Table of contents for September 1, 2025 in Globe

WEARING HEART ON HER CHEEK AMANDA BYNES is not exactly All That these days as she stocks up on iced tea in Los Angeles LOUD MOUTH A$AP ROCKY delivers a hair-curling performance at Lollapalooza in Chicago LIGHTS OUT EMMA THOMPSON catches some Zzzz’s at the Locarno Film Festival in Switzerland PUSS IN BOOTS RITA ORA teeters from the harbor at Saint-Tropez SCRATCHING THE SURFACE DAVID LETTERMAN seems puzzled by Dave Chappelle’s latest comedy routine on Martha’s Vineyard STRINGING ALONG NICK JONAS of The Jonas Brothers hits all the right chords while filming a commercial in downtown Manhattan…

MONEY-HUNGRY Meghan, Duchess of Sussex, is enviously eyeing the success of Kim Kardashian’s Skims empire — and now Prince Harry’s ambitious wife is pitching a proposal for her to join forces with the billionaire reality queen so she can lord it over Hollywood’s lifestyle and beauty entrepreneurs, sources say. However, tipsters confide that the royal renegade — who with Harry ditched palace duties in 2020 to chase lucrative Tinseltown deals and fatten the couple’s fortune in California — will have to convince Kim’s momager, Kris Jenner, that she has something worthwhile to bring to the table. “Meghan’s gotten very tight with Kris. She’s someone who she goes to for business advice, but that doesn’t mean Meghan is automatically going to get to collaborate with Kim,” an insider shares. “She’s going…

THIN-SKINNED George Clooney is on a hair-trigger over his age, his talent, his marriage to Amal and his disastrous attempts to meddle in politics — and sources say his increasingly nasty outbursts mean the suave, sophisticated image he has long cultivated is shattered for good. “Do people say that I only play myself? I don’t give a sh*t,” he recently railed in an interview. “Have you ever tried playing yourself? It’s hard to do,” he added defensively. As reported, the vain Syriana actor has been grappling with age and marital issues, as well as criticism over how he kicked Joe Biden to the curb and backed the failed presidential bid of Kamala Harris in the 2024 election. “I’m 63 years old, dude — I can’t do 50 takes,” he grumbled…

WHILE his 007 days are long behind him, Pierce Brosnan is still chasing bad guys onscreen. The former James Bond is starring in Netflix’s The Thursday Murder Club in an ensemble cast that includes Helen Mirren, Ben Kingsley, Celia Imrie, David Tennant and Richard E. Grant. Here are 10 things you don’t know about the 72-year-old Irishman. 1 He was largely raised by his maternal grandparents in Ireland because his single mother lived in London, England, for her work as a nurse. 2 Pierce later studied at London’s Saint Martin’s School of Art and has continued to paint as a hobby. 3 He’s a trained fire-eater and showed off his skill during an episode of Muppets Tonight. 4 He suffers from claus-trophobia and reportedly had difficulty filming some of the…

BOASTFUL blade-wielder Shakia Jenkins stabbed a former friend in the head in Florida and bragged about the bloody attack in outrageous social media videos, authorities allege. Troublemaking Texan Jenkins, 29, plunged a knife into her onetime pal after the women clashed at a club in Miami and faced off in a nearby convenience store parking lot, cops say. A criminal complaint states that the injured gal, whose name was not publicly released, told police that during the physical altercation with Jenkins, she felt a “sharp object stabbing” her face. The document further charges that the woman reported the alleged assault to Miami City police and showed them an Instagram Live video of Jenkins flashing a “small black knife” and citing horror movie villains as she crowed, “I stabbed that ho,…

