The new Arena

Extremely hot Swedish supermodel Caroline Winberg and extremely funny bloke Seth Rogen are just two reasons to grab a copy of this month’s Arena, out now.

We’ve nabbed an exclusive interview with Hollywood’s comedy star/producer/stoner du jour Rogen as his latest film Pineapple Express rocks your multiplex. The man who turns out $120 million blockbusters in his slumbers left the Arena office with a nagging inferiority complex after telling us he wrote Superbad when he was just 13 years old.

Meanwhile, the beguiling face and glorious body of Guess, Caroline Winberg, adorns ten pages of this month’s magazine in a drawerful of the scantiest garments (and poses with the skull of a dead animal).

Continuing the comedy theme, we reveal how the funny business became a multi-million pound industry and name the 20 most powerful people in comedy (no room for Ronnie Corbett, alas).

Elsewhere in the magazine, Giorgio Armani tells us the colour that no man should be seen dead wearing, The Wire’s Idris Elba talks about his journey from Hackney to the Baltimore set of the best show on TV and Lost starlet Maggie Grace reveals a hitherto unknown passion for BBC4 dramas, Jane Austen and Bath.

And if you’re wondering whether Russia’s recent excursion into Georgia means you should start digging out that copy of Protect and Survive and digging a nuclear fall-out shelter, we assess the prospects for a new Cold War.

Plus there’s 22 pages of fashion, including the new collections from Armani and Gucci and the finest new suits for the new season, a one-on-one with Hiro from Heroes, the reasons why the forthcoming Ryder Cup will be rubbish, and six of the best thriller writers in Britain today.

The October 2008 issue of Arena is on sale now, priced £3.80, or click here to subscribe.