Table of contents for October 17, 2022 in Globe

EMOTIONAL Wynonna Judd reveals she’s “incredibly angry” over the suicide of her mother and singing partner, Naomi — and believes the feeling won’t pass “for a while.” The country music legend, 76, used a gun to take her own life on April 30 after years of mental health struggles, and Wynonna, 58, admits she’s haunted by the tragedy. “What I live in, is like, ‘Was there anything I should have looked for or should I have known?’ I didn’t,” she confides.…

PRETTY ten-year-old Kim Ju-ae has been identified as the secret daughter of evil North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un — and experts believe the girl’s been kept hidden for fear she’d be kidnapped by her dad’s enemies and used as a hostage. Up to now, Kim’s private life has been kept mostly hushed up, but the girl made her public debut singing with other youngsters at a celebration of the nation’s 74th anniversary last month. U.S. intelligence officers say the way the tyrant and his wife, Ri Sol-ju, acted toward her are among the key clues to her identity. In addition, she was the only girl in the chorus with her hair hanging down and wearing white socks. The camera continually switched from close-ups of her face to the beaming mugs…

BAD feelings began rumbling between NASCAR star DALE EARNHARDT JR. and his stepmom TERESA shortly after the fatal crash of his dad, DALE SR., at the 2001 Daytona 500 and exploded in a furious meeting two years later! The younger driver confesses he’d “lost all confidence” in the running of his father’s company Dale Earnhardt Inc. (DEI) by his dad’s widow, who inherited control. He claims she kept everyone in the dark, adding: “Teresa wasn’t stand up in front and tell us what’s about to happen. She was behind the curtain and quiet.” The two-time Daytona 500 champ admits he finally lost it after he and fellow driver MICHAEL WALTRIP hadn’t been paid for three months and she kept them waiting for a meeting. Then DEI vice president TY NORRIS…

COUNTRY hottie Shania Twain is putting some skin in the game — she posed topless, wearing only a cowboy hat and pointy-toed boots, to promote her new song, Waking Up Dreaming! Titillating Twain, 57, fogged up the camera lens while shooting cover art for her first new song in five years. “I styled that photograph myself. It was all about taking off the bra, taking off the shirt, tying the shirt around my waist,” titters Twain. “This is a statement of being comfortable in my own skin and just being really myself!” The Man! I Feel Like a Woman hitmaker’s fans agreed on Instagram the sexy snaps prove there is more of the country pop star to love. “Gorgeous pic!!” gushed fashion designer Marc Bouwer, who created Twain’s 1999 shimmering turtleneck…

JOCK Jesse Palmer has gone from calling plays as a pro quarterback to fielding dating drama as host of ABC’s The Bachelorette and The Bachelor — though his 2004 stint on the series failed to find him lasting love! This fall, he’s presiding over more thorny behavior on Bachelor in Paradise. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 44-year-old retired jock. 1 During his youth, he was coached by his dad, Bill, a linebacker with the Canadian Football League’s Ottawa Rough Riders. 2 He played football for the University of Florida on an athletic scholarship. 3 He graduated in 2001 with two degrees: a Bachelor of Arts in political science and a Bachelor of Science in marketing. 4 The Toronto native was the first Canadian to star as…

ACTOR Alec Baldwin is in the crosshairs of Santa Fe’s District Attorney for fatally shooting a camerawoman on the set of his flick Rust. Prosecutor Mary Carmack-Altwies was granted $635,000 in emergency funds to bring up to four people to trial over the October 2021 shooting death of Halyna Hutchins, 42. Carmack-Altwies specifically took aim at the 64-year-old star. “I am ready to start the decision of what individuals will be criminally charged in this case,” she says in her request. “One of the possible defendants is well-known movie actor Alec Baldwin. “During the filming of [Rust], Alec Baldwin shot and killed Halyna Hutchins and injured Joel Souza while rehearsing a scene. Many individuals had handled the gun that ultimately killed Hutchins and injured Souza,” the film’s director. Baldwin denies…

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FORMER Spice Girl Melanie C is coming clean about the dirty side of pop-music fame — she says the pressure of being Sporty Spice in the mega-popular girl group nearly destroyed her! The Wannabe hitmaker — real name Melanie Chisholm, 48 — admits trying to be perfect 24/7 made her feel “trapped” and led to a spiral of eating disorders and shame. “I would be the best I could possibly be in every way,” she writes in her new memoir, The Sporty One. “It would nearly kill me.” She says bandmates Victoria Beckham, Geri Halliwell and Melanie Brown likewise struggled. “I just don’t know how sustainable that lifestyle was,” she says. “For us, it was kind of what made us, but it’s kind of what broke us as well!”…

