Table of contents for April 24, 2023 in Globe

LOST SOLE Clumsy Clueless star ALICIA SILVERSTONE nearly goes head over heels after slipping out of her shoe! NOTHING BUT NET Hats off to Flip or Flop’s TAREK EL MOUSSA — who forgets to ditch his hair covering after touring a California lab KNOT PERFECT Glam singer GWEN STEFANI puts a twist on her usual hairstyle for an outing in Austin ROCK ’N’ OLD Rolling Stones axman RONNIE WOOD isn’t looking sharp as he lumbers around London SWILL DO! The Producers’ MATTHEW BRODERICK wets his whistle at an NBA game in NYC SHORE LOSER Shrinking reality babe BETHENNY FRANKEL is little more than a bag of bones! THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK!…

SEX-HUNGRY chef Martha Stewart has been wining and dining handsome young bucks in the hope of some fun romps — but she’s killing their mojo by stuffing them to the gills with snooze-inducing treats, tipsters tattle. Instead of getting the guys up for romance, the 81-year-old lifestyle guru’s would-be beaus are left snoring on the couch — preferring a nap over nookie — after wolfing down her fab home-cooked meals and signature wines, insiders say. “Man-eater Martha can still attract the guys at her age — younger ones too — and they all like to sample her famous cooking,” dishes a spy. “She’s happy to prepare them a gourmet meal, but they’re getting so loaded up on her heavy dishes — mac and cheese, eggplant parmesan, pan-fried steak, pound cake…

AMERICA’S weirdest family is the Whittakers — an inbred group who live in devastating squalor in a tiny West Virginia village where they often bark at strangers and talk to each other in grunts, according to social scientists. Documentary filmmaker Mark Laita first discovered the genetically damaged family living in an 800-people village ironically named Odd and made a 12-minute film titled Inbred Family: The Whittakers. When he first met with the clan, “it was out of control,” recalls Laita. “There’s these people walking around and their eyes are going in different directions and they are barking at us. “And one guy, you’d look at him in the eye or say anything and he would just scream and go running away and his pants would fall around his ankles.” When…

Dancing with the Stars judge CARRIE ANN INABA was hospitalized for an emergency appendectomy. “I realize after speaking with my doctor that it could have been much worse,” says the celeb, 55, adding she’s “lucky to be alive.” JONAH HILL, 39, has put a big square-cut diamond on pregnant girlfriend OLIVIA MILLAR’s left ring finger! Summertime Sadness singer LANA DEL REY, 37, is engaged to EVAN WINIKER, 40, a talent manager she’s dated for months. Former Disney Channel child star COLE SPROUSE, 30, popped the question to girlfriend of five years, Victoria’s Secret model BARBARA PALVIN, 29. KALEY CUOCO’s in the pink! The Big Bang Theory/Flight Attendant cutie, 37, became a first-time mom with Ozark actor boyfriend TOM PELPHREY, 40! “Introducing Matilda Carmine Richie Pelphrey, the new light of our…

GOOFY Gwyneth Paltrow’s surprise victory in her ski crash trial has her crowing and convinced the win will be a shot in the arm for her flagging Goop lifestyle business and sagging popularity, insiders dish. The 50-year-old actress was slapped with a $300,000 lawsuit by retired eye doctor Terry Sanderson, 76, who claimed he suffered broken ribs, a concussion and brain damage when the actress crashed into him on a slope in 2016. Instead, the jury awarded her a symbolic $1 plus legal fees agreeing with Paltrow that HE ran into HER! After the trial, Gwyneth won more brownie points — and fans — by whispering in Sanderson’s ear, “I wish you well.” “Gwyneth’s taking a lot of comfort from all the congratulatory messages and some positive reviews about how…

SCREAM queen Jennifer Tilly embraced her status as a quirky cult favorite after joining the Child’s Play slasher franchise in 1998, and she’s dishing about the killer doll flicks in the new documentary Living with Chucky. The horror movie darling, 64, is also an Academy Award nominee, having gotten an Oscar nod for Best Supporting Actress in 1995 for director Woody Allen’s black comedy Bullets Over Broadway. Here are ten things you don’t know about the bubbly brunette. 1 Her father was of Chinese ancestry, and her mother was of Irish and Finnish descent. 2 She was born in L.A. but was raised by her mom in British Columbia, Canada, after her parents divorced. 3 Her first car was a ’69 Mustang, which cost her $500. 4 Her breakout film…

A SERIAL bank robber is being called the Greedy Goatee Bandit after knocking off New Mexico’s Bank of Albuquerque late last month and pulling several similar heists, the FBI says. Lawman say the crook, named for the long, gray goatee hanging out from under his medical mask, passed a teller a note implying he was armed — while being dangerously funny-looking. Despite the gray beard, the suspect is thought to be in his mid-30s. He’s described as a 5-foot-10 white or Hispanic male who drove off in a white Chevy extended cab pickup. Among other crimes, the thug is also suspected of robbing another bank in January, according to the FBI, which is offering a $2,000 reward for information leading to his arrest and conviction. There may be a reason the…

