Table of contents for December 23, 2019 in Globe

AVENGERS hunk Josh Brolin says the latest goofy health craze in Tinseltown is a big pain in the butt! The Deadpool 2 bad guy confesses he tried “perineum sunning” — aka “butthole sunning” — and the results left him icing his bum. “My pucker hole is crazy burned and … I’m icing and using aloe and burn creams because of the severity of the pain,” he reveals. The nutty craze was triggered by an internet video posted by an oddball who calls himself “Ra of Earth,” who claims that “30 seconds of sunlight on your butthole” gives an energy boost. The video showed three naked dudes with their legs up, sunning their backsides. “I don’t know who the f--k thought of this stupid s--t but f--k you nonetheless,” gripes Brolin.…

Married at First Sight stars JAMIE OTIS and DOUG HEHNER are expecting their second child, and it’s a boy! They have a two-year-old daughter, Henley. 19 Kids and Counting alums ANNA and JOSH DUGGAR welcomed their sixth child, a girl named Maryella. The baby is JIM BOB and MICHELLE DUGGAR’s 16th grandkid. The Real Housewives of New York City star TINSLEY MORTIMER got engaged to on-again boyfriend SCOTT KLUTH, the Chicago-based CEO of CouponCabin. In a race against time, Tinsley, 44, announced last year she’d had her eggs frozen at the urging of her mother. Friends star DAVID SCHWIMMER, 53, is dating 29-year-old KATIE MARKOWITZ. They reportedly met at a ba Olympic champ SHAWN JOHNSON’s husband, former NFL star ANDREW EAST was hospitalized after fainting at the gym and hitting…

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PONYTAILED pop princess Ariana Grande strutted her stuff — right off the stage! The 26-year-old lost her footing as she stomped in stilettos during a performance of Bad Idea at the Amalie Arena in Tampa, FlA. Luckily, she was caught by a quick-acting backup dancer, who then popped the petite songbird back on stage to continue the show. The Thank U, Next singer later joked about a video of the slipup by tweeting: “I’m crying. Things were going too well.”…

THIS guy sure has some guts — he was busted for hiding $400,000 worth of drugs in rotting goat gizzards! Authorities took Cenen Placencia, 71, into custody Nov. 20 at the airport in Anchorage, Alaska, after opening a box he’d checked as luggage, according to an affidavit. The box contained loosely wrapped frozen meat. As the frozen items thawed, officials say they smelled rotting meat that turned out to goat intestines. Inside the intestines, authorities found packages wrapped in plastic that contained about 740 grams of heroin and 389 grams of meth, the state’s Department of Public Safety said in a news release. Placencia denies knowing about the drugs and says he bought the goat intestines for his own consumption. He faces a drug-possession charge. To have once been a criminal…

GWYNETH Paltrow’s ex-husband, Chris Martin, once feared he was gay! “I was like, ‘If I’m gay, I’m completely f**ked for all eternity!’ ”confesses the 42-year-old Coldplay rocker. The Brit musician says he questioned his sexuality while attending a super-posh single-sex boarding school in England. “I walked a bit funny and I bounced a bit and I was also very homophobic,” says Chris, who shares children with Gwynnie. Rocker Chris questioned his sexuality at all-boys school “I was a kid discovering sexuality and I was terrified.” To make matters worse, classmates bullied him. “They would very much say, ‘You’re definitely gay,’ ”Chris recalls. But he eventually straightened it all out. “About 15 and a half, I was like, ‘Yeah, so what if I’m gay,’ and then it all just stopped overnight,”…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Laughter, fun and sharing are in the stars, Ram — and plans made with loved ones under the Sagittarius new moon could reveal something new and exciting about a close relative! Later, it’s okay to say no when someone asks for more than you want to give. Taking time for your own needs isn’t selfish! GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Look hard and you’ll find something to like about that difficult person you’re dealing with, Twin. Could you even become besties? Venus says yes! Later, focus on your passions. Someone new helps you turn a hobby into cash! Avoid shopping trips — you’ll need cash for next week’s opportunity! LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Venus urges you to give someone a second…

A NORTH Carolina man has built a dating app sure to increase his chances of a date — because he’s the only guy allowed on it! Greensboro’s Aaron Smith, 31, developed the woman trap, called Singularity, after getting fed up with other sites. “The biggest problem … is that my face is not featured prominently,” he says. When Kansas City, Mo., TV reporter Nick Vasos accidentally hit “Reply All” as he was calling in sick — and blasted thousands across the company’s 200 stations — he got thousands of responses. That and some chicken soup! AN IDAHO woman is trying to find the previous owner of a thrift store jacket after she found a pricey engagement ring in a pocket. Heather Gardner says she’s keeping details of the ring under…

