Lads mag Front and gay mag Attitude are both likely to close unless a buyer or investor can be found, after their publisher, SMD, put their operations on hold. Work had begun on new editions of both titles, but staff have been told to stop work on them pending an announcement regarding their future. Attitude was one of the few non-porn titles that SMD parent Remnant Media acquired when it bought a stack of magazines off Daily Express owner Richard Desmond's Northern & Shell business. It acquired Front off Highbury House after its closure early last year (as well as film mag Hotdog, which SMD closed back in November).
Interestingly (well, not really, but stay with me), the now on-hold issue of Attitude included the latest McFly naked photoshoot, which CMU's favourite boy band had declared would be their last naked publicity stunt (there's been quite a few recently). Not sure what happens to that commitment if the photo shoot is never published.