Table of contents for 29-Feb-16 in Us Weekly

Nick Jonas left Super Bowl weekend a winner. After flirting with — and kissing! — former fling Kate Hudson at DirecTV’s February 6 pregame bash, he scored another date four days later. Explains a Jonas source of their February 10 outing to Italian eatery Pace: “They were both in L.A. and decided to meet up.” And appreciate the view. Five months after they first embarked on a no-strings-attached relationship, the chiseled ex–boy bander, 23, and the toned Mother’s Day actress, 36, “are still physically into each other,” says the Jonas pal. “He likes hooking up with her!” The conversation isn’t bad either. The singer recently gushed to Complex that the mom of Ryder, 12, and Bingham, 4, is “incredible. We had an unbelievable connection as two human beings who just…

Don’t mess with Jaimie Alexander. “I collect knives, so I always have a very small one on me,” says the star of the NBC drama Blindspot (which returns February 29 at 10 p.m.). “I’d never want to use it, but I’m skilled!” The Texas native, engaged to actor Peter Facinelli, 42, lets Us take a closer look at her Valentino cross-body satchel. ON THE HOP “Because I wear so many fake tattoos on the show, I can’t sweat too much. I’ll break out my jump rope between takes to get my heart rate up.” SUPER-SKETCHY “I’ve got a Sharpie and a black pen because I like to draw. I do the details with the black ballpoint. It kind of mellows you out when you’re on an airplane.” HEALTHY CHOICE “I…

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DREW BARRYMORE/ 41 So bubbly While shooting in Paris, the mom of two sipped champagne. Priorities in order “I have one of two days. One is really with my kids . . . trying to make life fun. . . . Another day could be . . . a business trip. My days are rarely mixed together. I probably subconsciously do that so I can maximize my time with my kids.” JESSICA ALBA / 34 VIP Husband Cash Warren stopped by the eight-hour shoot at L.A.’s Milk Studios. On the gender pay gap “Girls should have an equal seat at the table. Take Jennifer Lawrence. I mean, she’s opening movies — she’s the box-office draw as much as any guy in the movie, if not more. She should be compensated…

Since she began filming her breakout hit show, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, last summer, writer and star Rachel Bloom has learned a lot about how Hollywood really works. For starters, red carpet beauty isn’t reality. Clad in a custom gown (plus two pairs of Spanx) at the Golden Globes, “I looked amazing, but if I tried to do that on my own, I’d never succeed,” the best TV comedy actress winner, 28, says. “Anyone at an awards show should be viewed as art!” Bloom, who plays a neurotic lawyer on the CW series (Mondays at 8 p.m.), shares what sets her off. CRAZY GOOD! HAMILTON, THE MUSICAL The Grammy-nominated Broadway show, based on the life of founding father Alexander Hamilton, “makes history exciting,” says Bloom. “And the cast album is brilliant!” TOP…

SUNDAY 2/21 DISNEYLAND 60 About a trillion stars, including Kerry Washington and Jessica Alba, toast six decades of the Happiest Place on Earth. Expect two hours of fireworks, fun and performances by Elton John, Jessie J and more. (ABC, 8 P.M.) MONDAY 2/22 THE BIGGEST LOSER Loser goes live for its final weigh-in. Season 17’s contestants reunite to see which of the three remaining flab busters will take the $250,000 prize. Tomorrow, trainer Dolvett Quince recaps the sweat and tears exclusively at usmagazine.com. (NBC, 9 P.M.) TUESDAY 2/23 MARRIED AT FIRST SIGHT In the reality dare’s two-hour season capper, the three couples who jumped into matrimony without knowing each other decide if they want to stay together. Two duos from round 1 are still hitched! (FYI and A&E, 9 P.M.)…

