Table of contents for January 29, 2024 in Globe

BASKET CASE Court jester ADAM SANDLER hustles his way through a pickup game in Arizona in clownishly oversized duds THE BEST CELEB PHOTOS EVERY WEEK! GOING BUST Buxom Buccaneers babe CHRISTINA HENDRICKS seems one breath away from popping her corset top! WAGGING HER CHINS Former rom-com queen KATE HUDSON is in-crease-ingly distant from her days as a smooth-faced starlet WHATTA SNOOZER! Messy movie hunk COLIN FARRELL looks like he’s rolled out of bed to run errands in his jammies! SILVER LINING Aging MELISSA GILBERT — Little House on the Prairie’s Half-Pint — has ditched the dye to embrace her grays RAISING THE BARS Pint-sized comic KEVIN HART proves his mettle in Florida while plugging his heist film Lift…

LOVE-ADDLED Patrick Duffy is planning to get hitched to Linda Purl this year — without the safety net of a prenup! Pals of the widower Dallas star, 74, are delighted he’s found love with the 68-year-old Happy Days alum, but they think Duffy is deluded by not protecting his $20 million fortune, sources squeal. “His buddies just think it’s bonkers to go into a new marriage without the protection of a legal agreement, regardless of how much they love each other,” dishes an insider. “Few people ever go into a marriage thinking it’s not going to work out, but divorce statistics prove otherwise!” The TV stars reconnected after many years during the pandemic, developing their romance slowly over Zoom calls, until Patrick drove 20 hours from Oregon to see Linda in…

COURAGEOUS crooner Michael Bolton is bravely vowing to beat long odds after emergency surgery to remove a brain tumor. The 70-year-old Spark of Light singer revealed his devastating diagnosis on Jan. 5, writing on social media, “Just before the holidays, it was discovered that I had a brain tumor, which required immediate surgery. “Thanks to my incredible medical team, the surgery was a success. I am now recuperating at home and surrounded by the tremendous love and support of my family.” Sources say relatives and friends are rallying around the Grammy winner, who shares daughters Isa, 48, Holly, 46, and Taryn, 44, with ex-wife Maureen, 62, and also has six grandchildren. The Missing You Now singer refuses to get down over his fragile situation, according to a pal, who says,…

Spotlight stealer BRAYDEN BOWERS, 25, proposed to his barely known girlfriend and Bachelor contestant CHRISTINA MANDRELL, 28, after going public last month. He popped the question during the live Golden Wedding broadcast just minutes before THERESA NIST, 70, walked down the aisle to marry GERRY TURNER, 72. The Real Housewives of Potomac’s MIA THORNTON, 39, went Instagram official with boo INCOGNITO, a radio host who reportedly was her high school sweetheart. Ain’t nothin’ but a heartache for AJ MCLEAN, 46, as the Backstreet Boy announced he separated from wife ROCHELLE DEANNA, 42, over a year ago and now they’re officially divorcing. The 1928 Steamboat Willie version of MICKEY MOUSE is now public domain and a horror film with the iconic character is already set to be made in the spring. Actor…

FORMER Baywatch bathing beauty Nicole Eggert reveals she’s living in terror with stage 2 breast cancer as she waits for docs to decide whether she gets chemo or radiation therapy before or after surgery. The 52-year-old single mom of daughters Dilyn, 26, and Keegan, 12, says since her December diagnosis, “I have panics where I’m like, just get this out of me. You sit there and it’s in you and you’re like, every second that passes and it’s inside of me. It’s growing, and you’re just like, you just want it out.”…

CHARISMATIC Lisa Vanderpump, 63, has parlayed her popularity on The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills into her very own reality TV spin-offs, such as Vanderpump Dogs, Overserved with Lisa Vanderpump and the longtime hit Vanderpump Rules, which is beginning its 11th season on Bravo. Here are ten things you don’t know about the London-born socialite and restaurateur. 1 She made her film debut at 13 as an uncredited extra in the 1973 romantic comedy A Touch of Class. foot water ski at 16. 2 She learned to barefoot water ski at 16. 3 She appeared in the ’80s music videos Poison Arrow and Mantrap for the pop band ABC. 4 The time she felt the most afraid was during the 1994 Northridge earthquake in L.A. 5 She lived in the…

