
So anyway to redeem herself she entered the Indian BB house a couple of weeks ago. A few days into her stay she had a phonecall in the diary room to say that she had cervical cancer and had to come back to the UK immediately for treatment. Since then some newspapers have accused her making the illness up for publicity, and timing the doctors call so that it would get her maximum exposure in the newspapers here.
The reality is that Jade is a 27-year-old mum of two who has cancer. It doesn’t matter what some newspaper editor may think of her, but the woman’s got to have a hysterectomy – having sympathy shouldn’t be something that’s up for debate.
The footage of her getting the phonecall in the Big Brother diary room, and her reaction to the news was aired on TV both here and in India. She didn’t give her permission, so what should have been a very personal moment was on TV news stations on both continents. And guess what the public watched…and watched…lapping it up.
We take the piss out of our reality TV stars/wannabe’s all the time… I mean essentially they’re fame hungry, money-hungry, and should really get a proper job. But it’s we the public and the media who feed into it, and create these stars. So is the blame then on us for Jade’s anguish and possible death into a free-for-all?
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