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As touching as the story is of Jade Goody dying, there’s something remarkably macabre about the press coverage of it all. I cannot remember another celebrity having so much coverage over a terminal illness. To me, headlines such as, “Shuddering Jade’s lips turned blue” are a little bit tasteless. It doesn’t seem all that long ago that the press were dubbing her Gobby Jade and calling her a racist bully. Now, she is our “brave Jade”.

It has to be said, she has handled it brilliantly, openly admitting that she’ll do any press coverage in order to make money to leave to her sons. Fair play to her.

Her wedding to Jack Tweed will get the full press exposure, and no doubt her illness will grace the front pages until Jade is dead. But when we actually look at the life of Jade Goody, does it really warrant such attention? Big brother contestant, a few excersice videos, a racial scandal, and here we are, watching a sick woman die. When we scan the daily headlines is this really the kind of the thing we want to read about and see images of? It’s a story purely for the car-crash rubber-neckers.

The wedding will be aired live on thursday, March 12 at 9pm on Living TV.