Table of contents for February 10, 2025 in Globe

IT SUITS HIM! Comic ANTHONY ANDERSON needs a little boost with his hefty garment bag BOWING OUT Real Housewife ERIKA JAYNE takes an awkward curtain call after performing in the latest Broadway revival of Chicago LET HIM EAT CAKE For his 49th birthday, MICHAEL PEÑA eats his cake without utensils like a baby! A BANG-UP JOB TAYLOR SWIFT’s signature bangs are gone with the wind, leaving her unusually bare-faced A WRINKLE IN TIME There’s nothing funny about HILLARY CLINTON showing off her numerous laugh lines YES, CHEF! JEREMY ALLEN WHITE matches his shirt to his last name as he hauls daughters EZER and DOLORES around L.A.…

COUNTRY geezer Garth Brooks is blowing big bucks on his looks to fight the ravages of time and polish his tarnished image as he fights a civil sexual assault suit, sources spill. The Friends in Low Places singer, 63, appeared ultra-groomed while performing with wife Trisha Yearwood at the funeral service for former President Jimmy Carter in Washington, D.C., Jan. 9 — and critics were quick to point out his polished presentation. “Garth spends hours getting ready for anything these days,” tattles a tipster. “He’s spray-tanning to give himself a healthy glow and he’s dyeing his hair and beard to the point of obsession. “He loves the beard and keeps it perfectly shaped. He thinks it camouflages the pudginess in his face — and he may have a point.” According…

SEXY Sofía Vergara and her newest love interest, race-car champ Lewis Hamilton, are revving up for a new romance, but pals are warning her to slam on the brakes, saying the seven-time Formula One champ is a notorious skirt-chasing Lothario who won’t stick around and will end up breaking her heart, sources tell GLOBE. “They’re both gorgeous and their chemistry is red hot, so naturally Sofía is excited, but her friends are worried because he’s got a well-earned reputation of being a huge player,” warns an insider. The Latina diva, 52, and the speed demon, 40, were spotted flirting up a storm in New York Jan. 14 at a two-hour lunch date. “He has been pursuing her for a while now and she’s finally giving him a shot,” dishes a…

HOOPSTER DUNKS SAN FRANCISCO Former pro hoops great and now sportscasting bigmouth CHARLES BARKLEY must have lost a lot of games in San Francisco, ’cause he has ripped the City by the Bay yet again. Speaking of attending an event there, Sir Charles, once known as the “Round Mound of Rebound” for his porky shape, spouted, “I’m not going to that rat-infested place … San Francisco is not a beautiful city! Rats. Cats… Y’all are not gonna make me like San Francisco.” Last year, Barkley slammed the city as full of “homeless crooks,” saying, “You can’t even walk around down there” without a “bulletproof vest.” The year before, when he was in Dallas, where it was raining, he squawked that the rain was needed “in San Francisco to clean up…

LISA RINNA The ex-Real Housewife goes for the stripperbride look in this frock that OD’ed on frou-frou ISABELLA ROSSELLINI The conclave agrees — the actress’ garden-variety muumuu is way overgrown DEMI MOORE The Substance star is on point in a polka-dot Nina Ricci dress MELISSA MCCARTHY The Heat star sizzles in a custom Christian Siriano pink-on-pink confection LEILA GEORGE The actress from Down Under opts for a dressed-down vest-suit on the red carpet…

RAPPER Busta Rhymes has turned himself in after being accused of repeatedly slugging his assistant Dashiel Gables during a flap! Sources say the 52-year-old Dangerous singer and Gables, 50, were reportedly in the lobby of the assistant’s Brooklyn, N.Y., condo building Jan. 10 when they got into a squabble over the aide being on his phone during work hours. The fuss heated up and the 6-foot-2, 217-pound Break Ya Neck singer reportedly exploded — socking Gables in the mug several times. Sources say Rhymes took off while Gables called cops and paramedics rushed him to a hospital for treatment of a swollen eye. The rapper turned himself in Jan. 14 and was charged with misdemeanor assault, attempted assault and harassment. A source says Gables is eyeing a $7 million settlement.…

CUCKOO cougar Cher is so completely crazy about her boytoy Alexander “A.E.” Edwards that she has no time for anyone or anything else in her life, sources tell GLOBE! “She’s terrified he could drift away if she’s not with him any chance she gets, so she’s clinging to him as though her life depended on it,” an insider says of the 78-year-old diva, who has been dating the 38-year-old music man since 2022. “She’s driven by insecurity, so her world revolves around A.E. and what he’s doing. She’s given him a key to her place and when he shows up, plans almost always get dropped. It’s maddening for everyone else in her life, but she seems unwilling, or unable, to change this toxic pattern,” dishes a spy. The If I…

