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Originally posted by BAZG
From the Daily Star:
SARI JADE, WE JUST DON'T WANT YOU
14/03/07
DESPERATE Jade Goody has been pestering a glossy Asian magazine to pose as its cover girl – in a sari.
The Celebrity Big Brother bully thought snaps of her cavorting in Indian gear would build bridges.
But bungling Jade, 25, was told: “Sari, but that’s way too much for Asian people to stomach.”
Staff at Britain’s top-selling Asian women’s mag Asiana were left speechless when Jade approached them with her loopy idea for a PR assault.
The Bermondsey bruiser (lol) is desperate to revive her career after enraging the Asian community here and in India by calling Bollywood beauty Shilpa Shetty (pictured), 31, “Poppadom” and “*******awallah”.
But Jade managed to commit yet another toe-curling blunder during her recent PR offensive in India. She told Asiana reporter Gurmej Singh Pawar, 26: “I can now tell my kids that Indian people are not Pakistanis.” (WTF?)
A source close to Jade told the Daily Star last night: “In her eyes, having her in a sari plastered across this respected magazine was to be a quick fix for all the hurt she caused.
But staff saw through her approach and realised readers would be angry to see Jade in beautiful Indian clothes after the foul-mouthed tirades she hurled at Shilpa.
“Jade was insistent. She had to be told repeatedly it was not going to happen.”
Mum-of-two Jade had told pals she wanted the snaps to show her dressed in traditional Indian style, with a desert backdrop of camels and palm trees.
The source added: “She could not even get her ideas right. She seems to be a walking cultural relations nuclear winter.” Shihab Salim, 35, editor-in-chief of Asiana, said: “The option of a photoshoot with her in a sari was flatly rejected.
“It would been in poor taste. I think our readers would have accused us of falling for a PR trick. We support Shilpa – and so do our readers.
“However, since Jade wanted to apologise to our readers, we felt we could include that in our magazine.
“And our decision to run the story was sealed when she came up with priceless quotes such as: ‘Pakistani people are not from India’.”
Asiana is in the shops today.
omg!
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It's a fairly long and typical story.
The Newspapers are jumping on Jade Goody again.
It may be Danielle and Jo next? who knows and who cares.
Anyway, There are two main points, which are easy to explain
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1) Jade offering to wear Indian clothes in a magazine?
Jade Goody went to India to tell as many people there and in fact, worldwide! That she is very sorry for her offensive words and sentances to Shilpa Shetty, also, she is not a racist person and if some of the words and sentances sounded by many to maybe have "racial-overtones", then she understands that many may have thought they were actually racist, but were not.
The offer from Jade to appear in the magazine in Indian clothes, is just another generous gesture from Jade Goody, to try and mend the situation further.
She could offer nothing at all, but Jade Goody is not like that and will try to make peace for all, especially as the investigation from the police is over and the C.P.S has given their legal verdict, which is in the three girl's favour!
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The other point:-
2) ‘Pakistani people are not from India’.” That is typical Jade Goody. She says funny things like that and that is just her all over.
Nothing nasty or very bad. Just a comment which comes over like that, which sounds thick! But nevermind, it is not worth worrying about.
Many white-skinned people can easily make mistakes like that. It is hard to tell the difference some times, between the two.
If you say, "Asian people" I don't think any Indian woman or man would be offended?
I can't imagine why any Indian man or woman could ever get that worried and look at that as being offensive, even if the word, "Pakistani" was mistaken for "Sri Lanka"
It is Jade's recent quirky comment and nothing offensive!