Innholdsfortegnelse for August 29, 2022 i Globe

THE Beatles’ iconic stickman Ringo Starr is pulling out all the stops to look younger than his 82 years to soothe his own ego and keep his sex symbol wife, Barbara Bach, happy, sources say. Ringo is using hair plugs, dye, diet and exercise to turn back time as he becomes determined to find ways to improve his image and stay youthful — while secretly competing with his old bandmate Paul McCartney, insiders dish. “Ringo’s managed to roll back years with his dark full head of hair, which he has to dye every week to keep it that black, and there are hints he’s had hair plugs,” spills an insider. “He’s a vegetarian with a meager diet of mostly broccoli, carrots and tonics, and starves himself. “He’s also a fan…

BORED silly ELLEN POMPEO’s taking on her first new role since landing the lead in Grey’s Anatomy almost two decades ago! After 19 years playing Dr. Meredith Grey, the 52-year-old actress will headline and produce a heartbreaker for Hulu, Orphan, a limited series inspired by the twisted true story of Ukrainian-born dwarf NATALIA GRACE, who was adopted — and abandoned — by Midwestern parents MICHAEL and KRISTINE BARNETT, who claim she’s a 29-year-old “sociopath” posing as a six-year-old! But Natalia insists she’s a teenager — not an adult — and even appeared on the Dr. Phil show with her new adoptive mom and dad, CYNTHIA and ANTWON MANS, to state her case, which has more turns than a pulp fiction fairy tale. The Barnetts insist Natalia — who claims Michael…

AFTER winning $10 million in his bitter defamation lawsuit against ex Amber Heard, Johnny Depp’s new popularity is puffing up his bank account with a big-bucks deal with Sauvage cologne. The 59-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean hunk became the face of the Dior men’s scent in 2015, but his legal war with Amber, 36, has cost him movie roles and other business. But Dior stuck by him and now has inked him to a multi-year pact worth multi-hundreds of thousands of dollars.…

SEX creep Kevin Spacey is on the hook for $31 million in damages and fees to the producers of House of Cards after losing his appeal of an arbitration ruling. Spacey, 63, was shuffled off the now-canceled show in 2017 after eight staffers accused him of sexual misconduct, and MRC — the studio behind the Netflix hit — was awarded the payout for his breach of contract. Dozens of men have since accused Spacey of sexual harassment. He’s been charged with three gay sex attacks in Britain. He insists he’s innocent of all accusations.…

WHOOPI GOLDBERG earned her name with chronic flatulence and even had a stinky “fart war” with comics Robin Williams and Billy Crystal in an elevator, reveals her granddaughter Amara Skye Dean. “She, Robin Williams and Billy Crystal were standing in an elevator, and Robin Williams was just farting his life away,” says Dean. “I guess they were Dutch-ovening each other, just basking in the ambiance of farts.” Whoopi, whose real name is Caryn Johnson, admits she got her name from the sound made from whoopee cushions. “The theaters I worked in were so small, they didn’t have a lot of backstage room, so if you were gassy, you had to fart all the way through,” Whoopi, 66, says. “People would say, ‘You are like a whoopee cushion.’ So that’s what…

PRINCE HARRY confronted his big brother, William, in a bizarre face-off accusing his wife, Kate, of snubbing his new bride, Meghan, and demanding his sister-in-law should be “friendlier” to the former TV actress, according to a top royal expert. In his bombshell new book, Revenge: Meghan, Harry and the War between the Windsors, author Tom Bower reveals whining Harry telling William his wife deserved the same respect as their late mother, Princess Diana — and claiming the royals were being disrespectful. Since that showdown, henpecked Harry, 37, and attention-loving Meghan, 41, have been on a tear of vengeance, quitting their royal duties for moneymaking deals in America while trashing his family as cold-hearted and racist. A palace courtier says Meghan did not want to pay her dues. “Instead of earning…

ANGELIC Olivia Newton-John went to her grave secretly carrying a torch for her Grease co-star and soulmate John Travolta — and the smitten Saturday Night Fever stud loved her right back, sources dish. The Hopelessly Devoted to You songbird died at 73 on Aug. 8 after a heroic decades-long battle with breast cancer, leaving her close pal John, 68, heartbroken. Tipsters tell GLOBE the Grease screen sweethearts had the same passion for each other in real life — but the timing was never right. When the pair stepped into their roles as greaser Danny Zuko and goody two-shoes Sandy Olsson in the 1978 movie musical, John was still reeling from the loss of his love Diana Hyland — who’d died in his arms from breast cancer just three months earlier.…

SEXY Wendy Williams has scored some booty calls with a New York cop — and now she’s frantically scraping together cash for surgical enhancements to keep him drooling, insiders tell GLOBE! “She’s got a boob lift, butt job, fillers and possibly a full-blown facelift on her shopping list,” snitches a source. “Wendy says she’ll even go into debt to do it. All she cares about is hanging on to this guy!” The fired chat show queen, 58, bizarrely claimed she secretly married a policeman, but it’s “just wishful thinking,” spills a spy, who insists the new relationship “is not even that serious.” So far, Wendy hasn’t even revealed the name of her man in blue, but the source says, “she’s obsessed and convinced that if she looks hot enough, he’ll propose!”…

