Table of contents for November 29, 2021 in Globe

BOOTY & THE BEACH Pop star CAMILA CABELLO has slimmed down some, but she’s still got a tubby tummy and a colossal caboose! WHATTA SNOOZER! Sloppy sleepyhead KALEY CUOCO sneaks in some shut-eye on the L.A. set of The Flight Attendant THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK! KNIT WIT Suicide Squad’s JARED LETO sports a goofy pom-pom hat in West Hollywood A SWELL GUY STEPHEN FRY’s horrible honker can’t distract from his ballooning jelly belly! TO DYE FOR KIM BASINGER’s hairdo is a hair don’t — her lackluster locks are in serious need of a touch-up WHEELY SERIOUS Glum-looking PATRICK DEMPSEY bikes around Malibu amid talk he was a trouble-making terror on Grey’s Anatomy GLOBE (ISSN 1094-6047) Vol. 67 No. 48, is published weekly by a360 Media, LLC, 4 New…

RUNAWAY Princess Charlene is back in Monaco — at least for now — publicly saying she’s thrilled to be with her kids after ten months — but made no mention of cheating hubby Prince Albert at her welcome home press powwow! The 43-year-old former Olympic swimmer, who’s said to be battling a serious sinus infection, flew by private jet from her South African homeland, to Nice, France. She then took a helicopter to Monaco, where she reunited with six-year-old twins Gabriella and Jacques and her 63-year-old hubby, who’s accused of fathering a THIRD love child. Before leaving Africa, Charlene gushed, “I’d like to thank the doctors in South Africa who have done a fantastic job of helping me and I’m so looking forward to getting back to my children,” publicly…

SONGBIRD Barbra Streisand is rushing to the rescue of troubled close friend and former flame Kris Kristofferson by luring him out of retirement with a hot new duet. The 85-year-old Me and Bobby McGee songwriter recently revealed he’s hanging up his music career due to memory issues linked to a deer tick bite. But Babs, 79, his leading lady in the 1976 flick A Star Is Born, feels retirement can be fatal, spies dish. “Other people might be writing him off, but Barbra feels memory loss isn’t a death sentence and he needs to stay active, physically and mentally,” tattles an insider. “She’s even trying to get him to do another duet and thinks getting him back in the studio singing and playing guitar would be the best thing for…

Grey’s Anatomy star SCOTT SPEEDMAN, 46, became a first-time dad. The You hunk and girlfriend LINDSAY RAE HOFMANN, 30, welcomed baby daughter PFEIFFER LUCIA via an at-home birth. JOHNNY DEPP won a court fight for access to ex AMBER HEARD’s phone. He claims pictures will prove she faked claims he bruised her face in a violent confrontation. Secret split for LIV TYLER, 44, who quietly called it quits with fiancé DAVE GARDNER, 45, months ago. The Lord of the Rings star dated the Brit sports agent for seven years. They share two kids, SAILOR, 6, and LULA, 5. HALLE BERRY’s one tough cookie! The beauty admits to lying about having broken ribs for three brutal days so she could complete fight scenes for her movie Bruised before going to the…

TIGER KING’s Joe Exotic claims his prostate cancer is “aggressive,” and he’s pleading to be sprung from prison on a compassionate release to “enjoy what life I have left with my loved ones!” The zany ex-zookeeper — who’s serving a 22-year sentence for hiring hitmen to rub out rival Carole Baskin in a failed murder plot — delivered the update on social media nearly six months after his diagnosis. The caterwauling convict, 58, insists he’s innocent and authorities “have the proof I did not do this.”…

New meth melts your brain! + A NEW potent form of crystal methamphetamine is flooding the market, triggering mental illness and fueling psychotic behavior, officials warn. Instead of being created with ephedrine, an ingredient in over-the-counter decongestants, the new drug is made by skilled criminals from the chemical P2P — which is derived from cheap, legal and toxic substances, including cyanide, lye, mercury, sulfuric acid and hydrochloric acid. Addicts say the “weirdo dope” has sparked violent paranoia, hallucinations and memory loss. Raspberries are wonder food + HERE’S some sweet news — fresh raspberries are among the best foods for your health, researchers claim. Experts from Tufts University in Massachusetts say they’ve developed a “food compass,” which helps rank more than 8,000 edible items based on their nutritional benefits and drawbacks.…

