Table of contents for October 16, 2023 in Globe

BEST FOOT FORWARD Wrapped in a sweatshirt, KELLY RIPA pushes hard on a hair-raising Manhattan power walk GIVING FANS THE FINGERS You’ve gotta hand it to country icon TIM McGRAW for striking a dramatic pose onstage during a concert in Las Vegas OH, SNAP! Bigmouth RYAN SEACREST is NOT ready for his close-up as he tries to film his tonsils at the iHeartRadio Music Festival TAT’S SO WEIRD! Glittering ZOE SALDANA flashes some underarm ink while navigating safety cones in Downtown Manhattan IT’S A COVER-UP! Longtime baldy HOWIE MANDEL wigs out for a season 18 America’s Got Talent red-carpet event BELLE ON WHEELS! Lithe DWTS judge CARRIE ANN INABA mistakes a luggage cart for a taxi outside her New York City hotel THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK!…

NBC’s Today host Hoda Kotb reveals a “hot” cop she met in a laundromat washed away her heartache following her breakup with a boyfriend. The 59-year-old was discussing how Joe Manganiello has moved on from his split with wife Sofía Vergara with actress Caitlin O’Connor and recalled “after a breakup, you’re fragile, and then you meet someone — the knight in shining armor.” She and her blue knight talked and began dating. But after she bounced back, they split because “he was a rescuer. I didn’t need rescuing,” she says.…

RILEY’S NEW HEADACHE AS LISA MARIE DEBT ESCALATES More legal woes for Daisy Jones & the Six star RILEY KEOUGH, 34 — the sole trustee of her late mother LISA MARIE PRESLEY’s estate. On the heels of finally settling unsettling claims made by her 78-year-old grandmother, PRISCILLA PRESLEY, who shockingly challenged the authenticity of her only daughter’s last wishes just days after Lisa Marie’s death, comes new news of troublesome legal issues. The estate’s now being sued by a lending company, claiming ELVIS PRESLEY’s deceased daughter neglected to pay a $3.8 million loan she took out in 2018. NIPL, LLC reportedly agrees to drop the case if the estate pays $2.85 million of the total debt within 45 days. Stay tuned! DRUGS NEARLY KILLED SUPERMODEL NAOMI NAOMI CAMPBELL confesses she…

RACHEL WEISZ Solid pants would’ve been sublime because the Mummy honey’s floral fiasco is a busy buzzkill! LILY JAMES The Pam & Tommy babe’s dowdy duds add years to her age — and subtract from her appeal HELENA BONHAM CARTER The Fight Club femme fatale always punches below her weight when it comes to fashion MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO The Moscow on the Hudson gal’s nautical-inspired outfit should get lost at sea! JODIE COMER The Killing Eve villain pulls the trigger on the blanket dressing trend — but this is a snoozer!…

FORMER SNL star Jason Sudeikis has settled his bitter custody war with ex-lover Olivia Wilde, agreeing to pay her a whopping $330,000 a year to support their two kids. The 48-year-old star of the Apple TV+ hit sports sitcom Ted Lasso and actress-director Wilde, are parents of Otis, 9, and Daisy, 6, from their nine-year romance that crashed in 2020. In the agreement, Jason, whose income this year is $10.5 million compared to Olivia’s $500,000, pays $10,300 for Otis and $17,500 for Daisy each month. They will have the kids every other week. Their custody war exploded in the public when Jason embarrassed Olivia, 39, by serving her with court papers while she was onstage presenting her film Don’t Worry Darling at the Las Vegas CinemaCon last year.…

SCANDAL star Kerry Washington says her “toxic” struggle with an eating disorder drove her to the brink of suicide! The actress, 46, shockingly revealed around the time she started college she was “trying to destroy myself” in “a toxic cycle of self abuse that utilized the tools of starvation, binge eating, body obsession and compulsive exercise!” The mom of three has managed to tame her demons, but admits she has to “check” herself to avoid reverting to self-hatred and self-destructive habits.…

