Table of contents for August 21, 2017 in Globe

THE MOST EXCLUSIVES EVERY WEEK! AFTER grieving over the loss of her football legend hubby Frank Gifford for two years, Kathie Lee Gifford is finally crushing on a new man — even though he’s M-A-R-R-I-E-D! Pals reveal the 64-yearold chatterbox is smitten by charming former Late Late Show host Craig Ferguson, 55, a frequent guest and fillin host on Today. “There’s an obvious chemistry between them,” says a source. “She’s acting like a schoolgirl around him, pulling out all of the flirting techniques she learned as a teen.” The sunny change is a far cry from the dark cloud of grief she’s been living under since former New York Giants star Frank, father of her kids Cody, 27, and Cassidy, 24, passed away at age 84 in 2015. “Kathie Lee…

IT TOOK ’50s teeny-bopper heartthrob TAB HUNTER 50 years to come out of the closet, but he’s not going to take the fifinal step and marry his longtime sweetie ALLAN GLASER! Tab, 86, has pulled the plug on a wedding next spring to celebrate their 35th anniversary together, says an insider, after deciding a marriage license “wasn’t going to strengthen their commitment to each other.” While some wonder if the relationship is shredding, the snitch says the lovebirds are still very close, especially after Allan, 59, helped Tab recover from the December death of his longtime pal and confifidant, actress DEBBIE REYNOLDS. “Tab was inconsolable,” says the source. A matinee idol of the ‘50s and ‘60s, Tab kept his homosexuality hush-hush, fearing it would wreck his career. “The only people…

ONLY beautiful people need apply for positions at NBC, according to a lawsuit filed by a fired staffer, who claims a recruiter told her the network “asked for good-looking employees.” Stephanie Belanger, 25, charges the headhunter wanted to see her social media profiles before agreeing to an interview. Stephanie, who has epilepsy, also alleges disability discrimination and sexual harassment Ñ and says she was terminated after complaining to higher-ups about her supervisor.…

FORMER hard-drinking hell-raiser Kelsey Grammer — who recently tossed away nearly two decades of sobriety — has bought himself a brewery! And the 62-year-old sitcom vet, who served time for a 1987 DUI conviction AND did a rehab stint for cocaine, is showing his fatherly love by naming the boozy New York business Faith American Brewery, after five-year-old daughter Faith Grammer — one of his seven children. The Cheers alum, who once went on a notorious six-month bender in the 1990s, insists, “Drinking is not a vice.” “I want my five minutes every day when I have my cocktail, and I want no one to bother me during that time,” adds The Last Tycoon star, who quit Alcoholics Anonymous in 2016 and calls himself a “reformed drinker.”…

SNARKY comedian Kathy Griffin, whose career nose-dived after she posed with a bloodied fake severed head of President Donald Trump, has not only seen lucrative business gigs disappear — she’s also lost her trademark red locks! Newly bald Griffin insists she shaved her head to support her cancer-stricken sister, Joyce Griffin, who is undergoing chemotherapy. But sources claim Griffin is trying to rebuild her image and revive her dying career. The shocking buzz cut follows personal and professional upheaval for the formerly flame-haired comic. The outcry of disgust after her gruesome May 31 Trump stunt led to her being shunned by fans and investigated by federal authorities! Trump himself immediately responded to the gory gag with: “Kathy Griffin should be ashamed of herself. My children, especially my 11-year-old son, Barron,…

POP icon Michael Jackson’s family and friends fear three of his closest kin are at death’s door! Family patriarch Joe and estranged wife Katherine, both in their 80s, are fading fast, say insiders. But the greatest concern is for wild child Paris, 19, who slit a wrist and gulped down 20 Motrin pills in a failed 2013 suicide attempt. The family worries the stress of Paris’ booming modeling and acting career has catapulted her into substance abuse. “Now that she’s working in showbiz, we’re afraid Paris is going out and doing drugs,” says a concerned insider. Another snitch declares Joe, 89, who barely survived six strokes and three heart attacks in recent years, “has just months to live.” “Joe is withering away inside his Las Vegas house,” says the source.…

