Table of contents for December 24, 2018 in People

‘I’m glad I didn’t give up. . . . It’s very easy to just walk out and go, “Oh, I’ll be fine,” . . . but [I] wouldn’t be, because I wouldn’t be with my soulmate’ —SHARON OSBOURNE, on sticking out her 36-year marriage with Ozzy, on The Talk ‘You might find me at a club in South Beach. I’m supposed to say the Olympics’—VENUS WILLIAMS, on where she sees herself in 2020, at the Create & Cultivate Vision Summit ‘Toward the end of the Fixer Upper journey, I felt caged, trapped. Jo and I couldn’t figure it out’—CHIP GAINES, on his TV fame with wife Joanna, to Cowboys & Indians magazine ‘I’m happy my relationship is strong, because this is getting out of hand. The Internet scares me…

DECK THE (ROYAL) HALLS! A SURPRISE APPEARANCE Meghan Markle—and her bump—made an unexpected cameo in Givenchy at the British Fashion Awards in London on Dec. 10. The Duchess of Sussex, who is due this spring, presented her wedding dress designer, Clare Waight Keller, artistic director of Givenchy, with the British Womenswear Designer of the Year award. THE PALACE CENTERPIECE London, Dec. 7 The Historic Royal Palaces, an independent charity responsible for looking after six historic landmarks, installed a 30-ft. Christmas tree outside Kensington Palace, currently home to Prince William and Princess Kate, as well as Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. The tree was adorned with festive lights and large golden ornaments. A REGAL VISIT London, Dec. 5 Queen Elizabeth embraced the spirit of the holidays with a trip to…

SEPARATED Cardi B & Offset Nearly five months after welcoming their daughter Kulture Kiari, the hip-hop star and the Migos rapper—who secretly married in September 2017—called it quits. Cardi announced in a since-deleted Instagram video on Dec. 5 that she and Offset, both 26, “are not together anymore.” “It’s nobody’s fault,” she said. “I guess we grew out of love.” Offset lamented his loss on Twitter, writing on Dec. 9: “I MISS CARDI.” SPLIT Alan Bersten & Alexis Ren The Dancing with the Stars pro, 24, and the Sports Illustrated model, 22, took fourth place on the latest season of the ABC series but wound up romantically involved. Now their showmance has ended because of distance. “Alexis has been in Japan…

Kevin Hart isn’t up for an Oscar this year, but he created some memorable drama in the run-up to this year’s Academy Awards. The comedian, 39, was tapped to host the 91st edition of the Oscars on Feb. 24 but found himself embroiled in a flap over homophobic tweets he wrote between 2009 and 2011. On Dec. 6 Hart announced he wouldn’t say he was sorry for antigay comments and jokes he’d made earlier in his career. “This is not the first time this has come up; I’ve addressed it,” he said in an Instagram video. “I’ve said who I am now versus who I was then.” Hart abruptly stepped down as host, leaving the Academy scrambling for a replacement to emcee the telecast, which drew 26.5 million viewers…

Regina King, 47, has been acting for 35 years, but she’s never been busier—or buzzier. This year she took home her third Emmy for Netflix’s Seven Seconds, and she’s getting Oscars buzz for her work in If Beale Street Could Talk, playing a mother fighting to get her future son-in-law out of prison in 1970s Harlem. Tell us about your crazy year! ‘I GREW UP WITH A DIVERSE GROUP OF KIDS—LIFE EXPERIENCES INFORM YOUR PERFORMANCES’ —REGINA KING It’s been quite the year, and it’s still going! One of the biggest blessings is that I’ve been working while all this is happening. Winning something and then having to get on the plane and go to work keeps the reality rooted. What do you make of all the successes happening…

This is a much darker version of the Rudyard Kipling classic than The Jungle Book. Is it too intense for kids? “Intense” is the operative word. There’s nothing gratuitously violent about it—nothing to the point where you can’t see it with kids 8 onwards. You’re in it yourself as Baloo the bear—what’s your take on him? I’d say that Baloo is all about tough love—and how to get through the day without being eaten. Any plans to unwind after this? I’m taking two weeks with my family. We’re going to Everest basecamp. You start off in Kathmandu, then it’s like a 17-day trek there and back.…

