Table of contents for November 25, 2024 in Globe

CORE WORKOUT Musclebound Marvel hero CHRIS PRATT does some heavy lifting during a fruitful visit to a Santa Monica market WHAT THE DUCK? Funnylady REBEL WILSON’s fowl getup fits the bill at a California amusement park GREAT SCOT! Comedian CRAIG FERGUSON — former host of The Late Late Show — refuses to pipe down during his stand-up show in Kentucky FLEX APPEAL Shirtless singer SHAWN MENDES takes a break from buffing up his West Hollywood digs LIVE AND LET FLY Pop star PINK is enjoying the high life during her Summer Carnival Tour in Texas WHATTA KNITWIT! Cheeky supermodel GIGI HADID warms to the opening of her cashmere line’s pop-up shop in South Korea…

CONVINCED his time is running out quickly, cancer-ravaged King Charles is desperate to set his troubled House of Windsor in order, say royal insiders — first by cutting off his scandal-tarred kid brother Prince Andrew! In an explosive reckoning months in the making, the dying monarch has been focused on axing the notorious 64-year-old Duke of York’s whopping $1.29 million annual allowance, as well as shutting down his seven-figure security detail, tattle palace sources. “Charles has tried absolutely everything to get Andrew to cut back on his expenses and stop living such a publicly extravagant lifestyle,” spits one palace courtier. “But Andrew has been obstinate and believes he is within his royal rights to not surrender a single dime! “Unfortunately, this has left Charles in an untenable position and with…

 HOW is HE doing? Not great! Fed-up Friends alum Matt LeBlanc has realized he no longer needs to be camera-ready and is said to be ready to quit Hollywood while he lets himself go to pot, insiders reveal! The former sitcom stud was seen looking obese while wandering the streets of Tinseltown, with sources claiming he has packed on 70 pounds and now weighs a staggering 240 pounds! Though a rep denies it, sources dish the rudderless TV comic, 57 — who played Joey on the beloved sitcom — has decided to waddle away from the spotlight as he “rethinks his life” in the wake of the shattering loss of his buddy and castmate Matthew Perry. “Matt is still upset over the loss of Matthew,” spills a source. “Such an…

The spell has vanished between Magic Mike hunk CHANNING TATUM, 44, and fiancée ZOË KRAVITZ. The 35-year-old Batman beauty was spied without her engagement ring, and a pal says the pair “grew apart” after three years. ED WESTWICK of Gossip Girl and actress-model AMY JACKSON sure are fast workers. The lovebirds wed in August and two months later, she’s preggers! Congrats. Hope JUSTIN BIEBER and wife HAILEY are enjoying the $16M California home in Coachella Valley the pop star recently bought. He’s just been clobbered with a $380K property tax bill. Jailed Tiger King star JOE EXOTIC, 61, has found love behind bars with inmate JORGE MARQUEZ, 31. They plan to get hitched soon. The 33,000-square-foot mansion owned by the late Mafia kingpin PAUL “BIG PAUL” CASTELLANO is on the block…

TV DETECTIVE Michael Weatherly is loving his slim, hunky new bod, but sources say it has ballooned his already monster ego — and the NCIS stud is swaggering around, acting more important and entitled than ever! Eight years after he split from the original series, the 56-year-old actor returns to the popular NCIS franchise in the new spinoff Tony & Ziva, with co-star Cote de Pablo, 45, as his love interest. The 6-foot-2 hunk had reportedly blown up from his 200-pound fighting weight to 250 pounds and admits he had to lose some lard before slipping back into his heroic character, Tony DiNozzo. “We do a lot of running” on the show, he says, so the pounds had to come off. But while his belly shrunk, his head ballooned, sources squeal!…

STEAMED kitchen queen Martha Stewart has been boiling over everything anyone says about her — leaving alarmed friends trying to nudge the belligerent billionaire into therapy to cool her hot temper! The 83-year-old lifestyle mogul is even scorching her new Netflix documentary, Martha, after giving director R.J. Cutler carte blanche access to her world — including scads of never-before-seen photos, letters and diary entries. “R.J. had total access,” Martha sneers, and “really used very little. It was just shocking. “Those last scenes with me looking like a lonely old lady walking hunched over in the garden? Boy, I told him to get rid of those. And he refused. “I hate those last scenes. Hate them. I had ruptured my Achilles’ tendon. I had to have this hideous operation. And so…