IN A low-handed bid to outshine her former love rival, conniving Queen Camilla has chosen the designer who made the late Princess Diana a fashion icon to create her coronation gown! And that’s sparked a furious backlash from the princess’ sons, William and Harry, who are outraged their evil stepmother is defiling Diana’s memory, say palace sources. “This is Camilla’s ultimate diss at Diana,” fumes a high-level royal courtier. “You’d think she’d be satisfied by stealing Charles and robbing Diana of the throne, but Camilla is driven by her jealous desire to outdo the tragic princess.” Charles’ 75-year-old wife has long been cozying up to British fashion mogul Bruce Oldfield, who once boasted: “I gave Diana her glamour and Camilla her confidence.” And palace sources say crusty Camilla will need…

THE search for missing two-year-old Taylen Mosley ended in horror when the tragic Florida tyke was found dead — clenched in the jaws of an alligator! “We didn’t want to find him this way,” says shaken St. Petersburg Police Chief Anthony Holloway. “But at least we can bring some closure to that family.” Cops had been searching for the boy since an Amber Alert was issued the day before the grim March 31 discovery. Officers were sent to Dell Holmes Park, which includes kids’ play areas, a driving range and a large lake for fishing and boating, where a cop says he spied a gator with “an object in its mouth.” Detectives fatally shot the reptile and the “object” sadly turned out to be Taylen, whose remains are being examined…

The best mammograms ✚ DIGITAL breast tomosynthesis (DBT) — also known as a 3D mammogram — is more effective at finding cancer than traditional two-dimensional imaging, according to a new study. American researchers analyzed data from more than 1 million women and found DBT had a tumor detection rate of 5.3 per 1,000 exams, while 2D scans only caught 4.5 malignancies per 1,000 patients. They also determined 3D screenings delivered lower false positive and false negative results than the standard alternative. Coffee fights diabetes! ✚ COFFEE may brew up prevention for type 2 diabetes! A European study focused on 10,000 people genetically predisposed to having higher levels of caffeine in their blood due to their cells metabolizing the compound at a slower rate. The researchers found those patients also had…

JEOPARDY’S Mayim Bialik is gloating as her rival co-host Ken Jennings’ snooty and snappish behavior turns off fans and bosses, insiders squeal. After months of wrangling with the 48-year-old game show champ behind the scenes, a source says brainiac Mayim, 47, “has finally got the upper hand” to win total control over the late Alex Trebek’s hosting gig. For a while, “Ken managed to sway fans to his side, but now his bratty personality has taken over — and he’s making mistakes,” spills a spy. Jennings got slammed hard after he snappishly told a contestant his answer was wrong, and then told another player, who buzzed in seconds later, her answer was right. The problem was — each contestant gave the SAME response to the clue: “After the Last Supper,…

CELLUCOTTON bandages developed by the American company Kimberly-Clark as a quick field dressing for combat wounds during World War I were turned into female sanitary pads, sold under the Kotex brand, after the fighting stopped. OKLAHOMA means “honorable nation” in the Choctaw language and was granted statehood in 1906. It’s home to 55 Native American tribes. BRUTAL Chicago mob boss Al Capone spent days in Alcatraz playing the banjo and writing love songs for the prison band The Rock Islanders! One of the hitman honcho’s tunes recently fetched $18,750 at auction. MARLON BRANDO invented — and patented — a better and quicker way to tune the conga drum. Unfortunately, his gizmo, which replaced the six traditional bolts on the drum head, never saw the light of day. It was too…

OSCAR winner Nicolas Cage’s career is back on track with an A-list flick after years in limbo, but pals fear his three-decades-younger wife, Riko Shibata, is running him ragged and he’ll end up in an early grave! The quirky 59-year-old, who’s currently starring as a scenery-eating Count Dracula in the vampire flick Renfield, got hitched in 2021 to his 29-year-old fifth wife, Riko, who is two years younger than Nic’s son Weston. “Riko is a really sweet girl, but she’s just a bundle of boundless energy and it runs Nic ragged trying to keep up with her,” a friend spouts. The actor’s life got even more hectic when Riko gave birth to the couple’s daughter August last September, his third kid. “Nic is making multiple films, and when he comes home…

