The death of a young mother is always sad, but some how the culture of celebrity has allowed the media to turn an irrelevant, uneducated, and foul mouthed individual into some sought of icon. Now that is sad.

As a ‘reality TV star’ Jade Goody’s was a business not of reality, but fantasy. Her final few weeks in the spotlight were spent entirely without dignity to keep the till in the Goody household ringing. All in all a very good final month for her and her crack PR team.

The real pity is that whilst the media perpetuates the notion that reality is the absolute pap they push, deserving people that actually contribute in the real world go unrecognised. The UK also has thousands of terminally ill, but PR agents can’t make any money out of them, so they won’t be appearing in public anytime soon.