Table of contents for May 28, 2018 in People

‘I think there was zero surprise. People knew.’ —KEVIN McHALE, the former Glee actor, confirming he’s gay, during a Facebook Live talk ‘As a divorced woman, it’s hard to revisit that moment and those decisions. It’s still painful to think about putting on the dress you take vows in.’ —MAYIM BIALIK, on feeling uncomfortable filming the Big Bang Theory finale’s wedding scene, on her Grok Nation blog ‘If I had nannies raising my kids and just wanted to be a rock star and party all the time, I wouldn’t be successful and I wouldn’t be happy.’ —PINK, on balancing her career and motherhood, to Redbook ‘I like to tweet and start my phone timer to see how long it takes my publicist to call me.’ —CHRISSY TEIGEN, on her…

BROOKE’S NEW BIKINI CAMPAIGN! It’s been almost 40 years since she bared (almost) all in Blue Lagoon, but Brooke Shields still loves to rock a bikini. The actress, 52, stars in bathing suit brand Swimsuits for All’s new size-inclusive Power Suit campaign—and she’s more confident than ever! “Growing up under such scrutiny led me to feel insecure about my looks. When I was younger, I never loved being in a swimsuit because I picked apart the way I looked in them. It took me years to separate the opinions of others from my own,” says Shields, who has two daughters: Rowan, 15, and Grier, 12. “At 52 years old, I finally feel comfortable and proud of all the hard work I’ve put into my body.…

Just days before her highly anticipated wedding to Prince Harry, Meghan Markle faced family drama. Her father, former Married . . . with Children lighting director Thomas Markle Sr.—whom the Palace had previously announced was set to walk his daughter down the aisle—told a news outlet that he had suffered a heart attack, was ashamed about a paid photo shoot he did with paparazzi and would no longer attend the May 19 wedding. However, a Markle source says he bowed out of the wedding not due to his health but because he “figured he would no longer be welcome.” Says the source: “He was embarrassed after the photo deal was exposed. He felt sick about it.” A Palace spokesperson responded with a statement, calling the situation “deeply personal.” Says…

‘IT’S THE GREATEST GIFT BEING A MOTHER’ —BRITNEY SPEARS You’re traveling to the East Coast and Europe this summer for your Piece of Me tour. Will your sons Sean, 12, and Jayden, 11, be joining you? Of course! I haven’t been to Europe in a while, so I’m really excited about it. I have a month and a half before I go, so there’s a little work to do. Your kids are growing up so fast. What’s it like raising tween boys? They’re such sweethearts. [Sean] plays football. He’s kind of tiny, so I worry. They actually tackle each other. He’s still a baby to me, so I’m like, “Please stop!” They’re [both] into sports. What’s your favorite workout these days? I keep…

Your second child is due any day now. Are you prepared? I’m golden. I’m ready to deliver my baby girl. I’m loving life. You were expecting son Kingston while shooting season 1. How have you balanced this pregnancy with filming? That schedule is no joke: I wake up at 4:30 a.m., come back home at 8:30 p.m.—it’s just nonstop! But I was given a gift to do what I want in this world, so every day I would try to rise to the occasion. Plus, I’ve got the most incredible fiancé. Breaux [Greer, 41] is a remarkable daddy. I could not be more blessed to have the most incredible partner by my side. He’s been my rock. How similar are you to your character Katie Otto—a wisecracking, self-deprecating mom?…

BABIES Australian model Miranda Kerr, 35, gave birth to her second child and first with her husband, Snapchat CEO Evan Spiegel, 27, on May 7. The boy, named Hart, joins Kerr’s 7-year-old son Flynn with her ex-husband Orlando Bloom. • Teen Mom OG’s Amber Portwood, 28, welcomed a son, named James, with her boyfriend, cinematographer Andrew Glennon, on May 8. The MTV star is also mom to daughter Leah, 9, from a previous relationship with Gary Shirley. • Power star Matt Cedeño, 43, and his wife, Erica Franco, welcomed their second child, daughter Aviana Jaselle, on April 28. They also have a 4-year-old son, Jaxon Cruz. • Handmaid’s Tale actress Yvonne Strahovski, 35, is pregnant with her first child with her husband, Tim Loden. • Tattoo artist Kat Von…

After nearly two decades spent starring as a quintessentially middle-income, middle-American mom on television—first on Everybody Loves Raymond, then on The Middle—Patricia Heaton has every reason to want to kick back and enjoy some downtime. But the actress, who turned 60 on March 4 and is about to say farewell to The Middle, doesn’t quite feel ready to settle down. “My youngest son is out of the house, my show is ending, there’s a lot of things to contend with,” she says. “But I feel like at this age, there’s more opportunities for me than ever. I am so aware of how blessed I am, but there are more challenges ahead.” The two-time Emmy winner has an enviably stable home life—a marriage of 27 years to British actor David…

