Sommaire pour November 27, 2023 de Globe

DOUBLE FEATURE Kandahar’s blubbery GERARD BUTLER doesn’t try to hide his twin chins at a film festival in Italy BOUNCING BACK Radford Reborn’s ANT ANSTEAD — beau of Chicago beauty Renée Zellweger — gets back in the game after being sidelined by a soccer injury THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK! TONGUE TWISTER Funny face OLIVIA WILDE displays her playful side as the House alum laps up the spotlight at a California farmers market SHRINKING VIOLET Purple-haired KELLY OSBOURNE has put on a major vanishing act — the Fashion Police panelist is now a skinny minnie! RUFF TIMES Back to the Future’s CHRISTOPHER LLOYD doesn’t look up to scratch at a Hollywood fundraiser for pit bull pooches DANGEROUS CURVES Retired tennis pro SERENA WILLIAMS risks a wardrobe malfunction as she…

No endless love between divas DIVAS Madonna and Diana Ross — who both trace their roots to the Detroit area — have had a feud for decades, and now the former Supremes songbird reveals why! Shockingly, their rivalry didn’t have anything to do with jealousy or some face-to-face tiff. Instead, the 79-year-old Upside Down singer reveals the 65-year-old Material Girl insulted her children. “My kids went up and asked her for an autograph, and she was not nice,” says Diana. “I’m nice to everybody, you know, and I just feel like she could’ve been nice, but she wasn’t. “And I won’t forget it. So that’s it. That’s what I feel about that.” Ironically, the superstars have a lot in common. Diana grew up in the city of Detroit while Madonna lived…

EVER wonder how buffed-up movie musclemen like Chris Hemsworth, Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Chris Pratt and Hugh Jackman suddenly got oodles of muscles for their roles as comic book heroes? Well, wonder no more. West Hollywood’s board certified plastic surgeon to the stars Dr. Gary Motykie — a former bodybuilder — is in full flex revealing the bruisers he believes to be Grade A all-natural beefcake, who achieved physical perfection with diet and exercise … and the dudes he suspects had help from the wonders of modern chemistry, including legal anabolic prescription steroids such as testosterone, growth hormones and peptides. DWAYNE “The Rock” JOHNSON 6-foot-5, 260 lbs. The former college football player and pro wrestler, who starred in The Scorpion King and other adventure flicks, admits he took steroids as…

Here’s a head-scratcher! Stand-up comedian TAYLOR TOMLINSON, who ain’t exactly a household name, is taking over the late-night talk show time slot vacated by chubby Brit JAMES CORDEN! The 30-year-old’s CBS gabfest, After Midnight, will be executive produced by STEPHEN COLBERT. KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN and tattooed drummer boy hubby TRAVIS BARKER have a new son — his third child and her fourth. ZOË KRAVITZ, 34, and CHANNING TATUM, 43, are engaged after meeting on the set of Pussy Island, which apparently is a thriller and not an adult film. Fresh off getting slapped with divorce papers by JOE JONAS, SOPHIE TURNER, 27, turned heads by getting hot and heavy in public with 29-year-old British aristocrat PEREGRINE “PERRY” PEARSON in Paris. Poor little rich girl TORI SPELLING, 50, was snapped making out with…

FORMER boozer Josh Brolin celebrated his first decade of sobriety with an Instagram post showing his commemorative ten-year Alcoholics Anonymous coin and lauding himself as “Josh F**king Brolin!” The 55-year-old actor says he wants to inspire others to navigate their way “out of their tornado of shame.” He notes, “There exists a life where that over-pressurized piece of coal that is you will eventually transform into the diamond of liberty that you always deserved to be.”…