A CRAZED criminal shocked a Las Vegas courtroom when he leaped over the judge’s bench during his sentencing and brutally beat the screaming jurist to a pulp! Courtroom video captured every horrifying moment of the brazen beatdown where defendant Deobra Delone Redden, 30, can be seen tackling Judge Mary Kay Holthus and appearing to crack her skull before dragging her to the floor and raining blows on the helpless woman. A melee quickly ensued, with court officers and staff piling on to grab the goon as he punched and cursed the judge, who can be heard pleading for mercy as he ripped out hanks of her hair! Moments earlier, while hoping for bail on an aggravated battery charge, Redden described himself as “a person who never stops trying to do…

DAYS of Our Lives alum Nadia Bjorlin was in the crosshairs of twisted predator Jeffrey Epstein at age 13 when the late pedophile offered to be her godfather! That’s the word of Fary Bjorlin, who says at the time of the predator’s offer her “skinny little” daughter looked no older than ten and was still reeling from the recent death of her dad! Nadia, now 43, was an aspiring child singer at Michigan’s Interlochen Music Center, where Epstein was a hotshot donor. Fary confides she initially trusted Ghislaine Maxwell — the perv’s incarcerated madam — who was “always calling” the family home. But the mom reveals she found Epstein’s offers of mentorship for her young kid “creepy!” Fary’s name appeared in the latest released court docs related to the moneyman…

NOW extinct, Neanderthals commingled with modern man about 60,000 years ago, leaving us with traits from the prehistoric folks! Genetic engineer Sebnem Unluisler says today’s humans get up to 2 percent of their DNA from Neanderthals—and six traits reveal if you have genes from the species, which died out 40,000 years ago, including: • SMOKING — Neanderthals lived long before tobacco use, but DNA that helped them adapt to new surroundings now increases the risk of nicotine addiction. • THICK STRAIGHT HAIR — Unluisler says “thicker or straighter hair” and red tresses are linked to Neanderthals. • EARLY RISER — Vanderbilt University researchers found “16 variants associated with early rising in genomes from Neanderthals.” • BIG NOSES — Researchers believe longer noses helped Neanderthals adapt to colder air outside Africa. • COVID INFECTIONS — A…

GLOBE’S NO-NONSENSE OPINION PAGE FAME whore Kanye West continues to prove he’s a self-serving creep by repeatedly doing and saying outrageous stuff so he can be in the limelight for all the wrong reasons. The vile stunts this slug has pulled over the past dozen years boggle the mind, but the latest — an 18-month stint as a vocal anti-Semite — seems to have finally sealed his fate. The Jan. 12 release of his new Vultures album containing the lyrics “How I’m anti-Semitic? I just f**ked a Jewish b*tch” has been postponed indefinitely, which apparently hits him where it hurts. In the wallet. So Kanye put out a message in Hebrew saying, “It was never my intention to hurt or disrespect, and I deeply regret any pain I may have…

AFTER director Wes Craven made his debut with The Last House on the Left, everyone wanted him to make another horror flick — so he looked up “terrible things” at the library and chose a Scottish cannibal legend as the basis for his 1977 horrorfest The Hills Have Eyes. But the shoot was as scary as the script! Shot with a camera borrowed from a porno house, the movie was made in the desert, where temperatures soared to 120 degrees and could have been fatal for star MICHAEL BERRYMAN, who was born with 26 birth defects — including no sweat glands!…

PITTSBURGH residents Clayton and Carrie Law were in deep doo-doo when their pooch, Cecil, devoured $4,000 cash. Cecil vomited up $1,500 before leaving a big cash deposit. The couple cleaned up the money before heading to the bank. THE state capitol building in Jackson, Miss., is built on a dormant volcano that last erupted when dinosaurs were still roaming the planet. HEADS up! Beer sales in America plunged to a 24-year low in 2023 due to the Bud Light boycott triggered by its ad campaign featuring transgender Dylan Mulvaney and millennials preferring liquor to suds. Bud Light sales alone were down 28 percent. THE U.S. Navy’s Marine Mammal Program has been using dolphins and sea lions to protect bases by chasing uninvited scuba divers to the surface since 1959! Dolphins…

PLASTIC fantastic Kim Kardashian is constantly nipping and tucking for the perfect bod, but the excess hair that keeps sprouting on her furry lip has the reality queen at her wit’s end, insiders tattle. The 43-year-old TV star triggered buzz about the manly mustache after posting a social media video that showed telltale signs of too much lip filler. “People have been roasting her for having a dark line on her upper lip and guessing it’s from too much filler,” snitches a source. “Normally Kim can shake off all the online hate, but this is really upsetting because she struggles with dark hair on her upper lip. She’s spent thousands on laser treatments and electrolysis, but no matter how much she tries to zap it away, it always seems to…

