[James]

Life, love and everything else

She made her name as a Big Brother contestant and is currently featured in a docusoap about her new business venture. Noreen Barr met Jade Goody who recently moved out of her Church Langley home to set up home in Ongar with her two sons.
You would think Jade Goody could afford to take things easy these days. Thanks to her "Jadeisms" like thinking East Anglia (or "East Angular" as she put it) was abroad or musing on the vegetable front "What's a sparagus?" she has become the best loved, best known and most highly paid person ever to step out of the Big Brother house.

At 24, she is already a millionairess and barely a day goes by without her picture appearing in newspapers and glossy celebrity mags.

But Jade, the mum of two small sons Bobby and baby Freddie is just not the type to stay in her new £400,000 house in Ongar and put her feet up.

Instead she has been busy setting up a beauty salon, with a film crew in tow, obviously, to film all her ups and downs and gaffes along the way.

The results were shown in LIVINGtv's eight-part docu-soap Jade's Salon.

"I do find it hard work doing the salon I juggle my life about quite a lot," she said.

"I'm trying to go on different photo shoots, do different jobs and then also trying to commit to the salon and look after my two-year-old and nearly one-year-old, who cries a lot.

"But I like being pushed to my limit. When I'm pushed to my limit I actually come out the best. I would go out of my mind if I had nothing to do."

She added: "I couldn't just wake up in the morning and watch Trisha and go back to bed. I have to do things. I'd rather have eight things to do and try and juggle those, rather than just one thing to do. "But I think I'll have high blood pressure by the end of this show, let me tell you."

As she speaks Jade is keeping an eye on her elder son, Bobby, who is whizzing around the table on his Tweenies scooter. Apparently there's been a baby-sitting crisis, so he has come along to the interview session too.

But she has got rid of one stress in her life since filming of the show began earlier this year. She has dumped Ryan Amoo, 22, her footballer boyfriend of six months, who appeared in the first episode explaining to Jade why £40 worth of petrol would not fit in a jerry can.

Describing why she ended the live-in relationship, she says: "I really like independent people and he wasn't very independent. He would want to be everywhere I was. He was very much on me.

"I felt it's really unfair to keep someone here when you're not actually that much in love with him like they were with you. So I thought I've got to be honest.'"

And so Jade sat Ryan down and asked him to go, she told me when we met.

She is sure she made the right decision when she ended the relationship but adds in Ryan's defence: "He is a nice boy, I'm not going to say he's an awful boy. But I think he was rejected. I don't think he knew how to deal with the rejection."

There has been speculation since the split that Jade has rekindled her romance with her ex Jeff Brazier, 25, the father of her boys.

But she denies this saying: "We're not together. We get on really, really well, extremely well in actual fact. But no. It's just, you know, if it happens, it happens but at the minute nothing."

Jeff has been a big part of her life, however, and she admits: "I'll always have feelings for Jeff. He's the father of my children. And again he's got feelings for me because I'm the mother of his children. It will always be there.

"I've always said that if we got back together it would be lovely but if not, I'm happy. I've got enough men in my life Bobby and Freddie."

Her other baby, the salon she has just opened in Hertford, half an hour away from her new home, has turned out to be all consuming in time and money.

"I did have 70 grand to set it up but it's sort of grown a little bit," she said. "I won't spend no more than 100 grand.

"Obviously it's sort of nice to stay in budget but it ain't going to happen. I want it to look as nice as it possibly can, so I've got to spend a bit more really. Sacrifice things, sell a house, sell a child."

Thankfully Jade's salon manager, her friend Carly, is "the sensible one" who keeps reminding Jade about her budget.

"I met Carly through Jeff when I first started going out with him," she said. "All my friends now I met through Jeff. Me and Carly are good mates so I stole her."

The pair have always wanted to open a beauty salon and Jade said: "It's something I've always wanted to do since I was a child. Carly has always had the same sort of interests. I'm just sort of helping her dreams come true, so to speak."

And Jade is planning to make full use of the salon, which opened in September.

"My weight is always like a yo-yo. But I tell you what, I'll love my body once my salon's open because I'm going to have every treatment that I offer in the salon. It'll be, Come on girls, do my nails'."

10:48am Friday 21st October 2005

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