Table of contents for February 5, 2024 in Globe

KING OF CLUBS Oscar winner JAMIE FOXX is back in the swing of things at a Hawaii golf tournament after last year’s hush-hush medical emergency MILD & HAZY GUY Knife-wielding funnyman STEVE MARTIN — who immortalized his ’70s shtick with the Wild and Crazy Guy album — isn’t sharing any cutting remarks at an L.A. awards luncheon MUTTON TO SEE HERE The Silence of the Lambs’ JODIE FOSTER is in-creaseingly showing her age WHATEVER FLOATS YOUR BLOAT Real Housewives of New York alum LUANN DE LESSEPS is a swell sight in a skimpy bikini in Mexico HANGING LOOSE Star Wars space smuggler HARRISON FORD is ferrying far too much flab beneath his chin TOTAL WIPEOUT Former Baywatch beauty ERIKA ELENIAK is in a holidaze while hauling away Christmas decorations…

THE wedding is off for action star Jason Statham and catwalk queen Rosie Huntington-Whiteley — unless their two kids nag them to get hitched, insiders squeal. The 56-year-old Beekeeper hunk and the stunning 36-year-old model finally got engaged in 2016 after six years of dating — but still haven’t skipped down the aisle despite welcoming six-year-old Jack and year-old Isabella. “A wedding was never a priority for Rosie or Jason,” insists a source. “The kids and their individual careers have always been their priority, and so far, they’ve been content to keep things the way they are. “Rosie says while hers and Jason’s 13-year relationship is working simply fine, the only thing that would make them say ‘I do,’ is if one of the kids wanted them to tie the knot.”…

MOVIE wildman Gary Busey — who suffered severe brain damage in a horrific motorcycle accident decades ago — must have thought he was home when he shockingly dropped his britches and apparently took a pee in a bush near a newsstand on a Malibu street. After the Jan. 11 pit stop, the 79-year-old Point Break and Lethal Weapon whiz kid — wearing a trucker hat, plaid scarf, colorful jacket and slippers — grinned as he adjusted the waistband on his gray sweatpants and sauntered off with a big wet splotch at his crotch. Busey previously let it all hang out in August 2022, when he perched on a bench across the street from his Malibu home, smiling broadly with his sweatpants around his knees. At the time, his rep noted…

TINSELTOWN’S biggest nepo babies are Malia and Sasha Obama, according to insiders who say the gals are living the celebrity high life by shamelessly riding their folks’ connections to get the best of everything for free! Sources snitch the Obama kids have already snuggled up to an impressive list of friends including Emma Stone, Drake, and Ryan Reynolds and his wife, Blake Lively, while greedily hunting for more as they enjoy A-lister perks. “Instead of relying on their talents, they’re trying to get in good with the Hollywood woke crowd,” spills an insider. “They’ve turned into these social-climbing A-list wannabes and hanging out by using their parents to get to the top of the heap. “Plus, they’re getting a lot of perks celebs enjoy, like tons of swag — from…

SNL COMIC AIN'T LAUGHIN' Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update co-anchor MICHAEL CHE insists comedians should “boycott” hosting award shows. In an Instagram rant following JO KOY’s Golden Globes bomb, Che gripes “it’s very difficult to make movie stars laugh. They’re way too self-conscious to have a good time” and says they don’t even want to chuckle because “they’re too busy thinking about their careers and their speeches and their ‘cause.’” The 40-year-old comic says actors just want a trophy and a nice photo and “Hollywood doesn’t respect comedians” because “if they did, EDDIE MURPHY and JIM CARREY would have about three Oscars each — for their comedy movies! Not the dramas they had to do so they could be taken seriously.” VANDERPUMP CHICK GETS NUTHOUSE JITTERS Vanderpump Rules side chick…

