As Doctor Who’s Ncuti Gatwa covers our 30th birthday issue, we look back at three decades of Attitude

Ncuti Gatwa leads our 30-year anniversary issue (Images: Attitude/Melanie Lehmann )

“I just got a text from Cheryl…” says a panicked member of Team Attitude. The year is 2008 and I am a bright- eyed, bushy-tailed intern listening with poker-faced fascination as the magazine’s Girls Aloud cover hangs in the balance for reasons I won’t get into here. 

The ensuing tea is scalding (or would have been, were tea a metaphorical concept back then), but everything works out in perfectly sequinned GA style in the end. 

It’s surreal that 16 years later, the girls are back — minus their shiniest member, Sarah ‘walking primrose’ Harding — and I’m now a member of Team Attitude, tasked with reviewing our 30-year history: an often amazing (seven Kylie covers!), occasionally embarrassing (James Corden? Seriously?),

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