Table of contents for September 25, 2023 in Globe

HIP-HOP STAR Life isn’t going swimmingly for Aquaman’s AMBER HEARD, who injured her hip while training for the New York City Marathon! REIGN CHECK TV’s Equalizer QUEEN LATIFAH seems to be melting in the heat — but the normally cool star tries her best to freshen up her face IN THE HOOD Peculiar pop singer JUSTIN BIEBER bundles up in the Big Apple — even though winter is weeks away! HIGH-STRUNG FAN Moviemaker SPIKE LEE hoists a guitar tribute to late singer Prince at a Brooklyn street bash WINCE UPON A TIME Former screen siren SOPHIA LOREN wears a painful expression while leaving an airport in Italy THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK! HOLLYWOOD HAS-BEAN Reformed troublemaker SHIA LABEOUF downs a burrito before making his stage debut in David Mamet’s Henry…

PRO wrestling legend Hulk Hogan boasts he’s quit booze after four decades of benders — and lost 40 pounds! The 70-year-old says he’s been off alcohol for eight months, but concedes he may drink again. But if he does start bending his elbow, Hulk insists he won’t be guzzling as much as he did during his heyday when partying with fellow arm-twisters was all in a day’s work. “We’d have beers before the matches, beers after the matches,” he says. “It was kinda like part of the whole wrestling genre.” While Hogan insists he “doesn’t have an addictive personality,” he admits to “hitting the pain pills hard because I’d had to endure 25 procedures, including ten to my back.” But Hulk, who’s off the painkillers, credits his booze ban and return to…

ADELE TUNES UP FOR BABY NO. 2! Stork alert! ADELE’s got babies on the brain — and is already busy picking out tot names with her boyfriend of two years, sports agent RICH PAUL! During a girly chitchat with a pregnant fan during her Weekends with Adele concert residency in Las Vegas, the 35-year-old diva got up close and personal, gushing: “I really want to be a mom again SOON, so I’ve actually been writing a list! Every time I see a name that I like, I write it down in my phone.” The expectant first-time mommy asked the hitmaker to help choose a name for a girl, saying it was down to Spencer or Parker. Adele, mom to son ANGELO, 10, with ex-husband SIMON KONECKI, 49, blurted that “Rich really…

PAULA ABDUL The pop singer goes overboard with ruffles — but this ensemble lacks flourish! DIANE KRUGER The Visions star is stunning in a tweed two-piece complemented by a casual blazer BROOKE BURKE The fitness guru keeps the summer season going strong in a sweet spaghetti-strapped maxi SOFIA VERGARA The America’s Got Talent judge won’t win any prizes for this zany zebra-print jumpsuit! HAILEY BIEBER The model is runway ready in a crimson minidress and matching patent leather mules…

COUNTRY queen Reba McEntire is putting her fancy touches on The Voice as a full-time coach for season 24 — but the Consider Me Gone singer has a long history with the NBC hit. She initially appeared on the singing contest in 2011 as a battle adviser to Blake Shelton’s team — after passing up an invitation to take one of the reality show’s red chairs for its TV launch! The Oklahoma native, 68, has also served as a series mentor multiple times and was named 2023’s mega mentor! Here are ten things you don’t know about the Nashville icon. 1 She’s the daughter of Clark McEntire — a three-time world champion steer roper, who was inducted into the National Rodeo Hall of Fame in 1988. 2 While enrolled at…

CALL it assault by cheeseburger! Authorities say an irate off-duty Miami-Dade police officer attacked his wife with the McDonald’s fast-food favorite after getting into a spat about finances and infidelity in their Miramar, Fla., home. Andres Perez, 34, “stormed into the kitchen in [his wife’s] direction throwing a McDonald’s cheeseburger at her,” according to a police report. He allegedly followed up the burger toss with a punch behind her ear. The couple have been married for three years, and they have children together. Perez was charged with misdemeanor battery and bonded out of jail, but he’s in hot water at work. “It is disheartening to learn one of my officers was arrested for a domestic violence incident,” says Miami-Dade Police Interim Director Stephanie Daniels. “This type of behavior will not…

A SUSPICIOUS investigative lockdown in the mysterious death of Michelle and Barack Obama’s personal chef has sparked speculation the tragedy may be something more sinister — and police are covering it up! Strapping 45-year-old Tafari Campbell — who’d been with the Obamas since their White House days — was said to be a capable swimmer, yet he lost his life in just eight feet of water while paddleboarding near the ex-president’s summer home on Martha’s Vineyard. Officially, his death was ruled an accidental drowning in a sealed autopsy report, but Massachusetts State Police are refusing to release any details of their investigation or the name of an eyewitness! “It doesn’t add up,” says an insider. “This is a relatively young and strong guy with no apparent health issues. No one…

