Living TV has snapped up the rights to broadcast the wedding of terminally ill Jade Goody to her boyfriend for a reported £100,000, scheduled for mid-March, while OK! Magazine, it is claimed, has paid seven times that for the picture rights to the event and to the subsequent christening of her children.

Hmmm.

Dare I say it.... Goody has never in the least bit appealed to me; she is the ultimate fake media confection albeit incarnated in the flesh of a human being complete with feelings and sensitivities.

It was unfair on her the way that she was propelled to stardom by Channel 4 through, by no fault of her own, being revealed as crass, vulgar and ill-educated and although I'm sure her ignorance revealed some endearing traits - made all the more remarkable given her tough upbringing - the ugliness of her appearance in Celeb Big Brother revealed a side that was rather cruel and upon which the media were again quick to pounce.

The media didn't build her up and knock her down - they invented her for their own purposes as some sort of freak show, and followed her every move. Yet here was a girl who was too dim-witted to realise what was going on. To commissioning editors, perhaps her death is the perfect denouement to a soap opera that needed no set, no writers and no cast of supporting actors.

I won't be watching the wedding and I'm not at all interested in the pics but perhaps Goody, by seeking to secure a financial future for her family, has managed to get her own back on the media that has played her like a puppet by screwing them for so much cash. I only wish she had got more. Even she has realised that in the final analysis the joke isn't on her but on those that created her - perhaps when the inevitable happens those media organisations involved in creating ‘brand Jade' will sit back and look at the morality of the whole sorry episode.

Or will they be too busy scouring the estates looking for another naive simpleton to exploit for cheap titillation?