Following the tragic news of Jade Goody’s death in the early hours of Sunday March 22nd, Living has announced today that it will be airing two tribute shows to celebrate and document Jade’s life. Jade: With Love will include new and exclusive interviews with some of those closest to Jade together with highlights from her four series ‘ on LIVING.

Jade: With Love Part 1 – Thursday March 26th, 9pm

Part 1 of this tribute show follows Jade from when she first stepped foot out of the Big Brother house in 2002 and began her meteoric rise to fame, establishing an extraordinary and unprecedented career in the media spotlight. Jade’s life played out in front of the cameras, delighting and entertaining her growing number of fans throughout the years. From her difficult childhood in Bermondsey, experience on Big Brother to meeting Jeff Brazier and giving birth to their boys Bobby and Freddie, this show documents all the significant moments in Jade’s personal and professional life. We are reminded of Jade’s rollercoaster ride of a career, and her special relationship with LIVING viewers who saw her setting up her beauty salon Ugly’s in Jade’s Salon, launching her best selling perfume Shhhh! in Just Jade and her search for a PA to help organise her busy life in Jade’s PA. The show also features exclusive chats with her five bridesmaids (TV producer Kate Jackson, Charlene, Jen, Kelly and Caroline) who, as her best friends, tell us about Jade in their own words.

Jade: With Love Part 2 – Thursday April 2nd, 9pm

Part 2 rejoins Jade’s life from Summer 2008, when she was filming Living with Jade for LIVING. We see her family holiday to Great Yarmouth with her sons, and get the first signs of her feeling unwell culminating in Jade ‘s trip to India where she appeared on Big Boss (their version of Big Brother) and received the shocking news of her cancer on camera. The subsequent Jade series on LIVING covered her radiotherapy and chemotherapy treatment to try and combat the illness, and featured highs and lows over this trying time. Jade: With Love Part 2 will also cover the build up to her wedding to Jack Tweed and the big day itself, as well as previously unseen interviews with those close to her on what they thought when she first received the news, as well as looking back on what they loved about the one and only Jade Goody.

LIVING’s Claudia Rosencrantz, Director of Television VMTV said: “We are all overwhelmingly sad to learn of Jade’s death, and although expected, it still came as such a shock. Everyone who worked with Jade loved her. We and all her viewers were so lucky to have laughed with her, and cried with her. Wonderfully charismatic, funny, warm and always sincere, Jade was truly unique and a huge part of the LIVING family.

When we began filming with Jade last spring little did we expect the nightmare story that would unfold with her diagnosis. Discussing it with Jade, she felt very strongly that it was important to broadcast her battle with cancer, shining her incredible torch of honesty on a subject that affects so many of us. By making her private battle public she has left a lasting legacy of her extraordinary bravery, beauty, humour and dignity and a vastly increased awareness of cervical cancer.”