From News Anchor to Beauty Mogul Jamie Kern Lima LOS ANGELES A skin condition sparked Kern Lima’s career change. As a news anchor in Portland, Ore., she found that “my skin would be so red from rosacea that my producer would tell me, ‘There’s something on your face,’ ” says Kern Lima, 41. Realizing that others had the same issue, she left her job in 2008 to start It Cosmetics with her now cult-classic concealer Bye Bye Undereye. In ’16 she sold the company for $1.2 billion to L’Oréal, where she’s the first female CEO of a L’Oréal brand. From Employees to Inventors Janna Badger & Nicki Radzely SALT LAKE CITY AND MONTCLAIR, N.J. After years as an industrial designer, Janna Badger, 31, had a baby and discovered “a…

ONLINE CONNECTION “Things were moving too fast,” says Newell (with photos the couple sent to each other). “But I got caught up in it all. He was smart, handsome and saying all the right things.” VEGAS ‘I DOS’ “He’d ask me to marry him sometimes a hundred times a day,” says Newell (with Meehan after their December 2014 nuptials in Las Vegas). A SHOCKING ATTACK “I thought he was punching me, but he was actually stabbing me,” says Newell’s daughter Terra (at the ER after being attacked in August 2016). “I didn’t have time to think. All I could do is react.”…

EMILY BLUNT IS MARY You’ve been open about having very big shoes to fill with this role. What sort of influence did the original Mary Poppins have on you? I was about 6 or 7 when I first watched it and remember being completely swept up by the magic of it. But the lasting impression for me was that idea of somebody coming into your life and making everything right again—the sure-handedness of her and how reassuring that is for children. Even her sternness was reassuring in some ways. Why do you think people are so excited to see her return to the big screen? I think we need something like this now, something that is very hopeful and uncynical . . . like a joy bomb as my…

Q| How can I copy Priyanka Chopra’s bridal makeup for my own wedding ? A| The focal point of the star’s Western-ceremony look was her muted red lip color. “I skip lip liner for a soft aesthetic,” says Chopra’s makeup artist Yumi Mori. She kept the rest of the makeup natural, adding “shimmer and glow” with highlighter and enhancing her eyes with a palette of warm coral shadows. The only “touch of drama”: a few coats of volumizing mascara. Q| My skin gets so dry in the winter. What should I use? A| Swap your night cream for a moisturizing mask that treats your skin while you sleep. This avocado formula “hydrates, smooths and even has a gentle chemical exfoliant that whisks away flakes,” says N.Y.C. dermatologist Dr. Joshua…

Last Time I Ate Fast Food When I arrived at LAX, I stopped at an In-N-Out Burger. I went to high school in L.A., and they’re just the best. I scarfed down a cheeseburger in four bites. Last Time My Kid Made Me Laugh My daughter Krishna [age 8] is very competitive. She was auditioning for her school play. It’s the third grade, so everybody gets a part, but she goes, “Mom, I just don’t want to be onstage. I want to have a decent role.” She has grown up on-set. Last Time I Faced My Fears I wrote an op-ed [about my sexual assault]. I wanted to open up the discussion because I didn’t want this to ever happen to my daughter or anybody’s daughter. I just ripped…

1/ Dolly Parton’s husband has a crush on Jennifer Aniston The country star told Jimmy Fallon her husband of 52 years, Carl Dean Thomas, was more excited than she was about working with Aniston on Dumplin’. “I think he fantasizes, like, a threesome,” Parton said. 2/ Tyler Perry served as Santa It’s a very Madea Christmas! The Hollywood mogul paid for $434,000 in layaway items at two Atlanta Walmarts, inspiring Kid Rock, who then covered $81,000 worth of gifts at a Nashville Walmart. 3/ PETA’s ‘anti-animal language’ suggestions Attempting to end “speciesism,” the organization offered alternatives to common phrases—and the Internet had a cow. 4/ This edible holiday candle This should warm you up! Smith & Sinclair introduced a Flaming Hot Choc candle (made from…

Sarah Hyland has long been active on social media, sharing silly selfies alongside more personal posts about her long struggle with kidney disease. But behind the scenes the Modern Family star, 28, has been in far more pain than she’s let on. In an interview with Self magazine Hyland revealed that she underwent a second kidney transplant last year, five years after her first. When she learned in 2016 that the first kidney, donated by her father, had failed and that dialysis treatments weren’t working, “I was very depressed,” Hyland said. Her brother offered his kidney for the second operation, but she was fearful. “I was contemplating suicide, because I didn’t want to fail my little brother like I failed my dad.” The second operation appears to have been…

