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LUPITA NYONG’O Bold move! “I wanted to choose a color that’s as bright as the message of her beautiful book [Sulwe],” stylist Micaela Erlanger tells Us of the new author’s look. In NYC on Oct. 15, Nyong’o wore a Toccin dress and matching cropped jacket ($495 each) and accessorized with a $4,800 Stalvey embossed bag, $595 Alexandre Birman leather heels and rainbow-hued Tie It Yourself hair bands.…

It Takes a Village As one of Hollywood’s busiest actresses, Charlize Theron isn’t afraid to ask for help taking care of kids Jackson, 7, and August, 4, plus her two puppies! The single mom, 44, juggles a full plate (and house) well, but her mother and friends lend some much-appreciated assistance. “I couldn’t do this career if I didn’t have that support,” Theron tells Us. She lets Us peek inside her “overwhelming” world. Q: What does a typical night look like for you? Tonight I was literally writing while a friend of mine was watching the puppies. My mom is cooking dinner for the kids right now. Q: How does that feel? I’ve been filled with a lot of kindness and grace by a lot of people. It’s the one…

A dele is feeling empowered! After splitting from husband Simon Konecki in April and turning 31 in May, the singer announced that she’d be spending the rest of the year “all on myself.” Fast-forward five months, and the Grammy winner has kept her promise. She’s clearly dedicated a good portion of her self-care journey to working on a major slim-down, which she happily showed off at Drake’s 33rd birthday party in L.A. on Oct. 23. “I used to cry but now I sweat,” she joked in an Instagram photo of herself the following day. HER SECRET So how did the mom of Angelo, 7, achieve this transformation? With the help of a personal trainer, she does “60-minute sessions that include cardio, circuit training and Pilates,” a source tells Us, noting…

Reality has bitten for Meghan King Edmonds and Jim Edmonds. The former MLB pro filed for divorce from the former Real Housewife of Orange County, 35, on Oct. 25 after she accused him of having an affair with the nanny of their three children. “It’s dangerous, irresponsible and hurtful to all to allow a rumor to be spread to the world because of insecurities,” Jim, 49, exclusively tells Us. Those close to the family are also vouching for him. Says a source, “Jim didn’t have an inappropriate or sexual relationship with any of the nannies.” NO TURNING BACK Their marriage has been “rocky” for some time, adds the source, especially after Jim was accused of being unfaithful in June, which he’s denied. His daughter, Hayley, 22 (with his late ex,…

If you’re one of Jennifer Aniston’s nearly 20 million new Instagram followers, you know she’s living her best life. “Jen is just doing her thing and is very happy,” a source tells Us. “She’s carved out a great group of friends who are like family to her.” And work also feeds the veteran actress’ soul. “She’s excited about The Morning Show,” the source adds about her upcoming Apple TV+ show costarring Reese Witherspoon (inset). “She worked very hard on it.” As for dating, that’s not her priority right now, says the source: “If she met someone, she wouldn’t rule it out, but she’s very happy being single and living her life exactly as she wants.”…

Natasha Bedingfield, 37, has a problem: “I’m always losing my phone,” says the mom of Solomon, 22 months (with Matt Robinson). “The most common thing you’ll hear me say is, ‘Where’s my phone?’” That’s where her Bandolier case comes in. “[It’s] got a chain that I can put around my neck.” Bedingfield, who’s currently on a multicity tour for her album Roll With Me, shares more with Us. CLEAN MACHINE “Medela has these amazing cleaning wipes that are really disinfecting. They’re for breast pumps, but they’re good for other stuff too, like pacifiers.” PRECIOUS GEMS “I love crystals. I have a pink jasper — they’re very protective stones. The black tourmaline helps with electricity.” MUSIC TO HER EARS “My Master & Dynamic headphones are really good. People ask me all…

Meghan Markle held back tears — but not much else. During her emotional interview for Harry & Meghan: An African Journey, the ITV documentary that followed the couple on their South African tour in September, the Duchess of Sussex revealed that she’s struggling to acclimate to life as a royal and a new mom. “I’ve really tried to adopt this British sensibility of a stiff upper lip,” she said, “but I think what that does internally is probably really damaging.” She went on to say she’s not getting the support she needs. “Not many people have asked if I’m OK,” she noted sadly. Fans were sympathetic, and plenty of royal watchers applauded Meghan’s raw honesty. But some members of the monarchy weren’t so thrilled with her bold decision to air…

