People的December 27, 2021目录

‘I want to look normal, and I want to normalize looking normal.… And then if I’m dressed up, I like that my kids are like, “Woo, look at my mom!”’—JENNIFER GARNER, on preferring a “low-key” appearance, to Shop Today ‘Two weeks ago I was all the rave, and now I’m just “former Sexiest Man Alive”’—MICHAEL B. JORDAN, on relinquishing his title to Paul Rudd, on Live With Kelly and Ryan ‘They were like, “Why? Why would you wanna do that?” Because I was earning millions of dollars being the funny fat girl’—REBEL WILSON, on her team questioning her motives to lose weight and get healthy, on BBC News ‘Don’t be like my adorably shy parents who were raised not to rock the boat or cause a ruckus. Show up.…

Tiger Woods is no stranger to a good comeback story—and after a difficult year that began with a horrific car crash on Feb. 23, he’s gearing up to make one of the biggest in golf history. Nearly a year after his near-fatal accident, Woods, 45, will return to the greens with his son Charlie, 12, on Dec. 18 to compete in the PNC Championship, a tournament in which former Major Champions team up with family members. “His kids have been a huge motivation for him,” an insider says of Woods, who shares Charlie and daughter Sam, 14, with his ex-wife Elin Nordegren. “He has been dreaming about playing golf with his son again.” Woods could not have foreseen the prospect of ending 2021 back on the golf course in…

Nicole Kidman, 54, and Javier Bardem, 52, talked to People (The TV Show!)’s Jeremy Parsons about their passion for Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz—whom they portray in the new movie Being the Ricardos, in theaters now and on Amazon Dec. 21—and their own respective spouses, Keith Urban and Penélope Cruz. Javier, is it true you binge-watched all of I Love Lucy to prep for this role? JAVIER BARDEM Yes, that’s what you do when you’re trying to inhabit someone. [My wife and I] were going to bed, and the last thing we would do was watch the show, and we woke up watching that show. NICOLE KIDMAN You cannot believe the bar they hit over and over and over again [on the series]. And the film explores why they do.…

Hallmark movie fixture Alison Sweeney, 45, has reprised her former soap role as bad girl Sami Brady on NBC’s Days of Our Lives and in the new Peacock movie spinoff Days of Our Lives: A Very Salem Christmas (streaming Dec. 16). What do you enjoy most about playing Sami? What I love about this character and what keeps me coming back for more is she is definitely willing to do anything to get what she wants. She has an unusual way of looking at life. Would you ever return to Days full-time? I love playing Sami, but full-time is not the plan for me. I produce and develop content for Hallmark and for other streaming services, so I love getting to do my own projects; I love producing. Does your…

When you come across something as magical and mind-blowing as the music scene in New Orleans, it stays with you. Bono and I went out after a show [in 1997] and saw an 11-year-old called Trombone Shorty perform with this brass funk band. We ended up dancing on the bar until 2 a.m. and left with the sense New Orleans is like nowhere else in the world. Music Rising was born in 2005, when producer Bob Ezrin and I discussed our fears for local musicians post-Hurricane Katrina. We knew they relied on small-venue events and that many would lose their instruments. To date we’ve helped 3,000 musicians get back to work following various disasters and, in turn, aided the preservation of an extremely special music culture. Most recently, on…

In 1992 Kurt Warner was a struggling 21-year-old college football quarterback at the University of Northern Iowa (“I sat on the bench for four years”) whose NFL dreams seemed to be going up in smoke. Then one night a friend invited him out to a local country bar to cheer him up. “I had no idea where we were going,” says Kurt, “and I had no desire to learn how to line dance.” But as fate would have it, also in the bar that night was Brenda, a newly divorced single mom working her way through nursing school. Then 25, Brenda had started taking line-dancing lessons with her mom, who’d insisted she needed to get out more. Kurt asked Brenda to dance, and the rest, as he says, is history.…

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Kim Kardashian has plenty to celebrate this holiday season, including an achievement years in the making. On Dec. 13 the mogul, 41, announced she’d passed California’s “baby bar” exam on her fourth try, a key step toward becoming a lawyer. “My dad would be so proud,” she wrote on Instagram of her late attorney father, Robert Kardashian. Nearly a year after filing for divorce from Kanye West, 44, the reality star is forging ahead with the dissolution of their six-year marriage. On Dec. 10 Kardashian, who has been dating SNL’s Pete Davidson since October, filed legal documents to restore her maiden name and be declared legally single amid her divorce from West, who has publicly proclaimed his desire to win her back. “No counseling or reconciliation effort will be…

