Heat

Heat is one of my guilty secrets. Every week, Every Tuesday morning I run to the local newsagents as regular as clock work to snatch a copy before they all fly off the shelves. Its like getting a fix of a drug, only my drug is a magazine full of trashy celeb gossip. Celebrity gossip addiction is actually being recognised as an addiction by mental health chiefs. The bombardment of reality tv stars, images of hollywood A-List dolly birds and hunky fellas cavorting about on screen and in the daily papers has increased 10 fold in the past years. The increase of the 'nobody celebrity' who achieve notoriety by appearing on Big Brother and becoming the latest 10 ...

If you’re looking for a magazine full of glossy pictures of celebs looking totally fab and at the same time looking very dodgy and also jam-packed full of gossip then look no further than Heat magazine. I first bought Heat about a year ago now when it was on sale every two weeks; it was hard to find a copy in any newsagent because it was so popular. Now a year on and it is so popular that it has become a weekly magazine, available every Tuesday.. <><>The magazine<><> This magazine has around 122-130 pages, depending on the stories available at the time of print. It claims to be the first with celebrity gossip, which it is ...

I love this mag, don't ask me why, I can sit down and read it cover to cover in a hour, I don't really learn anything particularly worthwhile (other than what cleanser Kylie uses and the latest plot lines in Eastenders) but I still buy it EVERY week. I think the TV ad for the mag is correct "the higher the intelligence the greater the need for gossip". My husband for instance insists it's pants (rubbish!), but if I'm not in the room he will be reading it cover to cover. Why are people embarrased to admit that they love celeb gossip? This magazine didn't start out quite how it is now, it was more focused on ...