Max Clifford has appeared on This Morning today to pay tribute to Jade and put some of the rumours to rest about her funeral plans and her children’s future. “Jade did get everything in order – the trust fund is set up to look after the boys and their future, with trustees to keep an eye on that and on them,” he says. “Jade had told her mum and friends 'you arrange the funeral. I don't want anything to do with it', but then, of course, she said ‘I want this, I don't want that!’. Also it's been wrongly reported that the funeral will be travelling from Bermondsey. That was never ever suggested, it will go from her home in Essex to the local church which, of course, is what she wanted. The church will be full of friends and family and loved ones, but I'm sure there will be other people lining the route and lots of other people that might want to go to the church to hear it hopefully relayed outside. There will certainly be no media situation and it's exactly how we always said… The last couple of weeks she was at home on her own with her loved ones and there were no cameras around and nothing going on. It didn't happen and it was never going to." Max has also spoken out about how amazingly well Jack Tweed has been coping under the circumstances. “She married Jack, the boy she loved, and he has been completely devoted to her,” he says. “The way that he has nursed her over the last couple of weeks did him great, great credit. He was always there for her mopping her brow, cleaning her teeth, holding her hand and smiling whenever she woke up...which of course in the last few days was less and less. But for a 21 year old to handle that the way he did, he's done himself proud. I was 60 when my wife died, and I know how difficult it is to watch someone you love slowly fade away in front of you. But he handled that with great dignity and also compassion and its quite remarkable and a real tribute to the lad.” Max also revealed that Jade’s sons Bobby and Freddy are currently being cared for by their father Jeff Brazier, while a more permanent arrangement is finalised. “Her boys are obviously with Jeff, and Jade had already laid down the foundations, if you like, that mummy is going to heaven and will always be there for them,” he says. “Those that are close to the boys will do their best to love, protect and shield them and follow that path that Jade was told to take by the bereavement counsellors. They have a very close and loving family." Max also says he regrets not urging Jade to get medical attention earlier. “I just wished that I got her to my doctor earlier,” he said. “My doctor saved my life when I had cancer a year ago by early diagnosis, and had she seen him then and not two years too late then she'd be still with us. But she has left a legacy to young girls and young girls who will owe their future to Jade Goody. Simple as that. Campaigners have all said that the nation owes her for standing up and being so public about her own cancer when most people would've hidden away. Her death was all over the world, it was world news from Australia to America, to Saudi Arabia and Europe and Asia, everywhere... Yesterday the phone didn't stop, simply because she touched the hearts and minds of people all over the world, this young girl from Bermondsey. And I do think in the last couple of months people of Great Britain got to see the real Jade Goody and how bravely she faced up to this cancer and how she made sure that she could provide an education for her boys in a way that she was never provided for.”
Max discusses Jade's funeral