Table of contents for October 31, 2022 in Globe

CUTIE Kelly Clarkson comes off as a goody two-shoes in public, but behind closed doors she’s a racy filly who loves parading around in the buff. Sources insist the songbird and daytime talk queen is the furthest thing from a prude and while she frowns on showing skin on her album covers, in her private life, it’s a different matter! “I’m, like, a total nudist,” confesses the 40-year-old mom of River Rose, 8, and Remington, 6. Tattles an insider: “She sees no shame in it. She finds it liberating and says that it’s very relaxing to walk around in her own skin without the constriction of clothes, stockings and everything else underneath. “In her room, when the lights are low and the kids are asleep, she puts on some soft music,…

PRETTY boy Ryan Seacrest has always been into pampering his puss — and now sources tattle Kelly Ripa’s TV sidekick is finally caving to the idea of using Botox to erase signs he’s aging. Sources squeal the 47-year-old hunk has been showing his age lately — both on and off camera — and decided “it’s definitely time to get a little work done since he is looking more and more wrinkly and saggy,” spouts an insider. “Word going around the Live! set is he’s interested in booking some procedures. He doesn’t want anything drastic done, but he’s warming up to some fillers and Botox. He thinks his jawline is drooping.” The handsome chatterbox has always been in favor of “staying youthful as possible” and already does a maximum amount of grooming,…

It’s a shipshape diamond engagement ring for Grey’s Anatomy star KATE WALSH, 55, now planning an aisle walk with ANDREW NIXON — a farmer she reportedly met on a cruise. It’ll be the actress’ second stab at marriage. Country crooner DILLON CARMICHAEL, 28, got hitched to girlfriend SHAYLA WHITSON, 25. “We just got along so well from day one,” gushes the Hard on a Hangover singer. LENA HEADEY, 49, famous as wicked queen Cersei Lannister in Game of Thrones, tied the knot with Ozark actor MARC MENCHACA, 47, in Italy. Guests included her onscreen family foes PETER DINKLAGE, who portrayed her loathed brother, and SOPHIE TURNER, her scorned TV daughter-in-law. Country power couple TIM McGRAW and FAITH HILL, both 55, who played husband and wife in Yellowstone‘s prequel 1883, celebrated…

HITMAKER Harry Styles has continued building his Hollywood résumé with starring roles in Don’t Worry Darling and the upcoming My Policeman after making his big screen debut in 2017’s Dunkirk. The new films follow the pop superstar’s phenomenal solo success after being part of the British boy band One Direction. As It Was, the first single from his 2022 album Harry’s House, recently wrapped 15 weeks atop the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the longest-running U.S. No. 1 song by a U.K. act. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 28-year-old phenom. 1 If he didn’t have an entertainment career, he says he’d probably be a physical therapist with “a little flower shop or coffee bar in the back” of his office. 2 Though he has more than 50…

ROSEANNE Barr’s youngest son, Buck, is masterminding her make-or-break comeback campaign to win fans who deserted her following her shameful racist scandal. Spies say the blacklisted 69-year-old’s 25-year-old son with ex-hubby Ben Thomas is “extremely internet savvy and understands the media, and has been right by Roseanne's side as she finally plots a return to show business.” As GLOBE reported, the former Conners family TV matriarch is set for an hourlong show — A Roseanne Comedy Special — on FOX Nation early next year. In 2018, Barr was axed from her rebooted sitcom — now running as The Conners — after comparing ex-President Barack Obama’s former aide Valerie Jarrett, who is Black, to an ape! Sources say Buck’s been working on the FOX deal and pushing the funnygal to return…

A FEW Good Men star Kevin Bacon reveals he and actress wife Kyra Sedgwick lost "most" of their dough in the crooked Ponzi scheme run by Wall Street grifter Bernie Madoff — the biggest financial con in U.S. history. Before Madoff died in prison at 82 last year while serving a 150-year sentence, he lured countless investors with promises of unusually high returns. Starring in the horror flick They/Them, Bacon, 64, admits: “We had most of our money in Madoff. “There’s obvious life lessons there: If something is too good to be true — it’s too good to be true.”…