HOTHEAD Jason Pass — the prime suspect in the execution-style slaying of two neighbors in NYC — was gunned down in broad daylight by Big Apple cops when the fired prison guard lunged at arresting officers with a six-inch blade, lawmen say. Pass was wanted for pumping bullets into school bus driver Bladimy Mathurin, 47, and his 27-year-old stepson, Chinwai Mode, in the hallway of their apartment building during an argument over noise. The angry confrontation — and the pair’s grisly shooting — was captured by a surveillance camera. Pass’ sister — who refused to give her name — insists her brother didn’t have murder on his mind and simply attempted to talk to Mathurin “about the jumping and moving furniture” in a long-standing beef with his noisy neighbors. The…

CAMPER Matt Leffers’ relaxing dip in a serene California lake turned to horror when he was viciously attacked by a horde of angry otters he insists were “trying to kill me!” But lucky Leffers lived to tell the tale when his wife rescued him on a paddleboard and rushed him to a hospital, where docs treated him for 40 puncture wounds over his body. Leffers recalls, “It is by far the most terrifying experience I’ve ever had in my life. Nothing even comes close.” The razor-toothed rampage came as Leffers splashed around in Northern California’s Serene Lakes. Suddenly, he felt teeth sink into his calf and seconds later came another bite. “I started swimming fast but there was the otter, popped up right in front of me and then I was…

ACTION hero Dolph Lundgren looked ready to rumble at a Santa Monica charity event — where the cancer survivor looked as strong and healthy as in the days when he played the fighter who pummeled Sly Stallone in Rocky IV! Dolph recently revealed he fought off cancer eight years ago — only to see it roar back with a vengeance in 2020 with a tumor the size of “a small lemon” growing in his liver, along with masses in his stomach, lung, spine and kidneys. One doctor gave him less than three years to live — but he has beaten the odds! “I thought it was it, for sure,” says the 66-year-old. “You kind of look at your life and go, I had a great life… I’ve lived five lifetimes…

HAILED as the “Holy Grail of Shipwrecks,” the Spanish galleon San Jose was sunk by England in a war with Spain 300 years ago, but now a new bitter battle is raging over who owns the mindboggling $20 BILLION treasure inside the hulk! In 1981, the U.S. company Glocca Morra — now renamed Sea Search Armada — claimed it found the centuries-old wreck lying 2,000 feet below the Caribbean waters off Colombia and turned over the location coordinates to that country in return for half the recovered treasure. But in 2015, Colombia’s then-President Juan Manuel Santos claimed its navy had found and photographed the wreck in a different location — effectively cutting the company’s claim to a $10 billion payoff. Colombia never revealed the coordinates of the wreck location its…

THE tragic life and death of Friends star Matthew Perry illustrates a sad contradiction: Success and money can bring happiness — but NOT when the motivating forces are unstoppable inner demons that can never be satisfied. Matthew, who perished at 54, was driven to succeed — and did — but still lived in torment. In his youth, he was the 17th-ranked junior tennis player in Canada and when he died, he’d been nominated for five Emmys, a total of 34 acting awards and had $150 million in the bank. He spoke to his family but pushed friends away. At one point, he gobbled 55 Vicodin painkiller pills a day. He also spent $7 million on 15 rehab stays. FIFTEEN!!! His life was filled with self-imposed misery, and the very demons…

In the 1970s thriller Eyes of Laura Mars, TOMMY LEE JONES makes his movie breakthrough playing a cop comforting psychic fashion photographer FAYE DUNAWAY, who keeps seeing a serial killer’s bloody crimes. The flick made a relative killing at the box office featuring a title track by Barbra Streisand, who rejected the lead role written for her by lover John Carpenter because it was too kinky!…

HOPEFUL Hoda Kotb has been spending a lot of family time with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman and their kids as insiders snitch the get-togethers have fueled her desperate wish for a romantic reunion. Sources spill the 59-year-old Today co-host is still “deeply in love” with the 65-year-old financier two years after they broke their engagement. “It means so much to Hoda that they can spend time together like this,” spills an insider. Hoda happily The former couple appeared very close while taking their adopted daughters, Hope, 4, and Haley, 6, trick-or-treating on Halloween in the Big Apple and even clowned around snapping selfies with each other while passersby smiled. Sources say the crumbled couple have been gradually getting closer by “hanging out with the kids and watching TV and having dinners…

