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Peta Murgatroyd’s son, Shai, 21 months, is a mama’s boy. “He’s in a big ‘mom stage’ right now,” the 32-year-old Aussie dancer reveals, noting that if he’s not in her arms, “he’ll get really grumpy.” But she wouldn’t have it any other way. “It’s been pretty much all me! It’s awesome.” Murgatroyd, wed to Maksim Chmerkovskiy, 38, opens up about motherhood to Us. Q: How is Shai? He is so cute. I am obsessed with my son. I don’t know if that’s right to say, but I’m literally obsessed with him. I can’t wait to see his face in the morning; I make sure I’m up as soon as I hear him make a noise. Q: Does he cry a lot? No, only if he has something wrong, like a…

In her new movie Can You Ever Forgive Me?, Melissa McCarthy plays the late Lee Israel, a writer who sold forged letters from the literary elite after her career began to stall in the early ’90s. Though Israel, who pleaded guilty to the crime in 1993, isn’t exactly a role model, McCarthy was inspired by a side of the character — and saw a valuable lesson to pass along to her two daughters (with husband of 13 years Ben Falcone), 11-year-old Vivian and 8-year-old Georgette. “She didn’t need you to like her,” McCarthy, 48, tells Us of Israel, who died in 2014. “She was fine as she was, and that’s a huge takeaway. I was glad for the reminder. I tell my kids all the time, you’re the one that…

After two scary heart surgeries, Jimmy Kimmel’s 18-month-old son, Billy, is “happy and healthy,” his wife, Molly, told Us at an Oct. 20 gala benefiting Children’s Hospital Los Angeles. “You’d have no idea besides his awesome scar on his body.” The Jimmy Kimmel Live! host, 50, quipped that when it comes time to explain the scar, “we’re going to tell him he was attacked by a monster.” GRATEFUL As for how the or-deal affected the couple, Kimmel says he learned “to appreciate being a parent more than I did [before].” The dad to Katie, 27, and Kevin, 25 (from his previous marriage), and daughter Jane, 4, notes, “it does make you, for lack of a new cliché, cherish every moment.”…

Life as a new mom “has been so much fun,” Eva Longoria tells Us. The Overboard star, 43, calls her 4-month-old son, Santiago (with husband José Baston), “really funny” and says he reaches “a new milestone” each day: “He’s now holding his bottle.” And Longoria, who recently helped launch Novartis’ #KissThis4MBC campaign for metastatic breast cancer research, has high hopes for his future: “I will make sure my son grows up with the mind-set to help others.”…

Savannah Guthrie likes to be reminded of where she came from. “I have a humongous keychain with keys going back five apartments,” the coauthor of Princesses Save the World (out now), 46, tells Us. “I probably have my keys from [when I worked in] Washington, D.C.” The mom to Vale, 4, and Charles, 22 months (with husband Michael Feldman, 50), opens up. HER BIG ITCH “I have cortisone cream because over Labor Day I got so many mosquito bites. It’s weeks later, and I still can’t stop scratching them!” MAD FOR MONOGRAMS “My phone case is from Minnie and Emma with my initials on it. It’s helpful on the Today set because everyone’s phones look alike.” FRESHEN UP “White Tic Tacs are my favorite, even though they make me sneeze.”…

Since completing rehab, “Ben’s been going to a lot of meetings and meditation,” according to a source close to the actor. And he’s keeping busy. The Oscar winner, 46, who’d been spending time with 22-year-old Playboy playmate Shauna Sexton until they split in early October, is training for his upcoming basketball film, Torrance, spending time with his kids and, of course, rooting for his hometown in the World Series. Adds the Affleck insider: “He’s been watching the Red Sox play!”…

THAT’S ALL I WANT FROM YOU / NINA SIMONE “Nina Simone is one of my favorite singers, and this track from her album Baltimore is touching and simplistic. It makes me want to fall in love.” WHERE ARE WE NOW? / DAVID BOWIE “This just makes me cry. I have just started performing this song live. It’s super melancholy — Bowie at his most personal and tender. I love really sad songs like this.” TRAINS / WE ARE BRANDO “It’s a nostalgic, ’80s sound with a modern message. I love the idea of riding a train and watching the world go by.” THE BREAKS / PLANNINGTOROCK “This is very ’80s and a bit psychedelic ’60s. Her vocals remind me of Grace Slick. I wish bands like this got played on…

Want to impress your friends? Tell them you sat through this pretentious, interminable, 152-minute remake of a horror classic and exulted in its brilliance. Of course, then you’d also be lying. A soft-spoken Midwestern runaway named Susie (Dakota Johnson) has just entered a prestigious German female dance academy in the late 1970s. The three senior instructors, including one played by Tilda Swinton, encourage her to spread her wings. What Susie doesn’t yet realize is that these women are witches, and they bestow a grotesque, violent fate to any student who dares to question their methods. That’s an intentionally broad story outline for an art-house entry that gets off on its own narrative incoherence. Fact is, there is nothing sensuous or poetic about bloody physical torture, and the sight of women…

