jem
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Heat
Oct 4, 2006 11:07:05 GMT
Post by jem on Oct 4, 2006 11:07:05 GMT
I felt the need to start a topic about Heat. For what must be the god knowsth week i have handed over my 1.65 and been disgusted at my own waste of money.
I used to love heat it was witty and always treated celebs with a wry smile. Now like a latter day smash hits I feel it's lost what made it good in the first place.
Maybe it's a continuation of my disgust at the amount of coverage Grace from bb has had, or anyone from bb for that matter, maybe it's the recent David Hasselhoff obsession (ooh look it's a bangwagon let's jump on). But every week I feel like I'm cheated.
Discuss...
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ruthie
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Heat
Oct 4, 2006 13:18:44 GMT
Post by ruthie on Oct 4, 2006 13:18:44 GMT
I used to love heat it was witty and always treated celebs with a wry smile. Now like a latter day smash hits I feel it's lost what made it good in the first place. I know what you mean - I used to love it when it was bitchy in a quite self aware, not too over the top way. I haven't bought it for ages because it just seems to have got really nasty. I think its all the cut price rivals, for some reason Heat has just descended to their level and given up on being well written and genuinely funny.
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Heat
Oct 6, 2006 9:35:11 GMT
Post by georgie on Oct 6, 2006 9:35:11 GMT
I almost choked on my diet coke and put my copy backon the stand this week when I realised it was £1.65. £1.65! Outrage.
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jem
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Heat
Oct 6, 2006 9:59:46 GMT
Post by jem on Oct 6, 2006 9:59:46 GMT
More money, less content.
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booers
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Heat
Oct 6, 2006 12:29:30 GMT
Post by booers on Oct 6, 2006 12:29:30 GMT
It is shite these days. It has been since about 2001 I think but I still gave it a chance until about 3 years ago when I eventually gave up on it. When it launched it was just a really good entertainment magazine that wasn't too pretentious and reviewed films, CDs and books that were very mainstream (where specialist mags like Empire and Q can be a bit arty-farty sometimes) and was intelligent and cleveryly written. then it just became skinny/fat obsessed and trying to catch celebs at their worst. such a shame as for the first two years it was a very good magazine - kind of like a weekly Sky magazine.
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Heat
Oct 6, 2006 15:00:37 GMT
Post by Gordon on Oct 6, 2006 15:00:37 GMT
There's rather a lot of interviews in this weeks edition - 1 being Pete from BB's new girlfriend. My mouth hit the floor - there's no exclusive here, of course she's going to want to get interviewed. But their questions were so inane, it's not like she would have had a P.A going "no, no, you can't ask that, she has a new peice of used toilet paper available on ebay to promote". The girl is hideous with a lopsided nose that is only accentuated with her peircings (I think she chose the wrong side as this could have been avoided). I actually don't know who looks worse: Nikki or the new one.
Posh used to be their queen before, ahem, uprgrading to OK but that seems to belong to Jordan these days - her interview with Rupert Everett was quite funny actually (I love reading her dialogue aloud in my own deadpan 'essex gewl' accent).
I know some guys write for it, but the writers all seem either Dido-like ice-cream bingers wanting to phwoar over any man with a torso or "size 14 and loving it" post-bikini diet nightmares, i.e, smug and hypocritical.
Edit: plus it's things like those Malteser adverts that just make me think "we have Heat magazine to thank for this".
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Heat
Oct 6, 2006 18:32:45 GMT
Post by Rad on Oct 6, 2006 18:32:45 GMT
I miss the old heat. Their TV guide is still pretty good, though.
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Heat
Oct 15, 2006 20:14:28 GMT
Post by Steven on Oct 15, 2006 20:14:28 GMT
I went through this whole experience back in 2001, when I'd been buying Heat regularly for well over a year, but started discovering this weird, nauseous feeling every time I finished reading it. I got so sick of them calling someone fat one week and then saying they were too thin the next week, it was ridiculous.
Also, the "Get Victoria's fabulous new look" cover story, which centred around the ridiculous blonde wig that she wore for one video and then discarded, was pretty much the last straw for me.
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Heat
Oct 16, 2006 23:08:16 GMT
Post by Jen on Oct 16, 2006 23:08:16 GMT
I feel the same as you Jem. I stopped buying it completely in August, after years of solid dedication- I wasn't watching BB so it seemed completely pointless. Yet something drew me back in, and now when I go and pick it up and they have Grace's 5th cover interview and Nicki reacting to what Pete said to what Nicki said to what Pete said etc.... and I just feel dirty! Why is there no decent, accesible entertainment magazine, which reviews books, cd's, films and tv but doesn't care about bikini pictures? Even Heat's music reviews have been reduced to one page now, and yet I found and old issue, where there was a massive cover story on Friends, an inteview with Britney, pages of film and tv reviews, it was brilliant. It could be argued that the GBP want loads of BB coverage as I seem to remember Mark Frith saying a few years ago that their biggest selling cover at the time was when they put Jade Goody on the front, so they've obviously latched onto public interest for them to still be successful. But surely we can't be the only ones that one something accesible but with just a dash more to actually, you know, read?
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Heat
Oct 17, 2006 12:18:09 GMT
Post by georgie on Oct 17, 2006 12:18:09 GMT
Helloooo Jen up there!
Anyway - last Tuesday I found someones disguarded issue on the tube! Free Heat, I will read. Otherwise - no. I quite shamelessly clambered over 2 people in the carriage and leaned over 2 people to grab it from the airevent by the window. I couldn't help it, it had Grace screaming to me "readddd meee readdd my self pitying interviewwwww you know you need something to bitch about later. Go onnnnn babeeeeee" URGH.
The crossword was fun, as always though. The only one I can do.