For some fans Hugh Jackman will always be Wolverine, but for others he’s a true song and dance man. Starting in May the two-time Tony winner will headline his own global arena tour called The Man. The Music. The Show. What will Jack-maniacs get for their money? (Tickets, which went on sale Dec. 7, are going for as much as $1,800.) “I sing songs that mean something to me,” says the former X-Man. So expect to hear hits from Les Misérables , The Greatest Showman and The Boy from Oz. “I’ll tell the story of why [I love the song],” says Jackman, “and there will be guests. I love for the audience to realize, ‘Oh, this is only…

In the midst of his divorce from his wife, Angelina Jolie, Brad Pitt is getting ready to host a family Christmas. The actor, 55, who reached a temporary child-custody agreement with Jolie, 43, in November, will be spending part of the holidays with his kids, a source says. “He’s decorating his house and wants things to be special for them,” the source notes. Despite some turmoil between the exes, who are parents to 10-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox, Shiloh, 12, Zahara, 13, Pax, 15, and Maddox, 17, Pitt is dedicated to being a hands-on parent alongside Jolie. “He feels like he can still prove to the kids that he is a great dad.”…

She has killer abs, radiant skin and energy that rivals those of her days as a Fly Girl dancer in the ’90s. So what’s J.Lo’s secret? “I sum it all up as trying to live a healthy lifestyle [and] a less-is-more approach,” says Lopez, who sleeps seven to nine hours a night [“10 or 11 hours on a day off”] and drinks plenty of water. She likes to change up her workouts, blending circuit training, the Tracy Anderson method, hot yoga and dancing in her at-home studio—and has recently added lifting weights “because I feel like as you get older, you lose muscle,” she says. Lopez strives to “eat clean” but eschews bland diets and admits she’s not a “perfect eater.” “If I feel like I’ve been naughty for…

If there’s such a thing as a perfect first date, Debra Newell felt like she was on it that evening in 2014 as she sat across the table from John Meehan, a handsome, charming anesthesiologist she’d met online days earlier on an over-50s dating website. Claiming to have just returned to Southern California from a year spent volunteering with Doctors Without Borders in war-torn Iraq, he peppered her with questions about her life. Newell, a 59-year-old wealthy, successful interior designer with four failed marriages behind her, found herself falling fast and hard. “Everything was perfect in my life,” Newell says. “The only thing missing was love . . . and I was ready for love.” ‘THERE WERE RED FLAGS, BUT I WASN’T WILLING TO LOOK. I FELL SO HARD…

Most newlyweds spend their first week of marriage avoiding the return to work by relaxing on a sun-soaked honeymoon. Of course, Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra aren’t your average newlyweds. Following their five-day wedding extravaganza at Umaid Bhawan Palace in Jodhpur, India—which included two ceremonies, one Western and one Indian—the jet-setting duo continued the party with an additional reception in New Delhi. (And another one is set for Dec. 20 in Mumbai.) Then the bride—who has updated her name on social media to Priyanka Chopra Jonas—got back to work, promoting the India launch of dating app Bumble, in which she is an investor. To round out their first seven days of marriage, Chopra, 36, and Jonas, 26, attended another wedding celebration—the Sangeet prewedding party for Isha Ambani (a bridesmaid…

You play Mary’s friend the lamplighter Jack. What is he like? He’s the same age as the Banks kids, so he actually has a similar reverence for Mary Poppins when she comes back. He knows that to hang out with Mary is to go on some wild adventures. You brought your son Sebastian, 4, to set sometimes. Did he love it? “Trip a Little Light Fantastic” was one of the final numbers we filmed—the look on my kid’s face while he watched me dance made this entire experience worth it. What made this movie special for you? My experience with Poppins is interesting in that in the middle of Brexit, in the middle of the aftermath of the election in 2016, we would go to work every day to…

By the time she was 10 years old, Cassandra Lin knew she wanted to help other people. Inspired by her older brother Alex, now 25, who was involved in community service, Lin saw her own chance to make a difference after reading about impoverished families who went without heat in her hometown of Westerly, R.I. “It shocked me,” says Lin, who, not long after, in September 2008, visited an expo exhibit about how cooking oil could be converted to fuel. “That’s when the pieces started coming together. We realized we could do a project using this process.” That same year Lin and a group of her fifth-grade friends launched Turn Grease Into Fuel (TGIF)—a community-run program that takes used grease and cooking oil from local restaurants and transports it…

