Saturday, May 10, 2008

Happy Birthday Hello


Yes it's 20 years since the first copy featuring Princess Anne,Bert Reynolds and the Trumps.

John Walsh acknowledges the 20th anniversary of Hello magazine and perhaps hits the nail on the head over its appeal

As stories spread across the tabloids that Amy Winehouse has taken up with young Alex Haines, and that her husband, Blake, has been scheming with an old girlfriend to seize a wedge of Amy's millions and vamoose to the US, all Hello! wishes to report is: "One thing remains clear. Blake Fielder-Civil will fight from behind bars to win back the wife he adores."


The magazine he reminds us has provided

Two decades of celebrity gossip, filth and scandal, without any actual filth or scandal. Two decades of welcoming the reader into the lovely homes of film stars, footballers, TV soap stars, fashion designers, glamour models, Big Brother contestants and girl bands. Twenty years of grovelling indulgence towards people temporarily gilded with stardom or luck or the arrival of a new partner in lurve.

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