THE biggest drama on Broadway these days is happening offstage as dueling divas face off in a dust-up that has ripped apart the tight-knit theater community! The ruckus erupted when Tony winner Kecia Lewis called out Broadway grande dame Patti LuPone in an Instagram video for being racially insensitive. The squabbling songbirds are currently performing in adjacent theaters — Lewis, 59, is starring in Hell’s Kitchen, a musical loosely based on Alicia Keys’ life, at the Shubert, while LuPone, 75, is appearing in a quiet two-person drama, The Roommate, with Mia Farrow, at the neighboring Booth Theatre. Lewis says LuPone complained to the Hell’s Kitchen staff that the musical was so loud in certain places, it could be heard during performances of The Roommate, and she asked them to lower…

SADSACK Ben Affleck is begging ex-wife Jennifer Garner to find him a new galpal, insiders say, as he waits for his divorce from Jennifer Lopez to be finalized. The 52-year-old Batman hunk has been back on the market since ending his short-lived marriage to the 55-year-old Grammy winner earlier this year, and sources snitch he’s ready for new love! But this time, the reformed boozer “is on the hunt for someone grounded and mature. He’s had enough of the Hollywood divas and gold diggers,” spills the insider. “He’s very clear that he wants a woman that’s sober, like him, so they’ll be on the same page when it comes to partying.” Ben and Garner, 52, split in June 2015 after ten years of marriage and have remained friendly as they…

BLOATED action buffoon Steven Seagal is crushing the scales at a whalish 320 pounds, but sources say his super-sized list of Hollywood enemies long for the day the accused sex fiend — and portly pet of Russki tyrant Vladimir Putin — is six feet under! “He’s a total pariah. No one is going to shed a tear when he goes,” snitches a Tinseltown insider. Newly surfaced footage from the Russian propaganda documentary In the Name of Justice shows the 6-foot-4 Under Siege blob of blubber struggling to wrap his arms around his massive tummy as he shuffles through bombed-out Ukrainian towns. “It’s quite a shock to see how far he’s let himself go, since he used to be so obsessed with his body,” tattles a source. Before Seagal fled to…

IF YOU’VE already seen all the holiday classics and are truly desperate for something different, consider 1964’s Santa Claus Conquers the Martians starring JOHN CALL! This low-budget sci-fi comedy is a staple of worst-movie lists, but it has been called so cheesy it’s actually fun — and thus has become a cult favorite. Little 10-year-old Pia Zadora, future queen of bad acting, stars in her first movie as a Martian kid who helps the adults distinguish good kidnapped Santas from fake ones. Esteemed trumpeter Al Hirt even released a record that year — on one side, White Christmas, and on the other, the theme song from Pia’s schlockfest!…

KINKY Kanye West is so desperate to hold onto wife Bianca Censori that he’s planning to tie the knot with her AGAIN in a bizarre blowout bash, sources tell GLOBE! “It’s no secret people have been whispering that Bianca is walking away, so this wedding is as much about celebrating their love as it is about showing the world that they’re solid,” tattles a tipster. But the rapper also wants his raunchy wedding redo to shock people. According to an insider, the bride won’t have to say yes to the dress — because her headcase hubby wants her wearing next to nothing when they say their I Do’s! “He’s very much going for shock value,” spills a snitch. “He’s really into the idea of both of them walking down the aisle…

DODDERING President Joe Biden’s White House turned into a toxic cesspool of bitter backstabbing, betrayal, paranoid rages and illicit drug use that contributed to his historic downfall, babble Beltway sources! The noxious culture in the People’s House is said to have run rampant from the top down during Joe’s administration and spelled doom for his ill-fated attempt at securing a second term. As the curtain fell on the Biden presidency, a disturbing portrait of the damning dysfunction inside America’s executive mansion over the last four years was finally brought to light. “Never in the history of America has there been a White House quite like this one,” declares one Washington insider. “And that’s saying something, given the way the White House operated under some other presidents. “It was an absolute…

