"Jade [Goody] was not paid for this interview," screams the News of the World today. Is this accurate? For the interview the paper contracted to pay the consideration of £50,000. The fact that this sum will be donated to a charity of Goody's and Shilpa Shetty's choice is another matter. The fact that Goody will not actually receive the sum is neither here nor there: it's part of the quid pro quo. The donation is contingent on the interview.
"For the interview Jade has donated our £50,000 fee to charity" would have been the truthful screamer. We also learn that her CBB fee of £50,000 is going to charity too. So the value of Jade's donation(s) is £100,000 - hopefully the Anti-Bullying Alliance (see below) is not on her good cause list.
The interview itself is not worth £500 let alone £50,000. It just repeats the mea culpa Goody gobbed at Davina McCall on Celebrity Big Brother. But the donation launders the exercise and is good PR for the paper - and is not unhelpful to demonised Goody. Oh, and expect a sales lift of about 100,000 (x 85p per unit) copies.
Now, to the Screws' Goody interviewer Jules Stenson. He is certainly an expert on bullying - although about 10 feet tall he has been abused by newspaper staff over the years. Notorious bully editor Bridget Rowe at The People contributed to his endorphins-free existence there in the '90s. And only recently poor Jules was compelled to appear in the Screws' problem page Photo File as a middle-aged office satyr pursuing some poor lass half his age. This was his punishment-by-humiliation for a fuck-up I won't re-visit here.
Yep, the News of the World knows all about bullying.
Not to forget that Harper Collins (a Murdoch stable-mate of The Screws) have a Jade p/b due for release on 5th Feb.
ReplyDelete£50K to try and keep the books from being pulped.
Mme A, I have long said I don't know how the Big Brother producers sleep at night. I think it's interesting, given the media's love of Jade-bashing, that her remarks to this Indian actress are regarded as far more serious than the horrible meltdown suffered by Ahmed (I think that was his name) a few years ago - a vulnerable person who should never have been in that stupid house inth e first place, but was put there for our amusement - so we could - non-prejudicially, of course - watch him suffer.
ReplyDeleteI have just been told that Davina and Jade share an agent!! Is this true?
The whole thing's rotten through.
Jade and Davina do indeed share an agent.
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