Table of contents for July 11, 2022 in Globe

BOOT CAMP Gimpy newsgal MARIA SHRIVER hobbles home after an L.A. screening of Hulu’s Dopesick PLOT TWIST After chowing down on raw meat to boost her fertility, pregnant HEIDI PRATT jumps at the chance for junk food HOPPY HOUR Hot in Herre singer NELLY is having a swill time at L.A.’s Dodger Stadium COME UNDONE Dumpy Duran Duran frontman SIMON Le BON is clearly Hungry Like the Wolf! A LICK OF WORK Red Hot Chili Peppers’ ANTHONY KIEDIS laps up attention onstage in Slovakia BIG MOUTH Windbag EMMA THOMPSON breezes through the Big Apple to shill her flick Good Luck to You, Leo Grande THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK!…

JOHN Wick actor Laurence Fishburne says he’s ready to leap into the dating whirl again four years after his divorce from Suits actress Gina Torres, his wife of 16 years. The 60-year-old, who became a legend in Matrix, notes he’s been escorting their 15-year-old daughter, Delilah, to public events, adding: “Eventually I would like to date, but there is nobody in particular on my radar.” Meanwhile, Gina, 53, wasted no time. The couple’s divorce became final in May 2018, but a spy dishes she was spotted out with “a cowboy type” eight months earlier after they’d officially separated.…

JACKASS Johnny Knoxville, 51, has filed for divorce from second wife Naomi Nelson after nearly a dozen years of marriage and two kids. The MTV extreme prank- ster cited irreconcilable differences as the reason for the split, and asked a Los Angeles court for joint custody of son Rocko, 12, and daughter Arlo, 10. The star of the juvenile Jackass film series also has a daughter, Madison Clapp, 26, from a previous marriage to Melanie Clapp.…

SLY FOX News veteran Melissa Francis, 49, snagged a $15 million settlement from the network after claiming it retaliated against her for griping about female staffers being paid less than male counterparts, sources dish. FOX insists Melissa’s complaints are “without merit.” But insiders squeal the former anchor, who worked at the company between 2012 and 2021, lodged a complaint with New York’s Department of Labor after being offered a lowball contract and saying a bigwig told her, “Women make less.”…

NEWLY filed court documents reveal child sex trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell cheated death in a ferocious prison hit — but GLOBE readers already knew all about the attack on Jeffrey Epstein’s madam! Weeks before lawyers revealed the assassination attempt, GLOBE reported Maxwell survived a murder attempt at Brooklyn’s notorious federal Metropolitan Detention Center. But in a filing pleading for the court to give Maxwell a break, her attorney Bobbi Sternheim reveals Ghislaine was, and still is, a target! At least one of “the female inmates in Ms. Maxwell’s housing unit told at least three other inmates that she had been offered money to murder Ms. Maxwell,” says the court document. “She planned to strangle her in her sleep. “This incident reflects the brutal reality that there are numerous prison inmates who…

Full House fixture LORI LOUGHLIN, 57, returned to the red carpet for the first time since being sent to prison in the college admissions scandal, stepping out at a Los Angeles charity gala. Fresh romance is humming along for DEMI MOORE, 59, and her boyfriend of several months, restaurateur DANIEL HUMM, 46. The lovebirds just spent a PDA packed getaway in France. Master of None/Parks and Recreation star AZIZ ANSARI, 39, said so long to bachelorhood and married forensic data scientist SERENA SKOV CAMPBELL, 34, in Italy. After a four-plus-year engagement, DUANE “Dog the Bounty Hunter” CHAPMAN’s daughter LYSSA CHAPMAN, 35, got hitched to fitness expert LEIANA EVENSEN, also 35, aboard a love boat in Hawaii. Transgender college swimmer LIA THOMAS is all washed up. A new rule change has banned…