KATY PICKIN’ ON DYING OLD COOT Pop tart KATY PERRY is looking like “catty” Perry in an ugly battle over her new $11 million California mansion. The fight began after ailing veteran CARL WESTCOTT, 85, put his 9,000-square-foot Montecito home on the block and the I Kissed a Girl singer snapped it up. Days later he tried to nix the signed contract, but a judge has ruled the shack, which also features a guest house, tennis court and pool, is Katy’s. But the songbird’s feathers are still ruffled so she’s in court trying to knock $6 million off the deal claiming the delay over the ownership fight has cost her that much in repairs and lost rental fees. Meanwhile Carl’s dying in hospice with Huntington’s disease so his family has taken…

MARGARET QUALLEY The Maid starlet doesn’t cut the mustard in a yellow knit ensemble and black Mary Janes LUPITA NYONG’O The Oscar winner could have been spot-on by slightly shortening her gown’s hemline ELIZABETH HURLEY The Bedazzled babe is devilishly attractive in a ruffled floral frock with a high-low hemline DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH The Holdovers sensation has the recipe for success with a chic, strapless jumpsuit PAULEY PERRETTE The former NCIS goth brightens her style — but there’s no gold at the end of this rainbow!…

SEX-SWAPPER Caitlyn Jenner is looking worse for wear after OD-ing on plastic surgery, and now she’s planning on getting even more nips and tucks to try to undo the damage and turn back the clock, sources tell GLOBE! The 75-year-old former Olympian, who transitioned in 2015, shares photos of her self on social media looking wrinkle-free — likely due to maxing out the photo filters. But a recent, undoctored snap shared by a fan exposes the truth about her sagging, heavily lined face — and snitches spill she’s mortified by the pic! “She’s wrinkled in all the wrong places and has all this excess skin hanging from her jaw and not much chin to speak of. She’s just as appalled at seeing herself this way as everyone else, without the…

BRITISH acting great Judi Dench remains devastated over the death of her longtime pal and frequent co-star Maggie Smith, sparking fears for the aging Oscar winner, sources spill. “She’s been spiraling since losing her friend,” an insider confides. “This loss has hit Judi very hard, and it underlines the dangers of her living-to-work philosophy. Losing Maggie is enough to make Judi reevaluate her packed filming schedule and slow down — and finally smell the roses. “As much as she loves the work, she wants to appreciate all her other friends who are still here. Maggie’s death has put Judi in a morbid frame of mind!” Dench and the beloved Harry Potter professor — who were born days apart in December 1934 — first worked together at the dawn of their storied…

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CONVICTED felon Lori Loughlin is going straight — she’s playing a police lieutenant in On Call, Dick Wolf’s upcoming series on Prime Video. The Full House alum, 60, and her longtime husband, fashion designer Mossimo Giannulli, 61, pleaded guilty in May 2020 to charges they had paid fixer Rick Singer $500,000 to get their two daughters admitted to USC. This is the actress’ first recurring role since she served two months in prison in 2020 in connection with the charges.…

TRAGIC Matthew Perry’s drug death anniversary came and went without any of his Friends castmates showing up at his gravesite for the somber one-year milestone — but it would be wrong to accuse the sitcom icons of snubbing the doomed funnyman. That’s because sticking with a junkie is no easy task. Sources say Perry and his co-stars — Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, David Schwimmer and Matt LeBlanc — were close during the NBC hit’s run from 1994 to 2004, and his sudden passing in October 2023 at age 54 couldn’t have been easy for them. To the public, Perry was known as Friends’ Chandler Bing — decades before he was found dead in his California home’s hot tub with ketamine coursing through his veins. But behind the scenes,…

NO ONE knows exactly how big pumpkins can get, but the gourds keep growing in size. About 10 years ago the biggest pumpkin weighed 2,000 pounds — now they’re pushing 3,000 pounds. PROLIFIC inventor and businessman Thomas Edison produced the first Frankenstein movie — an 11-minute feature — in 1910. Boris Karloff played the iconic movie monster 21 years later. BEING licked by your dog is, indeed, a sign of affection, according to scientists who also reveal it could signal your pooch wants you to puke! Puppies greet their mother by licking her face, which triggers regurgitation of her last meal as a mechanism to feed the litter. CANDY corn was invented in the 1880s. Now 35 million pounds of the super-sweet treat are sold every year.…

