Shilpa: Jade helped make me famous (From Bournemouth Echo)

Shilpa: Jade helped make me famous

4:44pm Friday 27th March 2009

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Shilpa Shetty has credited Jade Goody with giving her a high profile.

The Bollywood actress became a household name in Britain amid a racism storm in Celebrity Big Brother 2007 when thousands of viewers complained over the treatment of Shilpa by Jade and other housemates.

Speaking to Richard and Judy on Watch, Shilpa said: "She was the architect of my fame, and I give her the credit for that."

Shilpa continued: "It's been a learning curve for all the viewers watching Big Brother how it's important to think before you speak, how feelings are important.

"I really believe that Jade also learnt from that whole episode.

"Then again, her coming back into my life two years later, and we being able to become friends and putting that into the past, is again something that was karma and was meant to happen, it was destiny. And I'm so glad that happened as I'd never have been able to forgive myself."

But Shilpa said that the pair's past remained unresolved, and that they never had the opportunity to properly put their history behind them.

She said: "We didn't get the chance to bury the hatchet, we kind of moved on with our lives."

On the last time she spoke to Goody, Shetty reflected: "It was two days before she got married, she invited me and I congratulated her and she seemed very happy.

:: The interview airs tonight at 6pm on Watch.

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