AS Ma Ingalls on TV’s beloved Little House on the Prairie, Karen Grassle played a loving wife and mother — but in real life she was a boozer on the brink of despair! “I was a mess,” the 79-year-old actress confesses. “My life was spinning out of control.” Karen says she blew her Little House paycheck getting bombed at cocktail lounges and restaurants — and it didn’t help there was a bar on the set. She admits spending “my drinking career” trying to get a handle on her high-functioning alcoholism. “I wanted to drink the way other people drank — just to have fun at the party,” Karen says. “But it started to get bad. I’d get horribly drunk and would sob, cry and carry on. I’d feel like everything…

LOOSE-LIPPED Linda Thompson is dishing Elvis Presley left her in tears after taking her virginity! In her brand-new book, A Little Thing Called Life, Caitlyn Jenner’s ex-wife reveals she was 22 and a good Southern girl when Elvis, then 37, set his sights on her in 1972. But according to Linda, the hip-swiveling hunk vowed not to put pressure on her to have sex before she was ready! However, the former Hee Haw Honey, now 71, says after two months of living with the It’s Now or Never singer, she was ready for a roll in the hay with the music legend, who’d die in 1977. The actress and songwriter, who in the ’80s married and divorced sexswapper Bruce Jenner — the father of her sons, Brody and Brandon —…

AN UNOPENED copy of the 1988 video game Super Mario Bros. 2 just sold at auction for a staggering $88,500! HE average human body contains enough iron to make a three-inch nail. ITALIAN farmer Stefano Cutrupi has grown a world record 2,702-pound, 13.9-ounce pumpkin! Mamma mia that’s a lot of pies! RENO, Nev., is 300 miles from the Pacific Ocean but 86 miles further west than Los Angeles! SCIENTISTS say COVID is ravaging America’s deer population. In some states, deer are 50 times more likely to be infected than people! ROCK’S Material Girl Madonna worked at a Manhattan Dunkin’ Donuts for one week — but was fired for playing with a jelly machine.…

TRAGIC star Natalie Wood was raped at age 16 by then 39-year-old Hollywood legend Kirk Douglas! That’s the shocking claim by Natalie’s sister, Lana, who is shredding the shroud of secrecy surrounding the Splendor in the Grass beauty’s sexual assault nightmare, which was at the center of swirling Hollywood rumors for 66 years. Now in her new book, Little Sister, Lana Wood says Natalie returned from a 1955 meeting at the Chateau Marmont hotel with the Spartacus sensation looking “awful, very disheveled and very upset.” The 75-year-old writes, “She and Mom started urgently whispering to each other. Something bad had apparently happened to my sister.” It would be years before Natalie confessed to her sister what really happened that night — “He hurt me, Lana!” — but Lana remembers their mom…

DESPERATE to keep his Fast & Furious franchise in high gear, producer-star Vin Diesel is trying to end his bitter feud with Dwayne Johnson, pleading with the former pro grappler to return to the series. In a passionate, but cheeky, social media post, Vin, 54, begged the 49-year-old hunk, who stars in the new Disney blockbuster Jungle Cruise, to make the tenth Fast & Furious. “My little brother Dwayne, the time has come,” says Vin. “The world awaits the finale of Fast 10.” Vin then noted he considers Dwayne, the wrestler formerly known as The Rock, a member of his family. “As you know, my children refer to you as Uncle Dwayne in my house,” says Diesel. “There is not a holiday that goes by that they — and you…

VINDICTIVE Will Smith admits he considered snuffing his drunkard dad to “avenge” his abused mom! “When I was nine years old, I watched my father punch my mother in the side of the head so hard that she collapsed. I saw her spit blood,” the superstar, 53, claims in his tell-all memoir, Will. The performer’s parents — Willard Carroll Smith Sr. and Caroline Bright — ultimately split and eventually divorced in 2000. The rapper turned actor later cared for his ailing father before his cancer death in 2016, but dishes during that time “a darkness arose within me.” The Bad Boys star says he thought of pushing his wheelchair-bound “Daddio” down the stairs but adds, “as the decades of pain, anger and resentment coursed then receded” he resisted the urge…

