Table of contents for February 26, 2024 in Globe

HOWL PLAY Tonight Show host JIMMY FALLON doesn’t fret when it comes to making a fool of himself with a guitar THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK! FLY GIRL Selling Sunset’s BRE TIESI pulls out all the stops with a racy zipper-covered dress SILENT STAR Mesmerized JON HAMM is speechless as the Mad Men hunk muzzles himself in L.A. QUEEN OF CLUBS Spencer’s princess KRISTEN STEWART embraces her slobby side while taking a swing at golf PAW-SITIVELY PAMPERED Striptease stunner DEMI MOORE is a hands-on pet owner who happily spoils her pup Pilaf WHISKEY BUSINESS Rocker ROD STEWART bottles up his enthusiasm while shopping for spirits…

JESUS freak Chynna Phillips and hubby Billy Baldwin have plenty of faith between them — and it’s threatening to destroy their marriage! The churchgoing couple admit in a revealing online video Chynna’s later-in-life devotion to Christianity has caused a “rupture” in their rapture and is a “glaring issue” that threatens to tear them apart after nearly 30 years of marriage and three kids. Mamas & Papas offspring Chynna, 56, converted to Christianity in 2022 — and admits her dogged devotion “has sort of overtaken my life in many ways.” The former druggie and boozer tells actor Alec Baldwin’s kid brother, 61, her faith “has perhaps even made you question whether you and I can really make it in the long run!” Billy says he’s a Godfearing churchgoer, but doesn’t feel the need…

GUNS are blazing at the Yellowstone set where the cowboy drama’s current stars are shooting it out with bosses for monster pay raises and top billing as big names like Matthew McConaughey and Michelle Pfeiffer threaten to steal all the glory and greenbacks, spies tattle. Now that Kevin Costner has bolted the Western series to make flicks again, Paramount bigwigs are luring A-listers to take his place in the sequel. McConaughey will reportedly be signing, but only after he sees the script for the new version of the hit show. Pfeiffer is in talks with bigwigs, according to sources who report she’s close to inking the dotted line. Meanwhile, flame-haired Kelly Reilly, who plays Costner’s daughter Beth Dutton, was demanding a whopping $1.5 million per episode, but has been talked…

Reality TV’s most hated man, TOM SANDOVAL, 40, was spotted getting a smooch on the cheek from model VICTORIA LEE ROBINSON nearly one year after being caught in a Vanderpump Rules cheating scandal. Blessed be the fruit! The Handmaid’s Tale actress ELISABETH MOSS, 41, is pregnant with her first child! Emily in Paris co-stars ASHLEY PARK, 32, and PAUL FORMAN, 29, are Instagram official, confirming their relationship after she was hospitalized for septic shock. Comic BOB SAGET’s widow, KELLY RIZZO, 44, has found love again with Clueless star BRECKIN MEYER, 49, two years after the Full House star died in a mysterious accident in a Florida hotel room. ALEC BALDWIN, 65, pleaded not guilty to involuntary manslaughter after being indicted for fatally shooting 42-year-old cinematographer HALYNA HUTCHINS while filming the movie…

FEISTY Celine Dion has fought her bizarre and incurable muscle disease to a standstill and is facing the world again after more than six months as a tragic recluse — leaving medical experts crediting miracle drugs for her amazing comeback. Sources say the 55-year-old singer’s stiff person syndrome, which destroys patients’ ability to move and breathe, appears to have gone into remission and the superstar is planning to take the stage again after a surprise turn at the Grammys! The 5-foot-7 My Heart Will Go On singer, who was forced to quit her Las Vegas residency in 2022 after she wasted away to a skeletal 95 pounds, is planning a North American tour. Doctors say she has packed on 20 pounds, indicating her treatments are working. But they caution she’s…

DESTINY’S Child singer Kelly Rowland is ensuring movie fans will say her name with a headlining role as an ambitious criminal defense attorney in Tyler Perry’s new legal thriller Mea Culpa. But Kelly, 43, is more than just the flick’s leading lady — she’s also a producer for the Netflix project. Before launching her film career with parts in Freddy vs. Jason and The Seat Filler, the singer raced up the charts in the late ’90s with the girl group alongside childhood pal Beyoncé and scored a Top Ten hit in 2007 with her solo tune Work. Here are ten things you don’t know about the Grammywinning performer. 1 She was born in Atlanta, Ga., as Kelendria Trene Rowland — but her mom, Doris, used to call her Kelly Welly.…

