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A musical based on Jade Goody's life is being created, a former business partner and friend of the late reality TV star has confirmed.
Danny Hayward, who is in charge of the project, said he is planning to hold open auditions to fill the lead role of the 27-year-old herself.
"Jade was just an ordinary girl and the person who plays her will reflect that," he said.
"The most important thing is to give someone a break, just like she got."
'Dream'
He said dates for the auditions will be announced in three weeks' time.
However, Goody's former publicist Max Clifford played down the show.
"It's an idea that's got legs, but it's nothing definite. It's not all signed and sealed, but it's something that's likely to happen."
He added that if the production did go ahead he would help promote it and cast the lead roles.
"I got very close with Jade in the last year and spent a lot of time with her," he said.
Earlier this month, Clifford revealed he had been in talks with several film companies about making a movie based on Goody.
He told Radio 1 Newsbeat that they were "serious discussions" because her "incredible life touched so many people".
'Creative team'
Mr Hayward, who was one of Goody's "best men" at her wedding to Jack Tweed in February, said the star had always wanted to be on stage.
"Her dream was as a little girl was to be in a musical, so so obviously when she passed away it felt fitting to do something like this."
He said Goody had not known about the project, as the idea had been devised since her death.
He added he was currently "putting scripts together" and employing the "creative team".
"It's still in its infant stages, but it's definitely going to happen."
Goody, who became famous after appearing in Big Brother, passed away in March after she lost her high-profile battle with cervical cancer.
Thousands of people turned out to see the funeral procession, which travelled through London. before reaching Buckhurst Hill in Essex, where the funeral took place.
Susan Boyle for the lead..?
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Oh Goody
Flogging a dead horse indeed.
Is there no-one in her circle of associates
who understands what the letters R, I and P stand for?
Incredible
'The idea was devised after her death' says it all really. Before her death I questioned Max Clifford's motives - if he gets involved with this it proves what many people have thought all along. That he is an opportunist looking for the chance to make money. No problem with that Max but tell it like it is and cut the bullshit.
Was there ever
any doubt about Max Clifford's motives?
To rehash an old gag..
If Max Clifford is so good at PR why does everyone think he's a right beloved aunt?
Perhaps they could do a Bollywood
version and Shilpa what's her name could play the lead?
Jaded.
The day of her funeral I was in our local Party shop getting things well for a party. The queue was a bit slow made up of just 2 other people. The delay was being caused by a youngish women who was "umming and ahhing" about which metallic helium balloon to buy, to release as Jade Goody's funeral hearse drove through south london.
May be I should have said that the procession had already been past an hour before hand. I rather suspect she's still down on Jamacia road anxiously checking her watch wiating for JD to swish past, her tribute copy of OK clutched in her hand.
Oh to be a fly on the wall at the auditions
I bet that would be something.
Or you could just watch it
Or you could just watch it on ITV when Simon Cowell inevitably snaps up the rights. "Dead Famous" anyone?
often we antipodeans
seem to slavishly follow brit pop culture.
I'm pleased to say that no-one down here gives a rats arse about jade goody and why anyone does up north is a mystery.
They should call it...
Jaded
Depressingly
...even Word magazine has been sucked into the whole tawdry business with a completely unnecessary whole page obituary. And Ian Carr got one paragraph, a highly respected musician and writer.
I'm looking forward to the musical........
To hear the attempts to shoehorn the "naked on the settee in the big brother house" and the "i'm not an ignorant rascist" incidents into rhyming couplets.
Sorry, gotta go...
I would express an opinion but it's hard to type over the sound of the four horsemen of the apocalypse approaching over the horizon. This story proves, if proof were needed, that this country is indeed in hell and we are all, in fact, doomed.
I wonder if we'll all discover in a few weeks that the hype over Jade, her funeral, her so-called autobiographies and this musical were actually part of a brilliant Chris Morris satire on the media and the public's gullibility and sentimentality.
Jade Goody - the most
Jade Goody - the most ironically named micro-celeb of all time.