UK FHM - April 2008

Don't let the cover fool you. Yes, it's Cheryl Tweedy from Girls Aloud looking decidedly sexy but this shot and the rest of the shoot itself with her band mates isn't original. This shoot actually appeared in Arena magazine a couple of years ago now - I still have the said issue. I actually purchased Arena for the first time for this shoot alone. This is the first time I've seen another shoot appear as the cover of another monthly magazine and the shot on the cover is far the best one. Another 4 pics appear in the magazine itself but I think FHM has fallen down to depths with this 'copied' shoot. It seems FHM are getting increasingly eager to sell more copies - it is one of best cover shots of the year so far so it undoubtedly shift more but many will be disappointed with the rest of the quality of the issue yet again.

Other shoots include Laura Haddock, just 2 full page shots and another 2 smaller shots. Nothing to write home about at any rate, not showing much - fairly bland.

The other feature is the 10 Finalists in the FHM High Street Honeys contest. None of them are close to past winners but I would edge my bets on Brooke Bond, Lisa-Helen Ralph and Lindsey Cole. Again, nothing much tried here. In the past, FHM have sent the finalists out into foreign climates to do the photoshoots but this time all of them look like indoor studio shots around a swimming pool. Decent shots nonetheless but would have liked some of them to wear far less to better gauge their figures.

We also get two pics of music presenter Sarah-Jane Crawford from TV channel E4 but no-one watches that so it's a 'oh, who is this then?'

Take out the Girls Aloud duped shoot and you've got an fairly boring issue of FHM. Cat Deeley is in Arena this month so I might end up getting that as well hoping for better...

UK FHM - March 2008

FHMs cover girl this month is Olga Kurylenko. She has just been announced as the new Bond girl for the latest upcoming film. The other girlie content includes Michelle Ryan and April Pearson.

The Olga shoot is mediocre at best and is certainly nothing to write home about. She clad in a black PVC suit in two of pics and we get another 3 pics all full pages. She is slightly higher up the celebrity list at this moment in time as we are used to with FHM. Still I think it could have been better.

Michelle Ryan shoot is quite bland and a tragic waste. At just 3 pics it makes it almost a pointless feature other than to promote her 'Bionic Woman' series. Hopefully FHM would have got a nice earner for that to put towards some better quality in future issues.

April Pearson, she's a actress from the show Skins. Just 2 pics of her, again nothing revealing but is better than the Michelle Ryan shoot. The photography looks better quality too.

So another fairly 'usual run-of-the-mill' quality issue of FHM this month. On the FHM website the 100 sexiest women voting has started so get voting.