Table of contents for December 2, 2019 in Globe

ENGLISH funnyman James Corden had never even appeared as a guest on an American TV chatfest when he was tapped to replace Craig Ferguson as host of The Late Late Show on CBS in 2015. In fact, James says he was so convinced he wouldn’t succeed at the gig that he and his wife “rented all our furniture for a year!” in case they had to move back to the U.K. But he quickly took to the task and in August inked a deal that keeps him behind the desk until 2022. Here are ten things you don’t know about 41-year-old. 1 His middle name is Kimberley. “Literally every man in my family has it — it’s a tradition,” he says. 2 He and Preacher star Dominic Cooper were roommates…

A KINDERGARTEN teacher in Texas is accused of some truly crappy behavior — cops say she made a young student eat his own feces! Mamie Robinson Aplon, 67, of Jasper, was indicted on a misdemeanor charge of “official oppression” for the alleged incident and faces up to a year in jail if convicted. Court records claim Aplon intentionally subjected the child, identified as E.J., to mistreatment that she “knew was unlawful, namely causing E.J. to eat his own feces,” while she was “acting under the color of her employment as an educator.” Jasper Independent School District Superintendent Dr. Steve Hyden says Aplon was placed on leave and adds, “As this is a sensitive student and personnel matter, the district cannot provide further details about the incident.”…

A WACKO worker snapped photos of deceased nursing home residents to satisfy her morbid fascination with “dead things,” claim Pennsylvania cops. Twisted Stephanie R. Thomas, a 28-year-old certified nursing assistant, is accused of taking pictures of three elderly corpses at the Berks Heim Nursing & Rehabilitation facility — and sharing the sick images with friends and co-workers! Investigators, who’d gotten an anonymous tip, confronted Thomas and say she told them she’d taken the pics because her ex-boyfriend “liked that kind of thing.” But after interviewing multiple people, authorities say they determined Thomas had an “obsession with death.”…

ONLY children run a greater risk of being obese than kids who have siblings, according to a new study. Scientists found so-called singletons had less healthy eating habits when it comes to food and beverage choices than families with two or more children. They also discovered mothers with only one kid tended to be overweight themselves, which could mean the parent passed down poor eating habits to their hefty offspring. “With multiple children you’re scheduling a little bit more of your meals. So we’re going to have more at-home meals. We’re probably going to have less fast food,” theorizes lead author Chelsea Kracht, a researcher at Louisiana State University. “Healthier eating behaviors and patterns may result from household-level changes rather than peer exposure,” Kracht says.…

A BIGHEARTED third-grader gave his $15 in birthday money to his teacher — because he thinks she is underpaid! “I don’t think that teachers get paid enough for what they do so will you except this gift? My own money,” nine-year-old Parker Williams wrote — drawing an arrow to a plastic baggie with the cash. Mary Hall Chambers, his teacher at Gorrie Elementary School in Tampa, Fla., was overwhelmed. “I can’t accept this, but appreciate the gesture, Parker. Students like you are the reason I teach,” she wrote on his note. Parker says he wanted to “do something nice” for the person who has “the most important job,” adding that Mary hugged him. “She was really happy,” he says. “It felt really good.” Parker has two older siblings. His mom,…

HERE’S someone not to ask for predictions — Adam Sandler’s acting teacher, who told him he’d never make it as an actor! The future SNL cutup was a student at NYU when his professor took him out for a beer and lowered the boom. “He … said, ‘Think about something else. Listen, you’ve got heart, but you don’t have it. Choose another path,’ ” Adam’s buddy Brad Pitt reveals. But Adam, 53, didn’t listen — and today he’s worth an estimated $420 million!…

