First Issue Review – GMTV Magazine
Just like the TV programme this title is as cheesy as Bob Monkhouse eating camembert!
GMTV Magazine is a cheerful, happy picture-led publication put together, and featuring, beautiful bright and breezy people who only see the sunny side of life.
As is only to be expected, the magazine exploits its links with the TV show. Each of GMTV’s resident experts has a few pages given over to the sort of advice that they regularly repeat from the studio sofa. Charles Worthington begins by explaining how to style your hair to make you look ten years younger. An ecstatic looking Liz Earle, clutching the essential bottle of mineral water, then goes on to divulge her precious secrets for youthful skin. Then, of course, its time to adapt your wardrobe to your new image.
You’ve heard of Superman and SuperTed, well Liz Earle, returns a bit further on in the magazine, still beaming, with a new one, Superfood. The health and beauty expert spills the beans, fruit and veg on her vitality eating plan. The magazine is one to hold onto, if after several weeks of trying, you find all these treatments have no effect the guide to cosmetic surgery will be very useful.
Slipped in between the letters page and the showbiz update there is an interesting article on the difficulties men experience coming to terms with a low sperm count. But, there isn’t time to get depressed, because as quickly as Lorraine Kelly can turn from tapeworm to flower-arranging you’re into the big interview with Pierce Brosnan and celebrity watch.
Heart-throb TV cook, Ross Burden serves up some delicious looking recipes; and, if just looking at the mouth watering dished-up makes you pile on the pounds, don’t worry, Mr Motivator is a few pages futher along telling you to ‘work those legs’. Then comes the travel, gardening, doc spot and agony aunt sections. And to finish it all off, Lorraine Kelly gives us a peek inside her diary and shows that she really is as down-to-earth as the rest of us.
This magazine will be a hit with GMTV’s typical viewers, anyone who cringes at the sight of that sofa should avoid the title with the same name.
The magazine has 98 pages, 21 of which are advertising.