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Enough already!

— When Jade Goody goes off-message, isn't it time to think about the price of celebrity?…”

What did you expect? You pluck a porcine, no-hope loser out of some dump in Bermondsey. You take her out of her dental nurse job, you shove her into the dentist’s chair of public attention, you shine the harsh light of cut-price celebrity in her eyes. You tell her that she’s a talent, that she’s a star.

It was always going to hurt her more than it was going to hurt you.

And you thought that, after you’d filled her head with fast food self-esteem and E number untruths, this unfortunate slum wretch would be a suitable spokesperson for the nation?

You thought wrong, idiots.

What a ridiculous nation we have become. We create these media sluts and then we knock them down. We call this entertainment. How very droll.

If only the minds of our desperate press hadn’t turned to jelly.

If only they stuck to reporting newsworthy stories instead of impregnating the self-serving, ever-decreasing circles of the mind-numbing celebritish. If only the population would grow tired of these unfunny laughing stock turds.

If only our politicians would refrain from debasing themselves at the altar of whore-cheap headline mediocrity. But no. Today’s BBC entertainment news page was sick with overexposure.

It’s the last bloody straw. Enough already!

Ignore them and they will just go away. They’re not like toothache.

Ask her if you don’t believe me, she still probably remembers enough about toothache to go right back there and show you where to swill your mouth out. Dental hygiene and dignity are still great things.