EastEnder babe may play tragic Jade Goody in biopic

April 24th, 2009 LONDON - Jade Goody's life and death is to be the subject of a musical, according to one of her closest friends. It has emerged that producers are searching for an actress to play the former Big Brother star, reports The Telegraph.

April 23rd, 2009 LONDON - Danny Hayward, a close friend of late British reality TV star Jade Goody, has revealed that there would be a musical on the troubled actress' life. Haywards also revealed Wednesday night at a party to celebrate Goody's life and launch the final part of her autobiography that a search was on for an actress to play Goody in the musical titled 'Jade The Musical', reports the Mirror online.

April 2nd, 2009 LONDON - Late reality TV star Jade Goody is set to be commemorated with a statue near her childhood home. The honour is likely to be granted in recognition of the efforts of the cancer-stricken star to encourage young women to be screened for cervical cancer, reported the Mirror online.

March 25th, 2009 LONDON - In accordance with the wishes of late Brit celebrity Jade Goody, she will be buried in her wedding dress. Goody had worn the 3,500 pounds Manuel Mota ivory dress when she married Jack Tweed last month, reports the Sun.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - British reality TV star Jade Goody's funeral will be a 'Jade Goody Production', publicist Max Clifford said Monday. 'Jade wanted a celebration of her life.

March 23rd, 2009 LONDON - British reality TV star Jade Goody's publicist Max Clifford has said that the actress' funeral will be an eventful service and a 'celebration of life', as she had desired. He said the funeral would be a 'public celebration' just as Goody had lived her life out in the public eye in the last seven years and as 'she died the way she lived,' reports thesun.co.uk.

March 20th, 2009 LONDON - Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has said that she's glad she didn't get to see her dying friend Jade Goody because she wants to remember her as the bubbly girl she met two years ago. Shetty had planned to see the former Big Brother star on her trip to London but couldn't meet her when Goody's health deteriorated.

March 18th, 2009 LONDON - Cancer-stricken British reality star Jade Goody, who is breathing her last few days at her residence here, defied all odds to view the sunset and asked for cans of Coke Monday night. 'The doctors are amazed.

March 17th, 2009 MUMBAI - Setting aside all her work, Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty has left for London to meet her 'Bigg Brother' housemate and cancer-stricken reality TV star Jade Goody. Jade Goody is feared to be just hours away from her end as her condition has deteriorated rapidly.

March 15th, 2009 LONDON - Cancer-stricken reality TV star Jade Goody will be visited by foe-turned-friend Shilpa Shetty for a tearful last goodbye before she loses her battle against the disease. Shetty, 33, has regularly kept in touch with Goody over the phone since the mother of two learned two months ago that she was dying, mirror.co.uk reported.

March 14th, 2009 LONDON - Indian actress Shilpa Shetty will fly in from India to the UK to visit cancer-stricken Jade Goody. The 33-year-old stunner will visit her former foe for a tearful last goodbye before she loses her battle to cancer.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Cancer-stricken Jade Goody, who is heartbroken over critics doubting her hubby Jack Tweed's motives, has hit back at them. Goody, 27, has, in what is said to be her last interview, slammed the critics saying that they were "well out of order".How am I meant to react to stuff like that? It really upsets me," the Sun quoted her as saying.

March 12th, 2009 LONDON - Caner-stricken Jade Goody has been boosted by a special taped message sent to her by Michael Jackson. The 'Heal the World' hitmaker had recently had called Goody to wish her well but she could not receive his call, as she was at the baptism ceremony of her sons Bobby, 5, and Freddie, 4.

February 1st, 2009 LONDON - Cancer-stricken British reality TV star Jade Goody was rushed to hospital over the weekend after collapsing at her Essex home. Goody was in 'excruciating pain' and checked herself into the Royal Marsden Hospital in Fulham, south-west London twice over the weekend after she collapsed at home Jan 30 after falling ill following her latest bout of chemotherapy in her ongoing cervical cancer battle, reports dailymail.co.uk.

January 22nd, 2009 LONDON - Reality show star Jade Goody is keen on continuing with the TV show she's on, though producers fear for her health. According to thesun.co.uk, executives of the show 'Living TV' are concerned that the pressure will be too much for her as she battles cervical cancer.