Globe January 10, 2022

CUT TO THE CHASE CLAIRE DANES, who played angsty teen Angela Chase in My So-Called Life, is now a harriedlooking middle-aged mom! WAY TO DOUGH! Jumbo JONAH HILL appears to be packing on the pounds again as he wolfs down a churro in California BAD HAIR DAZE LORI PETTY, Station Eleven’s kooky conductor, looks like she’s letting life imitate art! THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK! TIE-ING ONE ON Natty dresser KEANU REEVES comes ready with a change of clothes in NYC SHORT-HANDED Pint-sized MICHAEL J. FOX doesn’t let a cast keep him from applauding the New York Knicks at a Big Apple basketball game WHATTA CORKER! Not Gon’ Cry singer MARY J. BLIGE is ready for a boozy good time at Miami Beach…

BATMAN Ben Affleck triggered a firestorm of outrage after the crybaby drunk blamed his alcoholism on actress ex-wife Jennifer Garner! Furious fans hit social media, where they slammed Affleck as a “d**khead,” “a**hole” and “scumbag” for saying the horror of his marriage made him crawl into a bottle for escape. Now insiders say the 49-year-old Oscar winner may have blown holes in his megabucks career by whining he was “trapped” in a 13-year marriage to Garner from 2005 to 2018. “I was like, ‘I can’t leave because of my kids, but I’m not happy, what do I do?’” he says “And what I did was drank a bottle of scotch and fell asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution.” He says he and Garner, 49,…

MERRY widow NeNe Leakes is already diving back into the dating pool — less than four months after the rabble-rousing reality star lost hubby Gregg to colon cancer at age 66, insiders say. NeNe’s rumored new man is Liberian-born Nyonisela Sioh, who appeared alongside the Bravo personality in December at her 54th birthday bash in Georgia. Sources dish NeNe was set up with the North Carolina businessman by Peter Thomas, ex-husband of her former Real Housewives of Atlanta castmate Cynthia Bailey!…

DESPERATE to win back estranged wife Kim Kardashian, Kanye “Ye” West is collecting a harem of hot models to boost his battered ego and make his ex jealous, spies dish. The 44-year-old rapper figures surrounding himself with a slew of stunners will make Kim, 41, regret kicking him to the curb, so “he has friends and associates discreetly scouring for eligible, hot model types who can drop everything for him whenever he wants company or a piece of arm candy,” spills a source. “They’ll be required to sign nondisclosure agreements, but Kanye figures he’s offering them a ticket to his world and access to his genius so the girls will benefit as much as he will.” As GLOBE previously reported, sources say the heartbroken Yeezy fashion designer has been plunged into…

TRUTH AFTER 58 YEARS! EXPLOSIVE CIA documents reveal damning new evidence that President John F. Kennedy’s assassination was a secret plot by Russia’s KGB spy agency — and ordered by Soviet kingpin Nikita Khrushchev! Declassified after 58 years, the papers are part of a cache of 1,500 long-suppressed CIA memos and drop the bombshell revelation that JFK gunman Lee Harvey Oswald secretly met with a key KGB “assassinations” expert at the Soviet embassy in Mexico City on Sept. 28, 1963 — just two months before he killed the president in Dallas on Nov. 22. JFK scholars have long suspected Oswald’s involvement with a KGB plan to murder Kennedy. Now, intelligence sources say the suspicious meeting between the KGB spook, identified as Valeriy Vladimirovich Kostikov, and the 24-year-old turncoat U.S. Marine…

BRAD PITT is down in the dumps — literally — after his losing custody battle to Angelina Jolie turned him into a stinky, grungy slob, say sources. Once the sexiest man in Tinseltown, the 58-year-old stud shocked the crowd when he showed up to Judd Apatow’s celeb-studded 54th birthday benefit at the Hollywood club Largo at the Coronet in raggedy jeans, a camouflage jacket and bucket hat on Dec. 7. “He can still turn on the style and scrub himself up when he needs to, but in his downtime Brad seems to take pride in being grungy and foul,” spills an insider. “He’ll wear the same baggy pants and shirt for weeks on end without washing them, doesn’t bother grooming and even ditches deodorant!” On his off time, the Troy…