CHRISSY TEIGEN, 36, is expecting again, nearly two years after miscarrying a son she named Jack. The supermodel and musician husband JOHN LEGEND, who share daughter LUNA, 6, and son MILES, 4, had been trying for another baby via IVF treatments. Bleeding Love singer LEONA LEWIS, 37, and husband DENNIS JAUCH had their first baby, daughter CARMEL ALLEGRA. Who said it wouldn’t last? ROB LOWE and makeup artist SHERYL BERKOFF celebrate 31 years of marriage! Fun fact: Way back when, Sheryl shockingly gave a young and naive GWYNETH PALTROW tips on performing fellatio. NE-YO’s yo-yo marriage to CRYSTAL RENAY hit a sour note, with the model, 36, filing to divorce the Miss Independent singer, 42, claiming he fathered a kid with a “paramour.” The pair, who share three children, ages…

BRAINY beauty Nazanin Boniadi stars in the new fantasy series The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power. But before taking the role of village healer Bronwyn, which was created specifically for the show, Nazanin, 42, kicked off her acting career in daytime soaps, appearing on General Hospital and its spin-off General Hospital: Night Shift between 2007 and 2009. Here are ten things you don’t know about the Persian performer. 1 She was only 20 days old when her parents fled Tehran in the aftermath of the Iranian revolution and settled in England. 2 She is a great-great-granddaughter of acclaimed 19th century philosopher and poet Hajj Mirza Hasan Isfahani. 3 Raised in London, she studied violin and ballet as a child. 4 While attending University of California, Irvine, she…

WHEN Jennifer Coolidge played a sexy mom in the 1999 breakout comedy film American Pie, she got more than a career boost — she says she “got a lot of action” from her newfound fame and wound up having sex with 200 people! In the raunchy role of a mom who sleeps with her teenage son’s high school buddy, the actress, now 60, played the original “MILF” — “mom I’d like to f**k.” “There were so many benefits to doing that movie,” says Jennifer, who became an overnight sensation. “I mean, there would be like 200 people that I would never have slept with. “I got a lot of play at being a MILF and I got a lot of sexual action from American Pie!”…

ALTHOUGH Jake Gyllenhaal and mixed martial artist Conor McGregor are starring in a remake of the 1989 action film Road House, who can forget the original, starring PATRICK SWAYZE — still sizzling after 1987’s Dirty Dancing — in the role of a skull-smashing bouncer with a Ph.D. at a rowdy Southern honky-tonk! Nicole Kidman was reportedly bounced from the movie as the love interest over lack of chemistry with the heartthrob, but that gave Kelly Lynch a break early in her career.…

FORMER CNN anchor and socialite Felicia Taylor was busted in Palm Beach for hit-and-run after smashing into a stopped car and zooming off, cops say. The 57-year-old, who formerly worked for CNN’s World Business Today and is part of the Palm Beach-Hamptons social circle, slammed her white Mercedes into the rear of a black Ford driven by a 24-year-old man who was stopped in traffic, cops say. “The impact caused [him] to strike the steering wheel, causing multiple complaints of injuries” while she fled “the scene of the accident,” says a police report. When lawmen later pulled her over, actor Rod Taylor’s daughter claimed the accident “was no big deal.” Charged with careless driving and leaving the scene of an accident with injury, she was released on $3,000 bail and pleaded…

NEWLYWED Jennifer Lopez’s honeymoon happiness is being doused by growing alarm her lustrous long locks are falling out and she’ll end up a bald bride, tipsters tattle. Following years of harsh hair products and extensions that yanked follicles from her head, Ben Affleck’s 53-year-old bride fears her lush locks could disappear, sources say. The Hustlers hottie began noticing her receding hairline and thinning tresses a few years ago. She consulted a hairdresser, who suggested a product that promotes regrowth, according to an insider, who says “losing her long brown locks is J.Lo’s worst nightmare.” Now Lopez is a paid spokesperson for the product. “But if she really wants to make sure she hangs on to the hair she has, she also needs to stop pulling her hair back in tight topknots…

ROWDY RONDA BANNED FROM WWE Slam! Fighting mad, rowdy RONDA ROUSEY, 35, was suspended from the WWE indefinitely after shockingly attacking a referee during a SummerSlam event in Nashville. Losing her cool, the pro wrestler grabbed the ref by the arm, flipped him over her shoulder and onto the floor, then pinned the helpless dude down until another official came to the rescue. “An irate Rousey attacked the official after her SmackDown Women’s Title Match, claiming he missed LIV MORGAN tapping out to the Armbar while he counted the pinfall,” explains a WWE statement. No one knows how long the wrestler, who’s being slapped with hefty fines, will be exiled from the ring. SEX HOLD-OUT LOLO’S FREEZING EGGS AT 40 Forty-Year-Old Virgin Olympic athlete LOLO JONES — who openly says…

