Am I the only one who thinks this magazine epitomises everything that is bad about our celeb obsessed culture??
Despite my constant bitching about it, my missus bought this magazine the other day and out of boredom I picked it up to have a flick through.
Firstly the front page had a picture of Jennifer Aniston with the headline "Dramatic Pictures inside"...well I thought..what have we here??..something bad must have happened...is it pictures of her in a car crash, head split open exposing brain matter and skull??...no...she was driving...SHOCK HORROR, HOLD THE FRONT PAGE....JENNIFER ANISTON IN DRAMATIC DRIVING CAR SOMEWHERE INCIDENT LIKE EVERY OTHER NORMAL PERSON IN THE WORLD DOES!!!!!!
I could go on but my blood pressure is about to boil over and I have just noticed a vein pulsating near my temple!!!!!

I love heat magazine read it ever week, I don't think the people who read it take it that seriously though. They often give you free cinema tickets which is always nice. The main criticism I have is the weight issue, one minute they say people are too thin and we should all be proud of our curves then the next minute they are bitching about peoples flabby bits. (not good:nono:)

What exactly is it about the magazine that you love??
The fact that you can find out what that barely-educated, gormless swamp donkey Jade Goody is up to nowadays (usually swimming in the Thames with the rest of her family) It has NOTHING in it of any substance or interest unless you happen to have an unhealthy obsessed with what Sarah Jessica Parker uses to cover up that disgusting boil on her face or which unlucky ASBO reject that wooleyback bloater Kerry Katona has got her fat fingers into.

Am I the only one who thinks this magazine epitomises everything that is bad about our celeb obsessed culture??
Despite my constant bitching about it, my missus bought this magazine the other day and out of boredom I picked it up to have a flick through.
Firstly the front page had a picture of Jennifer Aniston with the headline "Dramatic Pictures inside"...well I thought..what have we here??..something bad must have happened...is it pictures of her in a car crash, head split open exposing brain matter and skull??...no...she was driving...SHOCK HORROR, HOLD THE FRONT PAGE....JENNIFER ANISTON IN DRAMATIC DRIVING CAR SOMEWHERE INCIDENT LIKE EVERY OTHER NORMAL PERSON IN THE WORLD DOES!!!!!!
I could go on but my blood pressure is about to boil over and I have just noticed a vein pulsating near my temple!!!!!
'Heat' is rubbish, but it's harmless and entertaining in a mildly diverting way. I do agree with bjshooter, though, about the contradictory messages it sends about how women 'should' look. Pics of Jennifer Anniston in her bikini or whatever next to stories about 'My Anorexia Hell' by some Z-list 'star' do not sit very well together IMO.

Don't fret Wibbles, I too find Heat to be just the sort of anti-news pap that the vapid celeb junkies thrive on but I consider to be as interesting as a night in with Christa Ackroyd. I had the misfortune to thumb through a copy once and found it to be as distressing as finding a pube on my toothbrush - as you rightly point out, it's chock full of meaningless, vacuous drivel more at home spewing from the gaping maw of one of the many "Celeb watchers" which adorn daytime TV than actually making it into the printed word.

If I'm not mistaken than the advert for heat shows a woman going beserk due to her stockist running out of copies ...... Even with my imagination turned to 11 I can't imagine anyone getting vaguely miffed over not getting their diet of rehashed Q list celebrity twaddle, let alone flying into a Conan the Barbarian like rage.

I bet Caxton turns in his grave everytime the same upbeat falsely chirpy cow drones "Pitt and Jolie in badger adoption shocker - Aniston adopts Marmosett in tit for tat battle."

Am I the only one who thinks this magazine epitomises everything that is bad about our celeb obsessed culture??
Despite my constant bitching about it, my missus bought this magazine the other day and out of boredom I picked it up to have a flick through.
Firstly the front page had a picture of Jennifer Aniston with the headline "Dramatic Pictures inside"...well I thought..what have we here??..something bad must have happened...is it pictures of her in a car crash, head split open exposing brain matter and skull??...no...she was driving...SHOCK HORROR, HOLD THE FRONT PAGE....JENNIFER ANISTON IN DRAMATIC DRIVING CAR SOMEWHERE INCIDENT LIKE EVERY OTHER NORMAL PERSON IN THE WORLD DOES!!!!!!
I could go on but my blood pressure is about to boil over and I have just noticed a vein pulsating near my temple!!!!!

