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Jade Gets Behind The Wheel For Comic Relief

She drove us all crazy during the first few days of Big Brother 3, but what's Jade Goody's driving actually like? Here's your chance to find out, as she takes to the roads to raise money for charity.

The programme that made a cult figure of abysmally bad driver Maureen Rees, the 50-something cleaning lady from Cardiff, is back for a special 'Celebrity' edition in aid of Comic Relief.

'Comic Relief Does Celebrity Driving School' follows a selection of celebs as they learn to drive in six brand-spanking new Focus and 'New Fiesta' cars supplied by Ford.

Participants include Natalie Cassidy, better known as Sonia from Eastenders, Paul O'Grady aka Lily Savage, singer Gareth Gates and of course, motor mouth herself, Jade Goody!

At the start of the series Jade, who was window shopping for BMW's last year, declared that she was "Good at the dodgems" and thought she'd do quite well. Erm... riiiiight. Her driving instructor would have to be either very brave or insane!

Unfortunately, Jade failed her theory test the first time around, answering just half of the 35 questions correctly. And the second time. However, the intellectually-challenged 'chipstick' soldiered-on with the theory side of things and finally got behind the wheel.

But, it turns out, 'The Bermondsey Basher' wasn't the most natural of drivers... Surprised? No, neither were we, funnily enough!

For a start, she smacked the wing mirror off her instructor's shiny new car and at one point, drove down the road like she was playing a video game.

Still, she seemed to be having fun and enjoying herself and it was all in aid of a good cause, white knuckles on instructor's hands or not. To check out some RealOne Player video clips of Jade in action, click here.

The BBC1 series starts on Monday the 24th of February at 8.30pm and continues on Friday the 28th, Monday the 3rd of March and Friday the 7th of March, culminating with the final show on Red Nose Day, Friday the 14th of March.

Although the shows have already been recorded, no-one knows if the participants have successfully passed their test or not, not even the celebs themselves.

So, keep watching and just keep your fingers crossed that Jade, dubbed a 'nutter' by her instructor Rickie, doesn't actually get her licence and take to the public roads.

Congestion charge? Just let our Jade get out-and-about behind the wheel in central London; that's sure to reduce the traffic. Now, where did I put that bus timetable...?

Just kidding Jadey!

www.comicrelief.com

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