Table of contents for 7-Nov-16 in Us Weekly

One year after sitting by estranged husband Lamar Odom’s bedside as he recovered from a drug overdose, Khloé Kardashian has moved on to a much less dramatic relationship. “We’re not that exciting!” she tells Us of boyfriend of two months Tristan Thompson. “We chill at home, watch TV and have a drink. I actually despise leaving the house.” Speaking at the October 18 launch of her Good American denim line, the 32-year-old adds that she has been trying out new recipes for the Cleveland Cavaliers forward, 25, on Sunday nights. “I just made all of these preserved jams,” she boasts. “And the other day I made pretzels and doughnuts for the first time.” PLUS-ONE She can soon start preparing baby food, as Thompson is expecting a child with ex…

1. I've authored two children's books, SheetzuCacaPoopoo: My Kind of Dog and SheetzuCacaPoopoo 2: Max Goes to the Dogs. 2 . I wrote and starred in my own one-woman show, Me, My Mouth and I, and am currently writing a play to be performed by actors. 3. My ringtone is “Call Me Maybe.” 4. I do the New York Times crossword every day, and sometimes I turn to [crossword blogger] Rex Parker for a little help. 5. I first met Barbara Walters when I was doing stand-up at Milton Berle’s birthday party at the Waldorf Astoria. 6. I almost made the original cast of Saturday Night Live in 1975. 7. I'm an excellent cook and I make a fabulous lasagna. I give one to Whoopi [Goldberg] every year on her…

“It’s not a mass; it’s not a cyst. But it’s there. Why do you need to prove it?” On her frustration that her obsessive-compulsive disorder isn’t taken as seriously as a visible illness, AMANDA SEYFRIED “I would use my address to log in. . . . A month later . . . there was a postcard with a naked woman on it saying . . . ‘You naughty boy, come visit us again.’” On viewing adult websites while he was a teenager, JOE JONAS “Apparently I’m a bad ant.” On being fired from the 1998 animated filmAntz, SARAH JESSICA PARKER “Let’s put it this way: As much as I had practiced, I was still not quite ready for game time.” On losing his virginity at age 19, JON HAMM “They will…

Drinking in style! Vogue editor in chief AnnaWintour, 67, hosted boozy bashes at her Mastic, New York, beach house this summer with actor pals Damian Lewis, 45, and DominicWest, 47, a source tells Us. “They’d go through alcohol and laugh all night,” the insider says of the British trio. “They loved talking about how they miss England.” One chic party favor: white T-shirts that read make mastic great again!…

JUSTIN & JESSICA Since son Silas’ birth in April 2015, Justin Timberlake can’t stop feeling admiration for wife Jessica Biel. “You watch her realize she has a gear she didn’t [know she had], then you go, ‘Whoa,’” the singer, 35, said of Biel, 34, adding, “It’s humbling.” CHRISSY & J OHN Chrissy Teigen, 30, and John Legend, 37, have a favorite bedtime story. Before putting down daughter Luna, 6 months, “we read Goodnight Moon,” Legend (in London October 21) told Us. “That’s an important one because, you know, it’s Luna!” SWIZZ & ALICIA For Swizz Beatz, every day with Alicia Keys, 35, is a gift. “Life is full of surprises, so I’m in the moment,” the 38-year-old dad of five (in NYC October 19) told Us. “Just waking up and…

In her two-decade career, Angelina Jolie has sat for hundreds of interviews. But on October 18, at her rented L.A. home, she submitted to one of the most important Q&As of her life. For four hours, two FBI agents questioned Jolie and some of her six children about the incident aboard a private plane September 14, in which Brad Pitt allegedly drank and becam physical with one of the kids. “The agents wante breakdown of everything that happened, from whe the plane took off to when it landed,” says an insider. “They’re looking into charges of assault.” According to another source, Jolie, who filed for divorce from the Allied actor days after the traumatic flight, “fully cooperated.” FBI officials aren’t the only ones digging. The Los Angeles County Department of…

Ayesha Curry has a shadow in the kitchen: daughter Riley, 4. “She has kid-friendly knives, so she chops up stuff for me,” says Ayesha, 27, also mom of daughter Ryan, 15 months, with husband Stephen, 28, point guard for the Golden State Warriors. “It’s never even or pretty, but it works!” Pressed for time one night, the California-based author of The Seasoned Life (out now) whipped up a “supereasy” marinade of preserves for salmon. Now, she says, “I make it once a week in the fall.” Apricot-Glazed SalmonWith Squash and Zucchini SERVES 2 2 zucchini, diced 1 yellow summer squash, diced 1 cup sweet corn kernels (from about 1 cob) 1 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil Kosher salt Freshly ground pepper ¼ cup low-sodium soy sauce 2 tbsp apricot preserves 3…

