Disgraced Goody's autobiography axed

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HarperCollins had been due to publish Jade: My Autobiography on 5 February but bosses at the publishing house have pulled the plug as a result of Goody's alleged racially motivated bullying of fellow contestant Shilpa Shetty.

The memoir of the mother of two - who first shot to fame on Big Brother in 2002 - has made almost £1million since its publication last May in hardback. The paperback was to have included a new chapter which HarperCollins had previously said was "guaranteed to illuminate Britain's favourite gobby girl even further".

But a HarperCollins spokesman said: "In light of recent events, HarperCollins has decided it wouldn't be appropriate to proceed with the paperback publication of Jade: My Autobiography as planned on 5 February. The author and agent support this decision."

The move is a setback for HarperCollins, owned by media mogul Rupert Murdoch. In November Murdoch cancelled plans for a book and TV interview, If I Did It, in which OJ Simpson - acquitted in 1995 of the murders of his wife and her friend Ron Goldman - was to have described how he would have killed them.

The latest financial blow for Goody, 25, comes after Boots, Debenhams and the Perfume Shop removed her fragrance Shh from the shelves in the wake of her stint in the Celebrity Big Brother house.

Since her eviction from the house on Friday, she has also been dropped as a highprofile spokeswoman of the charity Act Against Bullying and has had her windows smashed in her Harlow home.

Goody has said her treatment of Shetty was the worst mistake of her life.