Jordan Fisher is a leading man who is leading the way. The actor—who got his start on ABC Family’s The Secret Life of the American Teenager in 2012 and Disney Channel’s Teen Beach Movie in 2013—has become the first Black man to star in the title role of Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen. “As a Black man that has a relationship with anxiety and depression myself, it’s such an honor,” says Fisher, 27, who hopes his portrayal helps young viewers “feel less alone.” Performing is also a mental-health outlet for the Hamilton alum and former Dancing With the Stars champ: “Things just evaporate because I’m doing what I love.” These days Fisher is feeling on top of the world both professionally and personally. One year after he and his wife, Ellie…

The strange saga involving former Empire star Jussie Smollett continues. On Dec. 9 a Chicago jury found the 39-year-old actor and singer guilty of five counts of felony disorderly conduct on charges that he falsely reported to police that he had been the victim of a racist and homophobic attack. On Jan. 29, 2019, Smollett, who is Black and gay, told police that two masked men doused him in bleach, put a noose around his neck and shouted racial slurs at him outside his home. During the trial, the two men in question, brothers Abimbola and Olabinjo Osundairo, testified that Smollett paid them $3,500 to stage the attack as a publicity stunt. “He got me a stand-in role on Empire, and I believed he could further my acting career,”…

Babies Actress Christina Ricci, 41, and her celebrity hairdresser husband, Mark Hampton, welcomed daughter Cleopatra on Dec. 8. The Yellowjackets star is also mom to son Freddie, 7, with ex-husband James Heerdegen. • Actress Yvonne Strahovski, 39, and her husband, actor-writer Tim Loden, 42, became a family of four with the arrival of their second child in early December. They’re also parents to son William, 3. Courts Scott Peterson, 49, was resentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for the 2002 murders of his wife, Laci, 27, and their unborn son. Peterson’s death sentence was overturned in August 2020 after the California Supreme Court found that potential jurors were improperly screened for bias. Crime Businessman Paul “PK” Kemsley, the 54-year-old husband of Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star…

This is your very first film role—how did you react when you learned you’d gotten it? I screamed an expletive and then said, “This has been the longest year of my life!” I auditioned for Steven about eight or nine times over 340 days, which is crazy! You’ll also be playing Snow White. Ever dress up as her as a kid? No, but my mom did for Halloween when I was in pre-K. I was Belle. As a Latina actress, what stereotypes do you hope to end? How many times in my life as a Colombiana have I been referred to as a member of the Colombian drug cartel? We are a joyful people.…

In 2012 Hilary Farr was in the midst of filming her HGTV home-renovation show Love It or List It when she went in for a routine mammogram. The results were frightening: Doctors found a suspicious lump, and Farr immediately underwent surgery. Lab results confirmed that the tumor was precancerous, not malignant, and she put her panic to rest. “I felt so much relief,” she recalls. With her health scare seemingly behind her, she says, “I moved on.” But it was only the beginning of her ordeal. Over the next three years Farr, 70, was diagnosed with invasive breast cancer and survived two additional lumpectomies, radiation therapy and, she says, a medical error that could have cost her her life—all while keeping the battle a secret from nearly everyone around her.…

High-Neck Top Meet your new favorite holiday top. Just add dark jeans, suede booties and some dangling earrings to complete the party-ready look. Midi Skirt Pair the pretty piece with a cozy sweater and heels in coordinating colors for an elegant monochromatic effect. If you want more glitz, add a gold bag. Cropped Pants Style the trendy (and comfortable!) trousers with a sophisticated silky tie-neck blouse in a rich jewel tone and plush velvet accessories. Style Tip For a very right-now look, balance a flashy piece with an everyday staple. It’s perfect if you’re staying in or heading out!…

See If You Can Find the Differences in These Two Pictures Everyone’s favorite “Industry Baby,” Lil Nas X, put on a colorful show for a sold-out crowd at iHeartRadio’s Jingle Ball in Chicago on Dec. 7. The Montero hitmaker—whose country-rap single “Old Town Road” featuring Billy Ray Cyrus went viral on TikTok and won two Grammys (for Best Pop Duo/Group Performance and Best Music Video)—is performing in the annual concert series that also features acts like Dua Lipa, Ed Sheeran and Doja Cat. 10 Changes to Keep Score! 1. The stripes on the skirt worn by the dancer, far left, are now gone. 2. The center orange stage light has been moved to the left. 3. Lil Nas X’s microphone is gone. 4. The white iHeart Radio logo behind Lil…

JEN & BEN’S COURTSIDE CUDDLE Los Angeles, Dec. 7 Ben Affleck cozied up to girlfriend Jennifer Lopez at a Lakers game, five days before she joined him at the L.A. premiere of his new film The Tender Bar. BACK TO WORK New York City, Dec. 7 Steve Martin, Selena Gomez and Martin Short bundled up to shoot season 2 of hit Hulu series Only Murders in the Building. WEST SIDE STARS ON THE WEST COAST Los Angeles, Dec. 7 West Side Story actresses Rachel Zegler (left) and Rita Moreno celebrated at the premiere of Steven Spielberg’s reimagining of the beloved musical. MEGAN THEE GRADUATE Houston, Dec. 11 Rapper Megan Thee Stallion received her bachelor’s degree in health administration from Texas Southern University. “I know my parents are looking down on…