PRICES at the pump are a hot topic. But a blazing bozo in Utah sparked a calamity by drilling into a truck to steal its gas — and setting himself alight! Surveillance footage captured the cheapskate exiting a pickup next to a vehicle for a fire protection company and attempting to tap its tank! “The guy tried to siphon gas out of it, and he wasn’t getting the siphon to work,” says Travis Mills, branch manager for Summit Fire and Protection. “So he decided to drill the gas tank — and that’s when he caught on fire.” Shocking security video recorded the would-be thief underneath the truck before jumping up and running away with his shirt in flames. He rolled on the ground to extinguish the mini inferno, and an accomplice…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Mars in Taurus guides you to the answer to a relationship question. Believe what you see and don’t turn from the truth. A tempting price on a luxury item catches your eye — is it worth blowing the budget? A cryptic dream at the weekend may hold the clue to financial bliss. A water sign can help you interpret. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Plan a movie night to see a summer blockbuster early in the week, Twin. A chance encounter will be the start of something big. Diet dilemmas arise under Mercury in Cancer — treat yourself to small portions of favorite comfort foods to stay on your wellness path. Follow the yellow lights for money luck. LEO July 23 - Aug.…

NORTH Korea’s bloodthirsty tyrant Kim Jongun, who murders rivals, starves his people and threatens the U.S. with nuclear war, wasn’t a monster as a kid — he was a nerd and slow learner at his exclusive Swiss schools. Author Anna Fifield argues Kim, 38, who had his uncle and half-brother assassinated along with other political rivals, would have been a mildmannered loser if he hadn’t returned to North Korea. “Kim’s years in Switzerland, during which he was enrolled in both a tony private school and a small German-speaking public school, would have taught him that if he were to live in the outside world, he would have been entirely unremarkable,” says Fifield, who declares he would’ve been “a nobody.” Kim was 12 when he arrived in Bern, Switzerland, in August…

OSCAR-WINNING director Paul Haggis has been busted by Italian cops after a woman accused him of raping her for more than two days! A young British woman — whose name was withheld by authorities — told police in the southern town of Brindisi she was scheduled to teach acting with the 69-year-old Canadian, who won Best Picture Oscars for 2004’s Million Dollar Baby and 2005’s Crash. But when she turned up to work at the Allora Film Festival, the woman says instead of giving her a job, “he raped me from Sunday evening to Wednesday. I was raped for days.” When her ordeal was over, Haggis dropped his accuser off in a “precarious emotional and physical condition” at Papola Casale airport at dawn, a local prosecutor charges. She was found…

REALITY star Khloé Kardashian has gotten practical and is dating a hunk who can help her with the millions she makes off her family’s Hulu series — a fatcat private equity investor! The 37-year-old was fixed up with the mysterious moneyman by sister Kim Kardashian at a dinner party and “hit it off,” says a source, who insists the family is keeping the guy under wraps. Khloé finally split with NBA hoopster Tristan Thompson, 31, baby daddy of four-year-old daughter True, after January paternity tests showed he fathered a newborn with model Maralee Nichols.…

PLAYBOY Prince Andrew is caught in a new legal mess created by another victim of murdered sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein! Just months after the prince paid an estimated $16 million to settle a rape charge filed by a teenage sex slave who claims she was pimped out to the royal, American attorney Spencer Kuvin reportedly plans to subpoena Queen Elizabeth’s disgraced favorite son to reveal what he knows about then-17-year-old Caroline Kaufman’s encounters with Epstein. Now 28, Caroline says she was raped by Epstein at his Manhattan digs in December 2010 — while Andrew was staying in his perverted best buddy’s mansion, too. Kuvin hopes to have a subpoena for Andrew’s testimony issued by a U.S. court and then serve the rogue royal in Britain because he “should be a fairly…

KATIE HOLMES A beachy crocheted cover-up on the red carpet makes the Batman beauty a shore loser! ISLA FISHER The Wedding Crashers actress is a knockout in a silky gown with draped detailing and a daring slit ANNA CHLUMSKY The My Girl actress is a goth ballerina in tulle, but the dreary color makes for a somber summer frock DAKOTA JOHNSON The leggy Fifty Shades starlet’s itty-bitty blazer dress leaves her looking like she’s lost her pants NICKY WHELAN The Aussie soap stunner’s midriff-baring dress — and its kooky feather print — are definitely fowl…