RIVETING FEBRUARY READS Forty Rooms The life of an aspiring poet is told through the places she has inhabited — from her childhood bedroom to her college dorm and beyond. Olga Grushin examines a woman’s search for identity in this breathtaking tale. I’m Glad About You Theresa Rebeck, who created Katharine McPhee’s breakout, Smash, puts her showbiz expertise to good use, following a young actress in NYC. While Alison’s future looks bright, she can’t shake the memory of an old flame. Tender Inexperienced Catherine falls for her closeted best friend at Dublin’s Trinity College. Set in the late 1990s, Belinda McKeon’s second novel is an honest and, at times, painful account of what it’s like to be young and crazy in love. A Doubter’s Almanac Ethan Canin explores the brilliant…

1.My mom had to have a C-section because I was standing straight up in the womb (a double footling breech)! 2.My favorite comedian is Gilda Radner. My favorite director is Elaine May. My favorite poet is Nikki Giovanni. 3. I was in an elevator with Cindy Crawford when I was 9. I was so excited, I started to cry. 4. I love to water-ski, but am very bad at it. 5. I wanted to be a poet until I was 21. 6. I’ve had more than 20 cavities. 7. My mother was close childhood friends with comedian Andy Kaufman, and my grandpa was his orthodontist. 8. My grandfather ran for sheriff of Southbury, Connecticut, on the Republican ticket. He lost. 9. I love horses and dogs, but my favorite animal…

“Spanx all the way. . . . Even if you don’t need them.” On how she feels confident in her body on “bad” days, ASHLEY BENSON “I remember confessing to a priest that I committed adultery because I thought it meant acting like an adult.” On going to confession at 7 years old, GEORGE CLOONEY I noticed a huge line of people trying to meet him and I was just like, ‘Oh, I’m a kid. I can skip it.’” On approaching Leonardo DiCaprio at the 2016 SAG Awards, JACOB TREMBLAY “I’ll put it this way: The director isn’t going to yell, ‘Too big!’” On filming a nude scene for HBO’s Vinyl, RAY ROMANO My mom would always say about having kids, ‘One is like one, and two are like 20.’” On Kris Jenner’s advice…

JULIUS & VIOLA Valentine’s Vow Renewal For Viola Davis and husband Julius Tennon, 13 is a lucky number. To celebrate their 13th wedding anniversary, the couple held a commitment cere mony February 13 at the Casa del Mar hotel in Santa Monica. “It’s going to reflect what marriage really is,” Davis, 50, told Us before the celebration, “and not the romanticized fantasy of what it is.” Davis wore Carmen Marc Valvo to exchange vows with the actor, 62, in front of 140 family members and friends, including Oprah Winfrey, her How to Get Away With Murder cast and their flower girl, daughter Genesis, 5. Later, guests drank mango-tequila “JuVee” cocktails and danced to Motown. “It was simple,” planner Yingka Chou tells Us. “Viola just wanted to have a good time!”…

SANDRA & BRYAN Parenting Together Bullock’s boyfriend, Randall, wants more kids! Sandra Bullock’s photographer boyfriend of one year, Bryan Randall, intends to stay in the picture. Since the mom of Louis, 6, adopted daughter Laila, 3, from foster care late last year, Randall “has taken on the role of raising the two kids with Sandra,” says a source. “He’s talking about wanting more children.” The former model — dad of college-age daughter Skylar — moved into the 51-year-old actress’ five- bedroom estate last fall. “Bryan is so in love,” says the source. “He has been telling people, ‘I wake up every morning and thank God for the blessings I have in my life.’” He’s determined to make it a long one. Randall, 50, “went so far as to quit cigarettes…

Sure, more than 1,000 models took the stage at NYC’s Madison Square Garden February 11 for the launch of Kanye West’s Yeezy Season 3 fashion line. But it was the soundtrack — West’s new album, The Life of Pablo — that sent shockwaves through the arena. Over 11 tracks, West called out Rob Kardashian’s romance with Blac Chyna, dissed wife Kim Kardashian’s ex Ray J and, most unexpectedly, took a jab at Taylor Swift. “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex,” he raps in “Famous,” in which he references crashing her 2009 MTV Video Music Awards speech. “I made that bitch famous. Goddamn I made that bitch famous.” The lyrics aren’t easy to shake off. Within hours of the song’s debut, Swift, 26, was playing defense. “Kanye…