CONTROVERSIAL comic Amy Schumer may be crippled for life following delicate spinal surgery to escape the decades-long anguish she’s suffered since a horrific surfing accident from her youth, medical experts warn. The 44-year-old Trainwreck star recently revealed she had a laminectomy in hopes of healing an agonizing back injury that has left her in pain since high school. The joke-cracking mom of one posted a picture of her using a walker and reveals: “Since my surfing injury back in the day, my L5 has been killing me.” Doctors tell GLOBE the precarious op involves removing a portion of a spinal disc to relieve pressure on the surrounding nerves. Shockingly, the I Feel Pretty star aggravated the injury when she fell off a horse just days before the surgery, potentially causing…

WHAT in the world was the Disney cartoon character Mickey Mouse doing in the 1934 non-Disney musical Babes in Toyland, starring opposite the comedy team of STAN LAUREL and OLIVER HARDY? Walt Disney himself approved it back in the days before he realized how well he could monetize the character, and Mickey was unnervingly played in full rodent regalia by a capuchin monkey with an oxygen tank hidden inside a fake mouse tail so it could breathe. The simian’s jerky movements gave the Hal Roach Studios movie, later titled March of the Wooden Soldiers, a disquieting quality, and it marked the last time the character was ever licensed out to a competing studio.…

SUPERSTAR Tom Cruise and sultry Ballerina babe Ana de Armas are so serious, insiders tattle the Top Gun actor is set to spend some of his whopping $600 million fortune on mega expensive nests where they can bill and coo in Europe and the U.S. “It’s only been a few months, but Tom moves fast. When he wants something, he wants it now,” dishes a source. “He sees no reason to wait to move in together and he’s clearly convinced Ana of the same thing. “He’s totally swept her off her feet with the grand romantic gestures. She’s in awe of him. “Finding a place to live together is further proof this is the real deal, to them at least.” The thrice-divorced, 63-year-old action man and the once-wed, 37-year-old Cuban-born…

Freakier Friday star CHAD MICHAEL MURRAY is 44 now, but he almost didn’t make it past 15 due to a freaky health scare. “My intestines had twisted, and I was hospitalized for two and a half months … I lost 50 percent of my blood. I was on my deathbed.” He remembers hearing his dad and a priest “talking about last rites.” The medical staff “gave me a blood transfusion … It saved my life.” Desperate Housewives beauty EVA LONGORIA’s tequila company Casa Del Sol has been socked with a $2 million lawsuit by JACK BRINKLEY-COOK — supermodel CHRISTIE BRINKLEY’s kid — who claims her booze brand welshed on an advertising deal. Jack runs Rove, a ride-sharing company, and claims Eva’s bunch hired him to run ads for her booze on…

HOTHEAD Shotsie Buck-Hayes doused a Virginia city councilman with gasoline and chased down the panicked politician to set him alight — leaving the victim with burns on 60 percent of his body, officials charge. According to authorities, Buck-Hayes, 29, barged into an office building in the Old Dominion state, where 38-year-old Lee Vogler — the youngest member of Danville’s City Council — works as a managing partner of a media marketing firm. Cops say the psycho was carrying a five-gallon bucket containing flammable liquid and poured it on his acquaintance Vogler, who was unable to outrun his assailant and was soon engulfed in flames. Buck-Hayes fled the scene but was nabbed a few blocks away after brave Vogler identified him as his attacker, lawmen say. A criminal complaint states that…

MONSTER Jeffrey Epstein and his powerful pervert pals were blatantly allowed to molest hundreds of underage girls by bumbling FBI bosses, who incredibly had the accused sex trafficker under surveillance for over a decade before his predatory behavior was permanently halted by his July 2019 arrest, critics charge. Now, sources say a smoking gun memo from September 2008 has outed the financier as a law enforcement snitch by stating that Epstein had “provided information to the FBI as agreed upon.” The internal FBI note also alludes to Epstein’s 2006 indictment in Florida for sex crimes against minors and his sweetheart deal after pleading guilty two years later to a state child prostitution charge, stating that there would be “no federal prosecution” in the matter if he abided by his agreement.…

