1st episode: 1.4m
2nd episode: 1.2m

I'm not sure if those are good ratings, but really liking this series.

I never felt Jade was racist in the fallout with Shilpa, and while it could look that way i 100% feel it was not intended.
Jade and Shilpa simply did not see eye to eye which was nothing to do with race, they both had 2 very different backgrounds and upbringings.
Jade would have had such a better run in the Celebrity house had she entered alone, as from the moment they entered there was some people in their just looking down their noses at them.
The story of Jade is so tragic, it was an incredible journey for her and it all ended so abruptly and so young.

A really interesting watch. I feel they were kind of right about the class divide in the house and the way the task was set kind of highlighted that in some ways. Jade was in a sense BB royalty 'Queen of the house' if you like, and it was so interesting to see the reactions of other housemates to that again (I had somewhat forgotten all these years later). The two singers really did themselves no favours at all both were up themselves and Ken Russell was also an idiot. I do feel having her mum in there did her no favours at all. I mean seriously I'd forgotten about the "Shippa or whatever your name is..." Seriously wtf how many times did they tell her the name was SHILPA it was ridiculous. Jackie stirred up lots of bad feeling, which Jade very much tried to keep a handle on, and then the way Big Brother chucked her out I think it just shifted something in Jade... I think Jade would have fared much better had she gone in by herself tbh I'm not sure the whole bad feeling would have been stirred up in the way it was.

I will say though the 3 girls were racist, there's no getting away from that, some of the language they used, some of the things they said (especially Danielle - "she can't even speak English properly go back to your own country") but I don't think Jade herself was necessarily intentionally racist. She was ignorant and not very clever (despite all last week being about how smart Jade was etc she really wasn't) and she wasn't intelligent enough to know what she was saying and encouraging was racist. She was however a bully, her Jo and Danielle were like a bunch of mean high school girls with Jade being the ringleader and Jo and Danielle propping her up all the way, it was horrid to watch back in the day and uncomfortable viewing again with some of the clips tonight. I do find it ironic however that the UK is the most racist it has ever been right now. Seriously all the bad feeling stirred up about 'foreigners' as part of the Leave campaign, and the blatant racism against the muslim community in the Daily Mail, The Sun, The Daily Mirror it's just horrendous and yet nobody seems to notice that.

I'm not sure how I feel about the whole thing tbh. I do think Jade was a bit of a victim of the show and the media tbh and I do feel a bit sorry for her, but at the same time I find it hard to have real sympathy for her because I feel like we saw a side of her that clearly was her. In actual fact that was her own fault for acting so grossly to another person, I find it hard to really have sympathy for those people.

On another note had the cancer not happened and had Jade lived a healthy life do you think she’d have ever got her career back?

My feeling - yes in the short term, but the dawning social media age would have eventually caused her career and profile to subside, either through making ill thought out remarks on Twitter, or from too many other celebrities to compete with.