Table of contents for May 2, 2022 in Globe

AILING Queen Elizabeth is hiding that she’s in such frail shape, she’s secretly using a mobility scooter to get around behind closed doors, palace sources say. Rather than reveal her weakened condition, sources say the image-conscious monarch, who just turned 96, is canceling public appearances — while zipping around on a motorized scooter at her cavernous royal residences. But even when Elizabeth makes do without her wheels, Her Majesty needs a cane to walk. “It comes down to mobility,” tattles royal expert and TV pundit Robert Jobson. “Sometimes she is more mobile than others. When she can walk with a stick, they make the arrangements accordingly. “Other times it’s not so easy.” The queen’s been adamant she will NOT look like an invalid while carrying out official duties — like…

FOX News blowhard Tucker Carlson has been crushing on Nicki Minaj for months, according to sources who say he’s finally beginning to creep out the rapper and her protective hubby! As GLOBE previously reported, insiders say the highest-rated loudmouth on cable news has been trying to get the curvy songbird’s attention since last October when he tried to use her as an ally in his anti-COVID vaccine crusade. “Nicki may have retweeted Tucker that one time but she’s the furthest thing you could get from an actual fan,” dishes an insider. “She finds him very annoying and has never given him the time of day. “But that hasn’t stopped him from messaging her. She’s never answered one of his DMs but he doesn’t get the hint.” The married 52-year-old pundit isn’t…

HIV-infected NBA icon MAGIC JOHNSON says handling his son EJ’s homosexuality wasn’t an easy task. “When you grow up in team sports, you’re thinking, ‘Is he gonna play sports?’” says Magic, 62. “Then when I saw that he liked dolls and to play dress-up, ‘What are you doing?’ ” EJ, now 29, spills, “I was out to all my friends” but his mom, COOKIE, and dad “were the last people” to find out. “They had to really take that in and digest it. Especially my dad, because he was really the last person to talk to. … And he just was rattling off about things that weren’t particularly nice. But he’s not somebody who works great being cornered or surprised.” EJ, who came out publicly in 2013, dishes, “He’d come…

FLIRTY fashion designer Julia Haart had sex at Italy’s Trevi Fountain with a boyfriend — and achieved orgasm despite being surrounded by a crowd of tourists! Haart comes clean about the shocking hookup in her memoir Brazen. “Throngs of people surround the fountain,” recalls the 51-year-old inspiration for the Netflix show My Unorthodox Life. “Then I felt his hand reaching under my miniskirt, and before I knew what was happening, he was inside me! It was crazy.”…

BRITNEY SPEARS’ family isn’t done soaking her! Her mom, 66-year-old Lynne, has gone to court with a laundry list of reasons why the 40-year-old pop tart should pick up Lynne’s $660,000-plus legal fees! Britney finally got free last September from the toxic conservatorship — overseen by dad Jamie, 69 — that ruled her life for 13 years. “Within one month of Lynne Spears becoming formally involved, the personal restrictions on [Britney] began to be removed,” Lynne’s counsel claims.…

GERMAN tennis great Boris Becker got the backhand from a London jury that found him guilty of secretly hiding assets and squirreling away hundreds of thousands of dollars while filing for bankruptcy! The onetime “Baron von Slam” now faces up to seven years in the grand slammer after being convicted under the Insolvency Act for removing property, concealing debt and two counts of failing to disclose his real assets. The court found the 54-year-old former world champ stashed cash in accounts owned by exes Barbara and Sharlely and was shady about German property holdings, stocks and a $1 million bank loan. But Becker was acquitted on 20 other counts. This isn’t the first time Becker has run into problems handling his volatile tennis fortune! In October 2002 the Munich District…

TV’S Medicine Woman Jane Seymour’s boast she never had plastic surgery got under 88-year-old nature girl Joan Collins’ skin, triggering a fiery feud over nip/tucks. When the 71-year-old Bond girl bragged online, “I am unusual in Hollywood in not having work done,” Dynasty vixen Collins called foul — because Jane has had cosmetic surgery — a boob job and an eye lift — and even copped to the procedures in the past! Cougar Collins, wed to Percy Gibson 56, staunchly defends her status as a filler-and surgery-free Hollywood diva and clapped back at Seymour sniping, “I am another actress in Hollywood who hasn’t had any ‘work’ done — there are many of us!” Says a source, “Joan wasn’t going to sit back and let Jane get away with this hypocrisy.…