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GANGSTA rapper Ice-T joined Law & Order: Special Victims Unit nearly 24 years ago — and he’s still chasing bad guys on the NBC hit as Sgt. Odafin “Fin” Tutuola. His impressive tenure has established him as the longest-running male performer on a TV series. The Grammy winner — whose real name is Tracy Lauren Marrow — brags, “There are people that have acted way longer than me, but to be on one show continuously for that long, it has never been done.” Here are ten things you don’t know about the 65-year-old star. 1 He served a four-year stint in the U.S. Army with the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii. 2 He’s a longtime practitioner of Brazilian jiu-jitsu and boxing — and is a huge UFC fan. 3 His…

CRAFTY con woman Janet Mello swindled the U.S. Army out of more than $100 million over six years — and used her ill-gotten gains to fund a life of luxurious excess, prosecutors charge. Mello, 57, earned just $130,000 a year while employed as a financial manager for a youth services program at Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio. But lawmen say the greedy grifter used her position to funnel military money to her own fake business! In 2016, Mello founded Child Health and Youth Lifelong Development (CHYLD). But officials allege the organization is a shell company she used to snag lucrative federal grants as CHYLD never followed through on its stated promise to help the families of our nation’s heroes! According to investigators, the scheme — one of the biggest…

GAS bomb Kim Kardashian has been causing a stink with a new health kick triggering explosive flatulence that has her kin and staff running for the hills, tipsters titter. “All the fiber she’s getting is great for her health but it’s doing a number on her stomach,” dishes a spy. “She’s so gassy. It’s not just all the veggies and fruits — she’s living on protein shakes and eating tons of seeds and nuts, which aren’t helping her GI issues. “She’s drinking tons of water and taking enzymes to try and control her flatulence, but there’s only so much she can do. When she lets rip, it can be deadly.” The 43-year-old reality star, who divorced rapper Kanye West, 47, in 2021, mentioned her fear of flatulence last summer when…

COUNTRY legend June Carter Cash is being celebrated in a new documentary, but sources say the TV fairy tale ignores the singer’s own desperate battle with drugs after spending most of her 35-year marriage trying to get hubby Johnny Cash clean! Simply titled June, the Paramount+ program features flattering interviews with Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson and Reese Witherspoon, who won an Oscar portraying the five-time Grammy winner in 2005’s Walk the Line. But John Carter Cash — the only child of the Losin’ You singer and Johnny — reveals his tormented mother spent her last ten years trapped in a dark hole of addiction! The music producer, 53, notes June — who passed away in 2003 at 73 — steadfastly coaxed her hubby, Johnny, into rehab to break his reliance…

PRINCE HARRY and his wife, Meghan, have adopted one of Ellen DeGeneres’ chickens after the bird was badgered by bad eggs in its flock — despite the former Suits siren being accused of bullying royal staffers herself, sources cluck. DeGeneres, 66, reveals her feathered friend Sinkie is no longer last in the pecking order because the critter is living the high life with her Montecito neighbors the Duke and Duchess of Sussex at the royal runaways’ $14.5 million love nest. The former chat host — who has denied allegations from ex-staffers accusing her of being a browbeating boss from hell — kept the clucker in her backyard stone sink as it recovered from a broken fibula. The blond blabbermouth — who’s married to Arrested Development’s Portia de Rossi — confides,…

PETER O’TOOLE was a virtual unknown when director David Lean cast him in the lead of the lavish 1962 epic Lawrence of Arabia, considered one of the best movies ever made! The actor played real-life British Lieutenant T.E. Lawrence, who helped the Arabs fight Ottoman Turks in WWI. O’Toole was so “pretty” flamboyant playwright Noel Coward called the flick Florence of Arabia. When the actor padded his camel saddle with foam rubber for all the desert riding, local extras nicknamed him “Father of the Sponge!”…

ONTARIO, Canada, resident LuLu Lotus whistles songs through her nose at an astounding 44.1 decibels, which is just a tad quieter than a propeller-driven plane! THE United States has had seven capital cities — Princeton, N.J., Annapolis, Md., Philadelphia, Trenton, N.J., New York City, Lancaster, Pa., and Washington, D.C. NATALIE WOOD’s singing on the 1960s classic musical West Side Story was dubbed! Singer Marni Nixon, who also provided the voice for Audrey Hepburn’s tunes on My Fair Lady, got the job because Natalie couldn’t hit high notes. HONEY, vinegar, salt, vanilla extract, corn starch, white rice and sugar are the only food items that can last virtually forever without going bad.…