HOLY COW! A MOTHER of two with a rare condition that leaves her producing 10 times as much breast milk as the average woman has donated more than 600 gallons of the lifegiving liquid to feed thousands of babies — an act she calls a “labor of love.” Elisabeth Anderson-Sierra, 29, from Beaverton, Ore., has hyperlactation syndrome, which causes her to produce nearly two gallons of breast milk each day! She first realized she had the condition after giving birth to daughter Isabella, now two. “But when I had my second baby, my supply ramped up,” she reveals. Elisabeth’s six-month-old, Sophia, only needs 20 ounces daily, so the U.S. Coast Guard veteran hands over the rest of her milk — more than 200 ounces a day! — to local moms…

WORLD EXCLUSIVE DEATHLY ill Angelina Jolie is writing her will — leaving her entire $160 million fortune to her six children and charities — while cutting out ex Brad Pitt and her long-estranged dad, actor Jon Voight, sources say. “She wants her money held in trust for her kids and the rest given to the charities supported through her Jolie- Pitt Foundation,” says a source close to the actress. “And she DOESN’T want Brad or her dad showing up at her funeral!” Angie, 42, is still furious at her ex over his boozing and drugging, says the source. And she’s never forgiven Deliverance star Jon, 78, for cheating on her late mother, Marcheline Bertrand, and breaking up the marriage when Angie was just two. Following an eight-year battle with ovarian…

WITH Camilla haunting her marriage, Princess Diana turned to her personal bodyguard for comfort! The rejected beauty confessed she fell “deeply in love” with Barry Mannakee. Although Diana stubbornly insisted the two were never sexually intimate, after rumors of their romance swept through Buckingham Palace, Mannakee got the boot. Tragically, the married father of two died in a motorcycle accident shortly after being moved off Diana’s protection squad in 1987. But in remarkably candid conversations with her speech coach, Diana believed Mannakee was “bumped off” over their romance! “When I was 24 or 25, I fell deeply in love with someone who worked in this environment,” Diana confesses. “I was quite happy to give it all up … just to go off and live with him. And he kept saying he…

DEADPOOL star Ryan Reynolds is a liar, according to his wife of four years, former Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively! Blake, 29, confesses her hubby’s cheeky social media posts about their kids are totally made up! Ryan, 40, has drawn more than six million Twitter followers with his silly statements, including gossip about their daughters, two-year-old James and 10-month-old Ines. His irreverent claims about not teaching his girls to read or leaving them buried in the sand at the beach overnight are merely jokes packed with black humor for the on-screen superhero. “When he says ‘my daughter,’ he’s never, ever talking about her. Everything is a completely made-up scenario,” admits Blake. “He’ll run [tweets] by me sometimes just to make me laugh. But oh, I’m so in love with him when…

GAVIN ROSSDALE has offificially hooked up with German model SOPHIA THOMALLA. His new squeeze, 27, is a bit younger than his 47-year-old ex, GWEN STEFANI. GARTH BROOKS’ 21-yearold daughter ALLIE is engaged after gym teacher beau JONATHAN ROBERTS popped the question backstage during her dad’s gig! PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP’s former second banana ANTHONY SCARAMUCCI has gotten the boot from wife DEIDRE BALL, who filed divorce papers just weeks before giving birth to the couple’s second child, JAMES. Homeland’s chief spy MANDY PATINKIN proved he believes in equality for all by quitting a Broadway musical because bigwigs axed a black actor to make room for him. MARIAH CAREY’s exfifiancé JAMES PACKER has cut ties with Scientology after she blasted the cult for triggering their bitter split. Acclaimed playwright and actor SAM…

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PRO wrestling’s legendary man-mountain The Undertaker terrorized his opponents in the ring, but in real life the 309-pound hulk was afraid of an everyday salad ingredient — cucumbers! His longtime manager Paul Bearer says the now-retired 52-year-old giant, whose real name is Mark William Calaway, once “threw up over a waffle house because there was a cucumber floating in his iced tea.” Paul believes the fear “was something to do with when he was a kid … I guess his mother made him eat them when he didn’t want them, or something.” Whatta wimp! ›› You pray for rain, you gotta deal with the mud, too. That’s a part of it. I’d be more frightened by not using whatever abilities I’d been given. I’d be more frightened by procrastination and…