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Heat
Oct 17, 2006 12:57:50 GMT
Post by coxy1979 on Oct 17, 2006 12:57:50 GMT
Their obsession with Jade Goody was the first signs of its death.
Their TV guide may still be good, but I get one free with Sun on a Saturday. That'll do me.
Such a shame as well.
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Heat
Oct 17, 2006 16:22:07 GMT
Post by thelovelykate on Oct 17, 2006 16:22:07 GMT
I used to buy it the whole way through uni, back when Victoria Beckham was on the front every week without fail. I stopped buying it mainly because of their wanton and unnecessary enlarging of photos. They consisently fill a whole (almost A4) page with one photo. If the photo is something good then it's not too bad but far too often it's a MASSIVE photo of Nicole Ritchie so that we can really see that she's thin. Wow, thanks Heat, I might not have noticed if that photo was a standard size and actually accompanied by some WRITING!!!!!
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Heat
Oct 17, 2006 20:59:29 GMT
Post by Bungle on Oct 17, 2006 20:59:29 GMT
For boring reasons I have been going through the first dozen or so issues of Heat from way back when. That's early 1999.
Truly I do miss it being a smart mix of movie previews, TV gossip and music reviews.
But then.... it very nearly went bust, and only got a reprieve when it realised that celeb tittle tattle sells. So it's this Heat or no Heat, I'm afraid.
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Heat
Oct 25, 2006 15:34:59 GMT
Post by Rad on Oct 25, 2006 15:34:59 GMT
Actually when they FIRST started to realise celeb gossip sells (I'm talking probably about 4-5 years ago here), they had a decent mix of the old, great but not saleable heat (ie still plenty of entertainment news) and gossip - and the gossip was more 'fun', less malicious, less women-oriented, and less concerned with skinny/fat.
In fact, probably due to Frith and co, it used to be more like classic-era Smash Hits in tone. That is ALWAYS a good thing.
THAT is what it should revert to because then it would hopefully retain sales but get back to being halfway decent again.
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Heat
Oct 27, 2006 13:49:37 GMT
Post by georgie on Oct 27, 2006 13:49:37 GMT
Gladly forked over the money this week for a copy of the McFly interview, featuring them dressed in drag, Queen style
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Heat
Oct 30, 2006 8:26:37 GMT
Post by LoveMusic on Oct 30, 2006 8:26:37 GMT
Oooh, me too.
Dougie looked shockingly suitable.
Paying 1.65 to read that Danny shaves downstairs and that Harry pooped in a cup were not so good though
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Heat
Oct 30, 2006 16:15:38 GMT
Post by adamski on Oct 30, 2006 16:15:38 GMT
After over 5 years of buying Heat, I gave up a couple of weeks ago. The anticipation of it was always better than actually reading it. Now I just flick through it in Sainsburys, and read my workmates' second-hand copy of Grazia!
PS: Heat's virtual shunning of Ash-a-leen post-BB was the final straw...
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Heat
Nov 5, 2006 20:33:25 GMT
Post by FeelsLikeKellyCrabtree on Nov 5, 2006 20:33:25 GMT
I stopped reading it about two years ago when it became page after page of "How fat/thin/spotty/hairy/bleary eyed is this celeb that until last week we were saying how fabulous they were!!"
The people who write for Heat so obviously want to be just like the celebs they write about yet they slate them for every little mistake they make.
I personally think Heat has become a but redundant now. There's other magazines that are doing the same thing just as well and for half the price these days
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Heat
Nov 9, 2006 13:17:10 GMT
Post by Becky on Nov 9, 2006 13:17:10 GMT
They are really scraping the barrel for celebrities this week. Just look at the main feature on the cover for the more volumptious figure. They have Joanne Beckham, who is not what I would class as a celebrity. The ones inside are really close to where the line would be drawn too.
I hate all of this fat, thin obsession anyway.
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jem
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Heat
Nov 9, 2006 13:33:23 GMT
Post by jem on Nov 9, 2006 13:33:23 GMT
It particularly annoyed me that the women they were pointing out are dreadful dreadful people. A couple of BB also rans, Sonia Jackson and bloody Vanessa. Next week they'll all feature in the ooh look how bad they look section.
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Lisa
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Heat
Nov 15, 2006 13:41:31 GMT
Post by Lisa on Nov 15, 2006 13:41:31 GMT
2 pages on the girl Chris Moyles wound up last week... 2 pages!!!!
Oh, and The Heat Body Survey results are out. The results are truely astonishing. No really. Apparantly blokes like boobs and you don't need to be a size 6 because then you won't have any.
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Heat
Nov 21, 2006 22:05:11 GMT
Post by Becky on Nov 21, 2006 22:05:11 GMT
2 pages on the girl Chris Moyles wound up last week... 2 pages!!! And another one this week!
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Lisa
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Heat
Nov 23, 2006 11:13:24 GMT
Post by Lisa on Nov 23, 2006 11:13:24 GMT
thanks for the warning! I'm going to have to start buying First magazine like a proper grown up soon!
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jem
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Heat
Nov 28, 2006 14:43:22 GMT
Post by jem on Nov 28, 2006 14:43:22 GMT
Heat in no big brother front page shocker- well almost- they felt the need to have a little pete head saying 'look I'm not on the front cover'. Ooh the wit.
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Heat
Dec 10, 2006 21:51:47 GMT
Post by LoveMusic on Dec 10, 2006 21:51:47 GMT
I read their christmas annual in Books etc, or as i call it, the library and it was rubbish. It had boring features, only a tiny bit of the good bits - like circle of shame, etc and was really average and unfunny.
I felt like waving it in their face as i left, citing 'Thank god i didn't pay for this - THEN be bitterly disapointed'
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