Table of contents for July 4, 2022 in Globe

FORMER ladies man John Mellencamp has a long list of gorgeous girlfriends, but the Jack & Diane singer’s desperate for love after his recent romances went belly up, sources say. The 70-year-old Small Town rocker’s last love was realtor Natasha Barrett, 47, but their May 2021 romance crashed after just four months — and now the three-times-divorced father of five is having a tough time landing a date, spies say. “A few months ago, John didn’t seem worried,” blabs an insider. “He was taking it all in his stride, but the failures are piling up. “Natasha, his ex Nurse Jamie and on-again, offagain old flame Meg Ryan as well as the women he’s tried to court won’t touch him with a ten-foot pole!” Ironically, his career is going great guns. “His…

SAVORING victory over ex Amber Heard in his defamation suit, Johnny Depp now plans a revenge tell-all to shred the two-faced Tinseltown A-listers who dumped him in his time of crisis, sources say. The 59-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean sensation started the memoir detailing his 2017 split with Amber, 36, and has already written more than 300 pages, according to friends. “Now the stage is set for Johnny to correct the many myths about his life,” spills an insider. “He’s never had the time before.” Depp plans to bare his traumatic childhood when he was battered by his mother’s verbal and physical abuse, detail the highs and lows of his Hollywood career, and reveal all his explosive love affairs, feuds and addictions, the insider tattles. Of course, Johnny will zero…

TALK about keeping it all in the family! Watch What Happens Live host ANDY COHEN, 54, reveals his two test tube miracle babies, BEN, 3, and infant LUCY are in fact “biological siblings” born via different surrogate mothers — and he’s got more of their frozen embryo sibs on ice for a rainy day! “I have a few. I can’t remember. I think I have three left?” admits the Bravo chatterbox. “You know what I’m thinking? This is crazy, but if either of them cannot have kids, maybe in 20 years they’ll defrost their sibling and raise them. Is that a weird thought?” Kinda.…

JUSTIN BIEBER’s face has been paralyzed by a rare virus forcing the pop music prince to cancel concerts amid fears his career is in jeopardy! In a shocking social media video, the 28-year-old Love Yourself singer showed the extent of the damage — he was unable to blink his right eye and couldn’t move that side of his face. “The virus attacks the nerves in my ear and my facial nerves and has caused my face to have paralysis,” he reveals. “Can’t believe I’m saying this. I’ve done everything to get better, but my sickness is getting worse.” As a result, Bieber canceled dates on his Justice World Tour to recover from Ramsay Hunt syndrome, caused by the chickenpox and shingles virus. Symptoms can include drooping facial muscles, ringing in…

KNOCKOUT Lucy Lawless is best known as the sword-swinging leading lady in Xena: Warrior Princess. But the 54-year-old actress and singer hasn’t slowed down since the syndicated TV series ended in 2001. She’s racked up notable credits in shows including Battlestar Galactica, Salem and Spartacus: Blood and Sand. This summer, the New Zealand native is voicing the habit-wearing villain Nunchuk in the animated flick Minions: The Rise of Gru. Here are ten things you don’t know about Lucy. 1 She overcame a childhood bout with the eating disorder bulimia. 2 Lucy wanted to be an opera singer until she was 16. 3 She won the 1989 Mrs. New Zealand competition at age 21, a year after marrying first husband Garth Lawless — who she’d divorce in 1995. 4 In 1991,…

POT-PUFFING rapper and entrepreneur Snoop Dogg is helping his personal blunt roller live the high life — by giving the guy a raise! The I Love Weed performer, who’s said to be worth $150 million, clapped back at a social media post claiming he paid his jointmaking staffer between $40,000 and $50,000 by writing: “Inflation. Their salary went up!!” The Smoke Weed Every Day artist, 50, has praised the dedicated dope pro — who he refuses to identify — for keeping life rolling for him and his posse with his “impeccable” knack for knowing when anyone wants to light up! The busy marijuana mogul, who’s invested millions in cannabis companies, says in addition to greenbacks, his PBR — professional blunt roller — also gets to smoke as much pot as…

