Hope you love our new-look website as much as we do. We’ve had an online presence for several years but this new look is just fantastic.
And each week I’ll blog away, giving you snippets from the hot desk, from readers or for that matter from anywhere and about anything. Or I’ll just post a quick update when something interesting pops up.
Who am I? I’ve been with YOU since it was launched in 1987! Yes, that does sound like FOREVER but I’ve had a few breaks yet kept returning because of the buzz, excitement and fab people I work with.
I left first to travel through Europe for 6 months – took the ‘’gap year” a bit later than most!! Loved it – travelled with boyfriend who is now husband. And the main reason we both work is so we can travel every year, sometimes twice a year!
A reverse-charge call to then editor from London secured me my position back at the mag but a few years later I felt I needed different experience so left again for PR. Aaargh, awful! You have to be nice to people ALL the time.
So it was back to YOU yet again. After a few years I decided it was time to try my hand at freelance work. Long-suffering editor just shook his head and said, “You’ll be back!”
But I felt so alone writing from home. Who admires your new shoes or your new lipgloss (even if our Senior Assistant Editor Kevin called my latest lippie roadkill pink!!) So it was back to the floor.
So I can confidently say I know the ins and outs of our mag like the back of my hand. And I’ve stayed for a veeeeery long time now – although I did have the great experience of heading off to Shanghai with said husband to oversee the launch of a Chinese YOU – but more of that in a later blog.
Another of my esteemed colleagues Adam said, ‘’You’re starting a blog? Oh yawn. Everyone does that and you soon lose interest and no one responds.’’ So please, please help me prove him wrong! I so like to be right! As do we all.
What do you want to know about the magazine, the writers, the artists? Add your comments below and I’ll soon have you knowing as much about the floor as I do.
FROM THE 7TH FLOOR THIS WEEK: Brangelina stories always get the staff going – and there are still such distinct camps – you either love Angelina or you love Jen. I listened in fascination as Nadia and Nikki ticked off a Jolie/Pitt timeline in a matter of minutes – how do they remember all those details?? And some say Jen has far too little pride and she will take him back. I say go for it, girl – if he wants to come back show the world you are the better choice after all!! Esmare was utterly distraught at the sight of Brad’s boep in the latest paparazzi pics. And the rest of us? Just relieved that at last he looks like a normal person.
So we anticipate lots of gossip and we all wait with bated breath for those first pap pics of the two lovebirds back together (I hope!!)
Linda Pietersen is a Senior Deputy Editor at YOU.
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