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Phil Hilton
BUT THE HIGH RISK TACTIC OF SNATCHING COVER IDEAS BACKFIRED ON JUNE 4, WHEN NUTS AND ZOO HIT THE STANDS WITH THE SAME SOAPSTAR, JENNIFER ELLISON, ON THE FRONT.TO AVOID SUCH EMBARRASSMENT, NUTS AND ZOO DOUBLED THEIR EFFORTS TO BUY EXCLUSIVE PICTURES FOR THEIR COVERS, AND SO SPARKED A BIDDING WAR FOR BRITAIN'S PAGE THREE GIRLS. |
THE NUTS ZOO WAR POWERED THE OTHERWISE INEXPLICABLE RISE OF ONE OF 2004'S BIGGEST CELEBRITIES. ABI TITMUSS, LOYAL GIRLFRIEND OF A SHAMED TV STAR, HAD THE RIGHT UNTHREATENING SEX APPEAL NUTS AND ZOO WERE FIGHTING OVER. Paul Merrill If you take someone like Abi Titmuss, she was commanding something like twenty, thirty thousand pounds a day for shooting for Zoo and for Nuts. THE ZOO-NUTS WAR WAS MAKING PAGE 3 GIRLS RICHER AND GLOSSIER. BUT PHIL HILTON HAD ALREADY LEARNT THE LESSON - WHEN A WOMAN BECAME TOO GLAMOROUS AND SUCCESSFUL, SHE BECAME INTIMIDATING TO READERS. Phil Hilton She's got an amazing figure an incredible blonde look. There is nothing wrong with this girl, she looks almost too extraordinary.
NOW NUTS AND ZOO HAD REACHED NEW TERRITORY TO FIGHT OVER - AFTER FAMOUS WOMEN, THEN GLAMOUR MODELS, CAME THE ORDINARY GIRLS. |
HOLLYWOOD STARS PROMOTED THEMSELVES AND GLAMOUR MODELS COULD BE HIRED BY THE HOUR - BUT HOW COULD NICE GIRLS BE LURED TO APPEAR IN NUTS? PHIL HILTON LAUNCHED A HUNT FOR NICENESS, AND CAME UP WITH SIMPLE IDEA - A BEAUTY CONTEST ON THE BEACH.
BY OFFERING TO CROWN GIRLS AT A NEWQUAY, PHIL HILTON HAD FOUND A WAY TO RECRUIT A SCARCE COMMODITY, PRETTY, UNTHREATENING WOMEN WHO LOOKED LIKE GIRLFRIEND MATERIAL. BUT THE CORONATION WAS NOT THE MAIN EVENT. THE CONTEST'S REAL PURPOSE WAS TO GET THE PICTURES PHIL HILTON HAD FOUND ATTRACTED BRITISH MEN MOST OF ALL - PHOTOS TAKEN BY NICE GIRLS, OF THEMSELVES, IN SEXUALLY PROVOCATIVE POSES. |
NUTS HAD IDENTIFIED A PECULIAR TASTE OF BRITISH MEN - AN APETITE FOR HOMELY, UNTHREATENING GIRLS WHO'D STRIP AT ANY OPPORTUNITY. EDITORS NOW RACED TO FIND VARIATIONS ON THE THEME. ZOO LAUNCHED "STREET STRIP CHALLENGE", IN WHICH 'ORDINARY' GIRLS SEEMED MORE THAN WILLING TO TAKE THEIR CLOTHES OFF IN THE OFFICE OF THE MAGAZINE.
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THE RUDENESS OF THE NUTS-ZOO WAR WAS A REFLECTION OF SEX IN ANOTHER CULTURAL PHENOMENA - REALITY TV SHOWS. THE RIVAL EDITORS FOUND THAT MEN OFTEN WATCHED SERIES SUCH AS BIG BROTHER AS COMPROMISE VIEWING WITH WOMEN IN THEIR HOUSEHOLDS, BUT WHILE WATCHING, THEY BECAME SEXUALLY INTERESTED IN THE HOUSEMATES INSIDE. SIGNING UP THE EPITOME OF THE NICE GIRL - WHO WAS ALSO WILLING TO STRIP OFF - COULD SELL VAST NUMBERS OF MAGAZINES. |
WHEN A CONTESTANT NAMED ORLAITH MACALLISTER LEFT THE BIG BROTHER HOUSE, A BIDDING WAR TO FEATURE HER NAKED BREASTS IN NUTS AND ZOO ENDED IN A FRENZY. |
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Hamdy Shahein
THIS NEWSAGENT WAS NOT TO BE MESSED WITH. HAMDY SHAHEIN HAD A BASEMENT OF PORNOGRAPHY FOISTED ON HIS SHOP SINCE THE 1990S. HE'D TAKEN MAGAZINE DISTRIBUTORS TO COURT FOR HIS RIGHT TO RUN A PORN FREE NEWSAGENT, AND WON. |
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THE NEWSAGENT NOW SPARKED A CHAIN OF EVENTS TO BRING ON BRITAIN'S FIRST BOUT OF LITERARY CENSORSHIP FOR A GENERATION. BY FEBRUARY 2006, HE'D CONVINCED DIANE ABBOT TO RAISE AN EARLY DAY MOTION - A PETITION SIGNED BY 157 MPS. THIS WAS REAL POLITICAL PRESSURE, ESPECIALLY ON THE SUPERMARKETS, WHOSE AISLES WERE NOW STOCKED WITH SEXY LAD MAG COVERS.
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PHIL HILTON WAS CAUGHT IN THE MIDDLE IN APRIL 2006, WHEN SUPERMARKETS ANNOUNCED THEY'D TAKE UP MR SHAHEIN'S MODESTY COVERS. THE CO-OP AND SAINSBURY SAID THEY'D LET INDIVIDUAL BRANCH MANAGERS TRIAL SHELVES THAT HID LADS MAGS BEHIND SPECIAL SCREENS. IT WAS AN AMAZING VICTORY - NUTS & ZOO HAD TAKEN WHAT CAMPAIGNERS FEARED WAS PORNOGRAPHY FROM THE TOP SHELF TO THE FRONT COUNTERS - AND NOW IT COULD BE HIDDEN AWAY AGAIN. THE IDEA OF CENSORED SHELVING HAD SPREAD FROM MR HAMDY'S SHOP TO THE NATION'S BIGGEST RETAILERS. BUT HAMDY SHAHEIN WASN'T FINISHED WITH NUTS AND ZOO YET - HE HEADED BACK TO PARLIAMENT, WHERE HIS CAMPAIGN STIRRED AN EVEN MORE DETERMINED POLITICIAN TO TAKE A LOOK AT THE LADS MAGS. HER NAME WAS CLAIRE CURTIS THOMAS. AND WHAT THE MP SAW MADE HER VOW TO STOP THE RISE OF NUTS AND ZOO.
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