SHAKIRA may rethink singing Don’t You Worry if Spanish tax courts have their way! A judge there has ruled prosecutors can go after the 45-year-old hitmaker for tax fraud — to the tune of 14.5 million euros, or $13.9 million, along with up to eight years in jail — in a dispute over income taxes from 2012 to 2014. But Shakira says through lawyers she doesn’t owe a penny and insists she lived more than half of the disputed time in the Bahamas!…

SAM WATERSTON’s return to Law & Order has thrown the set into chaos, with fellow stars Mariska Hargitay and Christopher Meloni irked because he’s acting like he’s king of the hill, say sources. The 81-year-old Sam returned in his role as prosecutor Jack McCoy for the unprecedented three-hour crossover of Law & Order, Law & Order: SVU and Law & Order: Organized Crime and it turned into a huge headache for Mariska, 58, and Chris, 61. He’s throwing his weight and opinions around, and Mariska and Chris are finding it hard to bite their tongues, sources dish. “There’s lots of drama behind the scenes,” tattles an insider. “Shooting the crossover episode was torture for them. “Sam is highly respected, his professionalism is sterling, and producers feel lucky to get him…

RUST movie set gunman ALEC BALDWIN, 64, and faux Spanish second wife HILARIA, 38, born Hillary Thomas in Boston, now have seven “baldwinitos,” as they call them — all under the age of ten! They’ve named their newborn daughter ILARIA CATALINA IRENA. Twilight’s ASHLEY GREENE, 35, and husband PAUL KHOURY welcomed their first baby, daughter KINGSLEY RAINN. It’s a crumbling third marriage for House of Cards star ROBIN WRIGHT, 56, who filed to divorce her husband of four years, high-end fashion exec CLEMENT GIRAUDET, 38. Reportedly, the pair has a “post-nuptial” agreement, so … stay tuned. No bed of roses for The Bachelor alums CLAYTON ECHARD and SUSIE EVANS, both 29, who’ve split up after a year of dating off-camera. Vampire Diaries star PAUL WESLEY, 40, and jewelry designer INES…

FORMER movie vampire Robert Pattinson is sinking his teeth into a new gig nobody seems to be taking seriously — the prestigious auction house Sotheby’s named the Twilight actor as a guest curator, and devoted art lovers are calling it a bloody mistake! “That’s gotta make actual curators feel valued,” snarks one poster in an online avalanche of negative reactions. But Pattinson, 36, insists he has an eye for paintings that communicate “on a kind of primordial level.”…

FORMER Riverdale actor Ryan Grantham has been slapped with a life sentence in prison for murdering his own mother — so she wouldn’t see him assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau! The 24-year-old former child star blasted mom Barbara Waite, 64, in the back of the head as she played her piano in March 2020. Armed with three guns, ammo and 12 Molotov cocktails, Grantham then drove to Trudeau’s residence, but ended up turning himself in. He pleaded guilty to second-degree murder for his mom’s death and will have to serve 14 years before he’s eligible for parole. “I cannot explain or justify my actions,” says Grantham, whose character Jeffery Augustine was written into Riverdale as the hit-and-run killer of Luke Perry’s character after Perry died of a stroke. “I…

JEOPARDY! is in jeopardy of a huge fan backlash after the popular game show’s bigwigs revealed upcoming rule changes. Executive producer Michael Davies says he wants to reward contestants with a cash bonus for correctly answering all the clues in one category. The extra dough would not be linked to winning the game, but would “give incentive to people who are trailing to try and go into a category and get something from the game beyond their second or third place prize,” says the exec. Fans balked, with one saying: “Why? There is nothing wrong with Jeopardy! If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” Viewers also dislike switching between co-hosts Ken Jennings and Mayim Bialik. “Will not be watching @Jeopardy until @KenJennings becomes only host,” writes one. “This switching stuff…

THE slogan “don’t drink and drive” took on a new meaning when a huge trailer truck loaded with beer crashed on an interstate leaving the highway covered with hundreds of cans of suds. Florida Highway Patrol troopers shut down southbound lanes on I-75 30 miles north of Tampa, where smashed cases of Coors Light were served up right out on the roadway. The accident scene pileup began brewing after a semitrailer truck clipped another while changing lanes just before 6:15 a.m. on Sept. 21. Two more semis and a pickup thundering from behind narrowly avoided crashing into the first two vehicles. But a following, onrushing beer truck didn’t stop and smacked into the pickup — and its load of Silver Bullet cans shot out, blanketing the highway. The pickup truck’s…

