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Race row Jade to tour India
Last updated at 10:31am on 24.01.07
Jade: to tour India
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Disgraced Celebrity Big Brother star Jade Goody is to tour India in attempt to rehabilitate her public image.
During an appearance on Goody's appearance on Five's The Wright Stuff, she revealed her plan for a trip to India in an effort to build race relations.
She also spoke about how she had endured attacks on her home since she invoked widespread public condemnation after she was accused of racist bullying towards Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty.
She said yesterday: "I'm thinking about going over there because I've been invited over there. I don't know who by but they are high-up people." She claimed her home was under attack as a result of the Celebrity Big Brother race row.
The shamed star said windows at her house in Ongar, Essex, were smashed. Neither she nor her two children were home at the time.
Goody has been staying at a hotel since her eviction from the Channel 4 show and has yet to be reunited with her sons - whom she last saw before entering the Big Brother house about three weeks ago - because she was "not in the right frame of mind" to see them. They are staying with relatives.
Essex Police said they had logged the incident as criminal damage but added that the damage was minimal. The force also denied Goody's claims that they had been guarding her home since her appearance on Celebrity Big Brother.
Goody's appearance on The Wright Stuff was the latest in a round of carefully selected interviews aimed at resurrecting her public image. It is presented by Matthew Wright, who shares an agent with Goody.
She took calls from viewers angry at her description of Shetty as "Shilpa Poppadom".
And she explained: "To some people I know, saying 'coloured' is OK. So I didn't think 'poppadom' was a racist thing to say."
The public reaction to her has been positive, Goody claimed. Politician and former Celebrity Big Brother housemate George Galloway was a fellow guest on the programme and turned out to be one of her biggest supporters.
Channel 4 has launched a review of Celebrity Big Brother and announced yesterday that it has appointed human rights lawyer Rabinder Singh QC to take part in the review.
Singh is a barrister at Matrix Chambers, which he co-founded with Prime Minister's wife Cherie Booth. Born in Britain to Indian parents, the Cambridge-educated QC will sit as the independent member on a three-strong review panel commissioned in the wake of the race row which has engulfed the programme.
Meanwhile, the Big Brother housemates successfully completed their latest task to win a luxury shopping budget of £4 per person per day.
The housemates had to do a showgirls-style dance routine and make no more than five mistakes between them. They made a total of four mistakes and so passed the test.
Ian Watkins, better known as 'H' from the now defunct pop band Steps, who led the routine, said: "We can eat... I'm going to buy a deodorant." Cleo Rocos, who was Kenny Everett's sidekick in his 1980s TV comedy show, got the housemates to give three cheers to Ian.
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Reader views (8)
She and her advisors just don't get it do they? We just don't want to ever see her again. Please. She's had more than enough publicity.
She should just count the money she's already earned, invest it wisely and keep quiet for the rest of her life.
- Drummergirl, UK
That is as good as saying she didn't do anything wrong. Why do celebrities like Jade shame themselves and then get career options from it?! This country is a disgrace!
- Rachel, London
Please stay out of India, you are not welcome.
- Phillipa, Slough, Berkshire
Oh dear, I do hope the Indian nation will not think we are all as ugly as that ghastly woman.
- B Lawson, London
Will Jade, please, take a rest and keep quiet for a while. We are all fed up with your shenanigans!
- Philippa Wing, Bromley, UK
Strange she's suffering from depression one day and arranging to off to India the next and she calls other people fake!
- Val, London
Yet again the media and British society is allowing an individual to glorify some very bad behaviour. Again, British society is going to allow her to profit from behaviour which society in general in this country should be looking to stamp out. Channel four should feel disgraced for suggesting they take her to India and film. My suggestion is that if she is serious about going to India then she should go off her own back by booking her own fare and making her own arrangements and experience some real 'reality' rather than so called reality TV and go and live in India of her own accord. I have been and the poverty she will experience will enable her to round her views somewhat. I am afraid to say that this woman should be given no media support at all.
The sooner the media figures out that they play a dramatic part in fuelling what can only be described as chavish, disgraceful behaviour in British society, the better.
- Mark Malvisi, London
So now she gets a free holiday - I wonder whether she will remember to take her children, or is this more time away from them to 'sort her head out'? If she's that ill, why does she consider it acceptable to place herself continually in the public eye when she won't even see her children? It's just one sham after another and I for one, am sick of it.
- Isabel, Woking, England
