Russell Copeman (born April 1, 1960 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician. He was the Liberal Member of the National Assembly of Quebec (MNA) representing the riding of Notre-Dame-de-Grâce from 1994 to 2008.

He graduated from Vanier College and received a Bachelor of Arts with honours in political science from McGill University in 1983. While at McGill, in 1982 he was the Prime Minister of the Parlement Jeunesse du Québec, then known as the Quebec Youth Parliament.^[1] He attended Concordia University in 1984 where he pursued graduate studies in public administration. From 1986 to 1988, he was the Assistant Director of the Education Program, Director of Social Affairs and Director of the Education Program for Alliance Quebec. In 1989, he was the political aide to the Minister of Energy and Resources. From 1989 to 1991, he was the Quebec Liberal Party coordinator and from 1991 to 1994 he was the constituency assistant to former Quebec Premier Robert Bourassa.

In the 1994 election, he was elected to the National Assembly in Notre-Dame-de-Grâce. He was re-elected in the 1998, 2003 and 2007 elections. He was chair of the Standing Committee on Social Affairs from June 2003 to February 2007. He was the Parliamentary Assistant to the Minister of Health and Social Services. Copeman resigned on October 22, 2008 after accepting a job as Associate Vice-President at Concordia University.^[2]

Active in National Assembly relations with the United States he was the 2007 Chairman of the Council of State Government's Eastern Regional Conference.

He is married and has three children.

Electoral record[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• "Biography" (in French). Dictionnaire des parlementaires du Québec de 1792 à nos jours. National Assembly of Quebec. http://www.assnat.qc.ca/en/deputes/copeman-russell-2643/index.html. 

Laura Marling
Performing at The Queen's Hall, Edinburgh, in November 2009.
Background information
Born	(1990-02-01) 1 February 1990 (age 22)
Origin	Eversley, Hampshire, England
Genres	Contemporary folk, folk rock
Instruments	Vocals, guitar, bass, piano
Years active	2006–present
Labels	WayOutWest, Virgin
Associated acts	Noah and the Whale, The Rakes, Mystery Jets, Johnny Flynn, Mumford & Sons
Website	LauraMarling.com

Laura Beatrice Marling (born 1 February 1990) is an English folk musician from Eversley, Hampshire.

Initially prominent within the London folk scene, she has also toured with a number of well-known indie artists in the UK. Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim and her second album I Speak Because I Can were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 2008 and 2010 respectively. She won Best Female Solo Artist at the 2011 Brit Awards.

Biography[link]

Marling was born in Hampshire, England, the youngest of three daughters of a music teacher,^[1] and learned guitar at an early age. Her father, who ran a recording studio, introduced her to folk music and shaped her musical taste. This was "a bit of a blessing and a bit of a curse. I couldn’t slot myself into the age-appropriate genre", she later remembered.^[2] Marling was educated at Leighton Park School, a private Quaker school in Reading, Berkshire.^[3] She has said that during this time she felt uneasy around other people and had a fear of death.^[4]

At the age of 16 Marling moved to London, where she soon became part of a cluster of intertwined bands drawn to acoustic instruments and tradition-tinged melodies which formed a movement labelled "nu-folk" by the British press.^[2] She became part of the original line-up of indie folk band Noah and the Whale and was romantically linked with singer/guitarist Charlie Fink.^[3][5] She is featured as a background vocalist on their début album Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down; however, she left the group before the album's 2008 release and split up with Fink that same year.^[5][6] She also appeared on The Rakes track "Suspicious Eyes", from the band's 2007 album Ten New Messages, credited as 'Laura Marlin'. Marling would later collaborate with Mystery Jets, contributing guest vocals to the single "Young Love", released 10 March 2008. Previously, Marling was in a relationship with Marcus Mumford; they broke up around Christmas 2010, but are reportedly still friends.^[7]

[edit] Alas, I Cannot Swim

She was personally invited to tour with Jamie T after he attended her second-ever solo gig. She has also toured with a number of other musicians from the UK and beyond, including Adam Green from the anti-folk band The Moldy Peaches. She performed at the 2007 O₂ Wireless Festival and also performed at the first Underage Festival in August 2007 at Victoria Park, East London, before releasing her debut EP "London Town" on WayOutWest Records.

Her debut album Alas, I Cannot Swim was released on 4 February 2008,^[8] and later nominated for the 2008 Mercury Prize.^[9] The album, as well as subsequent singles, were released on Virgin Records. The third and final single from her album, "Night Terror" was released on 27 October 2008, coinciding with a 6-date "Night Terror tour".^[10]

Marling's television appearances include The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson and Later With Jools Holland, performing "Ghosts" and "New Romantic" respectively. In 2008 she appeared on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show alongside her sister. She once chose to perform on the street after being denied entry to one of her own performances for being underage.^[11][12]

[edit] I Speak Because I Can

The follow-up to Alas I Cannot Swim, titled I Speak Because I Can, was released on 22 March 2010. Produced by Ethan Johns, the album has a more mature sound and lyricism, dealing with "responsibility, particularly the responsibility of womanhood."^[13] The album is preceded by the singles "Goodbye England (Covered in Snow)", released on iTunes in December 2009^[14] and "Devil's Spoke" on 15 March 2010. On 28 March 2010, I Speak Because I Can entered the UK Albums Chart at Number 4. It was also nominated for the 2010 Mercury Music Prize.

