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Quiet day with family for ill Jade

Cancer-stricken Jade Goody spent a quiet day with her husband and mother on Saturday after her condition deteriorated, her publicist said.

The former Big Brother contestant had been hoping for visits from friends and loved ones but they were told not to go because she was not well enough, Max Clifford said.

He said a doctor was visiting her home in Waltham Abbey, Essex, where her husband, Jack Tweed, and her mother, Jackiey Budden, were at her bedside.

Her young sons, Bobby and Freddy, were with their father, TV presenter Jeff Brazier.

Earlier, Mr Clifford said Goody was on the "edge of a precipice" after a nurse urgently called Tweed to the house on Friday night.

Mr Clifford said: "She was in a bad way last night (Friday), she was panicking. The nurse was obviously concerned and decided she should call Jack. He went over and calmed her down and she went to sleep. She settled down and had a comfortable night."

Asked if this meant Goody was close to the end, Mr Clifford said: "She has deteriorated, she is very weak. The answer is, who knows? We are on the edge of a precipice."

He said Tweed was allowed to break his curfew in cases of emergency. Tweed, 21, has to wear a tag after his release from prison for hitting a teenager with a golf club.

Mr Clifford said Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty was flying into the country early next week to see Goody. "She desperately wants to see her if she's well enough," he said.

"They have been speaking on the phone. Shilpa has been keeping in touch with her for months and they are good friends. It's just a question of whether Jade is well enough."

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