SCOTTISH stud Sam Heughan has portrayed dashing Highland hunk Jamie Fraser on Outlander since 2014. Shooting is already underway for season seven of the Starz network historical drama, which will be based on Outlander novelist Diana Gabaldon’s book Echo in the Bone. Heughan promises it will “really start off with a bang!” Here are ten things you don’t know about the 42-year-old actor. 1 He was named after J.R.R. Tolkien’s character Samwise Gamgee because his parents were part of a hippie community, Gandalf’s Garden, influenced by the work of the Lord of the Rings author. 2 He played the trumpet and trombone during his school days. 3 He didn’t learn to drive until he was 35. 4 He auditioned for Game of Thrones seven times, but never scored a part…

UNHINGED Riverdale actor Ryan Grantham executed his own mother to “save her” from witnessing his intended plot to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, prosecutors charge. Grantham, 24, snuck up on Barbara Waite, 64, as she played piano in her British Columbia home in 2020 and pumped a bullet into her head, lawmen say, insisting he then covered his mom’s lifeless body with a sheet and placed rosaries and candles around her corpse. Next, according to authorities, Grantham packed his car with guns, ammunition and 12 Molotov cocktails intending to drive to Ottawa’s Rideau Cottage, where Trudeau resides with his wife and three kids. Officials say the psycho had barely begun his 50-hour road trip when he changed his mind and mulled over committing “an act of mass violence” at…

HOLLYWOOD legend Shirley MacLaine has been complaining to pals about pains in her fingers, leaving friends fearing she’s facing arthritis hell if she doesn’t get medical help! But the 88-year-old actress refuses to retire despite the agony — she co-stars with Game of Thrones star Peter Dinklage in the just-released American Dreamer and has two more projects out this year. While her hand pain hasn’t been diagnosed, “she’s 88 and arthritis is one of those things that happens when you get a bit older,” spills an insider. “It doesn’t take a genius to guess what’s going on.” While she can still act, the pain is crippling “her love to write by hand,” the insider notes. “She’s written many books on her life and metaphysics but it’s hard for her to take…

CLEVELAND was the first city to have an electric traffic signal. The red light was placed in the eastern part of the city on Aug. 5, 1914. BLEACH can expire! The chemical starts to degrade after six months and becomes 20 percent less effective each year that goes by. PRESIDENT Franklin Pierce’s 11-year-old son, Benny, was killed in a train wreck two months before his 1853 inauguration as the family returned to New Hampshire from a funeral. PINE trees can live longer than humans! The average life span of a pine tree is between 100 and 1,000 years depending on the species. PUPPIES lose their baby teeth when they are about 12 weeks old. All permanent teeth usually arrive when they are around six months old.…

SHAKY Sandra Bullock admits she’s on the knife’s edge and feels she must step away from acting — because she’s so frazzled she fears she’ll make terrible life choices! “I’m so burnt out. I’m so tired, and I’m so not capable of making healthy, smart decisions,” says the 57-year-old Oscar winner, who insists she desperately needs a breather after packing in close to 50 movies over her 35-year career! “Work has always been steady for me and I’ve been so lucky. I realized it possibly was becoming my crutch,” she explains. The Speed star says she looks forward to slowing way down so she can enjoy her “beautiful babies” — 11-year-old son Louis and eightyear-old daughter Laila. She is raising both adopted kids with “the love of my life,” her…

WISE men say, only fools hang on to that weird Elvis-like accent AUSTIN BUTLER keeps slipping into — over a year after wrapping the title role in the BAZ LUHRMANN—directed biopic! Says the 30-year-old mimic, who’s been getting ripped for the bizarre behavior, “certain things trigger” his impression of The King. “When you live with something for two years and you do nothing else, I think that you can’t help it. It becomes a fiber of your being.” But some fans say enough is enough, with one snapping: “can someone tell him to stop doing that goofy voice. we get it, you did method acting, let’s move on already,” while another snipes, “Austin Butler’s new Elvis voice is so cringe, undoubtedly sexy, but like why are you doing that? I’m literally…

