Indice dei contenuti per November 20, 2023 in People

‘It’s …… TIME!!!’—MARIAH CAREY, sharing a video in which she defrosts herself for the Christmas season, on Instagram ‘My kids read a lot of National Geographic. We know everything about the Sphinx now. I never thought I would want to know what’s going on with the Sphinx, and now I do’—CHARLIZE THERON, on learning with her two children, to People ‘Is that a compliment?’—JOE JONAS, reacting to a CVS security guard who told him, “Man, you look crazy in person,” on TikTok ‘I put a little bit of pressure on her on the daily because of how organized my side of the closet looks. But also she puts pressure on me to try to keep up with her style because she pretty much brings it every single day’—STEPH CURRY, on…

NIGHT AT THE MUSEUM Los Angeles, Nov. 4 Ben Affleck and wife Jennifer Lopez both rocked Gucci at the 2023 LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art) Art+Film Gala, presented by the fashion brand. The star-studded evening honored artist Judy Baca and filmmaker David Fincher, with Lenny Kravitz performing and Sabato De Sarno, Gucci’s creative director, debuting his first evening wear collection. ON THE WATERFRONT Singapore, Nov. 6 Prince William spoke with members of the British Dragons boating club while in town to attend the Earthshot Prize awards ceremony. WELCOME TO NEW YORK New York City, Nov. 4 Taylor Swift (center) hit up restaurant Bond St. and private club Zero Bond with the squad, including Brittany Mahomes (left) and Selena Gomez. Not pictured: Gigi Hadid, Cara Delevingne and Sophie…

Weddings The Morning Show star Bel Powley, 31, and LOL actor Douglas Booth, 31, tied the knot on Oct. 28 at Petersham Nurseries in London and hosted their reception at the Institute of Contemporary Arts near Buckingham Palace. Country singer David Morris and model Miranda Harrison exchanged vows on Oct. 7 at the Madonna Inn in San Luis Obispo, Calif. “For me, getting married is putting a stamp on an amazing relationship,” Morris told People. Engagements On Nov. 3 reality star Andrea Denver, 32, revealed his engagement to model Lexi Sundin at the Summer House panel at BravoCon 2023 in Las Vegas. He also shared that the wedding will be in Italy. Real Housewives of New Jersey star Frank Catania, 59, and content creator Brittany Mattessich, 34, announced their engagement on…

Kevin Bacon The star harnessed his love of cooking as a struggling actor in N.Y.C. “My brother had this term called ‘mung,’ ” says Bacon, 65. “For anything that you put in a pan, fry up and eat.” While his frugal days are behind him, the actor, who hosts his podcast Six Degrees, can “still make some version of mung” that might even impress wife Kyra Sedgwick and their two adult kids: “If you’ve got a can of tuna and some capers, some noodles and some oil and herbs, you can make something amazing.” —CLARISSA CRUZ Leslie Odom Jr. Like so many, the Broadway star, 42, started cooking more during the early days of the pandemic. “It was almost like my 6 o’clock curtain,” he says. “I felt like…

Nine hundred and ninety-two pages may seem a hefty weight for a memoir, but when you consider all the lives Barbra Streisand has lived, it makes sense. Streisand, 81, has been a Broadway star, an actor, a singer, a director, a political activist, a wife and a mother. And now comes her latest act: author of the long-awaited memoir My Name Is Barbra (out now). “It’s interesting to see how little I’ve changed since I was a child,” she tells People. “I’m still that 6-year-old, constantly asking questions in school and blurting out the answers even when the teacher didn’t call on me. I grew up without a father, and my mother was too busy working to set any rules, so I never learned to bow to authority. Even now,…

