Table of contents for February 23, 2026 in Globe

THAT’S NOT HOT! California girl PARIS HILTON gets cold feet wearing pumps while navigating New York City slush HIGH SCORER DONNA MILLS tries her hand at TYPTI, a new racket sport, at California Smash in El Segundo IN ON THE JOKE JASON STATHAM laughs his head off at the London premiere of his new flick, Shelter] BREAST MAN JARED SAFIER puts the squeeze on COURTNEY STODDEN as they celebrate their first wedding anniversary in Santa Monica UNDER WRAPS Is ROB LOWE about to spill the beans at the Sundance Film Festival? BEYOND THE PALE Melanin-challenged singer SAM SMITH tests the waters in Tulum, Mexico…

SANDRA BULLOCK’s costar in The Blind Side is “fighting for his life” in “critically ill” condition after suffering his second major medical emergency in less than a year. Actor Quinton Aaron, who played future NFL standout Michael Oher in the 2009 sports biopic, was hospitalized after collapsing outside his home. The towering 41-year-old actor is battling a “severe blood infection,” according to a GoFund-Me account set up to cover his medical bills and his family’s expenses. The account described Aaron as being on “life support,” but his manager Katrina Fristoe said in a statement he’s “stable” and “receiving excellent medical care.” Aaron was walking up a flight of stairs to his apartment when he suddenly lost control of his legs and fell down the stairs. He was hospitalized in Atlanta…

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. NIGHT OWL Mystery word clue: A cause of morning clumsiness 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 find them. Words can go horizontally, vertically, diagonally and backward. ALEXANDRIA ALEXANDRIA BATON BATON ROUGE BOSSIER CITY BREAUX BRIDGE CENTRAL CHALMETTE COVINGTON FARMERVILLE GONZALES GRAND ISLE HARVEY HOUMA KENNER LABADIEVILLE LAFAYETTE LAKE CHARLES LAPLACE MARRERO METAIRIE MINDEN MONROE NATCHITOCHES NEW…

BILLY RAY CYRUS’ former bride Firerose has blasted him as an abusive jerk, but sources say his current lover, Elizabeth Hurley, isn’t letting the slam by the Aussie singer cool her steamy love-in with Miley Cyrus’ dad. The 60-year-old actress hooked up with the 64-year-old country boy last year and celebrated the new year with the hunk and her 23-year-old, son Damian. Sources say her romance with the Achy Breaky Heart crooner is going strong. Meanwhile, Firerose, who met Billy Ray when she was 22 and he was 26 years older on the set of his daughter Miley’s Hannah Montana show, has slammed him as a selfish, cruel lout during their seven-month marriage. Firerose, real name Johanna Hodges, released on social media a recording supposedly of him making light of…

A WEST VIRGINIA woman is accused of starving her 11-year-old step daughter until the tortured child died after shriveling to 43 pounds, the size of a 4-year-old. Shannon Robinson, 51, was charged Jan. 20 with murder by a parent, guardian or custodian along with the girl’s father, Aaron James Moran, who’s accused of leaving Miana Moran in the hands of her stepmother knowing she was being mistreated. “We’re alleging that he knowingly allowed Shannon Robinson to be the custodian of the child, and that she basically failed to provide the necessary food and medical care,” explains prosecuting attorney John Bord. “He allowed it to happen.” Miana was a pathetic 43 pounds and 47 inches tall, an inch under 4 feet, which was “grossly inconsistent with her age,” at the time…

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RICH and famous comedian Tracy Morgan refused to aid a homeless man who asked him for help. The 57-year-old actor was signing autographs for fans in New York when he recognized the man. “I remember you,” he said. “You used to talk all that s**t to me when we were younger. You think I forgot?” He then added, “Don’t talk to me like I owe you something.” The man pleaded with him, asking, “Can I get something, please? … I’m homeless.” But Morgan snapped back, saying, “So what’s that got to do with me? I ain’t do that.” Social media users chided the funnyman, who’s worth an estimated $70 million. As one put it, “At his age and level of success … You just let some stuff go.”…

