[Arneldo]

IT WAS the final and most fitting tribute to TV’s greatest prankster.

The Sun “Beadled” Jade Goody in homage to stunt king Jeremy, whose funeral is today.

We tricked the Big Brother star — with a cast including fake cops and mechanics — into believing her beloved £135,000 Bentley convertible was a stolen vehicle.

Our team arrived at Jade’s smart detached home near Waltham Cross, Essex, shortly after 9.30am yesterday.

The cops — DI Jim Dickens in plain clothes and PC Bob Cartwright in uniform — were played by actors, while Sun man Charles Rae posed as their driver and colleague Oliver Harvey stood by in fluorescent jacket.

They were buzzed in through Jade’s security gates by her gardener and parked on her gravel drive.

Then the mum-of-two — still in her pyjamas — came out chatting on the phone and told the caller: “I’m going to have to go. The police are here.” Jade, 26, asked our team: “What’s all this about?”

After “routine checks” that she was the Bentley’s owner, Jade began to get worried.

She said: “Don’t tell me I’ve bought a stolen car — it’s not one of them cars that’s been stuck together with another one, is it?”

DI Dickens — actor Arvid Larsen, 37 — asked her: “Are you familiar with the term ‘cut and shut’?”

Jade, the colour draining from her face, squealed: “Oh no!” as the “cop” told her the car was now evidence in an international investigation involving a ruthless gang in Bulgaria — and Jade obligingly handed over the keys, her face contorted with emotion.

PC Cartwright — actor and stand-up comic Alexis Dubus, 29 — then radioed for a flatbed lorry to reverse up her drive as a stunned Jade removed her belongings from the car boot.

As the mechanics jumped from the lorry and prepared to load the car on and take it away, she held her head in her hands in despair.

Then our man approached with a mocked-up Sun front page of telly prankster Jeremy and said: “Jade Goody, you’ve been Beadled!”

Putting her hands over her eyes, she screamed: “For God’s sake, I’m nearly having a heart attack.”

But her distress soon turned to relief as she burst out laughing and yelled: “Oh my God, I can’t believe it.”

It was a moment Beadle himself would have been proud of.



Jade, now giggling, went on: “I just spent all that money on the car, £135,000. I’ve only had it three days, I’m still shaking.

“I was panicking. I didn’t have any paperwork and I didn’t know where the car was being taken.

“I totally believed it. Where did you get the police uniforms?” As our fake detective gave Jade her car keys back, she went on: “I can’t believe I gave you the keys. I was in my pyjamas. I had to clear all the kids’ stuff out of the boot. I was shaking, I felt sick.

“I thought I was a suspect in a crime, I didn’t know what to do. I was about to phone the car dealer and go mad.

“I had just got up with my boys and they’d had their breakfast and we were watching TV. Then you lot turn up.”

Fake cop Arvid — from London stunt company Woof — said last night: “Jade fell for it hook, line and sinker.”

Last night Henry Kelly, 61, Jeremy’s former co-host on TV’s Game For A Laugh, said: “He’d have found it very funny. It’s a wonderful tribute to him.”

Arch prankster Beadle, who died of pneumonia on January 30 aged 59, was one of TV’s best known faces through the 1980s and 1990s.

He regularly pulled in audiences above 15million with shows such as Beadle’s About, You’ve Been Framed, People Do The Funniest Things and Game For A Laugh.

In recent years he battled ill health, having been diagnosed with cancer in 2005.

Big-hearted Jeremy — who raised £100million for the Children With Leukaemia charity — will be cremated today.

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[Kevin]

Just read this on DS Forum, it's so funny to see how when Jade gets a mention in the tabloids, DS goes up in arms. lmao.

Tis a good prank Jade's looking good

[Jackie]

I think she took it rather well shes a good sport really.