FUNNY girl Sandra Bernhard is being accused of cheating charities in an explosive lawsuit filed by her former manager James Sliman, who charges she forced him to do “many unscrupulous things” before canning him without warning! Bernhard, who played one of the first bisexual characters on network TV — Nancy Bartlett in the sitcom Roseanne — even ripped off LGBTQ+ organizations, claims Sliman. “In dozens of instances, maybe hundreds, Miss Bernhard coerced me into sending phony invoices from her to charity organizations, LGBT charity organizations, television shows, documentary filmmakers who wanted to interview her,” Sliman says in court documents. “Whether or not she was already being paid a fee, she would insist I get them to also cover costs of her hair and makeup people. When they agreed, she would tell…

MARGARITA maven Jimmy Buffett left behind a $550 million empire built on songs, casinos, eateries, hotels and novels, but at one point when he was struggling, he considered turning pirate and jumping into the drug trade — until he nearly died in a run-in with real smugglers. Before hitting the big time, Buffett, who died Sept. 1 at age 76, ended up in Key West in the early ’70s after washing out in Nashville. He lived on a boat, scribbled songs in hammocks and sang in bars while drugs, booze and sex flowed, according to Ryan White in his bio A Good Life All the Way. Just as his huge hit Margaritaville was coming out in 1977, the still-struggling singer noted drugs flowed into the U.S. through the Florida Keys…

DOOMED child actress HEATHER O’ROURKE plays the little moppet who gets dragged inside a TV set by demons in the 1982 supernatural horror classic Poltergeist. The spook movie played on real-estate anxieties as ghosts and worse rise up from beneath a badly located housing development that’s blocking the spirits’ eternal slumber. But real life was scarier. Dominique Dunne, who played the family’s older daughter, was murdered later that year and Heather’s tragic death in 1988 led many to regard the entire Poltergeist franchise as cursed!…

RETIRED jock Tom Brady is so taken with catwalk stunner Irina Shayk the former football superstar insists he’s not a bit jealous over her recent topless vacation with baby daddy Bradley Cooper! In fact, the 46-year-old seven time Super Bowl winner calls posted photos of the barechested beauty on the beach and a snap of the shirtless A Star Is Born stud “cool.” Still, tattlers blab Irina, 37, and Bradley, 48, were touchy feely during their vacation with six year-old daughter Lea in sunny Italy — but the torches they once carried for each other have burned out. A source insists Brady, who shares a son with ex-galpal actress Bridget Moynahan and two kids with former wife and supermodel Gisele Bündchen, believes in close families. ‘Tom thinks it is great…

ARESPECTED royal biographer has dropped a shocking bombshell revealing why Prince Harry’s wife, Meghan, refuses to return to England — he insists the snooty former TV B-actress “won’t want to curtsy” to her sister-in-law, future queen Kate! While Harry, 39, has previously made several solo trips to Britain, including a Sept. 7 visit for the WellChild Awards in London, his American-born wife is keeping her distance. In fact, the California girl joined Harry in Germany two days after his London stopover! Royalty expert Andrew Morton, author of the 1992 bestseller Diana: Her Own True Story, wasn’t surprised Harry’s wife shunned her hubby’s homeland, insisting he doesn’t see “Meghan Markle curtsying to Kate Middleton as a runner.” His observation only reinforces tales of bad blood between the 42-year-old former Deal or…

FACING an ugly divorce where estranged hubby Sam Asghari is looking for big bucks, troubled Britney Spears has some good news — her oldest son is turning 18 so she’ll save a bunch on child support. A source notes the 41-year-old Womanizer singer is “tired” of shelling out a whopping 20Gs a month in child support — or $240,000 a year —to ex-hubby Kevin Federline, 45, who’s had full custody of their sons, Sean and Jayden, 17, since 2007 when the songbird went wacky and ended up in a court-ordered conservatorship. Now that Sean turns 18 on Sept. 14 and Jayden is just a year away from being an adult too, Britney’s looking forward to the huge payments ending. The Toxic singer will still give to her sons, but the dough…

OPPENHEIMER beauty FLORENCE PUGH, 27, is loud and proud about her famous physical assets — flaws and all! “I’m not trying to hide the cellulite on my thigh or the squidge in between my arm and my boob. I would much rather lay it all out,” dishes the actress, whose jaw-dropping nude love scenes helped make the A-bomb movie one of the summer’s hottest flicks. “I think the scariest thing for me are the instances where people have been upset that I’ve shown ‘too much’ of myself.” Flo is still freaked over the top-heavy backlash she generated by wearing a sheer peek-a-boo designer gown to a celeb event. “When everything went down with the Valentino pink dress a year ago, my nipples were on display through a piece of fabric,…

