Globeの December 16, 2019 の目次

THE $90 million fortune of Bee Gees star Maurice Gibb — left to his wife and two kids in 2003 — could be up in the air after an English musician claimed DNA tests prove he’s the late singer’s secret love child. Nick Endacott, 51, who was adopted after being put in a South London orphanage, says he was shocked when the saliva swab he sent to Ancestry.co.uk found he’s a “100 percent match” with the Stayin’ Alive singer’s son Adam, 43, who’d previously sent a sample. “When I saw the results I was thinking, ‘Is this real?’ ” Nick says. “I felt an overwhelming sense of relief and completion in my life. This has finally given me closure.” Nick says he’s written to surviving Bee Gee Barry, 73, and also…

BEAUTY is a pain in the puss for movie siren Kate Hudson — she endures agonizing facial peels that feel like “sandpaper” and “sunburn,” but erase acne and sun spots from her gorgeous mug. The 40-year-old daughter of Goldie Hawn says she only gets the punishing three-day herbal peels “once in a blue moon.” But they’re painful as heck! “We have this facialist that I’ve used for years, and she has this natural peeling mask,” reveals the mom of three. “They are just these herbs activated with some kind of acid. It feels like she’s putting a sandpaper on your skin.” She also takes laser skin treatments and drinks tons of water for her skin. Still, the peels are “amazing,” she says. “But if you do it really intensely ……

SARAH PALIN’s daughter WILLOW, 25, and her husband, RICKY BAILEY, welcomed twin baby girls Banks and Blaise. Country star JORDAN DAVIS and wife KRISTEN had a baby daughter, Eloise. Little People, Big World’s ZACH and TORI ROLOFF welcomed their second kid, Lilah, weighing 8 lbs., 9 oz. and measuring 18.5 inches long. She joins brother Jackson, 2, who like his dad, has achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. CASSIDY GIFFORD, the actress daughter of former Today host KATHIE LEE GIFFORD and late NFL star FRANK GIFFORD, is engaged to BEN WIERDA. Jersey Shore’s MIKE “The Situation” SORRENTINO’s wife, LAUREN, suffered a miscarriage. She claims she became pregnant the night he was released from prison after serving eight months for tax evasion. Country crooner COFFEY ANDERSON‘s 39-year-old wife CRISCILLA’s stage 4 colon…

HER heart didn’t feel it! Songbird Celine Dion says at first she didn’t want to record My Heart Will Go On, the smash hit from the blockbuster movie Titanic. “It didn’t appeal to me,” shrugs the 51-year-old superstar But her late husband and manager, René Angélil, convinced her to give it a whirl. “I was probably very tired that day,” says Celine. “My husband said, ‘Let’s hold on.’ He talked to the writer and he said, ‘Let’s try to make it, like, a little demo.’ ” She agreed — and the song sold 18 million copies as a single and won an Academy Award and four Grammy Awards.…

LUCKY the guinea pig didn’t live up to his name when a Kentucky pet-store shoplifter allegedly hurled the furry four-month-old from the window of her getaway car! Cops grabbed Isabelle Mason, 21, and Jaimee Pack, 19, by the scruff in connection with the rodent-napping crime — in which the pair purloined Lucky and a sibling — and charged them with shoplifting, robbery and animal cruelty. Pet Paradise owner Scott Gonyaw said one of them hurled Lucky to the pavement after he screamed, “Give me the guinea pigs!” Fortunately, the cuddly critter was unhurt. Lucky’s brother, however, is still missing.…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 What a fun and productive week this is, Ram! There’s the delivery of an unexpected gift that puts a huge smile on your face. Then great news under the Virgo moon brings a much-needed financial boost. And finally, a chance meeting while last-minute shopping sparks winter romance! You’re welcome! GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Monday finds you squabbling with your spouse or a neighbor while Mars and Jupiter clash, but by midweek all is finally forgiven! Cash flow could be slow, but it picks up after cosmic changes late in the week. Single and looking for love? Venus says not for long! The number 6 proves lucky on Sunday. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Although Lions are usually the life of the…

CNN talk legend Larry King has revealed that he thought his final days were near after a medical emergency in early spring! “I had what they call a slight stroke in March, [and] they thought I was going to die,” the 86-year-old confesses. “They told my two boys to come home. It was really touch and go. “I had a sepsis infection,” he adds. “I had a new stent put on the heart … Everyone tells me they can’t believe I made it through.” And it turned out the medical mishap was not the only road bump for the longtime gabber. In August, King and Shawn Southwick, 60, mom of his sons Chance, 20, and Cannon, 19, split after 23 years of marriage. Now, he says, he and Shawn are…

SQUEAKY-CLEAN songbird Julie Andrews has revealed how her late husband once dragged her to see an orgy he created while directing her in the hit 1980 comedy 10! “Julie, you’ve just got to come on over here, it’s an unbelievable sight!” the Mary Poppins star says Blake Edwards told her. “So I went dashing over there, of course I did!” she confesses. The Sound of Music singer found the piles of “stark naked” bodies lounging around just loverly — especially the way her “adorable,” height-challenged co-star Dudley Moore tried to keep up with the fake festivities. “Blake put him between two enormously statuesque ladies,” she gushes, “and so he was completely naked, and these two ladies were naked, and their bums were up here and little Dudley’s was down here!”…

