Not Dead Yet, OK!
TheEye has no time for Goody-mania, and has no idea what she has ever done (if anything). However she isn’t dead yet and it’s really a bit much that OK! has published a 1981-2009 Official Tribute Issue before her pulse has even stopped.
If you want to avoid one thing this year then a good option is this week’s copy of OK! Magazine.
Tribute issues before someone has even died? And it will get worse – feel encouraged to stock up on the sick bags because every tabloid (and even the more readable dead tree press) will have full-colour 12 page pull-out-and-keep supplements when she does die. The BBC and Sky will have wall-to-wall coverage for days on end and doubtless the Pope will stop doing whatever he does in the woods and have a canonisation announcement prepared. A webcam, doubtless, is already in the coffin. B Hussein Osama must already have a statement ready on his teleprompter.
But at least they will wait until she dies. Sorry if this post sounds heartless but TheEye would trade a million column inches about this ‘reality-television’ nobody for half a paragraph tribute to a soldier lost in Iraq or Afghanistan.
Is it only TheEye who is disgusted by what this magazine has done?
UPDATE: She has passed on today. RIP and condolences to her family, but TheEye still couldn’t stand her and won’t step back in a just-died-so-be-extra-nice hypocritical way.
I bet Natasha Richardson didn’t start the week thinking she’d be outlived by Jade Goody.
I’m ready and I can’t wait.
A special edition cover of KO magazine is a distinct possibility.
BTW, totally agree about more press coverage on fallen heroes would be far more worthwhile
Sorry but no, I am not disgusted, it’s what they do and it just amuses me.
Any chance of taking her death-day off work, compassionate leave sort of thing ? I have pre-selected a psey of rhododendrum stalks for immediate despatch upon the news.
TheEye remembers his workplace calling a 2 minute silence for the unemployed ex-kindergarten teacher who was shagging that Egyptian bloke.
Unfortunately was on the Accelerated-Whining-Transfer-Device at the time and didn’t hang up which earned some very bitchy comments afterwards.
Regrettably in that conversation I sealed a deal which tipped the whole dept over the 6-month bonus threshold and no git said thankyou because I was “insensitive”.
If I’d known I’d have given up my own bonus just to screw the rest of the ungrateful bastards.