&lt;i&gt;Celebrity Big Brother&lt;/i&gt;, Human Rights and Popular Culture

Gies, Lieve

doi:10.16997/eslj.53

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“…housemate Shilpa Shetty, resulting in 45,000 complaints; her perfume was removed from sale in shops, and company sponsorship withdrawn. (Gies, 2009;Holmes, 2009) Attempting to re-launch her career, Jade appeared in August 2008 on Bigg Boss, the Indian version of Big Brother, during which her medical consultant in London telephoned to tell her -with the cameras running -that she had cancer, and that she had to return to England immediately. After a number of treatments, it was confirmed on 4 February 2009 that the cancer was terminal.…”

Section: ) Jade Goody's Public Dyingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Jade and the journalists: Media coverage of a young British celebrity dying of cancer

Walter

2010

Social Science & Medicine

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In contemporary western societies, dying usually occurs in old age, out of sight in hospitals and institutions; how then do lay people learn what dying is like? Since the 1970s, one source of information in Anglophone societies has come from individuals who have chosen to publicise their dying of cancer. This article examines the most high profile case of this to date in the UK; in 2009, celebrity Jade Goody publicised in tabloid newspapers and celebrity magazines the final weeks of her dying of cervical cancer. What did she and her media say and write about dying? This article examines the print coverage of her final weeks, and four different voices are identified: those of Goody, of journalists, of her publicist, and of photographers, each representing her dying somewhat differently. Two major themes are discussed: Jade's struggles to retain autonomy (challenged by her disease and by other people), and the framing of her final weeks not primarily as a typical media cancer story of heroism, but as one of redemption in which she attained social respectability through dying.

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Section: ) Jade Goody's Public Dyingmentioning

confidence: 99%