I am ridiculously excited it's hot magazine is the reason I fell in love
with print journalism this was I've had a lot of magazines when I was a child I
got most of my knowledge in my preteen years and teenage years through
magazines it's hot is the only one that I read religiously every single issue
and that's the case from I think about 2002 until about 2007 2008 Soulja being
my greatest weakness in life I was desperate to get my hands on a coffee
and just kind of go through it and really left some of the memories and see
if I got get let's say a warm fuzzy feeling if I did when I was younger and
I found somebody on eBay he was selling what I can kind of gather was their
entire bustard collection so they had to separate it's hot issues both of which
with bustard from 2003 in 2004 kind of the peak time when I was really getting
into this magazine and I haven't looked through the Miata but a quick flick but
nothing too intense I thought we can look at them together and take a little
trip down memory lane okay so I figure the most fun way to do
this would be to just grab one and flick through it and then grab through the
next so we have issue 20 December 2003 and issue 27 July 2004 so we'll go with
you it slightly older one first so we have busted on the front and it's a
poster this is obviously going to be quite dated but that's the whole point
natura Frosty's will skip past that have a look at the Game Boy Advance with some
Pokemon games hot stuff Carol capers with Liberty ex Emma Bunton
now we have just loved little snippets of celebrity things down here we have a
fun little mary-kate and Ashley sketch I had a couple of those dolls look at that
phone this is one of the reasons why I got it every week I got it for this S
Club 8 secret diary this week it's Stacy and Jay I did very much hot stuff we
have some more celebrity bits and pieces we have goofy coat we've got Kym Marsh
Lizzie McGuire exchange let me see that that's a good show show the babes what
bits and pieces bunny doll because obviously never an issue near Christmas
Oh an advert for America and actually When in Rome
I miss VHS adverts what were they thinking some fashion apparently twelve
was yes we have pink we have mary-kate apparently hides from the Sugababes
and Charlie Brooks alright I'll give them Charlie Brooks but the other ones
don't look that like the dog some striking instantly plot in there uh-huh
Gareth gates oh there's the address of it's hot magazine I'm so tempted to
write and just see what what happens busted comic strip that's a it's rather
entertaining not going to sin Arriba then we have adopted me I always wanted
to do those adopted dolphin an adopted dog and I'm dr. ponder we have Beyonce
poster Shane Richie who I had a massive crush on when I was younger just you
know it's a little fucked
sneaky peek Junior Great North Run party I don't know what that is why I mean I
can work it out from the title but oh okay so I love doing these please feel
free do it with me if you can so take a quiz to find out the best book
for you start you love a good gossip no do you keep a diary yes
it's lunchtime will you be in the library more than the school canteen yes
your maid says you're in your own world yes
all right so I'm gonna pull up there so you can hopefully pause it midnight
Jackie muffin I mean I get binge read Jacqueline Wilson for about 20 years
blush film of course we have our cringy things that are never really that
cringey Top of the Pops cartoon is that it looks like Calvin don't know um
Pop Idol the good old days before x-factor took over life busted after
more efforts and a reader survey I'm welcome to do Knox that looks like a lot
of effort but you can't win a Bosch TV don't know how you'd feel about that and
we have Lee from blue I think they're members of blazing squad Calvin I almost
definitely would have had this on my wall I might have to go through some of
my old and photos and see if I can see it then we have the Liberty X bones and
fix I don't believe I know I love this these tenders cartoon oh my goodness I
mean we have Charlie and Kelly Martin is that Sheriff
dot Wendy Jim browning Vicki ah Dennis Sharon dirty Dan yeah definitely
oh that's really cute I rather liked that one
blazing squad next month oh I remember those things should get
like a little trio the things that you can also get like highlighters in
Kidan win everything what do we have okay so we have a big pile of sweets The
Hobbit and Homer Simpson's sit and run some kind of like pumper pack
top-of-the-range phone down smut a whole bunch of books gameboy advance with some
games Pop Idol CD player globe and then a haircut very nice
Oh S Club 8 I loved them I mean to the point where I was too painfully obsessed
with them this is sad yeah crimson Isle but Fame then we have
some music TV section which is a really good way to kind of look back at what
was going on in the soaps and it's just so nostalgic but this I
mean you know thumbs up if you ever bought any of these I definitely bought
a ringtone I never bought colored stuff I think I might have at one point bought
like a little picture message yeah those were the days pardon me kind of misses
