Jennifer Garner has been doing the talk show circuit to promote her role in Danny Collins, with Al Pacino, Annette Bening and Bobby Cannavale. It’s about an aging rockstar (Pacino) taking stock of his life and just came out this week. Garner plays his daughter-in-law. The above photo is of Garner at the premiere a couple of days ago. Her styling is ok and I like the cut of that gown, but it’s very plain. She has a tendency to go for solid colors and black on the red carpet and I wish she would mix it up a little.

In Garner’s appearance on The Today Show earlier this week, she wore a little red dress that would have been a better choice for the premiere. She also started crying when she talked about her Southern Living photoshoot with her mom and sisters. It was hard to watch her try to keep it together, and then she explained that she was upset over two earlier sad segments which had just aired. Here’s what she said and you can watch the video below.

During a chat with TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie, Garner opened up about her feelings for family, and she didn’t hold anything back — not even tears.

“There’s just nothing like sharing the spotlight or anything else with your sisters and your mom,” she said when discussing the recent Southern Living photo shoot she did with her family. “It’s always fun for me to get my sisters dolled up and my mom.”

With that sweetly sentimental mention, Garner couldn’t help but cry a bit. But as it turned out, there was more to the waterworks than just that.

The star shared that not only is her mother, Patricia, feeling under the weather today (get well soon, Mom!), but Garner had just watched two particularly moving moments on TODAY.

“You showed those babies and Leah Still,” she said of TODAY’s stories on a recently widowed father who’s raising his newborn quadruplets on his own and Devon Still’s daughter’s battle against cancer. “I just watched it, and I can’t even take it.”

Garner smiled through her tears, and while she offered up an apology for crying, we can’t imagine a reason to be sorry. If anything, we just find her even more lovable and relatable than ever before.

“We just took a vote,” Matt Lauer said as the interview came to a close. “We just put Jennifer in the list of best guests ever.”

[From The Today Show]

I’m a cryer like that. I cry at commercials, at stories on the radio (this made me cry this morning but I told myself it was the Zyrtec) and especially if I’m talking about anyone who died. This reminds me of how Angelina Jolie usually cries when she talks about her departed mom. I hope Garner’s mom is ok and that she was really getting choked up over the show.

Meanwhile Garner was also on Jimmy Fallon, where she told a funny story about how one of her daughters (she didn’t specify which one) insisted on being carried after another baby came along. She also said that her kids regularly pinch each other. One complaint about Garner’s appearance on Fallon – it was St. Patrick’s Day and she wasn’t wearing green! Maybe they taped it ahead of time and she didn’t realize it would air on St. Patrick’s Day. Otherwise there is no excuse for not wearing green.

Here’s the video clip:

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Here’s the coat Garner wore to the premiere. Um, it’s fashionable I guess.

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Ray Donovan star Liev Schreiber went out for a spin with his sons – Sasha, 7, and Kai, 6 – in Santa Monica, Calif. on Thursday (March 19).

With the boys riding on the back of dad’s bike, the actor, 47, enjoyed an afternoon pedal with his growing sons.

Mama, St. Vincent actress Naomi Watts, was not spotted with her boys.

Naomi’s mother Myfanwy Edwards recently opened up to Daily Mail Australia about her famous daughter and beloved son-in-law.

“He’s [Liev is] a great, very intelligent, wonderful guy and great father,” she said. “He makes magic for the children on a daily basis. He’s got stories and fires their imagination. He’s solid, he’s a great guy, a real New Yorker who has a lot of integrity. He’s definitely a strong father figure for her [Naomi].”

Naomi’s father, Pete Watts, died of a heroin overdose when she was just 7-years-old.

“It left scars,” her mother shared. “It was a shock, his death made Naomi incredibly determined. It had a profound effect on her, as it did on the entire family.”

The actress used her heartbreak to help her with movie roles, such as the 2003 drama 21 Grams.

“With Naomi, it’s [Pete’s death has] been an enormous help for her films like 21 Grams … that emotion is buried in there, she uses it, she can work with that,” she said. “It’s a terrible thing to happen to anyone, especially at that age when she needed her dad. We had no inkling he was using heroin at all.”

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It looks like Billy Ray Cyrus is going to get replaced.

Recently, Miley Cyrus took to her Instagram account to show off some more hilarious Photoshopped pictures. This time, she shared a couple pictures in which she takes the place of North West. Yes, they’re just as hilarious as they sound! In the first picture, we have Kim Kardashian holding North West, but with Miley’s head photoshopped over North West’s. She captioned the photo:

“Mom.”

In the next picture, we have Kanye West holding onto North West, but once again, Miley photoshopped her head over North West’s. She captioned the photo:

“Dad.”

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There are a bunch of Eva Mendes stories out there this week, which just goes back to my theory that Eva is ready to get back in the gossip saddle, so to speak. She was like this before her pregnancy – playing little games with the press about what she would and would not confirm, managing to let everyone know that Ryan Gosling was her lover but how dare you ask about him! I guess she plays that game pretty well, because some people are buying it. Anyway, these stories aren’t as exciting as yesterday’s “sweatpants lead to divorce,” (she later said it was a joke) but there’s some half-way interesting stuff. Here are some stories making the rounds.

Eva Wants Esmeralda To Get Pap’d. Star Magazine says that now that Esmeralda is getting older, Eva is more comfortable with the idea of bringing the baby outside, even if that means the baby gets photographed by paparazzi. Star says Ryan hates that idea because he doesn’t want Esme to become an “accessory” like North West. Sources say Ryan is the one obsessed with security and privacy and Eva would be fine with showing the baby off a little bit. I kind of believe that.

Eva Loves Footrubs. Like, she really loves them. According to the National Enquirer, she’s so obsessed with footrubs, she hosts all-ladies parties to compare footrubbing tips and exchange actual foot rubs. This sounds totally made up.