POP princess Miley Cyrus’ drummer boyfriend Maxx Morando is desperate to walk down the aisle, but he’s cooling his heels until she’s ready — and wants HER to pop the question, spies say. The 25-year-old stickman and 31-year-old Wrecking Ball cutie have been canoodling for two years, but sources say the romance has only lasted because Maxx vowed to never pressure her about a permanent arrangement. The Jaded songstress’ previous marriage, to Hunger Games stud Liam Hemsworth, 34, crashed after just eight months in 2020 following their ten-year, on-off romance. “Maxx knows Miley’s last marriage failed because she really wasn’t ready,” says a source. “She and Liam had been together for ten years, and were getting a lot of pressure from friends and family to tie the knot.” After fierce forest…

REALITY TV’s Brandi Glanville reveals a top doc told her she can’t go under the knife to fix her freaky face! The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills alum, 51, shared the ugly news shortly after telling fans she was diagnosed with stress-induced angioedema — severe swelling underneath the skin. Brandi blabs the condition left her hospitalized during the summer when her face “blew up like a basketball!” The ex-model shares, “Now that the swelling is going down, I’m trying to figure out, with a doctor, how for my skin to be tight again.” But Brandi admits a “very established” physician told her she’s not eligible for a facelift because her mug is already “very tight!” The Bravo reject claims the condition was triggered by former co-star Caroline Manzo accusing her…

CELEBS are usually desperate to peel off pounds, but talk show blabbermouth Sharon Osbourne is determined to “put on another ten pounds” after becoming “too gaunt” from the diet drug Ozempic. The 5-foot-2 71-year-old says she dropped 42 pounds using the shots that make the brain feel you are full. “The injections worked and now I can’t put anything on,” she moans. The former star of TV’s The Talk says food has always been an issue and she had an operation to band her stomach in the ’90s.…

AN EX-CNN staffer accuses the network’s former fair-haired boy Chris Cuomo of getting her fired after she confronted him for crudely calling her “tinsel crotch.” Commentator Angela Rye, who often guested on Cuomo’s prime-time show, claims the raunchy incident came after she sent a New Year’s post showing her in a bikini dripping with tinsel and palm trees in the background. After Cuomo texted her “Happy New Year tinsel crotch,” she confronted him, saying she felt “humiliated.” Weeks later, on Jan. 21, 2021, she says she was canned by CNN. “I don’t know if [he had me fired] or not, but that is certainly what I believe now,” Rye says in a lawsuit. Eleven months later, Cuomo, now a NewsNation anchor, was fired by CNN for advising his brother, then New…

FAME gluttons Todd and Julie Chrisley DO know best about one thing — the disgraced jailbirds just won a whopping $1 million settlement from Georgia for what they claim was an unfair investigation of their business ventures! Reality rejects Todd, 54, and Julie, 51, are now serving time on federal criminal convictions for various financial crimes. But after being cleared of state tax evasion charges, the Chrisley Knows Best couple went after Joshua Waites, Georgia’s former director of special investigations, for “specifically targeting” them because they were famous! Lawyer Alex Little says the ruling proves his clients — who have maintained their innocence in all charges — are gaining legal ground. “It’s nearly unprecedented for one arm of the government to pay money to defendants when another arm is fighting…

MUSIC heavyweight Lizzo has taken a new stance on obesity — and to quote her Grammy-winning record of the year, it’s About Damn Time. For years, the 5-foot-10 singer, who at times squashed the scales at 308 pounds, pushed the idea being super-fat is OK and anyone who criticized her was a nasty fat shamer. Lizzo claimed to be a warrior for “body positivity” and insisted her crusade for blubber was winning, saying, “People are finally celebrating medium and small girls and people who occasionally get rolls.” She argued everyone should “be positive about your body.” Fair enough. But telling folks it’s OK to be obese ignores medical reality — and she’s been called out on this before. A 6-foot man weighing 250 pounds loses three years of life, at…

