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Heat Magazine |
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02/10/08 (210 review reads) |
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Advantages: Celebrity gossip over 146 pages
Disadvantages: Trashy
Heat Magazine
You may have already read my Now review, well now here is the Heat one. I bought both magazines on the same day to do a review on both and make some comparisons between the two to see which one is the best value for money.
You are never going to get away from the fact that both magazines are trashy celebrity gossip magazines, but I have read both of them in the past, and you never know when a celebrity question will come up in a pub quiz, so it could be deemed as research really!
So Heat Magazine retails in at £1.65, and is also available weekly, the same as Now. Now was £1.20 if you remember, so Heat is a bit more expensive. I hear you asking whether you get more for your money with Heat magazine, well bear with me and you will find out!
With a first flick through, I can easily feel that Heat is a more substantial magazine, coming in at 146 pages to Nows 100. If you remember, Now had 30 pages of ads, what does Heat have? 41 pages. 11 pages more than Now. 35% of Now was adverts, and only 28% of Heat is adverts. I say only, but I think 28% is still quite a high amount.
- So what about content? -
The Cover is eye catching, with Heat written in large font in bright red text across the middle. The stories featured on the cover of this weeks issue are:
Pete and Jordans loveless marriage; Lindsay (Lohan) self harms, Nicola (from Girls Aloud) slams Chris Moyles; and there is a picture of Cheryl and Ashley Cole with a big headline saying "FORGIVEN" about their marriage problems since Ashley cheated.
Similarly to Now, the first few pages are celebrity articles, usually double page spreads, and are mainly the cover features. There is a big spread with loads of photos of Ashley and Cheryl looking happy together again. An article on the filming of the new series of Little Britain USA and pictures of the new American characters (that should be funny).
A fashion article on the celebrity look of the week, which apparently is blazers. Remind you of your school days? Readers emails and letters page, which is usually quite a funny read. Apparently Jennifer Aniston is dating Leo again, well that is the rumour in heat magazine this week, although there are no pictures of them together.
So just over half of the magazine (up to page 64) is about celebrity gossip and rumours (are they the same thing?!) Then comes to one of my favourite pages. The Hoop of Horror, where some celebrities have been caught out with their flies undone, or fake tan missing from their ankles or whatever. This weeks features Pamela Anderson, with her flies undone , Vanessa Feltz, Brad Pitt and Jerry Springer amongst others.#
The spotted! pages are also good, this is where viewers send in their celebrity spots of the week. Things like Ping Ping, the worlds smallest man was spotted having lunch at Ping Pong in central London. There are some celebrity facts about stars, an article on Richard & Judy, an interview with Alan Carr and a few photos from his family album.
There are then 18 pages on fashion. Who got it right, and who got wrong. Who wears it best, as well as some fashion tips.
There are some film reviews next, and the top ten films to watch. Top of the list is currently "How to Lose Friends and Alienate People" anyone reviewed that on dooyoo yet?
There are some music reviews next week, both singles (do people still buy singles nowadays?) and albums. Will Young and James Morrison have had their albums reviewed this week.
Then it is the turn of DVDs. Top of the DVD list this week is "Sex and the City: The movie".
There is even a book list review. Top of this list is "Look Who It Is" which is Alan Carrs memoirs.
Next is the HeatTV seven day pick of the weeks television. This is actually a TV guide for the 4th-10th October for BBC1, BBC2, ITV1. Channel4 andFive, as well as some choice picks from Heat.
At the end of the magazine is the regular feature, 10 questions we ask everyone, this week they have asked Simon Pegg.
- To summarise -
So, as you can see, both Heat and Now are very similar magazines, they contain celebrity gossip and fashion. The content is different, there have been different stories in both magazines this week, in fact there is barely any duplicate articles in the two. Overall, my personal preference is Heat magazine, it has more content, is slightly more pricey, but the articles, particularly this week are ones that appeal to me more. Both magazines are good to catch up on the celebrity gossip and will pass the time. At the end of the day though, they are both just celebrity gossip magazines.
Summary: Does what it says on the tin - spies ont he celebs
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