1/4 cup olive oil8 medium garlic cloves, finely chopped2 tsp. black pepper1/2 cup, plus 6 Tbsp. soy sauce, divided4 (6-oz.) sirloin steaks(about 1-in. thick)1/4 cup dry white wine1/4 cup mirin(like Kikkoman)2 Tbsp. rice vinegar21/4 tsp. Dijon mustard1/4 cup sliced scallionsSesame seeds, for serving 1. Preheat grill or grill pan to medium high (400° to 450°). Stir together oil, garlic, pepper and ½ cup soy sauce in a shallow baking dish. Add steaks in an even layer; marinate at room temperature 5 minutes. 2. Stir together wine, mirin, rice vinegar and remaining 6 tablespoons soy sauce in a medium saucepan. Bring to a boil over medium high; cook, undisturbed, until slightly thickened, 2 to 3 minutes. Remove from heat; let cool to room temperature, about 10 minutes. Whisk in mustard;…

My Hero Is . . . Michelle Obama. Her moral compass is so strong. She’s clear-eyed and authentic and brilliant. I just find her inspiring. My Favorite Classic Holiday Movie Is . . . Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. I don’t even have kids, but it kills me every time. I think we all relate to Rudolph, you know? I Feel Most Proud of . . . Honestly my dog Luther. I haven’t trained him, so it’s purely his nature, and I take all the credit. He’s basically the love of my life. My Guilty Pleasure Is . . . Anything salt- and vinegar-related. Also Trader Joe’s dill-pickle popcorn. That’s the other one I lose my mind over. I Have an Irrational Fear of . . . Oh God, when…

It’s only been a couple of weeks since Joe Jonas served as the best man at his younger brother Nick’s lavish five-day wedding to Priyanka Chopra, and the singer is still enjoying a postwedding high. “There were so many good memories—the traditional Indian ceremony was just magical,” the DNCE frontman said during an event at JCPenney in New York City on Dec. 6. (He is partnering with the department store to kick off its largest national Giving Spree, benefiting more than 1,200 underserved kids across the country.) “I’m so happy for Nick. It’s really amazing, and I gained a sister.” Joe, 29, popped the question to his fiancée, Game of Thrones actress Sophie Turner, 22, in October 2017, and the couple plan to walk down…

It’s Dick & Lynne Cheney! For Christian Bale, 44, to become Vice President Dick Cheney for the Dec. 25 film Vice (Amy Adams, 44, plays his wife, Lynne), he gained weight, wore a wraparound prosthetic device to reshape his nose and needed heavy makeup. Bale and Adams have already earned Golden Globe nods. It’s Gretchen Carlson! In an upcoming 2019 film about the downfall of late Fox News chairman Roger Ailes, Kidman, 51, morphs into the ex-Fox & Friends cohost who accused him of sexual harassment. It’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg! Felicity Jones steps back in time to play a young RBG in On the Basis of Sex (Dec. 25), which explores the Supreme Court…

You’re in three new movies: Ben Is Back, Boy Erased and Mid90s. Has life changed? I feel like I am really finding my place in a room. I have my people now. That’s exciting. After playing a gay teen in Boy Erased, you came out as sexually fluid. Everyone was asking, and it didn’t feel right if I said, “Oh, I’m straight.” That felt like a black-and-white answer to something I believe is so much more complex. Your father, Peter Hedges, wrote and directed Ben Is Back. What was that like? He’s the reason I’m an actor. He kept calling me Bubba on-set—I had to say it wasn’t allowed!…

Wedding News Arrow actress Katie Cassidy, 32, wore a lace Pronovias gown when she said “I do” to Matthew Rodgers on Dec. 8 during an intimate ceremony in Sunset Key, Fla. • Musician Trace Cyrus, 29, announced that he is engaged to singer Taylor Lauren Sanders. Babies The Walking Dead star Steven Yeun, 34, and his wife, photographer Joana Pak, 32, are expecting their second child. They are parents to son Jude Malcolm, 1. • Top Chef season 15 winner Joe Flamm and his wife, Hillary Delich, are parents to a boy named Luka William, born on Dec. 4. • Once Upon a Time star Emilie de Ravin, 36, gave birth to a son named Theodore on Dec. 9. The new addition joins de Ravin and fiancé Eric Bilitch’s…