FUNNYLADY Amy Schumer — who has yapped plenty about her yo-yo attempts to stay slim — has literally thrown in the towel and posed topless in her bathroom to show off her extra flab! “Still got it,” the 42-year-old actress trumpeted on her Instagram Story before explaining: “40 extra pounds.” Schumer loves to shock by blabbing about her blubber — including admitting she had to quit the trendy drug Ozempic because she “felt so sick and couldn’t play with my son.”…

AFTER soaring to stardom playing the big screen’s funny fat girl, Rebel Wilson dropped a whopping 80 pounds — but now she’s down in the dumps because she’s gained nearly half of the flab back due to work stress. The 43-year-old laugh riot toted 245 pounds on her 5-foot-3 frame for her hits like Bridesmaids and the Pitch Perfect comedies, but dropped to 165 in a dramatic weight loss. Now, Rebel confesses she’s piled 30 pounds back on due to “stress” and “it makes me feel bad about myself. It shouldn’t, but it does.”…

BRUNO MARS, 38, won’t be singing “I think I wanna marry you” to galpal of 13 years JESSICA CABAN anytime soon. They’re on the rocks and living separate lives after spending Christmas apart! Fallen celeb and accused cannibal ARMIE HAMMER’s engagement to IT consultant MARINA GRIS, 26, apparently ended shortly after the 37-year-old proposed. They were together for only a few months after his divorce from ELIZABETH CHAMBERS. Ex-supermodel BEVERLY JOHNSON, 71, who had an ill-fated fling with accused sex creep CHRIS NOTH, secretly wed beau BRIAN MAILLIAN, a 73-year-old financier, in Sin City. Bachelor host JESSE PALMER, 45, and wife EMELY FARDO welcomed a baby girl a few weeks back. FOX News has stopped taking ads from MyPillow pitchman MIKE LINDELL, who’s up to his keister in former President…

JUICED-UP Jennifer Lopez is going all out to spice up her marriage by ordering hubby Ben Affleck to learn the ancient art of tantric sex, which turned rocker Sting into a notorious god of love, sources tattle. Sting, 72, still boasts of having tantric sex with his wife, Trudie Styler, that goes on for hours and hours — and spies say J.Lo, 54, is eager for similar action now that things have gotten a bit stale as her marriage slides into the post-honeymoon phase. “Jennifer is always looking for creative ways to strengthen her bond with Ben and her latest idea is to hire a tantric coach to teach them how to take their lovemaking to the next level,” spills an insider. “It’s not that Ben doesn’t satisfy her, but…

SICKLY Shannen Doherty insists she never became a Hollywood movie star because she appeared in director Kevin Smith’s 1995 flick Mallrats, which was a total turkey! “There was no film career after that, which was a little brutal,” says the 52-year-old, who rose to fame on TV’s Beverly Hills, 90210 in the early ’90s. “It died. So did my film career. That was it!” Shannen, who later played a TV witch on Charmed, has been battling breast cancer since 2015 and the disease has now spread to her bones.…

ARIES March 21 - April 20 Financial fears are eased thanks to an innovative idea spotlighted by the Aquarius sun. It’s so simple you’re stunned. A decision to add more fresh foods to your diet could boost your love life, too. Don’t ignore that cutie at the produce stand. Say yes to a relative’s request — weekend fun follows! TAURUS April 21 - May 21 Your partner’s in a sour mood and nothing you say pleases them! Hint: Step back and spend time with your bestie for now. The planets promise your sweetie’s spirits will lift by the weekend! Book a date for a financial checkup or tax prep midweek — it leads to a much-needed money surprise! GEMINI May 22 - June 21 The urge strikes to clear the…