FRISBEE fanatic Sean Thomas McGuinness, who made an honest living retrieving flying discs from a Florida lake, was gobbled up by a gator while trying to do his job! The 47-year-old’s gruesome remains were found partially eaten — missing three of his four limbs — in Largo’s Taylor Lake days after he’d waded into murky water to salvage a disc from a nearby frisbee golf course. McGuinness was ambushed and dragged under by a giant man-eater. Derek Erskin, who often visited the area, says Sean was aware of the dangers, but still waded chest-deep into the snake-and gator-infested waters to collect frisbees tossed into the drink by players participating in the funky sport where thrown flying discs replace traditional golf balls. “He was fully aware,” Erskin notes. “He seemed to…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Faced with a cash crisis, it looks like your problems will be solved with an offer from a generous relative. But wait, Ram. This could lead to a future disagreement. You have another choice — ask a savvy Scorpion friend for advice! Seeking romance? Head to the neighborhood block party to find love. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 An Independence Day gathering could lead to a relationship with someone special. Dress up and head to the fireworks! Midweek, Venus urges you to pay extra attention to your sweetie, but you may need to delay plans for a date night until Saturday. Advice about a health woe comes from an Air sign. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 The week kicks off with Lions…

PRICELESS dinosaur fossils are doing a roaring trade on the black market — and some unwitting celebrity collectors have been bitten by costly mistakes and forced to return smuggled relics! In the new sci-fi flick Jurassic World: Dominion, illegal traders buy and sell living dinos. But in reality, experts say sketchy dealers hunt down long-buried bones of the giant beasts and peddle them to deeppocketed dilettantes! A-listers Leonardo DiCaprio, 47, and Nicolas Cage, 58, were both gunning for a Tyrannosaurus bataar skull when the rare fossil came up for sale in 2007. Cage won the bidding battle and forked over a whopping $276,000 — without knowing the 70-million-year-old item was pilfered from Mongolia! “I bought it legally,” says the National Treasure stud, who obtained the piece from a Beverly Hills…

VALERIE BERTINELLI’s hopes for a friendly, stress-free divorce crashed after her ex Tom Vitale challenged their prenup and demanded spousal support, spies dish. Although the pair officially separated in 2019 after eight years of marriage, Valerie, 62, didn’t file divorce papers until May. Now, sources say financial planner Vitale, 58, is playing hardball and making a grab for a hunk of her $20 million fortune, leaving pals fearing the Food Network cooking star and former One Day at a Time sitcom cutie will be dragged through an agonizing ordeal. “Valerie just wants to make it clean and uncomplicated, and Tom seems to have other ideas,” spills an insider. “Friends are saying this is the last thing she needs. This divorce could get ugly very fast.” As GLOBE reported, insiders dish the…

BRITNEY Spears banned her parents, sister and teenage sons from her celebrity-studded wedding, reigniting an ugly family feud, sources tell GLOBE! Scandal-scarred dad Jamie, 69, and mom Lynne Spears, 67, and their younger daughter, Jamie Lynn, 31, were noticeably absent from the June 9 nuptials at Britney’s palatial L.A. home. But the aging pop princess had a ball — dancing in a diamond-encrusted thong — after she tied the knot with muscleman Sam Asghari, 28. However, sources fear Britney stirred up a hornet’s nest by leaving most of her relatives off the guest list, which included Madonna, Drew Barrymore, Selena Gomez and other Tinseltown A-listers. Big brother Bryan Spears, 45, was the only exception to her no-family policy, say sources who note the 40-year-old Toxic singer’s sons, Sean Preston, 16,…

SECURITY cams have caught a terrifying creature — which many claim is a shape-shifting werewolf — on the prowl outside a Texas zoo! Now Amarillo officials are desperately trying to tamp down raising public alarm over the freaky footage — captured around 1:30 a.m. at the Amarillo Zoo — showing a strange beast walking on two legs like a human, but with a wolf’s head! Bureaucrats are suggesting the image could be “a person with a strange hat, “a large coyote on its hind legs” or even a “chupacabra, a legendary vampire-like creature that attacks and drains the blood of cattle and goats.” But a source claims authorities know they’re actually hunting a werewolf-like monster and fear announcing their concerns could trigger real danger by inspiring armed vigilante bands to…

On the heels of calling off their divorce, country star SAM HUNT, 37, and wife HANNAH LEE FOWLER, 33, are in the pink — they welcomed their first child together, daughter LUCY LU. Just weeks after considering a vasectomy, AGT host NICK CANNON, 41, has conceived his ninth child by a fifth woman. Divorcing Vanderpump Rules reality stars KATIE MALONEY, 35, and TOM SCHWARTZ, 39, finally moved out of the marital home they’d shared in Valley Village, Calif. “Closing this chapter on my life feels like attending my own funeral,” laments the former waitress, who filed for divorce in March. SNL comedian COLIN JOST, 39, who wed SCARLETT JOHANSSON in 2020, finally dumped the beloved NYC bachelor pad he bought in 2011. The 1,200-square-foot place sold for $2.23 million, and…