HARD-BOILED star LEE MARVIN wasn’t just a tough guy on screen. The macho actor and ex-Marine was awarded a Purple Heart after being wounded in World War II while serving in the Pacific. He tapped into his combat experience for 1967’s The Dirty Dozen, playing John Reisman, an Army major tasked with assembling a team of degenerate convicts for a secret suicide mission. Marvin’s road to stardom was just as hard — he moved to Hollywood in 1951, scratching out a living with bit parts before prominent roles in The Big Heat, The Wild One and The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance. He went on to win the Best Actor Oscar for his dual role in the 1965 comedy Western Cat Ballou.…

CONVICTED sex creep Bill Cosby has reportedly finally copped to procuring drugs that paved the way for him to assault helpless women! According to a new report, the disgraced not-so-funnyman fessed up under oath that a shady doctor friend supplied him with a recreational Quaalude prescription — and Cosby admitted to refilling the script seven times without ever taking a single pill himself. Cosby says the new report is not true. Andrew Wyatt, who served as a crisis manager for Cosby, appeared on Jesse Weber Live and claims he asked the star if all the allegations against him were true, and says Cosby firmly denied them. But the revelations were part of a deposition that Cosby reportedly gave in an ongoing lawsuit filed by one of his rape accusers. Donna…

DESPERATE dad Keith Urban has reportedly been cut off by his daughters, who’ve sided with mom Nicole Kidman amid rumors of his relentless skirt-chasing. “The word is that they consider him an insensitive dog and they’re giving him a wide berth and are firmly supporting their mom instead,” a source tells GLOBE. Keith, 58, has been trying to remain close to Sunday Rose, 17, and Faith, 15, since their 58-year-old mom filed for divorce in September after 19 years of marriage. But as rumors reach fever pitch that he’s already shacked up with another woman, the girls have more or less turned their back on the Somebody Like You singer. “It’s a harsh pill for Keith to swallow, but if he’s gotten serious with someone else, then it’s perfectly understandable…

MTV’s bad boy DAVID “PUCK” RAINEY, who was a 25-year-old villain booted from 1994’s The Real World: San Francisco, where seven strangers were put in a house to live and work together, has emerged over three decades later with a new image and gig on TikTok and YouTube. The 57-year-old, who once claimed he fathered four kids with lesbians, is now an at-home chef on his “farmto-table” cooking show named Puck Cooks. Movie icon JODIE FOSTER, 63, who began her career at age 3 and earned an Oscar nomination at 14 for playing an underage hooker in 1976’s Taxi Driver opposite ROBERT DE NIRO, says her early success saved her from being abused, emotionally and sexually, like many actresses. “I was part of a different category of people that had…

OLYMPIC snowboarder turned global drug kingpin Ryan Wedding is finally behind bars after a daring operation in Mexico City brought a dramatic end to the FBI’s decade-long manhunt for its most-wanted fugitive, GLOBE has learned! FBI Director Kash Patel announced the internationally most wanted drug czar’s arrest on Jan. 23, calling the onetime Canadian hero a “modern-day Pablo Escobar” who “thought he could evade justice. “To tell you how bad of a guy Ryan Wedding is, he went from an Olympic snowboarder to [one of] the largest narco traffickers in modern times,” Patel said. The 44-year-old former athlete, who represented Canada in the Salt Lake City Games in 2002, was taken into custody and flown to California, where he pleaded not guilty to 17 federal charges including murder, drug trafficking,…

DINOSAUR EDITION: Dinos roamed the Earth for more than 165 million years — humans, meanwhile, have been around only about 5 million to 7 million years. There are roughly 700 known species of the gnarly creatures, and their fossils have been found on all seven continents. T. Rex was a peewee compared to the Argentinosaurus, which could weigh up to 176,000 pounds, making it one of the largest known land animals of all time. Birds evolved from a group of meat-eating dinosaurs known as theropods. The oldest bird fossils date to 150 million years ago — again, way older than humans. A six-mile-wide asteroid that hit the Yucatán Peninsula 66 million years ago created a huge blast wave, massive tidal waves and giant fires that wiped out all the non-bird…

DISGRACED Today anchor Matt Lauer is a “monster,” according to the former colleague who accuses him of raping her while they were in Sochi, Russia, for the 2014 Winter Olympic Games. Brooke Nevils, then an NBC talent assistant, and her “longtime boss and mentor” Meredith Vieira were sharing a glass of wine one night when Lauer joined them, Nevils writes in her new memoir, Unspeakable Things: Silence, Shame, and the Stories We Choose to Believe. After “rounds of vodka shots,” Nevils admits she was drunk when the Daytime Emmy winner, 68, “insist[ed] on having anal sex” back in her hotel. Nevils claims she woke up the next morning with her “underwear and the sheet beneath [her] caked with blood.” Not wanting the maid to see the stains, “I pulled the…

