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- The Guardian
14 Thursday 8 August 2019
A good premise – successful business
owners who struggled during their
education go undercover as school
support staff – and an instructive
opening episode of a four-part series.
Marketing mogul Paul Rowlett spends
six weeks as “Mr Williams”, off ering
help and encouragement to year 11
pupils approaching their mock GCSEs
at Haileybury Turnford secondary in
Hertfordshire. Before he reveals his
true identity, can he spot students with
the potential to boost his £28m-a-year
business?
Mike BradleySerengeti
8pm, BBC One
This dramatised natural
history show comes
into its own in tonight’s
fi nale – as though it has
been waiting weeks for
the chance to tie up the
loose ends and rebuild the
families after the bushfi re.
Thus the circle of life is
completed once again and,
best of all, a happy ending
awaits Bakari, the sad
baboon. MBBroke
9pm, BBC Two
The fi nal episode of
a subtly angry series
that has shone a harsh
light on the scandal of
in-work poverty in the
UK’s increasingly unfi t-
for-purpose economy.
Tonight, we meet
Lorraine, a nurse who
hasn’t had a pay rise in
eight years; Kevin, who
works 100 hours a week
and still struggles; and
Eryl, who forages to top up
her zero-hour wage.
Phil HarrisonFBI
9pm, Sky Witness
Veteran Law & Order
creator Dick Wolf pivots
to another branch of law
enforcement with this
starchy new US proceduralfeaturing a surplus of
branded windbreaker
jackets. Missy Peregrym
and Zeeko Zaki star as two
dogged agents pursuing
federal cases in NYC,
beginning with a spate
of CGI-heavy bombings.
Graeme VirtueThis Way Up
10pm, Channel 4
In Aisling Bea’s bittersweet
new comedy-drama,
she plays Aine, a woman
recovering from a nervous
breakdown. Sharon
Horgan is her concerned
sister, who is trying to
get her back on her feet.
You can tell the pair had a
great time making this: the
laughter is infectious and- “Jesus on a stick!” – it’s
funny. MB
The Tez O’Clock Show
11.35pm, Channel 4
Om Allah! Blackburn
standup Tez Ilyas is
nailing this topical
chatshow business, and
Britain’s bananas political
situation is giving him
plenty to work with as
the series ends. You may
be surprised to learn that
Man Like Mobeen’s daft
sidekick spent 10 years
working in Whitehall, but
it all comes into play here.
Ellen E JonesGoody ... vilifi ed
and worshippedThe Secret Teacher
9pm, Channel 4
And
another
thingAnother Life
(Netfl ix) is so
monumentally,
hypnotically
bad, so
creatively
cliched, it’s
almost a new
genre. Enjoy.Review Jade: The Reality Star
Who Changed Britain, Channel 4
whys and wherefores of their immediate collective
instinct to savage the 20-year-old as thick, vulgar, fat,
ugly and make her the poster girl for all of society’s then
current (mostly drunken) ills.
It also slyly allowed some of the people involved
enough rope to hang themselves. The creative director’s- Phil Edgar-Jones – smiling recollection of thinking as he
put the phone down after calling Goody to tell her that
she was going to be on BB3 – “This is either going to be
the best thing that’s ever happened to you or a complete
disaster” – was a reminder of the cold calculations that
lie behind every such production. Journalist Kevin
O’Sullivan, still belly-laughing nearly two decades on
at his own contributions to the anti- Goody furore (she
was by this stage being habitually referred to as a slag,
chav, baboon and pig, though O’Sullivan remains most
pleased by his “Creature from the Black Lagoon” piece
based on a picture of Jade getting out of the BB house
pool) contrasted with Davina McCall’s tearful memories
of being behind the house walls and pressing her hands
unseen against them and whispering “Be careful” to the
careless girl on the other side of the glass.
Interspersed with the story of her media creation
were interviews – pugnacious, full of pride, raging grief
just below the surface – with the woman responsible for
Jade’s fi rst 20 years. Her mother Jackiey, a periodically
violent drug addict for most of Goody’s childhood, was
cared for by her daughter for most of it. Of life with
Goody’s father (“He was a pimp”), she says they had a
good relationship but, “he was a possessive control freak.
If I said hello to you in the street, I know damn well I’d
get a black eye when I got in.” Goody was three when she
fi rst watched in terror as he shot up in front of her and
fi ve when she rolled her fi rst spliff. “She didn’t go into
Big Brother for fame, you know,” says Jackiey fi ercely.
“She went in to get away from me.” Fellow housemate
Alex, who waltzed with her as they waited for the fi nal
eviction, thought the stay was “a bit of a fairytale” for her.
As Goody’s background became increasingly public
knowledge and it became clear that she wasn’t so
much careless as simply, for the fi rst time in her young
life, carefree, sympathy grew, and more readily than
the media had expected. Goody was far more of an
Everywoman than they had realised and – even more
importantly – could still shift as many newspapers in
that guise as she had as a hate fi gure. An entirely cynical,
hypocritical repositioning took place. They killed “the
pig” and Goody emerged from the house a beloved
heroine whose “authenticity” was worshipped. The
good times and the money rolled in – we leave her at the
end of the episode still on a high.
It was a fair and nuanced portrait of Goody and the
machinery that surrounded her – sometimes operating
independently, sometimes in harmony. And it captured
the bleak undertow of it all ; the brutality of her life, her
manipulation and her premature death. It remains the
most modern of fairytales.
★★★★☆
TV and radio
S
ome people just have it. You can see it
radiating from Jade Goody from the very fi rst
moments of the audition tape (VHS, for this is
2002, children) she sent in to apply for a slot
on the third series of Big Brother : star quality.
A more downmarket, domestic version of
what we usually mean by that, but there, unmistakably.
No wonder the show’s creative director remembers the
person who happened across it as they ploughed through
the mail sacks that arrived by the dozens every day
shouting “I’ve got one!” across the room.
Jade: The Reality Star Who Changed Britain was
a 20-year-old dental nurse from Bermondsey, south
London, who became the biggest celebrity reality
television had produced, and whose success has probably
not been surpassed since. She transmuted her 64-day
stint inside the Big Brother house into a seven-year stretch
as a tabloid and magazine darling, amassing love, hate
and money in proportions that just about make the game
worth the candle. It might well have gone on longer, but in
2008 she was diagnosed with cervical cancer that spread
rapidly and killed her in March 2009 at the age of 27.
Last night’s fi rst of a three-part documentary
concentrated mostly on the making of her. There was
footage of her most famous Big Brother moments –
hysterically crying “Am I minging?” when she thought
she had a verruca, getting fully naked during strip poker
and, of course, thinking “East Angula” was abroad.
And then there was what the media made of that. The
documentary deftly displayed and deconstructed theFrom hate fi gure
to heroine,
Goody’s life is a
modern fairytale
Lucy Mangan
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