JAX FORGIVES LOVE RAT TOM Vanderpump Rules stud JAX TAYLOR’s years-long feud with castmate and former Most Hated Man in America TOM SANDOVAL is finally over — and spies dish a bromance is blooming! “I have no problems with Tom Sandoval anymore, it’s all water under the bridge,” says Jax after now-sober Sandoval crashed a party at his pad. “I don’t like to hold grudges.” Okay. But after being besties for years, Jax demoted Tom from best man to groomsman at his 2019 wedding. Then their relationship got more tense when Sandoval was caught cheating on his girlfriend of nine years, ARIANA MADIX, with their pumped-up castmate, RAQUEL LEVISS. Declares Jax, “What he did was wrong obviously, but I think he’s paid the price and I think he’s moved on.…

ISABELLA ROSSELLINI The best thing about the Blue Velvet sensa tion’s ensemble is her multistrand statement necklace PATRICIA ARQUETTE The Medium alum plays it safe in a pink suit — but there’s no future for this unexciting outfit CAILEE SPAENY We’re all shook up about the Priscilla star’s bold choice of a decon structed taffeta two-piece TAMRON HALL This red suit is snazzy — but the chatfest host’s checkered top fails to win the best dressed race TARA REID The Sharknado scare crow drapes herself in terrible tiers that look like a spooky burial shroud!…

PANICKED Mariah Carey is facing the collapse of her prized Christmas season empire — and being branded a thief and a fraud by a lawsuit charging the songbird stole the basis of her super-hit tune All I Want for Christmas Is You! Sources say the 54-year-old hitmaker is reeling after being slapped with legal papers by musician Andy Stone claiming she ripped off his song of the same name written five years earlier, in 1989. This is the second time Stone has sued Mariah with essentially the same claim that she infringed the copyrights of his song. He dropped his initial suit last year, and has refiled with more detailed allegations comparing specific lyrics and chord progressions! The tune has been a gold mine for the Obsessed singer, who reportedly…

Vax ends coke addiction ✚ A MIND-BLOWING breakthrough may end cocaine addiction! Scientists in Brazil have developed a vaccine to prevent the drug’s users from getting high! Calixcoca was designed by researchers at Federal University of Minas Gerais to trigger an immune response, which stops the stimulant from reaching the brain. The jab has shown success in animal studies and is slated for testing in human trials. Dr. Frederico Garcia believes his team’s discovery would best aid recovering addicts leaving rehab. Drug eliminates exercise! ✚ DIETING and exercise may not be on the menu for folks looking to slim down if an experimental drug proves successful in upcoming trials! Researchers led by University of Florida’s Thomas Burris say their injection SLU-PP-332 tricks muscles into believing they’re working harder than they…

SCREEN siren Susan Sarandon was once Hollywood’s hottest mama — and rarely seen without a man — but now pals say the 77-year-old Oscar winner is planning to live her final years as a recluse in a remote cabin. The Dead Man Walking actress, who began her movie career playing doeeyed Janet in the 1975 cult hit The Rocky Horror Picture Show, has “grown comfortable being alone” after a series of disastrous torrid flings that resulted in daughter Eva, 38, with Italian director Franco Amurri, and Tim Robbins’ sons Jack, 34, and Miles, 31. Solo since 2015, the 5-foot-5 vixen recently starred in the Aussie TV series C*A*U*G*H*T with former lover Sean Penn and Amazon Prime’s Maybe I Do with Richard Gere. But now insiders say she’s eyeing a reclusive retirement…

A CHEEKY Colorado contractor is in hot water for settling a $23,500 debt with another firm by paying it with over three tons of loose change! John Frank, owner of JMF Enterprises in Larimer County, loaded a flatbed truck with the cumbersome coins and delivered the chump change to the offices of Fired Up Fabrication after a judge ruled against him in a dispute over the subcontractor’s allegedly shoddy work. “I was never told how I had to pay, so I did it this way,” he exclusively tells GLOBE. “I got the coins from everywhere — I was pulling change from piggy banks, I was emptying couch cushions and even ordered coins from the mint!” However, Fired Up took a dim view of the ducats that jingled all the way, with a…

