Table of contents for September 8, 2025 in Globe

LOVESTRUCK Hugh Jackman is desperate to take the next step with Sutton Foster, but her divorce from Ted Griffin is dragging on and sources say it’s causing trouble in paradise! As GLOBE previously revealed, the besotted Broadway star, 56, is ready to get down on one knee and propose to his new ladylove after they fell for each other while starring in The Music Man on the Great White Way. He ruthlessly ditched his wife of 27 years, Deborra-Lee Furness, 69 — with whom he coraises two adopted kids — to start a new life with Sutton, 50. She has already moved into his New York City home. But while his divorce wrapped up fairly quickly, the same cannot be said for hers. Sutton is still legally wed to screenwriter…

DECEIVED Kelly Clarkson was dealt a double-whammy when her ex-husband, Brandon Blackstock, passed away recently — not only was the songbird not mentioned in his obituary, but it publicly revealed his romantic relationship with her former assistant for the first time. Blackstock, 48, died on Aug. 7 after a three-year battle with cancer. Kelly, 43, who shared two children, River, 11, and Remy, 9, with the talent manager, filed for divorce in 2020. It was finalized in 2022. His obituary omitted any reference to the talk-show host, but did praise Brittney Marie Jones, who used to work for Kelly, calling her his “beautiful and loving partner in life and business.” Until his death, Brandon and Brittney had been living together at his home in Butte, Mont. Their relationship was just…

GAL SAYS POLITICS SPANKED SNOW WHITE Israeli actress GAL GADOT insists her flop flick Snow White — where she played the evil queen — was torpedoed by anti-Israel sentiment. The former Miss Israel says: “I was disappointed the movie was so affected and it didn’t succeed at the box office. I was sure this movie was going to be a huge hit. And then it happened [the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas terrorists]. As you know … there’s pressure on celebrities to speak against Israel.” Gal and Snow White babe RACHEL ZEGLER were enemies onscreen and also were at odds in real life as Rachel was an outspoken supporter of Palestine. Still, the 40-year-old Wonder Woman beauty is shrugging it off, saying: “That’s how it goes. You win…

VAMPIRE mom Jorden Borders was sentenced to 39 years behind bars in Minnesota after torturing her three kids — and even regularly draining one of his blood — to falsely purport that they were sick, so she could collect over $18,000 in fraudulent Medicaid benefits, investigators say. Following a three-week trial, Borders, 35, was convicted on all 11 counts against her, including charges of child torture, stalking, theft by false representation and attempted murder, according to a press release from state Attorney General Keith Ellison. The AG had previously stated that the monstrous mother committed “medical child abuse by performing specific acts against her children that led to them presenting with false medical conditions to their medical providers.” Lawmen began investigating Borders in May 2022 for alleged child maltreatment after…

CALLOUS Queen Camilla cruelly abandoned King Charles, leaving her cancer-stricken husband sick and alone after locking down a deal to preserve her luxe life following his inevitable decline and death — but her self-serving plan may backfire big-time, courtiers confide. Footloose Camilla, 78, was recently caught on camera living it up while sailing around Greece aboard a $40 million superyacht owned by Syrian-Saudi billionaire Wafic Saïd. While the carefree queen cruised, her 76-year-old hubby, who continues to battle an undisclosed form of cancer, was holed up at Balmoral Castle in Scotland for his traditional summertime retreat. Yet sources say the sight of Camilla soaking up the Mediterranean sun was like a knife to the heart of the dying king. An insider shares, “The sad thing is he’d have liked her…

MERRY Margot Robbie loves to cut loose and drink when she’s through with work, but pals can’t keep pace and word’s getting around that she’s turned into a major party animal, insiders tell GLOBE. A source snitches that the 35-year-old Aussie is a social barfly who is often joined in her shenanigans by her hubby and producing partner, Tom Ackerley, also 35. Margot and Tom were the creative team behind the limited dark comedy series Sirens, a No. 1 hit on Netflix when it debuted May 22. “Margot’s a mom, a movie star, and a serious TV and film producer, but blowing off steam is still a big part of how she and Tom stay sane,” spills an insider. “One of the big reasons people like her is that she…

MUSIC legend Chubby Checker recently threw a twist into the plans of the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame by refusing to attend his long-awaited induction ceremony in Los Angeles on Nov. 8 in favor of performing a gig in front of a live audience of his adoring fans. Chubby, 83, revealed that he asked his manager to schedule him for a show on that date — before being told he was finally receiving the honor in his 40th year of eligibility — so he could say to organizers, “We’re not coming.” The ebullient baritone boogied his way into pop culture history with his 1960 hit The Twist and its follow-up Let’s Twist Again. In an unprecedented move, the Hall then presented Chubby with his trophy at a concert in…

IS that RITA HAYWORTH or just her reflection in ORSON WELLES’ 1947 film noir The Lady From Shanghai? Welles cast and starred opposite his then-wife in this tangled tale of murder and betrayal, which is most famous for its ending “hall of mirrors” sequence — with a shootout amid shards of shattered glass. The idea has been replicated many times since — from James Bond and John Wick movies to a skit by the comedy team Key & Peele — but nothing comes close to the original, shot on a set with more than 80 mirrors, some of them two-way so the camera could film right through them. Despite that iconic scene, the movie was something of a disaster, and Orson and Rita finalized their divorce before its release.…