SONGBIRD Taylor Swift is in a total meltdown — and her current fairytale romance with NFL football stud Travis Kelce is being thrown for a loop — after a prominent newspaper columnist suggested she’s a closet lesbian or secret bisexual! Ironically, while the 34-year-old pop music queen built her billion-dollar career on tunes about her failed romances with a string of guys, she’s raging that her fans have no need to know the truth about her sexuality, insiders dish. “This has really touched a nerve with Taylor because she’s sick and tired of people gossiping about her sexuality,” dishes a friend. But critics claim the thrush has only herself to blame for the drama, citing revealing photos of her make-out sessions with switch-hitting model Karlie Kloss, her intimate relationship with…

BACHELORETTE’S THORNY DIVORCE Dumped Bachelorette RACHEL LINDSAY, 38, has only her ruthless ambition to blame for her divorce, according to her money-grabbing ex BRYAN ABASOLO, 43. The beauty got hitched to the chiropractor in 2019 after he won her heart — and the final rose — on the dating show. But the bone-cruncher, who claims to work 12 hours a day, filed for divorce right after New Year’s Eve and asked for spousal support even though Rachel recently quit her full-time gig on TV’s Extra. Insiders blab he got fed up with her repeatedly changing jobs and moving so she could score her “dream” gig co-hosting The View. “Bryan got frustrated with Rachel’s unwillingness to commit to one place and start a family,” says the source. “One minute she’d say…

REBECCA HALL The Awakening star is a frightening fashion fail in a sheer horror show of a dress SHERRI SHEPHERD The talk show host’s mermaid-style gown doesn’t net points with its fishy-looking print MORGAN FAIRCHILD The former Falcon Crest beauty looks ready to kick back in some glam jammies MARIA CONCHITA ALONSO The High Noon firecracker loses her spark by covering up in a boring black blazer DA’VINE JOY RANDOLPH The Tony-nominated Ghost gal scores a standing ovation for her flattering sequined fit…

HEARTLESS Florida nurse Tamesha Knighten murdered her neighbor’s pets with pesticide — offing two cats, a pregnant Chihuahua and the pooch’s eight unborn puppies, lawmen bark. According to the Polk County Sheriff’s Office, Knighten, 51, previously threatened to kill the critters if they kept straying into her Lakeland yard — and finally made good on the promise! Investigators say the two felines — Luna and Pancake — were found foaming at the mouth during their last painful moments as Knighten outrageously suggested one might be choking on a frog! Not much later, the animals’ owner — whose name was kept confidential by cops — discovered lifeless dog Daisy. Sheriff Grady Judd explains by then seven of the unborn pups had already perished — and the eighth was in “horrific distress” and “immediately”…

A RETIRED judge’s explosive theory threatens to shatter accepted history with the bombshell claim hero pilot Charles Lindbergh faked the kidnapping of his toddler son and watched the boy perish as a guinea pig during a gruesome experimental operation! Retired jurist and author Lise Pearlman believes the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic was disappointed when his sickly son Charles Jr. was born with an enlarged heart and oversized head. She says Lindbergh turned the 20-month-old child over to his pal, Nobel Prize–winning French scientist Dr. Alexis Carrel, for a series of untested surgeries to make the tyke a perfect physical specimen. Carrel believed in white superiority and weeding out “weaklings” who tainted the racial strain. “My theory is that the child was operated on,” Pearlman says. “We…

GOLF icon Tiger Woods’ split with sponsor Nike after 27 years has left fans shaken and mourning the end of a sports era. The 48-year-old golf legend first began wearing items with the company’s famed Swoosh symbol when he was just 20 as part of a mind-boggling $500 million deal. Amazingly, fans used to seeing Tiger in Nike duds and shoes were devastated over the split. “Can anyone imagine Tiger in anything but Nike?” posts one. A clue that something was afoot came when Woods showed up at the 2022 Masters wearing FootJoy shoes instead of Nike after his careershattering car crash. He explained, “I have very limited mobility with the rods and plates and screws that are in my leg. I needed something that allowed me to be more…

CLINGY Hoda Kotb is desperate to rekindle her romance with ex-fiancé Joel Schiffman, according to tipsters who say the Today host’s former honey is only interested in fleeting hookups — and it’s messing with her head! “The reunion they were talking about for a while doesn’t seem to be happening, and she’s pretty upset,” dishes an insider. Hoda, 59, and the financier, 65, were coupled up for eight years and engaged for two — but in January 2022 she revealed their relationship hit the rocks! Moles say the lonely news-gal has pined for Joel ever since — and some thought the exes were on their way to a rematch because of their friendly outings with adopted daughters Haley Joy, 6, and Hope Catherine, 4. “All Hoda wanted was to be…