Instagram Official Phoebe Bridgers & Paul Mescal On Dec. 10 the Grammy-nominated rocker, 27, and the Normal People actor, 25, made their first joint Instagram appearance when she shared a smiley selfie. First linked in 2020, the pair made their red carpet debut in L.A. in November. Happy Anniversary Garth Brooks & Trisha Yearwood “Happy Sweet Sixteen, Mr. Yearwood!” the “Perfect Love” singer, 57, posted on Instagram Dec. 10, marking 16 years of marriage with her husband and fellow country star, 59. 15 Years Strong Luke & Caroline Bryan The country singer, 45, and his wife, 41, celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary on Dec. 8. “Don’t know how you put up with my goofy ass. I love you to the moon and back,” the American Idol judge wrote on…

‘I DON’T KNOW HOW TO MATCH THIS. IT WAS SURREAL’—MICHAEL STRAHAN Michael Strahan just returned from his mission to space aboard Jeff Bezos’s New Shepherd rocket, and he’s ready to leave the Earth’s atmosphere all over again. “That was beyond,” the Good Morning America coanchor, 50, told Bezos on Dec. 11 after the 11-minute, out-of-this-world flight, which was delayed two days due to high winds. “I want to go back!” While he doesn’t have any immediate plans for a second voyage, Strahan is still in awe after the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. “It’s almost like an out-of-body experience,” he told ABC News after the round trip. “It’s hard to even believe it happened.” The TV host’s fellow space travelers included Laura Shepard Churchley—the oldest daughter of the late Alan Shepard, the…

Mark Indelicato was 12 when he started stealing scenes as Justin Suarez, the fashion-obsessed nephew of America Ferrera’s title character in the ABC comedy Ugly Betty. “At the time, I don’t think that I understood exactly what Justin would mean to so many people,” Indelicato, now 27, says of the character, who, like him, is gay. When the series wrapped after four seasons in 2010, the Philadelphia native went on to study international relations at New York University. “I wanted to go and live as normal a life as I possibly could,” he says. then & now! Indelicato intended to go to law school and work for the United Nations, but in the end he decided to return to Hollywood. “I just felt this overwhelming sense of ‘This is what I’m…

It was the last night of the 2017 Route 91 Harvest festival in Las Vegas, and Austin Monfort and Chantal Melanson were pushing toward the stage to catch a glimpse of the day’s big act: Jason Aldean. The pair had crossed paths the night before at a Vegas bar, but Chantal, 27, a prison administrator from Canada, and Austin, a 22-year-old California college student, were still trying to figure out if they were into each other as they stood on the asphalt festival grounds, pressed closely together by the 20,000 country music fans. As Aldean launched into his ballad, “When She Says Baby,” Chantal thought she heard fireworks. “I didn’t think anything of it,” she says. “At a festival, there’s always some pyrotechnic stuff onstage.” Austin knew it was something…

1 cup loosely packed mixed fresh tender herbs (such as flat-leaf parsley, basil, chives and mint), finely chopped⅛ cup pure maple syrup⅛ cup Dijon mustard½ Tbsp. kosher salt½ tsp. ground cumin½ tsp. onion powder½ tsp. garlic powder¼ tsp. black pepper1 (3- to 3½-lb.) skin-on whole side of salmon (about 1½-in. thick at thickest part)1 lemon, thinly sliced 1. Preheat oven to 400°. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Stir together mixed herbs, maple syrup, Dijon mustard, salt, cumin, onion powder, garlic powder and pepper in a medium bowl. Place salmon, skin side down, on prepared baking sheet. Spread herb mixture evenly over salmon. Top salmon with lemon slices. 2. Bake in preheated oven until salmon is just opaque in center, 15 to 20 minutes. Using parchment paper, lift and…

Last Time I Danced About two days ago with my kids [Edie, 6, and Delilah, 2] in our kitchen. I am always informed that I must dance, and, like a sort of puppet, I have to get up and swing them around. Last Thing I Discovered About Myself I can spend a very, very long time perfectly happily coloring in books with two very small children. If I’m building something or coloring something in, then I’m all right. Last Time I Cried Watching The Great British Bake Off. I’m dyslexic, and there was a woman on it who baked a dyslexic cake, and she said it was like the inside of her brain. It was so beautiful it literally had me bawling on the sofa. Last Moment of Bliss I…