Globe December 20, 2021

THE MUMMY Gaunt former newsgal MARIA SHRIVER, who shares four kids with estranged hubby Arnold Schwarzenegger, seems dead on her feet in Santa Monica PLAID HATTER Red-nosed BUSY PHILIPPS braves the cold in NYC as she belts out a tune at Herald Square TALL & SHORT OF IT PETER DINKLAGE and ETHAN HAWKE enjoy the heights of success with Gotham Independent Film awards ROLL CALL Mad Men’s JON HAMM has his hands full as the sloppy star stocks up on toilet tissue in L.A. BUDDING BEAUTY Desperate Housewives hottie NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN clutches a birthday bouquet in West Hollywood as she celebrates turning 58 SCARED STRAIGHT! GEORGE LOPEZ’s hair-raising comedy is electric!…

KITCHEN cutie Valerie Bertinelli has kicked her current hubby of ten years to the curb and insiders insist the split was caused by the ghost of her dead first husband, rocker Eddie Van Halen! The star of Food Network’s Valerie’s Home Cooking slapped money man Tom Vitale with legal separation docs on Nov. 27. Sources snitch the 61-year-old former sitcom star is still carrying a torch for the guitar legend, who she divorced in 2007. She was shattered when the father of her son, Wolf-gang, died of a stroke at age 65 in October 2020. “Valerie considers Eddie the love of her life and she always will. When he died he took a part of her with him,” spills an insider. “It caused problems between her and Tom, who could…

MARTIAL arts maestro Jackie Chan is still working himself to a frazzle at age 67 and it’s thrown his 40-year marriage to wife Joan into a new crisis after he was caught cheating and fathering a love child, spies dish! Despite amassing a mind-boggling $360 million fortune, Jackie’s got four upcoming projects and 68-year-old Joan, mom of his son Jaycee, 38, is determined he slow down — but the actor is ignoring her demand and “having the time of his life,” a source says. Chan stepped away from martial arts work years ago, “but he’s still busy as ever producing and starring in movies, and that leaves little time for Joan,” spills an insider. “She would like him to retire or take a long break at least so they can spend…

Singer Aaron Carter’s got lousy timing — the 34-year-old cad dumped fiancée Melanie Martin just SEVEN DAYS after she delivered their son, Prince! The little dude was born Nov. 22 and on Nov. 29, the I Want Candy singer slammed his baby mama, claiming she “deceived” him by keeping in touch with his twin sister, Angel, who he accuses of trying to snatch his fortune. “Melanie has been lying to me the whole time communicating with my twin sister and the family members who tried to put me in prison and who tried to get a conservatorship on me,” he whines. He also accused Melanie of having a “back-up plan” to skip out with their son, tweeting: “She told me she’s leaving to Vegas and said I’ll never see my…

PRINCE CHARLES has been outed as the so-called “racist” who remarked about the skin color of his son Harry’s kids with interracial wife Meghan, according to a bombshell revelation in a new book. The racism accusation exploded during the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s notorious March TV interview when they trashed the royal family for being cold, uncaring bigots! While then-pregnant Meghan and Harry stopped short of naming names, the couple noted a member of the royal family expressed concerned about the skin color of the couple’s children when son Archie, now 2, was still unborn. Their daughter, Lilibet, was born about two months after the TV attack. Meghan claimed there were “concerns and conversations about how dark [their son’s] skin might be when he was born. Those were conversations…

FORMER reality TV dad Jon Gosselin narrowly cheated death — or losing a limb — when he rushed to a hospital after waking in agonizing pain with his leg swollen twice its size. The 44-year-old former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star, who’s been divorced from his wife since 2009, had been bitten by a venomous brown recluse spider.  Following a night of partying in Reading, Pa., Jon says he “woke … and was in excruciating pain. “It was really weird because when I looked at my leg I realized it was twice the size and there’s a red-looking blister with a large red circle around it. “The doctor told me that I was lucky to come in because if you don’t treat this you can lose limbs or die…