[edit] A Creature I Don't Know

In 2010, Marling announced that she would release two albums in 2010, the first of which being I Speak Because I Can. She later announced that there was a change of plan and that she wouldn't be releasing a second album that year. She did, however, add that the album would be better due to the delay, and that she hoped to have it finished for February 2011. In June 2011, the new album's title was revealed to be A Creature I Don't Know and the album was released on 12 September 2011.^[15]

Discography[link]

• Alas, I Cannot Swim (2008)
• I Speak Because I Can (2010)
• A Creature I Don't Know (2011)

Laura Marling also has recorded various songs such as "Soulless Child", "Candlelight", "Karma" and "Mexico" (all of which can be heard on YouTube but are not yet for sale) as well as "She's Changed" (of which a live version is for sale, but not a studio version) and "Such a Shame" (which is neither for sale nor available on YouTube).

Awards and nominations[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Laura Marling

• Official Website

Frederick Ronald (Fred) Williams OBE (23 January 1927 - 22 April 1982) was an Australian painter and printmaker. He was one of Australia’s most important artists, and one of the twentieth century’s major painters of the landscape. He had more than seventy solo exhibitions during his career in Australian galleries, as well as the exhibition Fred Williams - Landscapes of a Continent at the Museum of Modern Art in New York in 1977.

Early life and education[link]

Fred Williams was born in 1927 in Richmond, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, the son of an electrical engineer and a Richmond housewife.^[4] Williams left school at 14 and was apprenticed to a firm of Melbourne shopfitters and box makers.^[4] From 1943 to 1947 he studied at the National Gallery School, Melbourne, at first part-time and then full-time from 1945 at the age of 16. The Gallery School was traditional and academic, with a long and prestigious history. He also began lessons under George Bell the following year, who had his own art school in Melbourne. This continued until 1950. Bell was a conservative modern artist but a very influential teacher.

Between 1951 and 1956, Williams studied part-time at the Chelsea School of Art, London (now Chelsea College of Art and Design) and in 1954 he did an etching course at the Central School of Arts and Crafts. He lived in a South Kensington bedsit and subsidised his art practice by working part-time at Savage’s picture framers.^[4] Williams returned to Melbourne in 1956, when his family was able to send him a cheap ticket aboard a ship bringing visitors to the Melbourne Olympics.^[4]

He had work included in the 'Recent Australian Painting' exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and 'Australian Painting: Colonial, Impressionism, Modern' at the Tate Gallery.

Work[link]

After mainly working with figures in early paintings and etchings, he began painting landscapes after returning to Melbourne in 1957, which remained the major theme in his art.

While learning etching and printing in London, he produced vivid caricatured sketches of contemporary London life. It was during this period that he established his method of reworking the same motif a number of times in a number of mediums and very often over a number of years.

As an artist concerned with form over subjectivity, Williams' approach struck a jarring note against the unity of many of his close associates such as John Brack, Arthur Boyd and Charles Blackman, the authors of the famous ‘Antipodean’ manifesto of 1959. Williams' work was excluded from their major exhibition. As heirs to the expressionist tradition, the Antipodeans lauded a spontaneous, improvised approach to painting and saw the function of art as vested in its expressive potential. They had little time for - and, in fact, denounced - the 'new' art emerging from Europe, the influences which were increasingly informing Williams' development.

On his return to Australia, Williams saw the aesthetic potential of the Australian bush in its inherent plasticity. His interest in finding an aesthetic 'language' with which to express the very un-European Australian landscape. This was grounded in establishing a pictorial equivalent to the overwhelmingly vast, primarily flat landscape, in which the traditional European relationship of foreground to background breaks down, necessitating a complete re-imagining of compositional space. In this, Williams looked to the approach taken by Australian Aboriginal artists.

He did this by tilting the landscape up against the picture plane, so that frequently the only indicator of horizontal recession is the presence of a horizon line, or where clumps of trees huddle closer together towards the horizon, suggesting recession. Where no horizon is visible, the landscape runs fully parallel to the picture plane, as in the major You Yangs series of the mid-1960s. Here, calligraphic knots of pigment indicate the presence of single trees against the earth, as if seen from the air (example).