COUNTRY music superstar Toby Keith reveals he’s been secretly battling stomach cancer since last year! The I Love This Bar singer, 60, dropped the bombshell on Instagram telling fans he received the shattering diagnosis last fall. Keith shared, “I’ve spent the last six months receiving chemo, radiation and surgery. So far, so good. I need time to breathe, recover and relax.” The hitmaker also vows to see his fans on the road “sooner rather than later.” But Keith bowed out of his headlining gig at Minnesota’s Lakefront Music Fest a day after his announcement and less than four weeks before the high-profile event! The Nashville powerhouse was slated to tour in support of Peso in My Pocket, his first album in five years. But his publicist Elaine Schock says he…

A TINY town in New York is up in arms over a flub on Jeopardy! that turned them into chopped liver! The question was about a “row” in Long Island’s Garden City, and the correct answer was a “museum” row of three cultural institutions — except they’re actually in the nearby hamlet of Uniondale! Local legislator Siela Bynoe blasted the game show for not giving Uniondale “the full recognition that it deserves.”…

SINFUL church lady Jane Carol Davis siphoned more than $150,000 from a North Carolina house of worship over seven years, lawmen say. Davis, 72, was charged with eight counts of felony embezzlement after board members of Covenant Presbyterian Church went to Winston-Salem police with their suspicions about the former volunteer treasurer. Investigators claim the sticky-fingered senior, who’d also served as choir director and organist, swiped a total of $156,118.83 from Covenant between 2014 and 2021. Davis was hauled off to county jail, given a $250,000 unsecured bond and appointed a public defender. A source claims the silverhair swindler copped to pocketing the cash but declined to comment further. Court records show Davis filed for bankruptcy in 2019, claiming a monthly income of $3,000 and more than $180,000 in debt. Rev. Barbara…

SITCOM queen Fran Drescher says she’ll never get hitched again, but insists she and gay ex-hubby Peter Marc Jacobson are “closer than ever.” The 64-year-old star of The Nanny, which ran from 1993 to 1999 and was created and produced by Peter, says she had lousy “gaydar” and didn’t realize he was homosexual when they first hooked up as 15-year-old sweethearts. They tied the knot at 21 in 1978 and didn’t divorce until 21 years later when he came out as gay in 1999. She credits a former manager, who advised them “to reinvent the relationship and not throw the baby out with the bath water — there is love there,” with keeping their friendship alive through the chaotic divorce. Over the years, Fran confesses she and Peter “kept moving…

IN AN outrageous case of the pot calling the kettle black, former drug and sex junkie Charlie Sheen is blaming ex-wife Denise Richards because their teen daughter’s become a porn princess! Sami Sheen, who turned 18 in March, is now part of the OnlyFans adult website and in her first promo, the bleach blonde appears in a bikini top with the sexy promise: “click the link in my bio if u wanna see more.” Now her dad, HIV-infected former party animal Charlie, 56, is blaming Sami’s mom for the teen’s X-rated tricks. “She is 18 years old now and living with her mother,” he says. “This did not occur under my roof.” And despite his tacky past marked by transsexual trysts, Charlie adds: “I do not condone this, but since…

FOUR decades after a baby girl vanished without a trace in Texas during the brutal murders of her parents — who had ties to a mysterious cult — DNA sleuths found the child all grown up, alive and well in Oklahoma! The missing infant, long known as Baby Holly, is now a 42-year-old married mother of five! The Lone Star State’s attorney general’s office says DNA tracing helped locate the gal and reconnect her with her biological family. “Finding Holly is a birthday present from heaven since we found her on her father’s birthday,” says overjoyed grandma Donna Casasanta. “I prayed for answers for more than 40 years.” Tina Gail Linn, 17, and Harold Dean Clouse Jr., 21, Holly’s birth parents, moved from Florida to Texas with their only child…

HUNKY Bradley Cooper’s Hollywood career almost got snowed under by his cocaine habit while he was down in the dumps over being demoted on TV’s Alias! The A Star Is Born stud, 47, was a major player on the ABC spy series with leading lady Jennifer Garner. But Cooper says being relegated to guest star status during the hit’s third season in 2003 contributed to his “problem with drugs and alcohol.” As he fretted over his floundering professional life, he reveals, “I was so lost, and I was addicted to cocaine.” However, Cooper admits boozing and blow weren’t his only problems as he severed his Achilles tendon — “right after I got firedslash-quit Alias” the very same year. But the American Sniper star soon beat his demons and bounced back…