1/ Randal Ford The Animal Kingdom Majestic lions and tigers and bears and more, photographed portrait-style. They sat still! 2/ Barbara Ireland The New York Times Explorer: Beaches, Islands & Coasts Ultra-tempting ideas for your next vacation. 3/ Garth Brooks The Anthology, Part III: Live Five discs plus a hefty volume filled with stories, interviews and photos. A treat for fans. 4/ Brian Noyes Red Truck Bakery Cookbook Barack Obama has called this Virginia establishment’s pie “darn good.” They know how to make a pretty cookbook too. 5/ Pierre-Joseph Redouté The Book of Flowers Gorgeous illustrations by the Belgian painter (1759-1840) known for his attention to botanical detail. 6/ Alison Nastasi Writers and Their Cats “When a man loves cats, I am his friend and comrade,” wrote Mark Twain,…

Singer & Dancer Her All I Have Las Vegas residency topped $100 million in ticket sales. Beauty Mogul One of the most celebrated faces of her generation, Lopez debuted a limited-edition makeup collection for Inglot Cosmetics earlier this year. TV Producer & Reality Judge After five seasons as a panelist on American Idol, Lopez returned to reality TV in 2017 with World of Dance. Hollywood Movie Star Since breaking out in Selena in 1997, Lopez (in a scene from her new comedy, Second Act , out Dec. 21) has been an A-list actress.…

More than 3.5 million viewers tuned in to Dirty John’s launch, making it Bravo’s most watched scripted telecast ever. While showrunner Alexandra Cunningham focused on the Newell family’s saga, she also looked closely at Meehan’s psyche. “To walk around inside John to the extent that I did was interesting,” she says. “But I’m glad to not have to do it anymore.” Dirty John airs Sunday nights at 10 p.m. ET on Bravo.…

She had him at “gluten-free banana pancakes.” Seriously. While Ryan Seacrest can tick off a glowing list of reasons he’s been smitten with Shayna Taylor since they met through friends in 2013—her beauty, intelligence and ability to “light up a room,” among them—there was a key game changer: food. “It was the first time we were together, and she said, ‘I make these amazing gluten-free banana pancakes,’ and I said, ‘What? Well, tell me everything!’ ” recalls Seacrest, relaxed as he kicks back with Taylor in the airy penthouse they share with their three spirited dogs in lower Manhattan. “That was all it took for me to really fall.” A trained chef, Taylor says, “We’ve got food chemistry.” ‘I try to start every day with a level of gratitude...…

MERYL STREEP Streep, 69, plays Mary Poppins’s cousin Topsy, who lives in a world that turns upside down and is the opposite of what it should be. ANGELA LANSBURY The legendary actress, 93, takes on the role of the Balloon Lady, a character from P.L. Travers’s original Mary Poppins book series. COLIN FIRTH Firth, 58, is William Weatherall Wilkins, the villainous head of the bank, who is trying to take Michael and Jane Banks’s childhood home. JULIE WALTERS British star Dame Julie Walters, 68, is Ellen, the Banks family’s housekeeper, who was also in the original book series.…

WHY THIS COLOR? EVERY YEAR THE TEAM AT PANTONE CHOOSES A SHADE THAT REFLECTS THE TIME. THIS BRIGHT PICK TOPPED THEIR LIST BECAUSE ‘IT REINFORCES OUR DESIRE FOR OPTIMISM AND PLAYFUL EXPRESSION’…

1 (3 1/2-lb.) butternut squash, halved lengthwise and seeded 5 Tbsp. olive oil, divided 1/2 cup chopped yellow onion (from 1 onion) 1/2 cup chopped carrots (from 2 carrots) 1/2 cup chopped celery 4 medium garlic cloves, finely chopped 4 cups vegetable stock 1/2 Tbsp. kosher salt 3/4 tsp. black pepper 2 oz. parsnips or sunchokes, thinly sliced 1/3 cup loosely packed fresh flat-leaf parsley 2 Tbsp. pomegranate arils 1. Preheat oven to 350°. Place squash halves, cut side up, on a rimmed baking sheet. Drizzle with 2 tablespoons oil. Roast in oven until squash turns a golden color, 1 hour to 1 hour, 15 minutes. Let cool slightly. Scoop flesh from squash, and transfer to a bowl; discard shell. 2. While squash roasts, heat 1 tablespoon oil in…

THE SCENE Luxe details, including imported marble counters and plush velvet seating, are signatures of the restaurant, located in L.A.’s Palisades Village. THE MENU Popular dishes like hanger steak frites and pan-roasted diver scallops are complemented by signature hand-crafted cocktails. THE CROWD Stars like Gwyneth Paltrow, Kate Hudson and Leonardo diCaprio have become dining regulars.…

‘My food and meals are created around things I love with an obvious effort to make sure I have what I need, like protein and vitamins’ —MONICA…