TROUBLED former TV queen Wendy Williams is selling off personal junk from her $3 million Big Apple penthouse as sources chatter she’s splitting for L.A. and feeling a financial pinch! “It’s a new chapter for Wendy and she wants new things,” says a source. The peculiar personality, who was ousted from her own talk show, is auctioning off the purple chair used on the Hot Topics segment of her Wendy Experience podcast, other furniture and home decorations. The 58-year-old chatterbox, who is battling Graves’ disease and recovering from booze and drug addictions, is planning a comeback, but is mum on the details. “We are still working behind the scenes on several projects,” yaks her publicist. “Wendy is excited about the road ahead and looking forward to releasing her many projects.”…

SULTRY Shakira was rudely booted from her home in Spain by ex-lover Gerard Piqué’s father, who was armed with an eviction notice. The 46-year-old Colombian songbird and former soccer star Piqué, 36, had a bitter split last May after 11 years together and two sons, Milan, 10, and Sasha, 8. Sources say she was evicted from the Barcelona home after performing a song dissing Piqué and his new galpal Clara Chia Marti, 24, on Jimmy Fallon’s talk show a few weeks back. The house was the same location where Shakira set up a mannequin of a witch on a balcony facing the home next door, where Piqué’s mother lives. Sources say the eviction explains why she was seen sobbing and tearing up a paper Gerard Piqué in a store. “Now…

PAULEY PERRETTE Someone stop the former NCIS star from matching her dowdy party dress with her psychedelic hair! JULIE BOWEN The Boston Legal beauty’s elaborate doily concoction would not stand up in a court of law YEARDLEY SMITH Snorkeling, anyone? The voice of animated Lisa Simpson pairs a wetsuit top with a floral maxi skirt JULIETTE LEWIS The actress lets it rip in an ill-fitting piecework gown in shades of precious metals BUSY PHILIPPS The Freaks and Geeks alum gets frumpy in a semi-transparent sundress with feather duster hem…

MACHO right-winger Kid Rock got his panties in a twist and furiously went on a rifle rampage after Bud Light beer named sex-swapper Dylan Mulvaney as its official mouthpiece. The 52-year-old self-styled, tough-guy rocker posted video of him tossing a hissy fit and blasting the company’s cans to bits with an AR-15 assault rifle while growling: “F**k Bud Light, and f**k Anheuser-Busch. Have a terrific day.” The rocker’s rage was triggered when 26-year-old Dylan’s puss was plastered on beer cans celebrating the first year of her sex swap. The trans activist has generated 10 million social media followers. While some suds slurpers love the brand’s new direction, others posted videos of them emptying their fridges of Bud Light or pouring it down the toilet while promising a boycott. But the…

TEXAS granny Keshondra Howard Turner served up an order of hot lead, killing an armed thug who tried to rob her family’s soul food truck, Elite Eats and Cold Treats! At about 1 p.m. on March 28, the brazen bad guy, whose name was withheld by cops, approached the lunch wagon in southwest Houston and asked what kind of food they served. Keshondra, who co-owns the rolling restaurant with son Derick Howard, closed up shop when the dead dude made his play. But the 23-year-old creep forced open the front window and tried to fire his gun inside, but the pistol jammed. “Thank God,” says Keshondra’s relative Jacqueline Mitchell. “She’s a godly woman. That’s why the gun jammed — because God jammed it because when the perp opened that window,…

DELIGHTED Duchess Meghan dodged a defamation lawsuit filed by her half-sister when a Florida judge dismissed the case! Samantha Markle, 58, slapped Prince Harry’s wife with the $75,000 suit, claiming Meghan made “false and malicious statements” about her during the royal renegades’ explosive 2021 TV interview. The suit alleged 41-year-old to “humiliation and Meghan “orchestrated the campaign to defame and destroy her sister’s and her father’s reputation and credibility in order to preserve and promote the false ‘rags-to-royalty’ narrative.” Samantha, who shares the same father with the former Suits star, objected to Meghan saying she grew up as an only child, among other slights. She added the comments exposed her to humiliation and hatred.” But late last month, U.S. District Judge Charlene Edwards Honeywell ruled Meghan was merely expressing her opinion about…

A FOWL crime was foiled when birdbrained thieves were caught on camera stealing Luna the African gray parrot from the front porch of a California home — and cops managed to recover the critter two weeks later! Luna, who’s worth an estimated $2,500, was getting some air outside owner Karen Gerardo’s Santa Ana home last month when a couple of lowlifes in a red SUV dashed onto the porch, grabbed her cage and sped off. Gerardo’s doorbell camera recorded the whole thing, and the video went viral. Despite the online exposure, more than two long weeks passed before cops identified a suspect, who was on probation for other crimes, and flew into action. However, cops insist a stool pigeon didn’t sell out the suspect, whose name was withheld by investigators. When…