TOM CRUISE is two times unlucky — he’s gotten the heave-ho for the SECOND time from girlfriend Hayley Atwell, sources dish. Pint-sized Tom, 59, was giving it another go with his Mission: Impossible 7 co-star, 40, after the two ended their first love match in September 2021. But sources say the romantic reboot was truly mission: impossible because of the pressure of being in the media spotlight! “What was working behind closed doors didn’t work out so well when it was made public, and the fanfare around them as a couple exploded again,” says a source. “Unfortunately, it hasn’t worked out. They have now decided they are better as friends.” This second breakup comes just weeks after British actress Hayley walked the red carpet with Tom at May’s London premiere…

PRINCE of Darkness Ozzy Osbourne is writhing in pain from brutal back and neck surgery — and the aftermath will “determine the rest of his life!” The geriatric heavy metal icon underwent a “major operation” on June 13, admits wife Sharon, 69, who flew home to the West Coast from taping her British TalkTV show because “I have to be there!” She and Ozzy’s pregnant daughter Kelly, 37, were seen rushing to his side. “Ozzy is 73 and any kind of surgery when you get older is difficult,” spills a source. “This is quite major. He’s having the pins in his neck and back realigned.” The problem-plagued Black Sabbath frontman endured an all-terrain vehicle collision in 2003 that left him with a broken collarbone, fractured ribs and damaged vertebrae. In…

WRINKLED retiree Charles Hixon made waves at a Florida beach by yanking down his swimsuit and exposing himself to a disgusted 28-year-old gal, authorities say. Tarpon Springs lawmen claim leering Hixon, 64, was in the water “about knee deep wearing a Speedo” before he let it all hang out at Sunset Beach. According to an arrest affidavit, the dirty old man made eye contact with the sunbathing beauty and grinned as he manhandled his manhood, and the victim “described his penis as being large, seven to eight inches, and it was similar in color to his body, which was tanned.” Hixon was charged with indecent exposure and released from Pinellas County Jail on a $150 bond — but he insists he got the shaft and didn’t intentionally flash anyone!…

POP icon Diana Ross swore off men years ago, but now at 78, the Baby Love singer’s looking good and prowling for a toyboy and a sizzling final fling, insiders say. The twice-divorced diva is pumped to meet some eligible younger men after her showstopping turn at Queen Elizabeth’s Platinum Jubilee June 4 — her first performance in 15 years, sources dish. “She’s kept herself in good shape, as her Jubilee concert proved,” spills an insider. “She’s recently added a list of beauty rituals to glam up — new clothes, switching up her exercise program, beauty treatments and a few nip/tucks, though she’d never admit it. “Friends have been urging her to get out there again, and she’s feeling it too.” The Endless Love singer hasn’t had a serious romance…

FRIENDS star Jennifer Aniston ignited an A-bomb of outrage after whining celebrities “who are famous for doing nothing” are hurting talented stars. The 53-year-old kicked the hornet’s nest on Variety’s Actors on Actors series, where she complained working actors were hurt by celebs who didn’t earn their fame — like President Clinton’s White House mistress Monica Lewinsky and rich girl sex tape babe Paris Hilton — who are "having these incredible careers.” Her comments ignited a Twitter backlash with posters slamming her as a “nepotism baby” who owed her career to showbiz parents, Days of Our Lives star John Aniston and actress Nancy Dow. “Always the NEPOTISM babies with no talent wanting to give their take,” fires one poster. Another notes her parents’ connections got her “$20 million per year…

ESTEEMED British actress Emma Thompson has gotten herself into a hairy situation after filming her first nude scene at age 63 — she’s in a lather over women being “brainwashed” into getting rid of their pubic hair! “I deeply regret the demise of the full bush,” says the Oscar-winning Cruella star. “I think it’s a great shame. It’s just sad, isn’t it?” In Good Luck to You, Leo Grande, Emma strips for the camera, playing a 55-year-old woman who hires a sex worker to help her achieve orgasm for the first time. And although it saddens her that women today wax, pluck, shave and laser to maintain pubic “landing strips” and less, she admits she is not “entirely comfortable” with her own body hair and regularly shaves some of it…

MICHELLE OBAMA and hubby Barack Obama are leading increasingly separate lives as the former first lady concentrates on winning celebrity pals in her determined drive to be Hollywood’s queen bee wheeler-dealer, insiders say. While Michelle, 58, spends much of her time in Tinseltown with her Higher Ground production company or gallivanting around the country like a single gal, Barack, 60, camps out in D.C. with political cronies and fatcats. Sources squeal Michelle has totally seized the production company’s reins and has been schmoozing as many A-list pals as she can — rubbing shoulders with Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck, Taylor Swift, and Barbra Streisand and her husband, James Brolin. “She’s accepting invites without Barack, hobnobbing with celebrities and hosting private luncheons and dinners in L.A.,” spills an insider. As GLOBE has…