Cancer hit Jade could spend wedding night alone

Published on Friday 20 February 2009 11:00

Jade Goody faces spending her wedding night alone after a jail boss refused to relax a curfew for groom Jack Tweed, it was reported today.

The prison governor rejected a plea for former jailbird Tweed to waive his bail conditions after Sunday's ceremony.

Terminally-ill Goody, who has been given weeks to live, was said to be "heartbroken" over the move.

Tweed was jailed for 18 months last September after assaulting a teenager with a golf club. He was released early last month on condition he wears a tag and returns to his mother's house in Essex by 7pm each day.

Yesterday preparations for the wedding – which is fetching an estimated 1 million in broadcast and magazine rights – gathered pace.

She and Tweed received a visit from Bishop Jonathan Blake, of the independent London-based Open Episcopal Church.

He refused to be drawn on whether he would be conducting the wedding ceremony, but a source close to the planning said it was thought this would be the case.

Cancer-sufferer Goody was also driven from her Essex home to buy wedding presents, and later met three of her bridesmaids.

Bollywood actress Shilpa Shetty also urged people to pray for the mother of two as she prepared for her wedding.

Shetty and Goody were at the centre of the Celebrity Big Brother race row two years ago, which sparked thousands of complaints.

Viewers were outraged about the treatment of Shetty by Goody and other housemates on the Channel 4 reality TV show.

But Shetty, 33, spoke of her wish for everyone to forget the past and support Goody, who found out she was terminally ill with cervical cancer last week.

In an interview broadcast on ITV News: "I buried the hatchet a very long time ago, not because I'd heard about her being diagnosed with cancer.

"I'd repeatedly told people my feelings and I really didn't want to have any ill feelings against her.

"It's really sad to know that her health is deteriorating and I really want people to forget the past and I really want them to pray and send her good wishes because that's something that will give her energy.

"I really want all the positive things to be affecting her at this point."

Shetty said she had been invited to Goody's wedding but was filming in Bombay – "but if I was in London I would definitely have been there to show her my solidarity".

Goody will have a special pouch concealed in her wedding dress to hold her painkillers when she marries on Sunday.

Her fiance, Jack Tweed, has vowed that she will go down the aisle with him, even if he has to wheel her in a hospital bed.

Brit Award winners Girls Aloud are said to be desperately keen to perform on Goody's big day.