STUNNING TV anchor Savannah Guthrie is terrified she’ll become permanently blind after suffering a nightmare injury while playing with her toddler son! The 47-year-old Today newsgal revealed how three-year-old Charley accidentally clobbered her right eye with a toy train, leading alarmed docs to order her to stay home from her grueling early-morning schedule. “It has a really pointy edge and he threw it right at me,” she recalls. “It tore my retina. It was so blurry …. “And then I lost my vision in my right eye about 24 hours later,” she confesses, adding that her peeper had filled with blood. Since the accident, surgeons “have been doing a bunch of laser procedures,” she says. Her eye bulges with blood after son, 3, slams her with sharp toy “They’re essentially…

FRETTING over her pancake-flat boobs, Kelly Clarkson is determined to go under the knife to balloon her sagging bosom, sources tell GLOBE! The 37-year-old country queen turned TV talker has long felt insecure about her droopy boobs, and now that her daytime NBC chat show has been renewed she’s thinking about rewarding herself by getting her breasts boosted to a C cup, spies say. “She’s patting herself on the back and planning to get the breast augmentation surgery she’s been dreaming of,” an insider blabs. “Kelly’s always been self-conscious of her flattish, somewhat saggy chest and for years tried to make do with padded bras and silicone pads.” While Kelly’s rep insists talk of a boob job is totally false, insiders say the Because of You songbird is also figuring…

THE FORCE REALLY IS WITH STAR WARS Actor JOHN BOYEGA carelessly left his hugely coveted, super-top secret script for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker under his bed — and, naturally, it ended up for sale on eBay! The 27-year-old had moved out of his apartment, forgetting all about the treasure he’d stashed away. “It was scary, I got calls from every official,” reveals the British star about the corporate kerfuffle that followed. Fortunately, a Disney employee saw the lost movie script go up for sale online and quickly snapped it up before spoilers could jeopardize the Skywalker Saga finale. “So the person [selling the script] didn’t know the true value,” laughs the relieved actor, revealing it went for a measly $83. Producers for the sci-fi fantasy, released on Dec.…

EMMA WATSON made the magical leap from child star to adult actress after playing brainy witch Hermione Granger in the Harry Potter film franchise. This month, the 29-year-old is turning the page and taking on the role of Meg March in the latest movie adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women. Here are ten things you don’t know about Emma. 1 Born in Paris to British parents, she lived in France until she was five years old. 2 She can still speak some French — but not as well as she used to. 3 She had a childhood crush on Harry Potter co-star Tom Felton, who played Draco Malfoy. “He was a few years older and he had a skateboard — and that just did it,” Emma admits. 4 She…

SEEMS like this bank robber is in the wrong business — he handed back a bundle of cash after griping the teller gave him too much loot! According to Florida officials, 73-year-old Sandy Hawkins demanded $1,100 from a worker at a Wells Fargo in Boca Raton via a note, which also read: “Hope to get caught.” But the arrest affidavit reports when he was handed two grand, “Hawkins told him it was too much!” After the teller forked over the requested amount, Hawkins calmly walked out, deputies say. A day later, the sticky-fingered senior was arrested at his home and cops claim he confessed. Hawkins’ former landlord Scott Vail says the suspect changed after his wife’s 2013 cancer death and adds, “He probably reached some kind of breaking point.”…

A LOUISIANA medical clinic clerk had the perfect excuse not to show up for work — she was busted for selling fake doctor’s notes to high school kids at 20 bucks a pop! Two students at the school in Evans were able to skip class 14 times thanks to the phony absence notes, according to Vernon Parish Sheriff Sam Craft. Belinda Gail Fondren, 52, was charged with filing or maintaining false public records.…

IT’S NO joke. Comedian Pete Davidson is making audiences sign nondisclosure agreements, which hit blabbers with a $1 million fine if they flap their lips about his stand-up shows! Disgruntled ticket buyers griped that the Saturday Night Live funnyman’s contract prohibits attendees from discussing his routine or posting about it on social media — causing one critic to shoot back: “Don’t perform for the public if you don’t want people to have an opinion about it!” The NDA uproar comes months after students at the University of Central Florida ignored Pete’s cellphone ban during a show, causing the comic to rant: “You should f**king grow up” and “he world is going to end in 25 years because you’re all f**king re****ed.”…

DIVA talk host Ellen DeGeneres triggered a stupid on-camera feud with Fifty Shades of Grey hottie Dakota Johnson — and ended up a red-faced loser! Snarky remarks began flying when Ellen, 61, accused her sexy guest of not inviting her to Dakota’s Oct. 5 birthday bash. “You turned 30. And how was the party? I wasn’t invited,” Ellen cuttingly remarked to Dakota on the Nov. 27 show. But the daughter of Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson refused to be rattled by Ellen’s sneaky attack. “Actually, that’s not the truth, Ellen,” Dakota replied. “You were invited. “After all,” she added, “last time I was on the show, last year, you gave me a bunch of s--t for not inviting you.” Then she socked Ellen with the fact that she was definitely…

