Table of contents for April 27, 2020 in People

STARS CELEBRATE EASTER IN ISOLATION ROCK’S BEST FRIEND “Guess who gets to carry him all the way back home,” Dwayne Johnson said of walking his French bulldog, Hobbs, in an April 6 Instagram post. A PUZZLING PAIR New York City, April 8 While practicing social distancing at home, Kristin Chenoweth finished a puzzle with boyfriend Josh Bryant. MATTHEW & CAMILA GIVE BACK Austin, April 9 Matthew McConaughey and his wife, Camila, worked with Bethenny Frankel’s disaster relief initiative BStrong to deliver 80,000 masks to police and fire stations in Austin and New Orleans. FAMILY TIME Gwyneth Paltrow shared a sweet selfie with daughter Apple, 15, and son Moses, 14, on April 7. A ROYAL ANNIVERSARY Scotland, April 8 Prince Charles and Camilla, Duchess of Cornwall, celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary…

Back On? Kenya Moore & Marc Daly Seven months after announcing their separation, the Real Housewives of Atlanta star, 49, revealed she and the restaurateur, 49, are giving it another go. “When you’re married you have to try everything to stay together,” she said on Watch What Happens Live. Going Strong Florence Pugh & Zach Braff After wishing the Scrubs alum a happy 45th birthday, the Little Women actress, 24, defended their age difference against Internet trolls. “I do not need you to tell me who I should and should not love,” she said April 8. Happy Anniversary! Deborra-Lee Furness & Hugh Jackman The actor, 51, and his wife, 64, celebrated 24 years of marriage on April 11. “These 24 years have been the best of my life! And,…

Babies • Singer Andy Grammer, 36, and wife Aijia, 33, welcomed their second child, a daughter named Israel. She joins big sister Louisiana, 2. “She is the good news in a sea of bad news, the light in quite a bit of darkness,” Grammer wrote on Instagram. • Former Harry Potter star Rupert Grint, 31, and British actress Georgia Groome, 28, are expecting their first child. The couple have been together since 2011. • Actors Leighton Meester, 33, and Adam Brody, 40, are expecting their second child. The two also share 4-year-old daughter Arlo. Engaged • Al Roker’s daughter Courtney, 32, is engaged to Wesley Laga, 29. Laga proposed at home after their trip to Paris was canceled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Splits • Mr. Robot actress Grace Gummer, 33, Meryl…

It’s been 25 years since Alicia Silverstone first stormed Hollywood and stole hearts as Cher Horowitz, the lovable but spoiled teen with a heart of gold in 1995’s Clueless. “It feels like a lifetime ago,” she says of the breakout role—which Reese Witherspoon recently admitted she’d auditioned for. “I almost don’t remember who I was then because I was just 18. So much has happened since.” There have been 35 movies, eight TV series and plays such as David Mamet’s Boston Marriage in Los Angeles and Time Stands Still on Broadway. (“I love, love doing theater,” she says.) There was a 13-year marriage to musician Christopher Jarecki; a son, Bear, born in 2011; and a divorce in 2018. Silverstone lives with Bear and two rescue dogs in Los Angeles, not…

Tom Brady is getting candid about his 11-year marriage to Gisele Bündchen. On April 8 the NFL star, 42, talked about their ups and downs on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM show, revealing the supermodel, 39, “wasn’t satisfied” with their relationship a few years ago. “She didn’t feel like I was doing my part for the family,” Brady said. “She felt like I would play football all season and she would take care of the house.” Bündchen had dialed back her career to focus on their kids, Benjamin, 10, and Vivian, 7, as well as Brady’s son Jack, 12 (with ex-girlfriend Bridget Moynahan)—and expected him to do the same. “She felt that she and Tom had a deal, but it didn’t happen,” a source close to Bündchen says. “Instead he was…

After suffering two miscarriages in 2019, Hilaria Baldwin announced on April 6 that she’s pregnant, expecting her fifth child with husband Alec Baldwin this September. The yoga instructor, 36, talked about her life now with Alec, 62, and their kids Carmen, 6, Rafael, 4, Leonardo, 3, and Romeo, 23 months, at their Hamptons home. Were you shocked to get this happy news after you miscarried when you were four months pregnant last November? I didn’t really know what to say because it was so soon after I lost my last baby. I didn’t have the words to announce everything, and I didn’t want to turn the dialogue to myself with everything going on. Then some of my friends said people will be excited to hear some good news right now.…

