Jade to decide who will win right to film wedding

A bidding war for the rights to film cancer-stricken Jade Goody’s weekend wedding could be finalised today.

Max Clifford, the reality TV star’s publicist, said yesterday the broadcast rights auction would be decided “within the next 24 hours”.

He told The Guardian that the Sunday wedding between Goody and her boyfriend Jack Tweed would “almost certainly be filmed” but that the broadcaster had not yet been chosen.

“There will be TV there and we have had a lot of interest in the TV rights so we are currently deciding what to do,” he added.

Mr Clifford said the decision on TV rights would be made by Goody, who has been the subject of a recent profile on Living TV.

The 27-year-old was told by doctors last week that her cervical cancer was terminal and she has just months to live.

Her wedding ceremony is scheduled to take place at Down Hall, a country house hotel in Hertfordshire not far from her home in Ongar, Essex.

She also reportedly plans to have her two sons christened as soon as possible, which could also become the subject of a bidding war between rival broadcasters.

Goody has deliberately used media coverage of her illness to raise money for her children, Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie, before she dies.

Trainee football agent Tweed, 21, said a “big white wedding” was all Goody had ever hoped for, and the joy of their engagement helped relieve her suffering for a while.

Speaking about the moment he popped the question, Tweed told OK! magazine: “She seemed really happy. For a moment we forgot about all her pain.

“After what the doctors told us last week we both realised we wanted to get married right away.”

“In an ideal world we would have liked to have one ceremony abroad with close friends and family and then a big one back here for all our friends.

“That’s all Jade’s ever wanted – a big white wedding in a big church.”

Goody has told her two sons about her illness, Mr Clifford added, explaining that she has “tadpoles in her tummy”.