Seriously, what happened with Peter McGough?

[bic_staedtler]

...anybody know why he's no longer the exec. editor of FLEX?  Just checked, and his last editorial was the Jan issue, he spoke nothing of his impending departure.

I've done some searches but only found fat jokes.

Anybody know what happened?

[HTexan]

took ben's death hard? 

[WillGrant]

 but only found fat jokes.

Watch your mouth , Peters not Fat hes just big boned.

[kiwiol]

Peter is my favorite bodybuilding writer, along with John Little and David Koepp

[LatsMcGee]

Peter started his own real estate business and an MMA hobby.  It left no time for Flex Rag.

[Triple-H_2005]

His articles suck lately...

Peter "I can't write without using a pun in every other sentence" McGough is almost as bad as Julian "I can't wirte withoug my trusty Thesaurus" Schmidt was...

[TruthHurts]

 He was asked, politely, to leave.

[danielson]

Pretty good build on that guy from what I have heard.

[The Showstoppa]

[Ron]

Peter resigned, and other people took over.  Of course, speculation as why or what happened abounds... Change happens.

Here was the announcement...

http://www.getbig.com/headlines/2008/10/31/american-media-inc-names-chris-lockwood-mike-carlson-and-allan-donnelly-to-lead-editorial-teams-at-enthusiast-group-of-fitness-titles/

[LurkerNoMore]

blechman fired him for having carbs in his diet.

[G o a t b o y]

Last I heard, McGough and Romano were shit-faced together in some two-bit bar in Cabo doing body shots of rotgut taquilla off some $5 Mexican whore.

[chaos]

Last I heard, McGough and Romano were shit-faced together in some two-bit bar in Cabo doing body shots of rotgut taquilla off some $5 Mexican whore.

Sounds like a good time, what's the issue?

[G o a t b o y]

Sounds like a good time, what's the issue?

Southwest tried to make McGough buy two seats on the flight back, one for each ass cheek.  And Romano couldn't even afford one seat.

[bic_staedtler]

Peter resigned, and other people took over.  Of course, speculation as why or what happened abounds... Change happens.

Here was the announcement...

http://www.getbig.com/headlines/2008/10/31/american-media-inc-names-chris-lockwood-mike-carlson-and-allan-donnelly-to-lead-editorial-teams-at-enthusiast-group-of-fitness-titles/

Thanks Ron.  I guess that's their way of saying that new folks are in, but it doesn't really say that Pete's out.  Maybve they'll mention it on PBBW radio...ol' Bob might mention it.

I think that it's a good thing, perhaps FLEX will bounce back with some newer formats and less of the Julian Schmidt penned thesaurus articles.  Seriously, we all know that pro DON'T TALK LIKE DAT...and there's better ways around it.

I see one of two things happening...it gets a lot better (even though I noticed that Peter penned the latest article about the history of the Arnold) and updated and smarter...or they end up just insulting the readers intelligence with light, lame interviews and worse training articles.  And then FLEX will probably just dry up and go away.

Which wouldn't be so great, in my opinion.  

FLEX readers shouldn't have to buy M&F for their better contest article footage.  I mean, why does that mag get the hardcore stuff at ALL?...put it in FLEX.  

[G o a t b o y]

...anybody know why he's no longer the exec. editor of FLEX?  Just checked, and his last editorial was the Jan issue, he spoke nothing of his impending departure.

I've done some searches but only found fat jokes.

Anybody know what happened?

Used to be a time that making "Peter McGough fat jokes" was verboten around here, but then he got PNG'ed up in Woodland Hills, and a new day of cellulite comedy dawned on Getbig.com!