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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.


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