OK! is a British weekly magazine
specializing in celebrity news. Originally launched as a monthly,
its first issue was published in April 1993. In September 2004,
OK! publishers Northern and Shell launched in Australia as
a monthly title – the magazine went weekly in October 2006. In
2005, a US version was launched, followed by an Indian edition in
May 2006, a Spanish-language version in Mexico in 2006, a
Bulgarian-language version in 2007 and a Spanish edition in 2008.
OK! is the world’s biggest celebrity lifestyle magazine,
with more than 30 million readers worldwide, and now appears in 19
countries (Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Bulgaria, China,
Germany, Greece, India, Malaysia, Mexico, Middle East, Philippines,
Russia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Turkey, UK and the US).
OK! is the best selling celebrity gossip magazine in the UK
. A
new issue is released every Tuesday. The magazine itself also has
two inner magazines called
Hot Stars and "OK! USA".
Interviews
The magazine tends to feature exclusive interviews and personal
revelations from celebrities including engagements and
pregnancies. In 2005, celebrity pregnancies were
revealed by
Jordan and Peter,
Steven Gerrard and
Alex Curran. Stars such as
Liberty X singer
Michelle Heaton and Andy Scott-Lee announced
their engagement with exclusive deals with
OK!
magazine.
The magazine has a usual policy of publishing only positive
celebrity profiles, but in a 2007 interview with
Britney Spears, Spears' behavior was so
erratic that
OK! decided to break this policy.
Along with Britney,
OK! also interviewed her mother,
Lynne Spears and her younger sister,
Jamie Lynn Spears, on the issue of
Jamie Lynn's pregnancy. This issue was the best selling issue of
2007.
Just recently, in August 2008 - Britney Spears had done an
interview with
OK! at her home and it was revealed that
Britney's old erratic behavior was behind her, and she discussed in
the interview that she's 'happy, healthy and excited for the
future'. The interview also had pictures which featured Britney and
her kids.
Weddings
OK! is most famous for its coverage of celebrity nuptials.
OK! is also one of the most popular magazines including
the latest celebrities gossips.
Its biggest scoops were
Catherine
Zeta-Jones and
Michael Douglas,
David and
Victoria Beckham,
Britney Spears and
Kevin Federline,
Jordan and
Peter
André, and
Ashley Cole and
Cheryl Tweedy.
Recently,
OK! was awarded
£1,033,156 in
a lawsuit.
OK! had exclusive rights to the wedding of
Catherine Zeta-Jones and
Michael Douglas, but its rival
Hello! magazine, published
pictures as well, so
OK! sued.
In October 2005, three celebrity weddings took place on the same
day—Jordan and Peter,
Kate Garraway
and
Derek Draper, and
Samia Ghadie and property developer Matthew
Smith.
OK! covered them all over separate issues. The
biggest wedding of the three (Jordan and Peter) was covered over
two bumper issues.
The same happened for the wedding of
Ashley and
Cheryl
Cole wedding as well as
Christina
Aguilera's wedding.
OK! devoted an issue with photos
of
Tony Parker and
Eva Longoria's wedding.
Other weddings covered by
OK! are:
Jade Goody
Jade Goody was a popular Celeb for the
magazine from 2002 - 2009 with numerous interviews and photo shoots
including her battle with cancer shown frequently in 2008.She holds
the record for being on the cover every week during 2009 with 2
issues of her wedding , Her christening and a Tribute special plus
a special issue after her death and then after her widow on the
front cover after her death also.
Controversies
Prior to
Jade Goody's cancer-related
death in March 2009, OK! sparked controversy by publishing an
'Official Tribute Issue' with the front-page captions 'In Loving
Memory' and '1981-2009', even though Goody was still alive at the
time of going to press.
Several months later in June 2009, OK! again caused outrage by
running another tribute issue, this time for
Michael Jackson displaying a front cover
picture which the magazine claims inside is 'his lifeless body',
further images inside show scenes of his attempted resuscitation,
with Jackson's mouth covered by an oxygen mask and strapped to a
hospital stretcher.
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