Williams' first Australian landscape series was based on the Nattai River (1957-58).^[5][6]

Williams' landscapes recorded the passage of the Yarra River from its source to its mouth.^[5]

In 1960, Williams was invited to enter for the Helena Rubenstein Travelling Art Scholarship, the richest and most prestigious art prize at the time with an award of £1000 plus £300 travel expenses aimed at giving the winner overseas experience.^[7] Five paintings were required for his entry and he selected Landscape with a steep road (1957), Landscape with a building I (c. 1957–58), The forest pond (c. 1959–60), Sherbrooke Forest (1960) and The St George River (1960).^[8] He won in 1963 and it proved to be a turning point in his career which, according to fellow artist Jan Senbergs, brought Williams wide acclaim, especially from many influential curators and critics.^[9] Sydney art dealer Rudy Komon took Williams on as one of his key artists which enabled Williams to discontinue his part-time work with a Melbourne picture-framer and paint full-time.^[9]

In 1969, Williams started using a horizontal strip format in his landscape paintings in order to present different aspects of one scene on the same sheet.^[10] In 1970, Williams produced a group of four large strip format gouache-on-paper paintings called the West Gate Bridge series showing the half-constructed West Gate Bridge over the Yarra River in Melbourne.^[11] A section of the bridge collapsed on 15 October 1970, while it was still under construction, killing thirty-five workers. Williams had planned to paint the length of the river, but his widow, Lyn said he "lost heart in the project" after the accident.^[12] In his Beachscape with bathers Queenscliff I-IV series from 1971, Williams painted from the top of a cliff overlooking the beach during a seaside holiday.^[10] Each sheet is broken horizontally into four separate strips representing a different time of day and corresponding shift in the colour and tone of the scene as Williams recorded the effects of light on the landscape.^[10] By 1971 he had developed the technique extensively, moving from a vertical format to a horizontal format.^[10]

In March 1974, Williams travelled to Erith Island in Bass Strait between Victoria and Tasmania with the historians Stephen Murray-Smith and Ian Turner, and fellow painter Clifton Pugh.^[13] Poor weather prevented Williams and his friends from leaving the island when they had intended.^[13] When the weather broke Williams painted a number of gouaches, including Beachscape, Erith Island I and II which employ the horizontal strip format.^[13] The Beachscape, Erith Island pictures show the point where the sea joins the land depicted as if looking down from above in the form of four strips.^[13] Williams recorded the event in his diary from 27–28 March 1974, "I do 'strip' paintings of the beach using sand glued on – but the wind has worn me to a 'frazzle' … My final half doz. strip paintings are my best."^[13]

In May 1976, while Williams and his wife Lyn were visiting Paris and Bologna, many of Williams's paintings and all gouaches stored at the Barrett Malt Factory in Richmond were damaged by a fire.^[14]

In 1976, Williams flew over the Northern Territory at night on his way to an art fair in Bologna, Italy. He saw lines of bushfires burning and later that year produced the twelve-sheeted gouache series, Bushfire in Northern Territory.^[15]

In February 1979, Williams visited the Lal Lal Falls on the Moorabool River to the west of Melbourne near Ballarat and painted the Lal Lal polyptych, a four panel painting that he regarded as a single work.^[16][17] The successive canvases of the polyptych depict the changes in light on the waterfall and the surrounding landscape.^[16] Williams painted the last of his major landscapes, the four panel Waterfall polyptych (oil on canvas, each 183.0 cm x 152.5 cm), in his studio in 1979 based on the Lal Lal polyptych.^[16][18][19] He described the studio painting as "a major effort on my part" and it is regarded as one of the most important works of his career.^[16][20] Williams said that his "enthusiasm was fired" by Eugene von Guérard's Waterfall, Strath Creek from 1862.^[21][22]

In the last years of his career, Williams produced more landscape series with strong themes, his last being the Pilbara series (1979–81), which remained intact as it was acquired by Con-Zinc Rio Tinto Group, the mining company that had invited him to explore the arid north-west region of Australia

Awards[link]

Williams received a Helena Rubinstein Travelling Art Scholarship in 1963.^[23][9] In 1976 he was named an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE), and awarded a Doctorate of Law (Honoris Causa) by Monash University in 1980.^[3]

Williams won the Wynne Prize for landscape painting twice; in 1966 with Upwey Landscape and in 1976 with Mt. Kosciusko.

His painting Upwey Landscape (1965) sold for $1,987,700 in one of the final auctions of Christie's in Australia in April 2006, which at the time was the second highest price for any work sold at an Australian auction.^[24] In September 2007, auction house Deutscher-Menzies broke their sales record with Williams' Landscape with Water Ponds (1965) selling for $1,860,000.^[25] The most expensive work sold at an Australian auction in 2009 was Williams' 1965 Evening Sky, Upwey, which sold for $1.15 million.^[26][27]

Two of Williams' paintings, Dry Creek Bed, Werribee Gorge I (1977) and Drifting Smoke (1981) were included in Quintessence Editions Ltd.'s 2007 edition of 1001 Paintings You Must See Before You Die.^[28] Williams' work is also represented in William Splatt's 100 Masterpieces of Australian Landscape Painting.