‘Thanksgiving can be a big lift for the cooks in the house, so an easy dessert is always a great idea,’ says the author of the Snacking Bakes cookbook. ‘The bars are somewhere between a cookie and cake, packed with warm spices and lots of chocolate, so there is something for everyone’ 1 cup packed light brown sugar½ cup (4 oz.) unsalted butter, melted⅓ cup canned unsweetened pumpkin1 Tbsp. neutral oil1 tsp. vanilla extract2 tsp. ground cinnamon1 tsp. ground ginger½ tsp. ground cardamom½ tsp. fine sea salt¼ tsp. ground allspice½ tsp. baking soda1½ cups (about 6⅜ oz.) all-purpose flour1 cup semisweet chocolate chips, divided 1. Preheat oven to 350º with a rack in center position. Coat an 8-inch square baking pan with cooking spray, or brush with butter. Line pan…

1 Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes are podcast official The former GMA3 hosts announced a new podcast, Amy & T.J., with iHeartRadio launching on Dec. 5, exactly a year after news of their secret romance forced them off their morning show. 2 Thanksgiving ice cream Gourmet ice cream chain Salt & Straw is giving dessert fans pumpkin to talk about with new festive flavors, including Turkey Stuffing & Cranberry Sauce (above) and Cheesy Potato Casserole, available online and in shops. 3 A Simpsons shake-up After 35 seasons Homer is releasing his iron grip—on Bart, that is. The often-exasperated dad won’t be shown squeezing his son’s neck until his eyes bulge. “Times have changed,” Homer declared during the third episode of this season. 4 Yellowstone finale updates Hold your horses: The last episodes of…

Just under a year and a half after Baz Luhrmann’s biopic Elvis became a box office hit, a new movie is offering a fresh perspective on Elvis and Priscilla Presley’s love story. Based on Priscilla’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me, director Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, which hit theaters on Nov. 3, doesn’t portray the King in a flattering light. Nonetheless, his ex-wife, 78, says she’s pleased with the result. “I was very concerned about this movie, [but] I think it’s right on,” Priscilla—who was an executive producer on the film—said at a Q&A event in Las Vegas on Nov. 3. “I have no problems with what she did in any way.” Her late daughter Lisa Marie Presley—Elvis’s only child—reportedly didn’t feel the same. Variety recently published a story detailing emails that…

The Kardashian-Barker crew just got larger. On Nov. 5 sources confirmed to People that Kourtney Kardashian and husband Travis Barker welcomed their first child together, a baby boy. “Kourtney is over the moon about her son’s arrival,” a source says of the reality star, 44. And the Blink-182 drummer, 47, is just as smitten. “He is obsessed,” the source adds. Kardashian—who also has daughter Penelope, 11, and sons Reign, 8, and Mason, 13, with ex Scott Disick—announced her pregnancy news in June, when she held up a handwritten sign at a Blink-182 concert in L.A. that read: “Travis I’m Pregnant.” During a sex-reveal party days later, the couple—who got married in 2022—announced they were expecting a “little drummer boy.” (Barker is also dad to son Landon, 20, daughter Alabama, 17,…

When Sydney Sweeney started posting videos on TikTok of herself restoring a vintage 1969 Bronco during the COVID-19 pandemic, her followers were impressed—and stunned. “I’m like, ‘That’s me!’ ” she says with a laugh. Some people couldn’t believe the Euphoria actress, 26, had fixed the car herself. “They would say, ‘Oh, I bet you just fixed the mirror,’ ” she recalls. “I actually [got] underneath the carriage.” In everything she does Sweeney wants to “inspire girls to try things that might not be what they were told is for girls,” she says. That’s why when Ford asked her to join them in Moab, Utah, in September for their Bronco Off-Roadeo adventure, it was a no-brainer. At one point “I drove a 28-degree slope,” she says. “I felt like the coolest…

TRAVIS KELCE ‘You’ve got a lot of people that care about Taylor, and for good reason’—TRAVIS KELCE…

In the past two years Simu Liu has seen a lot of firsts: He shattered box office records with his 2021 Marvel film Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings, attended the Met Gala and bonded with Ryan Gosling (a fellow Ken) on the set of their smash movie Barbie. There’s a learning curve to Hollywood,” says the China-born Liu (shot on the streets of L.A.), 34, who was raised in Ontario, Canada. “I’m not saying I’m a veteran [now] by any means, but there’s a sense of calm and weathered-ness.” In the last year he’s also found love with his marketing-director girlfriend Allison Hsu, 27: “The best relationships are ones where you have each other’s back, and I definitely feel like that’s the case.” A Budding Angeleno Liu…

