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Hello! (magazine)

Hello! (stylized in all caps) is a royalist[1][2][3] weekly magazine specializing in celebrity news and human-interest stories, first published in the United Kingdom on May 21, 1988, following the format of ¡Hola!, the Spanish weekly magazine. It often covers aristocrats, celebrities and royalty.[4] Its editorial focus is illustrated by the fact that for 21 consecutive editions, straddling 2022 and 2023, it featured Catherine, Princess of Wales, on its cover; all involved flattering stories.[5]

"HELLO!" redirects here. For other uses, see Hello (disambiguation).

Categories

Celebrity

Weekly

  • 21 May 1988 (1988-05-21) (United Kingdom)
  • 9 September 2006 (2006-09-09) (Canada)

Hello Ltd. (Spain)

United Kingdom

Editions[edit]

Hello! was launched in 1988 by publisher Eduardo Sánchez Junco, owner and chairman of Spain's ¡Hola! magazine. ¡Hola! was created in 1944 by husband and wife Antonio Sánchez Gómez and Mercedes Junco Calderón.[6]


In 2006, Rogers Media launched Hello! Canada.[7][8] In 2007, the Madrid office reorganized and changed out the management for the Canadian version.[9][10]


In 2019, St. Joseph Communications [11] took over the publishing for Hello! Canada, together with other Canadian magazines such as Chatelaine, Maclean's, etc. [12]


Hello! Thailand is a bi-weekly Thai lifestyle magazine targeted at women aged 21 and over, launched in March 2006. The magazine focuses on royal news, celebrity and entertainment features. Circulation peaked at 300,000 in 2006 and was at 100,000 copies nationwide in 2017.

2005 ACE, UK Magazine distributed Internationally, Winner

2004 PPA – Sales Pitch of the Year, Winner

2002 PPA – International Magazine of the Year, Winner

1999 BSME Awards, Best International Magazine, Winner.

1998 Marketing Week 20th Birthday Awards, Best Consumer Magazine, Winner

1996 The Press Circulation Awards – Consumer Magazine of the Year, short-listed

1995 International Press Directory – International Publishing Award to Eduardo Sánchez Junco

2003 – and Michael Douglas sued Hello! for publishing unauthorized photographs of their wedding. Rival magazine OK! had an exclusive contract for pictures of the wedding, and also sued Hello!. In November 2003, OK! was awarded £1,033,156 in damages, and Jones and Douglas received £14,600.

Catherine Zeta-Jones

2006 – Hello!, which secured the British rights to the first images of and Angelina Jolie's newborn daughter, launched legal action with People against two websites that printed a leaked exclusive shot of the couple with their new baby daughter. The leaked photo, which contains Hello! magazine's logo, shows a headline which reads: "The biggest exclusive of the year. Angelina and Brad with their new Baby Shiloh Nouvel." People magazine reportedly paid more than US$4 million to secure the American rights.[13]

Brad Pitt

Hello magazine website

Thai magazine website

US magazine website