Personal life[link]

Williams met Lyn Watson in January 1960 while painting at Sherbrooke. They were married in March 1961 and moved to the inner-city suburb of South Yarra.^[29] They had three daughters: Isobel, Louise and Kate. In 1963 the couple moved to Upwey, Victoria in the Dandenong Ranges outside Melbourne, a location that would have a decisive impact on his work. In 1964 they travelled through Europe on a Helena Rubenstein Scholarship. In 1969 Williams moved to Hawthorn, an inner suburb of Melbourne.

Death and legacy[link]

In November 1981, Williams was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer.^[30] He died less than six months later in Hawthorn on 22 April 1982, aged 55.^[4] Fellow artist and friend John Brack gave the eulogy at his funeral. He said^[4]

Fred brought us a new vision of Australia’s landscape at least as valid and impressive as any of the two or three major illuminations which went before it. He changed the way we see our country: an achievement which will live long after all of us are gone.

—John Brack

Williams' estate[link]

Williams' estate is managed by his widow, Lyn Williams.^[31] Lyn bought a former factory in inner-Melbourne in 1989 and has managed the artist's estate from there since she sorted through his studio at their former home in Hawthorn.^[31] All of the artist's known works have been catalogued on a database.^[31] The building houses Williams' easel, brushes, the leather-bound diaries he kept from 1963 until his death, clipping books, a range of works and includes a gallery for hanging and photographing the artist's works.^[31] Works that are donated to public galleries and museums are prepared there.^[31] In 2009, Lyn Williams completed her ongoing gift to the National Gallery of Victoria (NGV) of the prints of Fred Williams.^[32]

Major collections[link]

• Holmes à Court Collection^[33]

Notes[link]

References[link]

• Grant, Kirsty (2006). Fred Williams: Pilbara Series. National Gallery Of Victoria. ISBN 978-0-7241-0217-4. 
• McCaughey, Patrick (2008). Fred Williams 1927-1982. Murdoch Books. ISBN 978-1-74196-087-7. 
• Mollison, James (1989). A singular vision: The art of Fred Williams. Australian National Gallery-Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-554911-9. 

Further reading[link]

• Brack, John; Mollison, James (1968). Fred Williams: Etchings. Rudy Komon Gallery. 
• Capon, Edmund; Ryan, Anne (2001). From Music Hall to Landscape. Fred Williams: Drawings and Prints. Art Gallery of NSW. ISBN 978-0-7347-6317-4. 
• McCaughey, Patrick (2005). Fred Williams: The Later Landscapes, 1975 - 1981. LA Louver. ISBN 978-0-9765585-1-4. 
• Zdanowicz, Irena; Coppel, Stephen (2004). Fred Williams: An Australian Vision. Etchings, Drawings and Gouaches in the British Museum. British Museum Press. ISBN 978-0-7141-2639-5. 
• Zdanowicz, Irena (2005). "Painting from the Inside Out: Fred Williams’ Travels and His Relationship to the European Tradition". Melbourne Art Journal (Melbourne Art Network) (8). 

See also[link]

Australian art

External links[link]

• Fred Williams Image Gallery
• Fred Williams, The Later Landscapes, 1975 - 1981, LA Louver gallery
• Fred Williams in Queensland: Exhibition review by Grafico Topico's Sue Smith
• Infinite Horizons - Major retrospective, National Gallery of Australia

Jade Goody
Goody in 2007
Born	Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (1981-06-05)5 June 1981 Bermondsey, London, England
Died	22 March 2009(2009-03-22) (aged 27) Upshire, Essex, England
Cause of death	Metastatic cervical cancer
Resting place	Epping Forest
Nationality	British
Occupation	Television personality
Years active	2002–2009
Known for	Big Brother Celebrity Big Brother
Religion	Christianity[1]
Spouse	Jack Tweed (2009)
Partner	Jeff Brazier (2002–2004) Ryan Amoo (2005)
Children	Bobby Jack Brazier (b. 2003) Freddie Brazier (b. 2004)
Parents	Jackiey Budden Andrew Goody (deceased)

Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (5 June 1981 – 22 March 2009)^[2][3] was an English celebrity. She came into the public spotlight while appearing on the third series of the then Channel 4 reality TV programme Big Brother in 2002, an appearance which led to her own television programmes and the launch of her own products after her eviction from the show.^[4][5][6] In 2003, following her public appearance in Big Brother, Goody was voted by the public as the fourth worst Briton in the British TV station Channel 4's 100 Worst Britons as inspired by the BBC series 100 Greatest Britons.^[7]

In January 2007, she was a housemate in Celebrity Big Brother.^[8] During the show she was accused of racist bullying against Indian actress Shilpa Shetty.^[9] Following her eviction from the show, she admitted her actions had been wrong and she subsequently made many public apologies.^[8] In late 2007 and early 2008, several public polls put Goody in an unfavourable light.^[10][11]

In August 2008, she appeared on the Indian version of Big Brother, Bigg Boss,^[12] but withdrew early from the show and returned to the UK after being told she had cervical cancer.^[13] In February 2009, after the cancer metastasised, she was told that it was terminal.^[14][15] She married Jack Tweed on 22 February 2009^[16] and died, one month later, in the early hours of 22 March 2009.^[3] Sky Living have aired four tribute shows to Goody from 2009 to 2011 documenting her early life to fame and her final months. The final ever episode of Big Brother on Channel 4 featured a 15-minute tribute to Goody hailing her as the ultimate Big Brother contestant.

