Star - The hottest celeb weekly - ok, if you say so! (Star: The Celebrity Magazine - Magazine)

Member Name: carlz2001uk

Product:	Star: The Celebrity Magazine - Magazine
Date:	14/11/09 (49 review reads)
Rating:

Advantages: Decent pictures, ok stories

Disadvantages: Accuracy of what's printed

Star Magazine calls itself the hottest celeb weekly, and although it's ok I wouldn't say it was the best magazine out there. I tend to choose my magazines purely on whats on the cover, I'm not faithful to one particular mag, although I do seem to choose Heat and OK more than any others.

Star magazine is priced at 85p, although every now and then you can pick up an extra magazine for free. The particular issue that I have to hand is number 293, with a 'Jordan exclusive' on the front cover, which actually turns out to be Jordan's mum Amy supposedly speaking out about how she doesn't know her own daughter any more. As the majority of us know, half the time this sort of stuff tends to be made up, and it seems that this suposed exclusive hasn't even come from Amy's mouth anyway, but from 'a source close to the family'! I love it when they write that, I just think - so you made it up then!? But I still buy these magazines!

The way that Star magazine presents itself is usually in the form of 3 or 4 cover stories (in this particular issue, the other main story is how Sienna and Britney got their bikini bodies - great like I'm interested!), then it has it's breaking news section, the big picture, celebs exposed, star fashion, hollywood star (all the latest news from across the pond), star bodies, star TV, and finally a Plus section with competitions, horoscopes and a list of stockists from the fashion section. The plus section also has a letters page where the star letter receives a prize (in this case a Samsung phone).

As I said in my introduction, this magazine is ok, but I tend to find it has it's favourite celebs and anyone not on this list gets well and truly slated. For example, in this issue it seems to be Katie Price, who they describe as 'vile' and 'bitter' when talking about her Tweets. I also don't like the section called 'rated or slated' where star's supposed 'style experts' give their verdicts on this weeks outfits. I tend to find that the celebs who look like they have actually have fashion sense and aren't wearing something totally outrageous get told they look dowdy and boring. Maybe its just me, but I think for impressionable young girls to read that if you don't have every single bit of flesh exposed on your body then your dowdy - not good!

The magazine does seem to print some half decent pictures of 'celebs spotted', but half of the time I'm left wondering how much of the stories they print are accurate.

Ok, every now and then to kill a bit of time.

Summary: 3 stars