`Big Brother’ contestant Jade Goody – not known for her diplomatic skills - has arrived in India. Go figure. All we know so far as that she’s there on a ``private visit’’. Damage control, perhaps? Maybe a PR visit? Naaah, I’m tipping another reason. Call me cynical, but the bottles for her perfume, called Shh, are produced at a factory in western Gujarat. Get my drift here?When Goody repeatedly insulted Indian actress Shilpa Shetty in the recent `Big Brother’ series, her crass behaviour prompted an unprecedented 40,000 complaints to the UK media regulator. In the wake of the racism row, the Gujarat factory, Pragati Glass, stopped production of the bottles containing Goody’s perfume.
Okay, let’s give Goody the benefit of the doubt. Maybe she isn’t there for a commercial reason. ``I've been made to feel very welcome so yes, it's been very good so far,’’ Goody told BBC.com. But if she does fly to Gujarat to make amends at the factory, she could be a bit glassy-eyed.
FOOTNOTE: No Bollywood auditions, Jane? Naaaah, didn’t think so.