MALICIOUS Oregon mom Sharday McDonald was sentenced to just 30 days in county jail for waterboarding her 13-month-old son and popping the tot in the freezer — just to see if the kid’s dad cared, authorities say. Monster McDonald, 30, recently pleaded guilty to charges of criminal mistreatment, ID theft and tampering with a witness to earn her slap on the wrist. A probable cause affidavit states deputies raced to a home in Gresham for a requested welfare check in October 2021 and overheard the potty-mouthed parent bellowing on a video call to baby daddy Kendrick Neal: “You don’t want him? Let me show you about this little f*cking baby, I don’t f*cking give f*ck about.” Lawmen say McDonald was cradling her boy in a blanket when she opened the door…

TOM BRADY’s supermodel ex Gisele Bündchen has been through a lot — with her 2022 divorce from the football icon, the pandemic and moving with her two kids to Florida — but she proudly boasts she managed to stay sober through it all. The 43-year-old, mom of Brady’s kids Ben, 13, and Vivian, 10, proudly boasts she stopped drinking more than two years ago, saying: “Right after I turned 40, I felt a huge difference between when I had the glass of wine and when I didn’t.” So she quit.…

JITTERY Joan Collins can’t stand smooches from strangers because the Dynasty diva is a secret germophobe! The 90-year-old soap legend reveals she’s “scared to get the flu” and tries to protect herself against the “zillions” of invisible bugs lurking on doorknobs, elevator buttons and supermarket carts! The old biddy admits arming herself “with enough hand sanitizer, nose-blocking gel and baby wipes” to stock a pharmacy — but confesses her efforts to keep illness at bay also make her put people at a distance! Joan sniffs, “The bane of my life is the bear hug followed by a sloppy kiss on the cheek!” The standoffish Brit tells fans if she doesn’t accept affectionate gestures, “it doesn’t mean I don’t like you. It just means I don’t want to catch your germs!”…

1. What are the first names of X-Files agents Mulder and Scully? 2. Who made the term Kowa-bunga popular? 3. On the A-Team, which character was not a commissioned military officer? A: 1. Fox and Dana; 2. Howdy Doody’s Chief Thunderthud; 3. Sgt. B.A. Baracus “It’s only when you look at an ant through a magnifying glass on a sunny day that you realize how often they burst into flames.”— Harry Hill…

ONCE one of the world’s biggest movie stars, Bruce Willis is now so savaged by dementia, it’s “hard to know” if the Die Hard star realizes what’s happening, says his tearful wife, Emma Heming. Bruce’s second wife and mom of his daughters Mabel, 11, and Evelyn, 8, first revealed the beloved action star was battling aphasia, a brain disease that destroys the ability to speak and understand words, in the spring of 2022. Emma, 45, announced he was retiring from his career, which included monster hits like the Die Hard saga, The Sixth Sense and Pulp Fiction. Then eight months ago, she tragically revealed the 68-year-old’s mental decline had gotten worse. Now, she says “it’s hard to know” if the actor, who’s worth $250 million, is aware of what’s happening…

LONG before Siri and Alexa were listening in on everyone’s chitchat, there was the brilliant 1974 mystery thriller The Conversation — with GENE HACKMAN as a surveillance nerd who records random people in a park and stumbles across evidence of a possible murder. Director Francis Ford Coppola has said the normally outgoing Hackman got so tangled up in playing an awkward loner his personality did a switcheroo and he became moody and irritable on the set! Watch for a young HARRISON FORD in a supporting role, three years before he blasted off to fame in Star Wars.…

THE sizzling hookup between pop queen Taylor Swift and pro football hunk Travis Kelce is flaming red-hot as the dashing tight end has brought the heart-lipped songbird to meet his mother. “Travis has made it clear this is no passing fling by introducing her to his mom,” blabs a source. “They’re more serious than they’re willing to admit and now Taylor’s going out of her way to impress his mother.” TV viewers of the Sept. 24 game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Chicago Bears got to see flashes of the 33-year-old songbird rooting and schmoozing with Travis’ mother, Donna, from a deluxe skybox in Arrowhead Stadium. And the Enchanted singer was on her best behavior as she was seen tidying up the box — gathering empty cups and…

