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Publicity still of Jade Goody.

Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (born June 5, 1981 in Bermondsey, London) is a British reality television star who has turned her fifteen minutes of fame into a successful celebrity career. She is often held by some as a prime example of the growing cult of celebrity - being made arbitrarily famous by the entertainment industry, and becoming a household name due to constant publicity and exposure in glossy magazines.

Beginnings

Previously a dental nurse, Goody came to public attention in 2002 when she was a contestant on the third series of the British version of the reality television series Big Brother, where she finished in 4th place. Since then, she has gone on to make an estimated £1.5 million fortune in other reality shows and appears almost constantly in celebrity, trivia, and gossip-oriented magazines such as Heat and OK!. Goody also writes a weekly showbiz column for Closer magazine.

In 2003 her television appearances included Celebrity Wife Swap, alongside Charles Ingram, and Celebrity Driving School. Goody has an on-off relationship with TV presenter and fellow reality television regular Jeff Brazier, who is the father of her two sons, Bobby Jack, born a month early on June 6, 2003 and Freddie, born in September 2004.

Goody went Back To Reality on Five with former Big Brother contestants Nick Bateman and Craig Phillips in 2004. She also appeared in Channel 4's Big Brother Panto at Christmas 2004. In September 2005 she opened a beauty salon, Ugly's, in Hertford. The preparations for opening the salon were filmed for a Living TV series, Jade's Salon.

Further Career

On October 4, 2005 Goody was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting a £16 denim jacket from an Asda supermarket in Essex. She was later released after police decided there was not enough evidence to charge her. [1].

On March 25, 2006 Goody won Celebrity Stars in Their Eyes. Soon after, she appeared on the ITV1 makeover show 60 Minute Makeover, redecorating her mother Jackiey's house.

Goody signed up for the 2006 London Marathon. She did not finish the course, collapsing after 34 km (21 miles) of the 42.195 km (26.2 miles) and was taken to The Royal London Hospital to recover overnight. The Sun newspaper reported that the final action of the "panic-stricken" Goody was shouting "I'm Dying, I'm Dying". [2]

The reason why she couldn't finish the course (in her own words): "I don't really understand miles. I didn't actually know how far it was going to be."

"I'll be honest, I didn't take it seriously which is really bad of me because there's people out there who actually want to do the marathon," she said.

"I didn't realise how much commitment the marathon was. I had four training sessions, that's all I did. At most I could run half an hour on a treadmill," Goody said.

Before the race, Goody had seemed nonchalant of her poor efforts to train properly by announcing to TV chef Gordon Ramsay (who completed the course) "I've been eating curry and chinese and drinking." She raised around £850 for her selected charity, the NSPCC.

Goody's fame may be also due in part due to various quotes portraying her as being extremely uneducated and ignorant, and a symbol of British chav culture. She is considered a representative for the perceived attitudes of the British public towards deliberate apathy, trivia, and dumbing down.

She came fourth in the 100 Worst Britons poll by Channel 4.

On the 2 May 2006, Goody published her autobiography, which is also her first novel, in partnership with HarperCollins Entertainment, ingeniously titled Jade: My Autobiography. Though the book has faced mixed reviews by critics with its “basic sentence structures” and “overtly shallow narrative”, it has surprisingly sold well and has reached the top ten in many “Best Sellers” lists.

Goody is also planning to release a commercial fragrence later this year, rumoured to be called "Jade". She explains it as "vintage" and "sweet, just like me".

In May 2006 she also revealed at the Cannes Film Festival that she was lined up to appear in a feature length version of comedian, Catherine Tates TV show. In her acting debut Goody is apparently given an ASBO alongside main character and schoolgirl Lauren Cooper, whose famous catchphrase "Am I bovered?" has caught on across the British public and familiar quotes and sayings.

Quotations

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