SONGBIRD Christina Aguilera has a Dirrty secret — her boobs have gotten so humongous, she’s desperate to go under the knife for a downsize! Sources says the 38-year-old mom of Max, 11, and Summer, 5, has gained weight and it’s puffed up her chest so much, her droopy triple-D melons “sag to her belly button” without a bra. The bosoming bulk has become a ballooning burden for the five-foot-two beauty, triggering “horrendous backaches” and other pains. “She can’t breathe with those pups,” tattles an insider. “Her boobs are so huge they strain against her costumes and weigh her down. “Even her male dancers are struggling to lift her up during performances,” adds the source. “It’s embarrassing for everyone involved. “She’s talking to surgeons about reducing them to a more comfortable…

REAL Housewives of Miami alum JOANNA KRUPA, 40, and husband DOUGLAS NUNES welcomed a daughter, ASHA-LEIGH. KYLIE JENNER, 22, and rapper pal/neighbor DRAKE, 33, are dating. She recently split with rapper/baby daddy TRAVIS SCOTT, 28, with whom she shares 21-month-old daughter STORMI. Speaking of DRAKE, the singer is entering the pot biz, launching the marijuana line More Life Growth Company. CHRISSY TEIGEN’s long-married parents are calling it quits. Dad RON filed for divorce from VILAILUCK TEIGEN, who’s been living with her famous daughter and her husband, musician JOHN LEGEND, for a year. Vampire Diaries star NINA DOBREV and writer/director GRANT MELON have split after dating nearly a year. French star CATHERINE DENEUVE, 76, once dubbed the most beautiful woman in the world, suffered a stroke in Paris. RUDY BOESCH, the…

THERE’S still puppy love between exes Justin Theroux and Jennifer Aniston! After visiting an animal shelter in California’s Ventura County, dog lover Justin took to Instagram to urge others to adopt a rescue canine. The Leftovers stud noted all the pups’ adoption fees had been paid, and added: “@jenniferaniston (yep, now that you’re on here, you’re gonna get this a lot too).” The Friends star has yet to comment, but she did throw Justin a “like.”…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 An urge Monday to go-go-go gives way to laziness midweek. Give in and stay home to catch up on sleep, Ram! When Venus meets Mars, look for excitement — possibly involving an unexpected inheritance from someone you barely knew! Socializing leads to friendship — even love? — with an older Virgo! GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Make a list and check it twice — cosmic aspects have you acting rather flighty! If it’s not written down, it doesn’t exist! Watch the calendar midweek — there’s an anniversary coming up and a Scorpio pal wants to celebrate! Friday, a potential partner is not your soul mate — let them down easy! LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Pride comes before a fall and admitting…

SHARK Tank star Kevin O’Leary amassed a $400 million fortune as a shrewd investor and software seller — but now sources say he’s terrified he could be cleaned out by a wrongful death lawsuit linked to his wife’s deadly boating crash! O’Leary and wife Linda are being sued by the family of 48-year-old Suzana Brito, who with fellow passenger Gary Poltash, 64, was killed when Linda drove their family boat into another vessel on an Ontario, Canada, lake on Aug. 24. Says L.A. attorney Richard Klein: “O’Leary could face tremendous peril from the lawsuit!” Adds a source: “Kevin is freaking out over this. Not only could he lose a bundle but it could also damage his reputation. He’s got a lot to lose!” Canadian authorities have charged Linda with careless…

RAPPER T.I. says he takes teen daughter Deyjah Harris to the doctor every year — to make sure she’s still a virgin! “We have yearly trips to the gynecologist to check her hymen. Yes, I go with her. I will say, as of her 18th birthday, her hymen is still intact,” brags the domineering dad, who has caught an earful from outraged women. Model Deyjah hasn’t commented on her father’s claim — but liked a tweet labeling his behavior as “disgusting, possessive and controlling!”…

DISNEY princess Selena Gomez confesses health issues are behind her weight gains, but the body shaming she’s had to endure drove her to therapy. The 27-year-old former flame of Justin Bieber blames her ballooning weight on the drugs she had to take after lupus destroyed her kidneys, leading to a 2017 transplant. But when fans began shaming her on social media, “it got to me big-time … messed me up,” she says. “I’d land at the airport, and people would yell out, ‘You’re fat!’ It was awful.”…

