Table of contents for February 14, 2022 in Globe

MONACO’S fragile Princess Charlene blew out the candles all alone on her 44th birthday — with her horndog hubby, Prince Albert, 63, and their seven-year-old twins, Jacques and Gabriella, nowhere in sight! The former Olympic swimming champ has been holed up in a secret Swiss mental health facility as she struggles with what Albert has described as “emotional and physical exhaustion.” Charlene was whisked to the facility in November, just days after her return to Monaco from nearly a year in her native South Africa. During her separation, she battled a nasty sinus infection — along with rumors her marriage imploded over a December 2020 paternity suit charging her royal spouse is the baby daddy of yet a THIRD love child! For her Jan. 25 birthday, the delicate beauty reposted a…

WEST SIDE ZEGLER IS TOTALLY TOXIC Newly Hollywood minted West Side Story star RACHEL ZEGLER, 20, stepped into the late NATALIE WOOD’s shoes for STEVEN SPIELBERG’s flop remake — then walked into a social media minefield by mocking BRITNEY SPEARS! “If you’re still making fun of Britney Spears in 2022 you’re a piece of sh*t. Grow up,” fumes a fan. Although “barely relevant” Zegler deleted the clip, hits kept coming, with a Britney fan turning toxic, “She took someone’s trauma & did a weird-ass monologue for her own pleasure.” And we thought the Spears family was having fun. LIFE WITH ORLANDO’S PERRY DISGUSTING It’s like pulling teeth for pop star KATY PERRY, whose dreamy fiancé ORLANDO BLOOM’s a blooming slob — leaving gross, gooey used dental floss all over the…

MANY actresses detest doing brief nude scenes in a flick, but A Star Is Born hunk Bradley Cooper spent six chilling hours butt-naked for a scene in his current thriller Nightmare Alley. Playing a swindling carny sideshow psychic, Cooper says the long shoot was a bathtub scene with Toni Collette. “I can still remember that day, just to be naked in front of the crew for six hours, and it was Toni Collette’s first day,” Cooper recalls. “It was just like, ‘Whoa.’ It was pretty heavy.”…

TORMENTED Evan Rachel Wood has spilled an avalanche of shocking new details about her life with embattled former fiancé Marilyn Manson — including charges he raped her on-camera while shooting a music video when she was a teen and had her carve his initial next to her vagina! The new claims appear in Phoenix Rising — Part 1: Don’t Fall, an HBO documentary debuting in March. Makeup-challenged rocker Manson, 53 — born Brian Hugh Warner — has already been accused by a slew of women of sexual and emotional abuse. He strongly denies the claims. But Wood, now 34, insists during the 2007 Heart-Shaped Glasses video shoot, simulated sex turned into the real thing while the cameras rolled saying she was “essentially raped” by the rocker, who made her carve…

WHEN a con man targeted a 73-year-old grandma in an $8,000 sting, the cagey senior citizen turned the tables — and scammed him into handcuffs, cops say. Identified only as Jean, the Seaford, N.Y., slickster says she normally hangs up on rip-off calls. But this time, Jean felt “bored” and decided to play along. Originally, a caller told Jean he was her grandson and was in the slammer for a drunk-driving crash. A few minutes later, another man called claiming to be a lawyer and saying her grandson needed $8,000 bail. Jean says, “I played stupid grandma. ‘Oh my poor grandson,’ I told the guy. ‘Please don’t tell his mother.’ “Apparently they thought they had the big fish, they actually thought I was gonna give them money.” When a third…

REALITY star Caitlyn Jenner was super buff when she was Olympic decathlon champ Bruce, but stress has the sex-swapper comfort eating, resulting in at least a 30-pound weight gain and a bulging tummy, sources tattle. A 72-year-old father of six, Caitlyn is struggling to recover from a rough 2021, which featured family fallout, a failed bid to become California’s governor and a painful knee replacement surgery. “Caitlyn doesn’t deal with disappointment or pain very well and eating has been her one major outlet,” spills an insider. Once a powerful 6-foot-6, 200-pound Olympic jock, Caitlyn’s “gained a minimum 30 pounds and is crunching the scales at 230, perhaps more,” says the spy. “The weight gain is all due to the election embarrassment and living excessively. All those fancy dinners at Nobu…

