I love celebrities and I love celebrity gossip and what better magazine is there to buy than Heat?
Launched in 1999 Heat has become quite a phenomenon with the UK eventually after numerous re-launches and in 2004 it was one of the biggest selling magazines in the UK.
Every Tuesday morning my copy of Heat is dropped through my letterbox by my grungy looking paperboy and I rather excitedly drop it in my bag to read on my way to work whilst jostling with public transport to get there. Heat Magazine costs around £1.65 these days and for that money you can get 140 pages crammed pack full of tit-bits, gossip, fashion advice and disastrous photos, however if you are
like me you can subscribe to heat for £72 per year and ensure you never miss a copy.
I first started buying this magazine a few years ago when I was obsessed with Big Brother and this magazine I always felt reviewed the series much better than some of the sleazy newspapers because the person who wrote the articles was clearly a Big Brother fan. I loved all the interviews with the housemates when they got rejected from the house and even though I have now grown bored of Big Brother I still buy the magazine.
Heat is essentially a celebrity gossip magazine mixed with a tabloid newspaper and their eye grabbing headlines, if it is out there and it is happening you can guarantee that those at Heat Towers know about it and are either interviewing someone about it or have got a story about it.
The front cover of Heat always has some major story drawing the eye immediately too it and in recent years they have had exclusive on Brad and Jen and Jen and Angelina and Angelina and Brad, David Beckham allegedly exposed for kissing someone and so on, it is usually someone within the media's eye and it is usually a big story.
In every issue you can read about which celebrity is sleeping with or breaking up with whom, there is usually a scandal or two thrown in and then there terrifying of pictures of celebrities without make-up looking awful and the readers being shown that they are human after all with a little bit of cellulite here and a pimple there, there is also information on the diets famous people like to follow which often results in a feature of which female star is a fan of which diet and how successful it is for them, one of the strangest being the baby food diet in which celebrities just eat baby food to loose a few extra pounds.
For the more serious side of heat there is Torso of the week in which someone deemed to be 'hot' is posed topless and then we have book reviews in which new books are reviewed and given a rating, DVD ratings are given to films which have just made it to DVD, Film reviews and music reviews which consist of albums and singles. When each of them is reviewed the star rating indicates to the reader which one Heat believes to be 'Single of the Week' or 'Book of the week' and so on. Some of the reviews written do give a very good overview of that said product and I have bought numerous books and CD's from reading the reviews in this magazine.
You will also find Horoscopes within this magazine and more often than not a Crossword to win a television and DVD or something along those lines which contains cryptic clues and then inside the back cover as well as your usual adverts for mobile phone ringtones, games and the likes there is a 'Say What' section which features some catty quotes from celebrities which have been witnessed by people and some of them are really funny.
My favourite section of the magazine is 'Spotted' in which people write in or email Heat Towers or staff who work for Heat report which Celebrities they have seen and where they have seen them and living in London it is amazing how many famous people shop in my local shops, not that I have ever seen any of them.
On the whole I love Heat magazine and definitely prefer it to Hello and OK because I feel I get more for my money and I like the writing style within this magazine and the sense of humour those who work for Heat have and there is a serious side to the celebrity gossip too.
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