Erm... don't read it then

It is the fact that it is filled with mindless dribble that really appeals to me actually, as a uni student I get very bored of reading hard to read, complicated text books and find it a good escape,. I also like to read a whole range of novels and biographys and I know this will get you all going the news of the world.

Sits and waits for the gossip bashers

I love their TV listings, and their interviews are quite good. I have to say I preferred it in the olden days though before it got into its celebrity thing, and especially before this 'too skinny' / 'too fat' phase. I liked it when no-one bought it cos it was trying to do too many things, but the initial time after its relaunch as a cel;eb mag was good, too. Now, I think it's OK, but noweher near as good. Except the TV guide.

Add Heat to the ever growing list of 'Z' list magazine bobbins on the market. Personally I also classify 'Hello' magazine in the same bag. Who cares if Lady Arabella Wotsichops has just married someone who plays polo?

Heat used to rock. As someone who reads Heat, The Economist, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Newsweek and Sunday Times Travel Mags, I like to see Heat (+ Vogue!) as my guilty pleasures. I will say I like the Heat TV guide, they have the same taste in trashy TV as me. However, of late I have found the thin/fat thing a little too much, it really sends out f**ked up messages to people. One week it's "Charlotte Church: Why I love my curves" and about 2 or 3 weeks later it's "Charlotte's weight battle". Also I was shocked to see Claire from Steps on the front cover of Heat last week, however many years after Steps broke up... wow she's put on a little weight, if I was in a hugely successful pop band (of questionable quality, but still v successful) and earned loads of money and was constantly in the media glare, and then suddenly was removed from that... yeah I'd probably eat too just for the fact of being able to without it "affecting" sales or anything.

Ok rant over. Tomorrow's Heat day, we'll see what they're going with this week... Hmmmm should be a Chantelle interview! Might read it then...

I love their TV listings, and their interviews are quite good. I have to say I preferred it in the olden days though before it got into its celebrity thing, and especially before this 'too skinny' / 'too fat' phase. I liked it when no-one bought it cos it was trying to do too many things, but the initial time after its relaunch as a cel;eb mag was good, too. Now, I think it's OK, but noweher near as good. Except the TV guide.

Yeah I got the first one with Jonny Vaughan and Kelly Brook on thecover and it has changed somewhat. Used to be more of a generic magazine, now blatantly aimed at girls with the cosmetics and such a good look articles. I've stopped buying v girlie mags though so i don't mind that.

It is good at recommending you telly to watch - the top ten at the back a god send and the captions always make me smile. The heat interview is always good, and unedited including the always amusing pictures.

These celebs thrive on our attention and love being in "Heat" you see them in it WITH copies of it all the time. Bought mine today and will be off to soak in the bath in an hour with it. Like the other person who mentioned it, I too have to read loads of wordy educational stuff for work (and Rumpelstiltskin today) and Heat is my light relief! Lighten up! Life doesn't have to be Proust all the time.

It's because she wasn't smiling telling everybody how happy she is that her ex husband is currently planning on marrying Angelina, adopted her children and having TWINS too!

I think Jennifer Aniston is much prettier than Angelina anyway......

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Heat used to rock. As someone who reads Heat, The Economist, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Newsweek and Sunday Times Travel Mags, I like to see Heat (+ Vogue!) as my guilty pleasures

I agree with you, KookyKoo, Heat used to Rock! :thumbsup: I used to read it every week (actually, I think back then it was fortnightly) and thoroughly enjoyed indulging my guilty pleasures of celeb-watching and keeping up with the latest goss!

BUT - I don't quite remember when it happened exactly (or have any idea why it happened), but it started to go downhill week by week, and then rapidly went VERY downhill all of a sudden.

I don't bother with it now at all - it's just a trashy, downmarket gossip rag, no better than the National Enquirer.

It used to be the Queen of quality gossip mags - it was well-written by professional journos and I loved its sense of humour. Even if I wasn't interested in who it was featuring, it was still an entertaining read. Sadly, no more. :( Bring back the REAL Heat magazine :thumbsup:

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