IN CASE you’re wondering why KEVIN COSTNER would sink $38 million of his personal wealth into a major flop like Horizon: An American Saga, maybe it’s because he remembers how well his bet paid off in 1990, when he poured his own moolah into Dances With Wolves! The frontier Western, in which director and producer Costner also stars as John J. Dunbar, a Union Army first lieutenant who winds up befriending the Sioux, went on to win many Oscars, including Best Picture. And the money from that movie poured in — as opposed to Horizon, whose first installment grossed less than a third of its $100 million budget.…

MEAT DRESS–wearing diva Lady Gaga has undergone a massive make-UNDER at the direction of her conservative businessman fiancé, Michael Polansky! According to sources, the formerly freaky-looking singer, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, has considerably toned down her outrageous act and outfits to better suit the philanthropist’s all-business image. “Michael is a successful entrepreneur and a Harvard graduate who majored in applied mathematics and computer science, so he and his friends and business colleagues are quite conservative,” spills a source close to the couple. “He made it clear that it would mean the world to him if she reined in the racy image so that they could at least look like they’re attending the same parties!” Sources say Michael, 41, will be involving Gaga, 38, in more of his business…

GIRL BOSS Jennifer Aniston’s full attention these days is focused on working 9 to 5 on her remake of the 1980 Dolly Parton – Jane Fonda–Lily Tomlin classic. “The script is looking good and so Jen is now working on recruiting some next-generation talent for the project,” reports an insider. At the top of her wish list — Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney, who has all the qualities Jen is looking for in her updated version of the workplace comedy. “Jen has an eye for talent, and she thinks Sydney has the perfect combination of cute and sexy and has proven she can do comedy,” says the snitch. “She would like to take Sydney under her wing.” The 27-year-old star had a major hit with the 2023 rom-com Anyone but You, which…

COOL cat Leslie Jones, 57, lends her voice to cheetah Dotti Pace in the new animated flick The Sloth Lane. The project is the third cartoon feature for the former Saturday Night Live funnylady, who also cracked jokes as an elephant in Sing and a ruffled eagle queen in Angry Birds 2. Here are 10 things you don’t know about the Ghostbusters gal. 1 As a military brat, Leslie spent a chunk of her childhood at Fort Bragg, N.C. 2 In her youth, she was a fan of the musical groups DeBarge and Duran Duran. 3 The 6-foot-tall jock earned a basketball scholarship from Chapman University, but instead followed her head coach to Colorado State University. 4 Leslie was twice employed by Scientologists — but was never a member of…

TEXAS lawmen leapt into action to save one of their own — a courageous police dog who took multiple bullets while nabbing an accused cop killer! Cameras captured the heart-breaking moment when police hustled wounded Rocky — a year-and-a-half-old Belgian Malinois — to a Texas Department of Public Safety helicopter so the U.S. Marshals Service mutt could receive life-saving treatment at a veterinary hospital. Minutes earlier, heroic Rocky had sniffed out suspected murderer Robert Lee Davis — also known as Sean Christopher Davis — who was hiding under trash in a dumpster behind a Houston strip mall. Cops say cowardly Davis, 56, had gunned down Brazoria County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Jesus Vargas six hours earlier as the married father of three tried to serve an arrest warrant related to an…

ARIANA GRANDE’s bony new bod has alarmed fans and medical experts, but if her skeletal appearance is part of an obsession with the late slender screen icon Audrey Hepburn — as a source told GLOBE — the Wicked beauty should think twice! Miami plastic surgeon Dr. Michael Salzhauer, who has not treated Grande, nixed the theory that her skin-and-bones figure is thanks to the vegan diet she went on in 2013, but agrees she’s “scary thin.” “If you look in her temple region, you can see it is hollowed out in Ariana, which happens when you have malnutrition or wasting. It is concerning when you see that,” the doc dishes. “I don’t think it’s veganism per se. I know some larger vegans — so I do wonder whether there is…