The two Pentagon coworkers—Linda Tripp and Monica Lewinsky—often spoke in code as the younger (by 24 years) Lewinsky gushed and vented about her affair with President Bill Clinton. “The Big He,” they called him. It was the fall of 1997 when Tripp secretly began recording Lewinsky’s phone calls and January 1998 when Tripp turned the tapes over to independent prosecutor Kenneth Starr in exchange for immunity for illegal wire-tapping. The tapes led to Clinton’s impeachment for perjury and obstruction of justice. “I’m an average American who found herself in a situation not of her making,” Tripp said at the time. Clinton was acquitted, and Tripp, then a divorced mother of two, fled the spotlight, moving to a horse farm in northern Virginia. She married German architect Dieter Rausch in…

TV | Killing Eve Sandra Oh and Jodie Comer prepare for another fierce face-off COMEDY-DRAMA There’s an irresistible little moment early on in season 3 of this BBC America hit: Beautiful, crazy-as-a-jaybird assassin Villanelle (Jodie Comer) walks into a London perfumer’s shop, pushes a wad of bills across the counter and asks the proprietor to create a custom scent for her. He proposes something floral, but Villanelle has a specific vision: “I want to smell like a Roman centurion who’s coming across an old foe who in battle once hurt him greatly,” she says. “Ah, but since then the Roman centurion has become emperor and is now powerful beyond measure.” (“Maybe something more woody,” the perfumer suggests.) The defeated foe is counterintelligence specialist Eve Polastri (Sandra Oh). Season 2 ended—we’re…

Brigitte Lacombe “I’m a vegetarian and try to be responsible every day with the water I use,” says Lacombe, who shared this shot of a Norwegian fjord. “I would like to protect the possibility, the privilege, the freedom and the pleasure to travel, to look, to enjoy the beauty of the world.” Tyler Mitchell “I snapped this in a moment of wanting to remember the landscape,” says Mitchell, recalling when he shot this in Port Antonio, Jamaica. “I remember loving how that warm light from the building I stood in and the light from the sky felt equally beautiful to me.” Collier Schorr “My best friend has everything [to pass the time while sheltering at home], including this giant puzzle,” says Schorr. “To stay indoors and be faced with…

Across 1 Star Wars princess 5 Greenhouse ___ (methane, for one) 8 Quilt filler 12 Make, as money 13 Perform in a play 14 2019 limited-edition Game of Thrones cookie 15 Teenage environmental activist (2 wds.) 18 ___ Willy (killer-whale movie) 19 Barack or Michelle 20 MLB plate appearance 23 “Big Girls Don’t ___” 24 Comedic actress Roseanne 25 “Hit Me with Your Best ___” 27 Rowboat propeller 30 Planet-warming topic of concern to 15 Across (2 wds.) 33 Billie Eilish’s “You Should ___ Me in a Crown” 34 U2 frontman 35 ___ tea (summer beverage) 36 Beatles hairdo 37 Say Yes to the ___ 38 Held power, as a king or queen 41 Star Trek captain 43 International body to which 15 Across said, “How dare you!” (2 wds.) 48 Magazine that named…

Welcome to Our Earth Day Special When the coronavirus crisis first hit, it seemed strange for us to push ahead as we’d planned with our first-ever issue dedicated to the environment. At a time when the world is dealing with a pandemic, should we be focusing on conserving resources? But days after shelter-in-place guidelines began, experts started to see something remarkable: Skies cleared in cities like Los Angeles, Chicago and Seattle as pollution plunged. Air changes in China were so dramatic they could be seen from outer space. These are undeniable signs that changes we make in our daily lives can have a big impact. No one is proposing an overhaul as dramatic as the closures that have swept across the globe. But now there can be no doubt that…

As stars vie to make fictional versions of Netflix’s hit docuseries Tiger King: Murder, Mayhem and Madness, Joseph “Joe Exotic” Maldonado-Passage’s request for a pardon has reached the White House. Donald Trump told reporters he would “take a look” at Joe’s 22-year prison sentence for hiring a hit man to kill rival Carole Baskin. But Joe’s case also took a recent hit: The appeal he filed along with a $94 million lawsuit for damages was deemed “frivolous” and recommended for dismissal by U.S. Magistrate Judge Suzanne Mitchell on April 7.…

