Heat Magazine isn't as good as it used to be....or am I getting old?

[bigbanana]

It's just not doing it for me so much any more - find myself getting to Thursday and realising I have forgotton to buy it...what's that all about? I used to practically camp outside the newsagents on a Monday night ready to pick my copy up before it even hit the stand. Is it not as good or am I just a little too old for it now? Don't like that thought one little bit. Humph.

bakedpotato/coddy:
"I love Tofurkey. And I make a mean gravy with wholewheat flour and soya milk" (MOBY) - perhaps so-called celebs are too tame these days...

That would have been just too wierd wouldn't it?

bundle, ewww. is that his xmas dinner?

I used to love it but it's too obsessed with Big Brother now. I used to make dp bring his mates back copies back with him every time he visited the uk, but now I'm just not that interested. Glad other people feel the same and I'm not just an old fogey though!
Jessica Simpson is the Jade/Nadia of EVERY magazine out here - bimbo extraordinaire. Her mangling of "Angels" is a punishment to listen to.

probably bp (in the last page quotes bit). that counts as a "blow out" for him, i think.

also Humbug Emma Thompson: " I ban all presents. Except for the very young. The only presents allowed are homemade things, or things to eat."

I was only thinking this the other day. I have gone off it too. The bit which really annoys me is the section on horrible photo's of the celebs. Its like "MY GOD THERES A SPOT ON CAT DEELEY'S FACE" and its just not entertaining. Everyone gets spots, everyone gets cellulite, none of think they are perfect. I'm sick of Siennabloodymiller, the beckhams, nadia, and brian mcfadden. Come on heat, get better, I used to love reading you.

I too was thinking this the other day - and I loved Heat so I'm very sad. I used to be panting for Tuesday to arrive but now I often don't remember about it until a few days later. I too hate the bit with the spots and the sweat patches and I can't stand the 'in depth' interviews week after week with Big Brother contestants, Girls Aloud etc. And the captions aren't as good as they used to be - they were genius. And there's too much about dressing like Sienna Miller/Paris Hilton/various other vacant bints. Where is the proper gossip?
It's all gone a bit low rent and reality TV oriented. I don't think it's us getting old, it really isn't as good as it used to be.

OMG bakedpotato - that was you! I still snigger about Victoria Hervery's horse jumper. It brought me great laughs! [grin}

i want to punch sienna miller
dont know why just do

you remember my letter, cupcakes? wow, that's so neat!

I know - what are the chances! The letters page used to be really good... (sigh...!)

I subscribed to Heat after about the third ever issue and it really was a very different magazine then - Anyone else remember it when it was less celeb gossip and more of an entertainment review? It was as much for blokes as women - but very funny with fabulous surreal picture captions. It gradually added more gossip and fashion and less cinema but kept the humour so I kept my subscription going - but now it rarely makes me laugh out loud anymore - I agree its definitely lost its edgeiness. Almost prefer Word magazine nowadays....maybe I am getting old..

interesting, TT. it was a disaster when they first launched it (remember the piss-poor TV ad campaign with a flame snaking across the floor, no idea what they were trying to sell?) and sales figures were way low.
then mark frith was brought it to overhaul it (he used to edit smash hits/sky) and it was relaunched as entertainment/gossip bible, with a big emphasis on telly. no one else was doing a mag like that, though now there are loads of ripoffs.
i think the real prob is that recently it has become too fashiony/girly. you get the feeling it's pitched at teenage girls much more than it was after the intial overhaul, when it was pretty unisex.