Table of contents for July 6, 2020 in Globe

AFTER an odd arrangement in which he and his wife remained married but lived apart, former Happy Days star Anson Williams has filed for divorce for the SECOND TIME in less than a year! Anson and spouse of 31 years Jackie first split when the 70-year-old — who played Richie Cunningham’s pal Potsie Weber on the classic sitcom from 1974 to 1984 — filed for divorce on Sept. 11 last year. And they continued to lead separate lives after he dropped the case three weeks later! But on June 5, he filed a new round of papers to end the wacky setup. “When I canceled the divorce filing in September, we agreed for the sake of the children to remain apart,” he reveals. “However, even that arrangement didn’t work, and…

SOPRANOS creator David Chase has accidentally revealed the fate of Tony Soprano! In the 2007 HBO series’ finale, the TV mob boss was sitting in a diner with his family when the scene faded to black — without explanation. Many fans figured it meant Tony got whacked by a hit man — but nobody was talking. However, in a recent interview about the show that aired for eight years, Chase slipped up and leaked the details, saying, “I think I had that death scene two years before the end.” Oops!…

BIG Little Lies beauty Reese Witherspoon ain’t fibbin’ when she insists she’s slipping off to heaven after she kicks the bucket. The 44-year-old Oscar winner told costar Nicole Kidman, 53, she’s not afraid of death “because I know where I’m going.” Nicole recalls asking Reese, “Do you ever think about dying? Because I think about it all the time.” Reese replied: “I don’t have a lot of fear … I don’t fear death, because I know there’s heaven … I believe deeply there’s a higher power — and … I just don’t fear dying.”…

RAPPER Iggy Azalea recently dropped a surprise — she’s a mom! “I have a son,” the 30-year-old wrote on her social media. “I kept waiting for the right time to say something,” she adds, calling it “giant” news. The Bounce singer says she wants to “keep his life private but wanted to make it clear he is not a secret. I love him beyond words.” Iggy, who’s dating fellow rapper Playboi Carti, didn’t share her baby’s name or birth details.…

TWO twisted parents in South Dakota fed their four kids drugs, authorities say — and punished them for years by zapping them with an electric cattle prod and Taser! Lance Lowell Long, 36, and Crystallynn Long, 40, have been hit with a slew of charges, including distributing a controlled substance to a minor and abuse or cruelty to a minor. Capt. Josh Phillips with the Minnehaha County Sheriff’s Office says the alleged victims were a 15-year-old girl and boys aged 17, 13 and 11. Phillips says the cruel couple forced meth and pot on the kids and shocked them with a “hot shot cattle prod to get the children to obey commands or if they weren’t listening. A majority of the children said that had been used on them numerous…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 A financial frustration comes to a head, but the advice of a smart Virgo helps you run an endgame around the problem, sorting it out by the weekend! Midweek you’re invited to join a neighborhood group; this leads to new friendship and a minor celebrity role! An elderly pal is lonely — reach out! GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Forget your typical lighthearted attitude, Twin, and put on a stern face when you encounter a difficult situation while Mars meets retrograde Jupiter! You could shock those closest to you! Resist the urge to get a drastic haircut or make a major cosmetic change Saturday. The stars warn you’ll regret it! LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Focus is the word for Lions now,…

HEARTBROKEN Hank Williams Jr. is so shattered by the car-crash death of his 27-year-old daughter, Katie — the favorite among his five kids — that it could propel him into retirement, sources believe. “Hank had been gearing up to start another concert tour later this year, but he says his heart isn’t in it any longer,” spills a friend. “His whole world is crashing down around him, and you can see he’s lost the desire to perform — Katie’s death has devastated him.” Katie Williams-Dunning and husband Tyler, 29, were towing a boat with their SUV at about 7:45 p.m. on June 13 when the vehicle crossed a median and rolled over near Paris, Tenn. A source says Katie, who with brother Sam, 23, are his kids with third wife…