AN ALL-STAR cast plays a squad of rough-and-tumble World War II Army prisoners who have a chance at freedom if they can pull off a top-secret mission to snuff out Nazi generals in 1967’s The Dirty Dozen. Charles Bronson, Telly Savalas and DONALD SUTHERLAND were some of the grizzled goons — along with Cleveland Browns running back Jim Brown, who enjoyed the experience so much that when his team demanded he choose between acting and the NFL, he announced his retirement from football! Ernest Borgnine and Lee Marvin played the officers who concocted the scheme.…

MARILYN’S MIFFED OVER BLONDE FLICK Did MARILYN MONROE’s mortified ghost try whispering NO, NO, NO to ANA DE ARMAS, the brunette beauty starring as the famous Hollywood bombshell in the new Netflix-produced biopic Blonde? It’s possible! “We got this big card, we went to the cemetery and put it on her grave. We were asking for permission,” reveals the Cuban-born actress, 34. But the gravesite gesture may well have ended up opening Pandora’s box! While Ana dribbles about chatting with Marilyn in her dreams, squealing, “She was with me, and it was beautiful. I think she was happy,” Monroe’s unamused apparition was apparently throwing spirited onset tantrums! “She would also throw things off the wall sometimes and get mad if she didn’t like something. Maybe this sounds very mystical, but…

SOCIALITE convict Ghislaine Maxwell has been dumped by her lawyers for failing to pay their bills in a civil lawsuit against her pedophile boss Jeffrey Epstein’s estate. Legal eagles Quintairos, Prieto, Wood & Boyer say the daughter of the late media baron Robert Maxwell is a deadbeat. Earlier, her criminal lawyers Haddon, Morgan and Foreman clobbered Ghislaine, her brother and ex-hubby Scott Borgerson with a lawsuit for non-payment of an $880,000 bill. The attorneys claim the British heiress’ ex and kinfolk hid her assets. Maxwell insists she’s broke.…

ELLEN DeGeneres’ protégé Greyson Chance is accusing the talk host of promising to make him a star, then turning into a control freak and dropping him when his first album fizzled. Now 25, Chance says eager Ellen signed him when he was 12 after seeing a social media video of him performing Lady Gaga’s tune Paparazzi for his classmates in 2010. He says she promised: “I’m going to protect you. I’m going to be here for you. We’re going to do this together.” But the queen of mean, who’s been accused of running a “toxic environment” on her set by staffers, was “manipulative … self-centered … domineering and way too controlling,” Chance charges. She meddled in everything, even costumes, and “would look at a rack, yell at stylists, berate people…

VICTORIA BECKHAM’s new daughter-in-law, Nicola Peltz, has poured gasoline on their flaming feud by accusing the former pop star known as Posh Spice of ghosting her after promising to design her wedding dress. Actress Nicola, 27, who wed the retired singer and soccer legend David Beckham’s kid Brooklyn, 23, in April, says fashion mogul Victoria, 48, promised to do the gown — and then went missing. “We connected to start designing the dress, and then a few days went by and I didn’t hear anything,” says billionaire’s daughter Nicola, who appeared in TV’s Bates Motel. “Victoria called my mom and said her atelier couldn’t make it.” Since then, bad blood’s gushed between the gals, who aren’t speaking. As for Brooklyn, he’s siding with his bride, saying she’s his “number one…

JULIA ROBERTS’ scary-skinny new promo tour — with hubby Danny Moder nowhere in sight — has triggered fears the Pretty Woman’s wasting away from stress due to marriage woes, insiders dish. Instead of being escorted by Danny, 53, the gaunt 54-year-old star has been making stops with friend and Ticket to Paradise co-star George Clooney, including an appearance at the History Talks event in Washington, D.C. Sources claim Julia and her hubby of two decades have been leading separate lives and have little in common besides their three kids, 17-year-old twins Hazel and Phinnaeus and 15-year-old Henry. “Julia puts a brave face on things, but for months now her and Danny’s friends have been openly talking about them spending way less time together and wondering how much longer they can…

SCIENTISTS estimate there are 2.5 million ants for every person on Earth — or a staggering 20 quadrillion individual insects — equaling 12 megatons of biomass! PRESIDENT Abraham Lincoln proclaimed the first official Thanksgiving holiday in 1863 to show gratitude for the major Union Army victory over Confederate troops at Gettysburg. TALK about wedding crashers! New Jersey newlyweds Cassidy and Brian Gagliardotto’s 200-guest reception was just getting underway at the Daymark restaurant in Barnegat Light when the floor caved in. Officials say no one was hurt. AFTER being missing for four days, Stefanie Whitley’s eight-year-old cat, Lilly, returned home in Mastic Beach, N.Y. — and rang the doorbell demanding to be let in! It was all caught on camera.…