RECLUSIVE former fitness phenom Richard Simmons has nixed plans by pal Pauly Shore for a biopic. Known for his flamboyant, bubbly personality in his workout videos like Sweatin’ to the Oldies, the 75-year-old guru retired with a whopping $20 million fortune and was last seen publicly in February 2014. Recently, Shore, 55, reached out to Simmons about a life story flick, according to a source who says the bouncy fitness star “just doesn’t want to be involved.” Simmons routinely is flooded with offers and turns them down because “he’s just not interested in going public,” notes the source. “It’s nothing against Pauly. Richard’s known the actor and his late mom, Mitzi, for decades. He simply wants to live a private life out of the spotlight.”…

A LOVING pair of family pooches protected two-year-old Thea Chase during eight dangerous nighttime hours in the wild, wolf-and cougarfilled woods after the tot wandered away from her rural home. Thea, her mom Brooke, 25, dad Alex, 24, and year-old brother Ryker were staying with the girl’s Uncle Marcus at his home near the remote village of Faithorn in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula. Thea was “shadowing” her uncle while he worked in the yard when her mom suddenly realized — in heart-stopping terror — her precious baby girl had vanished about 7 p.m. on Sept. 20. “I was in such a fog and such shock. I felt and still feel like I’m in a movie and none of this is real,” Brooke recalls. Brooke had reason to be horrified. The local…

EMMA ROBERTS sure got an ice-cold blast from the past! Pretty Woman star JULIA ROBERTS’ 32-year-old niece was pretty much harpooned for creating ugly mean-girl mayhem, aimed straight at her transsexual American Horror Story: 1984 co-star ANGELICA ROSS. Apparently, the two weren’t seeing eye to eye in 2019, spills the Pose alum, 42, who’s now calling Emma out publicly. Describing how the actress whined about her to a director, Angelica recalls the film boss snarked, “ ‘OK, ladies, that’s enough. Let’s get back to work.’ And then [Emma] looks at me and she goes, ‘Don’t you mean lady.’ ” Yikes. “I’m standing there, she walked away, my blood is boiling,” says Ross, who claims, “I didn’t speak to that bitch the entire time after that.” Angelica also says she was…

CERTAIN Joe Biden is too old for the job, backstabbing Bill and Hillary Clinton have betrayed the 80-year-old president and are pushing Michelle Obama to run for the White House in 2024, political insiders say. Sources report Hillary — who failed in her own run for the White House in 2016 — confronted Biden with recent polls proving he’s dead meat and unable to defeat the likely Republican candidate, former prez Donald Trump. Now Barack Obama’s former Secretary of State, her ex-president hubby and other Democratic Party bigwigs are begging Michelle to run and urging the oldest president in U.S. history to drop out of the race, tipsters tattle. Even political enemy and GOP Sen. Ted Cruz insists 59-year-old former first lady Michelle is the Democrats’ only hope for 2024…

AGING Cher is so desperate to keep 40-years-younger on-again beau Alexander “AE” Edwards, she’s planning a surgical makeover for her 77-year-old bod including breast implants and a butt lift, sources tattle! The Believe singer is no stranger to the scalpel, but always stayed thin so she could squeeze into the same jeans she’s had since the 1970s. Now, insiders dish, that’s about to change because of 37-year-old toyboy AE! “Cher’s had plenty of surgery on her face over the years, and even had her boobs done in the past, and now she’s looking to give her figure a more hourglass shape,” squeals an insider. “No one thinks she’d ever do it just for herself, but AE’s a butt and boob guy and he’s always turning his head back when he…

CONGRATS to singer Lizzo for recently winning the Grammys’ Record of the Year award for her song About Damn Time, but shame on her for continuing to insist being fat is OK. The singer — who at 5-foot-10 smashes the scales at more than 300 pounds — says she’s “going to continue to put on and represent and create safe spaces for Black fat women because that’s what the f**k I do.” And that’s fine — to a degree. Her stance against fat shaming is admirable. But there’s a difference between mocking obese folks and saying it’s OK to be vastly overweight. That’s why Lizzo’s insistence that her incredible bulk is healthy and gigantic gals — and guys — shouldn’t have to lose weight is dead wrong! She boasts that…