BLOWHARD Tucker Carlson’s embarrassing and cringey boasts about being a stud between the sheets is a load of bull, according to insiders, who tattle that the bigmouth is all talk and his clownish bragging is annoying his longtime wife, Susan. Sources snitch 54-year-old Tucker’s attempts to pump up his fizzled career with his new video show on X, formerly Twitter, following his axing by FOX News have left him too tuckered out for romance. “He’s been irritating Susan for a while now with his intense and power-crazed antics, but what’s really coming to the fore is his lack of prowess in the bedroom,” spills an insider. “Tucker has huge pride that he’s this lion of a man in the sack, but that’s not what his wife’s friends say. The truth…

THERE are 14,000 varieties of mushrooms, but only 2,000 are edible. Amazingly, 60 percent of the fungi fed to Americans are grown on farms in Kennett Square, Pa. JAMES MADISON was the smallest president in American history. He was elected in 1808 despite standing a mere 5-foot-4 and weighing in at a tiny 100 pounds. DESPITE all those terrifying scenes in adventure movies, quicksand isn’t really that dangerous. Your body isn’t as dense as the gunk so it’s rare to sink more than waist deep and the air in your lungs will keep you afloat. BACK in 1929, Chicago inventor Paul Galvin noticed auto sales were booming even though the U.S. was in the grips of the Great Depression. He capitalized by creating the Motorola, the first car radio.…

SEXY Sofía Vergara is getting hot ’n’ heavy with her new bone doc beau, Justin Saliman, and sources snitch she’s also treating herself to some nip/tucks to help fight Father Time! The former Modern Family beauty, 51, seemed to be glowing on a date night in L.A. with the handsome orthopedic surgeon, 49, for the Frequency exhibition at Christie’s, which was hosted by Salma Hayek’s brother, Sami. “Sofía’s quite secretive about the actual nip/tucks she gets, even though she privately fesses up to it,” spills an insider. Michigan-based plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn believes Sofía may have had fillers “to plump up her lips and cheeks” and Botox to smooth out the wrinkles. “Whatever she’s doing, she’s doing it right,” says the insider. “She still looks like herself, except years…

ZOMBIELAND actress Abigail Breslin claims co-star Aaron Eckhart was a very bad boy with her on the set of their new spy thriller Classified, but the bizarre twist is — the movie’s bigwigs insist her allegations are “hysterical and imaginary” and now they’re suing HER! According to the 27-year-old actress, London Has Fallen star Aaron, 55, who plays her dad in Classified, was a monster who acted “aggressive, demeaning and unprofessional” toward her and “placed her at various times in peril.” The actress, who previously co-starred with Eckhart in 2007’s No Reservations, complained to producers and the Screen Actors Guild about his supposed bad-boy antics. But ironically, the movie’s bosses slapped her with a breach-of-contract suit, claiming “the entire production almost ground to a halt” because “Breslin refused to be alone…

BEASTLY Bible school aide Anne Nelson-Koch was sent to the slammer for a decade for her serial sex assaults on a Wisconsin boy — and the punishment could mean a life sentence for the 75-year-old sicko! Nelson-Koch worked as a teacher’s assistant at Tomah Baptist Academy for less than a year — but lawmen say the lustful louse repeatedly abused the 14-year-old during the 2016-2017 academic year, forcing him to perform a slew of sex acts in the school’s basement! The sinful senior, who was convicted on more than three dozen charges, initially faced 624 years behind bars for the abuse. Before the abominable aide was shipped off to a cell, a judge bashed her for using her position of power to manipulate the minor “to meet her own needs.”…