PRINCE William’s fairytale marriage to Princess Kate is hanging by a royal thread amid a behind-the-scenes battle over his control-freak ways, sources tell GLOBE. Despite her smiling public persona, the 42-year-old future queen is so desperately unhappy at how William rules their family with an iron fist she’s threatening divorce, reveals a high-level palace source. “Kate is at breaking point,” dishes the royal insider. “They’re having terrible rows over almost everything, and their marriage is cracking under the pressure!” It’s been 12 years since the two walked down the aisle at Westminster Abbey, and the once happy marriage is said to have taken a nasty turn since Charles was crowned king, making William, 41, next in line. “Since William became heir to the throne, his ego’s been in overdrive,”…

Words in the lists appear in alphabetical order and are sorted by length. They need to be put into their correct positions in the grid. You’ll have to think a few steps ahead, as sometimes several words will fit in the same space!\ WORD BOX 3 LETTERS UNO WII 4 LETTERS BALL IPAD IPOD KITE LEGO XBOX YO-YO 5 LETTERS ATARI FURBY G.I.JOE HE-MAN JACKS JENGA SIMON TEKNO 6 LETTERS PUPPET SLINKY 7 LETTERS CRAYOLA FRISBEE GAME BOY PET ROCK POKEMON WEEBLES 8 LETTERS HULA HOOP JUMP ROPE MONOPOLY 9 LETTERS HOT WHEELS TEDDY BEAR TINKERTOY 10 LETTERS ERECTOR SET HATCHIMALS 11 LETTERS LINCOLN LOGS 12 LETTERS LIONEL TRAINS CRISS CROSS…

A HEARTLESS hubby has been charged with brutally bludgeoning his elderly wife to death with a hammer — and dumping her body in a firepit in their yard! Nashville resident Joseph Glynn, 70, confessed to the toolshed tragedy — and to lying to his wife’s kids, telling them Jackie Glynn, 76, had left him because she was “terminally ill,” according to the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. But Jackie’s frantic children checked with the family doctor, who told them she had been right as rain! The kids then went to cops, frantic to find out what had become of their missing mom. Investigators say they dug up Jackie’s corpse on the couple’s seven-acre property, where she’d been stuffed in a cargo box at the bottom of a pit contractors dug at Joe’s…

POWER-HUNGRY pedophile Jeffrey Epstein was blackmailing Donald Trump with damning tapes showing the ex-president having sex with enslaved girls, according to explosive court documents recently unsealed by a federal judge! Now, political tipsters tell GLOBE if such vile recordings come to light and prove the disturbing allegations are true, defiant Donald, 77, can kiss his current White House bid goodbye — as well as his 19-year marriage to wife Melania! “Trump is going to deny, deny, deny, as he always has, and blame the fake news media for a slanted account,” notes one insider. “But if there is indeed video, photographs or other evidence, his goose is cooked!” Epstein sex slave Sarah Ransome — one of many underage gals who say they were forced to bed the late financier and…

LADY GAGA is more than a sizzling pop star, she’s also so hot in the kitchen her beau Michael Polansky is whining he’s piled on 35 pounds from wolfing down her steamy home cooking. The 37-year-old songstress, aka Stefani Germanotta, and Polansky, 46, had split in May, but got back together in August and she began fattening him up. Squeals a source, “Stefani began getting cooking tips from her father, Joe,” who owns the Joanne Trattoria Italian eatery in New York. She learned how to make homemade pasta from scratch and mouthwatering meals like asiagostuffed gnocchi with vodka sauce and calamari and rigatoni puttanesca. “Gaga works out a lot, so despite eating what she cooks, she manages to keep from putting on weight,” says the source. “But Michael, who has…

BRUTAL Blade Runner Oscar Pistorius is a free man after the double-amputee Olympic sprinter served only half his 13-year sentence for killing his gorgeous girlfriend in a jealous rage! The South African slayer, 37, slunk out of Atteridgeville Correctional Centre — protected by officials from protesters — to live on the fortified estate of a wealthy, ultra-religious uncle outside Pretoria. Once hailed as a shining hope for his gravity-defying races on bladed, specially fitted prosthetics, gun enthusiast Oscar — who had both legs amputated below the knees as a baby — was eventually found guilty of murder after shooting Reeva Steenkamp, 29, four times through their bathroom door on Valentine’s Day 2013. He has insisted it was an accident. Sources say the former athlete begins his early release as a…