KHLOÉ Kardashian is so upset over her stepdad Bruce Jenner’s change into a gal called Caitlyn, she hasn’t spoken to the sex swapper for five years, insiders say. The 35-year-old sister of Kim, Kourtney and Rob and daughter of Kris Jenner says she’s mourned losing Olympic champ Bruce just as she grieved over the death of her biological dad, the late O.J. Simpson Dream Team lawyer Robert Kardashian. “I saw the transformation as a huge loss,” she confesses. “It was about my own loss; it was about the pain I felt because he was walking out of our lives.” Some of the Keeping Up with the Kardashians star’s agony is due to Bruce putting off telling his family about his plans when he started the gender-changing treatments in 2013, she…

SHARK Tank biz wiz Kevin O’Leary’s wife had boozy breath when cops questioned her about a fatal boat crash, according to a recently unsealed search warrant. Linda O’Leary was at the helm when her family boat plowed into another vessel on an Ontario, Canada, lake on Aug. 24, killing Suzana Brito, 48, and Gary Poltash, 64, whose relatives are suing the moneybags couple. Though Linda passed a DUI test after the crash, police allege an alcohol screening device test “registered an alert.” Cops say Linda claimed she downed vodka following the collision — but before the breath test — and didn’t recall who’d handed her the hooch. Canadian authorities have charged her with careless operation of a vessel, saying that she was going too fast.…

MEDDLING Barbra Streisand played a matchmaker in Hello, Dolly! — and it must have rubbed off because she’s now pestering her singing pal Kristin Chenoweth to get hitched! The 77-year-old diva has become close pals with Wicked star Kristin, 51, and the pair regularly double-date with Babs’ actor-hubby, James Brolin, 79, and the younger beauty’s guitarist beau, Josh Bryant. While Kristin’s been crushing on Josh for 18 months, she’s dragging her feet over marriage. But Barbra won’t have it. “Kristin’s said time and time again that she doesn’t need a ring from boyfriend Josh, but Barbra calls that a bunch of hooey,” tattles an insider. “She’s trying to show her friend that marriage is a good thing, inviting her and Josh over for cozy double-date dinners. She’s constantly cooing over…

ATOMIC Blonde beauty Charlize Theron asked Jennifer Lopez for pointers on how to be a “good celebrity” when she’s feeling too grumpy to deal with fans! “When you’re tired … what do you do? What do you tell yourself?” the 44-year-old actress asked J.Lo. “Because I think I’m just a jerk.” The 50-year-old Hustlers star admits dealing with autograph hunters can be a drag — but says she feels an obligation to be nice! “I just try to stay super conscious of the fact that I have a responsibility and that maybe that person is never gonna meet me again,” confides the former American Idol judge.…

IT’S been a hectic 12 months for marriages, babies and bust-ups in celebrity circles! Yes, the year saw many of your favorite stars getting hitched, ditched or bringing new bundles of joy into the world. Here, GLOBE looks at the memorable milestones 2019 brought into the lives of the rich and famous.…

A MASSACHUSETTS man had a close call when an evacuation slide from a jet crashed into his front yard! “It’s kind of crazy!” says Wenhan Huang of Milton. “Who could know there’s something from the air and it drops into my yard?” He was doing cleanup work when the ginormous inflatable slide plummeted out of the wild blue yonder, ripping several branches off his Japanese maple tree. When Huang saw the word “Boeing” on it, he figured it belonged to a plane. A Delta Air Lines rep says the uninflated slide fell from a flight heading to Boston from Paris around noon on Dec. 1. The FAA says the Delta pilot reported a loud noise as the jet approached Boston’s Logan Airport and landed safely.…

FEATHER bedding may keep you cozy in the winter, but it can also make you seriously sick! That’s the shocking news from doctors in the U.K., who discovered a patient’s mystery illness was an allergic reaction to organic dust from his down-filled comforter! The 43-year-old man reported weeks of fatigue and breathlessness. Testing showed his lungs were inflamed and he’d developed antibodies in his blood against a substance found in goose and duck feathers! After confirming to doctors that he had no exposure to live birds, the man explained he’d recently acquired a down-filled comforter and pillows. The docs then diagnosed him with “feather duvet lung” and advised he swap out his natural bedding for a hypoallergenic covering. “His symptoms improved rapidly,” their report explained. “Six months later, the man…

ACCORDING to his wife, ANNE, KIRK DOUGLAS was so wrapped up in playing tragic and tormented Dutch artist Vincent Van Gogh in the 1956 movie Lust for Life that he returned home still in character. When asked if he would do such a thing again, he said he would not because it was so painful. Douglas, who turned 103 this month, won a Best Actor Golden Globe for his performance, in which he looked uncannily like the troubled painter, who was famed for his colorful depictions of country life in France and committed suicide at age 37. Also starring in the movie, as French artist Paul Gauguin, was ANTHONY QUINN, who was awarded a Best Supporting Actor Oscar.…