Todd Fisher had tried to put pen to paper. But, as the years passed, the words never came. That is, until December 27, 2016, when his sister Carrie, Star Wars’ iconic Princess Leia, died. (The writer-actress, 60, fell unconscious on an L.A. bound flight four days earlier and never recovered.) He was hit with another […]
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There was no way for Todd Fisher to predict the tragedy that was looming. In the fall of 2016, it seemed as if his sister Carrie was at the top of her game. As she filmed Star Wars: The Last Jedi and made finishing touches on her latest memoir, The Princess Diarist, “she was firing on […]
This is unfoRettabale: Good Girls star and debut author Retta invited Us to tag along for a wild 24 hours! 5:20 a.m. Rise ’n Shine In her NYC hotel room May 14, Retta wakes up to a blaring alarm. “I don’t mind mornings,” she says. “But not this early!” She quickly hops in the shower before […]
Happily ever afters aren’t exclusive to storybooks. The proof: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle. “This is a beautiful love story of two gorgeous people who are just starting their journey,” the Today show’s Hoda Kotb tells Us Weekly. “There are so few things that feel like a fairy tale that there’s something magical about their […]
Bow down to these screen queens! From superhero epics and butt-kicking thrillers to hotly anticipated prequels and sequels, badass women rule at the box office this season.
As far as presents go, Olivia Munn has peaked. For Mother’s Day, the actress surprised her mom Kim with a renovation to their Oklahoma home, which has belonged to the family since they first immigrated from Vietnam in 1975. “My mom loves entertaining,” Munn exclusively reveals in the new issue of Us Weekly. “Her house […]
Duchess Kate and Prince William’s daughter, Princess Charlotte, was treated like a queen on her third birthday May 2. At Willcocks Nursery School in London — she attends Monday through Thursday for half-day lessons — the tot was surprised with a cake to share with her classmates. Back home at Kensington Palace by lunchtime, the […]
There’s still so much to do. As her son’s May due date approaches, Ali Fedotowsky needs a car seat, a stroller and, oh, a name. “We cannot come up with one!” the former Bachelorette star, 33, says of the struggle she and her husband, radio host Kevin Manno, 34, face. “I feel like I blinked […]
It was time to grow up. Eight years after Zach Braff signed off as Scrubs’ goofball doctor J.D., the actor “wanted a family-oriented project,” he exclusively tells Us. “It’s harder to do PG comedy. Everyone gets a laugh out of something dirty! But to have jokes adults and kids will laugh at is a real […]
This is how it’s done. Actress Chrissy Metz invited Us Weekly to tag along for a whirlwind 24 hours! 4 a.m. Positive Start In a Birmingham, Alabama, hotel room April 4, the This Is Us star’s alarm blares an Adele hit. “That way I’m not angry in the morning,” says Metz, 37. “It’s really early, […]
It was supposed to be relaxing. But for Jade Roper, a January vacation in St. Lucia with husband Tanner Tolbert was proving anything but. The trip was just five months after she gave birth to daughter Emerson, and the Bachelor in Paradise alum insists she was “not ready” to slip into her once trusty two-pieces. […]
Pour one out for Cady Davenport. Well, for her romance that is. Celeb Scribes In Aimee Agresti’s whip-smart upcoming novel Campaign Widows, Cady loses her fiancé to — gasp — politics. When he hits the road for an upcoming presidential election, she’s left alone to navigate their new home and their new city, Washington, D.C. […]
Day or night, Priyanka Chopra is ready for action. Hollywood’s Badass Women Share Their Secrets to Getting In Shape As FBI agent Alex Parrish on ABC’s Quantico, “I do all the stunts myself,” the actress tells Us, “and this season she’s a lot more lethal. Her fighting style is far less messy. Everything is deliberate. […]
Willie Geist, the host of Sunday Today with Willie Geist, broadcasts his best facts to Us. 1. The first album I ever bought was LL Cool J‘s Bigger and Deffer in 1987. Twenty-eight years later, I won my episode of Lip Sync Battle against my friend Andy Cohen by singing LL’s “I Need Love” dressed as […]
John Cena is just warming up on the mic. “A guy walks into a bar,” cracks the former pro wrestler, “and he breaks his face.” Cue crickets from his Blockers costar Leslie Mann, 45. “You don’t get it?” Cena, 40, asks. “I’m practicing my dad jokes!” April 2018 Movies: Five Reasons to Be Excited! Not […]
Kathie Lee Gifford needed convincing. When NBC’s Today show approached her with an offer to join its 10 a.m. hour back in 2008, “I had no desire to ever get back into television,” explains the former host of Regis & Kathie Lee. “Maybe as an actress or a writer, but never another talk show. I […]
Tiffani Thiessen was instantly brought back to Bayside High. ’90s TV Stars: Then & Now Watching teenage costars Paris Berelc and Isabel May on set of Netflix’s Alexa & Katie, was “truly like seeing myself over again in a flashback,” recalls the Saved by the Bell alum, who began her career at just 15. “It’s […]
Drew Barrymore is retiring … from action. After a stunt on last season’s Santa Clarita Diet left her hospitalized, “I basically now will only have a stunt double,” she admits. “Those days are over. We’re good. We got to be in Charlie’s Angels. That was fun. Now, we’re a mom. A 43-year-old, soft mom.” Now, […]
Zoey Deutch wants to break the stigma. In the new drama Flower, her character Erica — a sexually charged teenage vigilante — is seen as “lacking redeeming qualities,” she explains. But, if it were a man depicted in the flick, the opinion would be different. Insists Deutch, “He’d be titled morally ambiguous.” A-Listers Early Roles […]
