We created Jade Goody so we could hate her

Hard to know where to start with the Jade Goody revival, her corpse exhumed by Channel 4 and slapped on a digital slab for us all to have another gawp, writes Suzanne Harrington.

We created Jade Goody so we could hate her

Hard to know where to start with the Jade Goody revival, her corpse exhumed by Channel 4 and slapped on a digital slab for us all to have another gawp, writes Suzanne Harrington.

‘Fat, ugly chav’ eviscerated by the tabloids, in an era when being eviscerated by the tabloids still meant something; her ignorance and gobbiness clashed with notions of how young women should look and act.

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