JENNIFER ANISTON’s ex-hubby Justin Theroux could be in for a nearly $5 million windfall after winning a harassment lawsuit against his neighbor in a ritzy Greenwich Village building. A Manhattan judge ruled Norman Resnicow, 76, was guilty of two counts of private nuisance against the Mulholland Drive actor and then-wife Aniston when they were renovating their upstairs apartment in 2017. Resnicow became a pest, peeping into windows and harassing workers. With the ruling, Theroux will be asking for $4.58 million in damages.…

 ELVIS’ ex-wife, Priscilla Presley, still insists she never had sex with the King during their courtship, which began when she was 14 and the Hound Dog was 25. The 78-year-old actress claims she was a 21-year-old virgin when she married the rocker — and stuck to her story at the recent premiere of Elvis and Me, based on her autobiographical book of the same title, at the Venice Film Festival. She says: “Elvis would pour his heart out to me. His hopes, his fears. That was really our connection. “People think, oh, it was sex. Not at all. He also respected the fact I was only 14 years old. I never had sex with him” at that time.…

CRAFTY Tom Hanks worked some Forrest Gump magic when he walked away with as much as $60 million from the Oscar-winning film — even though its budget was just $55 million! Hanks, 67, prophetically negotiated a clause in his contract to earn a portion of the 1994 movie’s box-office take rather than just a flat acting fee — and it paid off handsomely when the flick raked in a whopping $678.2 million worldwide. Tom and director Robert Zemeckis, 71, also got bonuses by splashing out of pocket for some filming Paramount Studios didn’t want to finance — including the iconic bus bench scenes where Forrest tells his tale to various strangers. “We were just shooting fodder for a possible narrative piece of it,” recalls Hanks. “And it ends up being…

PLAYBOY boss Hugh Hefner’s widow, Crystal, is the latest of his gaggle of girlfriends and wives to speak up about the horror show of living with the wrinkled magazine mogul, and behind all the layers of phony glitz one thing is clear — the dirty dude really didn’t respect, or probably even like, women! Ironically, before his death six years ago at age 91, the skin mag sultan claimed he put gals on a pedestal by showing them in all their photo-retouched glory as Playboy centerfolds. But that was a sham. Hef insisted Playboy was dedicated to the cool, successful man and everything in the magazine was designed to bolster that image — exotic vacations, elegant fashions and gourmet food. But that was just wrapping to sell his real product,…

COSMETICS queen Kylie Jenner has finally gone public with her new love — Dune hero Timothée Chalamet — as the sweethearts cozied up at a Beyoncé concert in L.A. The 26-year-old Kardashian reality beauty and the 27-year-old Call Me by Your Name actor chatted and flirted — with Kylie breaking up in laughter at one point — at the star studded Sept. 4 performance also enjoyed by celebs like Adele and Justin and Hailey Bieber. Word is the couple have been dating on the down low since April and their appearance together crushes recent buzz Timothée dumped Jenner, who has two tots with exbeau and rapper Travis Scott. Sparks reportedly first flew between the TV diva and movie star after they met at Jean Paul Gaultier’s fashion bash in January.…

POP star Joe Jonas’ marriage to Game of Thrones queen Sophie Turner is on the chopping block — and insiders worry a messy custody war is looming over their two toddlers. Although the singer was still wearing his wedding ring in public days after the split went public, Joe’s lawyers filed divorce papers even while he’s trying to keep things as friendly as possible with the 27-year-old strawberry blonde, who played Sansa Stark in the hit HBO sword and sorcery series. In fact, Joe crooned Hesitate, a love song he wrote for Sophie, at a Sept. 3 Jonas Brothers concert in Austin, Texas, where she was also spotted. But just two days later, the divorce papers were filed and now insiders don’t predict a happy ending, especially since Joe believes…

In a case of the groom getting cold feet, Summer House stars LINDSAY HUBBARD, 37, and CARL RADKE, 38 called off their engagement — just two weeks after the blindsided bride’s bridal shower. “The two were set to get married in November, but Carl told Lindsay he couldn’t move forward with the wedding,” spills one who knows. Law & Order star ODELYA HALEVI, 34, got engaged to New York real estate advisor AARON MAZOR. Frustrated over sound system problems, rapper 50 CENT, 48, hurled a mic into the crowd at his L.A concert, resulting in a female radio host getting a gruesome head injury. He calls it an accident. Tripped-up Only Murders in the Building star SELENA GOMEZ, 31, broke her hand and needed surgery. “I was in a long dress…

GLOBAL sensation Taylor Swift has money, fame, fans and a fabulous career, but behind the enchanted fairy dust, sources say the pop princess is wracked by torment! Now insiders are revealing tragic tales behind Taylor’s public crying fits on her blockbuster Eras stadium tour, her struggles with an eating disorder and her heartbreaking loneliness even as she smashes almost all sales records in the music industry. Sources insist the 33-year-old singer has been an emotional mess since her breakup with actor Joe Alwyn, 32, after six years of dating, although some members of Team Taylor claim everything is hunky dory. “But she’s been shedding tears when singing her love songs on stage,” dishes an insider. “There’s no doubt these and other songs remind Taylor of Joe. She’s still not over…