SHATTERED Amber Heard has had the wound of her disastrous legal battle with exhubby Johnny Depp ripped wide open by word the big-screen pirate is romancing a leggy legal eagle, say sources. “Amber shudders when she thinks about him being back on the dating scene,” dishes an insider. “She may say she doesn’t care, but privately it’s triggered a very bitter reaction.” Depp’s new squeeze is British attorney Joelle Rich, 37, who represented the star during his 2020 libel lawsuit in the U.K. Although sources say Depp’s fling has made it difficult for Amber to move on, she’s also confident Rich will eventually experience the same kind of pain and misery she endured and will turn on him. “Her battle with this man is far from over,” declares the insider.…

ONLY 2 percent of humans have green eyes — and most live in Scotland, Ireland or Northern Europe. The rare eye color shows up six months after birth. PIE, oh my! New Yorker Scott Andrusz just broke the world record by growing a 2,554-pound pumpkin! RABID golfer President Dwight “Ike” Eisenhower eradicated the White House’s squirrel colony because the critters were digging up his personal putting green. NAMED one of the world’s most influential people earlier this year, 42-year-old actor Channing Tatum was paid $400 to portray a bartender in Ricky Martin’s music video She Bangs way back in 2002. YELLOWSTONE National Park is home to an estimated 4,000 bison, the world’s largest herd of free-roaming buffaloes. There are about 10,000 of the animals in North America.…

LOVE-starved Whoopi Goldberg’s eager to return to Tinseltown to shoot her long-awaited Sister Act sequel AND to spice up her dull romantic life with some overdue man-hunting, dish insiders. “Whoopi hasn’t had a serious relationship in almost 20 years and that’s mainly because she couldn’t replicate that same excitement she had in the 1990s,” spills a spy. Sources snitch the 66-year-old Oscar-winning Ghost siren has three marriages under her belt, including a quickie union with From Dusk Till Dawn actor Lyle Trachtenberg, and flings with some of Hollywood’s top leading men like Ted Danson, Danny Glover and Timothy Dalton. While she repeatedly insists she’s “not that interested” in getting married and she’s “much happier on my own,” sources dish Whoopi’s warming to the idea of dating again. “Whoopi’s gone through periods…

ROCK superstar Mick Jagger is notorious for bedding many of the world’s hottest gals, but a shocking new book claims the Rolling Stones frontman canoodled with dudes, too — including TWO of his bandmates! A father of eight with five different baby moms, Mick is a “bisexual icon” who also had trysts with bandmate Keith Richards and Mick Taylor, a Stones guitarist from 1969 to 1974, according to author Lesley-Ann Jones In her mind-blowing new exposé The Stone Age, Jones claims Jagger’s had a sweet tooth for guys and dishes on a singer’s claim of having a threesome with Mick and David Bowie. She says his female bedmates include ex-wife Bianca, Jerry Hall, Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg and Marsha Hunt — among many, many others. She writes Pallenberg and Faithfull…

POP powerhouse Janet Jackson’s new look has alarmed pals fearing she’s obsessed with cosmetic surgery like her late superstar brother, Michael, and is going to end up looking freaky like he did! The 56-year-old Call on Me songbird turned heads at Paris Fashion Week, where onlookers and friends openly chatted about her frozen features “Everyone’s convinced she’s been getting work done for years, but in Paris people were whispering it looks like she’s gone overboard recently,” squeals a spy. “She seems to be showing signs of the same downward spiral Michael went through and we’re afraid history is repeating itself.” Before he died from a doctor-administered drug overdose in 2009, Janet’s surgery-obsessed big brother had so much work done to his honker he was forced to wear a prosthetic nose…

