fan magazine

American  

noun

1. a magazine containing information and gossip about celebrities.

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Etymology

Origin of fan magazine

First recorded in 1925–30

Example Sentences

As a plus-size bounder, she has drawn inspiration and gotten tips from others, and was recently featured in a fan magazine for her look as Scar from “The Lion King.”

From Washington Post • Apr. 21, 2023

Bean starred on Broadway as a timid fan magazine writer in George Axelrod’s 1955 Hollywood spoof “Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?” alongside Jayne Mansfield and Walter Matthau.

From Washington Times • Feb. 8, 2020

It reads like the stuff of a fan magazine, not NYT.

From New York Times • Apr. 18, 2018

Smith still writes an “Ask Dave” column for the Disney Twenty-Three fan magazine.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 26, 2016

Especially in Phrack, which at times read like an LoD fan magazine; and Phrack was everywhere, especially in the offices of telco security.

From The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier by Sterling, Bruce