Table of contents for October 7, 2024 in Globe

SHE’S NO SLOUCH! Flexing TORI SPELLING looks ready to arm wrestle her dance partner on her way to DWTS rehearsals CHECKERED HISTORY! Ghostly MIA FARROW wears plaid on plaid in a fashion mis-statement THE CRUTCH OF THE MATTER Shock rocker ALICE COOPER’s Freaks on Parade show limps along in Austin, Texas TULLE-ING AROUND! Real estate magnate and Shark Tank titan BARBARA CORCORAN unveils a shocking road map — on her legs FROTHING AT THE MOUTH! JASON ALDEAN gives himself a beer moustache during a family outing to Disneyland LENO’S BINGE-WATCH Former late-night gabber JAY LENO adds another timepiece to his collection — but it looks like time is not on his side…

ROCKER Bruce Springsteen is heaping praise on wife Patti Scialfa after she publicly revealed her yearslong battle with blood cancer and insiders say the fearful music icon is dropping everything to help her win her battle with the vicious killer. “Health scares like this are not a drill for Bruce — he takes these things incredibly seriously and not just because he’s lost a lot of friends over the years,” reveals an insider. “Bruce is a big believer in putting health first, above everything, and in NOT trying to run a tour or a business when you’re battling something as serious as cancer.” The Boss’s new documentary, Road Diary: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, revealed his wife of 33 years has been battling multiple myeloma since 2018. Patti, 71,…

ACCUSED of being a violent and disgusting sex fiend who beat, terrorized and trafficked victims, billionaire music mogul Sean “Diddy” Combs claims he’s innocent and his high-priced attorney Marc Agnifilo vowed to “fight like hell” to keep the former boyfriend of Jennifer Lopez out of the slammer. The 54-year-old musicworld fat cat was busted by Homeland Security agents in a New York hotel on Sept. 16 following raids by the FBI on his homes in Beverly Hills and Miami in March during a sex trafficking probe where officers seized machine gun–like AR-15 rifles from the closet in the Florida residence among other evidence. Now a federal indictment clobbers Diddy with accusations of racketeering conspiracy, sex trafficking by force, fraud or coercion, and transportation to engage in prostitution, the charges spanning…

TENNIS ace Serena Williams has suffered from migraines for years, and now she has another headache — the FDA has told pharma giant AbbVie to stop running the ad for Ubrelvy that features the Grand Slam legend. The watchdog agency says the commercial for the migraine drug “makes false or misleading representation” that implies “all patients who take Ubrelvy can expect their migraine pain to be eliminated after a single dose.” Recent research found it only prevented the severe headaches in 65 percent of study participants.…

TOM CRUISE is definitely a Top Gun to Olympic bigwigs, who praise the 62-year-old star for doing his daredevil stunt — descending by rope from a stadium roof at the close of the Paris 2024 Games — for free! Of course, Tom Terrific already has $600 million in the bank! Singer CARDI B, 31, welcomed her third child — a girl — with estranged hubby rapper OFFSET, 32. The amicably split pair also share kids Kulture, 6, and Wave, 3. Without Me songbird HALSEY, 30, and Canadian singer AVAN JOGIA, 32, are an item. “He’s one of the greatest things that ever happened to me,” she purrs. Stunning influencer HOLLY RAMSAY, 24, says “I will” to the proposal of Olympic swimmer ADAM PEATY, 29. “I cannot wait to be your…

THE bride wore an orange jumpsuit — and so did her new husband — when they were thrown in the slammer on charges of mowing down and murdering their groomsman after an “argument” on their wedding day! Michigan newlyweds James Douglas Shirah, 22, and Savanah Nicole Collier, 21, were enjoying a slice at a Flint pizzeria on what should have been the happiest day of their lives when groomsman Terry Lewis Taylor, 29, was found with what cops and prosecutors called “severe injuries” from a crash. Taylor later died in a hospital. “After the wedding, he was involved in an argument, which led to him being intentionally struck by a large SUV that was traveling at a high rate of speed and driven by the groom,” according to a police…