1 CHECK YOUR SUITCASE “I don’t want to be that guy trying to squeeze my bag into the overhead bin while everyone’s waiting to get on the plane,” he says. 3 AVOID AIRPLANE FOOD “I don’t eat on planes. If it’s a long flight, I’ll order the cheese plate and port wine. I want to arrive hungry.” 5 SKIP THE TOURISTY SPOTS “If you spend all that time waiting to get into the Eiffel Tower, you’ve completely wasted a day.” 2 DON’T WAIT AT THE GATE “It depresses me to be around other exhausted travelers,” says Bourdain, who likes getting a massage at the airport spa. 4 RESEARCH THE LOCAL FOOD “There’s always going to be three or four dishes in each city that they do better than anybody…

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How did you become involved with the show? Oddly enough the creators wrote this character for me. They said, “We have you in mind for this very dark, messed-up comic,” and I said, “Oh my God, I just have to show up, I don’t even have to act.” What have you enjoyed most about it? It was an actor’s dream. It’s the darkest person I’ve ever played by far. I’ve gotten to delve into the world of this poor bastard, and I’ve just loved it. How do you spend a day off? I’m a homebody. I love being at home, where my fiancée [IsaBeall Quella] bakes me something, and I hang with the dogs and sit outside and just try to figure out what the f--- went wrong. No,…

‘PINK IS THE PERFECT COLOR FOR SPRING, AND THERE ARE SO MANY BEAUTIFUL SHADES TO TRY,’ SAYS ANGELA BASSETT’S STYLIST JENNIFER AUSTIN, WHO ADDED COORDINATING ACCESSORIES TO THE STAR’S ZARA SUIT FOR A ‘SLEEK SILHOUETTE.’…

DIVORCING Geena Davis & Reza Jarrahy After nearly 17 years of marriage, Davis, 62, and Jarrahy, 47, are calling it quits. The plastic surgeon filed for divorce on May 8, asking for spousal support and joint custody of their twin sons Kaiis and Kian, 13, and daughter Alizeh, 16. Davis met Jarrahy in 1999 after her three previous marriages—to director Renny Harlin, actor Jeff Goldblum and restaurateur Richard Emmoloended in divorce. “It was exciting to know I was marrying someone who I can be cranky or selfish in front of and he doesn’t . . . judge me for it,” she told Good Housekeeping in 2006. “It’s like I discovered a whole other way to live.” ENGAGED! Taraji P. Henson & Kelvin Hayden The…

ON DATING WILL BEFORE HIS DIVORCE With Will’s first wife, Sheree Fletcher (above), as her first guest, Pinkett admitted she began dating Will, 49, when he was still married. “The beginning between us was rough,” she said. “I probably should have fell back.” ON TUPAC She wasn’t speaking to the rapper—her best friend from high school—when he died in 1996. “It definitely taught me a lesson, which is life is too short,” she said. “Do not let disagreements stand in between you and people that you love.” ON HER GABRIELLE UNION BEEF “We haven’t been on the best of terms for 17 years, and we have a reconciliation,” Pinkett Smith told Extra of filming a future episode with the Bring…

Don Johnson’s breakout role as seductive, Armani-clad detective Sonny Crockett in the cop drama Miami Vice (1984-1989) defined ’80s cool—and made him an instant star. “I knew that something was going on when a crowd of 15,000 people spontaneously appeared around my trailer,” says the Kansas native. In the years that followed, he played another cop on TV (Nash Bridges), released two rock albums and became a dad of five: Jesse, 35, with actress Patti D’Arbanville; Fifty Shades of Grey star Dakota, 28, with ex-wife Melanie Griffith; and Grace, 18, Jasper, 15, and Deacon, 12, with his current wife of 19 years, schoolteacher Kelley Phleger. At 68, “I feel the same way that I did when I was 17,” jokes Johnson. Now he stars as Jane Fonda’s long-lost love…

Fighting lupus is something that is dear to my heart. My mother was diagnosed with the disease 25 years ago. It’s an autoimmune deficiency that occurs when the immune system attacks the organs. Symptoms include joint pain, fatigue, chest pain and unusual hair loss. Sometimes her good days are someone else’s worst days. The hardest part about the disease is watching somebody that you care about suffer through something that there is no cure for. But my mom is a fighter. That’s something that makes her a superhero to me. Through all the pain and discomfort that she’s in, she always seems to be there to support everybody else. Thankfully, Lupus LA has provided her with support as well as patient services. It’s kept her mentally strong and hopeful…