It was a busy morning at Naifeh’s Deli and Grill in Cushing, Okla., on June 7, 2022. Waitress Holly Marie, a 42-year-old mother of five, was putting the last batch of cookies in the oven for a large take-out order when a detective and an official from the Texas attorney general’s Cold Case and Missing Persons Unit stopped by unannounced and asked to speak to her. As they sat together in a booth, the officials said they were investigating the 1980s double murder of a young couple near Houston, Dean and Tina Clouse, who left behind a baby daughter who had been missing ever since. As Holly—who was adopted as an infant and raised by a Seventh-day Adventist pastor—listened in stunned silence, the investigators said they had reason to believe…

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On Oct. 30 Céline Dion made her first public appearance in nearly four years. The Canadian superstar stepped out with her three sons in Las Vegas to cheer on her hometown ice hockey team the Montreal Canadiens during their game against the Vegas Golden Knights. Afterward the music legend, 55—who revealed her diagnosis with the rare neurological disease stiff-person syndrome last December—and her sons (with late husband René Angélil) René-Charles, 22, and twins Eddy and Nelson, 13, joined the team in the locker room for an impromptu meet and greet. “She’s been through a lot, and to see her smiling and happy … it’s amazing,” says Chantal Machabée, vice president of communications for the Canadiens. During the outing, Dion even sang “a few notes,” Machabée adds. “It was an incredible…

Then & Now! In 1996 Guns N’ Roses bassist Duff McKagan was set up on a blind date with model Susan Holmes through a mutual friend. “We talked on the phone a few times, and then she offered to pick me up at Burbank Airport,” recalls McKagan. “She met me at the gate, and she was breathtakingly stunning.” Twenty-seven years after that first sushi dinner, McKagan, 59, and Holmes, 51—who got married in 1999 and have two daughters, Grace, 26, and Mae, 23—are as solid as ever. “We figured it out pretty early on: no longer than 12 days apart,” says McKagan, who departed Guns N’ Roses after 12 years in 1997; he later rejoined them in 2016. And while talking to People shortly before Guns N’ Roses’ Hollywood Bowl…

Tyler Christopher, who won a 2016 Daytime Emmy for playing Nikolas Cassadine on General Hospital, died in San Diego following a “cardiac event” on Oct. 31. He was 50. “I’m heartbroken,” executive producer Frank Valentini told People. “He was … an incredible actor and a dear friend.” Christopher, who struggled with alcohol addiction, was reportedly six weeks sober at the time of his death. He is survived by Greysun, 14, and Boheme, 8, his children with ex-wife Brienne Pedigo. From 2002 to 2004 he was married to actress Eva Longoria.…

Aussie Firefighters & Cute Critters Return for 2024 Calendar! Just in time for People’s Sexiest Man Alive issue, the 31st annual Australian Firefighters Calendar has dropped, featuring everyday heroes and native animals posing together to raise money for children’s charities and animal rescues. There are six editions to choose from this year, with more than 25 smiling firefighters splashed across the pages. (Visit australianfirefighterscalendar.com to check them out.) “Some do need some coaxing,” director David Rogers says of the models, adding that the animals misbehave once in a while too. “We always leave the kittens for last due to scratches!” Have a story that makes you smile? Send suggestions to storiestomakeyousmile@people.com…

Pedro Pascal The Emmy nominee, 48, transfixed us onscreen—in The Last of Us and The Mandalorian—and off, with his edgy Met Gala look, epic Beyoncé concert reaction and viral Starbucks order. For Pascal, marching to his own beat has paid off. “I’m relinquishing expectations around what it is to be middle-aged,” he has said. Jamie Foxx Despite a health crisis that took him out of the spotlight for months, Foxx, 55, has lost none of his signature swagger. “I went to hell and back,” he said in a July Instagram post. “And I’m able to work.” Among the Oscar winner’s five projects this year: He lent his voice to the live-action canine comedy Strays and starred in Netflix’s hit They Cloned Tyrone. Ryan Gosling It’s hard to imagine anyone else…