“The commitment level was very high.”On revealing he secretly played the monster in A Quiet Place, in addition to writing, directing and acting in it, JOHN KRASINSKI “I’m a big fan of squeezing things out of my nose or out of anyone else’s nose around me.”On her guilty pleasure, CHRISSY TEIGEN “She said, ‘Mommy, when you die, can we get a cat?’ I thought that was really sweet of her.”On how her daughter asked for a pet despite her mom’s allergy, MAYA RUDOLPH “I’ve had my picture [taken] as Britney Spears.”On how a fan mistook her for the singer, KEIRA KNIGHTLEY “They look like giant slugs on my face.”On what she thought of her eyebrows as a kid, CARA DELEVINGNE…

Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross are going on the road… with their kids! When the pair embark on their joint U.S. tour in January, they want to “make it a family thing,” the 34-year-old songstress tells Us. So tagging along for the fun will be their daughter, Jagger, 3, and her son, Bronx, 9 (with ex-husband Pete Wentz, 39). “Obviously there’s school and stuff to figure out,” the dad, 30, chimes in, “but the majority of the time they’ll be with us.” Their daughter is already showing signs of excitement. “She loves going to his mom’s [Diana Ross] shows,” Simpson notes, recalling the time Jagger and her auntie Tracee Ellis Ross “were singing the words together” at one of the shows. While on tour, the Ashlee + Evan singers also…

The word is out! Amy Schumer revealed her pregnancy with an unconventional Instagram announcement on Oct. 22. The comedian, 37, who’s married to chef Chris Fischer, posted a picture of her and her husband’s faces on the bodies of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. In the caption she directed her followers to head to journalist pal Jessica Yellin’s Instagram for some “exciting news.” There, Yellin, 47, shared a list of Schumer’s “voting recommendations,” the last one being, “I’m pregnant — Amy Schumer.”…

JUDY GREER When the actress needed a getup for her “first boy-girl party,” she tells Us, “my dad decided I should go as a garbage can… covered in literal garbage.” Looking back, the Halloween star, 43, notes wryly, “[I] totally understand.” REBECCA ROMIJN The X-Men star, 45, and twins Dolly and Charlie, 9, made things convenient for husband Jerry O’Connell, 44, when they dressed up as jellyfish last year. “You all had lights on and [we were] able to see everyone at night,” he says. THORA BIRCH Last year, Birch went big with “a Dia de los Muertos theme,” she tells Us. The 36-year-old Hocus Pocus star says the spooky look was “a lot of fun, and probably the most elaborate I’ve gotten with a costume in a long, long…

The saga continues! A decade after Twilight first hit theaters, director Catherine Hardwicke recalls the moment she saw a spark between stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart. “At the very first chemistry read… you could just tell they were intensely fascinated by each other,” she tells Us. It was so “powerful,” HARDWICKE she notes, that she warned Pattinson, 32, to wait until Stewart, now 28, turned 18 to make a move. The couple called it quits in 2013, but Hardwicke, 62, still enjoys a good relationship with them and the rest of the cast. Still, she’s not sure reuniting them for a revival would work: “I don’t think they’d want to play high school students anymore,” she quips. “I’d love to see another version.” But any reboot, she says, would…

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1. My favorite meal is breakfast, especially eggs! (And I’m afraid I eat them with ketchup.) 2. My charity, “My Peak Challenge” [for blood cancer research], has raised in excess of $1.5 million and has over 10,000 “Peaker” members. 3. The unknown universe fascinates me. I’m certain we’ve been visited by aliens. 4. I wore glasses as a child that had Buddy Holly rims, which I hated. They’d probably be considered cool now. 5. I would like to write a book someday. I wrote the foreword to [There’s Always the Hills by Cameron McNeish], and I really enjoyed the experience. 6. I love being anonymous. I don’t like to stand out, which is hard when you’re 6-foot-3. 7. I played the trumpet and trombone during my school days. 8. I…

This is serious. Eight months after rekindling their romance, Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom are “the real deal and completely in love with each other,” a source tells Us. When the “Roar” singer, 33, finishes filming this season of American Idol, the pair “are really going to start planning out their future together,” says the insider. That future will likely include marriage and babies. While Bloom, 41, is already a dad to 7-year-old Flynn (with ex-wife Miranda Kerr), Perry “wants a kid ASAP,” says the source. “It’s something they’ve talked about a lot.”…

• Nicole Richie (above) getting ready for Halloween festivities with decorations and Butterfinger peanut butter Skull Caps in LA. • Lin-Manuel Miranda eating a chicken burger during dinner at Landmarc restaurant in the Shops at Columbus Circle in NYC. • Aaron Paul walking down West Hollywood’s Sunset Boulevard in sweatpants, telling someone on the phone, “This series is so well-written…” • Maya Rudolph laughing during brunch with five girlfriends at Blu Jam café in Sherman Oaks, Calif. • The Office’s Oscar Nunez mailing packages and telling people to “have a great day” at the post office in Studio City, Calif. • Questlove pairing omakase with green iced tea at the counter of Sushi Park in West Hollywood. • Mary J. Blige dancing with family after a meal in a private…

Taye Diggs does his homework. While filming The CW’s new football drama All American (Wednesdays, 9 p.m.), “I’m watching Friday Night Lights,” says the actor, who plays Beverly Hills High’s coach. “I’m subsuming as much as I can.” Still, he insists, the series tackles far more than wide receivers. Alternating between the posh neighborhood and South Central LA, “we’re showing gang signs and colors,” the Rent alum, 47, tells Us. “We’re not just showing shiny cars and rich kids. You see real human beings.” And real issues. Adds Diggs, “We’re dealing with race, police, black people. It’s refreshing.”…