Jade Goody
- Profession: Reality TV Star
- Place/Date of Birth: Bermondsey, 05 June 2020
- Associated with: Celebrity Big Brother, Shilpa Shetty
"Jade will be mortified when she comes out to learn that her conduct is being interpreted as racist."
Jade’s CBB behaviour ’not racist’ - Jan 18 2007
Jade Goody’s behaviour on Celebrity Big Brother has not been racist, her spokeswoman insisted today.
Complaints about the show have now reached 30,000, following last night’s episode in which Jade launched a foul-mouthed tirade against Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty.
Viewers saw her tell Shilpa: "Go back to the slums."
But Jade’s spokeswoman said: "I would urge anyone who says that Jade is a racist to produce the evidence to support the claim.
"I have not heard Jade say anything that could be interpreted as a racist remark.
"I am not denying the fact that it appears Jade dislikes Shilpa, but I don’t believe her race is the reason."
Media watchdog Ofcom has received 27,000 complaints, with a further 3,000 viewers contacting Channel 4.
Directory enquiries firm 118 118 said it logged an unprecedented 1,058 calls last night from people asking who they should contact to complain about the programme.
Ofcom chief executive Ed Richards said he would be writing to Channel 4 about the show.
The programme is being monitored, he told the Oxford Media Convention, and if the organisation decides to take any action it will do so "under due process".
Mr Richards said the volume of complaints numbered 25,000 first thing this morning - "comfortably our
After the argument, an upset Shilpa complained for the first time that she was the victim of racist bullying.
And she said: "I’m representing my country. Is this what today’s
Jade and Shilpa up for eviction - Jan 17 2007
Shilpa Shetty and her tormentor Jade Goody will go head-to-head in the next Celebrity Big Brother evictions.
Jade, who has been labelled a racist, will now be favourite to get voted off the controversial show by angry viewers.
The nominations, confirmed by a source close to the show, come as the reality TV star told the Bollywood actress: "Go back to the slums".
The latest row, which look certain to further accusations of racism, blew up earlier in the day when Shilpa asked if there were any Oxo cubes left.
She sparked a furious reaction from Jade, Danielle and Jo when she said it was the only food she ordered in a shopping list.
Jade retaliated: "Don’t blatantly lie, don’t lie... don’t lie over something stupid. So what if I used an Oxo cube, shoot me."
Jo and Danielle began to laugh, and Jo added in front of Shilpa: "That’s made me feel better".
Jade tells Shilpa: "You’re not some princess here. You’re a normal housemate like everybody else. Everybody else."
Shilpa hits back: "Oh please learn some manners. You know what you need? You need elocution classes Jade."
Jade replies: "I don’t want elocution. I don’t want elocution. You know what you need? Some real life in your life."
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Jade caused a tabloid frenzy the minute she walked into the BB house with her idiotic questions and unbelievable lack of common sense. She asked if East Anglia was near Tunisia and if Cambridge was in London, she took her clothes off to reveal her ’kebab’, administered the infamous PJ BJ and got a minging verruca.
The tabloids branded her a fat pig and she bitched about all of her fellow housemates openly but somehow she made it through to the final four and gained thousands of fans along the way. When Jade left the house, she was interviewed on any and every chat show in the country, appeared on the cover of Heat five times (she was even their biggest selling cover star) and even had a Channel 4 follow up documentary, What Jade Did Next, made about her in the weeks following her eviction.
Having dropped three dress sizes in matter of months, the Bermondsey girl made one of the most successful exercise videos ever, even beating skinny Geri Halliwell’s yoga workout effort to the top DVD chart spot. In the meantime Jade fell in love with Jeff Brazier, Shipwrecked’s Essex wide boy and became pregnant with her first son, Bobby. Jeff and Jade have been on an off ever since, but have recently opened a tanning salon and beauty parlour together following Jade’s qualification as a beauty therapist.
Jade Goody remains a reality TV show legend most recently appearing in Celebrity Wife Swap with Millionaire cheat Major Charles Ingram while heavily pregnant and hormonal and Back To Reality, Five’s flop Big Brother rip off in which Jade showed the nation she hadn’t learnt anything new, asking James Hewitt if he’d been ’sworded’ and if wood pigeons were like ferrets.
November 2007