ACTRESS Billie Lourd has made a shocking confession about the sudden December deaths of grandma Debbie Reynolds and mom Carrie Fisher — she’s been set free! “I’ve always kind of lived in their shadows,” she admits. But she’s finally making her own mark on TV hits Scream Queens and American Horror Story. “Now is the first time in my life when I get to own my life and stand on my own,” says the 25-year-old beauty. “Now I get to be just Billie.”…

PRINCESS DIANA has bared her soul from beyond the grave — to reveal she was trapped in a sexless marriage that triggered her bulimia! In dramatic tell-all tapes made with her voice coach, the People’s Princess bitterly blasts her cruel husband Prince Charles, his mistress Camilla — and even Queen Elizabeth! The intimate chats — released to coincide with the 20th anniversary of Diana’s death on Aug. 31 — capture the beloved royal at her most raw and honest. A deeply emotional Di explains her side of the fairytale marriage that turned into an endless nightmare.…

KANYE’S A BIG BULLY Model AMBER ROSE says exlover KANYE WEST nearly bullied her to death following their bitter 2010 breakup. The 33-year-old beauty claims the rapper poured salt on her wounds with his tattletale album about their two-year affair, My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. She calls the album “an extreme form of bullying” by her famous ex and says the backlash from his fans nearly drove her to suicide. Now she’s getting her say in her book How to Be a Bad Bitch. Take that, Kanye! LISA BARKS UP WRONG TREE Did reality star LISA VANDERPUMP and hubby KEN TODD bail on a $32,000 deal to take over the Saving Spot rescue animal shelter? Owner Lizzie Scherer says her agreement with the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills beauty went…

ONLY IN GLOBE! JILTED actress wives Jennifer Garner and Summer Phoenix have formed a support group to comfort each other after clobbering their hubbies — cheating movie-star brothers Ben and Casey — with divorce papers. And sources tell GLOBE they’ve dubbed it Afflflecks Anonymous! Summer, 38, separated from Oscar-winning hubby Casey, 42, in November 2015, according to court papers served last month. Jennifer, 45, and Ben, 45, announced their split just several months earlier in June. Now the ex-wives are helping each other heal their heartbreak and move on. “They’ve been sending one another supportive texts and encouraging each other to hang in there,” an insider blabs to GLOBE. “They now realize Ben and Casey are two of a kind — unreliable.” Summer booted Casey after two women fifiled sexual…

NCIS star Michael Weatherly shocked fans when he turned in his special agent badge and left the show after 13 seasons. But the 49-year-old actor is still a viewer favorite as a trial consultant on CBS’ Bull. Here are 10 things you didn’t know about Michael. 1 Michael attended three different colleges before quitting to pursue his dream of acting. 2 Living in New York, he played guitar in the subways for cash while looking for work. 3 His prime-time career kicked off with a bit part on The Cosby Show in 1991, as Theo Huxtable’s college roommate. 4 He married actress Amelia Heinle, after working with her on Loving, and was later engaged to Dark Angel co-star Jessica Alba. 5 Michael says NCIS co-star Cote de Pablo’s departure from…

A POSTAL worker has been accused of feeding at least one dog lethal meatballs packed with sharp metal nails — and authorities are biting back, charging her with aggravated animal cruelty! Ed Glover, of New Hope, Ala., found a spiked snack on the ground near his mailbox on May 22. He suspected his mail carrier, 47-year-old Susanna Burhans, had given one of the deadly treats to his pup, Missy, after a witness claims to have spotted her tossing meatballs to another dog in the neighborhood. Glover then rushed his pet to the vet, who took X-rays which clearly showed nails in the poor pooch’s stomach! Missy survived the cruel attack and is doing well. While the case is still pending, Glover says he hopes Burhans won’t be allowed to return…

SPECIAL TRIBUTE 20 YEARS ARS AFTER TER TR AGED AGEDY BONUS 7-PAGE SECTION WITH grace, beauty and undeniable style, young Diana Spencer took the very public role thrust upon her when she married Prince Charles and transformed duty and obligation into a personal calling, touching people’s hearts and forever changing the world. The Princess of Wales’ genuine devotion to charitable causes and her natural warmth breathed life into a crumbling monarchy. By courageously standing up to suffocating royal protocols, she fiercely protected her beloved sons, William and Harry, and inspired them to continue her charitable works. As the 20th anniversary of Diana’s shocking Aug. 31, 1997, death approaches, GLOBE pays special tribute to the People’s Princess, revealing the cherished memories of her grieving boys, stunning snapshots of her amazing life…

