Goody quits India TV show with cancer: reports

0 Comments | AFP, August, 2008

MUMBAI (AFP) — Controversial British reality television personality Jade Goody has pulled out of the "Bigg Boss" show in India after being diagnosed with cancer, reports said Tuesday.

Indian news channels said Goody had told contestants on the show -- the Indian version of "Celebrity Big Brother" -- that she has been diagnosed with cervical cancer.

NDTV said Goody, 27, abruptly flew out of India to return home for treatment, just days after arriving in the country's entertainment capital Mumbai.

The media reports said she spoke to her doctor in Britain, then ran out in tears and announced to her housemates on the Indian show, "I have cancer."

Goody's appearance on the show came 18 months after she was accused of racism on British TV's "Celebrity Big...

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