Stupid is as Stupid does

Once upon a time, back in the day, the be famous, you actually had to have done something worthwhile first.

An author, and actor, an astronaut, rode a bike over the Grand Canyon. Or tried to.

Anyway, this is the age of reality TV and as such we live in the age when people really are famous for being famous. There is one such person over here right now, that has turned al tragic and gotten some folks in the media all tied up in knots because back when this person, we'll call her Jade for the sake of an argument, got famous in the first place for being stupid.

She appeared on one of the ealy series of Big Brother and famously did not know that East Anglia is a prt of the country in which she lives.

The answer is England.

She could also fit her fist in her mouth when drunk; as well as stripping off. I know this because it was all on the front page of the red tops. Is this the state of our nation, they wailed? Sadly, people like her was their target audience.Jade kept a media career going by appearing on reality shows on lesser cable stations, just to keep the money rolling in.

I am not being judgemental here; or maybe I am. Then a couple of years ago she appeared on a 'celebrity' version and she called an Indian actress a racial name. Or not. Depends on who you believe.

The red tops wailed again.Last summer stories began to circulate that Jade was ill; even friends thought it was a scam for publicity. But it turned out to be true; she had cervical cancer.

She had treatment; it went away.

It came back.

Now Jade, a mother of two at the age of 27 has weeks to live. A couple of weeks ago she married her thuggish boyfriend; sold the pictures to a celebrity magazine for squiliions. And now each day goes by the red tops outdo each other with Jade related stories; Jade is going blind; Jade is getting her children christened. And so on.

There is no doubt this is a tragedy in every sense of the word; a young mother is going to leave her children motherless, the father/husband I think is in jail. And she is doing all she can to raise money so her children can have a secure future.

One thing that has come out of this is the awareness for young women that they can get cervical cancer that young, and should be checked out even from the age of 25.

Jade, will of course, now be famous for something other than being stupid.

And that is the real tragedy here