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JADE MAKES DEGRADE

GIVE me a couple of days and I might able to think of a subject more tedious than Big Brother bore Jade Goody's search for a personal assistant. But I'm not making any guarantees.

Quite why Living TV decided that Jade's quest for some poor sap to organise her chaotic life might be remotely interesting remains a mystery.

What next? Brian Dowling needs a gardener. Tune in to see gay Brian rake through the green-fingered candidates. Kate Lawler is after a new cleaning lady. Thrill to the reality telly girl's attempts to find the perfect Mrs Mop.

Doesn't work does it? Just because you're a minor celeb it doesn't mean that every mundane detail of your day-to-day existence warrants a TV series. But Jade and her ever-present camera crew pressed on regardless and delivered the most pointless programme I've ever seen.

Jade's PA is a pile of vacuous garbage While Ms Goody rehashed her tired old you've-got-to-love-me-because-I'm-scatty act, the narrator made a very good point. "It's obvious Jade needs help," he said. I agree.

But back to her efforts to hire a top-flight PA. Jade recruited a couple of "expert" panellists and, incredibly, 8,000 hopefuls queued for six hours in the rain to be interviewed. Wannabe James Moody was already a fully-fledged star. "I think people probably recognise I me because I was on Shipwrecked," he boasted.

Yeah right. You'd get more recognition playing a horse's arse in a village hall pantomime!

A guy called Adam thought PA stood for something pornographic. And when asked to find Brazil on a world map one woman pointed to Eastern Europe.

None of them really wanted the gig. They were just desperate to be on TV.

But, for the few who cared, Hollywood PA Heather Harwood stressed that working for Jade would be "embarrassing ', and degrading".

Couldn't have put it better myself. sundaymirror

Jade lines up her next gig..... Sun

Loose Women: Friday the 22nd December
Jade joins that other reality tv star John McCririck who will be dressed as Santa Claus....the nerve!!!!

source ITV

TV dinners for stars

MADONNA'S sacked Australian butler and cook has a TV series on the boil.

In the show, Shepparton-born Eric Ienco will teach British celebrities how to cook and put on a dinner party in less than an hour.
There are plans for an Australian version of the program and a spin-off cookbook, which will contain anecdotes from rubbing shoulders with the likes of Dustin Hoffman and Elton John.

"Dustin is funniest man I have ever met," Ienco said. "The F-word is every second word.

"I met him in Tuscany. I got to look after him and his family for a couple of weeks, and I met him again and went out in LA."

In Melbourne for Christmas, London-based Ienco was coy about his falling out with Madonna in 2000, when he planned to sue her for almost $300,000 for alleged breach of contract.

Ienco claimed he and his Bendigo-born ex-wife Anna, who was nanny to Madonna's daughter Lourdes, were sacked and given three days to leave her London mansion only months into a two-year verbal contract.

Soon after, Ienco revealed that the Material Girl wore daggy flannelette pyjamas around the house and was a cheapskate who studied phone bills to ensure staff paid for personal calls.

Ienco's no stranger to the small screen -- from 3000 hopefuls, he got down to the final four of an Apprentice-style TV search for a personal assistant to British reality TV star Jade Goody.

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He's also cooked on the British version of Ready Steady Cook.

So which Aussie stars would he like to whip up a storm for?

"I'm a huge Collingwood fan, so I'd cook Eddie McGuire a grilled sea bass -- something light and sophisticated," Ienco said.

"Very Eddie.

"And definitely a barbecue with Sam Newman."

Where is Jade's PA.?

She was hired to keep her out of trouble but as yet we have not seen or heard a word from her. Living TV went to a lot expence to get Jade a PA but we still have Jade having to deal with her parking parking tickets herself.

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