Eva Hates Workouts. Eva told E! News this week that “I am not the girl who’s like, ‘Oh yeah, I gotta get my workout in today.’ That is not me. It’s something I accepted quite a few years ago. I was like, ‘OK, this has to be part of my life. Just to stay healthy.’ But working out, it’s not fun. It’s not fun. My entire day is planned on how can I get out of my workout. Like, if I’m even running five minutes late I will text my [my trainer], I’ll be like, ‘I’m on the 101, it doesn’t look like I’ll be getting to you on time.’ She’s like, ‘That’s OK, I’m here…I don’t have anything after you.’ And I’m like, ‘Ugh! Woman, don’t you have other clients? Don’t you have to go?’” Is that supposed to be a cute story? Because it makes me sympathetic towards Eva’s trainer more than anything else. I mean, the trainer is getting paid no matter what, right? I hope so. Because I would absolutely hate to have Eva as a client or work for her in any capacity.

Eva is a Crazy Cuban. In the same interview, she says that she’s never really calm and relaxed because she’s a “crazy Cuban and I do everything really fast.”

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Eva Mendes’s sweatpants comment made headlines all over the place yesterday. Click here for a refresher. I wrote that it gave us some insight into Ryan Gosling and who he’s in love with.

Ryan Gosling is now giving us some more insight into Ryan Gosling. Because he went on Twitter …      

Parents-to-be Ashlee Simpson and Evan Ross stepped out together on Thursday (March 19). The fit couple were spotted after working out at the Tracy Anderson gym in Studio City, Calif.

Sporting a tank that read “Love Child,” the mom-to-be, 30, wore a tan coat over her workout gear.

The expectant mom recently shared a shot via Instagram while dining with her husband.

“My baby @realevanross is trying to do a #selfie but I’m super focused on the menu. #breakfastforourbaby,” she captioned the image.

This will be the first child – a girl – for Ashlee and her newlywed husband, 26, whom she wed on Aug. 30.

She is already mom to 6-year-old son Bronx with ex-husband, Fall Out Boy rocker Pete Wentz.

My baby @realevanross is trying to do a #selfie but I’m super focused on the menu. #breakfastforourbaby

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Boy band drama! Fair warning — I’m well over the age of 25, talking about One Direction, and clearly out of my element. Looking at the above photo, I can readily pick out Harry Styles on the left (the one with pretty hair). The dude on the right is Niall Horan (the one with a reputation for stealing people’s girlfriends). This story is about the guy in the middle, Zayn Malik, who just left the band’s world tour to return home. The official word from 1D’s PR rep is that “Zayn has been signed off with stress and is flying back to the UK to recuperate.” He may return to the tour after a few shows, or he may have quit the band.

Zayn’s departure might be an after effect of a cheating scandal. Zayn, 22, is currently engaged to Perrie Edwards of the girl band Little Mix. For Perrie’s 21st birthday last year, Zayn pulled the Bieber-esque move of renting out an entire funfair as a romantic gesture. But of course … he’s a boy band member, so there are complications and groupie rumors. Zayn snapped back on Twitter “I’m 22 years old … I love a girl named Perrie Edwards. And there’s a lot of jealous f***s in this world I’m sorry for what it looks like x.”

The Mail has photos of Zayn returning home (where he shares a house with Perrie). Shortly after, Perrie was spotted leaving the premises with a packed bag. People published some statements from the 1D guys, who are worried about Zayn:

After taking a break from One Direction’s On the Road Again world tour due to stress, Zayn Malik is back in the United Kingdom to spend time with his family.

Set to perform in the Philippines this weekend without him, “the rest of the guys are really worried about him but disappointed he’s not there,” a source close to the band tells PEOPLE. “Their main concern is they want him to get better.”

Adds our source: “They don’t want him to quit. Louis [Tomlinson] is the closet to him and is the most worried.”

Though Malik, 22, is the one who “struggles dealing with being in the spotlight the most,” as a source previously revealed to PEOPLE, he reached his limit on Wednesday, when photos of him looking close to a female fan hit the Internet.

[From People]

Is this a simple case of stress brought on by Zayn’s personal life … or something else? I understand there are also drug rumors. During the band’s recent Phillipines tour stop, Zayn and Louis Tomlinson were required to post bonds promising they wouldn’t use or promote illegal drugs. The two joked about their hand-rolled ciggies (ahem) in the 1D documentary, so who knows. Hopefully, Zayn will get the help he needs to deal with this upheaval.

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We’ve known that it’s James for a while now. But we’ve never heard it from Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds…until now.

Reynolds is doing press for The Woman In Gold, opening April 1. Jesus, it is April already???

Anyway, during an interview with The Today Show, Ryan…      

Scandal Season 4 Episode 16 recap.

Would it have been different without the wig?

If she hadn’t had the wig, would this episode have been a little more straightforward and a little less camp? Or were we always going to have the giggles every time Sue walked into the room? I mean, the…      

Like father, like son.

Grammy Award-winning singer Shakira shared a precious photo comparing her son Sasha, 7 weeks, and football beau Gerard Piqué.

The picture includes the words, “De tal palo tal astilla,” which is a commonly used expression in Colombia highlighting a similarity between a child and parent.

The Colombian pop star, 38, is celebrating El Día del Padre, or Father’s Day in Spain. “Padre e hijo. Feliz día del padre! Shak,” she captioned the Instagram post.

Baby Sasha joins big brother, 2-year-old Milan.

Prior to her second son’s birth, she shared: “I would love to have eight or nine kids with Gerard. My own fútbol team.”

Padre e hijo Feliz día del padre! Shak

A photo posted by Shakira (@shakira) on Mar 19, 2015 at 3:32pm PDT