DANICA McKELLAR plucked America’s heartstrings as adorable girl-next-door Winnie Cooper on ABC’s coming-of-age dramedy The Wonder Years. But since the show left the air in 1993, she’s racked up nearly 100 acting credits — including a string of Hallmark Channel movies. This holiday season she’s appearing in the network’s You, Me & the Christmas Tree. Here are ten things you don’t know about the 46-year-old actress and math whiz. 1 Her childhood crush was Michael J. Fox. She recalls, “Once, my sister and I spotted him driving behind us on our way to school. He waved to us, and we freaked out!” 2 At 13, she appeared in Debbie Gibson’s music video No More Rhyme. 3 As a math undergrad at UCLA, she coauthored what’s now known as the Chayes-McKellar-Winn…

DOWNING eight glasses of water daily may help ward off heart failure decades down the line, researchers report. Scientists at the National Institutes of Health say a lack of adequate hydration causes an increase in the concentration of serum sodium in the body, which can trigger biological changes leading to bum tickers. The researchers followed nearly 16,000 middle-aged subjects over 25 years and found those with elevated serum sodium levels displayed thickening of the walls along the heart’s left ventricle — known as left ventricular hypertrophy — which is a common precursor to cardiac failure. “Our study suggests that maintaining good hydration can prevent or at least slow down the changes within the heart that lead to heart failure,” explains Dr. Natalia Dmitrieva, of NIH’s National Heart, Lung, and Blood…

DIVORCED six years and remarried to others, Blake Shelton and Miranda Lambert are now tangled in a new redhot feud, a sizzling food fight between their dueling Nashville eateries, insiders claim. Sources say Blake is steamed because Miranda began eating into his profits by opening her Tex-Mex bar and grill Casa Rosa in May on the same Music City block as his Ole Red joint. “The competition between their restaurants has intensified and Blake can’t drive by Casa Rosa without getting annoyed,” spills an insider. “They’re only a short walk away from each other, but Miranda’s establishment has that magic something that appeals to locals and tourists who are lining up to gorge on her tasty tacos and interesting cocktails.” As GLOBE previously revealed, the exes have lobbed potshots at…

ALYSSA MILANO reveals giving birth to son Milo in 2011 was so traumatic it reminded her of sexual assault! “It triggered all of these memories that I thought I had dealt with,” says the Charmed alum. “I remembered at one point really not enjoying the fact that lots of people had access to my vagina.” Alyssa, 48, says she saw a shrink afterward because of “feeling like I was being held down and had things being done to me.”…

SINGLE-MINDED Meg Ryan is so determined to shut the door on ex-lover John Mellencamp that she’s done more than just change the locks — sources say she moved into a more secure compound in a gated celebrity enclave to get rid of him for good! Sources tell GLOBE the 60-year-old actress has no desire for any kind of relationship with her former fiancé, and has traded in her farmhouse-style house in Montecito for a place where he can’t get under her skin! “One of the perks of buying the larger house is it’s a total fortress with massive gates and tall hedges and John can’t just pop by any time he likes,” squeals an insider. “Meg realizes she needs to move on and the only way is if she’s decisive…

PRINCE CHARLES’ tattletale wife, Camilla, can’t stop telling pals President Joe Biden loudly passed gas when she met him at the COP26 climate change summit. The 74-year-old Duchess of Cornwall got wind of the rude explosion while gabbing with the 79-year-old commanderin-chief. “It was long and loud and impossible to ignore,” a source blabs. “Camilla hasn’t stopped talking about it.” The duchess and hubby Prince Charles met and spoke with the white-haired politico at a Nov. 1 reception for the Glasgow, Scotland, international conference. Chatterbox Camilla was “taken aback” at the sudden fury of flatulence unleashed by the leader of the free world, adds the source. But it seems to be a case of the pot calling the kettle black! GLOBE reported in 2016 Camilla’s own son, Tom Parker-Bowles, revealed Charles’…

