Table of contents for December 20, 2021 in Globe

THE MUMMY Gaunt former newsgal MARIA SHRIVER, who shares four kids with estranged hubby Arnold Schwarzenegger, seems dead on her feet in Santa Monica PLAID HATTER Red-nosed BUSY PHILIPPS braves the cold in NYC as she belts out a tune at Herald Square TALL & SHORT OF IT PETER DINKLAGE and ETHAN HAWKE enjoy the heights of success with Gotham Independent Film awards ROLL CALL Mad Men’s JON HAMM has his hands full as the sloppy star stocks up on toilet tissue in L.A. BUDDING BEAUTY Desperate Housewives hottie NICOLLETTE SHERIDAN clutches a birthday bouquet in West Hollywood as she celebrates turning 58 SCARED STRAIGHT! GEORGE LOPEZ’s hair-raising comedy is electric!…

HOUSEWIFE CATFIGHT! A ferocious white-hot feud has exploded between reality babes TAMRA JUDGE and SHANNON BEADOR, who were once thick as thieves on The Real Housewives of Orange County. Bad blood began flowing soon after Tamra left RHOC in 2019 and in a recent interview, Shannon, 57, says she never wants her former BFF to come back. “Tamra was my best friend for six years,” she says. “After she left the show, she’s been out there saying things about me that are untrue. So, I’ve chosen to not engage and not address it.” Enraged Tamra, 54, smacked back, furiously tweeting: “STFU [shut the f*** up] you victim-liar! Not engaging is ‘no comment.’” But the fireworks ain’t over. Shannon’s back on Bravo’s RHOC this month while Tamra appears on Peacock’s Real Housewives…

COUNTRY music hunk Tim McGraw has saddled up as patriarch James Dutton in the Yellowstone prequel 1883, which debuted this month on Paramount+. He shares screen time with real-life wife Faith Hill, who plays his character’s spouse. The Live Like You Were Dying singer made his acting debut in a 1997 episode of The Jeff Foxworthy Show and has been steadily building his second career ever since. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 54-year-old performer. 1 He didn’t know his biological father was New York Mets pitcher Tug McGraw until age 11 — when he accidentally came across his birth certificate. 2 The ballplayer denied being his dad until Tim turned 18 — but the two developed a close relationship as adults that lasted until the retired…

AFTER the disruptions of the COVID pandemic, it was a busy 12 months for marriages, babies and bust-ups in the world of celebrities. The year 2021 saw some of your favorite stars thrilled to welcome a new child, in bliss over tying the knot with their someone special or heartbroken over the collapse of their love life. In this special report, GLOBE spotlights their memorable milestones.…

TWISTED parents David and Louise Turpin—who kept their 13 kids prisoner in the family’s ramshackle house of horrors — used the Bible to justify their unspeakable torture and abuse, their daughters finally reveal. For the first time since their despicable dad, David, 60, and mom, Louise, 53, were each sentenced to at least 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to torture, child cruelty and false imprisonment, their daughters Jennifer, 33, and Jordan, 21, expose how they and their siblings were kept in chains of fear under the threat of severe beatings with belts, sticks and even death! Incredibly, the women claim their wicked parents justified their unspeakable torture by insisting they were following the Bible. “They loved to point out things in Deuteronomy, saying that, ‘We have the right…

THE White House has been haunted by sinister spirits and demons ever since two grieving first ladies held chilling seances trying to contact the ghosts of their dead children, according to paranormal experts! President Franklin Pierce’s wife, Jane, and Abraham Lincoln’s first lady, Mary Todd, opened a portal allowing evil forces to flood the halls of 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, a Discovery Channel documentary reports. Pierce’s son Benny and Lincoln’s boy Willie died at age 11 while both were living with their parents in the presidential mansion. Grieving first ladies’ seances opened door Since then, “spirits have been reported in the White House,” say documentary producers. Benny died in a horrific 1853 train accident, plunging his mom into a dark pit. She began writing letters to Benny and enlisted the psychic…

SHOCK rocker Marilyn Manson was in for a REAL shock when he returned to his West Hollywood house to find Los Angeles detectives armed with a search warrant had battered down the door and made off with computer hard drives in connection with ongoing sex and domestic abuse allegations against him! At least 11 women have accused the 52-year-old heavy-makeup musician — born Brian Hugh Warner — of turning them into sex prisoners, including claims they were locked in a soundproof room! Manson has denied all allegations, and his lawyers say he is cooperating with the investigation.…

