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Jade Goody's was a tale for our times. Made famous by reality TV, she lived her life unashamedly in the public eye - for good and ill - right to the end.

Like Diana, Princess of Wales - another young woman catapulted into the public eye - she divided opinion. Almost everyone had a view about her, expressed privately to friends or colleagues, or more widely through the media, blogs and messageboards.

To many people, Jade Goody personified a dumbed-down Britain, with her televised displays of self-confessed ignorance, bad language and bullying.

BBC