BRAVO has locked housewife Jennie Nguyen out for good amid a growing backlash over the reality star’s controversial social media posts! Network execs reveal “ Bravo has ceased filming with Jennie Nguyen and she will no longer be a cast member on The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City.” Vietnam-born Jennie, 44, has been in the doghouse over eye-raising posts slamming the Black Lives Matter movement as “thugs” and “violent gangs.” “The posts are beyond problematic. Beyond ignorance. They condone violence. They laugh at violence. It’s disgusting,” reads a Change.org petition to jettison Jennie from the show. “I thought I was speaking out against violence,” Jennie says on Instagram — but Bravo promised to “make better informed and more thoughtful casting decisions” in the future.…

STRESSED-OUT Adele is frazzled and freaked out after enraging fans by suddenly canceling her Las Vegas residency — and is now ready to pack it in and flee overseas, sources say. According to insiders, the 33-year-old Someone Like You songbird has been burning the candle at both ends romancing sports agent Rich Paul, 40, while trying to stage her Caesars Palace gig — and it all proved too much. She “postponed” the whole shebang 24 hours before the first concert — leaving some fans holding worthless $12,000 scalped tickets. Claiming COVID caused problems, a tearful Adele told her fans in a video apology: “It just ain’t ready.” Then reports surfaced the Brit beauty blew up over the design for a swimming pool stage set for one of her songs and…

PRINCE CHARLES and his kid brother Andrew were once locked in a fight over claims to the throne that was so bitter their mom, Queen Elizabeth, had to break it up. The bizarre battle occurred when the royals gathered at Her Majesty’s Sandringham Estate for Christmas in 1999. As heir to the throne, older Charles, then 51, was assigned a special suite and bathroom, but resentful Andrew, 39, put his toiletries in it anyway. “Andrew took the bathroom that was allocated for the Prince of Wales and he wouldn’t budge and refused to take his stuff out,” recalls former maid Janette McGowan. “It turned into a bizarre standoff.” Finally, the queen “had to have words with Andrew and say to him that he had to use the other bathroom. That was…

DOMESTIC goddess Martha Stewart made a shocking confession — she’s been struck by lightning three times! The kitchen whiz, 80, dished about two of her “awful” experiences during a chat with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres. She explains lightning once hit a pipe in her garden, while she was leaning against a cast iron sink indoors, and the jolt knocked her to the floor! But another encounter was more direct — the lifestyle guru claims she was struck by a bolt from the blue that came through her home’s skylight! She didn’t detail her third encounter. However, the brushes with death failed to zap Martha’s sense of humor. The tough cookie jokes, “I just attract electricity. I’m so powerful.” And the former jailbird — who served five months behind bars in…

Years after JESSICA ALBA trashed her 90210 castmates TORI SPELLING and JENNIE GARTH as mean-girl divas, the razor-clawed beauty is finally getting a taste of her own medicine! Alba’s now being branded a bitchy diva by her 2001 Dark Angel co-star JENSEN ACKLES, who dishes his time with the then 19-year-old actress was a living nightmare! “I was the new kid on the block, and I was picked on by the lead,” spills Supernatural star Jensen, 43, who claims she treated him like a handpicked network “pretty boy” brought in for “window dressing.” Feeling bullied and confused by the icy reception, Jensen would ask himself, “What the f***? What did I do?” But after fighting “fire with fire,” the actor claims they eventually got to a place of “mutual respect”…

BUXOM Baywatch babe Pamela Anderson’s latest marriage has gone bust — after just one year! The fickle former pinup — who’s notched five husbands — got hitched to handyman Dan Hayhurst, 41, on Dec. 24, 2020. But the duo’s union got off to a rocky start when Hayhurst’s disgruntled ex accused the blond bombshell of being a homewrecker! Now, a source says the pair’s “pandemic whirlwind” has run out of steam, and persnickety Pam, 54, is filing for divorce!…

