Table of contents for October 25, 2021 in Globe

HAPLESS romantic Jennifer Aniston claims she’s finally “ready” to look for love again — more than three years after her bust-up with ex-husband Justin Theroux! The Morning Show stunner, 52, tied the knot with the Leftovers hunk in 2015 — a decade after cheating first hubby Brad Pitt ditched her for Angelina Jolie! But Jen and Justin hit the rocks in 2017 and now the former Friends cutie — who was said to be seeing Brad on the sly after her divorce — recently revealed she’s now open to finding a special someone. “I think I’m ready to share myself with another person. I didn’t want to for a long time, and I loved really being my own woman without being a part of a couple,” spills Jen.…

LEGEND - ARY Police Woman star Angie Dickinson has become a frail shadow of her former self after enduring a long and lonely COVID lockdown, insiders say. Once a sultry sex kitten, Angie was barely recognizable when spotted retrieving mail outside her Beverly Hills home a day before her 90th birthday — the first time she’s been seen in public in years! Looking haggard and stooped on Sept. 29, her once-bouffant blond hair now gray and straggly, the notorious Rat Pack party girl clung to a wall for balance as she plucked a single letter from her mailbox before attempting the slow uphill trek back to her house. “It’s tragic to see her this way, but she doesn’t like to make social calls and she’s too unsteady to walk far…

Sopranos star STEVEN VAN ZANDT — who famously quit BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN’s E Street Band — confesses he was hooked on three-way sex back in his 1970s rock ’n’ roll glory days! The 70-year-old wild man — a.k.a. TV mob meanie Silvio Dante — is spilling bedroom secrets galore in his memoir, Unrequited Infatuations, revealing he “developed a temporary addiction to ménage à trois.” But Steve blames the free love era, not himself. “It was a real, sexually liberated time,” he explains. “The ’70s, there’s never been anything quite like it, honestly. It was just a wild, wild time, and women were truly, truly liberated there for a minute. I mean, it was a really wonderful time to be alive.“ However, getting hitched to wife MAUREEN in 1982 — who later…

VETERAN screenwriter Nick Castle has had a spooky side hustle as knife-wielding serial killer Michael Myers in four of 13 installments of the Halloween film franchise. The occasional actor reprises the role for select scenes in this year’s Halloween Kills, alongside series scream queen Jamie Lee Curtis. He’s also sharing the creepy character with stunt performer James Jude Courtney in what 74-year-old Castle describes as a “passing of the torch.” Here are ten things you don’t know about Nick. 1 His dad, Nick Sr. — an acclaimed choreographer hired by major Hollywood studios — taught Shirley Temple how to tap dance. 2 As a child, he often appeared as an extra in his father’s films. 3 He played a beach ball-like alien in the 1974 sci-fi comedy Dark Star, helmed…

REALITY TV’s Honey Boo Boo is sweet on a country music career — and the former Toddlers & Tiaras terror is boasting she’ll be as big as Dolly Parton, tipsters tell GLOBE. The 16-year-old TLC train wreck, whose real name is Alana Thompson, is itching to ditch Georgia for Tennessee — and boyfriend Dralin Carswell, 20, is supporting his little lady’s dreams, spies snitch. “Alana’s writing songs and making a demo to send to the biggest music producers in Nashville,” spills an insider, who says she is also hankering for a duet with Dolly! “She’s always regaled her family with songs and dance routines and thinks she’s got a real chance at country music stardom.” Sources say her awestruck clan think she’s got what it takes — especially half sister…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Retrograde planets make it easy to miss a golden opportunity early in the week, Ram. Stay alert to achieve an important dream. A minor spat with someone close Thursday will blow over, so don’t cancel Halloween plans because you’re in a snit. Good luck arrives by mail Saturday. Open letters right away. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 The sun in Scorpio inspires hot romance. Coupled-up Twins should make plans early for spooky weekend shenanigans while singles take a chance on someone new — haunted houses are perfect for snagging a hug. Stressed over finances? The trouble is temporary — tough it out with a smile. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 A squabble at work or home Monday is just a misunderstanding but…

MOTHER of two Bridgette Garza ignored a harmless-looking, pimple-sized spider bite on her butt — and lost her leg when the injury turned into a terrifying flesh-eating bacterial infection. The 39-year-old Texas gal now has a prosthetic lower leg she wears for ten hours a day, but she and her kids, Adally, 15, and Jacob, 14, are thankful she’s still alive. Her miraculous survival began when she noticed a “spot” on her tush. “Doctors have now said it could have been a spider bite,” says Bridgette. “Apparently, I was walking around for ten days and it was septic but I didn’t even know. “I was in pain. I didn’t go to the doctors due to coronavirus. I didn’t want to risk catching it and thought the pain would ease off.…