Instead of his patented flash and brash, director Martin Scorsese delivers an effectively moving real-life portrait of the emotional toll that being at the top of the mob underworld takes. The title character is Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro), a teamster who ends up as a middleman between Mafia don Russell Bufalino (Joe Pesci) and hot-headed union boss Jimmy Hoffa (Al Pacino). The film is epic in every sense, with top-shelf performances, a decades-spanning story and a challenging 209-minute run time. Note: Even though the film will be on Netflix in a month, and the second hour drags a bit in the action department, this film should be seen on the big screen. They just don’t make ’em like this anymore. MR…

It can’t be easy to step into a franchise as beloved as Star Wars, but joining the cast of Disney+’s The Mandalorian (Nov. 12) was a challenge Gina Carano couldn’t wait to take on. “I think Star Wars is a part of all of us, in a strange way. It’s crept into all of our homes and hearts,” she tells Us. When director Jon Favreau first called Carano, the former MMA fighter figured, “Oh, OK, he’s going to have me [be] a female Chewbacca or something.” Instead, she’ll be taking on the role of ex-rebel shock trooper Cara Dune. The actress tells Us she believes it’s a match made in heaven, and that the new series is what she’s “supposed to be doing.” Carano knows that Star Wars stans are…

“I only know three words… bye bye bye.” Sharing her minimal knowledge of ’NSync songs JESSICA BIEL “She jumped out of a moving cab when we took her to her dorm.” Joking about how psyched her daughter, Lola, was about going to collegeKELLY RIPA “All I want is 7-Eleven Slurpees or Cheetos!” On her pregnancy cravingsJENNA DEWAN “I look exactly like Ryan Reynolds… I really see myself in him.” Claiming she has a striking “resemblance” to the actorKATE BECKINSALE “I can’t get away from myself.” Making light of the frequent airings of Law & Order: SVU after 21 seasonsMARISKA HARGITAY…

JASON & LISA Good Vibrations Life often imitates art, but sometimes art can improve life! Jason Momoa says that playing a blind warrior in the Apple TV+ series See has made him a better husband to Lisa Bonet. The actor, 40, tells Us that he can “definitely feel the energy of other people” now, and as a result, his 14-year relationship with the actress, 51, is even stronger. “I’m a little bit more attentive to my wife’s energy,” he says. “I’m connected.” VICTOR & KARRUECHE Going the Distance Victor Cruz really scored when he snagged Karrueche Tran. “I love everything about her, inside and out,” the former NFL wide receiver told Us of the Claws star, 31, at the Tiffany & Co. Men’s Collection launch in L.A. on Oct. 11.…

Joe and Teresa Giudice, both 47, finally addressed the elephant in the room: the future of their 20-year marriage. “If we stay together, we stay together. If we don’t, we don’t,” Joe, who returned to Italy (where he was born) after being held in ICE custody, revealed to Andy Cohen during a tell-all interview the couples did on Oct. 27. For her part, Teresa admitted that she hasn’t been in love with Joe for a long time. “We’re both two different people now.” But the parents of Gia, 18, Gabriella, 15, Milania, 14, and Audriana, 10, have agreed to see how things go during their upcoming family reunion in Italy. “I might see my wife and say, ‘Oh, you’re too old for me, honey,’” Joe joked. “We’ll see what happens.”…

Harmonious coparenting isn’t in the cards for Jon and Kate Gosselin. “We’re never going to see eye to eye,” the dad of twins Madelyn and Cara, 19, and sextuplets Collin, Hannah, Leah, Alexis, Aaden and Joel, 15, told Us at the Victoria’s Voice charity gala in Las Vegas on Oct. 25. While he maintains custody of Collin and Hannah, he has little to no contact with the other six. Says the Jon and Kate Plus 8 alum, 42, “My twins have asked me not to speak about them to the media, so I’ve stopped. And I won’t talk about the two who live with me because I know they’re safe. Anything else that comes up will be between me and Kate.”…

On Oct. 26, Ben Affleck opened up about his sobriety on Instagram. “I have been in recovery for over a year,” he said. That very night, he was caught on video stumbling and apparently intoxicated outside the Unicef ball in West Hollywood. “He was with a group of friends, laughing and drinking,” a witness at the ball tells Us. “There was an open bar.” Afterward, he was seen at a casino with actress and musician Katie Cherry, who, according to a source, he met a few months ago (though the source says things aren’t serious). PAR FOR THE COURSE Lapses in sobriety can be part of the recovery process, including for Affleck, who’s been in and out of treatment. “It was a slip,” the actor, 47, admitted the next day…

