Letter
The problem I had/have with Jade was that it was fake and cynical.

Whether she was racist or ignorant was almost irrelevant, but the fact it was so actively promoted by herself and Max Clifford was nauseating. She didn't do it for the money but to promote herself. She was addicted to being a "celebrity". A pseudo-important person.

The day in question I got pissed (watching football IIRC), something that I now rarely do, and must have seen the news with the lead item being Gordon Brown pays homage to her. I wrote the letter when I was pissed, printed it out, enveloped it and stamped it. I don't remember writing it, and only re-read it the following week slightly aghast.

In hindsight the letter was inappropriate, but everything I wrote was accurate and true. Gordon Brown's job was, and is, to run the country and sort out the financial mess he has created. It is not to offer fake sympathy to get himself headlines. That was also inappropriate and cynical.

Britain, or at least British media, seems to love talentless people. We are seeing it now with Cheryl Cole...or "the nations sweetheart". WTF?!

The QOTW is letters they'll never read. It fits in with that theme.

And yes........I can be a real arse when I am pissed.
(jdharding, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 15:13, 1 reply)

I agree with all of this
but I'd note that the Goody phenomenon reflects more upon the country as a whole than it did on her. She made the best of the shitty hand life gave her, and I reckon most people would have done the same.

Please don't think I'm actually defending that vacuous waste of space. I'd sooner be fisted by Hellboy than spend a moment in her company.
( Happy Phantom has been to Hastings, Brighton, and Eastbourne too, Sat 6 Mar 2010, 20:34, closed)