JAUNTY Gene Kelly’s widow has thrown a wet blanket over actress Debbie Reynolds’ longtime claims about what it was like to work with the renowned hoofer on Singin’ in the Rain! Patricia Ward Kelly, 63 — who married Gene in 1990, six years before he died at 83 — says Debbie told tall tales about the beloved 1952 musical. “Most of what she said about it was fabricated and would change over the years,” dishes Patricia. Former GLOBE advice columnist Debbie, who died in 2016 at 84, often said Gene rehearsed her until her feet were bloody and made her smile so much she thought her face would crack. But Patricia says that’s hogwash: “A lot of the myths get printed in books and get taken down as fact and…

KOURTNEY Kardashian’s greedy demands for a mega-bucks spinoff with fake hubby Travis Barker is driving her mastermind mom and reality star sisters to the edge, insiders say. The twosome are deep in talks for a TV spinoff and the publicity triggered by their April 3 Las Vegas wedding hoax has only served to increase their craving for skyhigh perks, spies dish. “They want a paycheck in the high six-figure territory for each of them, plus the best team of scriptwriters money can buy,” spills an insider. “They want a bunch of other perks that would ultimately make them the king and queen bee of reality TV and breakaway stars in their own right — with fully staffed offices and catered meetings. “They’re even nitpicking down to the vending machines.” All…

SONGBIRD Miley Cyrus’ parents, Billy Ray and Tish, haven’t been seen in public together for two years and now we know why — she’s clobbered him with divorce papers after three decades of marriage. Tish, 54, mom of five of his kids including Miley, 29, and youngest Noah, 22, says she and the 60-year-old Achy Breaky Heart crooner haven’t been living together since before 2020. She cites “irreconcilable differences” and asks for an equal split of assets. This is the third time the pair, who got hitched in their Franklin, Tenn., living room in 1993, have tried to end the marriage. He filed in 2010 and she in 2013, but each time, the divorce was called off. Miley’s marriage to actor Liam Hemsworth lasted just ten months when she left…

Retired soccer stud DAVID BECKHAM and posh wife VICTORIA BECKHAM celebrated their 23-year-old son BROOKLYN’s marriage to billionaire heiress NICOLA PELTZ at a star-studded wedding in Palm Beach. AVRIL LAVIGNE, 37, says she’s engaged to rocker MOD SUN, 35, after “the most perfect, romantic proposal. We were in Paris on a boat in the Seine River. We had a violin player, champagne and roses.” The Sk8er Boi songbird’s already skated down the aisle twice before. SNL funnyman KENAN THOMPSON, 43, and wife CHRISTINA EVANGELINE, 33, are divorcing after ten-plus years of marriage. Ain’t no rumor! ANDREW GARFIELD, 38, and girlfriend ALYSSA MILLER, 32, are indeed kaput, despite a weird post from the model making their bust-up appear untrue. “If you must gossip at least use a cute photo. Lol love…

REALITY star Braunwyn Windham-Burke brags she has gay sex “10 times a day” and raves about “15-minute orgasms” with her model-dancer galpal — when she’s not at home with her ex-husband and their seven kids. Incredibly, the 44-year-old, former Real Housewives of Orange County blonde splits her time between a Brooklyn love nest with 34-year-old Brazilian-born Victoria Brito and her Newport Beach, Calif., home with her ex and their kids. She boasts about her romps with Victoria, gushing: “The sex is next level. She gives it to me in little doses. She’s like, ‘If I did it all at once, you might die.’ We have sex 10 times a day, 15-minute orgasms. “That’s not normal. I’m like a 15-year-old boy.” As for her time with her ex, “we’ve had to…

