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TV star to 'end life'

British reality TV star Jade Goody has vowed to end her life in the glare of the media after being told that her cervical cancer is terminal and she has just months to live.

Goody, 27, who shot to notoriety after taunting Bollywood star Shilpa Shetty on British TV's "Celebrity Big Brother", is planning to marry her boyfriend Jack Tweedy in a lavish ceremony before she dies.

Tweedy, 21, proposed at her hospital bedside on the eve of Valentine's Day. The wedding is expected to be recorded by the cameras of a glossy magazine under an exclusive deal.

(China Daily 02/16/2009 page7)