BRITNEY SPEARS’ hunky estranged hubby, Sam Asghari, has a new A-list admirer even older than the Baby One More Time singer — insiders say former screen sizzler Demi Moore is drooling over the fitness trainer and putting out feelers for a date! The 60-year-old Striptease actress has been crushing on 6-foot-2, 200-pound Sam from afar for a long while and is excited that the 29-year-old is newly single because she’s ready to mingle, say sources. “Demi raised more than an eyebrow at the news Sam and Britney were over,” spills an insider. “Her hopes were also raised. Sam is exactly the type of guy physically that catches Demi’s eye. “And her girlfriends are willing to do pretty much anything to set Demi up on a dream date or at least…

THERE’S a secret cave under the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C.! The cavern, discovered in the 1970s during the installation of a handicapped elevator, is full of stalactites and World War I era graffiti. THE sky-high price of helium gas has nearly wiped out blimps — only 25 airships are left and most are used for advertising. It costs about $100,000 to fill them up. ALBERTA, Canada, which covers 255,541 square miles, is the world’s largest rat-free zone thanks to an eradication program launched in 1950! IN 1863, New York nutritionist James Caleb Jackson created “granula,” the world’s first breakfast cereal composed of graham flour. But to be edible, the stuff had to be soaked in milk overnight paving the way for John Kellogg’s instant concoction “granola,” which led to…

SHRINKING Sharon Osbourne admits to tipping the scales at less than 100 pounds after indulging in the trendy weight loss drug semaglutide — and now the increasingly gaunt TV gabber groans, “I’m too skinny!” The British blabber, 71, blusters, “I didn’t want to go this thin. It just happened.” The wife of Black Sabbath singer Ozzy Osbourne says she dropped 30 pounds over four months while taking the prescription jabs, which left her nauseated! “You don’t throw up physically, but you have got that feeling,” grumbles the glam grandma of five. The skinny minnie is less than half of her top tonnage of 230 — but plans to pork up a pinch. “I want to maintain at about 105,” confides the 5-foot-2 firebrand. “I’m trying to have a healthy balance.”…

WWE legend HULK HOGAN, 70, is hitched to SKY DAILY, 45, after a Florida ceremony two months after getting engaged. Hopefully, his third time’s the charm. Orange Is the New Black star DASCHA POLANCO’s gonna be a granny before 40, thanks to her daughter DASANY KRISTAL GONZALEZ, 20, who the actress had when she was 17. General Hospital star CHAD DUELL, 35, who plays Michael Corinthos, and galpal LUANA LUCCI, 24, had their first baby, son DAWSON. Smashing Pumpkins rocker BILLY CORGAN, 56, had a smashin’ wedding with longtime girlfriend CHLOE MENDEL, 31. They share son AUGUST, 7, and daughter PHILOMENA, 5. JACK OSBOURNE, 37, tied the knot with wife No. 2 AREE GEARHART, 14 months after welcoming their first baby together, daughter MAPLE. Pop star HALSEY, 29, is enjoying…

A RAMPAGING moose almost cooked the goose of a Colorado woman who got trampled while she was walking her dog in the woods! It felt “like falling off a two-story building,” says Chris Ray, who is lucky to be alive after the mama moose circled back THREE times to keep stomping her! Chris was less than a quarter mile up the Boulder County trail when she realized the berserk beast was gunning for her. “The moose broke three of my vertebrae in my back and one of my ribs and also did a lot of soft tissue damage, especially around my kidney,” she says. “It was coming back for a third time when I scrambled behind a tree!” The horned hell spawn then turned on Ray’s dog Nala, whose leash…

TWO New Jersey Housewives really made a splash while filming scenes for the Bravo show — and they’ve both been suspended for the bust-up where Danielle Cabral threw a drink in Jennifer Aydin’s face! Sources say a spat between the two livid ladies spiraled out of control when Aydin, 46, pushed Cabral, 38, who then hurled her beverage, plastic cup included, at her nemesis! Both women have been yanked from filming season 14 until the Housewives dust-up has been investigated. The shocking showdown occurred while cameras were rolling during a party thrown by Teresa Giudice. “Focus on the good,” Cabral later posted. “And let God handle the rest.” The incident marks a turnaround of sorts for Aydin, who threw a drink of her own at Joe and Melissa Gorga during last…