HALF-BAKED Georgia parents Natiela and Cledir Mendes Barros are facing murder raps for the death of their eight-year-old daughter, who was brutally battered with a wooden rolling pin, lawmen say. According to an arrest warrant, wicked stepmother Natiela, 34, struck Sayra Barros as many as 20 times with the kitchen tool at the family’s home in Bethlehem — and then refused to get the mortally injured child medical care! The document alleges the peeved parent smacked defenseless Sayra in several places — including the “top back of her neck.” Investigators say the cruel gal declined to seek aid — and instead dialed hubby Cledir, 37. “The father had called 911 when he arrived home and attempted to give CPR to the child,” says Cpl. Ryan Winderweedle of the Gwinnett County Police.…

THE Price Is Right’s Drew Carey admits he twice attempted suicide because he was “tired” of his life! The giggly game show host, 65, who once said he was “depressed for a long time,” reveals he tried to end it all at age 18 and again during his 20s — and believes the extreme actions were “calls for help!” The funnyman explains, “I remember walking down the stairs, and everybody’s drinking and I was like, ‘What the hell are they so happy about?’” Drew recalls, “I was just angry that they were so happy,” and cops to thinking, “Who’s gonna miss me?” The former Whose Line Is It Anyway? emcee says he still has bad days but is better able to bounce back from the blues — and comes out…

GLOBE’S NO-NONSENSE OPINION PAGE IN ONE of his hilarious satires, comic legend Mel Brooks plays King Louis XVI, who’s seen enjoying his absolute power by shooting peasants for sport, then declaring: “It’s good to be the king!” Well, the Duke and Duchess of Sussex haven’t gone quite that far — yet — but Prince Harry basically admitted in his book, Spare, he and wife Meghan are entitled to things regular folks are not — and they actually tattled on an aide, who did what THEY do, not as they order. It’s normal procedure for Britain’s billionaire royal family to turn down gifts and freebies so they don’t look greedy. But that tradition was lost on Meghan, who Harry admits accepted free stuff, including a pair of diamond earrings from a…

SETH GREEN does not have fond memories of making Mars Needs Moms — and moviegoers HATED the 2011 box-office bomb! The 3D computer-animated sci-fi flick is about a nine-year-old who tries to save his mother, played by JOAN CUSACK, from Martians who abduct her hoping to replicate her maternal instincts to raise a well-behaved generation of aliens. Green has said wearing an “uncomfortable” performance-capture suit was a nightmare, and his voice was eventually dubbed over by an actual child. The Disney dud became the fourth-largest box-office failure in history after adjusting for inflation.…

LOVESTRUCK Tom Cruise is so hot for Russian socialite Elsina Khayrova he’s babbling about a new Mission: Impossible — becoming a dad again at age 61 and adding a tiny new follower to Scientology! Sources reveal the big-screen Tom-cat howls about the dark-eyed 36-year-old babe and woos her with secret, cozy, late-night dinners in London. “He wants to build a new life with this girl and when Tom gets a good feeling, he goes full throttle,” spills an insider. “He thinks having a baby at his age would be the ultimate feather on his cap, and would also bring a new addition to the church with his genes and DNA.” Elsina already has two kids with ex-hubby Dmitry Tsvetkov, a pal of Kremlin kingpin Vladimir Putin, and has battled the…

DOCTORS have diagnosed King Charles with a fatal cancer and the bombshell revelation explains his sudden decision to abdicate the throne and turn the monarchy over to his 41-year-old son, Prince William, say insiders. As GLOBE revealed last issue, the dying 75-year-old royal threw William into a tizzy with his sudden decision to quit, initially saying merely that he wanted to enjoy his remaining years at ease with Queen Camilla, who sources say is battling breast cancer. But now comes the explosive truth behind his decision: Charles has a highly aggressive form of the deadly disease and MUST retire as chemotherapy and other treatments take a toll on his mind, body and spirit! “With the way cancer spreads and savages the body, His Majesty knows he won’t have the strength…

