Inhoudsopgave van Dec-21-15 - Us Weekly

“I feel like we hang out a lot more. There’s no secrets.” On why she prefers Caitlyn Jenner to Bruce, KYLIE JENNER “In this bizarre psychological twist, I wanted to be the most famous entertainer on Earth.” On a girlfriend cheating on him at age 15 and inspiring his career, WILL SMITH “She said, ‘I want the Rolls-Royce with the top back.’ . . . We pull up in the valet . . . and everybody’s looking, like, ‘Who’s this dude tripping?’ And she yells out, ‘Jamie Foxx in the house!’ ” On daughter Annalise, 7, JAMIE FOXX “I’m more sexual and powerful and intelligent . . . than I’ve ever been.” On her upcoming 30th birthday, LADY GAGA My stepmother is an optometrist and I’m trying to get Gwen an appointment with her.” Joking…

Often so sick she couldn’t read or write, Yolanda Foster summoned the energy to attend the Global Lyme Alliance Gala at Cipriani in NYC October 8. In a speech to the black-tie crowd, the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star, diagnosed with Lyme disease in 2012, joked that her husband, music producer David, “married a lemon . . . but I promise we’re going to make lemonade together.” The relationship had already soured. On December 1, David, 66, and Yolanda, 51, announced in a statement that they have separated after four years of marriage: “We . . . believe wholeheartedly that we did our best.” But friends say the man Yolanda called “my love,” a thricedivorced father of five, could have done better. “Things went bad when Yolanda got sick,”…

OUT NOW Babyface Return of the Tender Lover Listening to Babyface’s 10th album is like dating a nice guy who’s way too into you. At first, you’ll be wooed by his debonair charm, which comes cushioned in soothing ’90s R&B grooves. But over time, the ardent proclamations of devotion, delivered in such lines as “Without you I just can’t even breathe” and “You are my favorite emotion,” are too cloying to handle. Expect to pull the plug on this one. MY TOP YULE TIDE TRACKS! Toni Braxton, 48, celebrates the Braxton Family Christmas album (out now) with her list O HOLY NIGHT / JOSH GROBAN “It reminds me of going to church during Christmas when I was a kid.” MARY, DID YOU KNOW? / GAITHER VOCAL BAND “It’s my parents’…

At what turned out to be his final performance, the Wild abouts frontman Scott Weiland delivered a heartfelt message. “He said, ‘I want to thank all my fans that stuck by me through everything. I love you,’ ” concertgoer Tom Mullins, who attended December 1’s “rockfest” at Adelaide Hall in Toronto, tells Us. Two days later, the ex–Stone Temple Pilots and Velvet Revolver member, 48, died asleep on his tour bus, parked in Bloomington, Minnesota. TROUBLED LIFE While his wife of two years, photographer Jamie Wachtel, 37, maintains Weiland was drinking but not using drugs at the time of his death, he had long struggled with addiction and bipolar disorder. As he once told Rolling Stone of his heroin use, “I didn’t feel like I got a good enough rush…

SATURDAY 12/19 A Christmas Melody Mariah Christmas, everyone! Mariah Carey directs and costars in this formulaic tale bolstered by some unexpected gifts. Her L.A. shop a bust, single mom Kristen ( Lacey Chabert) retreats home to Ohio with her kid (Broadway’s Fina Strazza) for a holiday reboot. Naturally, it all works out as fast as snowflakes melt in the hand. Carey, while miscast, is a campy treat as a PTA rival who says “Super!” a lot. And Strazza, a natural, rocks the cute elementary school show finale. (Hallmark, 8 P.M.) MONDAY 12/14 Love & Hip Hop: New York A proposal here, prison fears there: Hip Hop’s highs and lows make for tip-top reality in season 6. It’s genuinely affecting when manager Mendeecees Harris tells his wife, Yandy Smith, he’s heading…

Before I had kids, my bag was clean,” the mom of Josephine, 10, and Freddie, 7 (with husband Grady Olsen), says of her J. Crew tote. Now the star of CBS’s Life in Pieces (Thursdays at 8:30 p.m.) is a prepared parent: “In case I need to occupy them, I like to have Hot Wheels cars, See’s lollipops and a deck of cards.” The actress shows Us her necessities. TAKE THE BAIT “I used to have a pet crawfish, so my friend made a mold of one of its claws and bronzed a key chain that I carry.” THE RX FILES “Because I had a cold, I keep Singer’s throat spray. I also have cough drops and a first-aid kit with Neosporin, Band-Aids and Kleenex in case anything comes up.”…

ELSA & CHRIS Mates for Life When ChrisHemsworth met Elsa Pataky in 2010, he knew he had found his other half. “We just made sense,” the In the Heart of the Sea star, 32, reveals in the December issue of Elle. “She’s fun. She’s outgoing, and she has a sense of humor and a passionate attitude toward life, which is nice to try to keep up with.” Daughter India, 3, and twin sons Tristan and Sasha, 21 months, also keep Hemsworth on his toes. “They’re nonstop,” the Aussie actor has said of his brood with the 39-year-old actress. “Each time you add one, it feels like three more!” DEEP&RESHMA Welcome Home, Baby! Long before 2-month-old daughter Ariya Eliana arrived, Reshma Shetty was confident her husband, Deep Katdare, would be a good father. “It…

The sadistic villains on Luther give tough guy Idris Elba the creeps. “I get grossed out,” says the 43-year-old Brit, who, as the grim BBC America drama’s detective John Luther, has battled a pedophile, a blood-drinking psycho and serial killers over three seasons. “I wonder, How does [creator] Neil Cross come up with this s--t?” For the series’ one-night special (December 17, 9 p.m.), Cross introduces a cannibal! Elba — dad of Winston, 20 months (with girlfriend Naiyana Garth), and teen daughter Isan (with ex Dormowa Sherman) — submits to Us’ interrogation. Q: The show is so intense. How do you unplug at the end of a workday? When I’m working on Luther, there honestly is no shaking him off. When I finish the season, I shave off my hair,…