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Johnni Macke

Digital Senior Writer Johnni Macke lives in Southern California and has been working in the entertainment industry since 2012 when she graduated from the University of Southern California. Prior to joining the Us Weekly team in 2019, she was a writer and editor for People’s Choice Awards at E! News and a freelance journalist for PopSugar, Hello Giggles and Teen.com. She got her start in the industry as the photo editor for BOP and Tiger Beat magazines. Her favorite celebrity interview to date is Sophie Turner, who offered her a cup of tea and said her name in an accent you can’t help but love. Career highlights include working the 2022 Oscars, covering the 2022 ACM Awards in Nashville and getting paid to watch and recap Southern Charm.

Thats So Ravens Orlando Brown Reveals He Was Granted Custody of Daughter After 5 Years in Foster Care Feature

Orlando Brown Was Granted Custody of Daughter After 5 Years in Foster Care

Orlando Brown revealed his life is completely different from how it used to be. “I didn’t have my daughter five years ago. She was in foster care,” Brown, 38, told Revolt on Wednesday, August 12. “I put that work in and got my baby out of that bull**** ass situation.” The That’s So Raven alum […]

Leslie Mann Was Flustered Meeting Adam Demos After Watching Him on Sex LifeWe Had Private Time

Leslie Mann Was Flustered Meeting Adam Demos After Watching Him on ‘Sex/Life’

Leslie Mann admitted she was totally flustered meeting Spa Weekend costar Adam Demos after watching his steamy performance on Sex/Life. “The first day I met you, we were rehearsing with [directors] Scott [Moore] and Jon [Lucas],” Mann, 54, recalled during a Wednesday, August 12, cast interview on SiriusXM’s Smith Sisters Live. Mann began to blush […]

Bethenny Frankel Reveals Daughter Bryn Has Her Own Job Despite Nepo Baby Joke Shes Been Working

Bethenny Frankel Says Daughter Bryn Has Her Own Job Despite ‘Nepo Baby’ Joke

Bethenny Frankel jokes that her daughter, Bryn, is having a “nepo baby summer” after jet-setting around the world — but she is also learning the value of hard work through her own job. “She’s been working. She was away in Greece. She went away to do a program at Sotheby’s business in New York for […]

Perez Hilton Was Treated for an Overdose After Alarming Livestream Police Say Report

Perez Hilton Was Treated for an ‘Overdose’ After Livestream: Report

Perez Hilton was reportedly treated for an “overdose” after appearing to self-harm on livestream, according to a new police report. People reported on Friday, August 14, that Hilton, 48, was taken to the hospital on August 4 after deputies at the Miami-Dade County Sheriff’s Office responded to his home following several reports of a suicide […]

Candace Cameron Bure Tears Up Over Haters Calling Her Voice Annoying I Hear It All the Time Feature

Candace Cameron Bure Tears Up Over Critics Calling Her Voice 'Annoying'

Candace Cameron Bure is used to criticism after growing up in the spotlight, but negative comments about her voice hit differently. During the Tuesday, August 11, episode of her “Candace Cameron Bure Podcast,” which took a look back at her season 4 interview with Revere Church pastor Bianca Juarez Olthoff, the pair discussed how their […]

Jenna Jameson Shares Details About Her Very Private Low Key Wedding to Wife Mil R Ocampo Feature

Jenna Jameson Details 'Very Private, Low-Key Wedding' With Mil R. Ocampo

Jenna Jamseon and partner Mil R. Ocampo are pulling back the curtain on their “low-key” wedding weeks after tying the knot. Jameson, 52, confirmed to Us on Thursday, August 13, that she and Ocampo “quietly made it official and became legally married” on July 25. The former adult film star teased that the “secret is […]

Celebrity Pregnancy Announcements Charles Leclerc and Alexandra Leclerc 2026

Celeb Pregnancies of 2026: F1’s Charles Leclerc’s Wife Alexandra, More Stars

Many stars are expanding their families in 2026. In the first half of the year, actresses Bonnie Wright, Aubrey Plaza, Natalie Portman and Anne Hathaway all revealed that they are pregnant. From across the pond, Princess Eugenie also shared the news that she was expecting her third baby with husband Jack Brooksbank. The second half of […]

Who Is Charles LeClerc Girlfriend Alexandra Saint Mleux

Who Is F1 Racer Charles Leclerc's Pregnant Wife Alexandra Leclerc?

Arnold Jerocki/WireImage Charles Leclerc isn’t driving in circles when it comes to his love life. The Formula 1 racing driver was first connected to now-wife Alexandra Leclerc (née Saint Mleux) in early 2023. Later that year, the two stepped out as a couple to attend the Wimbledon tennis tournament in London. The pair kept their […]

F1 Star Charles Leclerc and Wife Alexandra Seemingly Confirm 1st Pregnancy on Italian Getaway Feature

F1 Star Charles Leclerc and Wife Alexandra Seemingly Confirm Her Pregnancy

Formula 1 racer Charles Leclerc and wife Alexandra Leclerc are gearing up for their wildest ride yet: parenthood! Alexandra, 25, seemingly confirmed her pregnancy via Instagram on Tuesday, August 11. The model wore an emerald green two-piece set in the snaps, revealing her bare belly as she lounged on a boat. Alexandra topped off her […]

Jennifer Esposito Recalls Excruciating Psych Ward Stay Amid Health Problems Pleading for My Sanity Feature

