Jade Goody - Diagnosed With Cancer

[KirstyEkua]

It's very sad her life had to end this way and my thoughts are with her family and friends, especially her sons.

As for the paparazzi and media, they're ruthless and are not going to stop hounding her family. Jade pretty much sold herself to them when she was dying, and this is what happens, unfortunately.

[Jess]

It's very sad her life had to end this way and my thoughts are with her family and friends, especially her sons.

As for the paparazzi and media, they're ruthless and are not going to stop hounding her family. Jade pretty much sold herself to them when she was dying, and this is what happens, unfortunately.

In fairness, though, with someone like Jade, even if she hadn't made her death so publicly visible the paparazzi would still be hounding them insanely.

[Cat3]

I'm glad that Jade died in her sleep, that's a nice way to go for her.

Jade died in her sleep this morning at around 3.55am [ time is by Sky News ]

R.I.P Jade

[-Kevin-]

It's very sad her life had to end this way and my thoughts are with her family and friends, especially her sons.

As for the paparazzi and media, they're ruthless and are not going to stop hounding her family. Jade pretty much sold herself to them when she was dying, and this is what happens, unfortunately.

In fairness, though, with someone like Jade, even if she hadn't made her death so publicly visible the paparazzi would still be hounding them insanely.

Yeah exactly!!

RIP Jade.

The new series of Big Brother in the summer is said to be dedicated to Jade.

[nia06rox]

R.I.P Jade Goody XxX

[halcyon06]

R.I.P x

[river4ever]

Very sad news, I admit I wasn't a big fan of her but it's awful that she has died so young and now her 2 little boys will have to grow up without their mum. I'm glad Jade's story has made more people aware about this horrible illness, just the other week I was reading about how the number of women going for smear tests have increased since Jade's diagnosis.

Again, it's very saddening, especially as it's mothers day. RIP Jade

[I love music]

I was never a Jade Goody fan, but that is so very sad for those two little kids. Even when I heard she had cancer, I somehow expected (naively) that she'd make a full recovery. RIP.

[-Kevin-]

It is really sad that she had to die on mothers day of all days

She was hoping to see her 2 boys for a while today

[-Kevin-]

The Prime Minister has spoken of the courage and determination that Jade Goody showed in the months leading up to her death from cancer.

Gordon Brown said that he was "deeply saddened" by today's passing of the 27-year-old, adding that her work to raise awareness of cervical cancer since her diagnosis last August would benefit thousands of women in the UK.

Floral tributes have been piling up outside the Essex home of the mother-of-two, who rose to fame as a contestant on the Channel 4 reality show Big Brother.

Stephen Fry said on his Twitter mini-blog that Goody was a "kind of Princess D from the wrong side of the tracks", while fellow Celebrity Big Brother contestant Shilpa Shetty said: "I am deeply saddened by the news but in hindsight glad she is out of pain and passed away peacefully in her sleep."

Reverend Jonathan Blake, who officiated at Goody's marriage to Jack Tweed last month, told Sky News that Goody had "laughed in the face of death".

"Her great sense of generosity of spirit, particularly in allowing us to take a journey to the rainbow bridge between this world and the next, is a source of inspiration to people and families who are going through the exact same thing," he said.

Big Brother producer Phil Edgar-Jones said that she had touched a lot of people because she was so "real", adding: "She represented an idea that you could get opportunities and if you get opportunities you could make the most of them, no matter where you came from, and I think that's inspired a lot of people over the years