Career[link]

[edit] 2002–03: Big Brother 3

When she appeared on Big Brother 3, Goody became a target of ridicule in the British tabloid press^[17] for displaying a severe lack of general knowledge for a British native. Goody thought that the English city of Cambridge was in London.^[18] On being told that Cambridge is in East Anglia, she assumed that to be abroad, and referred to it as "East Angular".^[19] Her other misconceptions included that Rio de Janeiro is a person and not a city, that Portugal is part of Spain, that the St George's Cross is not the Flag of England but only the flag of London, and lack of awareness that Aberdeen is in Scotland and that the United States is an English-speaking country.^[19] She also was criticised by the tabloid press during her time in the Big Brother house for an evening during which she cavorted drunk and naked^[20] and also was criticised for "backstabbing".^[21] She avoided eviction by not being put up for the public vote until week 6, by which time the peak of the media's disliking of her had passed. By then she had become popular with a substantial proportion of the media and general public, and as a result stayed in the house until the final week; she finished fourth. She also provided what was believed to be the first instance of sexual contact in Big Brother UK history, with a drunken grope with fellow housemate PJ, though it is unclear what sexual acts, if any, took place.^[22]

2003–06: Initial fame and Sky Living series[link]

Goody fronted her own reality TV shows^[23] and appeared regularly in celebrity, trivia, and gossip-oriented women's magazines such as Heat and OK!. Goody signed up for the 2006 London Marathon.^[24] She did not finish the course, collapsing after 34 km (21 mi) of the 42.195 kilometres (26.219 mi), and was taken to the Royal London Hospital to recover overnight.^[25] Before the race, Goody described her preparations to TV chef, Gordon Ramsay. "I've been eating curry, Chinese and drinking." Afterwards, she explained: "I don't really understand miles. I didn't actually know how far it was going to be. ... I didn’t want to let everyone down."^[26] Goody raised over £550 for her chosen charity, the NSPCC.^[27]

On 2 May 2006, Goody published her autobiography titled Jade: My Autobiography^[28] and in June she launched her own fragrance, Shh ... Jade Goody.^[29] It was launched by Superdrug in the summer of 2005^[5] and became the store's third best selling fragrance behind Kylie Minogue's and Victoria Beckham's.^[5]

[edit] 2007–08: Celebrity Big Brother 5

Just before entering the house, Goody ranked number 25 in a poll by Heat for the most influential person in the world.^[2] Her lifetime earnings were cited to be between £2 million and £8 million by this point.^[5][30] On 5 January 2007 Goody, her mother Jackiey Budden, and her boyfriend Jack Tweed entered the Big Brother House for Celebrity Big Brother 2007.^[8] Upon entering the Big Brother House, Goody was informed that she and her family (later joined by Jermaine Jackson, Shilpa Shetty and Ken Russell) would stay in the main house in luxury, while the eight other remaining celebrities would become their servants and live in the house next door.^[31] Goody was not informed that she and her new family faced an eviction in which the public voted for their favourite to keep in the house. Her mother, Jackiey, was the first to be evicted, on 10 January 2007.^[32]

Goody was accused of making derogatory and racist comments both about and to her fellow housemate Shilpa Shetty, which led to the Celebrity Big Brother racism controversy.^[33] The fact that she was supporting anti-bullying charity Act Against Bullying during these events compounded her problems.^[34] A number of complaints were received by the British broadcasting regulator Ofcom about the behaviour of Jo O'Meara, Danielle Lloyd and Goody towards Shetty.^[35] By 20 January, Ofcom received a record of more than 44,500 complaints from members of the public,^[8][36] while Channel 4 received an additional 3,000 complaints.^[37]

Among Goody's comments were: "I've seen how she goes in and out of people's arseholes",^[38] as well as suggesting Shetty "makes [her] skin crawl".^[39] She also referred to Shetty as 'Shilpa Fuckawalla' and 'Shilpa Poppadom'. Goody said afterwards: "She is Indian, thinking of an Indian name and only thing I could think of was Indian food. Wasn't racial at all. It was not to offend any Indian out there."^[40] Cleo Rocos to Shetty: "I don't think there's anything racist in it." Shetty: "It is, I'm telling you."^[41] However Shetty later changed her opinion stating "I don't feel there was any racial discrimination happening from Jade's end... I think that there are a lot of insecurities from her end but it's definitely not racial," Shetty said in the show's diary room.^[42] The incident created an international outcry, gaining heavy coverage in the Indian media. Gordon Brown, then British Chancellor of the Exchequer, who was visiting India at the time, condemned the programme on the grounds that he was against anything which might damage the perception that Britain is a country of tolerance.^[43] In a statement on 17 January Channel 4 defended the programme against charges "of overt racism or racial abuse".^[44] Goody was evicted from the Big Brother house on 19 January 2007 receiving 82% of the vote when up against Shetty.^[45]

