Entertainment Review - DECEMBER
What's been causing our magazines to fly off the shelf this month? Find out with our review on all the goings and should be goings of the last month. You may just think you have had a case of deja vu!
Spice Up Your Life
The Girls are back, or are they? There seemed to be so much hype surrounding the comeback of Britain’s most successful girl group, yet they haven’t made such as big an impression as Take That did earlier in the year. So all smoke and no fire for Victoria, Emma, Mel C, Geri and Mel B, who released their comeback single “Headlines” for Children in Need in November. The single apparently bombed, selling less than 6,000 copies in the first week – not much of a comeback. Where’s all that girl power gone? No doubt that family life and other commitments are putting a strain on the group and with plans for their tour under threat since Geri’s daughter fell ill, we’re not sure our lives will be spiced up for a while just yet!
You Should Go To Rehab
Surprise surprise, Amy Winehouse is making headlines again! What is it for this time? Don’t you know already?! The famous singer has cancelled the remainder of her tour dates in 2007 due to ‘medical reasons’ which apparently are exhaustion and emotional strain. Of course we all know the cause of these problems and her well known hit “Rehab” is becoming a bit of an anthem and joke for the star. We kind of wish she would just give in and go and get herself sorted. Stop with all the tour cancelling and photos of reckless nights and do our generation a favour. We need to have good role models in the limelight, and while nobody’s perfect Amy seems to have taken the celebrity lifestyle. Winehouse has even been referred to as this century’s Kurt Cobain – we just hope she gets herself sorted before she comes to the same end.
The Heat Is On
The celebrity gossip magazine Heat was recently forced to publish an embarrassing apology on its website after a row with the former glamour model Katie Price over a sticker the magazine printed which poked fun at her disabled son, Harvey. Heat gave away fifty stickers in a recent issue, one of which showed a photo of Ms Price's son next to the words "Harvey wants to eat me!" The five-year-old was born with a rare genetic disorder which causes him to gain weight and the sticker has led to a public outcry. Website forums have been inundated with comments from readers and parents who were disgusted at the sticker of Harvey as well as other stickers mocking celebrities such as Victoria Beckham, Britney Spears and Will Young. After a quick realisation that they had made an enormous mistake, we bet whoever gave the ‘ok’ to go to print is quaking in their boots – and so they should be.