You probably need to be an octogenarian like my husband, Joe to remember Confidential, the granddaddy of celebrity scandal magazines.
I certainly don’t remember the magazine which had its heyday in the 1950s although I do remember its progeny like Silver Screen, Modern Screen, and Screenland.
These were American fan magazines which I could buy in London way past their publication dates. They were sold in a small, newsagent’s shop in Ealing located on my route home from school (Tube ride from the Convent of the Sacred Heart High School in Hammersmith to South Ealing station, then a half-mile walk to my house.) I was 11, and journeyed to school and back on my own. I had plenty of time to linger at magazine racks. Continue reading “Inside Story of Confidential, the First Celebrity Scandal Magazine”