It comes to something when Micheal Parkinson decides to have a go.
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/tv_and_radio/article6048656.ece
In the 'Radio Times' no less he said this:
“She was brought up on a sink estate, as a child came to know drugs and crime, was barely educated, ignorant and puerile. Then she was projected to celebrity by Big Brother and became a media chattel to be exploited till the day she died.”
If you are someone who is chastised by Parky in the Radio Times you really are in trouble. Its like being clobbered by a very elderly mainstream Badger in a publication so mind numbing even a prisoner in solitary confinement would do no more than wipe their arse with it.
He's right in a way. But having a go at her because she was not afforded opportunities early on in her life and used her minor celebrity to claw her way to a new life is a little churlish. Parky of course hails back to a previous celebrity age where celebs by in large were actually good at something and actually had a talent!
Today we don't really require that from our celebs. In fact we would rather they were not fast, clever or good as it makes us feel bad. We celebrate the mediocrity of average singers, people etc from the comfort of our arm chairs pressing little buttons with our fat fingers in televised 'talent contests' while real talent scraps away in little ghettos of culture largely ignored. We want to feel success is only just out of our reach. Jade is the ultimate example of this. Shes famous for being like us. A bit racist, quick to judge, stupid but ultimately someone who will put whatever rag tag of a family they have first.
There are a number of myths about Jade making out she advanced to cause of cervical cancer simply by having it in public is a bit stupid. She is not Marie Curie. Its like ignoring the fact you know cars take there owners from A to B all the time but whenever a member of your family comes home in one you welcome them like Magellan coming home and wonder if they were not perhaps sent to you from the gods. Cars and Cancer are unfortunately every day things and positing than Jade is saving women from cancer is poor attempt at giving her life and by extension ours a meaning. Putting her alongside Jesus as some sort of savior ain't really the point.
No comments:
Post a Comment