Dying Jade Goody Plans For Her Wedding

Sick Jade Goody woke up this morning to an idyllic view from her bedroom window - and set about pinning down Girls Aloud to play at her wedding.

The cancer-stricken star, who arrived home yesterday, wants the Brit Award winners to sing for her and Jack Tweed on Sunday.

And it also emerged that the 27-year-old will have a special pouch in her wedding dress for her medication.



The bride-to-be, who was yesterday wheeled out of hospital on a morphine drip and sucking a “lollipop” of painkillers, will have to top up her pain relief on the big day.

Goody will be marrying boyfriend Jack, 21, at Down Hall Country House Hotel, Hertfordshire, before returning to her nearby Essex home for the reception.

She was taken home by ambulance after doctors who can do no more to halt the spread of her illness agreed she could leave the Royal Marsden.

The dying reality star, who has just weeks to live, said she wanted to see grass and rolling fields.

She said: 'I've got a lovely view from my bedroom. I can get more ill here - or more ill there.'


Her publicist, Max Clifford, told GMTV today that doctors had provided her with drugs to help her cope.

“She’s determined and anybody that knows Jade knows a determined young lady she is,” he said. “And of course the Marsden have given her everything to try to control the pain as best as it’s possible to. There’s even going to be a special pouch in her wedding dress for pain killers, so that hopefully that will help her during her big day.”

Heartbroken Jack has pledged to carry Jade down the aisle if he has to. Admitting that he was "happy, but then I'm sad, obviously" he told the Daily Star: "Because she wasn't well the other day and I thought what happens if she has a bad day at the wedding, but then I just thought no, I know she's going to be all right for it.

"Even if I have to carry or drag her down there, she'll be down that aisle. Even in that hospital bed, I'll wheel the hospital bed down there."

Speaking about the planning of the wedding, he said: "She's done it all from a little laptop. Booked the place, got all the catering, got a helicopter for herself.

"I helped her pick the food earlier. Well, I didn't, I listened to her pick the food earlier."



He admitted to the newspaper that he hadn't yet written his wedding speech, but said he wanted to tell her how proud he was "and obviously how beautiful she is".

Jade will be wearing a £3,500 cream and ivory silk mikado gown given to her by Harrods owner Mohammed Fayed.

She wept when she tried it on in hospital, saying it was her “dream dress.”

Clifford said that it would be a “day she’ll never forget.” He said that after the wedding, Goody is in discussions to do a final interview with Piers Morgan.



The wedding itself will net more than £1million in coverage from OK! magazine and Living TV, which is part of the earnings Goody is putting aside for her sons Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie’s future.

And the chances of Girls Aloud performing seem good after Sarah Harding confirmed at the O2 last night that the girls were keen on the idea.

She told the Daily Star: 'We had contact from Jade's people about performing at her wedding and it's now in the hands of our management.

'We are desperately trying to rearrange our schedule so we can do it. It's a very sad thing to have to discuss.'

He quashed rumours she is planning to be filmed as she dies.

“All this talk about filming her dying – it’s never happened and it wouldn’t happen, and personally I find it incredibly offensive,” he said.

Meanwhile, Shilpa Shetty today told how she was praying “for a miracle” for cancer-stricken Jade Goody.The Bollywood star long put aside her differences with Goody, who drew accusations of racism in their appearance together on Celebrity Big Brother two years ago.

“Jade wants the best for her children. I also hope for a miracle to happen for her children’s sake,” said devout Hindu Shetty. “My mum says prayers can make them happen.”

She confirmed Jade had telephoned to invite her to the wedding, but cannot make it due to filming commitments in Malaysia.

“I have a lot of mixed feelings - happiness, helplessness and extreme sadness,” she said.

“I hope God’s listening to mine and gives her the strength to cope with this pain. I have an empty feeling in my stomach wondering how life can be so unpredictable. Cherish every moment and your loved ones.”

But now devout Hindu Shetty said she and her family believed that prayers “can make them happen.”

EvenPrime Minister Gordon Brown has been affected by her plight.

When asked about Jade during his monthly news conference yesterday, Mr Brown said: 'It's very sad and indeed tragic that someone so young has got this deadly disease of cancer and it's very sad indeed that the treatment that has been given has not been successful.'

'I think everyone has their own ways of dealing with these problems and her determination to help her family is something that we've got to applaud.

'I wish her well and I wish her family well and I think the whole country will be worried and anxious about her health.'