PRINCE HARRY’s fameobsessed wife, Meghan, is plotting a megabucks TV comeback that will leave his royal relatives reeling, say sources. The former B actress turned Duchess of Sussex is deep in talks to cop a cool $20 million by slumming with the Real Housewives of Beverly Hills! “On the surface it seems outrageous — a member of Britain’s royal family gossiping and bickering on TV with the regular housewives,” says an industry insider. “But as far as drawing a large audience, it would be a brilliant casting coup!” Real Housewives honcho Andy Cohen, 55, is all in on signing the diva duchess for his Bravo network franchise. “If we could get Meghan Markle — that would be interesting!” he exclaimed during a recent BravoCon panel discussion. And Meghan is said…

A WILY coyote caused a furor in San Francisco by taking a catnap on a patio couch! Animal Care & Control Officer Laura Mullen was dispatched to the scene after a panicked call from the home’s owner, who “took me to their backyard and showed me the coyote comfortably resting on a couch in their outdoor patio. I approached the coyote and started talking to him, telling him that it was time to get up. He looked at me, got up, took a big stretch, made his way to the edge of the yard” and vanished into the brush. About 100 coyotes roam the area and help control vermin, says Mullen. She believes the animal’s reluctance to leave wasn’t due to injury or sickness — he just didn’t want to give…

MISERABLY single Scientologist Tom Cruise is longing to land a high-profile girlfriend — and the Top Gun hunk has set his sights on Striptease stunner Demi Moore, sources spill. According to tipsters, choosy Cruise, 61, has eyed a bevy of beauties — including singer Shakira, Modern Family hottie Sofía Vergara and Jada Pinkett Smith, estranged wife of Independence Day’s Will Smith — but he’s now ready to make a play for his gorgeous co-star from A Few Good Men! Spies snitch the old pals have a strictly platonic relationship — but hit it off when they shot the 1992 military flick! “He’s been looking to cast Demi in an upcoming project and see if those sparks are still there,” dishes an insider. “Tom’s a workaholic, so a set is the…

WACKY Kanye West has done something really crazy for a celebrity — he’s downsized into an apartment with no security, no nannies and no chef! The 46-year-old rapper now known as Ye, and his buxom wife, Bianca Censori, 28, reportedly live in a West Hollywood rental — a far cry from the $60 million Calabasas estate where his ex Kim Kardashian, 43, resides. Ye’s “simple life” seems to appeal to his and Kim’s daughter North. On a recent episode of The Kardashians, the ten-year-old tells Kim her dad “has it all figured out” living without the common celebrity trappings. That said, the $20,000-a-month apartment reportedly comes in a building with a heated pool, cinema, valet, bar and lounge area, and 24-hour concierge service.…

RACING great Kevin Harvick climbed out of his car at Phoenix Nov. 5 for the final time as a NASCAR Cup Series competitor, and is parking in a new, safer gig — the 47-year-old will be calling battles on the track for FOX TV instead of risking his neck! The fiery 2014 Cup Series champ finally downshifted into retirement, saying, “I have no regrets.” A fierce competitor, who famously got into a post-race dustup with hot-headed driver Chase Elliott in 2021, Harvick will now scratch his racing itch from the booth, a source says. “Kevin is a surefire NASCAR Hall of Famer and still popular, so it will hurt the sport not to have him on the track for fans to cheer,” the source says. “But he’s approaching 50, and…

SUCCESSION star Alan Ruck made a unique type of pizza delivery — he crashed his fancy electric vehicle right through the wall of a pizzeria! The 67-year-old actor, who played Connor Roy on the hit HBO show, reportedly rearended another car at a busy intersection in Hollywood, which sent his pricey Rivian pickup truck careening into Raffallo’s Pizza parlor! “The whole building shook, and I thought a bomb or something had exploded,” says Tim Ratcliff, who owns several other restaurants on the block. Ambulances were called for two people who were injured in the Nov. 1 crash. Cops say they don’t suspect Ruck of DUI. He emerged unscathed but clearly concerned about others. “The first thing out of his mouth was, ‘Is everyone okay?’” says Ratcliff.…