A 96-YEAR-OLD woman accused of helping murder 11,000 people at a Nazi death camp was captured while fleeing her nursing home to avoid a trial to have her face justice more than 75 years after the Holocaust. German cops nabbed Irmgard Furchner on a Hamburg street after she’d bolted from a nursing home, grabbed a taxi to a subway station and hopped a train on the day she was to appear in court 30 miles away in Itzehoe. Ironically, the unrepentant crone is being tried in a juvenile court because she was 18 when she started working as a secretary at the notorious Stutthof concentration camp near Gdansk, Poland, in 1943. More than 65,000 of the prison’s 100,000 inmates died at the hands of the Nazis during World War II,…

Former WWE superstar RONDA ROUSEY, 34, and her Honolulu-born hubby, mixed martial artist TRAVIS BROWNE, 39, had their first baby together, daughter LA’AKEA MAKALAPUAOKALANIPO. Her Hawaiian first name translates to Sacred Light. Today co-host DYLAN DREYER and husband BRIAN FICHERA welcomed their third son, RUSSELL, who arrived six weeks early. The baby joins big bros Calvin, 4, and Oliver, 1. RHOC troublemaker VICKI GUNVALSON and fiancé STEVE LODGE’s wedding plans are kaput. Former cop Steve called it quits after a two-year engagement. The pair dated since 2016. It’s a wrap for Veronica Mars star KRYSTEN RITTER and rocker ADAM GRANDUCIEL after seven years and a two-year-old son, BRUCE. Planting new roots in Wyoming, Mötley Crüe rocker NIKKI SIXX unloaded his sprawling Westlake Village, Calif., mansion for over $5 million. MICHAEL…

A statue of Humpty Dumpty taking a dump has been swiped! The $1,400 bronze sculpture, titled Dumpty Humpty, was nicked by two turds from an art fair in Madison, Wis., according to police. The artwork, which is about 9 to 10 inches tall, shows the nursery rhyme character sitting on a toilet — not a wall. The famed egghead has his pants down around his ankles with an open book in his lap and looks like he’s straining mightily enough to bust a gut — or crack his shell. According to authorities, the statue was stolen from a vendor’s booth on Sept. 25. The vendor, who’d traveled to Madison from out of state, told police she’d seen two men lingering around her booth while she was setting up. After briefly stepping…

NEW mom Cardi B is wailing her “weird postpartum hormones” are making her weep wildly ever since she gave birth to her second child with rapper hubby Offset last month! “Can’t wait till these weird postpartum hormones completely leave my body,” tweets the controversial hip-hop queen, 29. “I be crying for no reason.” This isn’t the first rodeo for the longtaloned talent — she complained about “annoying” postpartum blues after having daughter Kulture, now 3.…

DOWN-AND-OUT Beverly Hills housewife Erika Jayne claims she’s flat broke! Although the reality TV blonde has a $25 million embezzlement scandal hanging over her head, she whines, “I have zero dollars” and has gone from living in a ritzy $13 million Pasadena mansion to checking out tiny one-bedroom rentals! As GLOBE has reported, the 50-year-old Xxpen$ive singer is fighting a series of lawsuits over allegations her lavish lifestyle and pop career were funded by estranged hubby Tom Girardi’s now-bankrupt law firm. Girardi, 82, has denied stealing any cash — but has been disbarred. But a judge told Erika in July she may have to reimburse $11 million to three Girardi clients who claimed they were robbed by the legal shark. She’s also been sued for $25 million by a trustee…

ROLY-POLY Russell Crowe’s galpal has put him on a strict diet and grueling workout sessions to lop off a whopping 70 pounds for his reprise role as ripped Roman General Maximus in his upcoming Gladiator sequel, according to spies. Sources say the 57-year-old Aussie 6-footer is desperate to pare down to a buff 210 pounds, his weight for the original 2000 movie blockbuster and his live-in love Britney Theriot, 30, is determined he gets there. The pretty young New Orleans native reportedly has Russell on brutal training sessions that include weight-lifting, cardio, long hikes and marathon tennis matches. “She’s also preparing healthy low-carb meals and helping him keep his boozing to a minimum,” tattles an insider. “He’s not used to taking orders from anyone, but he’s so head over heels…