A HOT-TO-TROT twosome got busted in Florida for having oral sex in the back of a police car — and their raunchy romp was caught on camera, authorities say. After Yordan Noa, 24, was arrested for driving with a suspended license, cops claim they offered to give his passenger Summer Watkins a lift. But when the horny honeys were placed in the same patrol car, a trooper says Watkins, 24, asked, “What if I suck his d**k back here?” According to an arrest warrant, when the dopey duo was left unattended, the brazen brunette “bent down and began to perform oral sex” on her pal, who recorded the X-rated act on his phone! Officials say the inappropriate encounter was also caught on the vehicle’s camera, which captured wildcat Watkins bragging…

Lost girl LINDSAY LOHAN, 35, has finally found her way — she’s engaged to Swiss money man BADER SHAMMAS after a long hunt for loot and love. Biggest Loser fitness queen JILLIAN MICHAELS, 47, got engaged to lesbian love DeSHANNA MARIE MINUTO, 36. Lots of sizzling south of the border PDA between Ted Lasso star JASON SUDEIKIS, 46, and model girlfriend KEELEY HAZELL, 35. The hands-on pair dropped jaws during a steamy beach getaway in Mexico. It’s also a jolly PDA-filled season for CASEY AFFLECK, 46, spotted canoodling with actress CAYLEE COWAN, who at 23 is exactly half his age! Former Dancing with the Stars twinkletoes JULIANNE HOUGH, 33, is doing the quickstep with male model CHARLIE WILSON. The star, who filed to divorce BROOKS LAICH in 2020, got caught kissing…

POT-DEALING dope Jared Leto says he was canned in his youth for peddling marijuana on the job! Jared — who won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar in 2014 for playing a drug-addled AIDS patient in Dallas Buyers Club — told talk show host Ellen DeGeneres: “I actually worked at a movie theater when I was a kid, and I got fired for selling weed out the back door.” But the movie Joker, 49, insists he was simply an “entrepreneur.”…

A NONINVASIVE eye scan may give insight into a person’s future risk of heart attack and stroke, researchers say. Experts at the University of California San Diego Health found poor blood flow in the retina — the light-sensitive tissue at the back of the eye — resulting from cardiovascular problems can cause cell death and leave permanent marks they called RIPLs. After examining the records of nearly 14,000 patients who received retinal scans via commonly used optical coherence tomography — which captures high resolution cross-sectional images — the team says they found more RIPLs in the eyes of those with heart disease. Study cardiologist Dr. Anthony DeMaria adds he hopes evidence of RIPLs could help physicians initiate “preventive measures” for at-risk individuals, “potentially reducing the number of heart attacks or…

JUST nine months after the horrific accident that mangled and shattered the bones in his leg, golf icon Tiger Woods is miraculously smacking balls again and vowing to return to the PGA tour — but on a part-time basis. The 45-year-old links legend released a three-second video on social media late last month showing him whacking a ball with the message “Making Progress.” Tiger reveals he expects to return to tournament golf again, but not full-time. “I think something that is realistic is playing the tour one day — never full-time ever again — but pick and choose,” he says. The links legend boasts he previously did the impossible by returning to golf — and even winning the 2019 Masters — after his back was so mangled he had to…

MARTIAL arts maestro Jackie Chan is still working himself to a frazzle at age 67 and it’s thrown his 40-year marriage to wife Joan into a new crisis after he was caught cheating and fathering a love child, spies dish! Despite amassing a mind-boggling $360 million fortune, Jackie’s got four upcoming projects and 68-year-old Joan, mom of his son Jaycee, 38, is determined he slow down — but the actor is ignoring her demand and “having the time of his life,” a source says. Chan stepped away from martial arts work years ago, “but he’s still busy as ever producing and starring in movies, and that leaves little time for Joan,” spills an insider. “She would like him to retire or take a long break at least so they can spend…

FORMER reality TV dad Jon Gosselin narrowly cheated death — or losing a limb — when he rushed to a hospital after waking in agonizing pain with his leg swollen twice its size. The 44-year-old former Jon & Kate Plus 8 star, who’s been divorced from his wife since 2009, had been bitten by a venomous brown recluse spider.  Following a night of partying in Reading, Pa., Jon says he “woke … and was in excruciating pain. “It was really weird because when I looked at my leg I realized it was twice the size and there’s a red-looking blister with a large red circle around it. “The doctor told me that I was lucky to come in because if you don’t treat this you can lose limbs or die…

SUPERMODEL Naomi Campbell is in hot water over her charity, which is being probed for stiffing the poor folks it’s supposed to help. England’s watchdog Charity Commission is looking into claims Fashion for Relief blew nearly $2 million on a glitzy fundraising gala in Cannes early this year, but only gave about $6,000 to charities. The charity reportedly also shelled out nearly $110,000 in fees and travel expenses to a consultant. Fashion for Relief says it has raised millions for good causes and is cooperating with the investigation.…