NICE rack, my deer! A Michigan photographer thought he was seeing in threes when he bagged a stunning photo of an unusual Whitetail buck sporting a trio of antlers! Steve Lindberg, 75, says he snapped the “one in a lifetime” photo of the twelve-point animal in Marquette County. The fascinating photo comes as the amateur shutterbug explains that after a lifetime of hunting, he’s decided to shoot critters with a camera instead of a gun. “It’s like hunting,” he says of picture-taking. “It’s like you go out and you never know what you’re going to run into.”…

STAFF at a library in Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, are baffled by a visitor who moves liberal-leaning books and hides them in other parts of the building. The books, on subjects like gun control and gay rights, eventually turn up, often buried in the fiction section. A NEW York City man is crying fowl after he says he found a half-smoked joint in his Popeyes chicken sandwich. “Do all your chicken sandwiches come with a joint in them?” Jeremy Merdinger asked Popeyes on Twitter. RESIDENTS of Goddard, Kan., thought it was Christmas when they saw a camel, a donkey and a cow wandering down a road. Turned out the critters had escaped from the home of a worker at the nearby Tanganyika Wildlife Park. VINNIE PROSCIA, the manager of a Long…

WILD child Miley Cyrus has been trashed by her sister-in-law, who thinks the inked-up pop tart wasn’t good enough for her soon-to-be ex-hubby, Liam Hemsworth, sources snitch. Elsa Pataky, who’s married to the Hunger Games hunk’s brother Chris Hemsworth, 36, says Liam “deserves much better” than the Hannah Montana rocker, according to sources. Liam, 29, and Miley, 26, announced their split in August, less than a year after tying the knot. But they’d been coupled-up off and on since 2010. The source also said Elsa, 43, offered an update on the dumped Aussie actor, saying Liam’s “a little bit down, but he’s coping well.” She added Liam has turned to her Avengers star husband for emotional support, according to the insider who quoted Elsa as saying, “He and his brother…

REALITY vixen Denise Richards fibbed when she claimed her only plastic surgery was on her boobs, but now she’s crying she wished she hadn’t had a slew of fixes because she’s looking weird, sources say. The 48-year-old ex of Tinseltown trainwreck Charlie Sheen previously had “a fair amount of surgery, including a boob job, Botox and fillers,” blabs an insider, who says the nip/tucks are the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star’s “biggest regret.” “She wishes she’d grown older gracefully,” adds the insider. “She thinks she looks weird now.” She so fed up with plastic surgery, she hopes her daughters, Sami, 15, Lola, 14, and Eloise, 7, never go under the knife, the spy dishes. Ironically, just months ago in April, the beauty denied getting anything except a boob job,…

BATTY NEW BATMAN DOES MANUAL LABOR! Cute and clueless ROBERT PATTINSON has raised eyebrows for weird ramblings before, but this gem from the Twilight vampire is downright batty: “I love finding something where I have absolutely no idea how to do it,” says the next Batman. “I don’t approach parts if there’s something relatable. If I was going after parts which seem somehow relatable to my real self, I would be consistently playing chronically insecure losers.” Harsh. Fun fact: Rob’s current flick The Lighthouse is his fourth film that depicts the hunk engaging in scenes of sexual self-pleasure! “In the last three or four movies, I’ve got a masturbation scene,” he ponders. “I did it in High Life. I did it in Damsel. And The Devil All the Time. I…

JASON ALDEAN’S divorce papers say the country king dumped first wife Jessica Ussery over “irreconcilable differences,” but insiders charge he actually had another gal on the side! Even though Jessica worked her fingers to the bone to support his struggling career, the musician dropped her like a hot potato once he made it big, sources say! After a dozen years of marriage, hometown sweetheart Jessica, now 40, got the shock of her life when the 42-year-old My Kinda Party singer was caught on camera kissing American Idol songbird Brittany Kerr, 31, at a Hollywood bar in 2013. Country king played around on wife who saved his career And Jessica soon “found out that this wasn’t the first time Jason had flirted with other women — it was just the first time…

IN A wacky celebrity mix-up, former Scandal star Kerry Washington sometimes gets texts meant for rapper turned preacher Kanye West! “We’re not really friendly, but we have a lot of friends in common,” the 42-year-old actress told late night host Jimmy Kimmel. “I think a lot of people have us programmed in their phones as ‘KW.’ So, I’ll get a text, like once a year where I’m like, ‘That is not for me.’ ”…

IT’S all relative for Tom Hanks and his latest movie character, beloved TV host Mr. Rogers! According to the website Ancestry.com, the actor and the late Fred Rogers are sixth cousins! Oscar winner Tom, 63, plays the cardigan-wearing kid favorite in the film, A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood — and the news stuns his wife, actress Rita Wilson. “No, impossible!” she says. “It’s no surprise they are related as the similarities between the two are uncanny,” says Jennifer Utley, director of research at Ancestry.com. “Even if we don’t know it, our pasts impact our present.” Tom and Mr. Rogers share the same five-times-great-grandfather, German immigrant Johannes Mefford — and they’re descended from two of his sons who fought in the Revolutionary War, according to the website. I would rather…