LIFE for Miley Cyrus isn’t all sunshine and twerking — the sassy Wrecking Ball singer needed a shrink to deal with childhood stardom! Now 30, Miley attracted both fame and haters at 13 in the Disney Channel sitcom Hannah Montana. “I am a great believer in therapy to help heal painful memories,” she reveals. “When I look back at the criticism I received as a child, it has only been these last few years that I have understood just how wrong that was!”…

SCANDALOUS Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas has filed new financial disclosure reports revealing three more trips paid for by his billionaire buddy, GOP donor Harlan Crow, amid mounting calls for his resignation. Hoping to blunt criticism, the secretive judge revealed his pal paid for his February flight from Dallas to Virginia after an ice storm slammed Texas. Crow also underwrote Thomas’ travel expenses to speak at a conservative conference in May — in a Dallas convention center owned by Crow’s real estate company. Then in July he covered the cost of Thomas’ trip from his home state to the Adirondacks in New York. As GLOBE revealed, Thomas is being pushed to quit for covering up millions in secret loans, vacays and dirty business deals with Crow and other GOP fat cats…

HOT band Coldplay’s ex-manager is suing the group for $12.5 million, claiming the rockers “refused to pay him for his work” on upcoming albums and tours! In the breach of contract lawsuit, Dave Holmes says he feels “betrayed” by the band that dumped him in 2022 after 22 years of steering them to the top. A representative for Coldplay — which includes frontman Chris Martin, who “consciously uncoupled” from ex-wife Gwyneth Paltrow in 2016 — says the claims “are being vigorously disputed.” “The only time a woman really succeeds in changing a man is when he is a baby.”—Natalie Wood…

COMEDY star Rainn Wilson was a laugh riot in TV’s The Office, but he now confesses to being eaten alive by dark depression from an abusive childhood — and spending 22 years in therapy to finally turn the corner. All the while he was playing goofy Dwight Schrute on the beloved sitcom that ran from 2005 to 2013, Rainn reveals he was “unhappy” and plagued by “chronic dissatisfaction.” “I experienced a lot of pain in my life, and a lot of suffering with anxiety and depression and addiction,” admits the 57-year-old. He pins his trauma on his childhood, which turned bad when his mother “took off” before he was two and he was raised by his dad and stepmom in a “loveless shell of a house.” Rainn says he suffered…

A PLUCKY teenager who is lucky to be alive revisited the scene of her bloody ordeal — a Florida beach where a ten-foot bull shark viciously tore her right leg off while she was splashing around in the surf last year! Although Addison Bethea, now 18 and pregnant, never saw the man-eater who devoured her limb, she says, “I remember feeling everything” about being dragged beneath the surface of the shallow waters off Keaton Beach in a geyser of blood. “When you try to scream and nothing comes out — that’s what I felt like,” she says. “So I belted out as loud as I could, so someone heard, and I didn’t just die in the water!” She saw the thrashing tail of the fiendish fish as it tore into…

TV COWBOY Kevin Costner is riding high after a judge slashed his child support to estranged wife Christine Baumgartner by more than half, but the sad star still describes the breakup as “horrible” and says he still loves the hot handbag designer. The 68-year-old Yellowstone hunk’s victory came when a judge slashed Christine’s demand for $161,592 monthly support for their kids, Cayden, 16, Hayes, 14, and Grace, 13, to just $63,209 every four weeks — or about $750,000 a year. That’s peanuts compared to 49-year-old Christine’s original $248,000-a-month request following her May divorce filing — and Costner’s estimated $400 million wealth. He reportedly earned $23.5 million last year. However, former model Christine, wed to Costner for 18 years, signed a prenup, which she’s fighting. But under terms of the prenup,…

IN 1901 Annie Edson Taylor became the first person to survive a deliberate barrel ride over Niagara Falls, which engineers say will cease to exist in 50,000 years due to erosion of the rocks. ANCIENT Egyptians invented toothpaste — a concoction of ox hooves, eggshells, ashes and volcanic pumice — about 3,575 years ago. They applied the goop with brushes made from frayed twigs. RUTH WAKEFIELD, owner of the Toll House in Whitman, Mass., invented the chocolate chip cookie in 1930 while experimenting with Colonial-era recipes for Butter Drop Do biscuits. The treat went viral in 1936. RABBITS and hares are two different species of rodent. Rabbits can be domesticated, but hares tend to be nasty and don’t mix well with people. Frightened hares can cover a distance equal to…