Tim Tebow was thrown a curveball. Though he won the Heisman Trophy in 2007, the quarterback was let go by four NFL teams in five years. In his memoir, Shaken (out now), Tebow — currently an outfielder for the New York Mets’ minor league baseball team — opens up about moving forward. “Tough times don’t last,” he says. “Tough people do.” Tebow, 29, tells Us more. Q: Why share your story? Being vulnerable has been good for me. Hopefully, people who pick this up, if they’re going through a tough time, walk away with their heads held high. Q: What have you learned from your setbacks? That there’s a God who loves you and has a plan for you. It’s encouraging. Q: Why baseball? I wasn’t getting another opportunity…

1 After 13 years, Ellen DeGeneres was surprised at howeasilyshegotback intovoicingthebeloved memory-addled fish. “Iwent inthinking,Will I stillsound likeDory?” the talkshowhost tells Us.“AndIdo! Idon’t knowhowthat is.” 2 Costar TyBurrell relished readying himself for therole of timidwhaleBailey. “My researchwas just hangingoutwithmy kids!” he said. “They hadwatched[Finding Nemo] somany times. Eventhatdidprepme for the tone.” 3 Fellow franchise newcomer Ed O’Neill just wantedtofit in. The actor behind grumpy octopusHanksays, “When you’reworking with EllenDeGeneres, you’d better step up!” (Availablenowon Amazon and iTunes)…

Sorry, not sorry! Amy Schumer doesn’t regret calling Donald Trump “an orange, sexually assaulting, fake-college-starting monster” at an October 16 show in Tampa, Florida. Two days later, the comedian, 35, served up more snark via an open letter to the 200 disgruntled audience members who stormed out of the show. After repeating the insult — twice — on stage in NYC October 18, she joked she would try harder “to make all people happy—both the rich, entitled, white people who are gonna vote for him and the very poor people who’ve been tricked into it!”…

MELANIA TRUMP After a 2005 clip surfaced of husband Donald bragging to Billy Bush about grabbing women “by the p--sy,” the ex-model, 46, tried to salvage the GOP hopeful’s campaign in an October 17 CNN interview. Faulting the Access Hollywood anchor’s “boy talk,” she insisted he “egged on” Donald to say “bad stuff.” LINDSAY LOHAN Pants on fire: The 30-year-old denied any knowledge of the cocaine cops found in her pocket during a 2007 traffic stop. “I am wearing a pair of borrowed jeans from a friend/assistant,” she wrote in a police statement, adding the pal “may have set me up.” ASHLEE SIMPSON Lip-synch battle: The singer dropped the mic after an onstage technical glitch proved she was faking it on Saturday Night Live in 2004. “My band started playing…

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The top student at the Fire Shaper yoga studio: a 2-yearold! R&B star Jay Sean, who co-owns the Tenafly, New Jersey, gym with his singer wife of seven years, Thara Prashad, 34, tells Us daughter Ayva “is really good” at channeling her chi: “She does downward dog, cobra and tree pose.” The tot also stays active by dancing to Dad’s single “Make My Love Go.” Adds the Brit, 37, “She knows how to shake her booty!” He tells Us more. Q: How do you bond with Ayva? I love watching a movie and having her snuggle up in my armpit. The other day I introduced her to Cinderella, and now she’ll tell me she has to go home before her carriage turns into a pumpkin. I’m like, “Yes! You…

T aye Diggs is a one-man cheering section on the set of Empire. “I geek out watching the performances!” the Broadway vet, 45, tells Us. Alas, Diggs himself doesn’t sing on camera: For season 3 of the Fox hip-hop drama (Wednesdays, 9 p.m.), he guest-stars as smooth mayoral hopeful Angelo, who’s in a love triangle with outspoken Cookie (Taraji P. Henson) and her nefarious ex, Lucious (Terrence Howard). The single dad of son Walker, 7 (with ex Idina Menzel, 45), charms Us Q:Were you a fan before you signed on? Definitely! I heard about it before it came out because I’m good friends with Taraji. Q: What’s she like? At least three times a day, she’s got someone crying from aughing She’s also a woman of the people. If…