PREGNANT Liese Dodd was brutally slaughtered in her Illinois home by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, who chopped off the mom-tobe’s head and tossed it in a dumpster, authorities say. The 22-year-old and her unborn baby girl were killed six weeks shy of the aspiring nurse’s due date — and Alton Police Chief Marcos Pulido calls their cruel end “abominable.” DeUndreá S. Holloway Jr., 22, was arrested for murder and intentional homicide of an unborn child and is being held on $2 million bail. The rattled lawman says Liese was “decapitated by a freaking savage monster” and adds the victim’s mom, Heidi Noel, discovered her butchered body. Investigators have not identified the father of the fetus. But Holloway’s mother, Carla Hawk, says she was led to believe her son was the dad.…

THE revolutionary technology behind America’s most popular COVID-19 vaccines is being harnessed to develop a cure for heart attacks, scientists say. Researchers at King’s College London are working toward adapting messenger RNA (mRNA) — molecules that carry genetic information and are vital to protein production — to help generate healthy human heart cells. Pfizer and Moderna’s COVID-19 vaccines utilize mRNA to teach the body’s cells to replicate proteins that trigger an immune response to fight the deadly disease. Lead researcher Professor Mauro Giacca explains, “We are all born with a set number of muscle cells in our heart, and they are exactly the same ones we will die with. The heart has no capacity to repair itself after a heart attack. Our goal has been to find a treatment that…

WRESTLING honcho Vince McMahon is on the ropes over claims he paid a former WWE employee $3 million to keep her mouth shut about their affair! McMahon stepped back from his role as WWE chairman and CEO after the corporate board launched an investigation into the terms of a non-disclosure agreement he had the woman sign in January, insiders say. His daughter, Stephanie, will assume his duties. McMahon, 76, is married to wife Linda, 73, who founded the company with him. But the WWE board learned of the accusations and the peculiar payoff from a series of anonymous emails claiming Vince doubled the paralegal’s salary to $200,000 once sex was involved and “gave her like a toy” to head of WWE talent relations John Laurinaitis! WWE has said Vince’s relationship…

VETERAN actor Martin Sheen says he “regrets” using a stage name instead of his original moniker, Ramon Estevez. The 81-year-old actor, who starred in Apocalypse Now and played President Josiah Bartlet on TV’s The West Wing, notes his real name is still on his passport and driver’s license. But Sheen, whose family comes from Galicia, Spain, admits the name change was supposedly to help his career, saying: “Sometimes you get persuaded when you don’t have enough insight or even enough courage to stand up for what you believe in, and you pay for it later.” His actor son Carlos changed his name to Charlie Sheen, 56, but the family patriarch convinced oldest actor son Emilio Estevez, 60, to keep his name. “When he started out, his agent was advising him…

THE biggest tragedy in Charlie Sheen’s sordid, disgraceful life isn’t the destructive behavior that led to his HIV infection, it’s what’s happening to his teen daughter Sami. Just after turning 18, Sami announced she’s becoming a performer on an internet porn site — and posted teasing bikini shots with a promise to bare more skin on the X-rated hangout. Charlie — who’s lived one of the wildest and most irresponsible lives in Hollywood history — immediately reacted by basically saying, It’s not my fault! Instead, he initially heaped blame on her mom, his ex Denise Richards, the former Bond girl and Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star. “She is 18 years old now and living with her mother. This did not occur under my roof,” Charlie said before later flip-flopping…

SEX creep Bill Cosby’s Donkey Kong defense flopped — a California civil jury ruled the disgraced TV dad sexually abused a 16-year-old girl at the Playboy Mansion in 1975 and owes her $500,000! At trial, Cosby’s lawyers suggested accuser Judy Huth, now 64, and her key witness, Donna Samuelson, a high school friend who also attended the Playboy event, mischaracterized things. Donna testified she played Donkey Kong in the game room while Cosby took Huth into a bedroom — where the 37-year-old actor put his hand down Judy’s pants and forced her to fondle him. Cosby’s lawyers said it couldn’t have happened — because the video game wasn’t released until 1982! But the jury found Cosby’s conduct was “driven by unnatural or abnormal sexual interest in a minor.” Cosby, 84,…