WOW, she’s really got the moves — stunned researchers have found female gibbons are naturally endowed with a huge dance repertoire whose gyrations act like a male monkey magnet! The long-armed lady apes have been observed doing wild, imaginative and super stylish routines described as somewhere between vogueing and doing the robot. “The body becomes stiff, and then these robot-dance-like movements commence,” says Dr. Kai Caspar, a zoologist at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in Germany, who headed the research. Dr. Caspar adds the pirouetting primates are not shy — they often look over their shoulders to make sure they’ve still got an audience! Along with his colleagues, Dr. Caspar — who specializes in gibbons and African mole rats — found when female gibbons bust a move, perhaps to entice a…

REALITY babe Kourtney Kardashian is jumping on the diet train and throwing her weight behind a new pill that promises to help people slim down! The supplement-slinging star’s Lemme line launched GLP-1 Daily, which some are calling a natural alternative to the prescription semaglutide injections favored by Tinseltown twigs. The plant-based product consists of Eriomin lemon fruit extract, Supresa saffron extract and Morosil red orange fruit extract — but does not contain any synthetic GLP-1 hormone and is not a GLP-1 agonist like semaglutide, which is sold under the brand names Ozempic and Wegovy. But Lauren Harris-Pincus, a New Jersey–based registered dietitian, sniffs, “No supplement can come close to mimicking the effects of the GLP-1 agonist medications. “It’s like the difference between an eye dropper and a garden hose.”…

CONCERNED mom Cher is backing away from her attempt to control troubled son Elijah Blue Allman by dropping a bid to micromanage his life through a conservatorship after the two “reached an agreement” in private mediation. Cher had argued in court Elijah was too much of a mess — physically and mentally — to manage his $120,000-a-year trust fund left to him by his dad, late rock legend Gregg Allman. But recovering drug addict Elijah, 48, has bitterly contested his 78-year-old superstar mom’s meddling! “I have seen her suffer with depression in the past and I do not believe that she is capable of making appropriate decisions for my estate,” he claimed in legal documents. “The only person who can save me from my demons is me — and I’m doing just…

ACQUITTED child killer Casey Anthony has found new love and critics are offering advice for her married iron-pumping beau Tyson Ray Rhodes — keep the monster mom away from kids. Sure Casey, now 38, was declared not guilty of the Florida murder of her two-year-old daughter Caylee in a sensational 2011 verdict — but police reports indicate she’s not fit to be a babysitter — let alone a mother. As GLOBE reported, party animal Casey left her parents’ Orlando home, where she lived, and disappeared with Caylee on June 16, 2008, for a month. In mid-July when her car was discovered with stains and a rotting odor in the trunk, she claimed she had no idea where her precious toddler was. Now that’s a good mother! She told authorities she…

SEX trafficker and Jeffrey Epstein moll Ghislaine Maxwell has lost a bid to have her 2021 conviction and 20-year prison sentence overturned after a U.S. appeals court in Manhattan gave her the thumbs-down! Kinkster Maxwell, 62, was kicked to the clink on five charges of recruiting and grooming four teenage girls for her sleazy boyfriend Epstein to abuse between 1994 and 2004. Her lawyers have argued she’s taking the fall for Epstein, who died at 66 in a murky jailhouse suicide in 2019 before going to trial. Meanwhile, an insider says disgraced former socialite Ghislaine has been “bragging” about a memoir she plans to write that will peddle “the same old lies she has told a thousand times. She really thinks she hasn’t done anything wrong!”…

EVEN with an advanced degree in physics, you may not be able to follow the convoluted plot and heavy themes of the 2020 sci-fi action thriller Tenet, with JOHN DAVID WASHINGTON playing a CIA operative and ROBERT PATTINSON as his handler. This cult favorite is about turning back the hands of time — but what makes the story even harder to follow is the dialogue is muffled and distorted by aggressive sound mixing, actors using masks and accents, and a twisty, jargon-laced plot. Writer-director Christopher Nolan explained: “We’re not going to make any case for this being scientifically accurate.”…