HODA KOTB BLINDSIDED! Daytime diva HODA KOTB, 59, lost her eyesight on live television while hosting Today with sidekick JENNA BUSH HAGER! In the first segment of the Feb. 1 show, Kotb said she forgot to take out her contacts the night before and one was “stuck” in her eye. Her nepo baby co-host called it a “medical emergency” and they took a break, which seemed to have made the situation worse! “We have breaking news: Hoda has now lost all eyesight because her other contact fell out,” Jenna told viewers when they were on live again. Hoda was able to get one of the contacts out during the show after a fan on social media gave advice. The next day, she was reading the teleprompter just fine. BRAD’S ADVICE IS…

LILY GLADSTONE We can’t leaf it be — the Killers of the Flower Moon star fails to bloom in a busy boho frock! CLAUDIA SCHIFFER The stunning supermodel proves diamonds are a girl’s best friend in a glam argyle gown DEBBIE GIBSON The ’80s songbird comes out of the blue to rock a vibrant fuchsia slip dress and hip jacket SOFIA BOUTELLA The Mummy honey doesn’t keep her fit figure under wraps — and the look is to die for! SHY’M It’s hard to take a shine to the French singer’s bizarre beige jumpsuit and horrid hobble skirt…

DISGRACED Donald Trump is embroiled in another shocking sex scandal as longtime valet Walt Nauta — his criminal co-defendant charged with the mishandling of classified documents — was accused of sexual misconduct by multiple White House staffers! According to military lawmen, married former U.S. Navy chef Nauta, 40, violated regulations by romancing a junior officer, harassing three women, committing adultery and threatening his victims with the release of revenge porn — their nude photos! Sources say the accusations were made while Nauta worked in the White House as then-President Trump’s personal butler — but appear to have been covered up until after the Republican chief executive left office. Eight months later, President Joe Biden’s aides stripped Nauta of his White House security clearance and he was escorted off the grounds.…

FISHERMAN Blaine Kenny’s scariest moment wasn’t when he realized he’d hooked a razortoothed, 1,200-pound great white shark — it was when he thought the monster was going to get away! “That was terrifying,” says the Florida fishing expert. “I was gonna be heartbroken.” While the 12-foot catch was bigger than expected, Kenny and business partner Dylan Wier, who run a fishing tour company specializing in sharks, were after gigantic man-eaters when they launched their baits off Navarre Beach, about 25 miles from Pensacola, using a drone so they could see out in the ocean. Filming their quest, the anglers baited hooks with the heads of a 150-pound swordfish and 80-pound yellowfin tuna hoping to attract the “biggest sharks possible,” and at 8 a.m. Jan. 31, there was a sharp tug…

SO NGBIRD Lainey Wilson is soaring to country superstardom, but friends fear her success is dooming her threeyear romance with former pro quarterback Devlin “Duck” Hodges. The 31-year-old Things a Man Oughta Know singer became the first woman to win the Country Music Association’s Entertainer of the Year award since Taylor Swift and later claimed an even bigger prize — Best Country Album at the Feb. 4 Grammy Awards. “Things are exploding for Lainey right now, and while Duck has been supportive of her career, you can already see where it’s causing problems,” a friend tattles. “She’s getting offers upon offers and with that comes a lot of pressure. She’s set to go on her first big headlining tour starting in May, and her next album is liable to shoot…

DESPERATE Britney Spears has coughed up a whopping $50 million to greedy ex-hubby Sam Asghari in a frantic attempt to keep her mental health problems under wraps and avoid risking a new court-ordered conservatorship, say sources. The Toxic songbird, 42, scrapped an iron-clad prenup after toyboy Sam agreed not to dish on Britney’s cheating, drug abuse and all-around insanity during their 14-month marriage — revelations that could prove her family was right to control her every move, the sources add. “Britney wants to buy Sam’s silence and she’s willing to pay dearly for it,” confides an insider. “She wants to bury their past together, along with the secrets he collected!” Those secrets, according to insiders, are said to include Britney’s: • Mental unraveling since the conservatorship was lifted; • Violent…

OKLAHOMA cop Cody Garbani’s nursing a wounded hand after collaring a home invader in Moore — a snarky opossum! He got nipped ejecting the critter into a nearby field despite hard-won experience. He had a similar encounter last September. ATLANTA’s Hartsfield-Jackson Airport handled 93,699,630 people in 2022, making it the world’s busiest flight center. Dallas/Fort Worth is No. 2 with 20 million passengers. TRICK or treat? Oranges are sold in red mesh bags to make their color more appealing. By the way, red and green peppers are the same veggie at different stages of ripeness. MISSISSIPPI has a state toy — the teddy bear, which was adopted in 2002 to honor former President Theodore “Teddy” Roosevelt, an avid hunter who was notorious for his failure to bag a bruin.…