Jennifer Esposito Recalls ‘Excruciating’ Psych Ward Stay Amid Health Problems

Jennifer Esposito is opening up about her traumatic health journey — including her stay in a psych ward — after being considered “crazy” amid her quest for a diagnosis in her mid-20s. “I will say it was seven of the most excruciating hours of my entire life, because I was yet again pleading for my […]

Molly Sims Says She Runs a Tight Ship Raising 3 Kids in LA I Mom Really Hard

Molly Sims Says She Runs a ‘Tight Ship’ With Her 3 Kids: ‘I Mom Really Hard’

Molly Sims is a total boss having found success as a model, actress, podcast host and beauty brand founder — but being a mother is the title she cherishes most. “I think I mom really hard and then I play really hard,” Sims, 53, exclusively tells Us in her cover story, on newsstands now. “I […]

Why Jon Hamm Changed His Mind About Having Kids Since He Fell in Love With Wife Anna Osceola

Why Jon Hamm Changed His Mind About Kids After Falling for Wife Anna Osceola

Jon Hamm is “genuinely excited” to become a father now that wife Anna Osceola is pregnant — but he didn’t always plan on having children. “Jon was in a very different mindset and a different place in his life when it came to having kids in the past,” a source exclusively tells Us. The insider […]

Celebrity Parents Share Back to School Photos 2026 Feature

Celeb Parents Share 2026 Back to School Pics: Jana Kramer and More Stars

Summertime is coming to an end across the country, with many celebrity parents sending their children back to school — whether they’re ready or not. “Praying for a safe, healthy and happy year for all of our kids,” Jana Kramer wrote via Instagram on August 10, sharing photos of her three children dressed up for […]

Great British Bake Off Judge Prue Leith Hospitalized After Losing Sight Ability to Speak Feature

Great British Bake Off's Prue Leith Hospitalized After Losing Sight, Speech

Prue Leith is opening up about a recent health scare that led to her hospitalization out of fear she was having a stroke. Leith, 86, recalled experiencing a “migraine attack” during a trip to Yorkshire, England. She detailed the medical scare in a column called “Prue’s News” in The Oldie’s September issue, out Friday, August […]

Dodges Question About Split Alexandria Ocasio Cortez and Riley Roberts

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Dodges Question About Riley Roberts Split Rumors

Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is keeping quiet about her relationship status with fiancé Riley Roberts amid rumors they have called off their engagement. “I don’t comment on my private life, but thank you,” Ocasio-Cortez, 36, told a New York Post reporter on Wednesday, August 12, when asked if the couple are “still together.” The reporter pushed […]

Bachelors Melissa Rycroft Avoids Jail Time After DWI Arrest Plea Details Revealed Feature

Melissa Rycroft Avoids Jail Time After DWI Arrest: Plea Details Revealed

Melissa Rycroft has pleaded guilty to driving while intoxicated nearly one year after her arrest — but she won’t do any jail time. Us can exclusively confirm that Rycroft, 43, was sentenced on August 6 with a judge signing off on her plea deal on Monday, August 10. The Bachelor alum agreed to 20 months […]

Harry Jowsey and Haley Baylee Lets Marry Harry Reunion

Harry Jowsey’s 'Let's Marry Harry' Reunion Date and Host Revealed

Harry Jowsey’s quest to find a wife on Let’s Marry Harry has captivated audiences from start to finish — and now they’re getting a reunion! Us can exclusively announce that the reunion will be hosted by Haley Baylee and air on Netflix Wednesday, August, 26, at 9 p.m. ET. “I’m super excited for this opportunity […]

President Donald Trump Intervened to Keep Rep Max Miller in Ohio Race Amid DV Allegations Report

Trump Intervened to Keep Max Miller in Ohio Race Amid DV Allegations: Report

President Donald Trump’s team reportedly reached out to Ohio Republican leadership earlier this month, requesting a so-called cease fire in public ridicule of Rep. Max Miller amid allegations of domestic abuse. The White House allegedly contacted Ohio Republicans last week after Trump’s team became convinced that Miller, 37, would not be withdrawing voluntarily from Ohio’s […]

General Hospitals Steve Burtons Ex Wife Sheree Denies She Alienated Him From Their Daughter Feature

Steve Burton's Ex-Wife Sheree Denies Alienating Daughter, Requests to Move

Steve Burton’s ex-wife, Sheree Burton, is firing back at claims she is alienating the soap star from his daughter Brooklyn following the former couple’s 2022 divorce. In court documents obtained by Us on Tuesday, August 11, Sheree, 49, requested a judge allow her to move to Tennessee from California, despite Steve’s relocation back to the […]

RHONY Alum Jill Zarin Announces Her Mom Glorias Death at Age 91 She Was My Best Friend

Jill Zarin Announces Her Mom Gloria’s Death at Age 91: ‘My Best Friend’

Jill Zarin is mourning the loss of her mother, Gloria Kamen, following her death at age 91. “She was my best friend, my mentor, and the most important person in my life,” Zarin, 62, wrote via Instagram on Tuesday, April 11, confirming her mother’s death while sharing a series of photos featuring her mother over […]

Steven McBee Jr Called Long Distance the Kiss of Death on McBee Dynasty Before Allie Split Scandal

Steven McBee Jr. Described 'Kiss of Death' in Relationship Before Allie Split

Steven McBee Jr. had an ominous feeling about his relationship with now-ex Allie Eklund on the latest episode of The McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys ahead of their April split. “For me, in my mind, long distance is the kiss of death for relationships,” Steven, 33, said in a confessional on the Monday, August 10, […]

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