Table of contents for October 6, 2025 in Globe

GETTING PICKY Normally glam CHARLIZE THERON reverts to her inner child as she goes digging for gold A HEAVY LIFT Modern Family alum SARAH HYLAND fails to keep her balls in the air at Disneyland THE MOUTH THAT ROARED Bigmouth STEVEN TYLER encourages fans to embark on a treasure hunt for his tonsils at the MTV Video Music Awards in Elmont, N.Y. SNAKE CHARMER Pro wrestler ZELINA VEGA grapples with a reptilian accessory at a Los Angeles screening of Demon Slayer: Kimetsu No Yaiba Infinity Castle LYING DOWN ON THE JOB KEN MARINO pauses for a power nap at Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood SPIT IT OUT! Genre-bending English musician YUNGBLUD spit-shines the stage of the Fillmore in Detroit, Mich.…

HARD-charging Catherine Zeta-Jones is looking to reinvent her career as she packs her calendar with gigs, and insiders say that leaves older hubby Michael Douglas puttering around the home alone. Sources snitch the 81-year-old acting legend, who is mostly retired now, is panicking as his 25-years-younger wife is building a brand-new life that has no place for him in it. “She’s got a lot on her plate right now and has no intention of giving up on her career or slowing down, far from it,” spills an insider. “This could turn into a divorce nightmare. “Catherine’s got at least two new projects coming up. She’s excited to be out schmoozing with people again. She’s in a powerful position in Hollywood and bringing in the paychecks. The elephant in the room,…

REFORMED bad boy Charlie Sheen is not omitting any of the gory details about his sordid past as he promotes his new memoir — and it’s adding to the decades of pain he’s caused his long-suffering dad, Martin Sheen. An insider tells GLOBE that Martin, 85, is appalled by “how Charlie brags about all the drugs and hookers he’s had,” and now he’s begging his 60-year-old son to “grow up and get serious for once in his life.” According to our mole, “Charlie’s enjoying the excitement surrounding his book and taking a victory lap for all his atrocious behavior. He’s certainly not apologizing for [anything]. He’s making jokes about what was a dark time, not only for him, but for his loved ones, his dad especially.” While promoting his memoir,…

CHARLIZE THERON played a rock-’em sock-’em spy in Atomic Blonde, but Charlize that didn’t stop a brazen thief from waltzing through the 50-year-old actress’ open gate and swiping her BMW. The actress was the latest victim in L.A.’s celebrity crime spree, say cops, who note the crook found the car’s key fob inside the vehicle and zoomed off. The auto was later recovered. Just days earlier, DIANA ROSS’ daughter TRACEE ELLIS ROSS, who was not at home at the time, says $100,000 worth of handbags and jewels were stolen from her Hollywood home. In August, burglars hit the home of LIONEL RICHIE, but the pop icon’s alarm system blared, scaring them off before anything was taken. Great news for BILLY RAY CYRUS — his star daughter MILEY is giving her…

AN “extended network” could have helped alleged shooter Tyler Robinson carry out the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk, according to the FBI. Pro-trans online groups, sexualized animal-obsessed “furries,” people providing financial help and others may have “aided and abetted” 22-year-old Robinson, authorities say. FBI Director Kash Patel revealed the agency is “dedicating every asset” to reaching out to “anyone he [Robinson] contacted, called and textmessaged and had chats online [on] social media platforms with.” Robinson — who’s been charged with several counts, including aggravated murder, and is facing the death penalty — dropped “multiple warning signs” that he was plotting to kill Kirk — a 31-year-old father of two and Turning Point USA founder — at Utah Valley University on Sept. 10, added FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino. Law…

JERKY Joni Thomas allegedly helped an accused killer dispose of a strangled flight attendant’s corpse in Texas — but the pair’s supposed scheme was captured in a butt-dialed voicemail, lawmen say. Thomas, 62, is charged with tampering with evidence in the suspected murder of 47-year-old Rana Nofal Soluri, an Envoy Air employee who went missing in March. Authorities say Dennis William Day, 66, admitted to strangling Soluri, his roomie, with his bare hands during an argument at his home in Fort Worth, Texas — and allege that he enlisted his pal Thomas to help him stuff the victim’s body in a bin and toss it off a bridge about 70 miles away in Bowie. According to an arrest warrant, male and female voices can be heard in a seemingly accidental…

KENDALL JENNER seems ready to hang up her eight-inch platform shoes — the 29-year-old model reveals in a recent interview that she’d like to design houses for a living! “I swear to God, I’m going to stop everything and just design homes,” the Kardashians reality star says in a joint conversation with her BFF, fellow model Gigi Hadid, 30. “I’m not kidding!” Kendall also claims she prefers “the simple life,” which she says includes “getting up every morning and throwing on a bathing suit or sweatpants and no makeup and just being free with my day.” For what it’s worth, Gigi says her pal has such a great eye that she’s “one of the only people” she would let decorate HER home. “I love to feel normal!” Kendall burbles in…