BLUBBERY rapper Jelly Roll put himself through the wringer for a WWE wrasslin’ slam-down with Logan Paul, and sources say worried pals are urging the country super-star to take it easy on his body, which has also taken a beating from years of yo-yo dieting and addiction. The 6-foot-1 singer, who has previously battled booze and cocaine issues and has whittled down from a whopping 540 pounds to 357, is realizing a dream come true by stepping into the ring, but pals fear for his health. “His friends are urging him to stop this now, but Jelly’s hell-bent on continuing the wrestling,” spills a source. It’s been the 40-year-old rapper’s dream to wrestle among the famous players. “It’s a natural high he can’t seem to get enough of. Jelly may…

WHINY windbag Stephen Colbert won’t quit publicly attacking his employers in the wake of his Late Night show being axed — but friends are urging the cranky comic to take a chill pill because he’s making himself look totally toxic and could be harming his future prospects, sources say. “When his show was first canceled, people were on his side. His fellow late-night talk show hosts were backing him, and colleagues were cheering him on for sticking up for himself, but he’s doubling down too aggressively — and now support is waning,” an insider warns. As GLOBE previously reported, CBS announced The Late Show With Stephen Colbert will end in May 2026 — with sources saying the move was purely a financial decision. The cancellation was shocking to some because…

ACCUSED cannibal Armie Hammer — who beat rape allegations two years ago — bit off more than he could chew when he recently joked on his podcast about “roofieing people” by making them so stoned on marijuana they were incapacitated! His sick allusion to the date-rape drug Rohypnol was so shocking that his pal Ashton Ramsey cautioned him on-air not to “say that” and warned him to “self-censor” — but the clueless 39-year-old has-been just kept yapping away. “I loved poisoning people,” the disgraced Social Network and Call Me by Your Name star added. “I loved smoking marijuana with people to the point where they were like, ‘I’m so stoned, I can’t find my feet.’” Hammer denied all the allegations made against him in 2021 by ex-girlfriends, but his career…

BROADWAY babe Sutton Foster is desperate to make amends to former pal Deborra-Lee Furness after taking up with the Aussie’s now ex-husband, Hugh Jackman — but the Wolverine hunk’s emotionally wounded former wife wants no part of his new gal’s mea culpas, sources say. “Sutton and Debs were friends,” an insider explains. “They used to go on double dates with their husbands and even hung out one-on-one a handful of times. That’s partly why it stings so badly for Debs — and it’s why Sutton does feel a tremendous sense of guilt and really wants to try to mend fences.” As GLOBE previously reported, the Great White Way was awash with rumors that Hugh, 56, was sweet on Sutton, 50, when the pair starred together in a revival of The…

TWISTER EDITION: Tornadoes passing over bodies of water can suck up frogs, fish and ducks and plop them down elsewhere, creating a “raining animals” phenomenon. The earliest documented tornado occurred in Ireland in 1054 AD. In 1936, when Elvis Presley was just a year old, an F5 tornado swept through his hometown of Tupelo, Miss., killing more than 200 people. Elvis survived, obviously, but he was all shook up. The winds of a tornado are so strong that they can have a “sandblasting effect,” stripping paint off cars and clothing off people. Most tornadoes in the Northern Hemisphere spin counterclockwise, thanks to what’s known as the Coriolis effect — but some actually spin in the opposite direction. Those are called anticyclonic tornadoes.…

FORMER lovebirds Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom may have called a temporary truce in their breakup, but insiders predict the peace may soon be shattered in a bitter battle over their beloved pooch. Sources snitch Katy and Orlando both adore their teacup poodle named Biggie Smalls, but the 48-year-old Pirates of the Caribbean hunk is especially upset as he was the one who brought the dog home. “They’ve had a few dogs together and fostered a few, but Biggie Smalls is Orlando’s dog, at least that’s the way he sees it,” spills an insider. “He got the dog last year and refuses to part with him. Besides, he thinks Biggie Smalls loves him more.” Orlando also thinks of the little barker as his support dog while he navigates the split…