DISGRACED Prince Andrew and his exwife, Sarah Ferguson, are planning to wed again — so she can’t be forced to testify at his New York rape trial, spies dish. Andrew is pulling out all the stops to bury accuser Virginia Roberts’ civil court case claiming she was sexually assaulted by the then 41-year-old prince when she was just 17. But Roberts’ legal team intends to drag Fergie into court to poke holes in his alibi, sources dish. However, once they wed the flame-haired Duchess of York won’t have to squeal on her prince because the U.S. Constitution allows spouses to refuse to testify against the other! Royal sources say Andy, 61, and Fergie, 62, who divorced in 1996, are still in love, have been living under the same roof at…

ELLEN POMPEO’S DENZEL HELL! Grey’s Anatomy diva ELLEN POMPEO saw red when Oscar-winning actor DENZEL WASHINGTON tried to put the egotistical actress in her place while guest-directing an episode of the TV medical drama. “We went at it,” says Ellen, confessing to a ferocious backstage fight during the show’s 2016 season. Ellen says it all started when she improvised a line in a critical scene “and Denzel went ham on my ass. He was like, ‘I’m the director. Don’t you tell another character what to do.’” Silence on the set. Ellen recalls she exploded, “I was like, ‘Listen, motherf***er, this is my show. This is my set. Who are you telling?’” But Ellen now shrugs off the incident, saying fights and creative tension help make on-screen magic. Yeah, right. JAKE’S…

FOX News prime-time prima donnas Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity are in a clash over cosmetics! “Your skin looks beautiful!” Laura razzed a seething Sean during on-air banter over how much makeup he pancakes on his face. “I don’t know what you’re doing. What’re you doing? It’s exfoliating your whole skin!” Humiliated Hannity vainly tried to steer the conversation toward the manlier matter of his martial-arts exercises. But Laura kicked him in the shins exclaiming, “It looks fantastic!” — without batting an eyelash!…

ILL-MANNERED Mayim Bialik once found herself in double jeopardy when she refused to give lifelong pal Neil Patrick Harris a standing ovation when he starred onstage in a 1997 Los Angeles production of Rent! The 45-year-old Big Bang Theory brainiac and new Jeopardy! host — who has a degree in neuroscience — was clueless when it came to celebrating her chum’s success and says her audience behavior caused a long rift between them! “People expect that because I worked with Bette Midler and because I’m me, I’m supposed to love musicals. It’s not my thing,” says Mayim. “Why do I have to like it?” But Neil, now 48, witnessed his boorish bestie’s bad behavior from the stage! “We didn’t speak for a long time!” admits Mayim.…

LEGENDARY singer Tony Bennett is suffering from memory-savaging Alzheimer’s disease, but he doesn’t realize it, says wife Susan Crow. The 95-year-old I Left My Heart in San Francisco sensation was diagnosed with the brain-ravaging condition in 2017 and still recognizes third wife Susan, 55, and his four grown kids from his previous marriages. But as far as Alzheimer’s, “he doesn’t know he has it,” says Susan, who married him in 2007. She still recalls the chilling moment they realized he might have the disease. “We came home one night, and he said, ‘Susan, I'm having a hard time remembering the names of the musicians’ who he works with all the time. “And I said, ‘Well, do you wanna go see a doctor about it?’ “And he said, ‘I do.’ ” But…

A CHILLING forecast dooms England’s troubled royal family predicting the monarchy will be kaput in 40 years, leaving no throne for Prince William’s son George to sit on. Author Hilary Mantel drops the gloomy bombshell, concluding that in the past, “kingship” had a “dimension of holiness” related to the idea they were annointed by god. But today, members of royalty have become mere “celebrities,” she says. “It’s very hard to understand the thinking behind the monarchy in the modern world when people are just seen as celebrities,” says Mantel. She praises Queen Elizabeth and her heir Prince Charles for working their roles “as well as anyone possibly could.” But she believes The Firm is doomed and will be over in two generations time.…

FOLLOWING her recent court win over her life-controlling conservatorship, Britney Spears is splashing nude photos on the internet, leading health experts to fear the pop star’s headed for another mental meltdown. The 39-year-old Oops! I Did It Again singer posted pictures of her nearly nude body taken during her vacation with 27-year-old fiancé Sam Asghari. One image showed her boobs barely covered with tiny pink and yellow flowers, with the caption: “Playing in the Pacific never hurt anybody!!!!” Beverly Hills shrink Dr. Carole Lieberman called the photo display “the act of an unhinged and desperate woman crying out for attention” and fears Britney is on the brink of another mental explosion. “Britney has convinced herself — and those in the #Free-Britney movement — that her father, Jamie Spears, was the…