On 19 January, she was evicted from the Big Brother house. Channel 4 banned crowds gathering outside the house to greet Goody and cancelled a press conference with her.^[46] In her interview with Davina McCall immediately afterwards, she stated that she was "disgusted with [her]self" after watching a video of the alleged bullying.^[47] Her much publicised return to the Big Brother house was branded "a terrible decision" by publicist Max Clifford, who also said "it looks like she has ruined a very lucrative career".^[48]

Ultimately Channel 4 received a rebuke from Ofcom over its handling of the Celebrity Big Brother race row that resulted in more than 54,000 complaints.^[49] It emerged that there were various other, unbroadcast incidents of alleged racism.^[50] They included a late night "limerick game" between O'Meara, Lloyd, Goody and her boyfriend Jack Tweed in which the use of the word "Paki" was allegedly implied but not said.^[51] In the others, Goody speculated on whether Lloyd used "the p-word" and Goody referred to the Bollywood actress as "Shilpa Pashwa whoever you fucking are".^[50]

According to the BBC, Shilpa confided in fellow housemate Cleo Rocos that she feared the arguments between Jade, Jo, Danielle and herself were the result of her race. After being told by Cleo that this was unlikely, Shilpa retorted, "It is, I'm telling you". Shilpa did not lodge an official complaint of racist behaviour to Big Brother.^[52] However, her words compelled police to investigate whether or not to classify her treatment as 'racial hatred' under Part III of the Public Order Act 1986.

Hertfordshire Police said in a statement that it was:

investigating allegations of racist behaviour in the Big Brother house and will be conducting enquiries, including a review of the tapes. We will continue to liaise with Ofcom and with Endemol, whom we have strongly encouraged to ensure that any form of behaviour that could raise similar concerns, does not occur. We will continue to closely monitor the situation over the next few days. Hertfordshire Constabulary will not tolerate racism in any form and is taking these allegations seriously. The constabulary has experience of investigating and resolving incidents in the Big Brother house in past seasons.^[53]

Shilpa later withdrew her claims of racism, stating she did not think Jade was being racist during their argument.^[54] However, Shilpa was unaware of all the alleged insults levelled against her, often behind her back.

While on a trip to India, Jade apologised for her behaviour. She admitted that her comments to Shilpa could be seen to be racist. In a video posted on a newspaper's^[which?] website, Jade tearfully said:

I know that things that I don’t think are necessarily racist ... could be. ... And I am sincerely sorry for the pain and hurt I’ve caused to Shilpa’s family. I am wrong ... I am wrong and I know that my words and my actions were wrong and I’m not trying to justify that in any way – I am wrong, and the people who have complained are not wrong. They’re just insulted by me and I completely take that criticism.^[55]

A Channel 4 spokeswoman admitted Big Brother had intervened in the row - but only to make contestants "realise that what they have said has been misconstrued in the house". The idea, she said, was to allow the housemates "to explain themselves" to their fellow contestants.^[56] This was followed by a series of apologies by the housemates to Shilpa, and a declaration by her that she did not believe Jade was racist. Also Jade said inside the house before she left: "I know why there's no noise". When Shilpa asked "Why?", Jade replied: "I know, but I can't tell you".^[57] In an interview with the Daily Star, Jade admitted that, during her final hours in the Channel 4 house, Big Brother had revealed that her abuse of Shilpa had ruined her own "girl-next-door" image.

2008–09: Return to the public eye[link]

Goody stated in April 2008 that she would be releasing her second perfume range, Controversial.^[58]

In mid-2008, Goody appeared in the Indian version of Big Brother, Bigg Boss. She was rumoured to have been offered £100,000 to take part.^[59][60] Goody entered the house on 17 August and in the opening VT of herself she claimed the incident with Shetty was "in the past" and that she was "not proud of it". Two days into the show, Goody was told she had cervical cancer and she subsequently withdrew, immediately flying home to England. Scenes of Goody being told of her diagnosis and her emotional reaction were not broadcast in India.^[61]

In October 2008, she released a new autobiography, Jade: Catch A Falling Star.^[62][63] It is published by John Blake Publishing and covers her time in Celebrity Big Brother 2007.^[64] In Christmas 2008, she played the role of the Wicked Queen in a pantomime version of Snow White at the Theatre Royal, Lincoln,^[65] and was praised for her strength and determination in doing so. Goody had to withdraw from the production in January for health reasons.^[66] A reality television documentary, Living With Jade Goody was shown in September as a one off special, as part of the Living With . . . series on Living TV.^[67] A one off film "Jade's cancer battle" was aired on 11 December.^[68] There were plans for further shows if Goody had felt able to take part.^[69]