MY THREE SONS captured America’s heart for 12 seasons, 380 episodes and a third place for sitcom longevity (from 1960 to 1972). And here, from top to bottom, is the original male lineup — FRED MacMURRAY as widowed patriarch Steve Douglas, WILLIAM FRAWLEY as maternal grandfather and housekeeper William Michael Francis Aloysius “Bub” O’Casey, TIM CONSIDINE as eldest brother Mike, DON GRADY as middle son Robbie and STANLEY LIVINGSTON as youngest son Chip. The show was filmed in black and white when this publicity photo was taken during its 1960–65 run on ABC. (It then moved to CBS when ABC refused to pay for color production.) During the 1964–65 season, Frawley became ill and was replaced by WILLIAM DEMAREST as his curmudgeonly brother Charley.…

TV TALK queen bee Ellen DeGeneres is pouring her time and fortune into saving endangered gorillas — and it’s driving wife Portia de Rossi bananas! Blond actress/model Portia, 46, has nothing against the big apes but thinks Ellen, 61, has become over-obsessed with the project — especially since she has been pushing to adopt a baby gorilla! And now TV talker wants to adopt one of the baby critters! “It’s all Ellen wants to talk about when she gets home and Portia’s had enough,” spills an insider. “Portia’s sick of hearing her go on and on about them. “Ellen’s donated millions to animal causes and this is her passion and legacy,” adds the source. “But Portia doesn’t share Ellen’s love for wild animals and the cash-hungry charities that try to protect…

COUNTRY queen Dolly Parton is ink-redible! The 73-year-old superstar has fessed up to being tatted up — and that’s the reason she always wears sleeves on her outrageous stage outfits! “I got them [tattoos] to cover scars or things,” she admits. “If I have to get a scar for any reason, I never can kind of get rid of that purple look. So I thought, Well, I’m going to kind of decorate these with some flowers or little butterflies or whatever. “I’m not really one to have tattoos, but I do have a few, and they’re not where you can see them.” Sitcom star Roseanne Barr is in on Dolly’s secret. “[Dolly] showed me,” Roseanne dishes. “She’s got all these awesome … pastel gorgeous bows all over everything.”…

KRISTEN PROPOSING TO ‘SCUMBAG’ PAL! Charlie’s Angels star KRISTEN STEWART is one little devil — she’s about to propose to her girlfriend, screenwriter DYLAN MEYER, declaring they’re a perfect match because they’re both “scumbags.” Romantic! “I can’t f**king wait!” gushes the foulmouthed 29-year-old, who reportedly hooked up with her new lover last August while she was still dating model STELLA MAXWELL. “The first time I told her I loved her … we were at some sh**ty bar or whatever,” says the over-the-moon Twilight star. “I was just like, ‘Oh my God, I’m so f**king in love with you,’ like done.” Admitting she’ll soon pop the question, she explains: “We are both from L.A., and I really love L.A. We are both scumbags. … I want to make movies and kids…

PAT SAJAK is desperate to get back to Wheel of Fortune after having emergency surgery — because he’s terrified Vanna White will steal his job! “Even though he’s had the job for nearly 40 years, Pat is convinced the audience will forget about him and fall in love with Vanna while he’s gone!” spills an insider. After having his intestinal tract Roto-Rootered, the worried 73-year-old even tweeted, “I’ll be out of the hospital in a day or two, then back to work (unless @The-VannaWhite has completely taken over!)” Since joining Wheel in 1981, Pat’s only taken brief vacations and insiders say he doesn’t know how to handle life away from the set! “Pat’s whole career is wrapped up in Wheel. He can’t imagine it being taken away from him,” the source…

TUBBY Tim McGraw dropped 40 pounds after one of his kids made a crack about his bloated bod! The 52-year-old country crooner says he was crushing the scales at 215 when he starred in 2008’s Four Christmases, causing daughter Gracie to say he looked “big on the screen.” That’s when the Humble and Kind singer cut out booze and “truck-stop foods” such as cheeseburgers to whittle away the weight. Tinier Tim now claims being fit “makes my voice stronger.”…