EXPERTS have discovered the shocking causes behind the tragic plane crash that killed rock star Buddy Holly, two other rising musicians and their pilot 65 years ago. Labeled “the day the music died” in Don McLean’s hit song American Pie, the Feb. 3, 1959, crash ended the careers of Holly, 22, Ritchie Valens, 17, and J.P. “The Big Bopper” Richardson, 28, who were headed from Clear Lake, Iowa, to a concert in Moorhead, Minn., in a singleengine aircraft flown by Roger Peterson, 21. Civil Aeronautics Board experts say gusty winds, freezing temps and “complete darkness” forced the pilot to “rely solely on “fluctuating” instruments. They believe he got “confused and thought that he was making a climbing turn when in reality he was making a descending turn” and flew straight…

REIGNING pop princess Taylor Swift is being trashed by Beyoncé and her posse, who can’t believe the hip-hop hardcase is being overshadowed by the goody-two-shoes blonde, stunned music industry insiders tell GLOBE! Sources dish Queen Bey’s seething with jealousy and her music mogul hubby, Jay-Z, stoked the fire by taking veiled public shots at Taylor during this year’s Grammys after Swift won her fourth Album of the Year award while his wife — who wasn’t nominated in ANY category — has NEVER won for best album! Despite making billions and being a music legend, Beyoncé sees red over 34-year-old Swift’s soaring success, especially since she believes Tay-Tay “is an overhyped, sassy brat who bulldozed her way to the top by trash-talking her exes, sparking petty feuds and rolling out one-dimensional…

Words in the lists appear in alphabetical order and are sorted by length. They need to be put into their correct positions in the grid. You’ll have to think a few steps ahead, as sometimes several words will fit in the same space! WORD BOX 3 LETTERS GYM NEW OLD 4 LETTERS FINE BABY DOLL FINE MEN’S SEXY WORK WORN 5 LETTERS CLEAN DIRTY FANCY FRESH LEGAL LOOSE PLAIN SPARE VIRAL 6 LETTERS CASUAL FLASHY FORMAL PRISON SPORTS STREET WINTER WOMEN’S 7 LETTERS EVENING OUTDOOR REGULAR WEDDING 8 LETTERS COLORFUL MOURNING 9 LETTERS GARDENING OVERSIZED 10 LETTERS CEREMONIAL SECONDHAND 11 LETTERS COMFORTABLE TRADITIONAL Puzzle answers: page 46…

AFTER serving time for her rap in the Varsity Blues college bribery scandal, former Desperate Housewives star Felicity Huffman is singing the blues — moaning her life’s “been hard” and she’s barely working. The 61-year-old spent 11 days in the slammer for paying a $15,000 bribe in 2019 to boost the SAT scores of her then-teen daughter Sophia so the kid could get into a grade-A college. Since then, the ex-con, who has two daughters with Shameless star William H. Macy, says she’s had a hard time finding jobs, but did land a role in the play Hir, about to open in London. “It’s like your old life died and you died with it,” she says. “I'm lucky enough to have a family and love and means, so I had…

COUNTRY legend Kris Kristofferson went into retirement after his final full concert in January 2020 — but friends say the 87-year-old music man is feeling so hearty he wants to shake off his retirement and give his fans a comeback they’ll never forget! Kristofferson brought the house down while singing a duet of his classic hit Lovin’ Her Was Easier with Rosanne Cash at his pal Willie Nelson’s 90th birthday concert last year — and it made him realize just how much he misses the applause. “Kris retired just as the COVID-19 pandemic hit and he figured that was as good a time to get out as any, since the whole world was shutting down,” twangs a pal. “But he has never quit writing songs, and he feels he should…

COMEDY creep Bill Cosby has been slammed with yet another horrific sexual abuse lawsuit — this time by a virginal teenager who claims she was drugged and raped in a Sin City hotel room in 1986! According to the new civil lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas, the Jell-O Pudding Pops peddler targeted Chelan Lasha, who was 15 at the time, after seeing a fetching photo of her — and buttered up the kids in the girl’s north Las Vegas neighborhood with the frozen treats before offering to help her snag a modeling contract. The dirtbag — who has been accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual harassment by more than 60 other women — was notoriously sprung from prison on a technicality after only three years…