Rumer Willis tries to pack light. “But I wind up with more and more things I somehow can’t live without,” she tells Us. Case in point: a Secret Life of Pets charm she found in a box of Cheerios. “The prize was a key chain of the fat cat,” Willis explains. “That movie is so cute.” The single singer, now on her Over the Love tour, spills more. WHAT A YARN “I really like to knit, so often I’ll have my needles and stuff. I have a few friends who just had babies, so I’ve been making sweaters and socks.” SNOOZE CONTROL “When I travel, my favorite thing is Dream Water. Basically, it’s supplemented with melatonin and 5-HTP amino acids. It really works and relaxes you to sleep on…

Kate Hudson (above) showing off her $195,000 diamond necklace at the Tiffany & Co. Masterpieces launch in Beverly Hills. Robert De Niro and HelenMirren cheering on Lady Gaga at her Bud Light Dive Bar Tour stop at NYC’s the Bitter End. Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green sharing salmon sashimi and albacore onion at Katsuya in Glendale, California. Casey Affleck tanning with girlfriend Floriana Lima on a Malibu beach. Demi Moore and Scout Willis walking through the citadel of Machu Picchu outside of Cusco, Peru. Kristen Stewart and new girlfriend St. Vincent loading bags of Blue Wilderness dog food into Stewart’s car in L.A. Michael Bublé singing “Home” at iHeartRadio’s Nobody But Me album release party in NYC. ShaileneWoodley and Jaden Smith marching at the Climate Revolution rally in L.A.’s…

OUT NOW Lady Gaga Joanne She blew it. This was Lady Gaga’s big chance to erase the memory of 2013’s abysmal Artpop. Instead, her fifth effort is a disjointed and unrealized mess that sounds as if Gaga got cast in a bad Off-Broadway rock musical. Let’s start with the voice. Though a technically proficient singer, she resorts to an off-putting, theatrical yowling throughout the set, as heard in the strained single “Perfect Illusion.” With that, she stumbles between hackneyed dance pop (the insipid Beck collaboration “Dancin’ in Circles”) and poorly executed stylistic follies, including the ’80s R&B romp “Hey Girl,” featuring an off-key Florence Welch. The album does have a couple of raw, aching ballads going for it, such as the title track and the country-swept “Million Reasons.” That’s when…

MEGU RESTAURANT Kellan Lutz visits the chic hot spot in NYC’s Dream Downtown hotel, which serves Japanese fare such as spice-crusted duck breast and edamame falafel. (meguworldwide.com) MABEL’S LABELS Help your kids avoid mix-ups at school by hooking personalized metal tags on lunch boxes and backpacks. Mom of two Adriana Lima does it! ($21 for six tags, mabelslabels.com) SHELTER IN PLACE Bill Paxton is a fan of Alexander Maksik’s nail-biting novel about a bipolar 21-year-old in Seattle coping with his mom’s incarcer-ation for murder. ($18, amazon.com) KNOX HAMILTON Katy Perry tweeted a link to this Arkansas quartet’s “brilliantly made” dance-rock video for “Washed Up Together.” Download the song now. ($1, itunes.com) COMMANDO HIGH-RISE PANTY These nylon-blend undies, owned by Rihanna, are elasticfree to eliminate lines and bulges. It’s almost like…

MONDAY 10/31 PEOPLE OF FARTH An out-of-this-world new comedy: Reporter Ozzie (Wyatt Cenac) grudgingly investigates a support group for alien abductees (like The Office favorite Oscar Nunez). After a weird occurrence, he just might turn believer. (TBS, 9 p.m.) WEDNESDAY 11/2 CMA AWRDS Country blowout! For the event’s 50th anniversary, nominees from Dierks Bentley to Kacey Musgraves sing genre classics as well as their hits. Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood host live from Nashville. (ABC, 8 p.m.) WEDNESDAY 11/2 LITTLE WOMEN: DALLAS Atlanta besties Bri Barlup and Emily Fernandez relocate to fire up this Texas spinoff of the Housewives-style franchise. Their new friends include a cheerleader and a go-go dancer! (Lifetime, 10 p.m.) SATURDAY 11/5 WHO LED JONBENÉT? The mystery of JonBenét Ramsey, murdered 20 years ago at age 6,…