UNLUCKY-in-love Kelly Clarkson has been striking out in the dating game, and sources say good pals Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood have decided to step in and help find her a nice country hunk to cuddle with. “They’re not being pushy about it, but they are letting Kelly know the offer is there,” explains an insider. “They know a lot of fine eligible men in the music world. “They think Kelly’s a great gal with lots of sass. They can’t understand why someone with her cute looks and perky personality hasn’t been snatched up already.” As GLOBE reported, the gab show queen has been single since she filed to end her marriage to music manager Brandon Blackstock in June 2020. Following a court battle over money, the divorce was finally finalized…

CASH-STRAPPED Britney Spears is finally off the hook for the near $1 million yearly child support payments she forks over to ex-husband Kevin Federline for their teen sons, Sean and Jayden, but friends fear the unhinged pop princess will find another way to blow her dwindling bucks! The 42-year-old Baby One More Time singer had been paying $40,000 a month for each son — or a staggering $960,000 annually — to Kevin, who has had sole custody of their boys since Britney’s public meltdown tumbled her into a psycho ward in 2008. Her payments for Sean ended when he turned 18 last year, and she’ll pen a final support check for 18-year-old Jayden in November. “It’s a happy time for Britney since she always resented paying all that money and…

RYAN SNUBS RETIRING PAT PAT SAJAK hosted Wheel of Fortune for a mind-boggling 41 years, but that don’t impress his replacement RYAN SEACREST, spies whisper. Longtime fans were grumbling the 49-year-old media mogul was an ungrateful cad when he launched his first Wheel episode without spinning a mention of Pat. While admitting he had “big shoes to fill,” Ryan never mentioned his predecessor by name, saying: “I still can’t believe my luck being here with you tonight to continue this legacy of this incredible show with all of you. And, of course, my good friend VANNA WHITE.” A source tried to cover for Ryan’s rude blunder with the bizarre remark, “He has spent months and months honoring Pat. But Pat is gone” and added: “Wheel of Fortune is spinning in…

SUSAN LUCCI The soap icon is giving Greek goddess vibes in this glam pastel dress with a cape-like shawl DASCHA POLANCO The Orange Is the New Black alum should lock up this frock and throw away the key! CATE BLANCHETT The Rumours star has people talking with a sophisticated silver jacket and bold belt GAYLE KING The newsgal is a roaring success in a figure-hugging gown with a wild leopard-print pattern UMA THURMAN The Kill Bill heroine is regal in purple, but she doesn’t slay in this severely angular gown…

JUST 60 miles from where Barbra Streisand lives with James Brolin in a palatial $20 million oceanfront Malibu mansion, her hubby’s son Jess, 52, passes his days in a shabby motel on the side of a busy highway on the outskirts of Ojai, Calif. Jess’ current humble home at the Topa Vista Hotel is a major improvement from 2011, however, when he was living in his battered 30-year-old Toyota truck. Three years later, things got even worse for Jess when he was forced to live on the street and scavenge in dumpsters for food after his truck was x-ed out. At the time, Barbra’s rep claimed in a statement the family had attempted to help Jess, but he had rejected their offers. The rep added, “We have offered help and…

PEOPLE think having a baby can save a marriage, but former Beverly Hills, 90210 beauty Jennie Garth, 52, says it nearly destroyed her union to actor Dave Abrams, 43. Six years ago, the pair were trying to have a baby using IVF and “it kept failing,” she recalls. The issues ballooned to the point where he filed for divorce. But he canceled it ten months later. She calls the break “time to grow.” They got back together and he’s a happy stepdad to Luca, 27, Lola, 21, and Fiona, 18, her daughters from her marriage to actor Peter Facinelli.…

