Zoo Magazine 21-27 January 2005 Lucy Michelle BabeWatch Issue 50 SKU 1552

Original UK Zoo Magazine Issue 50, dated 21–27 January 2005, from the early years of the hugely popular British men's weekly.

This issue has a particularly strong glamour and celebrity focus, with the front cover dominated by Lucy & Michelle, alongside the large “BabeWatch Awards 2005” feature and the cover claim of “60 Hottest Girl Pics Ever.”

Lucy & Michelle Feature

One of the principal features is devoted to Lucy and Michelle, with the magazine promoting their motorcycle-themed shoot as “Our Leather Fantasies.” The contents page confirms a feature following the pair at an MCN motorcycle shoot, with photographs showing them in matching black leather-style outfits.

This gives the issue crossover appeal to collectors of early-2000s glamour magazines as well as motorcycle-related editorial photography.

BabeWatch Awards 2005

A major part of this issue is the BabeWatch Awards 2005, advertised on the cover as a 16-page pull-out.

The photographed pages show the feature is still present within this copy and contains a large selection of contemporary celebrity and glamour photographs. Visible names include:

• Jennifer Ellison
• Kelly
• Cheryl
• Abi
• Michelle
• Jodie
• Myleene
• Charlotte
• Nikki
• Paris

The feature covers categories such as party girls and other tongue-in-cheek Zoo awards, making it a substantial snapshot of British celebrity and lads-mag culture from 2005.

Other Cover & Glamour Content

The cover also promotes photographs featuring Kayleigh, Kelly, Abi and Anna, together with a range of retrospective glamour material.

The contents page additionally advertises “Zoo Uncensored” and further glamour photography later in the issue.

Celebrity & Entertainment Content

The issue contains a broad mixture of mid-2000s entertainment and celebrity material, including:

• Ricky Gervais
• Ron Atkinson
• Film coverage including Million Dollar Baby
• Music coverage including The Chemical Brothers
• Television material
• Regular Zoo humour, letters and weekly columns

Football & Sport

There is also substantial football coverage, including:

• Chelsea
• Manchester United
• Arsenal
• Discussion of the financial state of football
• Features around the Premier League
• Football personalities and contemporary sporting stories
• Fantasy XI material

The cover's humorous Arsène Wenger / Sir Alex Ferguson imagery is another very recognisable piece of mid-2000s football culture.

Condition

Pre-owned magazine with visible age and handling wear.

From the photographs:

• Front cover remains bright, colourful and highly presentable.
• Visible wear and rubbing along the spine.
• Some corner and edge wear, particularly toward the lower corners.
• Light creasing and handling marks to the front cover.
• Minor surface marks consistent with age and storage.
• Interior pages shown remain attached and readable.
• Some light page-edge toning/ageing is visible.
• The BabeWatch section shown appears intact within the magazine.
• Rear cover shows general surface wear and light edge rubbing.
• No major tears or detached pages are obvious from the supplied photographs.

Overall, it looks like a good used example for a weekly magazine dating from 2005, but it is not mint and does show normal age-related wear.

Please study all photographs carefully as they form an important part of the condition description.

Important – Original Extras

Any separate gifts, loose promotional items, vouchers, supplements or other items originally supplied with the magazine are no longer included unless they are clearly shown as part of the magazine in the photographs.

The BabeWatch Awards 2005 pull-out content shown in the photographs appears to remain within this copy.

You will receive the magazine shown in the photographs only.

Packaging

UK orders: Sent securely in a hardback envelope.

International orders: Sent securely in a cardboard mail-size box for additional protection during transit.

SKU: 1552