BOILING Britney Spears isn’t the only one up in arms over ex-hubby Kevin Federline’s upcoming tell-all — now another of her exes, Sam Asghari, is getting into the axgrinding act! “It would be the first book that’ll tell you how to be a professional father,” Sam, 31, said in a televised interview — implying that Kev can boast about his parenting skills only because he was paid so handsomely from the divorce settlement to sit around on his butt. Britney, 43, and Kevin, 47, share sons Sean, 19, and Jayden, 18, but the former backup dancer has had majority custody of the boys since October 2007. Now that both kids have reached legal age, the $20,000 monthly support payments from Britney have stopped — but that’s after she paid Federline…

HEARTSICK Priscilla Presley is fighting back against a bombshell lawsuit accusing her of greedily pulling daughter Lisa Marie off life support — but sources fear contentious legal battles and family tragedies may drive the 80-year-old into an early grave. In January 2023, Lisa Marie, 54, went into cardiac arrest caused by a small bowel obstruction. After her eventual death at a Los Angeles hospital, Priscilla attempted to take control of the late Elvis Presley’s empire — even though she divorced Lisa Marie’s Love Me Tender singer father four years before his 1977 death. However, grand-daughter Riley Keough, Lisa Marie’s oldest child, ultimately became the sole trustee of Elvis’ estate. Yet a lawsuit filed by Brigitte Kruse and Kevin Fialko — heads of Priscilla Presley Partners — alleges, “Despite Lisa’s clear…

General Hospital star TRISTAN ROGERS, 79, who played spy turned police commissioner Robert Scorpio for 45 years, has died from cancer. The Aussie-born actor “loved being Scorpio and he created that role from nothing,” recalls his manager, MERYL SOODAK. “He was supposed to work a day and he ended up making it into something huge.” In the soap’s most famous moment, the 1981 marriage of Luke Spencer (ANTHONY GEARY) and Laura (GENIE FRANCIS), Tristan’s Scorpio was best man. He leaves devastated wife TERESA PARKERSON, who he wed in 1995, and adult kids SARA JANE and CALE. Good news for fans of the rock group Oasis. Singer NOEL GALLAGHER says his current tour with brother LIAM has inspired him to jot down new tunes he’s thinking about recording with their group.…

FORMER ’80s stud Mickey Rourke has become a total recluse since being banished in disgrace from the U.K.’s Celebrity Big Brother house in April, sources tell GLOBE. “It’s shocking how low he’s fallen,” spills an insider. “He lives in a beat-up place in Beverly Hills where the curtains are always drawn and the landscaping is unkempt. The neighbors must hate him — it’s a total eyesore. “He rarely goes out and has his assistant fetching things for him,” the snitch says. “There’s no doubt he’s humiliated over what happened on Celebrity Big Brother and that’s contributed to his deep funk.” As these exclusive photos show, the Wrestler star, 72, hasn’t been tending to his personal appearance lately either. He even seems to be neglecting to wear any of his rumored…

WEIRDO Wesley Worl is facing criminal charges in Texas after confronting two young girls while wearing nothing but a diaper and a pacifier around his neck — and allegedly delivering a creepy come-on, authorities say. According to lawmen, Worl, 45, got out of his truck and approached the kids in the parking lot of Andy Woods Elementary School in the town of Tyler. He allegedly asked the 11-year-old, “Will you change my diaper for me?” and supposedly babbled, “Goo goo ga ga, I need a diaper change.” An arrest affidavit states that the girls fell down and skinned their knees in their mad rush to get away from the “scary man” they feared was chasing them, adding they were “visibly shaking” and “truly petrified” when they sought safety at the…

LOVED-UP Liam Hemsworth is headed to the altar with actress Gabriella Brooks, but insiders say his bitter ex-wife — Wrecking Ball singer Miley Cyrus — is seemingly trying to wreck his happiness by sniping he’s a lousy lover, a cad and the marriage is doomed! Sources snitch the 32-year-old Heart of Glass songbird hates her ex’s guts and hasn’t gotten over him — six years after they filed for divorce. “Even all these years later Miley is still hanging on to so much resentment,” tattles an insider. “Looking back, she feels like Liam treated her terribly. And she was a huge pop star, so she can only imagine the way he’s treating Gabriella, who’s got nowhere near Miley’s level of power. “She says she feels sorry for her. As far…

ACTRESS Sarah Jessica Parker has slammed back at viewers who shredded her just-axed series, And Just Like That, and its ending, basically telling the haters she doesn’t give a damn! “I guess I don’t really care,” says the 60-year-old star. “And the reason I don’t care is because it has been so enormously successful, and the connections it has made with audiences have been very meaningful.” SJP starred as husband-hunting Carrie Bradshaw over 27 years starting with Sex and the City from 1998 to 2004, two movie sequels and the current HBO series coming to an end after three years. In the final episode, her newspaper sex-columnist character decides it’s OK being single and says, “The woman realized she was not alone — she was on her own.” Disappointed viewers…