BELOVED in the ’90s for a string of romantic comedies — including My Best Friend’s Wedding, Notting Hill and Runaway Bride — JULIA ROBERTS took a sharp turn at the beginning of the millennium with her Oscar-winning performance as a real-life environmental activist in the 2000 drama Erin Brockovich. In the flick, the single mom of three gets a job working for a lawyer — played by Brit actor ALBERT FINNEY — and then stumbles into a case where residents of a small town are being poisoned by chemicals. The firm wins a whopping $333 million for the 634 plaintiffs, a record at the time. The movie confirmed Julia’s credentials as a serious performer and helped her continue as the highest-paid actress in the world. BIZARRE BUT TRUE! THE rip-roaring fun of a…

HORROR master Stephen King got a real life fright when he discovered the mummified corpse of a mouse in the garden of his Maine home! The 72-year-old writer — whose 1983 novel and 2019 movie Pet Sematary is about the dead returning to life — ended up showing off his grisly find as if it were a trophy on a social media post. “Found this petrified critter in the garden,” he writes, adding the quip: “I’m thinking it could be a new county fair treat: deep-fried mouse on a stick.”…

THE upcoming James Bond flick has a huge shocker — the womanizing spy has settled down and is dad of a young daughter! “Yes, it’s true, Bond is a dad!” tattles a source about the 25th 007 flick, No Time to Die. Bond’s wife reportedly is Dr. Madeleine Swann, played by French stunner Léa Seydoux, and five-year-old daughter Mathilde is portrayed by Lisa-Dorah Sonne. Star Daniel Craig will have no problem playing a father. He’s dad of Ella, 27, from his first marriage and a year-old girl with second wife Rachel Weisz.…

SUPERMODEL Kate Moss has put her party-hearty days behind her — and now insists on being in bed by 11 p.m.! Once nicknamed The Tank for her ability to belt back booze, the 46-year-old catwalker, who says she’s been sober for two years, says she likes to turn in early and watch TV! “I wake up at around 8 a.m.,” confides the former nightlife queen. “I’m a bit groggy in the afternoon if I don’t get eight hours sleep.”…

BACHELORETTE cutie Hannah Brown rescued a man during a rafting trip! The 25-year-old and her family were on the Ocoee River in Tennessee when she saved a stranger who’d been pulled into the current. “Hannah Brown saved my boyfriend from drowning in the Ocoee River today,” Twitter user @quintnugget tweeted on June 13. The woman explained Hannah — who’s been lying low since using the N-word on Instagram Live — was on the river with her family when another raft flipped. Hannah “ended up pulling my boyfriend onto their raft after the current took him. I didn’t know who she was, but her mom said she had just won DWTS and that she was the bachelorette!” the woman wrote. “Her momma was so proud.”…

JERRY SEINFELD was nearly snared by Scientology! The sitcom king, 66, confirms he took a course in the religion, which teaches that humans are vessels for immortal alien spirits trapped on Earth and massacred by an evil galactic dictator named Xenu. “I did do a course in Scientology in, like, 1975,” he admits on Marc Maron’s WTF podcast. “I found it very interesting, but I never pursued it.” Jerry, who’s Jewish, added he was fascinated by Scientology’s “emphasis on ethical behavior,” but didn’t like its edict of “avoiding negative people.” In a previous interview, he revealed Scientology’s “technology” and emphasis on communication helped jumpstart his comedy career. “I learned some things about communication that really got my act going,” he told Parade magazine in 2008. “They have a lot of…

FOX News yakkers Sean Hannity and Ainsley Earhardt are TV’s hottest item, stunned insiders say! The bombshell comes weeks after Hannity’s hush-hush divorce from wife Jill Rhodes became public! Fox & Friends co-host Ainsley, 43, has denied the relationship, with the blond beauty insisting she is “not dating anyone” and is “focused on raising my daughter.” And firebrand Hannity, 58, ducked for cover, huffing: “I do not discuss my personal life in public.” But insiders at the cable network dish the two have been spotted at multiple “social occasions where they’ve acted like a couple.” Spills one FOX staffer: “I knew they were involved. I saw it when we were all together. It wasn’t hidden!” Adds an insider: “It’s been an open secret that they’ve been seeing each other. They’re together…