SUPER BOWL RIHANNA’S JUICIEST ONLINE STINGS No one upstages pop queen RIHANNA’s online dig-dishing stings. KENDALL JENNER, now 26, fan-tweeted, “If Rihanna doesn’t perform Complicated tomorrow I’m gunna be very upset,” ahead of a 2013 concert. RiRi’s response: “Well don’t come.” And then there was the cutthroat Fenty founder’s back-and-forth beef with singer CIARA, 37, who dissed the Umbrella hitmaker, 34, on E! channel’s Fashion Police back in 2011. “I ran into her recently at a party and she wasn’t the nicest,” Ciara quipped on TV, adding, “It wasn’t the most pleasant run-in!” That didn’t sit well. “My bad ci, did I 4get to tip u,” RiRi condescendingly clapped back. “Trust me Rihanna u dont want to see me on or off the stage,” responded Ciara, with RiRi retaliating: “Good…

BRASH Britney Spears has some toxic words for her mommie dearest — the aging former pop tart told groveling mom Lynne to “go f**k” herself! The 40-year-old singer let it rip after Lynne, 67, offered a belated apology for her role in keeping Brit under lock and key during a 13-year legal conservatorship. “I am soooo sorry for your pain! I have been sorry for years!” whined Lynne on Instagram. Britney shot back: “Mom take your apology and go f**k yourself!!!”…

TRAGIC actress Anne Heche was worth just $400,000 when she died, according to her older son, who’s battling his mom’s ex-lover — actor James Tupper — for control of her estate. A court put Homer Laffoon, 20, fathered by Anne’s exhubby Corey Laffoon, temporarily in charge of Heche’s estate. Tupper, the daddy of the actress’ other son, Atlas, 13, claims Heche wanted him to handle her money until both boys reach 25. Tupper claims Heche, 53, who died after igniting a fire after plowing her car into a house on Aug. 11, put him in charge in a 2011 email. He claims Homer’s too young to manage her estate. Meanwhile, Homer says his mom left just $400,000 cash plus another $400,000 worth of future royalties and residuals, not the previously…

THE hateful Housewives have plenty of cleaning to do after the mud-slinging between Kathy Hilton and Lisa Rinna went wild — with the hotel chain socialite, 63, calling the former soap star, 59, the “biggest bully in Hollywood!” “You are the biggest bully in Hollywood and everyone knows it,” Kathy crows in the RHOBH reunion. This was after Lisa compared her co-star to “the devil” and claimed she suffers PTSD from Kathy’s “psychotic” tirades. “I was f**king abused by Kathy Hilton!” Lisa laments. Rinna has raged Hilton takes swipes at everyone, including her own sister Kyle Richards, 53, while Kathy says Lisa should be canned from the show. “You fight with everybody!” Kathy laces into Lisa. “I mean, the list can go on and on!”…

COUNTRY beauty Shania Twain is in the grips of a “midlife sex surge” and is pestering hubby Frédéric Thiébaud to fire up his furnace for hot times between the sheets, tattles a source. The 57-year-old Canadian-born songbird is feeling as sexy as she looks and wants Frédéric, 51, her hubby of nearly a dozen years, “to step up his game,” snitches the insider. “It’s not that there’s anything wrong, it’s just that they’ve been married for so long, the script is the same,” the source says. “Plus, she’s in fantastic shape and still very passionate. Frédéric’s younger and should be able to keep up. “She doesn’t see anything wrong with pushing him to try a little more.” The lusty lady hooked up with the Swiss businessman after her then-hubby Robert…

CHRISTOPHER Meloni’s Law & Order spinoff, Organized Crime, is tanking so bad the macho muscleman is begging his SVU pal Mariska Hargitay to swoop in and rescue his show, spies tattle. Meloni, 61, reprised his popular role as Elliot Stabler when Organized Crime debuted in 2021, but season three is bombing — with a million fewer viewers than SVU and the rebooted original Law & Order. “Chris was so cocky and acting so entitled before this season, but the fans aren’t loving his show,” spills an insider. “It’s got him in a panic. He’s worried this season might be his last — and producers are pressuring him to do something about the low ratings. “His solution is simple: He wants Mariska to come in and help save his show, bring…

