Globe July 1, 2024

HAIRY SITUATION Bedraggled NICK NOLTE looks down and out in Malibu — but the former Prince of Tides hunk has signed on to a new film by actor turned director Ed Harris! MONKEYING AROUND Busty Euphoria babe SYDNEY SWEENEY goes bananas while being towed by a jet ski near her new $13.5 million Florida mansion METER MAID CATHERINE BACH — Daisy Duke on TV’s The Dukes of Hazzard — ponies up to park while clothes shopping in California SWEEPS WEEK Former American Idol meanie SIMON COWELL pastes a smile on his face in London after the music mogul slapped up a sign seeking new boy band hopefuls CATCH YA LATER! Blubbery Bad Boys cutup MARTIN LAWRENCE throws out the first pitch in Miami before the Marlins take on the Tampa…

THE golden age romance between former Dallas hunk Patrick Duffy and Happy Days babe Linda Purl could be headed for the rocks as insiders say he’s tiring of the frenetic pace she’s set with her craving for constant change and travel. “They don’t seem to stay in one place for long,” spills an insider. “In the last month or two, they’ve been to Mexico, Tokyo and New York. It’s too much for Patrick.” Sources snitch the 75-year-old, who played good guy Bobby Ewing on the iconic primetime soap for 12 years until 1991, was content with his relaxed lifestyle as a widower until the 68-year-old beauty swept him off his feet and into her busy world. Patrick, whose wife, Carlyn Rosser, passed in 2017, and four-time divorcee Linda fell in…

EMBATTLED Alec Baldwin is being pushed by his fame-crazed wife, Hilaria, into starring in a family reality show just as he faces trial for involuntary manslaughter, say insiders, triggering fears the pressure could wreck his health and marriage! Sources say Hilaria, 40, is the driving force behind the TLC show The Baldwins, and while it doesn’t premiere until next year, the stress of working on it plus preparing for his July 9 trial has the 66-year-old 30 Rock star in a lather, say sources. “Hilaria’s fascinated with the spotlight and wants to turn herself and her family into superstars and not just through association with Alec,” spills an insider. “A lot of people around Alec think it’s bonkers for him to consider doing a reality show now when he’s absolutely…

QUEEN CAMILLA is terrified her cancer-stricken hubby, Charles, is working himself to death after sources say the stubborn king refuses to “do as he’s told” and defies doctors’ orders to slow down! The 75-year-old English monarch has been receiving outpatient treatment after being diagnosed with the deadly disease in February and has reportedly taken on a full workload since beginning treatment. Worried Camilla, 76, says His Majesty is “doing fine except he won’t slow down and won’t do what he’s told.” On June 6, frail Charles and Camilla traveled to France for a British memorial honoring the servicemen who stormed the Normandy beaches on D-Day in World War II. “It is with the most profound sense of gratitude that we remember them and all who served at that critical time,”…

STOIC songbird Celine Dion has described for the first time the agony she endures whenever she tries to sing since developing incapacitating stiff person syndrome — saying it feels like “somebody is strangling” her! The 56-year-old Canadian hitmaker canceled all her tour dates after she was diagnosed in 2022 with the rare autoimmune neurological disorder that causes muscles to spasm uncontrollably — eventually leading to a terrifying physical lockdown that robs victims of the ability to walk and talk. “It’s like somebody is strangling you,” reveals the My Heart Will Go On belter. “It’s like somebody is pushing your larynx/pharynx.” While there is no cure for SPS, Celine says she is following a regimen designed to pump the brakes on the steady creep of her symptoms — including “athletic, physical…

KINKY teacher Pamela Smart — imprisoned for life for plotting her husband’s 1990 murder with her teen lover — has finally admitted she’s to blame for the cold-blooded killing! After decades of adamant denials, Smart, 56, made the stunning confession in a video recorded at New York’s Bedford Hills Correctional Facility as part of her latest sentence-reduction attempt. In the clip, the manipulative predator — who’s been locked behind bars for 34 years — reveals she began to “dig deeper into her own responsibility” for the fatal shooting of Greggory Smart through her experience in a prison writing group that “encouraged us to go beyond and to spaces that we didn’t want to be in.” The femme fatale explains, “Going into those places — in those spaces is where I…