Jade Cerisa Lorraine Goody (born 5 June 1981) is a British reality television celebrity & businesswoman, who became famous after appearing on the Channel 4 reality show Big Brother in 2002 when she was 21 years old. She later appeared in a number of other programmes. As a participant in the 2007 series of Celebrity Big Brother, she was at the centre of allegations of bullying, racist and elitist comments against fellow housemate Shilpa Shetty, the noted Indian actress.

Big Brother 3

When she appeared on Big Brother 3 Goody became a target of ridicule in the British tabloid press for displaying a high level of ignorance regarding basic general knowledge for a British native. Goody thought that the English city of Cambridge was in London. On being told that Cambridge is in East Anglia, or rather Goody's "East Angular", she assumed that this was abroad. Goody also believed that Saddam Hussein was a boxer.

Following that first appearance on Big Brother some reports suggested she had made more than £4million; however, someone who worked with her put the figure closer to £2 million.

Goody has fronted her own reality TV shows and appeared regularly in celebrity, trivia, and gossip-oriented women's magazines such as heat and OK!. On January 5, 2007, Goody and her family returned to Big Brother, re-entering the house during Celebrity Big Brother.

Goody ranked #25 in a poll by Heat for the most influential person in the world - something which has brought her much ridicule after she mentioned it whilst on Celebrity Big Brother 2007 and in the same sentence admitted not even knowing the meaning of the word.

On 2 May 2006, Goody published her autobiography titled Jade: My Autobiography and in June she launched her own fragrance, Shh . . . Jade Goody. It was launched by Superdrug in the summer of 2005 and became the store's third best selling fragrance behind Kylie Minogue's and Victoria Beckham's However, due to allegations of racism, The Perfume Shop decided to remove the fragrance from its shelves.. The Perfume Shop has since resumed selling Shh... and was in their top 5 best online sellers in the run-up to Christmas 2007.

Until November 2006 Goody also contributed a weekly column to NOW magazine. In an April 2006 column Jade admitted having the Burberry nova check pattern tattooed on her left buttock.

Personal life

Goody had a relationship with TV presenter and fellow reality television regular Jeff Brazier, the father of her two sons, Bobby Jack, born on June 6, 2003, and Freddie, born in September 2004. She was subsequently in a relationship with Jack Tweed, who appeared alongside her on Celebrity Big Brother. Following numerous allegations of Tweed being unfaithful, the pair have now broken up. Goody, who has confirmed she's dating again, said of Tweed: "Some days, I felt more like his mum than his lover...I’ll never date a toy boy again."

Goody signed up for the 2006 London Marathon. She did not finish the course, collapsing after 34 km (21 miles) of the 42.195 km (26.2 miles) and was taken to the Royal London Hospital to recover overnight. Before the race, Goody described her preparations to TV chef, Gordon Ramsay. "I've been eating curry, chinese and drinking." Afterwards, she explained:

"I don't really understand miles. I didn't actually know how far it was going to be. I'll be honest, I didn't take it seriously which is really bad of me because there's people out there who actually want to do the marathon. I didn't realise how much commitment the marathon was. I had four training sessions, that's all I did. At most I could run half an hour on a treadmill."

Goody raised over £500 for her chosen charity, the NSPCC.