CHATTY Kathie Lee Gifford is the bona fide queen of Nashville’s high society circuit — but her newfound popularity has given her a royally inflated ego, insiders tell GLOBE. The motormouth has become an incredibly irritating presence in the country music capital since her move from the Big Apple a year ago, sources say. “Kathie Lee has become super popular, but she’s bragging far and wide how she’s ‘queen of the South,’ ” snitches an insider. “She’s using her connections to make bold inroads in the songwriting and singing world, plus she’s producing movies for Hallmark.” Though the source insists Kathie Lee means no harm, “she doesn’t know when to shut up!” After years as Hoda Kotb’s wine-guzzling sidekick, the former morning TV staple left the Today show last year…

ANNA: TWILIGHT SUCKED! ANNA KENDRICK has showed her fangs — biting at how her acting gig alongside ROBERT PATTINSON and KRISTEN STEWART in the batty Twilight flicks was a living nightmare! “I just remember being so cold and miserable, and … my Converses being completely soaked through, and feeling like, ‘You know, this is a really great group of people … but I want to murder everyone,’” reveals the star, who played Kristen’s high school pal Jessica in the popular fivepart franchise. “There was like something about it, like you go through some trauma event. Like you imagine people who survive like a hostage situation.” The 34-year-old actress explains: “It was just a wedding scene, where again I’m like, ‘These people are so weird’ … and you’re in half-frozen mud.”…

1 He was inspired to try acting by the performance of young Henry Thomas in E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial. 2 He auditioned for the pop group Boyzone but says he was rejected after a “shocking” performance of Careless Whisper. 3 At age 18, he was mistaken for a man accused of attempted murder in Australia because he looked like the police sketch of the suspect. 4 He dropped out of drama school to take his first big gig — a role on the BBC soap Ballykissangel, which he calls “one of the f**king greatest things that ever happened to me.” 5 Al Pacino, his costar in 2003’s The Recruit, says he’s “the best actor of his generation.” 6 His two sons — James, 16, and Theo, 10 — were born with…

A TINY tot died in Utah after his soused mom crashed their minivan through a fence and into a golf course pond, say police! Salt Lake City cops, investigating a report of possible criminal mischief at Golf The Round, discovered Brittanie Mae Miloshevsky — in wet clothes — “passed out” on the course, according to a police affidavit. Investigators claim the 28-year-old fessed up to drinking and driving — and wiping out in the water! The affidavit says officers found Miloshevsky’s 18-monthold son in her wrecked vehicle in a nearby lake and believe the baby, who later died, “was submerged for a substantial period of time.” Miloshevsky was charged with child abuse homicide, DUI resulting in serious injury and child endangerment. She’s being held on $250,000 bond.…

DYING Queen Elizabeth is under pressure to strip her disgraced son Prince Andrew of his honorific title “His Royal Highness” for his involvement in the Jeffrey Epstein sex scandal. Elizabeth, 94, took away Harry and Meghan’s titles when they quit their royal duties to go it alone in the U.S., but she’s held back on Andrew, 60, the favorite of her four children, even after firing him from his job as royal rep and axing his $300,000 yearly allowance. Now, outrage over his ties to sex-trafficking pedophile Epstein has led to calls for Andrew to lose his HRH title. Nigel Cawthorne, author of Prince Andrew: Epstein and the Palace, notes the blueblood bad boy “is virtually retired and can no longer carry out royal duties. So surely he should give…

BRUTAL NFL star Aaron Hernandez led a secret double life as a bisexual, sources say. Before committing suicide in 2017 while serving time for murder, the former New England Patriots player fell in love with fellow inmate Kyle Kennedy. “Aaron went to great lengths to hide his true feelings,” tattles an insider. “It’s even been suggested that part of his motive for killing was to keep his sexuality a secret.” Kyle has released Aaron’s love letters to him. One letter seen by GLOBE reads in part: “I just want you to begin this day knowing how loved you are.” Now free, Kyle tells his story in the Reelz channel special Aaron Hernandez: Jailhouse Lover Tells All on July 5 at 8 p.m. I can’t change the direction of the wind,…