Things are heating up in the ATL. After a year off, Kenya Moore (above, third from left) is back with her trademark honesty. When asked how she’d feel if former costars Phaedra Parks or Marlo Hampton were to return, she told Us, “I’m kind of over it. We need something new.” As for the other Housewives (from left), Porsha Williams, Kandi Burruss, Moore, NeNe Leakes, Eva Marcille and Cynthia Bailey, Atlanta’s resident troublemaker has a particular love for Burress, whom she’s gotten close to: “She’s a wonderful person with a big heart.” “Kenya’s great for the show,” Bailey tells Us. “She stirs the pot and she’s my friend.” But one thing Bailey won’t be trying to do this season is help Moore and Leakes mend fences: “I’m out of the…

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1. My favorite thing in the world is reading to my kids [Charlie, 9, and Frances, 3, with fiancé Jamie Afifi]. 2. I went hang gliding and was pleasantly surprised when I survived. 3. I can write with my feet. 4. If I weren’t an actor, I’d be a barista. 5. I was kicked out of the choir in fifth grade, dashing my dreams of ever playing Éponine in Les Misérables. 6. When I was a kid, I really wanted a retainer because all the cool kids had them, so I straightened out a paper clip and used that. 7. The Scrubs cast got me a chocolate Labrador, Lola, in the first season. She came to work with me every day. 8. My nickname on Scrubs was “Second Becky” [because…

1. She’s determined AF. “I had to audition six times for Independence Day,” Fox, 55, tells Us about the 1996 blockbuster. “The movie was so big that when I asked my agent why I wasn’t getting an audition, she said, ‘Oh, sweetie. You’re on a soap opera. You don’t have a big enough name.’” Persistence pays! 2. She’s a Hollywood survivor. A working actress since 1988, Fox got her first big role on Days of Our Lives. Since then, she’s seen it all. “I’m very glad women are taking the opportunity to unite, to stand up, to get equal pay,” she tells Us. “I’ve always believed there are no shortcuts to success, that you have to do the work. I earned every moment I’m having right now.” 3. She’s as…

On Oct. 25, Felicity Huffman was released three days early from her 14-day prison sentence at the Federal Correctional Institution in Dublin, Calif., where she served time for fraud after paying $15,000 to improve her daughter Sophia’s SAT scores. (According to the Federal Bureau of Prisons, it’s normal policy for inmates to be let out early if their release date falls on a weekend.) Now the actress, 56, is hoping to put the scandal behind her. A source tells Us, “This process has been incredibly humbling for Felicity.”…

Meg Ryan and John Mellencamp have called off their almost one-year engagement, Us exclusively confirms. Rumors first began swirling about their split when the actress, 57, was spotted out in L.A. not wearing her ring. According to a source, things had been tense for the on-and-off pair (since 2011) for a while: “She’d had enough and ended it.” Now Ryan is ready to move on from the singer, 68. “She has no regrets,” adds the source, noting that her friends and her kids, Jack Quaid, 27 (with ex Dennis Quaid), 27, and Daisy True Ryan, 15 (whom she adopted), are “glad she [ended the relationship].”…

• Banks (above) performing for excited fans on the Live at Aloft Hotels Homecoming Tour in L.A. • Charlie Sheen grocery shopping by himself at Pavilions in Malibu. • RHONY’s Tinsley Mortimer nuzzling on-again, off-again boyfriend Scott Kluth in the front row of the Big Apple Circus at NYC’s Lincoln Center. • Dave Franco hiking in L.A.’s Griffith Park. • Billy Joel celebrating his daughter Remy’s second birthday with wife Alexis and 4-year-old daughter Della at White Post Farms in Melville, N.Y. • Usher waiting in line to order food at Joan’s on Third in L.A. • Jay Leno and wife Mavis enjoying a date night at Il Fornaio in Beverly Hills. • Jon Stewart grabbing dinner with his talent agent at Rezdôra in NYC. • Emilia Clarke trying on…

FRIDAY 11/1 THE KING After his tyrannical father’s death, young Henry V (Timothée Chalamet) is forced to embrace the royal life he’s tried to avoid, which includes overseeing a war. Joel Edgerton also stars; David Michôd directs. (Netflix) FRIDAY 11/1 JACK RYAN The CIA officer (John Krasinski) takes on an investigation involving a shipment of illegal weapons in South America, which leads to a widespread conspiracy and sends him on a global mission to unravel it all. (Amazon Prime) SUNDAY 11/3 THE AFFAIR The twisted series comes to an end after five seasons, with Noah (Dominic West) and Helen (Maura Tierney) attempting to keep all their dirty little secrets. (Showtime, 9 p.m.) SUNDAY 11/4 HIS DARK MATERIALS A woman from another world uncovers a plot that involves stolen children while…