A MICHIGAN woman claiming to be a werewolf allegedly bit off a friend’s ear! According to police, when Oakland County cops arrived, Allison Thompson Weaver, 44, also howled that her unnamed female victim, 48, was a vampire — and both were soaked in blood. “Ms. Weaver told me that they were having consensual sex and that [the victim] was a vampire and that Ms. Weaver was the wolf,” Deputy Shawn Hopkins testified. Police say Weaver was under the influence of drugs and booze.…

IT was Superman to the rescue when a fast-moving wildfire threatened Marcy Zavala’s California home! Her doorbell camera caught a Good Samaritan, Paul Peterson, in a Superman T-shirt banging on her door as the fire approached Oct. 31. Paul, a neighbor, knew Marcy and husband Henry had “four little kids under the age of six and that it was very crucial” to get them out, she says. “As soon as I heard the knock I knew it was a fire,” adds the San Bernardino woman. “I looked outside to see how close it was, to see how much time we had, and it was a lot closer than I could have imagined.” According to the time stamp on the footage, Paul showed up shortly after 2 a.m. Later, the family…

LEGENDARY boxer Muhammad Ali kept fighting even though he was showing signs of boxing-induced Parkinson’s disease because he was terrified he’d become a nobody if he quit the ring! The heavyweight icon lost his final fight at age 39 to Trevor Berbick in December 1981 and was diagnosed with Parkinson’s in 1984. But in his just-released book, My Brother Muhammad Ali, brother Rahaman says the champ was showing signs of the deadly condition years before the Berbick bout. But he kept fighting, saying: “I’m the most famous face in the world … If I leave the ring nobody’s going to know who I am and no one is going to remember me, so I have to keep it up.” »When a man is denied the right to live the life…

SHATTERED by his wife Beth’s death, TV bounty hunter Duane “Dog” Chapman has confessed he’s considered suicide. “I just hope that I don’t live very much longer without her,” he says. Dog, 66, admits he’s thought about ending it all to join Beth, who lost her battle with throat cancer in June at age 51. “I feel like if I did something to myself right now and passed away suicidal and I got to heaven and was like, ‘Hi, honey,’ and would she go, ‘You d**k ass, why would you do that?’” he says. “Or would she go, ‘Wow, you’re here!’ I’ll be, like, ‘Of course I’m here! You left me. I’m here!’ So, am I obligated to do that?” However, the tough guy says he intends to go on.…

CONVICTED sex fiend Bill Cosby is being ravaged by disease behind bars and has lost a staggering 57 pounds, sources tell GLOBE! Now totally blind, the disgraced 82-year-old may not live to finish his sentence — and sources say his family is fighting to get the creep out of prison! “Bill has no appetite. His stomach is rejecting food and he can’t eat. Even a spoonful of peas makes him sick,” snitches an insider. “Prison food is horrendous, but most inmates know they’ve got to eat to keep up their strength, but not Bill. He’s dehydrated and weak from vomiting.” Cosby’s longtime publicist, Andrew Wyatt, claims the disgraced TV dad dropped the weight by working out and eating mostly fruits and vegetables. But sources tell GLOBE Cosby’s poor diet has…

COPS in Mesa, Ariz., got a 911 call from a 5-year-old boy who wanted a McDonald’s Happy Meal — and they delivered it! Officer Randolph “Scott” Valdez also advised Charlie Skabelund on the proper use of the emergency number. The boy’s mother said Valdez handled the situation with “love and kindness.” LOBSTERMEN in Maine came back with an unusual catch — a young deer they found swimming five miles offshore! Capt. Ren Door and his crew took the confused critter to a beach, where it scampered into the woods. TENNESSEE gardener Neal Ryder had plenty of sweet potato for Thanksgiving — he dug up his crop and hauled in a 22.6-pound monster! The vast veggie is a state record but falls short of the world record: a gargantuan 81.9-pound spud…