LIVID Prince William is poised to stab his uncle Prince Andrew in the back and strip away his royal titles when he becomes king — and wants to permanently oust the trouble magnet from the royal fold — after a bombshell new book made disturbing allegations about the Duke of York’s sex life, boorish behavior and scandalous financial dealings, courtiers claim. Historian Andrew Lownie’s Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York paints an unflattering portrait of the late Queen Elizabeth’s son — suggesting Andrew is an unrepentant horndog in denial about his links to dead pedophile Jeffrey Epstein and a money-hungry buffoon, who’s been chummy with a slew of questionable characters. A royal insider tells GLOBE that Lownie’s damning book is “probably the nail in the coffin”…

BENEVOLENT beauty Julia Roberts has quietly joined the long list of celebrities who is checking in on ailing buddy Bruce Willis and offering to help his devoted wife, Emma Heming, in any way possible, sources say. The Pretty Woman star, 57, has been pals for decades with Bruce, 70, and his amicable ex-wife Demi Moore, 62 — and that friendship has extended to Emma, 47, who manages the Pulp Fiction actor’s care as he battles frontotemporal dementia (FTD), which impacts personality, behavior and language abilities. As GLOBE readers know, the action movie hero was initially diagnosed in 2022 with aphasia, which affects communication skills — but the following year, his family announced that his condition had progressed and was identified as FTD. “Julia is paying close attention to Bruce’s situation,…

CARMEN ELECTRA The Baywatch alum brought the drama in a strapless ruby sequined dress with a long train ELLEN BURSTYN The Exorcist star looked angelic in a sunshiny jacket paired with black separates CAMRYN MANHEIM The slimmed-down Hot Flashes actress turned up the heat in a geometric-print kimono-style jacket LENA DUNHAM Tiers, ties, a train, a high-low hem — the Too Much creator went overboard with this busy gown PAULA PATTON The Jumping the Broom star made a clean sweep in a floral print strapless gown…

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CONVICTED Casanova Henry Betsey Jr. was sentenced to two years’ probation in Florida following his guilty plea to a single count of felony bigamy after getting caught being married to three unwitting women at once — and the serial skirt-chaser was confronted in court by all of his angry wives, sources say. Betsey, 50, copped to the crime in May — with his latest girlfriend by his side. But earlier this month, he was alone when steamed spouses Tonya, Brandy and Michele Betsey — who he’d gotten hitched to between 2020 and 2022 — blasted him for his boorish behavior. “He sold the perfect person, when in reality, he was none of those things,” griped Tonya, who said she learned about her husband’s other illegally wedded partners by searching county…

DOTING dad Andy Cohen served up harsh words for tennis great Martina Navratilova, who recently slammed surrogacy as “just wrong.” Navratilova, 68 — who adopted two young boys in 2024 with spouse Julia Lemigova, star of The Real Housewives of Miami — wrote the comment in a since-deleted social media post that also included: “Sometimes you can’t have it all.” But the declaration didn’t sit well with the 57-year-old Bravo bigwig, who became a father of Ben, 6, and Lucy, 3, with the aid of two different gestational surrogates. During an episode of his SiriusXM radio show, Andy Cohen Live, the host huffed about the athlete’s remark, “That’s just ill-informed and dumb. Basically, she’s uninformed on the issue, so I just think she’s not informed. It’s … a bad take,…

BROKENHEARTED Paris Jackson is being comforted by her god-father, Home Alone star Macaulay Culkin, after her devastating split from her fiancé, Justin Long. The singer and actress, 27, the only daughter of the late King of Pop Michael Jackson, hung out with the Uncle Buck alum, 45, and his fiancée, Brenda Song, at model Cara Delevingne’s birthday bash at L.A.’s iconic Chateau Marmont. As readers know, Paris and musician Justin broke up last month after a seven-month engagement. “She’s taking it very hard because Justin was very much the center of her world,” spills an insider. “But Mac has really stepped up for her. He’s checking in with her every day and is even trying to get her to move in with him and Brenda for a week or two…