Princess Beatrice: Her wedding has now been officially postponed due to the coronavirus
Harry and Meghan: Settling into their new life in Los Angeles; they've been seen delivering food to people in need. Update on Tuesday, 4/21: Private texts to Meghan's father have become public, part of their lawsuit again some of the British tabloids.
Brian Dennehy: Died at age 81
Michael Jordan: A new documentary titled "The Last Dance"
Chris Soules: Is the former Bachelor dating Victoria Fuller, a so-called villain from Peter's season?
Princess Anne: She's on the cover of the May issue of Vanity Fair to mark her upcoming 70th birthday, read the VF article here
James Patterson: A new book about the Kennedys, titled The House of Kennedy
Covid-19: Stories about the virus have been on the last five covers. Will this week be different?
Melania Trump: Turning 50 on April 26, the First Lady has mostly been AWOL during the Covid-19 emergency. (Read more here.) As I've pointed out before, since the day Donald was elected, People has not put one single word about Melania on the cover of the magazine, which is a change from past practice and has to be a deliberate omission. Will the magazine mark this milestone birthday? Probably not. In contrast to Melania, the two most recent First Ladies joined together to send out a message of hope:
Former First Ladies @MichelleObama and @LauraWBush appeared on One World: #TogetherAtHome to stand in solidarity with @WHO and the incredible health care workers defending our communities against COVID-19. Do your part to fight this crisis at https://t.co/26xVXSb0qy. pic.twitter.com/yTxjQfGE1Y— Global Citizen (@GlblCtzn) April 19, 2020
Will & Grace: The series finale airs April 23
Nick Cordero: A Broadway star, he had his right leg amputated due to the coronavirus
Dr. Phil. Dr. Drew and/or Dr. Oz: They all got themselves in hot water for saying stupid things on television, followed by apologies, more or less, for "misspeaking." A Washington Post article about the good doctors starts with this:
Dr. Phil had much to say about the coronavirus lockdown the other night on Fox News.
“Look, the fact of the matter is we have people dying — 45,000 people a year die from automobile accidents, 480,000 from cigarettes,” the talk-show host said Thursday, “but we don’t shut the country down for that. But yet we’re doing it for this?”
Social media quickly erupted with fury and derision as viewers pointed out the hopeless apples-to-orangeness of his argument: Cars and tobacco aren’t exactly communicable diseases; and both, in fact, have inspired extensive government regulations to limit injuries and death. (The TV shrink was also widely mocked for making a comparison to swimming-pool deaths using a bogus statistic inflated by a factor of nearly 100.)
But the interview raised deeper concerns: Why was Dr. Phil — not a medical doctor but a clinical psychologist with no special knowledge about the politics, science or economics of the shutdown — on a TV news channel talking about the topic in the first place?
Like Drs. Drew [Pinsky] and Oz before him, Phil McGraw was on TV, it seems, largely because he’s a articulate, charismatic and well-known TV personality. But none of that amounts to expertise on this particular topic. In fact, in recent TV appearances to discuss the pandemic, fellow celebrity doctors Drew Pinsky and Mehmet Oz have offered commentary based on a loose or seemingly wobbly understanding of the crisis — arguably doing more to undermine public understanding than enhance it.
All three have since walked back their statements. (Read the entire article here.)
CNN piled on with an article titled "Fox News keeps inviting TV doctors on air who say crazy things," read that here.
Stories that appear on the new cover will be highlighted in green.
Last year at this time: The Beautiful Issue, dated May 6, 2019
This is the final version of last year's Beautiful issue:
Update: Val Kilmer. His memoir, titled I'm Your Huckleberry, is out today; he reprises his role as Iceman in the upcoming Top Gun sequel, which is now scheduled to open in December
Update #2. It is the Beautiful issue, featuring Goldie Hawn, Kate Hudson and her daughter Rani:
Issue dated May 4, 2020: The Beautiful Issue
This is the final version of the cover, with secondary headlines featuring Harry & Meghan and a story about a nurse treating coronavirus patients:
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