Kid you not! Grumpy rocker KID ROCK, 50, throws more than a few stones in his new single, Don’t Tell Me How to Live. But none of his musical rants got more giggles than this eyebrow-raising line: “James Dean, sh*t, I’m more like Brad Pitt, A little less pretty but I sling more d*ck.” Unsurprisingly, comments slung online over Kid’s comparison to the A-lister got hilarious. “Brad Pitt could be a celibate monk living high in a church in the Alps and still slings more than Kid Rock,” barks a Brad fan. Meanwhile Brad’s name also got slung around recently by MELISSA ETHERIDGE, 60, who spills the sexy Fight Club star, 58, had been a contender to father a child for the singer-song writer and her ex-partner JULIE CYPHER! However, Brad…

HOCKEY pro Evander Kane’s icy divorce battle with estranged wife Anna took a nasty turn when the San Jose Sharks player accused her of faking a pregnancy! Court documents reveal Kane, 30, chillingly charged the busty blonde, 29, wore a “fake pregnancy belly” to trick him and claimed medical bills show she had an abortion in July! In a separate filing, Anna reportedly confirmed the termination and admitted being “less than forthcoming” about her decision.…

WEDDING plans got back on track for many celebrities in 2021 after the chaos caused by COVID-19 forced them to rethink their nuptials. See who made it down the aisle! JANUARY E! host ERIN LIM, 31 and clothing company director JOSHUA RHODES, 33, were married by her father in her parents’ backyard in Los Angeles, Jan. 21. FEBRUARY It was a surprise wedding for Oscar winner NICOLAS CAGE, 57, and his fifth wife, model RIKO SHIBATA, 26, Feb. 16 at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas. MAY This Is Us actor JUSTIN HARTLEY, 44, and his former Young and the Restless co-star SOFIA PERNAS, 32, secretly wed before making their red carpet debut wearing wedding rings May 16 at the MTV Movie & TV Awards. Pop queen and The Voice…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Keep an eye on the budget midweek, Ram, when you’re tempted to splurge on unnecessary items! But say yes to an event you’re iffy about! Singles may enjoy a kiss under the mistletoe that leads to something exciting! Advice from an Earth sign at the weekend helps you quickly clear up a health woe! GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Practical Capricorn aligns with Mercury Monday to help you make your lists and check them twice for gifts or tasks that need taken care of ASAP! A small banking error may cause trouble midweek — keep all receipts! Single Twins should expect to meet a charming cutie at a holiday event. Dress sharp! LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Your fashion sense is on…

SUPERSTAR Will Smith is desperate to escape his toxic 24-year marriage to The Matrix beauty Jada Pinkett Smith, but he’s terrified to walk ’cause she can dish his most embarrassing private dirt, sources snitch. “She just knows too much and she will spill if he ever breathes the word divorce,” says an insider. Sources say the 53-year-old actor has been miserable for years, but feels trapped in a prison where 50-year-old Jada holds the key. “He’s terrified she’ll bury him the moment he walks,” spills the insider. “It’s common knowledge she knows all the secrets about him and he’s an extremely shy, private man who would be loath for anything to come out about him having to do with scandals, partying and feuds.” The Independence Day hunk “made the terrible…

DESPERATE to win back estranged wife Kim Kardashian, Kanye West is confessing he was a bad drunk, tantrum-tossing lout and embarrassing attention-getter and now wants to “heal the pain that I’ve caused.” But Kim, 41, appears too busy with her new boytoy, comic Pete Davidson, 28, to notice West’s public meltdown. Kim and the Saturday Night Live hunk, who sported a massive hickey, were cozy grabbing breakfast at the Beverly Hills Hotel on Nov. 27 after celebrating the funnyguy’s Nov. 16 birthday. Meanwhile, her heartbroken 44-year-old rapping ex was flooding social media with pathetic pleas saying he wants his “family back,” including kids North, 8, Saint, 6, Chicago, 3, and Psalm, 2. “All I think about every day is how I get my family back together and how I heal…

BOSTON podcaster Carli Bellmer mistook her cellphone earbud for an 800 mg ibuprofen —and swallowed the thing with disastrous intestinal consequences. Weeping Carli shared her humiliation to help other people avoid the trauma. RAZOR-TONGUED Bette Davis flayed rival Joan Crawford by insisting Joan only made it in movies by sleeping “with every male star at MGM — except Lassie.” AMERICA’S college football coaches are the highest paid public employees in more than half of the states. Alabama’s Nick Saban is No. 1, with a $9.7 million salary. The average Alabama teacher makes about $32,000. POPE Gregory IX ordered a purge of black cats, claiming the critters were tools of Satan. His decree helped trigger the Black Death by eliminating natural control of rats that spread the disease.…