FORMER sitcom star Ashton Kutcher has made a shocking revelation — he’s “lucky to be alive” after a rare disease left him a helpless invalid who was blind, deaf and unable to walk. The 44-year-old former Two and a Half Men star, who’s wed to Bad Moms babe Mila Kunis, 39, says he was clobbered three years ago by a “weird, super rare form of vasculitis, that like knocked out my vision … knocked out my hearing … knocked out all my equilibrium. “It took me like a year to build it all back up.” The Mayo Clinic says the condition is an inflammation that thickens and weakens blood vessel walls, restricts blood flow and can damage tissues. Demi Moore’s ex-hubby is recovered, but is grateful he can see, walk…

PIGSKIN pro Aaron Rodgers insists getting high on psychedelic drugs helped cure his mental health problems and gave him the “best season” of his NFL career! The Green Bay Packers quarterback, 38, says he swears by ayahuasca, a psychoactive tea laced with a special ingredient — the plant-based hallucinogenic drug DMT. He claims knocking back this drink helped him to “unconditionally love myself” and have all sorts of tender moments with his teammates. “I laid there afterward on my mat and then opened my eyes and it felt like I was opening my eyes for the first time,” gushes the Super Bowl champ. “I really feel like that experience paved the way for me to have the best season of my career!”…

A SICK puppy — and her former beau — are in the doghouse in Florida after she sexually abused her pet pooch for eight years and he filmed the depraved deeds, lawmen say. Twisted twosome Christina Calello, 36 and Geoffrey Springer, 39, are facing charges for sexual activity involving animals — and could each get sent to the pound for up to a year if found guilty. According to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office, on multiple occasions Calello “willingly” engaged in rude romps with the mutt as her horndog honey recorded the revolting crimes — and later saved the kinky clips to a flash drive! The pup, which had no visible injuries, was impounded and taken to a veterinary hospital for a routine examination. Calello posted a $5,000 bond and was…

HEROIC kitty Bandit turned from a pussycat into a tiger and saved owner Fred Everitt from a pair of robbers breaking into his home! Retired 68-year-old oral surgeon Fred was sound asleep in his Belden, Miss., home when a pair of crooks, armed with a pistol and a heavy iron crowbar, began breaking in the back door at 3 a.m. Snoring Fred was totally out of it, but Bandit, a 20-pound calico cat, heard the ruckus and began to growl loudly in the kitchen before dashing for the bedroom. The fierce feline’s growls disturbed Fred’s sleep, but when she jumped on his bed, pulled the comforter off him and began clawing his arms, he snapped wide awake. Bandit’s surprising fury had him wondering: “What in the world is wrong with you?’”…

VICTORIA BECKHAM — a.k.a. Posh Spice — has turned into the mother-in-law from hell for her son’s actress bride, Nicola Peltz, with sources saying the petty pair “can’t stand each other and don’t talk.” The feud’s fuse was lit before 27-year-old Bates Motel beauty Nicola tied the knot in April with Brooklyn Beckham, son of 48-year-old Victoria, who rocketed to fame with the Spice Girls and then married soccer god David Beckham, 47. Apparently, Victoria’s snoot got bent out of shape when the bride-tobe decided she didn’t want her future mom-in-law meddling and totally cut her out of planning the star-studded wedding. “Nicola wouldn’t clue Victoria in on anything,” says a spy. “Communication was minimal.” But Posh Spice’s knickers really got in a twist when male model Brooklyn’s new bride…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Mercury in Libra boosts your ability to communicate with an adversary, Ram. You can talk your way into an agreement you can both live with early in the week. Later, hit the mall for a clothes shopping expedition — it’s time to change up your ho-hum look. Listen to a salesperson with excellent advice. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Although you’re typically all go-go-go during the summer months, this is the week to take it slow, Twin. Delay travel and look for a chance to unwind at home. Don’t ignore a health symptom that crops up midweek — it’s easy to treat but could worsen with neglect. The number 9 brings cash luck on Saturday. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Prioritize early…

WHERE you live may impact your ability to have a child! A new Oregon State University study indicates people living in poor neighborhoods are nearly 20 percent less likely to conceive! ARKANSAS is the only state in North America that produces diamonds. Visitors at Crater of Diamonds State Park in Pike County get to keep any stones they find. The largest discovery was a 40.23-carat whopper. MARILYN MONROE’s Golden Globes Henrietta Award for being the World Film Favorite Female brought in $184,000 at a 1999 auction. CARDINALS are Ohio’s state bird, but were actually very rare in the area when Europeans first arrived in the late 1600s. As forests were cut down elsewhere, the red birds’ population started to grow in the Buckeye State until they were made Ohio’s flying…