People August 22, 2022

‘I never was worried that my peers would think that I was less than a man’—JACOB ELORDI, on not caring that other kids thought he was gay for doing theater, to GQ ‘You can’t work for Disney or Nickelodeon and not be professional. They don’t care if you’re 5 years old!’—KEKE PALMER, on acquiring a professional work ethic at a young age, to Women’s Health ‘I was raised as a member of the community, not as just myself and my family. It’s one of the luckiest things about my life’—JENNIFER GARNER, on why she gives back, on the Today show ‘I used that as an opportunity to crack jokes and flirt with the girls—it was cool’—JOHN BOYEGA, on his grade-school role in the African folktale Anansi the Spider, to…

1 Batgirl gets shelved Warner Bros. announced it will not release the superhero movie starring Leslie Grace (In the Heights) because of strategy shifts, even though the $90 million film already wrapped. Batgirl’s directors said they were “shocked by the news” and DC Comics superfan Kevin Smith called the move “baffling.” 2 A baby looks like Woody Harrelson Mom Dani Grier Mulvenna tweeted about her daughter Cora’s likeness to the Cheers icon, and Harrelson responded with a poem, ending: “You have a wonderful smile/I just wish I had your hair.” 3 Pumpkin Spice Oreos are back After a five-year hiatus, the ubiquitous fall flavor returns to Oreo’s lineup for a limited time on Aug. 15. Expect the annual pumpkin invasion—including Starbucks’ infamous lattes—to follow. 4 Jane Fonda has new exercise gear Forty years…

TIM TAKES THE STAGE Chicago, Aug. 5 After taking a break from performing to film season 1 of 1883, Tim McGraw returned to headline the Windy City Smokeout music festival. “Nights like this are what it’s all about!” he wrote on Instagram. “Had the time of my life this weekend.” SUMMER LOVE New York City, Aug. 6 Katie Holmes and boyfriend Bobby Wooten III held hands and smiled during a walk in the park. ACTION! New York City, Aug. 5 Amanda Seyfried got ready for her close-up while filming the new Apple TV+ anthology series The Crowded Room. OLIVIA’S MINI-ME On Aug. 5 Olivia Munn shared a photo of her 8-month-old son Malcolm (whose dad is John Mulaney) on Instagram. DOGS DAYS OF SUMMER East Hampton, N.Y., Aug. 1 Jon Hamm…

Chrissy Teigen and John Legend are celebrating the upcoming arrival of a new addition to their family nearly two years after a painful pregnancy loss. The model and Cravings author, 36, surprised fans on Aug. 3 when she shared a full-length mirror selfie on Instagram that showed off her baby bump. “The last few years have been a blur of emotions to say the least, but joy has filled our home and hearts again,” she captioned the post. Teigen wrote, “1 billion shots later (in the leg lately, as u can see!) we have another on the way,” referring to her in vitro fertilization treatments, which she and her singer husband, 43, have been open about in the past. (She received them to conceive their daughter Luna Simone, 6,…

Britney Spears and her ex Kevin Federline are having a war of words over their sons Sean Preston, 16, and Jayden James, 15. It started when Federline, 44, claimed in a Daily Mail interview that the boys have been keeping their distance from the “Toxic” singer, 40, adding he’s had conversations with them about her risqué Instagram posts. “It’s been a few months since they’ve seen her. They made the decision not to go to her wedding,” Federline, who has primary custody, said of Spears’s June wedding to Sam Asghari, 28. Spears—whose 13-year conservatorship ended last fall—responded on Instagram Aug. 7, writing, “It saddens me to hear that my ex-husband has decided to discuss the relationship between me and my children.… I’m only human and I’ve done my best.”…

Nine months after they broke the Internet with a hot new romance, Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson have broken up. “It was an amicable split,” says a Kardashian source. “They had discussed ending their relationship for a bit. It wasn’t sudden. And it was mutual.” Multiple sources close to the SKIMS founder, 41, and the comedian, 28—who enjoyed lavish vacations and didn’t shy away from PDA over the course of their courtship—say that busy work schedules and the challenges of a long-distance relationship (she lives in L.A., he in N.Y.C.) contributed to their breakup. “Things heated up quickly in the beginning,” an insider says of the former couple, who began dating last October after connecting when she hosted Saturday Night Live. “They traveled back and forth to see each…