DREW BARRYMORE “I love being in films with him, because I think we’re representing something bigger than, like, hot sexual chemistry,” the 50-year-old recently gushed over her “platonic” friend Adam Sandler, 59. “We’re representing true admiration of another person.” That’s a lot of admiration! The pair have canoodled in three films, 1998’s The Wedding Singer, 2004’s 50 First Dates and Blended, in 2014. ETHAN HAWKE “With all due respect, the best onscreen kiss I had was Angelina Jolie,” the 54-year-old said of his costar in 2004’s Taking Lives. Comparing her to musical genius Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, he marveled of the pillow-lipped actress, “Angelina was born to whittle men and make them weak. When she kisses you, you don’t know your name.” SHARON STONE Maybe it is OK to meet —…

SCREEN idol Robert Redford went to his grave having fulfilled his dying wish of living life to the absolute fullest and never retiring from the profession he dearly loved — no matter how old or wizened he became, sources exclusively tell GLOBE. The two-time Oscar winner reportedly died in his sleep at the age of 89 on Sept. 16 at his longtime home in Utah, and an insider gabs, “Bob was all about never giving in to advancing age. He knew in his heart that you get one shot at this life, and he wanted to keep pushing and pushing until his number was called. “It’s funny because he tried to retire back in 2018 — even announcing publicly that he was done. But he couldn’t help himself. He kept…

HILARIA BALDWIN is loving life on Dancing With the Stars as she cozies up to hard-body hunks like muscular dance partner Gleb Savchenko, and insiders say the former yoga instructor is ordering husband Alec Baldwin to shape up and lose the lard if he wants her to stick around! Sources say 41-year-old Hilaria complains that the former 30 Rock star, 67, won’t step up, but she’s starting to make her point more forcefully now that she’s mingling with younger in-shape guys. “She’s surrounded by these wonderfully healthy people who share her passion for exercise and nutrition and the irony hasn’t been lost on her,” spills an insider. “She’s been on Alec’s case about his old dad bod for so long and she’s bothered that he doesn’t take her seriously. “He…

3/10 LAURA CARMICHAEL Was the Downton Abbey alum wearing the Dowager Countess’ old curtains? 1/10 JESSICA SIMPSON The Dukes of Hazzard star was a fashion disaster in a lace dress and bright feather jacket 5/10 JULIETTE GARIÉPY The Canadian actress’ off-the-shoulder body-hugging gown sent mixed messages 7/10 TARA REID The American Pie alum looked dishy in a sexy black floral slip dress 8/10 MICHELLE WILLIAMS The Dying for Sex star was the life of the party in a polka-dot Dima Ayad gown…

BEAUTIFUL Kate Bosworth stars in the thriller Coyotes alongside real-life hubby Justin Long — with their characters taking on a pack of crazed canines during an L.A. firestorm. The flick is the couple’s first together since tying the knot in 2023. But they’re no strangers to the horror genre, having previously shared the screen in House of Darkness. Here are 10 things you don’t know about Kate. 1 The L.A. native spent most of her childhood on the East Coast — living primarily in Connecticut and Massachusetts. 2 She was born with the hereditary condition heterochromia iridium, having a hazel-colored right iris and a blue left iris. 3 As a teen, she was a champion equestrian, a skill which helped her win her first film role, in 1998’s The Horse…

FIXER Upper stars Chip and Joanna Gaines’ marriage may be breaking down in the wake of a scandal that saw them called out by evangelical Christian kingpin Franklin Graham, insiders tell GLOBE. The goody-goody power couple, who belong to the conservative evangelical Antioch Community Church in Waco, Texas, drew major heat this summer for featuring a samesex couple on their new reality show, Back to the Frontier, in which three families live like 1800s homesteaders. The series aired this summer on Magnolia, the network the Gaineses cofounded, and on Max. Franklin, son of the late Christian bigwig Billy Graham, called the inclusion of Jason Hanna and Joe Riggs, along with their 10-year-old twin sons, on the show “very disappointing.” Graham publicly condemned Joanna and Chip for featuring them, posting on…

FORMER pal Rosie O’Donnell has been trashing fellow comic Ellen DeGeneres by revealing new details about their decadeslong fallout, and insiders say the shamed TV host is freaking out and squawking that she can’t catch a break. Sources snitch that 63-year-old blowhard Rosie continues to rip into Ellen, 67, because she thinks the former talk show queen bee is a fraud. Rotund Rosie recalled her friendship with Ellen flamed out after the voice of Disney’s Dory the fish blabbed on live TV that she wasn’t friendly with Rosie. “That was, like, one of the most painful things that ever happened to me, in show business, in my life,” she confesses. “I couldn't believe it. I have photos of her holding my newborn babies. I knew her for 30 years.” Rosie…

