Pick Me Up (magazine)

Pick Me Up! is a British weekly women's magazine that is published through the Future plc group.^[2]

Pick Me Up!

Cover of 12 September 2024 issue
Editor	Matt Davies
Categories	Women's magazine
Frequency	Weekly
Circulation	183,662 (ABC Jul – Dec 2013)[1] Print and digital editions.
First issue	January 2005
Company	Future plc
Country	United Kingdom
Based in	London
Language	English

It "leapt"^[2] into the ten most popular weekly women's magazines in just six months, selling more than half a million copies.^[2]

Editor

June Smith-Sheppard was appointed editor of Pick Me Up for its launch in 2005. The Guardian referred to her as an "uncompromisingly ordinary launch editor, [that] offers a tantalising glimpse of the tongue-in-cheek items she hopes will define the new women's weekly.^[3]

Columnists

• Jeremy Kyle: Jeremy wrote an agony uncle column for Pick Me Up, until September 2010, in the style of the talk show he presents, The Jeremy Kyle Show.
• Claire Petulengro: horoscope.^[4]
• Dr Nicola Davies: Nicola is the investigative psychologist for the 'Making of a monster' column. This studies the psychological influences causing specific people to become notorious killers.^[5]
• GP Doctor Gary Bartlett is a regular contributor to writing the Instant Appointment column.