FURIOUS Kevin Costner is fuming about being splashed all over the new promos for TV’s Yellowstone when he’s no longer on the series, sources say — adding that he’s also feeling abandoned by his old castmates! Sources snitch the 69-year-old Hollywood heavyweight, who played family patriarch John Dutton on the popular Paramount+ series, is featured all over the trailer for Yellowstone season 5, part 2 — even though he’s not in the new episodes! “Kevin thinks it’s sneaky, given that negotiations fell through and he walked away from the show months ago,” spills an insider. As GLOBE reported, the Field of Dreams star and Yellowstone creator Taylor Sheridan butted heads over a scheduling conflict, and in June, the actor confirmed he was done with the series. Instead, he would focus…

TV talker JOY BEHAR, 82, better not be walking down any dark, deserted streets alone after what she did to co-host SARA HAINES, 47, on The View. Bigmouth Behar blindsided the married mother of three on-air by asking: “Are you going to bring up that lesbian relationship you said you had back at Smith [College]?” Stunned Sara gave a nervous laugh while the other View co-hosts sat stunned. But the real folks in shock were Sara’s parents — who were in the audience. Her dad’s jaw dropped while her mom kinda smiled. “Dad, earmuffs! Earmuffs!” embarrassed Sara shouted trying to make a joke of the situation. Moments later, co-host ALYSSA FARAH GRIFFIN, 35, scolded Joy, saying: “That was off-air that she told us that.” Co-host SUNNY HOSTIN, 56, added: “Now it’s on-air.”…

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MAGIC Mike hunk Joe Manganiello, 47, danced his way into reality TV as host of Peacock’s Deal or No Deal Island. The spinoff of the game show Deal or No Deal features hopefuls competing in physical challenges in a tropical setting to snag briefcases containing cash prizes. Enough viewers have tuned in that the streaming series — and Manganiello — have already secured a sophomore season. Here are 10 things you don’t know about the second ex-husband of Modern Family hottie Sofía Vergara. 1 The Terminator’s Arnold Schwarzenegger was his childhood idol. 2 As a teenage jock, Joe was captain of his high school football, basketball and volleyball teams. 3 He decided to study drama after wrecking his knee on the gridiron. 4 The punk band Gold-finger hired him to…

THE explosive truth behind the tragic death of blond bombshell Marilyn Monroe has finally been exposed after 60-plus years — as a damning dossier charges that powerful President John F. Kennedy and his playboy brother Robert were desperate to silence the sexpot to cover up their sordid affairs with her! Sources snitch that newly uncovered evidence — including disturbing details in Maureen Callahan’s Ask Not: The Kennedys and the Women They Destroyed — is smoking-gun proof the self-serving siblings callously used the Some Like It Hot beauty by passing her back and forth like a toy, leaving the sensitive stunner disgusted with herself and causing her to take her own life at age 36 in August 1962! According to the tell-all, smitten Marilyn fell head over heels for the dashing…

MUSIC titan Quincy Jones took a major regret to the grave when he died Nov. 3 at age 91 — the loose-lipped legend never forgave himself for dishing unsubstantiated dirt on Hollywood’s elite, sources spill. The revered producer of Michael Jackson’s Thriller gave a series of shocking interviews in 2018 in which he made multiple over-the-top claims. Jones alleged King of Pop Jackson had stolen material for some of his hit tunes. He also gabbed Godfather great Marlon Brando had gay sex with raunchy comic Richard Pryor and soul singer Marvin Gaye! But days later, the 28-time Grammy winner sheepishly revealed his six daughters had staged a “family intervention” to address his big mouth. Jones then jawed, “I’m sorry and I’m not afraid to say it.” An entertainment insider spills, “It…

HAPPY Hoda Kotb is counting the days to her exit from the Today show and insiders say she has already started washing the gig outta her hair by focusing on herself, her two daughters — and a new life that is free of stress and her catty co-workers Savannah Guthrie and Jenna Bush Hager! Sources snitch the 60-year-old is taking a page from pal Kathie Lee Gifford’s book and focusing on the pluses of being gone from the Today show. “All the stress of that job took a toll on her, so she wants to put that right with some healthy new measures like getting rid of anything that reminds her of those toxic days, deleting and archiving old files, and giving herself time to reflect, rest and relax,” spills…