LONELY Hoda Kotb is desperate to freshen up her mug to attract a man — but the terrified Today gabber, 58, fears going under the knife will leave her looking like the bride of Frankenstein, sources dish. “Hoda looks like she could use a facelift and other work because her jawline is starting to sag. She’s got that double chin, plus deep creases around her mouth and crow’s feet that make her look ten years older,” spills an insider. “People tell her all the time she could fix those things if she really wanted to, but she can’t bring herself to do it just yet. She’s afraid of surgery — period, and the idea of being cut and sewn back together is horrendous to her.” According to the tipster, Hoda…

STAR Trek legend WILLIAM SHATNER has made a surprising confession — he boldly went where no one else has gone before by pooping in his pants onstage during his one-man show. On the day of his first performance in Shatner’s World, the TV legend, 91, recalls, “I had woken up in gastrointestinal distress. I was losing fluids and worse from every part of my body.” At showtime he was playing to “a packed house. The critics were waiting. What was I supposed to do? “Boldly, I took my place on the stage and attacked the material. The audience was eating it up.” Then halfway through, “disaster struck … in my pants.” Shatner told the audience, “Hold up, we have a technical difficulty.” He dashed offstage, showered and changed in his…

VENGEFUL vixen Nikki Entzel and lover Earl Howard plotted to kill her husband, stage the murder scene as a suicide — and cover up the crime by setting his North Dakota digs ablaze to score more than $600,000 in insurance to start a new life in Texas! Naughty Nikki, 41, was convicted of conspiring to commit murder, arson and tampering with physical evidence for her role in the 2019 death of hubby Chad Entzel, 42. Howard, 43, is already serving a 25-year sentence after pleading guilty to the same charges last year. Prosecutors say they couldn’t pursue murder convictions against either because ballistic experts couldn’t determine who’d pulled the weapon’s trigger — despite Entzel’s toasted corpse being riddled with bullets. After Nikki called 911 on Jan. 2, 2020, to report a…

BOZO Bill Murray was bashed as a bully by Quick Change co-star Geena Davis, who says the cruel comic barked at her during an audition for the 1990 comedy! The statuesque stunner, 66, recalls the wardrobe department delaying her arrival, causing the unhinged hothead, 72, to scream at her in front of “hundreds” of people on set. Geena’s charges come six months after Murray was axed from Disney’s Being Mortal due to a female production staffer’s sexual harassment accusations. He claims the gal misunderstood one of his jokes.…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 A disagreement with relatives could lead to a rift midweek, Ram, but once the moon moves into peaceful Pisces, you’ll be able to work it out to everyone’s satisfaction. Get started on that creative project you’ve been mulling over — cosmic influences make this the perfect time to pursue your passions. TAURUS April 21 - May 21 Go over your financial records while Mars is retrograde this week as errors are likely. Are you lonely and longing? The online dating site a friend recommends could lead to meeting your soulmate — or at least bring a few fun dates. Either way, go for it, Bull. Luck is highlighted Saturday — enter a contest. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Venus aligning with Mars warns…

DEVASTATED Angela Lansbury went to her grave haunted by heartbreak because she never got over the shock of learning her first husband was gay! The Murder, She Wrote TV sleuth died on Oct. 11 at age 96 — but decades earlier she unwittingly married closeted actor Richard Cromwell in 1945. Naïve and 19, the MGM starlet was seriously smitten with the 35-year-old Jezebel hunk. But he abandoned her less than a year later by leaving a note reading: “Sorry. I can’t go on.” The Tony-winning Mame powerhouse later confessed she was still kicking herself for not recognizing Cromwell wasn’t into women before their wedding! “It just had never really sunk in,” she moaned. “I was in love with love!” The Beauty and the Beast actress further explained she had “no…

SIGOURNEY WEAVER plays an astronaut who wakes up from hypersleep to some scary surprises aboard her spaceship in Alien, a breakthrough 1979 hit that turned the sci-fi genre on its head. The flick features one of the most memorable monster scenes in movie history — when an astronaut played by JOHN HURT slurps down a big meal to find he’s been eating for two as a drooling, saber-toothed alien bursts from his chest! Director Ridley Scott wanted the creature to bite Sigourney’s head off at the end, but her character lived on to star in three more installments of the franchise.…