AGING music icon Phil Collins is so fragile due to health woes, he’s under 24-hour care, but insiders say the Against All Odds crooner’s battle for life is bolstered by the support of loved ones, especially his famed actress daughter, Lily. The 76-year-old singer and the 36-year-old Emily in Paris star had been estranged for a long time before burying the hatchet a few years ago and she’s since become a major emotional support for her father. “He and Lily had their ups and downs over the years, everyone knows that, but she’s been firmly back in his life for a long time now and the bond between them is very strong,” says an insider. “She checks in on him constantly and goes to visit him whenever she can. She…

9/10 EMMA LAIRD The 28 Years Later star was very au courant in a Louis Vuitton bustier dress with a balloon skirt 7/10 JENNIFER MORRISON The All’s Fair alum looked lovely in a strapless Akris gown with a ribbon skirt 3/10 LISA RINNA The RHOBH alum looked more evil stepmother than Cinderella in this over-the-top ballgown 2/10 JENNA DEWAN The Rookie star took an undercover assignment too far in this for-the-boudoir-only look 6/10 ALICE EVE The Bombshell star went old school in a cardigan paired with a sequined skirt…

POP rocker Harry Styles has Lenny Kravitz’s blessing to propose to daughter Zoë — and GLOBE has learned the American Woman singer wants it to happen sooner rather than later. “He’s urging Harry to hurry up!” spills a source. The One Direction alum, 32, was first linked to the Big Little Lies star, 37, in August. Since then, they’ve been spotted putting on cozy displays in London, Rome and Brooklyn. Zoë even reportedly spent the holidays in England with Harry. Insiders say she’s now calling him her “soulmate” to friends. Lenny, 61, got to know the actress’ new guy pretty quickly, with the lovebirds joining the rock star for lunch in New York in September. “Harry and Lenny bonded almost instantly, probably because they have that shared language of music,”…

Colorblind cancer caution ✚ PEOPLE who are colorblind are more likely to get bladder cancer, a new Stanford Medicine study found. The researchers believe the earliest symptom of the disease — blood in the urine — may go unnoticed by people who have color vision deficiency. That can increase their likelihood of delaying treatment and their risk of dying from the disease. Stanford’s Dr. Ehsan Rahimy suggests if you are colorblind, have someone you live with periodically check your urine for blood. Butt seriously! Discarded cig warning ✚ ANOTHER way cigarettes are harmful — discarded butts are a major source of micro-plastics, say University at Buffalo researchers. They found one cigarette filter can release more than 100 plastic microfibers into water within 10 days. Because cigarette butts are the most…

ELIZABETHAN literary legend​William Shakespeare is the most famous playwright of all time, but a new book alleges history has gotten his pronouns — and entire identity — wrong. Author Irene Coslet claims the Bard was actually a dark-skinned Jewish woman named Emilia Bassano! In The Real Shakespeare: Emilia Bassano Willoughby, readers are presented with “extensive evidence” that the person behind classics like Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth and Romeo and Juliet wasn’t “a white man from Stratford,” but a Black Jewish woman whose origins were in Italy! Coslet is said to have re-examined “often-overlooked historical documents” to come to the bold conclusion. “Emilia was the author of the canon,” insists a description of the book, which hits stands March 30. “Generations of researchers have tried to dismantle the myth of the Stratford…

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GEORGE CLOONEY The Jay Kelly star has never been shy about blasting the 1997 flick Batman & Robin, directed by Joel Schumacher. George, 64, recently joked that his and his wife’s 8-year-old twins will be traumatized by the detailed costume he wore as the Caped Crusader. “We know they’re going to be in therapy no matter what, just from Batman & Robin,” he joked. “‘My dad had rubber f**king nipples.’ Disaster.” DAKOTA JOHNSON Not what she signed up for! The 36-year-old griped that the 2024 box office bomb Madame Web was “made by committee,” leaving her soured on the Marvel superhero genre. “I probably will never do anything like it again because I don’t make sense in that world, and I know that now,” she explained. “But sometimes in this…