JAPAN’s former Princess Mako, who gave up a world of luxury and a family fortune to wed her commoner boyfriend, now lives a simple life in the Big Apple working as an unpaid museum volunteer! The 30-year-old beauty actually turned down a $1.3 million payout to get hitched to Kei Komuro, 30, who flopped in his first try at the New York State bar exam. They live in a one-bedroom apartment. While he studies, she passes time at the Metropolitan Museum of Art working on a display of a 13th century Japanese monk.…

SPOOKED Mira Sorvino claims she once saw a UFO — “for real!” The Shining Vale star, 54, says the sighting occurred in 2018 as she stayed in a Malibu Hills rental. The Oscar-winning actress recalls waking in the middle of the night and witnessing a pinkish ball that “zoomed over the ocean” and hung in the sky for two minutes before disappearing! Mira insists the object must be alien because “there is nothing else to explain it.”…

A TEXAS man who bugged out when he and his roommate argued over mosquitoes is behind bars after police say he repeatedly clobbered his pal in the head with a stick! Victor Symone Shavers, 43, faces an aggravated assault rap for the incident cops say began with a disagreement about what the bloodsucking insects look like! Shavers’ roomie, whose name was withheld by police, apparently defended himself from the buzzing blows by grabbing a metal bat from his closet and swatting back! Dallas police who arrived at the scene of the 2 a.m. beatdown found both guys covered in blood, according to an arrest affidavit. Shavers suffered a cut to the back of his head and a possibly broken hand, while the housemate — who said Shavers flew into a rage…

SOAP siren Kelly Monaco has been in a tailspin since ex-beau Heath Freeman’s fatal overdose last November, according to pals who are desperate to help the shattered General Hospital beauty. Although the 45-year-old hottie broke up with Freeman, who played Howard Epps on Bones, in 2014, spies dish she’s still fixated on him and convinced he was her one true love! “He was one of her best friends so his sudden death hit her very, very hard,” says a source. “She’s been totally grief-stricken for months.” The never-wed former Playboy model just obsesses over her ex and what might have been — if their four-year romance endured, the source says. “She’s started saying Heath was her soulmate, that she made the biggest mistake by breaking up with him,” says the…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Shhh … keep plans to yourself during Monday’s cosmic clash when sharing will only lead to impediments — possibly from those close to you. Instead, work behind the scenes and you’ll achieve amazing things. Later, look for romance to bloom where friendship is planted — say yes to coffee or cocktails. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 There’s a silver lining in Monday’s cloud, Twin, and it leads to an opportunity to boost your income. Even if you feel unsure of your abilities, say yes. Midweek’s Cancer moon puts you in a domestic mood — cleaning suddenly seems fun. The weekend brings surprising news of a marriage or elopement. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Cosmic hookups highlight finances, boosting your ability to plan…

THE Arizona Diamondbacks’ rookie left fielder Seth Beer hit a game-winning homer on, wait for it, National Beer Day! Heady stuff! Manhattan’s new 84-story Steinway Tower is the world’s skinniest building, measuring 60 feet wide while soaring to 1,438 feet. Apartments start at $1.6 million! More proof politicians are strange: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz delights in “the fart noise” made by the seats in Tesla’s electric cars. He calls it “a pretty cool feature.” The human tongue is covered in 8,000 tastebuds and, by the way, the bumps are not actually tastebuds! O.J. SIMPSON almost played The Terminator but director James Cameron didn’t think the “likable, goofy, kind of innocent guy” would make a believable assassin!…

DISGRACED thug Will Smith has been clobbered with a double blow — he’s been banned from the Oscars for a decade and his long-time wife, Jada Pinkett Smith, is confessing she never wanted to marry him! The 50-year-old Matrix babe was 26 and preggers with their first child, Jaden, and openly wept when she reluctantly walked down the aisle in 1997. “I really didn’t wanna get married,” she says. “And I was so upset that I had to have a wedding. I was so pissed I went crying down the freaking aisle. I cried the whole way down the aisle.” Jada made her shocking confession on her Red Table Talk podcast with Will, 53, their daughter, Willow, 21, and her mom, Adrienne Banfield-Norris, 68, who she calls “Gammy.” Jada, who…

