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Jade Goody has proved to be the most mourned celebrity this year, according to an online tribute site
Jade Goody has proved to be the most mourned celebrity this year, according to an online tribute site.

The Big Brother star's death on Mother's Day after a highly-publicised battle with cervical cancer sparked an outpouring of feeling across the nation.

The website Lasting Tribute said an online memorial for the mother-of-two received the most hits of any celebrity this year - even more than Michael Jackson, who died in July.

Jade's page attracted more messages and images than any other famous person on the site, and more than 600 people left messages to the star.

King of pop Jacko received the second largest number of tributes on the site, and other popular celebrity tributes include actress Natasha Richardson, film star Patrick Swayze and Boyzone star Stephen Gately.

Lasting Tribute, which now has more than 1.3 million tributes online, has also attracted contributions for soldiers and former soldiers, whether veterans like Harry Patch, the last British survivor from the First World War trenches who died in July, or Royal Marine Danny Winter, who died in Afghanistan in January.

Managing director Elaine Pritchard said: "We are very proud that so many people feel comfortable using our website to pay their respects publicly to their own loved ones as well as to celebrities and people in the public eye."

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