WOMANIZING Golden Bachelor star Gerry Turner ought to be called the Golden Don Juan on the heels of the shocking revelation that he secretly dated another contestant following his divorce from his choice — Theresa Nist. Theresa and former contestants Susan Noles and Kathy Swarts dropped the bombshell on the Bachelor Happy Hour podcast that Gerry, 73, dated Christina Kempton, 75, following his split from Theresa. The divorcée said: “I know that a while ago, I’m actually the one who suggested he go out with Christina.” However, she was shocked when the two revealed that Gerry dated her for six months, exclaiming: “What? I didn’t know that!” Gerry and Theresa tied the knot on ABC’s Golden Wedding special in January last year. Then just three months later, he stunningly revealed…

THE Office star RAINN WILSON is biting the hand that fed him, slamming the characters in the iconic sitcom and stating the show wouldn’t make it on today’s TV. NBC’s outrageously insulting comedy ran from 2005 to 2013 with Wilson playing Dwight Schrute, who was an oddball in a cast loaded with oddballs. He points out that the laughs were squeezed out of bad taste from characters who are “clueless … racist and insensitive, and they’re always saying the wrong thing. And that’s Michael [STEVE CARELL], Dwight and Andy [ED HELMS] and Kevin [BRIAN BAUMGARTNER] for that matter.” As an example, he points to the Benihana Christmas episode, where “Michael and Andy draw with a sharpie on one of the Asian women,” calling it “jaw-droppingly … horrific.” But he also believes…

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. MUEANG THAI Mystery words clue: Malaysia neighbor’s nickname REFERENCE GRID MYSTERY WORDS Puzzle answers: page 46 WORD SEARCH Circle the hidden words in the grid, crossing them out in the list as you vertically, diagonally and backward. ALARM BAFFLE  CHAMBER CIRCUITRY  COVER INTENSITY LIGHT SOURCE MOUNTED PARTICLES PHOTODIODE REACTION  RECEIVER  SCATTERING SENSITIVITY SENSOR DOMINOES Dots represent the domino tiles (with hidden borders). Identify a complete set of dominoes. Start with the unique tiles (e.g. doubles) as…

PRICKLY Prince William is seething over his cancer-stricken dad, King Charles, having a private meeting with his estranged younger brother, Prince Harry — and now the redheaded renegade is poised to become a part-time palace rep, insiders say. The Duke of Sussex, 41, recently had tea with Charles, 76, at Clarence House in London for nearly an hour during a whirlwind four-day visit to his native England — more than five years after settling in California with his American wife, Duchess Meghan. “It sickens William that Harry has wormed his way back into his father’s affections. To him, it’s just wrong on every level — and utterly ridiculous,” a source explains. According to palace insiders, heir to the throne William, 43, lost the battle to permanently ice out his crybaby…

TYLER PERRY’S sexual assault and harassment accuser is speaking out for the first time since lodging a scandalous $260 million lawsuit against the billionaire movie mogul. Actor Derek Dixon claims he could no longer “stay silent” about his alleged experience. “It’s been hard,” he admits. “There’s a lot of shame around it. Just trying to think what you could have done better and having to deal with the judgment of how you could’ve ended it better without being in that situation.” Dixon’s suit, which was filed in Los Angeles in June, accuses the Madea mastermind, 56, of using his powerful position to create a “coercive, sexually exploitative dynamic” during the performer’s tenure on Perry’s TV project The Oval. According to the civil complaint, Perry sent suggestive text messages to Dixon,…

FORMER child star Macaulay Culkin reveals that his Uncle Buck costar — the late comic John Candy — was a father figure who wanted to protect him from his real-life “monster” father. The 6-foot-2, nearly 300-pound Candy, who died of a heart attack at 43 in 1994, worked with 9-year-old Mac in 1989’s Uncle Buck and sensed that the boy’s dad, Kit Culkin, was a problem. Macaulay, now 45, recalls: “I think he [Candy] always had that really great instinct. “He [Kit] was already not a good guy. I think John was looking a little side-eyed, like, ‘Is everything all right over there? You doing good? Good day? Everything’s all right? Everything good at home? All right.’ “I think he saw. Listen, even before the wave crested and the Home…

FOOD EDITION: Lemons float, limes sink. The thick, porous rind of a lemon traps air, making it buoyant; the rinds of limes are thinner and denser. Hawaiian pizza originated in Canada in the late 1960s. And Hawaii is not the birthplace of Spam, despite its popularity there. Hawaii strikes out again! Ketchup is not just for burgers — in the 1830s, it was sold as a digestive medicine! In 1834, Ohio doctor John Cook Bennett marketed “Tomato Pills” as a miracle cure for indigestion, diarrhea and jaundice. No cash in the Middle Ages? No problem! People used black pepper to pay their rent, their taxes — and even ransom. It earned the nickname “black gold.” Cranberries can bounce like rubber balls — but only if they’re fresh and ripe.…