Is It Just Me Or…

The start of the year is bleak enough without a month being deprived of pleasure, says Anna Hart

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January 14, 2012 in Featured, Is It Just Me Or..., Real Life
The rubbish presents have been exchanged for something better, the Happy New Year banners are in the bin and we’re settling into 2012. You’re ready for some fun to banish the January blues, but hold on a moment… where is everybody? Oh, that’s right. All your friends have retreated indoors to nibble beetroot salad, refusing […] Read more

No Simon Cowell and full of singers who can’t actually sing. But writer Lucy Vine thinks it just might be..

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November 19, 2011 in Featured, Is It Just Me Or...
Hey, remember two years ago, when Dannii Minogue and Cheryl Cole had a fist fight in the middle of the live finals and Simon Cowell stage-dived on to Louis? No? That’s because it never happened. Nothing happened. The only thing I remember about The X Factor 2009 is the feeling I had, watching Stacey Solomon, […] Read more

After 10 years of adoration, writer Michelle Davies, 39, has had enough of her former best Friend

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October 22, 2011 in Celeb Features, Celebs, Fabulous, Featured, Is It Just Me Or...
Sorry Jen, it’s over. You’re dumped. No, not by your latest boyfriend Justin Theroux – although, given how brief your romances have been in recent years, you must fill with dread every time he says: “We need to talk.” No, I’m the person doing the dumping on this occasion. I’ve had a girl crush on […] Read more

As writer Bibi Lynch prepares to embark on fertility treatment she asks whether hand-selecting your perfect procreator is the way forward…

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August 20, 2011 in Featured, Is It Just Me Or...
Catalogues. I can’t resist them. Make-up pamphlets, food brochures and those Sunday mini-supplements selling back-scratchers that also defluff your jumpers. Ace. But I’ve just discovered catalogue heaven. One which may even bring me more happiness than perving at the Speedo-clad men in the latest Littlewoods. The London Sperm Bank is compiling a brochure that lets […] Read more

With voluptuous Mad Men star Christina Hendricks set to play Wonder Woman, writer Pete Cashmore asks the daring question…

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August 13, 2011 in Featured, Is It Just Me Or...
What do you think of Christina Hendricks, the buxom auburn-haired actress who dominates hit US TV show Mad Men? If you’re a woman, chances are you see her as something of an icon – a refreshingly real-looking woman in an age of unobtainable size-zero body fascism. And if you’re a man… you’ll almost certainly see […] Read more

Fight! Fight! Lily Allen seems to love a spat. Writer Caroline Corcoran asks whether Lily should become more of a wallflower

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July 3, 2011 in Fabulous, Featured, Is It Just Me Or...
Firstly, let me say that I like Lily Allen. I say this partly because it’s true, partly because she’s having a baby and looked so sweet at her wedding last month, and partly because if I don’t, she might start a fight with me on Twitter. Though obviously there’s a chance she’ll do that anyway. […] Read more

Writer Heather Welford addresses every myth, fad and pseudoscientific study – and asks whether the age of obssessive calorie counting is over…

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May 22, 2011 in Fabulous, Featured, Is It Just Me Or..., Lifestyle
You can’t fool me about weight loss and dieting – not any more. I can see through every myth, fad and pseudoscientific study because I’ve been there, done it and got the size-10, 12 and 14 T-shirts. I’ve heard every so-called weight-loss tip in the book. Got to squeeze your oversized behind into that LBD […] Read more

Can anyone escape the attack of the mummy clones? First-time mum Michelle Davies asks the question everyone is thinking…

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May 15, 2011 in Fabulous, Featured, Is It Just Me Or...
Busy spooning something that used to be courgette but now resembled green snot into my baby daughter’s mouth, I didn’t notice at first. But as the squeaking got louder, I looked over to the next table where a group of mums were having lunch with their babies. Every child in the group was chewing on […] Read more

Feel like you’re under more pressure than ever to keep up with your friends? Writer Caroline Corcoran shares your pain…

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April 24, 2011 in Fabulous, Featured, Is It Just Me Or..., Lifestyle
There’s an image I have in my mind that beautifully sums up FOMO (or fear of missing out, for the uninitiated). It’s my friend Mel leaving the office. She can’t come to the pub because she’s booked a spinning class. But given her furrowed brow, you’d think she’d just sent the country off to war. […] Read more

Should every girl have a plan-B man? Writer Issy Sampson, 27, ponders the issue of the fail-safe, fall-back guy

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April 17, 2011 in Fabulous, Featured, Is It Just Me Or..., Lifestyle, Private Home, Public Home
Getting dumped is awful – the Facebook status change (why did you ever change it to ‘in a relationship’ in the first place?!), the ‘couples nights out’ on your own (“no, it’s fine, I’ll share a bottle of wine with myself”) and the crushing fear that you’ll be alone long after Jennifer Aniston’s found The […] Read more