given away by her grandfather, John Craddock, who said it was both the happiest and saddest day of his life.

Goody has struck media deals in order to provide for her sons Bobby, five, and Freddie, four, after her death. Proceeds from the wedding will go into a trust fund and she wishes them to be privately educated, giving them the opportunities she was denied. Goody endured a miserable childhood on a council estate in Bermondsey, south London, brought up by a heroin-addicted lesbian mother.

The decision to turn her illness into a public spectacle has left some feeling uneasy. However, she received words of support yesterday from Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O'Connor, Archbishop of Westminster, who urged people to pray for her.

"A lot of people might say it's better if everything is quiet, but I think she's made a decision that she wants the last months of her life to teach people something," he said. Goody hopes her ordeal will dispel some of the taboos surrounding cervical cancer, and doctors report a significant increase in young women requesting smear tests.

Her life has been lived in public ever since her appearance on Channel 4's Big Brother in 2002, when her ignorance – such as a belief that there was a foreign country called "East Angular" - endeared her to the nation.

In 2007, she was branded a racist bully for her treatment of fellow Celebrity Big Brother contestant Shilpa Shetty, and became a national hate figure. Effigies of Goody were burned on the streets of India and she signed up for an Indian version of Big Brother last summer in an attempt to make amends. While there, she received her cancer diagnosis live on television.

Mr Clifford said of Goody's entrance: "She kept him waiting for about 45 minutes, but that's her prerogative, I'm told. It was lovely. The chapel was absolutely beautiful and there must have been close to 200 people there. When they came out after signing the register they got a standing ovation from everybody there."

Goody was unable to stand for the whole ceremony, asking near the end if she could sit down. However, Mr Clifford said: "I think it's a huge relief that she was able to handle it the way she did, because obviously it's been a huge worry to her."

The couple were "thrilled" to be spending what could be their only night of married life together. "They'll be spending the night together here, compliments of Jack Straw. We're very grateful to him for that," he said.

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