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When Nico Santos met Survivor alum Zeke Smith at the GLAAD Media Awards in 2018, the Superstore actor did something out of character: He made the first move. “I’m extremely shy, but for whatever reason I was like, ‘What’s your story? Let’s hang out,’ ” says Santos. After getting engaged at the same awards show four years later, the pair tied the knot on Nov. 4 during Pride weekend in Palm Springs, Calif. “It’s our big gay wedding,” says Santos. “We’re not very serious people, so we’re calling it our silly, bougie wedding.” Santos, 44, and Smith, 35, exchanged vows at the Parker Palm Springs hotel in a ceremony officiated by Superstore costar Mark McKinney. Incorporating elements of both Filipino and Western cultures was key. Bright neon decor mixed with…

Danica Di Giovanni remembers sitting in the hospital in October 2021 as her mom, Marilena, received her final dose of chemotherapy for breast cancer. She watched as the bright-red liquid dripped slowly into Marilena’s arm. Danica held her mom’s hand, which was frigid from the infusion despite the pile of towels warming the IV bag. “It was traumatic,” says Danica. “When you watch someone you love go through something like that, you feel helpless. I was just there for her.” Less than 18 months later, their roles reversed when Danica was diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. This time Marilena was next to a hospital bed for hours as Danica, a nail technician who lives with her parents near Vancouver, underwent her own chemotherapy. “I knew…

The Colors of the Moment PLA’s Gel Polish, which launched in September 2022, has been spotted on Ice Spice, Selena Gomez, Blake Lively and more trendsetters in recent months. Now the brand has debuted 290 nail polishes that are an exact match to the gels, so you can create these fashion-forward looks at home. ON-THE-GO TREATMENT With its incredibly nourishing yet fast-absorbing formula, the Essie apricot cuticle oil has earned a cult following. And now that it comes in a convenient roll-on version, we predict its fan club is about to get even bigger. Next Level Press-Ons In fall 2021 Olive & June launched their first press-on collection to rave reviews. Two years later they’re outdoing themselves with 31 sticker-thin tabs (so there’s a size for everyone) in both round…

‘In Germany this pudding is generally made with whole cherries, including the pits! But it works well without the pits too,’ says the former Great British Baking Show contestant and author of The German Baking Book. ‘This recipe is very simple and a good one if you have some stale bread’ 7 Tbsp. unsalted butter, cut into ½-in. cubes, at room temperature, plus more for greasing1 (10-oz.) baguette, cut into ¼-in. slices (about 9 cups)2 to 2¼ cups whole milk1 cup hazelnuts¾ cup granulated sugar2 Tbsp. (1 oz.) kirsch or brandy1 Tbsp. ground cinnamon½ tsp. ground nutmeg½ tsp. kosher salt¼ tsp. ground cloves3 large eggs, separated2 lbs. fresh cherries, pitted, or 4 (15-oz.) jars dark sweet cherries in heavy syrup, drained 1. Preheat oven to 350°. Grease a 9-inch-square baking…

Last Time I Stayed up Too Late Every night. Scrolling, taking a shower, reading. I always look at the clock like, “How did I stay up until 2:20 again?” Last Time I Cried I follow a lot of animal rescues on Instagram. I have sorrowful tears when I first see the animal, and hopefully by a few days later I get happy tears that they’re rescued. Last Memorable Fan Encounter I can’t pick one, because I feel so lucky they tell me my work meant something. I try to say no to a picture and yes to a conversation. Last Time I Was Starstruck Lupita [Nyong’o] and I went to see Taylor Swift. We didn’t meet her, but someone from her team gave us merchandise. They said, “This is…