UK FHM - December 2008

A really bare bones issue of FHM as far as the girlie content goes this month. The cover girl is Olga Kurylenko, who (if you have been on a completely different planet to everyone else lately) stars in the latest Bond movie. This is the third time that Olga has featured in FHM. You could say 'finally a A-list celebrity' in FHM but it looks like the whole monthly budget was blown on this feature.

The shoot itself isn't too bad. It's technically well done, bright and sharp. Although nothing too revealing is worn and it's just a white studio backdrop for the majority. If you're a fan of her then it's worth a look, if not then you may be best leaving the issue on the shelf. The French edition of FHM ran the exact same photo set in their November issue but they got more other girlie features which also had full nudity.

We do get 2 other picture of the French High Street Honey winner, Laura Thomas. But it is nothing too remarkable about it to be honest.

The issue also carries the UK's High Street Honey supplement of the top 100 entries. I don't vote at this stage, I wait until they round it down to 10 in the new year. The supplement is the usual mix of professionally done photos to the mobile grainy photos - how is anyone meant to vote of the quality of the pics is questionable but I imagine the more ample entries will make it into the top 10. None of them are too remarkable anyway.

Next months FHM will have the additional Calendar for 2009, judging from the quality of girls featured over the year I imagine it will be quite poor, as it has been for the last couple of years compared to the other mags.

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.