I almost feel guilty posting this entry.

Since bouncing onto our screens in Big Brother 3, Jade Goody has given the tabloid editors easy fodder for the last 4 years, and made an absolute fortune to boot.  I haven't been bothered to check, but I'm pretty sure that she's also got more IMDB entries than anyone else involved in the BB factory.

To have made as much money, I am sure that she is not as stupid as the persona she is well known to portray.  No-one can be that stupid, surely.

I certainly feel guilty about posting that of recent, I have started to find her becoming more aesthetically pleasing, almost attractive (at the right angle, in the right light and with the volume turned off).

Yesterday morning I turned on my TV to watch part of the London Marathon - don't know why, but I watched the first one when I was about 7 and feel compulsed to watch now every year.  Before the start, Sue Barker was interviewing Jade and Gordon Ramsey.  Gordon, a veteran of the marathon, was sniggering at Jade's inappropriate footwear, poor preparation for the race (4 short practice runs and a diet of curry and beer) and the fact that she had a good trainer, but had got bored.  The interview ended after a discussion on the merits of putting olive oil on the nipples rather than vaseline and the race was off.

I read today that Jade collapsed 8 miles into the race and the paramedics spent 50 minutes trying to regulate her breathing whilst she became hysterical yelling, "I'm dying, I'm dying!"

I'm not going to come over all 'disgusted of Tunbridge Wells', but to enter such a physical event after no real training and taking a place from one of the many competitors turned down from participating doesn't seem right in my book.  I feel she has gone one step too far in her self caractureness, if there is such a word.

And as for the marathon, Paula Radcliffe didn't race this year - apparently she didn't give a shit.  Ho Ho!