THE latest ditzy-sounding Hollywood craze has new mothers gobbling their baby’s placenta after giving birth and sources say the celebs who’ve done it include Kim Kardashian, Alicia Silverstone and Chrissy Teigen. While star moms swear it helps prevent horrific postpartum depression and speed postnatal recovery, doctors say it’s not necessarily a good idea — and can be dangerous! Actresses Nikki Reed, Mandy Moore, January Jones and Silverstone, and sisters Kim and Kourtney Kardashian had their placentas dried and ground up to swallow as capsules. Meanwhile, Hilary Duff and Kim Zolciak had theirs blended in fruit smoothies, and Teigen, Tia Mowry and Mayim Bialik ate their placentas grilled! Teigen downed her placenta after son Miles was born in 2018. The 38-year-old model-entrepreneur and mom of four with hubby John Legend says…

SPENDTHRIFT Mariah Carey’s shopping habit is so out of control, she’s racked up $18 million in mortgage debt on her luxe Manhattan pad! Sources tell GLOBE they suspect the diva, 55, is using the borrowed dough to finance her $1 million-a-month shopping habit, which includes blowing “obscene” amounts on clothing, champagne and gifts. Insiders dish she treats the whopping $3 million a year she pulls in on her 1994 holiday hit All I Want for Christmas Is You like mad money, squandering it as fast as she can on “obscenely expensive” designer duds and a supersized staff, which includes a worker assigned to fan her while she gets her hair and makeup done. “Mariah orders things online and gets so many packages she doesn’t have time to open half of…

A FIRST printing of the U.S. Constitution sold for $43 million in 2021. ACTUAL pumpkin was first added to Starbucks’ popular pumpkin spice flavoring in 2015. ZANY spaceman Mork from Ork, played by the late Robin Williams, got his start in a dream sequence on Happy Days. ADORABLE dolphins can be deadly to humans — deliberately drowning swimmers who freak them out. LITTLE actress Shirley Temple received 135,000 presents, including a baby kangaroo and a prized calf, on her ninth birthday. THERE are no muscles in human fingers, which bend and move as the result of tendons. IT TOOK a decade for American engineers to build the Panama Canal, which takes about ten hours to navigate. The average ship pays a $150,000 toll.…

MANLESS Demi Moore’s turned to her dogs for love and companionship and sources say the actress has become so attached to her pooches she wants to be buried with each and every one of her pampered pets when the end comes. Sources tattle the 61-year-old Striptease beauty’s house is overrun by her yippy pups and she recently raised eyebrows when she told The Tonight Show host Jimmy Fallon they all sleep in her bed with her, adding the quip: “Hence why I’m single.” Once one of Tinseltown’s sexiest beauties with hunky ex-hubbies Ashton Kutcher and Bruce Willis, father of her three grown daughters, Demi’s now devoted her life and home to spoiling her bowwows. An insider blabs “Demi’s got pee pads all over the house that reek. Now she’s talking…

WHO says being a filthy rich celeb doesn’t have its perks? Definitely not JUSTIN TIMBERLAKE, whose high-priced legal mouthpiece negotiated such a sweetheart deal with prosecutors over his DUI bust, the judge was fit to be tied. As GLOBE previously reported, the 43-year-old dad of two tots with actress-wife JESSICA BIEL was busted by cops for driving like a boozer after partying with pals at the Hamptons’ Sag Harbor Hotel. But no worries — Justin’s legal eagle got starstruck prosecutors to give the singer a slap on the wrist by copping to a lower “driving impaired” charge with a small fine and a public statement about the perils of drinking and driving. Furious Judge Carl Irace blasted the deal, saying: “This proposal literally allows the accused to say a few…

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SEX CREEP movie mogul Harvey Weinstein was socked with another indictment in New York — six months after an Empire State court of appeals overturned his 2020 rape conviction! The exact charges are under wraps until Weinstein is arraigned. However, the former Miramax studio honcho’s attorney believes the grand jury examined three incidents — alleged sex crimes from eight or more years ago not related to the tossed case. Days earlier, the porky ex-producer, 72, was rushed from a Big Apple prison to a hospital for emergency heart surgery after experiencing chest pains. Prosecutors are expected to file a motion to consolidate the new case with Weinstein’s rape retrial, which is slated to begin in November. The wheelchair-bound blob, who is still on the hook for a 16-year sentence for…