In October 2008, Goody opened her second beauty salon named "Homme Fatel", catering exclusively for men.^[70]

Personal life[link]

Prior to Goody's entry into the Big Brother house, she was a dental nurse.^[6] Goody lived with her sons in Upshire, a village in Essex. Her father, Andrew Robert Goody (February 1963^[71] - August 2005), who was of mixed race (born to a white English mother and a West Indian father),^[72] was a drug addict and habitual criminal, who served prison sentences including a four-year term for robbery.^[6] He and Goody's mother, Jackiey Budden (born April 1958), split up when Goody was two, and he became estranged from Goody, whilst Goody's mother brought her up in Bermondsey. Goody's father died of a drug overdose in Bournemouth, aged 42.^[73] Goody had a relationship with TV presenter and fellow reality television regular Jeff Brazier, the father of her two sons, both of whom were born in Harlow, Essex: Bobby Jack Brazier, born 6 June 2003, and Freddie Brazier, born September 2004. In 2005, Goody had a six month relationship with footballer Ryan Amoo.^[74] In March 2008, the Daily Mail reported Goody had become involved in "vicious fight with a female partygoer at an Essex nightclub before turning her rage onto a security guard".^[75]

She was subsequently in a relationship with Jack Tweed (born 1987, Waltham Forest, Greater London), who appeared alongside her on Celebrity Big Brother. In June 2007, Goody suffered a miscarriage, during the relationship.^[76] Following numerous allegations of Tweed being unfaithful the pair broke up.^[77] Goody confirmed she was dating again, and said of Tweed: "Some days, I felt more like his mum than his lover...I’ll never date a toy boy again."^[78] However, they resumed their relationship. Tweed lived with Goody and her children in Buckhurst Hill, Essex,^[79] until he was imprisoned. He and another man were convicted of assault occasioning actual bodily harm for attacking a 16-year-old boy in December^[80] 2006.^[81] He served four months of an eighteen-month sentence before being released, on 27 January 2009, on electronic monitoring and subject to a strict curfew.^[82] On 15 February 2009, Goody exchanged rings with Tweed in a private informal ceremony on the banks of the River Thames.^[83] Tweed and Goody married on 22 February at Down Hall country house near Hatfield Heath, Essex.^[84] Goody wore a £3,500 Manuel Mota dress, given to her by Harrods owner Mohamed Al Fayed.^[85] The couple signed an exclusive £700,000 deal with OK! magazine for photographs of the ceremony.^[86] Tweed was granted an exemption to his curfew for the night of 22/23 February.^[87] On 3 March 2009, Tweed was convicted of common assault for attacking a taxi driver on 5 May 2008.^[88] At Harlow Magistrates Court, on 14 April 2009, he was sentenced to 12 weeks imprisonment;^[89] he was released on 29 May 2009.^[90]

Filmography[link]

Fitness DVDs[link]

• Jade's All new diet by Jade Goody and Steve Kemsley (2003)
• Jade (2002) by Jade Goody and Steve Kemsley (2004)
• Jade's Workout/ Workout with Helen - The "Girls" from Big Brother - by Jade Goody and Helen Adams (2004)
• Jade's Shape Challenge by Jade Goody (2006)
• The Big BrotherCollection : Jade's Dance Workout, Dance Workout with Helen Adams and Latino Dance Workout with Nadia (2002) by Jade Goody, Helen Adams and Nadia Almada (2005)

Cancer[link]

Diagnosis and publicity[link]

Goody had a number of health scares throughout the 2000s. In 2002, shortly before her Big Brother 3 appearance, she had a cervical smear test which revealed abnormal cells, a possible indicator of cancer.^[91] She was later tested for ovarian cancer in 2004 and bowel cancer in 2006, but was given the all-clear on each occasion.^[91][92] She underwent hospital tests in early August 2008 after her fourth cancer scare. She had already collapsed four times. The test results confirmed she had cervical cancer; she was told of this on 19 August 2008 while in the Indian version of Big Brother, called Bigg Boss.^[92] Her spokesperson said, "It looks like her cancer is at an early stage but we will have to wait until she gets back to Britain and sees a specialist and has more tests".^[93]

On 1 September 2008 it was reported that Goody's cancer was "advanced and life-threatening" and that she would be having an operation followed by chemotherapy.^[94] Doctors warned that her survival chance could be as low as 65%.^[95] Further tests, and a radical hysterectomy,^[96] "went well" according to her publicist, and Goody began a course of chemotherapy and radiotherapy.^[97]

In an interview with Irish broadcasting company RTÉ she admitted having started planning her funeral.^[98] Furthermore, Goody told the broadcaster that she was losing all her hair and had decided not to explain her illness to her children.^[99]