TERRIFIED TUCKER AIN’T SO TOUGH! FOX News loudmouth TUCKER CARLSON’s secret back surgery left him scared to death. “I felt afraid,” the blustering 52-year-old told stunned staffers, revealing painkillers sent him into a terrifying tailspin. “I had this spirit of fear within me. It was super deep. And I just haven’t had those feelings since I was in a plane crash 20 years ago this month.” But after the operation, he says, “I was like, ‘Oh s**t.’ Fear — just like anxiety … And it was from those drugs. They extinguish the spirit within you. It’s so f**king deep.” Calling it “one of the most intense experiences of my life,” he detailed his ordeal, “They hit me up with such a huge dose of dilaudid, which is more powerful than…

THE secret to the recent success of The Wendy Williams Show? MORE viewers tune in when the troubled host is nowhere to be seen! With windbag Wendy out getting help for her rollercoaster health problems, the daytime show has been filling her sagging seat with guest hosts, including Leah Remini, Sherri Shepherd and comic Whitney Cummings — resulting in an astonishing 33 percent ratings boost since the start of season 13! Producers expect Wendy, 57, to return next month.…

A CLEVER girl saved herself from unspeakable horrors and possible death by alerting motorists with hand signs she learned on social media that indicated she was being kidnapped, say lawmen. Sheriff’s deputies in Laurel County, Ky., arrested James Brick, 61, on Nov. 4 and charged him with kidnapping and possessing pornography after a motorist called in about a teen in his silver Toyota who “appeared to be in distress” and was frantically making hand gestures from the social media app TikTok that means “violence at home — I need help.” The sign is made by holding up the palm, tucking the thumb across it and curling the other fingers around to look like a clenched fist. The girl was reported missing by her parents on Nov. 2 after she was…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 You’re a real busy bee Monday, Ram, but when Mercury and Pluto clash, you come to a screeching halt. Take it easy for a few days and all will be well. Friday brings a surprise offer that could boost your household cash flow. The weekend spotlights romance for singles — does the initial P mean anything? GEMINI May 22 - June 21 Spending time away from your partner could lead to conflict, but you’re so busy with projects, volunteering and helping elderly relatives, tell them to suck it up. Promise a romantic evening for two under Saturday’s new moon and all will be forgiven. A cash boost is linked to your housing situation. LEO July 23 - Aug. 23 Venus offers Lions motivation to…

A U.S. Air Force bomber dropped a nuke on a home in rural South Carolina that was ten times more powerful than the A-bomb that destroyed Hiroshima, Japan, and brought an end to World War II! The terrifying “oopsie,” as the military called the horrifying snafu, was one of at least 32 chilling blunders with atomic weapons on U.S. soil during the Cold War in the late 1950s and ’60s. At the time, the Air Force kept bombers armed with nukes flying 24/7 so they’d be ready on a moment’s notice to jet to the communist Soviet Union and drop their terrifying payloads. On March 11, 1958, a B-47 Stratojet was cruising 15,000 feet over Mars Bluff, S.C., carrying two Mark 6 bombs — each capable of delivering an explosion…

INDIANA JONES’ fifth movie installment is being dogged by a terrible curse, insiders say, after the sudden unexplained death of a set worker. Starring Harrison Ford as the adventurous archeologist, the sequel has been plagued with problems, delays and bizarre accidents. Now sources believe there’s a hex at work after 54-year-old second camera unit grip Nic Cupac was found dead in his hotel room in Fes, Morocco. “He is thought to have died of natural causes,” sources say. Cupac’s job was to build supports for cameras to film a huge stunt involving a rickshaw, say sources. An industry veteran, he’d worked on blockbusters like Jurassic Park: Fallen Kingdom, Star Wars: The Last Jedi and Guardians of the Galaxy. While a mouthpiece for the movie emphasizes “his sudden passing was not…

LED Zeppelin rockers abused underage groupies and indulged in twisted fetishes, a shocking new book claims! In Led Zeppelin: The Biography, author Bob Spitz claims the group’s road manager Richard Cole and Vanilla Fudge roadie Bruce Wayne degraded a 17-year-old groupie named Jackie at Seattle’s Edgewater Inn during a 1969 tour. After catching some red snappers, the dudes came back to a room where Zeppelin bassist John Paul Jones was smoking weed with Fudge drummer Carmine Appice and the teen, Spitz writes. The creeps made Jackie strip “and started hitting her with the fish,” says the book. Other band members watched from the hall through the open door as the jerks smeared butter on Jackie’s crotch “pushing the snappers into her as far as they could,” Appice recalls. The sickos…