Tyler Perry, no stranger to giving back, recently surprised elderly shoppers at 44 Kroger supermarkets in his hometown of Atlanta and 29 Winn-Dixie stores in his native New Orleans by covering the cost of their groceries. “He wanted to do something special to provide immediate relief for some of the most vulnerable in the two cities he considers home,” a source says. The mogul, 50, paid for the groceries during the hour reserved for older customers. Perry, who also recently left a $21,000 tip for workers at an Atlanta restaurant, told CBS This Morning that he singled out Winn-Dixie “because I remember my mother going to shop [there] every Saturday when I was a kid.” Meanwhile, the crisis hit close to home for Perry. Mourning the loss of his longtime…

On April 8, 1994, the world mourned the loss of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain. After battling addiction, he died by suicide at 27, leaving behind wife Courtney Love and their toddler daughter Frances Bean Cobain. The era-defining grunge rocker “was a poet,’’ the Doors’ Ray Manzarek said in People’s cover tribute. Cobain’s legacy lives on. In 2014 Nirvana was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and Love, 55, accepted the award on his behalf. Frances, now 27, is an artist. “I would hope that he would be proud of the human being I am,” she said in 2018.…

Hilary Heath The British mother of two was a classically trained theater actress, but her most notable work was in horror films in the late ’60s and early ’70s. She also starred alongside Timothy Dalton in 1970’s Wuthering Heights before turning to producing in the ’80s. In her mid-60s Dwyer returned to school to get a master’s degree in psychology from Oxford, becoming an addiction counselor. She died of COVID-19 at age 74. “She was a force of nature,” wrote her godson on Facebook. David Driskell With a landmark 1970s touring exhibit, “Two Centuries of Black American Art: 1750-1950,” the artist, scholar and historian helped elevate the role of black artists, earning the National Humanities Medal in 2000. Driskell, who died on April 1 at age 88, was a distinguished…

People earth day SPECIAL As Earth Day turns 50, People salutes heroes protecting the planet and shares easy tips to make a difference. “We can do it arms linked,” says Louis-Dreyfus. Like most Americans, Julia Louis-Dreyfus has been hunkered down at home for weeks with her family—husband Brad Hall, 62, and sons Henry, 27, and Charlie, 22. “We’ve been practicing social distancing with a vengeance and washing our hands endlessly,” she says. Her People cover shoot at a sunny San Diego farmers’ market back in early March now feels like it happened years ago. “It was heaven,” she says fondly. She’s been seeking ways to help amid the coronavirus crisis, so she shot a PSA urging Californians to stay at home (and poking fun at her do-it-yourself makeup skills) and is making appearances to…

Sitting still isn’t easy for LeAnn Rimes. “I am used to being in constant motion,” says the singer, 37, who’s been performing since she was 5. “For a long time stillness felt incredibly unsafe. But I’ve done a lot of work to know that it’s okay.” That makes the current stay-at-home climate easier for her to navigate than it might have been, and it’s helped in larger ways as well. For years, keeping herself intensely busy—even through difficult personal dramas—was a way for Rimes to avoid the depression and anxiety she had struggled with for most of her life. “I had so much pain,” she says. “But I finally had to surrender and confront my feelings.” A monthlong stay at a mental-health facility in 2012 started her on the path…

The cast of Will & Grace paid tribute to I Love Lucy in the April 9 episode by re-creating iconic moments in the 1950s comedy—with a twist. Throughout the episode Debra Messing (seated, left) and castmates Sean Hayes (seated, right) andMegan Mullally (top right) took turns portraying Lucy and her neighbors Fred and Ethel Mertz, while Eric McCormack (top left) played Lucy’s husband, Ricky Ricardo. 10 changes to keep score! 1. The floral pattern on the lampshade behind McCormack is gone. 2. The spine of a book on the side table is now blue. 3. McCormack’s tie is now green. 4. A button is missing from Messing’s outfit. 5. The white cuff on one of the sleeves on Messing’s outfit is wider. 6. The bracelet worn by Mullally is gone. 7. The pearls Mullally is wearing are now pink. 8. The green,…

Last Time I Said ‘I Love You’ This morning to my wife, Kirsten, and last night in a text. I knew she was asleep, so I texted her “I love you.” When she woke up, she gave me a hug and was like, “I just want you to feel love.” Last Time My Daughters Made Me Laugh They make me laugh so often. Kensli is 4, and she says funny stuff because she’s very opinionated. Marli [age 7 months] wobbled over to me, and I was like, “Heyyyy,” and she responded, “Heyyyy.” I was like, “Damn, can you talk?” Last Indulgence Kool-Aid. It’s an inconceivable amount of sugar. Since this self-quarantine [because of the coronavirus pandemic], I started drinking it again, and now it’s my coffee. I drink it…