Feel the Heat! (Heat)

Member Name: sandra25

Product:	Heat
Date:	05/01/07 (186 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Entertaining!

Disadvantages: Nothing!

Every Tuesday I make sure that I buy my weekly copy of Heat; my life just doesn’t seem complete without it.

It is mainly dedicated to celebrity news, gossip and interviews although it does also feature beauty and fashion advice. Even though many magazines are based on the same idea I think that Heat does it the best. I enjoy the irreverent way in which they interview celebrities. They are not afraid to say what actually happened and if somebody is rude they will not try to cover it up. I remember an interview that they did with Girls Aloud over a year ago where the girls where being horrendous to the interviewer. The interview that was published was basically copied off the tape, therefore including all the deep sighs and stroppy comments the girls made. Not a highlight in their career I’m sure.

Another favourite feature is torso of the week which everybody can guess what it is. Although this is mostly somebody along the lines of Johnny Depp, Brad Pitt or Orlando Bloom it has also featured people such as Tony Blair and Simon Cowell in the past. There is no accounting for the Heat staff’s taste!

Another weekly feature is the Spotted pages. This includes sightings of celebrities: where when and what they did. I guess it sounds a little bit perverted to find this interesting but I love it! A recent addition to this page is ‘spot Amy’ after Amy Winehouse had been spotted 2 weeks in a row randomly abusing people.

The fashion pages always feature high street stuff that the regular reader could actually possibly afford and they also give lots of ideas on accessories. If you wish you can write to them and ask them to find out where a certain item of celebrity clothing is from.

What makes Heat so much more entertaining than other magazines is the humour they employ while writing the magazine. The captions to photographs are always absolutely hilarious and by themselves would make the magazine worth buying.

Sure, I realise this is not an intellectual thing to read and that it won’t really do the world much good but then again, it’s not meant to. It entertains me enormously for a few hours every week and I know more celebrity gossip than anybody I know (maybe not something to be proud of, huh…?). I think for £1.65 it is more than worth having a read. It always manages to make me smile even after a bad day so it must be doing something right.

Summary: The best celebrity gossip mag