Monday, March 06, 2006
Fash mag slag
EXCLUSIVE! FAT! PICTURES! Celebrities on Heat, Sky One, 9.00pm
We're surprised nobody thought of it sooner; Julie Burchill's never exactly been short of things to say for herself, so giving her a recurring platform to air her views on television seems like a no-brainer - not that we're casting aspersions on the intelligence of the Sky commissioning executives, of course. If we understand correctly, La Burchill's previous work Chavs got excellent viewing figures for the channel, so if this one does similar business we can surely expect more of the same from her. Perhaps they'll even launch Sky Four just for her?
Anyway, Julie's latest cause celebre is heat magazine, which according to this show's press release, "has set the agenda for change in 21st-century Britain". Well, yes, we suppose that's true. It would be nice if someone had specifically said what sort of change this was, since the sort of change that springs to mind when we think of that magazine is of the changing-ones-mind variety. It could just be us, but if we can use Paris Hilton as an example (don't try this at home, kids), one issue might say "Get Paris's sexy look!" The headline of the next issue might be along the lines of "OMG Paris is too skinny!!1!" The headline of the issue after that would be "Look at Paris's cellulite!" It just baffles us a little bit, that's all. After all, we built a reputation (well, a website) on shallowness and celebrity obsession, but whenever we read heat magazine we get that awful nauseous sensation afterwards as though we'd just eaten a 1kg gram of Dairy Milk. We knew it would be bad for us, and yet we did it anyway.
Perhaps Julie will be able to explain why we do that tonight: with guest panellists including Caprice and the internet's own Mr Holy Moly, we'd expect nothing less. Just don't eat chocolate while you're watching it.
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