SENSITIVE songbird Cher, who made headlines by rescuing the world’s loneliest elephant, is on a new crusade — insiders say the bighearted superstar wants to adopt two orphans at age 75! Sources tell GLOBE Cher’s already reached out to organizations specializing in placing refugee children from war-torn Ukraine and regions ravaged by famine and disease. “She can’t sit by and watch,” spills an insider. “She has a huge house in Malibu and the means to give these kids everything they need, from practical things to hugs and compassion. Suddenly, everything in life that was giving her stress doesn’t matter so much!” As GLOBE previously reported, sources say Cher’s sex-swapping son, Chaz Bono, 53, recently threw her a curveball when he banned his mom from meddling in his wedding to Shara…

JESSE JAMES GUNS FOR PORN STAR WIFE Remember how Monster Garage reality star mechanic JESSE JAMES broke his third wife SANDRA BULLOCK’s heart back in 2010 with shocking revelations he’d been cheating on America’s Sweetheart just days after she’d won an Oscar? Welp, that guy, now 52, is revving to marry anew, this time popping the question to porn star BONNIE ROTTEN, 28. It’ll be his fifth marriage, but more interestingly, the second time he’s exchanged wedding vows with an adult film actress! The first was wife No. 2, JANINE LINDEMULDER. “I knew the moment I met you I wanted to spend every single day with you,” gushes his latest blushing bride-to-be, whose real name is Alaina Hicks. “I can’t wait for the rest of our awesome lives together, I’ve…

SCREEN superhero Benedict Cumberbatch returns as Marvel’s mystic do-gooder Stephen Strange in Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness. But according to Cumberbatch, 45, the flick may not be his last turn as the Sorcerer Supreme “as long as the character is interesting and challenging and doing fantastic things.” Here are ten things you don’t know about the London-born performer. 1 Depending on the light, his eyes may look green or blue due to his multicolored irises — a condition called sectoral heterochromia. 2 He’s the second cousin 16 times removed of 15th century English monarch Richard III, the last of the Plantagenet dynasty. 3 Before going to college, he taught English at a Tibetan monastery in India. 4 Benedict initially planned to become a lawyer because acting makes it…

SICKO sex fiend Steven Ray Hessler was socked with a 650-year prison sentence for a series of brutal home invasion rapes in Indiana after DNA collected from a water bill sent his freedom down the drain! Hessler, 59, “terrorized” Shelby County from 1982 to 1985 by “breaking into several homes in the middle of the night while armed and wearing a mask, and attacking, raping, binding, threatening, and sexually torturing several local women” — including a 16-year-old girl, according to prosecutor Brad Landwerlen. The monster also pistol-whipped one male victim so badly, the guy spent months in a coma and had to relearn how to talk. The man is now confined to a wheelchair. Lawmen flushed out hellish Hessler using genealogical DNA information to identify him as a suspect. His fate…

FALLEN reality star Kate Gosselin has plunged from riches to rags — after earning six figures as a TV glamour gal she’s now pulling 12-hour shifts as a nurse. A source snitches the 47-year-old former star of Jon & Kate Plus 8 is now “living a ‘normal’ life out of the spotlight in North Carolina. She’s on her feet for hours each day, and it’s hardly glamorous or fun. “People would be shocked to see her now with no makeup, no hair extensions, her roots growing in and the weight coming back on. “But she lost her cushy gig with TLC and has all these kids to feed.” Kate was forced back to her former medical career after getting canned by the TLC network in late 2019. She was fired…

TODAY show star Savannah Guthrie’s queen bee attitude is rocking her marriage, say sources who insist the TV beauty’s hubby, Michael Feldman, is madder than a hornet! Although Michael runs a PR and consulting firm, Savannah, 50, wears the pants, leaving her 53-year-old mate to look after daughter Vale, 7, and son Charles, 5 — and it’s starting to trigger resentment, say sources. “Savannah loves him dearly and loves being a mom, but her fierce drive to succeed is pushing Michael’s buttons and he’s sick of it,” says an insider. “She loves to rave about what a wonderful husband she has and how great he is with everything from taking care of their kids to fixing things around the house, and it’s true, he is,” spills an insider. “Trouble is,…