Globe October 26, 2020

HERE’S THE SKINNY Former screen siren MELANIE GRIFFITH looks alarmingly scrawny in L.A. HAIR-RAISING STUNT Dumbass daredevil MACHINE GUN KELLY hangs out of the passenger side of his ride in West Hollywood HOW FOWL! Sex and the City actress CYNTHIA NIXON now has an ugly turkey neck BEACH BUM Potbellied PIERCE BROSNAN takes it easy in Hawaii — days after placing his Malibu home on the market UP IN SMOKE Pot-puffing rapper SNOOP DOGG looks mighty mellow while playing DJ at a California concert MAKING A SPLASH JENNIFER GARNER is like a kid again as the 13 Going on 30 star hits the beach in Malibu…

ROD STEWART’S wife didn’t think she was sexy after pigging out during the pandemic and having a hormone and booze-fueled breakdown! “It was a panic-attack type of meltdown during lockdown,” says leggy Penny Lancaster, 49, who admits she had menopausal mood swings and had packed on the pounds by “indulging and being greedy” with food and liquor. “I wasn’t in control and I just broke!” Penny says she and her rocker husband, 75, treated lockdown like a grand vacation — until she resolved to change her ways after seeing an unflattering selfie! Once she took a look at “the photo of shame,” she thought: “Look at the fat on myself, bulging out on the side, the back fat, all round my face and neckline!”…

CRAFTY Kim Kardashian is desperate to dump wacky hubby Kanye West, but the reality queen is thinking with her head, not her heart, as she negotiates a predivorce deal to carve up their $3 billion fortune, sources say. The 39-year-old TV beauty, who’s training to be a lawyer, aims to avoid a dirty public divorce war over their fortune and their daughters North, 7, and Chicago, 2, and sons Saint, 4, and Psalm, 1, spies dish. “Kim has all the paperwork ready to go, but Kanye’s burying his head in the sand and refusing to sit down and mediate,” blabs a source. “Kim knows the moment she pulls the trigger all hell will break loose, so she’s content to sit it out in the hope Kanye comes to his senses…

WARNING signs are blinking for Katie Holmes’ red-hot romance with Emilio Vitolo Jr. — his mom doesn’t like their romance! As GLOBE reported, Katie, 41, rebounded into 33-year-old Emilio’s lap after her sixyear affair with skirt-chaser Jamie Foxx flamed out. But sources tattle hunky restaurateur Emilio upset his mother by dumping his fiancée just hours before pictures of him canoodling Katie surfaced! “His mom thinks she brought him up better than that,” dishes an insider. “She didn’t like how Emilio handled this at all.” But another source spills the hot sauce had gone cold between Emilio and designer Rachel Emmons, 24. “They were taking it slow and it wasn’t working out,” says the source. “He likes older women. He dated an older anchor at FOX and others, so he has…

MARIAH CAREY never did the horizontal mambo with former fiancé James Packer! When asked why the Australian billionaire wasn’t mentioned in her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, the 50-year-old Grammy winner hissed: “If it was a relationship that mattered, it’s in the book. If not, it didn’t occur. We didn’t have a physical relationship, to be honest with you.” Packer, 53, proposed in January 2016 with a 35-carat engagement ring and plans to wed that March. But according to him, there were “problems” in the prenup that would have given the Hero songbird a $30 million windfall. Mariah was accused of seeing other men and the romance ended badly. But Carey kept the $10 million dazzler and later sold it. I don’t think there is any truth. There are…

WHIP-CRACKING Whoopi Goldberg is riding roughshod on The View — and her co-hosts are whining she’s a self-obsessed, money-grubbing pain tyrant, spies dish! “Whoopi’s disenchanted with her role on the show and that’s become a problem for everybody,” an insider tells GLOBE. “She’s nailing the political commentaries, but she’s been badgering the other ladies to step up and quit expecting her to be The View’s political know-it-all. “She’s quizzing them about everything from current events and poll results to pop culture and they better know the answers, or she’ll blow her top! “Whoopi knows her stuff and expects them to know it too!” While The View’s rep insists talk of a rift is “completely ridiculous and untrue” and the entire panel are “dedicated professionals who are all extremely prepared to…