With the press deadline looming for its special tribute issue and Jade Goody still clinging on to life, we'll never know how tempting it was for someone from OK! magazine to attempt to smother her with a pillow. Perhaps this explains the mysterious appearance of a ranting stranger in her room a few weeks ago who was subsequently ejected by security staff?
Nonetheless, Northern & Shell, which has forked out to pay for coverage of her wedding to her jailbird husband pushed ahead with the publication of the ‘in loving tribute' issue including her final words even though Goody is still breathing.
The decision by N&S and Goody and her representatives to trade her death has always struck me as distasteful, although perhaps understandable as apparently there is a public appetite for this kind of journalism and Goody claims to want to secure the financial future of her children.
While they may be financially better off, we'll never know the mental impact of having their mother's life and death played out in the media will be to her children. Oh - unless of course OK! has signed up to track their lives too.