DAYTIME bigmouth Sherri Shepherd says she is grateful for spending eight days in jail after being arrested as a deadbeat and ticket scofflaw! “I wasn’t paying my bills,” admits the 56-year-old former co-host of The View. “I was in a religion that was like, I felt the end of the world was coming, and so I didn’t pay any of my bills!” Cops stuck her in the slammer early in her stand-up career after she had amassed “$10,000 worth of unpaid moving violations” — but she says it was just the kick in the pants she needed to learn “to be responsible.” “I learned from going to jail, I never want to be in jail,” she says. “Now, I pay my bills on time. If I get one pink notice,…

ANYONE who thinks rapper Cardi B is ditzy better think again: The I Like It singer reveals she knew where to go for expert advice when her nose job was botched — nip/tuck poster girl Kim Kardashian, who’s totally plastic fantastic! But Cardi took a long and winding road to the K-clan queen’s door. Cardi confesses she was unhappy with her schnozz her whole life, revealing, “Even before I was famous, I was like, ‘Damn, I’ve got my daddy’s nose.’” She says she was “always afraid” to get it fixed “but I finally took that step.” Unfortunately, it ended up being a backfire horror show. Pals advised the WAP singer to try fillers instead of going whole hog on a nose job in 2019, and the procedure “f**ked my nose…

HARD to believe now, but the beloved 1994prison-break movie The Shawshank Redemption initially had failure written all over it! Despite being nominated for seven Academy Awards and losing them all, audiences finally took notice and turned it into a hit. To prepare for their roles as prison lifers, TIM ROBBINS studied zoo animals in captivity, spent time in solitary confinement and wore arm and leg shackles — while MORGAN FREEMAN didn’t lift a finger, saying that playing a jailbird “doesn’t require any specific knowledge of incarceration.”…

BRITNEY Spears’ long-suffering hubby, Sam Asghari, is breathing a sigh of relief now that he’s away from the troubled pop tart, according to sources who say her constant, embarrassing social media antics have him begging her to STOP! The budding 29-year-old actor is filming the Taylor Sheridan CIA drama series Lioness on both coasts and is “trying to focus on the new project,” dishes an insider. “Instead, his phone’s blowing up constantly and everyone on set is asking how he puts up with Britney and is she going to be okay. “He’s pleading with her to let him work, with no success. She’s going stir crazy. She’s been acting more and more strangely, clearly after attention. Some people think she’s trying to provoke Sam into a jealous rage.” The fitness…

CREEPY Aerosmith frontmanSteven Tyler claims it was okay for him to bed a 16-year-old girl because he was her guardian at the time. Tyler’s bizarre claim is the legal basis for his request to toss a lawsuit by Julia Holcomb, who charges the singer had sex with her when she was a minor and he was 25 in 1973. She claims he talked her mom into making him her guardian so she could live with him.…

POP icon Neil Diamond reveals he was stricken with Parkinson’s disease two years ago, but admits he’s still struggling to accept the diagnosis. The 82-year-old singer of legendary hits like Cracklin’ Rose, Sweet Caroline and I Am … I Said says he was in denial for more than a year after docs told him he had the crippling nerve disorder that causes shakes and balance problems and later steals the ability to talk and walk. Says Diamond, “I have to make the best of it, so I am. I am.”…

THE violent death of his beloved puppy Louis has plunged macho movie Gladiator Russell Crowe, 59, into heartbreak! The big-eared Papillon dog — “tiny, cheeky, brave” — was only 16 months old when he perished on the second anniversary of Crowe losing his father, John Alexander Crowe, at age 85. “We tried to get Louis to the vet, but he died in my arms while I was telling him how much we loved him,” the shattered star revealed after the little pooch was hit by a truck.…

TALK about lovesick! A perversely persistent Maryland man was busted for cyberstalking his ex-girlfriend, including calling her an astounding 815 times over the course of two days, say cops. That works out to about one call every three minutes — round the clock! Along with the phone harassment, Hagerstown resident Derik Wayne Bowers, 44, stands accused of bombarding his West Virginia-based ex with thousands of text messages and social media posts that were “embarrassing and interfered with her livelihood.” “Cyberstalking is a pervasive problem that we treat very seriously,” U.S. Attorney William Ihlenfeld says. “I encourage those who are being intimidated online to file a police report so that wrongdoers may be held to account.” If convicted, Bowers faces up to five years in prison.…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 It’s time to tear down those emotional walls in your heart and let someone in, Ram. If single, this could lead to a lifelong partnership and if partnered, you will grow closer than this. Midweek, kick off that new diet. The Leo moon says success will be yours. The number 9 repeated leads to luck Saturday. TAURUS April 21 - May 21 You’re motivated to go after a goal you’ve had on the back burner for a long time. Whether that’s finding love, planning a reunion with old friends or landing a new and profitable job, you can make it happen now! Don’t ignore a ringing phone at the weekend. It heralds a surprising opportunity! GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Good news! The…