Doctors now just trying to prolong Jade's life

Doctors now just trying to prolong Jade's life
Doctors now just trying to prolong Jade's life (Image credit: PA Wire/PA Photos)

Jade Goody has been told by doctors her cancer has spread. The devastated Big Brother star sobbed: "I don't want to die," after being given the news that tumours had now been found in her liver, bowel and groin, the Sun reported. The mother-of-two discharged herself last week to be with sons Bobby, five, and four-year-old Freddie at their Essex home, but she returned to London's Royal Marsden Hospital after becoming violently ill and collapsing. On Tuesday doctors told her they were now treating her to prolong her life rather than cure the cancer, according to the newspaper. Jade, 27, told the Sun: "I am devastated. I am frightened and I am angry. I don't want to die because I have so much to live for. "The reality is I have gone from a 40 per cent chance of a cure to seeing how long I can stay alive." Boyfriend Jack Tweed, 21, was said to be 'numb' over the news and Jade has already begun preparing a will. Her sons are staying with their dad, TV host Jeff Brazier. Jade was first told she had cervical cancer in the diary room of the Indian version of Big Brother and flew home for emergency treatment last August. Keep up to date with all the latest reality. Subscribe to TV&Satellite Week

Patrick McLennan

Patrick McLennan is a London-based journalist and documentary maker who has worked as a writer, sub-editor, digital editor and TV producer in the UK and New Zealand. His CV includes spells as a news producer at the BBC and TVNZ, as well as web editor for Time Inc UK. He has produced TV news and entertainment features on personalities as diverse as Nick Cave, Tom Hardy, Clive James, Jodie Marsh and Kevin Bacon and he co-produced and directed The Ponds, which has screened in UK cinemas, BBC Four and is currently available on Netflix. 


An entertainment writer with a diverse taste in TV and film, he lists Seinfeld, The Sopranos, The Chase, The Thick of It and Detectorists among his favourite shows, but steers well clear of most sci-fi.