A DISTRAUGHT California couple claims a delivery person crushed their four-pound pup by throwing a package over their fence — leaving him so badly injured he needed to be euthanized! Mitchell Galin and Keiko Napier charge their tiny Yorkie, Cooper, got squashed by a large box launched by a FedEx worker into their backyard in Venice. Keiko says their bloodied pooch was in pain and had severe lung and liver damage, and they made the difficult decision to put him down. A FedEx spokesperson says the company is working to “determine the circumstances behind this event.” But Keiko bashed their response as “not satisfactory” and adds, “I feel they need to say they’re going to institute a corporate-wide mandate that drivers cannot throw packages. “Our grandchild plays out here. My…

CHARISMATIC Billy Dee Williams returns to the Star Wars universe this month as galactic gambler Lando Calrissian in The Rise of Skywalker. Here are ten things you don’t know about the suave 82-year-old star, whose stage and screen career has lasted more than 70 years! 1 His legal name is William December Williams Jr. 2 He and his twin sister, Loretta, grew up in NYC’s Harlem neighborhood. 3 His mother was an elevator operator at Broadway’s Lyceum Theatre and helped seven-year-old Billy get a bit part in the musical The Firebrand of Florence at the venue. 4 At the New York City High School of the Performing Arts, he was a classmate of Diahann Carroll and later played her husband on five episodes of the prime-time soap Dynasty. 5 He…

A NEW Orleans man with a sick kink pretended to be disabled to trick people into changing his diaper — while the big sissy got hot and bothered, cops say. Rutledge Deas, 29, posed as a “mentally and physically handicapped” 18-year-old to find a home health care worker, cops say. The perv allowed “the care provider to change his adult diaper and obtain sexual arousal under the false pretenses of being handicapped” while he sucked on a baby’s pacifier, according to authorities. Deas told investigators he’d suffered severe childhood trauma and being cared for like a baby brought him “back to a time and place where he was at peace,” according to court records. He was arrested Nov. 13 on several charges and held on $1.5 million bond.…

Advice to tall folks: Get your ticker checked! TALLER people have a higher risk of developing an irregular heartbeat — putting them in greater danger of cardiac failure and strokes, according to researchers at the University of Pennsylvania. The scientists discovered the odds of developing atrial fibrillation — an irregular or rapid heartbeat — rises 3 percent for each additional inch of height over five-footseven! Lead study author Dr. Michael Levin says the findings suggest “very tall patients may benefit from screening” for the condition. SPONSORED Know someone who needs pain relief for the holidays? GIVE the gift of pain relief this holiday season! Tommie Copper’s NEW Ultra-Fit Over The Calf Compression Socks are the perfect gift for anyone on your list. Engineered with medium compression, they provide relief and…

TODAY show co-host Hoda Kotb has done a miraculous about-face — she’s gotten engaged to longtime beau Joel Schiffman! It’s an amazing turnaround for the mom of two! More than a year ago GLOBE reported Hoda got cold feet and called off her wedding to her 61-year-old live-in love! Sources said work troubles in the wake of the Matt Lauer scandal gave her the jitters! But after a dramatic change of heart, Hoda revealed her honey of six years proposed while they were having “a little dinner on the beach,” asking her, “Be my wife.” “My heart has literally been pounding. I was totally shocked!” 55-year-old Hoda gushed to her morning show co-hosts as she flashed her diamond sparkler. A Today insider adds: “This was a real switcheroo. No one…

DAWSON’S Creek star James Van Der Beek’s wife, Kimberly, not only lost their sixth child in a miscarriage, but she also nearly died! “In 48 hours we lost our baby — boy, by the way — and I almost lost my life,” Kimberly, 37, wrote on Instagram. “At some point I can dig into the details with you guys about what happened in the emergency room.” James, 42, revealed the couple’s loss on Nov. 18 while competing on Dancing with the Stars.…

A COUPLE are putting in a gem of a claim for something they swear they lost when the deadly Camp Fire scorched Northern California in 2018 — a 500-pound emerald! But PG&E, the utility whose faulty transmission line sparked the fire, is demanding rock-solid evidence from Larry and Alysia Biegler that such a massive stone ever existed! The blaze was the deadliest in the state’s history, claiming at least 85 lives and causing about $16.5 billion in damage — and, on top of that, the alleged gem-keepers say their emerald was worth $280 million!…

ONE of the most popular detective shows of all time, The Rockford Files ran from 1974 to 1980 and starred JAMES GARNER as maverick private investigator Jim Rockford. Though the gumshoe had been wrongly imprisoned for five years before being pardoned, he was not embittered and often cooperated with close pal Sgt. Dennis Becker — played by JOE SANTOS — of the LAPD. Rockford was notable for avoiding violence, but as can be seen in this photo, he wasn’t shy about being tough if necessary. His gun, though, was rarely used — he did not have a permit.…