Parkinson: 'Jade Goody was a wretched role model'

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http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6048656.ece

Jade Goody, the reality TV star who died last month of cervical cancer aged 27, represented “all that is paltry and wretched about Britain”, Sir Michael Parkinson has said.

He told Radio Times: "Jade Goody has her own place in the history of television and, while it’s significant, it’s nothing to be proud of. Her death is as sad as the death of any young person, but it’s not the passing of a martyr or a saint or, God help us, Princess Di.

“When we clear the media smoke screen from around her death, what we’re left with is a woman who came to represent all that’s paltry and wretched about Britain today.

“She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and became a media chattel to be exploited till the day she died.”

At least someone has the balls to say it.

 

[spitzoid]

Well what has Michael got to show for his glorious existence? Chatting inanely on a sofa and inventing some sort of disease, but that's about it.

 

[paradigm]

Well what has Michael got to show for his glorious existence? Chatting inanely on a sofa and inventing some sort of disease, but that's about it.

:/

You can't seriously be defending Ms Goody?

Well for a start, Mr Parkinson has served his country, rather than leeched from it as with the aforementioned Jade.

 

[Muffin`]

Well I'm glad someone said it.

 

[antijoke]

Well said that man!

 

[bailey12856]

:/

You can't seriously be defending Ms Goody?

I think he just has :|

 

[Viper²]

I said it two weeks ago.

 

[Janesy B]

Well what has Michael got to show for his glorious existence? Chatting inanely on a sofa and inventing some sort of disease, but that's about it.

You are one misinformed and ignorant person.

 

[jmhduck]

I agree with this, I personally didn't like her.

 

[Muffin`]

I said it two weeks ago.

fail

 

[Jono]

And I'm glad it was him.

I feel sorry for the lass and her kids (wouldn't wish cancer or the loss of a parent on anyone), sure, but there's nothing special about her whatsoever.

 

[spitzoid]

:/

You can't seriously be defending Ms Goody?

Not defending anything, just pointing out that all these people who comment on the Goody show probably haven't got much to show for their own existence in reality either if you analysis what they do.

 

[BenjiSayers]

Well what has Michael got to show for his glorious existence? Chatting inanely on a sofa and inventing some sort of disease, but that's about it.

Well someone obviously thinks he has done something with his life, enough for him to get knighted anyway.

 

[Mulder]

She was a bad role model if you ask me, not just nothing special.

 

[spitzoid]

You are one misinformed and ignorant person.

Thanks for your input, I think you'll find it was said with tongue in cheek though so again, thanks for your constructive thoughts.

 

[Viper²]

Not defending anything, just pointing out that all these people who comment on the Goody show probably haven't got much to show for their own existence in reality either if you analysis what they do.

Neither has she...

 

[reflux]

Parky's spot on. She represents the worst things about this country - ignorance and laziness.

Her death is sad, but it doesn't make her any less of a plank.

 

[The Dread Pirate]

YAYY for Parky!

 

[spitzoid]

Well someone obviously thinks he has done something with his life, enough for him to get knighted anyway.

Well, you obviously think that being knighted is something to be proud of whereas I do not.

 

[paradigm]

Well, you obviously think that being knighted is something to be proud of whereas I do not.

So what have you done with your miserable existance, other than troll here?