BEYONCÉ Before Super Bowl 50, the singer, 34, husband Jay Z, 46, and tot Blue, 4, bunked in a $10,000-a-night, fivebedroom San Francisco pad complete with spa, rooftop veggie garden and pool. GWYNETH PALTROW Goop’s guru, 43, and love Brad Falchuk, 44, took Apple, 11 ( left, in January), and Moses, 9, to a $40,000-aweek villa in Punta Mita, Mexico. NINA DOBREV An outdoor hot tub heated up the 27-year-old’s Christmas getaway with boyfriend Austin Stowell, 31, at a $5,000-a-night Coalville, Utah, cabin. MARIAH CAREY Four bedrooms. A Jacuzzi. A guest cottage. The Grammy winner dropped more than $300,000 for a month at a Malibu home (left, on August 3) on Billionaire’s Beach. SHAY MITCHELL At a $4,100-a-night, five-bedroom Jamaican estate on James Bond Beach in January, the Pretty Little…

Star-Studded Affair Model Liberty Ross, 37, and music producer Jimmy Iovine, 62, wed at pal David Geffen’s Malibu home February 14. Among the 300 guests: Oprah Winfrey, Pharrell Williams and Tom Hanks. Oh, Boy! Heather Morris, 29, gave birth to son Owen Bartlett February 11. The Glee alum and her husband, Taylor Hubbell, 28, are also parents of Elijah, 2. . . . Lady Antebellum singer Charles Kelley, 34, and wife Cassie, 33, welcomed their first child, Ward Charles, in Nashville February 11 after years of fertility struggles. A Gift From the Heart Jennifer Lawrence, 25, donated $2 million to establish the Jennifer Lawrence Foundation Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at the Kosair Children’s Hospital in her hometown of Louisville. Frozen Fever A musical based on Disney’s smash hit Frozen will…

THE YOUNG AND THE RESTLESS Longoria played Isabella Braña on the CBS soap (“its first contracted Latino role”) from 2001 to 2003. DESPERATE HOUSEWIVES The campy 2004–2012 ABC drama “was where I learned to act. It was a joy to be around those women.” DEVIOUS MAIDS The Lifetime drama’s exec producer (directing Roselyn Sanchez) guests as herself in the season 4 opener. TELENOVELA Bruised elbows aside, “I love the physical comedy,” the leading lady (with José Moreno Brooks) says.…

Scandal fans aren’t shy about telling Scott Foley what they think of the show’s epic love triangle. “Everyone has an opinion!” Foley tells Us. On the twisty ABC drama (Thursdays, 9 p.m.), his secret agent, Jake, has an on-and-off affair with Kerry Washington’s fixer, Olivia Pope — who has also been involved with Tony Goldwyn’s POTUS, Fitzgerald Grant. Depending where the romance stands, “I hear wrath and I hear, ‘Congratulations!’ ” he says. Us grilled Foley, 43 (who has kids Malina, 6, Keller, 3, and Konrad, 14 months, with wife Marika Dominczyk, 35), for more at Atlanta’s ATVfest. Q: Liv and Jake are kissing again! Do you and Kerry laugh during sexy scenes? It’s all you can do. At this point, we’ve done so many. You try to mix it…

OUT NOW Charles Kelley The Driver Lady Antebellum frontman Charles Kelley turns in a respectable first solo album. Yet the tunes that hit hardest are still group efforts. Stevie Nicks helps spin a cover of Tom Petty’s “Southern Accents” into Fleetwood Mac–ish gold, while Miranda Lambert gracefully harmonizes in the touching “I Wish You Were Here,” and Dierks Bentley and Eric Paslay bring extra manpower to the title track. MY TOP CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS! Chris Daughtry, 36 — It’s Not Over . . . The Hits So Far is out now — picks ’em GOODBYE YELLOW BRICK ROAD / ELTON JOHN “The chord changes and interesting melodies make my head spin.” BACK IN THE SADDLE / AEROSMITH “When Steven Tyler screams the first line, you need to break s--t!” STILL…