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BACKGROUND Goody's grandfather Winston Coyne came to England from the West Indies in 1957. He worked for London Transport and met Jacqueline Goody at a party two years later. In 1961 their first child Ingrid was born, followed in 1963 by Goody's father Andrew. When the children were still little, Winston left to live with his family in New York . He kept in touch, but two years after leaving was killed in a road accident. Later, son Andrew met Jackiey Budden when he was 16 and she was 21.3 Jade Goody was born in June 1981 in Bermondsey , London . Her parents had an on-off relationship and had split for good by the time Goody was a toddler. When she was five, Goody appeared in the pilot episode of ITV 's '' London's Burning '' (sometimes referred to as the 'Telemovie' episode).4 Interviews with some of her high school classmates have revealed accusations of bullying when Goody was younger, with Goody expelled from Bacon's College, Rotherhithe, after biting part of the ear off one of her fellow classmates.5 Goody worked as a dental nurse before coming to public attention in 2002 when she was a contestant in the Third Series of the UK version of '' Big Brother ''. Andrew Goody died of a Heroin overdose in 2005 at the age of 42.6 He was found slumped in the toilets at a KFC restaurant in Bournemouth , and police made first contact with Goody as his next of kin, but she did not tell the rest of her family of his death or attend his funeral. CAREER ''Big Brother'' 2002 |
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