Jade Goody
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Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (born June 5, 1981 in Bermondsey, London) is a minor British celebrity. She is often held as a prime example of the growing cult of celebrity - being made arbitrarily famous by entertainment industry, and becoming a household name due to constant publicity and exposure in glossy magazines, and being famous for fame itself.
She first became known to the public when she was a contestant on the third series of the British version of the reality television series Big Brother, where she was the 10th person to be evicted. Since then, she has appeared almost constantly in celebrity, trivia, and gossip-oriented magazines such as Heat and OK.
In 2003 her television appearances included Celebrity Wife Swap, alongside Charles Ingram. Goody has on-off relationship with TV presenter Jeff Brazier, who is the father of her two sons.
She came fourth in the 100 Worst Britons poll by Channel 4.
On June 6, 2003 she gave birth to a son, Bobby Jack Brazier, who was born a month early, weighing 5lb 7oz. Her second son, Freddie, was born in September 2004. He weighed 6lbs 6oz and was also born one month early.
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 in Christmas 2004.
Goody's fame may be also due in part due to various quotes portraying her as being extremely uneducated and ignorant, and as such a perfect representative for the perceived attitudes of the British public towards deliberate apathy, trivia, and dumbing down:
Jadeisms
- Where is East Angular [sic], is it abroad?
- Rio de Janeiro - that's a person
- Saddam Hussein - that's a boxer
- A ferret is a bird
- I had my first birthday when I was one
- Who is heinzstein?
- Mother Theresa is from Germany
- Sherlock Holmes invented toilets
- The Union Jack is for all of us, but the St. George is just for London, isn't it?
- I knew Lynne was from Aberdeen, but I didn't realise Aberdeen was in Scotland
- What's a sparagus [sic]? Do you grow it?
- I am intelligent, but I let myself down because I can't speak properly or spell
- To PJ after he revealed he knew someone who kept pet peacocks: You see those things... don't think I'm being daft... but them things that look like eyes, are they their real eyes?
- Jonny, I'm not being tictactical in here
- They were trying to use me as an escape goat [sic]
- Do they speak Portuganese in Portugal? I thought Portugal was in Spain