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The 27-year-old mother of two, who married her boyfriend in a televised ceremony only last month, died in her sleep at her home in Essex, southeast England.
"Jade died at 3.55 a.m. this morning," her mother Jackiey Budden told reporters outside the house. "Family and friends would like privacy at last."
By endlessly poring over every detail of Goody's losing battle with the disease, tabloid newspapers, broadsheets, gossip magazines and broadcasters have been accused of being obsessed with someone who is famous for little more than being famous.
Even Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been asked to comment on her condition in recent weeks.
Goody shot to fame in 2002 after appearing in Big Brother, a reality show in which people are locked in a house and their every move televised.
Initially ridiculed for her apparent lack of education -- she thought Saddam Hussein was a boxer and a ferret was a bird -- and criticised for her behaviour to fellow competitors, she gradually won the public over with a straight-talking style.
She went on to become a regular in gossip magazines, wrote an autobiography and launched her own perfume, but her popularity sank in 2007 after racially charged tirades against Indian housemate Shilpa Shetty in Celebrity Big Brother.
It was during an appearance on an Indian version of Big Brother in August last year that she learned that she had cervical cancer. She dropped out of the show to return to Britain for treatment and later learned the cancer was terminal.
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God bless her sole.
Media has done a great job.
The death of Jade Goody that has finally happened must have made millions to shed an involuntary tear. May her soul rest in peace.She became famous for several reasons, not the least for the hugely publicised final weeks of her life. It is now reported that she too willed that kind of publicity, but with the honourable intention of providing for her little ones from PR income thus generated in the media. But was the media doing the right thing ?The character in Gabriel Marquez "One Hundred years of Solitude" being fated to die at a 5.00 pm on a particular day and Constance(that was her name) honouring the prophesy to the relief of one and all rings a bell.Poor Goody was a Reality Show person, but her last days were pure magical realism, thanks to media.
Jade Goody in death showed grace which in nobility exceeded the contributions of all our great Hindus put together. I am not saying that Hindus have not made great sacrifices. In reality our failure as a nation have burdoned the most conscientious with untold suffering which can hardly be imagined. Take the examples of Savarker and Bose. They were both broken. The first from the severe hardship and punishment by Britains colonial administration. The second by Gandhi's arrogance which led the sacrifices of both men to be of little consequence in the annals of Bharat's history. The first hardly honoured while he was alive and the second only received adulation in death. If the sacrifice of our great men were of true significance, why has Bharat demonstrated the sort of behaviour that demeaned their great contributions? I mean by that Vajapayee marching down our men after having marched them up the hill at Kargill: Singh not even making a pretence of prowess despite the Mumbai attacks.
Why is there such a big hue and cry over trash like Jade Goody. I am sure the world and UK have better people to talk and write about.