A WISCONSIN wacko has been convicted of slaying his parents in their home July 1 — and then hacking their bodies into pieces because they caught him telling outrageous lies! Chandler Halderson, 23, showed no reaction as a Dane County jury found him guilty on all counts for the mindless murder and dismemberment of dad Bart, 50, and mom Krista, 53, in their home 80 miles west of Milwaukee. The verdict — on two counts each of first-degree intentional homicide, mutilating a corpse, hiding a corpse, and falsifying information about a missing person — means the fiendish freak will spend the rest of his days behind bars, lawmen say. “I hope it brings some satisfaction,” says District Attorney Ismael Ozanne. “We know we cannot bring Bart and Krista back, but…

TOKING marijuana makes your mind go up in smoke, experts say. University of Montreal scientists warn the harmful mental effects of cannabis can linger long after the drug’s high fades! After analyzing case study data involving more than 43,000 people, the Canadian researchers found pot can impair concentration, memory and learning abilities. The study authors explain, “Cannabis use in youth may consequently lead to reduced educational attainment, and, in adults, to poor work performance and dangerous driving.” They also found heavy and frequent pot-smoking appeared to increase those ill effects and hamper decision-making, self-control and flexible thinking. Other research has suggested elevated marijuana use also worsens depression as it can reduce the brain’s ability to let go of unpleasant memories.…

DOLLY PARTON’S puss is a lopsided frozen waxwork leaving the country queen barely able to speak without slurring words, according to sources who fear her plastic surgery obsession may end her singing career. Says an insider, “People worry Dolly won’t be able to move her face and will not be able to sing.” Dolly, 76, has made no secret of being a “surgery devotee since her 40s” with work on her mug and trademark boobs. “But now her face is so filled with Botox, fillers and altered by facelifts, eyelid lifts, brow lifts, implants, lasers and other facial rejuvenations she has trouble moving things,” spills an insider. “Dolly just won’t quit. It’s become her obsession. People worry she’s destroying her looks and will become permanently disabled.” Meanwhile, others fear her…

DISGRACED televangelist Rev. Jerry Falwell Jr.’s wife admits she made sex tapes of her bedroom romps with Giancarlo Granda, a pool boy half her age, during a steamy four-year affair that helped trigger her hubby’s fall. “I had a big Canon camera. A couple of times I put it on the dresser and Giancarlo agreed to it,” reveals Becki Falwell, now 54, who insists her hubby wasn’t clued in about the X-rated tapes. But Giancarlo claimed Falwell, then president of Virginia’s evangelical Liberty University, liked to sit and watch him and Becki, a mom of three, do the dirty, which the preacher denies. However, Falwell, 59, confesses he DID walk in on the pair in a Miami hotel room and was “traumatized” by the steamy action. Becki’s sizzling affair exploded…

ANTI-VAX rocker Eric Clapton is going off the rails claiming people are being “hypnotized” to get COVID shots against their will. The 76-year-old I Shot the Sheriff singer has been blasting vaccinations after claiming his AstraZeneca jab left his hands and feet “frozen, numb or burning.” compared to mild flu symptoms some suffer following the injections. Now he’s embracing Belgium head-shrinker Mattias Desmet’s theory large groups are driven to get vaccinated by “mass formation hypnosis” — subliminal messages in the media telling folks to get shots. While experts call the theory hogwash, Clapton says: “I remembered seeing little things on YouTube which were like subliminal advertising. Once I kind of started to look for it, I saw it everywhere.”…