On 4 February 2009 Max Clifford, Goody's publicist, confirmed that Goody's cancer had spread to her liver, bowel and groin. Therefore, the previous estimate of a 40% chance of survival was withdrawn and she underwent treatment to prolong her life. On 7 February, Clifford reported that Goody had undergone emergency surgery in London to remove a tumour on her bowel.^[100]

On 14 February, Clifford confirmed media reports that doctors at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London^[101] had declared her cancer as terminal and that she could be dead within weeks, and at the most was unlikely to survive more than a few more months.^[102] He stated "She was informed yesterday that tragically, she's terminally ill. She was obviously devastated."^[103] Goody then began drawing up a will and making plans for the future care of her two sons.^[104]

On 5 March 2009, Goody requested to be christened from her bed at the Royal Marsden Hospital;^[105] on 7 March she and her sons were christened.^[106] Clifford confirmed that this would be Goody's last public appearance, and that she had already said her goodbyes to her family. He stated, "We're hoping and praying that Jade pulls through, but the fact of the matter is that she now only has a short time to live."^[105] He also confirmed that doctors had said the next 24 hours were crucial to assessing how long it will be before she dies, but that she had only a very short time left regardless. Her husband Jack Tweed was allowed to extend his curfew so he could spend a final night with his wife before she said her final goodbyes to her family.^[105]

When news broke that Goody's cancer was terminal, medical authorities in the UK began reporting a surge in requests from women, particularly younger women, for screening for cervical cancer. This reversed a trend which had seen demand for screening decline overall in the past decade, with the highest decline being among women aged 25–29.^[107]

As a result of the publicity surrounding Goody's illness, on 13 March 2009 government health ministers agreed to review the NHS's policy of not offering screening for cervical cancer until the age of 25 in England (it is 20 in the rest of the UK). Goody issued a press release the same day, saying that she was "immensely proud" that she had helped prompt the review.^[108]

Death[link]

Wikinews has related news: British celebrity Jade Goody dies of cervical cancer at age 27

Goody died in her sleep in the early hours of 22 March 2009.^[109] The reported exact time of her death varies by news source.^[110][111] Her mother Jackiey Budden, husband Jack Tweed, and family friend Kevin Adams were by Goody's bedside when she died.^{[citation needed]} Her death was widely covered by British media.^{[citation needed]}

Tribute, funeral and burial[link]

A car in Goody's funeral procession with East Angula (sic) spelled out in flowers in The Blue, Bermondsey, London.

Goody received tributes from all strata of society,^[112] British Prime Minister Gordon Brown stated:

Goody's funeral service took place at noon on 4 April 2009 at St John's Anglican Church, Buckhurst Hill, Essex.^[113] Later that day she was buried near her home in Epping Forest.^[114] The funeral cortège consisted of 21 cars, one of which was a Bentley used by the family. Several celebrities sent flowers, including David and Victoria Beckham and Simon Cowell. Davina McCall, Jamelia and Antony Costa were among the celebrity mourners. It was estimated that the funeral cost £30,000.^{[citation needed]} Goody's coffin was white, and she was buried wearing her wedding dress and with two pictures, one of each of her sons, by her side. Goody's two sons did not attend the funeral, having been taken by their father to Australia.^[115]

Thousands of mourners followed the funeral service on big screens outside the church; the funeral was also broadcast live on Sky News, which followed the service from outside, as Goody had wished to keep it a private ceremony for friends and family.^[116]

Phone hacking allegation[link]

On 24 September 2011, Goody's mother Jackiey Budden and publicist Max Clifford said they had reasons to believe that Goody's phone had been hacked during early 2009 by some of the staff of News of the World paper.^[117]

Legacy[link]

In April 2009, Goody was named the "ultimate reality TV star" by Digital Spy,^[118] and plans were announced for Jade the Musical.^[119] In the same month, Sir Michael Parkinson wrote that Goody had become property of the media "to be manipulated and exploited till the day she died". He claimed she represented "all that is paltry and wretched about Britain".^[120][121] On 29 December 2009, The Independent reported that according to a tribute site, Goody was the most mourned celebrity of 2009, receiving more tributes even than Michael Jackson.^[122] The opening night of Big Brother 10 was dedicated to her memory, and a tribute to her was shown on the final night of Ultimate Big Brother.

Cervical cancer awareness[link]

A spokeswoman from Cancer Research commented on Goody's legacy^[123] on the day of her funeral:

In October 2009, it was reported that the number of women aged between 25 and 64 going for smear tests in the United Kingdom had grown by 12% during the previous year, the increase comes after the figures declining year on year since 2002. This increase has been credited to Goody's high profile battle with cervical cancer. Thomas Moore, the health correspondent for Sky News said:^[124]

In addition to this, Health Secretary Andy Burnham commented:^[124]

For raising cancer awareness, Prime Minister Gordon Brown said: ^[125]

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