Media pays tribute to Jade

The media reflected yesterday on the life of Jade Goody, Britain's first reality TV star to live and die in the spotlight.

"Mummy's in Heaven" splashed the Daily Mirror with a photograph of the 27-year-old who died of cancer with her two sons. "At Peace on Mother's Day," said the Sun.

Phil Edgar-Jones, the television executive who selected Goody to appear on Big Brother in 2002, said her difficult background - her parents were drug addicts and her father spent time in jail - and her lack of education made her a star many people could relate to.

A Guardian commentator wrote: "Because they are so rarely seen in public life it is easy to forget that the people in this country for whom Jade was a peer, not an affront, are in the vast majority."

Most newspapers decried Goody for being fat, ugly and stupid when she first hit the small screen.