having a monophonic phone get some more over here spend all of your pocket money
get sucked in and get charged the same amount yeah Rachel Stevens
I like that layout that's really nice then we have more of them top of pops
what avoid smoking I mean I guess that's helpful but for me this magazine was
aimed at people who were like 12
Christmas Oh Jeff master did more of those and then hot mail but not in the
email type I'm a Pisces I don't care but uh yeah Tommy from blazing squad very
kitten Ashley S Club 8 oh no I love less Club a more than you absolutely yeah I
was just younger and didn't have the internet so couldn't set up a fan site I
don't know be very keen to north oh I thought a collection still exists and
Nikola Girls Aloud James from bustard Rachel Stevens and then of course you
could learn the song lyrics to your favorite songs because the internet did
not Oh Frankie and we have some gift ideas against that's a nice issue I like
it this one feels thicker for some reason I'm not sure why okay
silk we have hey Dad I apologize I can't read those words without kind of seeing
you hearing the CBBC ident in my head
okay so contents
latest as probate diary with Hannah and Daisy Daisy was always my favorite
Hannah was my second favorite and they share a birthday
I roll of V busted when this mp3 player add skittles CBBC I
grew up watching CBBC it's in crisp Parker was a Chris Parker did they
actually Commission those photoshoots I realized wants to see what I'm looking
at there you go I don't know should we have
hiding the brand ago McFly more of those ringtones which are just cha-cha slide
great song I love that Girls Aloud and love girls load but look
at that fashion like if they or any pop band dressed like that now they would be
laughed at but that was the fashion what 16 16 years ago good heavens
more cringy thing blue poster and then we have a look at blues latest video
shoot win a night at the premiere of Garfield the movie Confessions of a
Teenage Drama Queen more busted obviously there's a lot of Buster than
these two because of the favorite button from blazing squad boys a very
young-looking Fearne Cotton Christina Aguilera special edition of Matilda
sheltered favorite quite a nice poster they're busted all those Charlie looks a
bit squished V thumbs up if you remember V stop the ringtone ripoff don't buy
them I mean it's always dangerous to find these things
raving boys in a spin also this must have been a regular feature this in a
spin thing ah because their air in their dirty laundry
right now I can what you did I don't have a strong
memory of that when Harry Potter and the Prisoner of
Azkaban tickets hello Casey which i think is maybe a bit young for this
audience signed things signed Coronation Street
script that's very hard to say a minidisc PC recorder signed waste paper
bin by Hilary Duff because why wouldn't you want that oh my goodness yes Lords
Medicaid and actually things I want those CDs PlayStation same time I'd love
to know where these things are now he Stander's autograph cards I used to
collect autograph cards and I actually had all of those but I you know I wrote
to them and had to get replies a cute mirror I thought it was a steering wheel
cover for a second super soakers and some Cola things I wonder if I texted
that number now what would happen slightly tempted that probably cost me
about 20 quid in the next issue of dare I don't remember dare I have to look
into that one who is this Jessica Liberty axe I didn't know that
was her name for a coffin again music misty Laura Ackerman was so good
and misty in the next issue of talk with the Pops you get these little stationary
sets I used to have so many of these little sets because like Mugabe would
constantly do them the debit card no idea take the perfect gift a bunch of
celeb snapshots of fern will pick oh my goodness look how young helen Flanagan
looks oh wow she actually looks so young there
salsa planners I really do think this magazine was aimed at girls you know
it's just a music magazine yeah star signs I'm Pisces my celebrity is
the same as last time then nobody else born was a Pisces top alert fun
busted it would be so funny if the person who I bought this from was that
person but I very much doubt it
okay so okay I'm sorry this this phone was my first ever slightly smart phone
my first ever film with internet connection this was it and I'd never
knew how to work it was always really difficult oh gosh yes
grateful so James Alexandra poster that's a pretty cool actually I kind of
liked it some more escapades honestly if I can find more of these issues I'm
gonna just have to get them because they just make me so happy so much nostalgia
is my biggest weakness and why Rachel Stevens some golf is a very good song I
mean it probably wasn't a good song but I remember liking it yeah James
Alexander it must been a big month for James Aleksandra comin fly yeah I mean
that was to meet me are everything I loved in my preteen and teen years in a
couple of pages I hope you enjoyed this little nostalgia trip as much as I did I
would love to know in the comments what your favorite childhood or teenagehood
magazine was