CANDID Judi Dench confides that her failing eyesight has affected her career — but sources blab that Tinseltown bigshots are doing all they can to keep the beloved British acting legend in the game! Dench, 90, has gradually been losing her vision from age-related macular degeneration, and recently admitted, “I can’t even see!” But sources spill that doesn’t mean the world has witnessed the last of her talent! “Judi has so many strengths and such deep experience as a performer that it would be a shame for her to let deteriorating eyesight be the thing that forces her into retirement,” gabs an insider. “She has an army of fans in the Hollywood studios who are doing everything they can to make sure that doesn’t happen. The message from the industry to Judi…

Sentenced to six and a half years for defrauding thousands in a telemarketing scheme in 2023, former Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star JEN SHAH got a third sentence reduction for being a good girl. The 51-year-old will be released Nov. 3 in time to celebrate Thanksgiving with kin. Singer DRAKE slugged his record label UMG with a defamation lawsuit for publishing KENDRICK LAMAR’s recording of Not Like Us. Drake’s lawyers say the tune puts him in danger by branding him a “pedophile” and “suggesting” violence against him. Duck Dynasty member JOHN GODWIN, longtime worker at the Robertson family’s Louisiana company, Duck Commander, is retiring. “25 years — that’s enough!” says the duck-call maker. The Love Me Tender four-bedroom beach house where ELVIS PRESLEY and bride PRISCILLA honeymooned in…

STRAIGHT-SHOOTING President Donald Trump is unlocking the U.S. government’s vault to release long-hidden files about the assassinations of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., along with shocking alien evidence at Area 51, sources spill. Hours before taking office, Trump vowed to end decades-long cover-ups — and announced his intention to disclose the National Archives documents “as the first step toward restoring transparency and accountability to government!” Trump told a cheering crowd in Washington, D.C., that he planned to make public the hush-hush records about the gunshot murder of President Kennedy in 1963 as well as those of the slain leader’s brother RFK and civil rights champion MLK in 1968. Administration sources say Trump’s bold edict also extends to federal programs tasked with harvesting crashed…

A MOM who sent a friend a disturbing text about her boyfriend was found decapitated in her South Dakota apartment the next day — with her bloody severed head stuffed into a nearby garbage bag! Three friends of Heather Ann Bodden, 41, made the grisly find when they went to check on her after a New Year’s Day text from the woman, saying her beau, Craig Allen Nichols Jr., 32, had threatened her with a weapon. The three horrified pals discovered what “appeared to be a deceased headless person,” say court documents. Cops called to the scene say they found three weapons wrapped in a floor mat and a bag of blood-soaked garments — labeled with the boyfriend’s name — near the corpse! Nichols was arrested and charged with second-degree…

IT WAS a mission impossible for Tom Cruise when he tried to woo Fantastic Four star Jessica Alba back in the day, but now that she’s back on the market after 16 years of marriage to Cash Warren, the Top Gun stud is ready to take another shot, sources tell GLOBE. The 62-year-old Church of Scientology poster boy reportedly tried to make a love connection with the Honest Company beauty, 43, in 2004, with no luck. “At the time Tom was single and looking to meet someone and apparently he did try and get set up with her, but it never went anywhere,” a snitch spills. “She met Cash right around the same time and he managed to lock her down. Tom’s always been disappointed that he lost out because he…

A WAITING trial on ugly sexual assault charges, massive pudgeball Gérard Depardieu looks like a heart attack waiting to happen, while sources say the French acting icon fears he won’t live to gobble another eclair if he’s jailed and a medical expert warns he’ll croak if he doesn’t get help NOW! The 76-year-old supersized star faces up to five years behind bars and a $80,947 fine if convicted of the sex charges and “knows he couldn’t survive on prison food,” spills an insider. “Gérard has lived this pampered existence and gorged on gourmet food and alcohol, and it’s one of the reasons he’s trying to postpone proceedings. “There’s a very real threat to his life if he’s locked away!” An estimated 20 women have accused the Man in the Iron…

BANANAS are berries, but strawberries aren’t! Bananas make the cut because they develop from a single flower with one ovary. YOU already know that octopuses have eight legs — but did you know they also have three hearts? Two pump blood to the gills, and one pumps it to the rest of the body. A DAY on Venus is LONGER than a year on Venus! It takes 243 Earth days to complete one rotation on its axis to make one day, but only 225 Earth days to orbit the sun. WOMBAT poop is shaped like a cube. They use it to mark their territory, and this way it doesn’t roll away. SHARKS were swimming the oceans before trees appeared on Earth! Sharks have been around for over 400 million years,…