CELEBRITY BIRTHDAY KENNY ROGERS turns 79 on August 21 ARIES March 21 - April 20 Forgetful is your new middle name with Mercury retrograde — missed appointments, late payments or burned dinners! Make a list and check it three times for safety’s sake! Midweek, look for savings on new clothes for the family! Saturday brings romance and, for some happy Rams, wedding bells. GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Stop, look and learn before getting involved. Neptune even suggests paying for a background check to protect yourself and your assets! It’s vital to fifinish things midweek, so focus, Twin! Focus! Your partner has itchy feet but the cosmos advises you to both stay close to home for now! LEO July 23 - August 23 Getting to know someone better is…

Medical news YOU can use! AFTER years of intense research, a blockbuster new treatment using genetically modified human blood cells is ready to fight leukemia — as early as next month! U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisors unanimously recommended the new therapy to help kids and young adults battling blood cancer. The new treatment, called CTL019, genetically alters the patient’s blood cells — on an individual basis — to create a unique “living drug” that strengthens the immune system. Approval by the FDA could come as soon as September, according to sources, and would be the first time genetic treatments have been okayed in the U.S. government. “I think this is the most exciting thing I’ve seen in my lifetime,” says cancer specialist Dr. Timothy Cripe. While therapies will…

TOP 10 TV DADS FROM comedies to serious dramas, there’s no shortage of fathers on the small screen, but some are more memorable than others. We’ve polled a panel of media experts to name the top of the pops and assemble this list of TV’s most unforgettable fathers. 1.ANDY TAYLOR, The Andy Griffifith Show: Andy Griffifith played a doting single dad who taught his son about honesty, compassion and respect. 2.MIKE BRADY, The Brady Bunch: Robert Reed’s Mike was famous for delivering gentle moral lessons to his brood of six. 3.HOWARD CUNNINGHAM, Happy Days: Tom Bosley’s Mr. C made time for his own children, as well as their ragtag friends. 4.CHARLES INGALLS, Little House on the Prairie: Michael Landon’s character was full of homespun wisdom and was a pillar of…

NEW FILM FOR Y&R STAR THE Young and the Restless’ Eric Braeden (Victor), who played John Jacob Astor in Titanic, is returning to the big screen in a film directed by his son, Christian. Den of Thieves stars Gerard Butler, 50 Cent and O’Shea Jackson Jr., but Eric admits he wasn’t looking for a part for himself. “He asked me to do a cameo in it, and at first I didn’t really want to,” Eric shares. “But I said, ‘For my son, I’ve got to do it.’ ” He was happy he did. “It was a delight to see him in the director’s position,” beams dad. “I couldn’t have been prouder of him. And then I saw him act with actors, and I realized that a lot of what I told…

ONLY IN GLOBE HEARTBROKEN hottie Miranda Lambert’s bitter divorce from Blake Shelton has so soured her on marriage — and MEN — she’ll never walk down the aisle again, sources say. Although the 33-year-old blonde, who Blake divorced in 2015 after four years of marriage and cheating rumors, is now dating Anderson East, insiders tell GLOBE marriage is NOT an option! “I won’t look at things ever again in the same light, because different things in your life bring you to a deeper level with yourself,” Miranda confesses. The songbird says she “won’t take pain” as part of a relationship ever again! Dishes an insider: “She doesn’t need a man, and she doesn’t want to ever get married again. “She’s seeing Anderson, but he’s merely there to keep her from…

STRUGGLING actress DIANA RIGG had never watched a single episode of The Avengers before she auditioned on a whim for the popular spy show. The striking brunette nailed it, and heated up the series as the kick-ass, leather-clad spy Emma Peel. Diana prepped for the role with martial arts training — like this judo lesson captured in 1965 — and her portrayal of the chic and coolly fierce Peel made her a fashion icon and feminist hero. Diana followed up her small screen success by becoming a Bond girl in 1969’s On Her Majesty’s Secret Service and has had a successful film and TV career. She continues to act today at the age of 79, most recently as Olenna Tyrell on HBO’s Game of Thrones.…