CODE BREAKERS Each letter of the alphabet is represented by a number. Use the given letters to get started by filling them in throughout the puzzle. Look out for patterns like repeated letters. Code Breaker puzzles use all 26 letters of the alphabet. There are no trademarks, abbreviations, hyphenated nor foreign words on the grid. REFERENCE GRID MYSTERY WORDS WORD SEARCH Circle the hidden words in the grid, crossing them out in the list as you find them. Words can go horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backward. ARTISTIC AVID READER CREATIVE DISCIPLINED INDEPENDENT INVESTIGATIVE MODEST MOTIVATED OPEN-MINDED OPTIMISTIC PATIENT PERFECTIONIST PERSEVERANT TALENTED VERSATILE DOMINOES Dots represent the domino tiles (with hidden borders). Identify a complete set of dominoes. Start with the unique tiles (e.g. doubles) as they are easiest to spot. CRISS…

SWAGGERING Ice Spice has made her film debut in Spike Lee’s latest project, Highest 2 Lowest — a modern interpretation of the 1963 Akira Kurosawa movie High and Low. The Gangsta Boo rapper is also slated to lend her famous voice to the animated adventure The SpongeBob Movie: Search for SquarePants. Ice, 25, once admitted that she considered film school before delving into music full-time, explaining, “I love movies. I always wanted to be a part of that, whether it was [starring in] or helping direct it.” Here are 10 things you don’t know about the drill music diva. 1 Her legal name is Isis Naija Gaston — and she chose Ice Spice as her stage name while she was a freshman in high school. 2 She is Afro-Latina, having…

RED-HOT sweethearts Elizabeth Hurley and Billy Ray Cyrus are making baby talk, with insiders tattling that the middle-aged lovebirds already have their sights set on marriage and going one step further — adopting a tot to complete their new family. Liz, 60, is mom to son Damian, 23, with the late tycoon Steve Bing, and Billy Ray, 63, fathered Christopher, 33, with Kristin Luckey, and daughters Miley, 32, and Noah, 25, and son Braison, 31, with ex-wife Tish while adopting her kids Brandi, 38, and Trace, 36. But the new sweethearts want to start their own family. “Billy Ray’s already adopted two of his children, so it’s something he fully embraces, and Liz has spoken openly about how beautiful and important adoption is,” says an insider. “Now that they’re talking…

REALITY babe Kim Kardashian is being forced to relive her nightmare past as a new documentary about her exhusband Kanye West rips the lid off the anguish she experienced during her eight-year marriage to the ranting rapper — and now the blubbering billionaire has secretly turned to hypnosis in a bid to put the trauma behind her, sources say. “Kim’s used hypnosis in the past as part of her therapy, and she does find it helps,” an insider says. “Unfortunately, the scars from Kanye are very deep, so this isn’t a one and done sort of healing journey.” The Skims mogul, 44, shares kids North, 12, Saint, 9, Chicago, 7, and Psalm, 6, with the Gold Digger rapper, 48, who she divorced in 2022. Now, the documentary In Whose Name?…

BARRY KEOGHAN The Saltburn star recently revealed that he’s still “haunted” by his mother’s death from a heroin overdose when he was 12. Because he had no relationship with his dad, the 32-year-old ended up in foster care. “You don’t forget waiting on the social worker steps,” he said. “Waiting for the new family to come and play with you in the playground they have in the office and see if it’s going to work.” NICOLE RICHIE While the 43-year-old was never in the system, she was under the legal guardianship of her now-adoptive father for two years. Singer Lionel Richie recalled being captivated by the 2-year-old daughter of Karen Moss and musician Peter Escovedo. He worried about the tot as her parents left to go on tour with Prince.…

SUPERMAN’s evil villain Terence Stamp was one of the biggest stars in the world in the ’60s, and insiders say the screen legend’s biggest regret was bungling his shot to star as James Bond! Sources snitch the legendary British actor, who played super baddie General Zod and died at 87 last month, never got over losing the chance to follow in Sean Connery’s 007 footsteps back in the late 1960s. “It haunted him for years, because he was so close to getting it — then he met with the producers and started pitching them all these bizarre ideas for reinventing Bond and it horrified the old guard,” spills a Hollywood insider. “His shot was gone in an instant and that was the moment everything changed. If he’d landed Bond, he…

FOOD EDITION: Technically, bananas are berries. Strawberries, despite their name, are not! They are what is known as “aggregate fruits.” Nutmeg, which contains the psychoactive compounds myristicin and elemicin, is a hallucinogen. In large quantities, it can lead to disorientation, euphoria and hallucinations — along with nausea, dehydration and pain. Don’t tell your kids or you’ll never see the end of it, but cranberries can bounce! The air pockets in their cells give them the ability to ricochet if dropped from a certain height. Hens can sometimes lay eggs with pink yolks. It might indicate spoilage, or it might be because the hen ate a diet rich in carotenoids, such as marigold petals or red peppers. Another pink food isn’t really pink at all — farmed salmon is artificially dyed…