She won the world’s hearts playing Lois Lane to Christopher Reeve’s Superman—a smart, quirky, decidedly feminist leading lady who could go toe to toe with the Man of Steel. Offscreen Margot Kidder lived a difficult life with no apologies. Even after a public breakdown in 1996, when she was found among the homeless in L.A.—disheveled, teeth missing and suffering from a manic episode—the actress talked candidly about her experience with bipolar disorder to galvanize awareness of mental-health issues. “My feeling was that she’s just a survivor,” says her longtime friend Cara Wilder. “She had no qualms about being exactly who she was.” That ended on May 13 when Kidder was found dead in her home in Livingston, Mont., at age 69 (at press time her cause of death was…

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AFTER 20 YEARS of marriage, three children and a very public cheating scandal, Matt Lauer, 60, and wife Annette Roque, 52, are currently negotiating the terms of a divorce, according to an insider. “He and Annette are barely speaking to each other,” a source says of the couple. Another source adds, “The damage in his marriage can’t be fixed.” On May 9 NBC released findings of an internal investigation, concluding that four complainants’ allegations of “inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace” were credible. Still, even before Lauer was fired last November for his alleged inappropriate sexual behavior, he and Roque already had a strained marriage that had almost ended multiple times before. In 2006 Roque filed for divorce, accusing Lauer of “cruel and inhumane acts” but withdrew the petition…

A 24 alum, Annie Wersching—who plays a special agent on NBC’s Timeless—has always enjoyed stunts. “It’s like being a kid in a candy store,” says the actress, 41, who trained at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Va. The St. Louis native has another high-octane role on Marvel’s Runaways on Hulu. “It’s a fun time for Mommy to be on a superhero show,” says Wersching, who has sons Freddie, 7, and Ozzie, 4, with husband Stephen Full, 48. “My 7-year-old thinks it’s so cool.” —DANAROSEFALCONE…

Your third LP, Shawn Mendes, drops May 25. Why is it self-titled? One day I would create a rock song, and the next day I would create more of an R&B song; it’s all over the place. When I look back, I’ll be excited to see that when I was 19 I wasn’t stuck in one genre. I was exploring music and my taste. You’ve been open about your struggle with anxiety, which inspired your single “In My Blood.” How do you manage that today? It’s so easy to fall into the trap of taking yourself too seriously. The biggest thing for me was not holding it all in and talking with friends and family. John Mayer is your friend and mentor. What’s the best…

Motormouthed, pop-culture- obsessed, wickedly funny but sentimental at heart—the superhero Deadpool is Ryan Reynolds’s comic sensibility unbound, and the risky role led to the biggest box office success of the 41-year-old actor’s life in 2016. Now he’s doubling down with Deadpool 2 (see review, page 33) and enjoying life offscreen with his wife, Blake Lively, 30, and daughters James, 3, and Inez, 1½. “There is a weird relief you feel when you stop being the center of your own universe,” he told People in 2016 of fatherhood. Reynolds has opened up recently about his battle with anxiety, telling The New York Times, “I’ve been to the depths of the darker end of the spectrum, which is not fun.” It all fuels his comedy—which showed in force when he answered…

ANTHONY BOURDAIN EXTINGUISHES his Marlboro Red before heading into a Popeyes in Lafayette, La., on a rainy February evening—his third trip to the fried-chicken chain in three days while in town to film the upcoming June 17 Cajun-themed episode of his CNN show Parts Unknown. Bourdain has been frequenting this spot—where he orders the mac and cheese, spicy fried chicken and biscuits and gravy with a fountain Dr. Pepper—because, as in every city he visits, he’s done his research. The chef turned travel TV host knows that this particular Popeyes, a seven-minute walk from the DoubleTree Hilton hotel where he is staying, is the last remaining location in the U.S. with a buffet—and having just eaten his way through Bhutan and Hong Kong, he’s in an all-you-can-eat kind of…

Last Time I Danced When I work out and I get the Pointer Sisters going on Pandora. I usually get on the bike or the elliptical, and then sometimes, I will admit, I’ll just be dancing by myself—if I’m really in a groove! Last Game I Played Sudoku. I get them out of the paper. My husband [Warren Beatty] tries to talk to me, and I will not engage with anyone when I’m working on it. Especially because I’m not good at numbers, there’s something about how it quiets my mind. I love it. Last Time I Cried I think it was about Parkland [school shooting]. I’m very moved by the kids who have become activists and how they’ve mobilized the rest of the country. I think what they’re…