Secretive singer NICK JONAS and his Bollywood beauty wife, PRIYANKA CHOPRA, are celebrating the arrival of their first child, a daughter, via surrogate. No name was revealed. Also good at keeping secrets, Pitch Perfect star ANNA KENDRICK, 36, has been dating Barry star BILL HADER, 43, for over a year, with no one the wiser! Meanwhile, Olympic figure skater ADAM RIPPON, 32, married Finish real estate broker JUSSIPEKKA KAJAALA, 35, on the down-low weeks ago. Downton Abbey’s MICHELLE DOCKERY, 40, is engaged to producer JASPER WALLER-BRIDGE, 34, the brother of actress PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE. It’s break up to make up for newly reconciled 90 Day Fiancé duo TIFFANY FRANCO, 29, and estranged hubby RONALD SMITH, 31. Just months ago, the volatile pair had seemingly split for good! YVETTE MIMIEUX, the stunning…

SCRUFFY Jeffrey Dean Morgan hit a home run with Walking Dead fans with his 2016 debut as brutal bat-wielding villain Negan. This month, AMC’s zombie apocalypse series returns to TV to wrap up its monumental 11-season run — with motorcycle nut Morgan along for the ride. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 55-year-old Seattle native. 1 During his youth, he worked on his grandmother’s pig farm in Washington. 2 In college, he was eyeing a pro basketball career — until a leg injury cut short his days as a jock. 3 Before pursuing acting, he tried his hand at art and recalls, “I sold paintings at bars to pay my rent.” 4 Musician Nancy Wilson of Heart taught him to play guitar for his role in P.S.…

ALREADY accused of hiring a hitman to kill him so his son could collect the insurance, junkie South Carolina lawyer Alex Murdaugh is now charged with swindling $8.5 million from clients. Prosecutors claim the 53-year-old, whose wife and youngest son were mysteriously murdered in June, would collect settlements for clients’ deaths and deposit the money in his account instead of paying the deceased’s relatives. Murdaugh, who’s been in the slammer on a $7 million bond since October, claims he used the money to pay for his drug addiction and debts. Attorney Justin Bamberg, who represents some of Murdaugh’s “poor and uneducated” victims, says, “Alex gave them just enough money so they would drop on their knees and say ‘Thank you, Jesus’ and took the rest.”…

ARIES March21 - April 20 Neptune causes mischief Monday and Valentine’s Day plans could go awry. Trust Venus — you’ll bounce back and find love in the air. A redhead offers you a cash deal midweek but be warned. It’s not what it seems. The weekend brings the surprise of an all-expenses-paid adventure — clear your schedule. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Single Twins get the blues without a valentine, but the stars say keep your chin up: True love is right around the corner. Partnered? Watch the budget if you decide to lavish your love with gifts. A social media blunder Wednesday could put you in a pickle. Watch what you type — or set things to private. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Single Lions find a…

WILD child Miley Cyrus has plunged back into a hard-partying frenzy leaving pals fearing she’s spiraling toward disaster. The 29-year-old Wrecking Ball songbird famously got sober in 2019, but sources say she’s slid back to “hanging out with all the people she used to party with when she was totally off the rails,” confides an insider. “The word is she’s been staying up until all hours getting high and making music with some wild guys while making all kinds of plans for trips and house parties at her place in Calabasas. “She’s assuring everyone she isn’t going to slide back into her old habits, but it really isn’t looking good.” As GLOBE reported, last March, Miley was spotted downing beer with British musician Yungblud and friends during a boozy night…

MISSISSIPPI and Kentucky residents are America’s biggest couch potatoes, according to a new study by the Centers for Disease Control that ranks folks who live in Colorado and Utah as the nation’s biggest fitness freaks. ELVIS PRESLEY was born a blonde and originally used black shoe polish to create his signature look! PRESIDENT Teddy Roosevelt was blinded in a White House boxing match when his aide and sparring partner Dan Moore detached a retina with a roundhouse punch in 1908. Teddy then took up jiu-jitsu. A GROUP of tortoises is called a creep and a collection of hippos is known as a pod. THE largest tidal wave ever recorded in the U.S. was a 1,700-footer that hit Lituya Bay, Alaska, in 1958 and swept five miles inland! Amazingly, only two people were killed.…