Which Indian author delivers detail on Jade Goody disarming honesty ?”
I’m not at all sure whether the argument that Jade Goody has forced people to think about cancer is anything but a smokescreen. While it can’t be a bad thing that more women will have smear tests, the interest in her untimely death says more about celebrity culture in this country than it does about anything else. The Sun alone has devoted the first nine pages of Monday’s paper to her, not to mention a 16-page pull out. She was of course, the product of a reality television show, but she was an unusual celebrity beyond that too. She had an ability to be utterly open about everything. Once she became a “celebrity”, this was even more the case. Where other celebrities hold a line between that which is public and private, with manufactured answers and a public face, with Jade, her most private thoughts, whether sensible or not, just trotted out of her mouth. For that, the media has loathed her, laughed at her but now, finally, they love her. The sadness at the heart of her story as a cele
