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FOLLICLE-challenged Elton John has been wearing wigs for decades, but sources say the legendary singer’s closest pals are begging him to ditch the rug and embrace his chrome dome! “His hairpiece looks like a wounded animal curled up on his head and died there, and it only gets worse when he sweats during concerts,” dishes an insider. “It’s time for him to let go of his insecurities and be honest about his baldness. It looks downright silly for a 75-year-old man to wear a rug!” The Rocket Man has admitted to experimenting with hair transplant surgery in the 1970s after his thinning blond locks deserted him — but ultimately decided an orange-tinged toupee was tops! Still, insiders gab that no matter how much his friends ride him, he’ll never flip his wig. “His vanity is…

CATTY supermodel Gisele Bündchen is doing a victory dance with toyboy beau Joaquim Valente after humiliated ex-hubby Tom Brady and his Tampa Bay Buccaneers were punted from the NFL playoffs, insiders dish. “Gisele was mocking the way Tom played after his team was beaten by the Dallas Cowboys,” a source spills. “She’d told him he was too old to play anymore, and his decision to come back for another season was the reason she dumped him. “Now she’s gotten the last laugh.” The same day Brady, 45, fizzled on the field, gorgeous Gisele was working up a sweat during a run in Costa Rica with hunky 34-year-old jiu-jitsu instructor Joaquim. “She’s really rubbing his nose in it,” the source blabs. “She wants Tom to know she thinks he did her — and their two…

✚ NIGHT Court star John Larroquette, 75, didn’t make a killing with his first movie gig narrating the prologue for the 1974 slasher flick The Texas Chain Saw Massacre. John says director Tobe Hooper paid him in pot! ✚ CAREY MULLIGAN is pregnant! The Promising Young Woman beauty, 37, and hubby Marcus Mumford, 35 — lead singer of the folk band Mumford & Sons — are expecting their third kid. The childhood pen pals wed in 2012. ✚ PRODUCER Marvin Gaye III, 57 — son of soul legend Marvin Gaye, who was fatally shot by his own father in 1984 — was charged with domestic violence and assault with a deadly weapon after a spat with his wife and a cousin.…

AMBITIOUS TV cutthroat Joy Behar is wasting no time in going after shamed Amy Robach’s vacated chair on Good Morning America, insiders exclusively tell The National ENQUIRER. “Joy is already making phone calls to producers and telling them they’d be crazy not to hire her to be the new face of the program,” spills a source. Amy, 49, and her co-star T.J. Holmes, 45, were both banned from the broadcast after their shocking extramarital affair was exposed — and insiders say ABC execs apparently are looking to replace the disgraced duo. The network is reportedly speaking with former CBS correspondent DeMarco Morgan to take over for T.J., and sources tattle The View host Joy, 80, feels she’d be the perfect replacement for Amy’s spot on the morning show’s spinoff GMA3. “Joy still thinks she’s…

MORALE is at an all-time low at NBC News and MSNBC after nearly 70 behind-the-scenes staffers were kicked to the curb — and the mass firing has left survivors fuming over cable host Rachel Maddow’s $30 million deal, sources snitch. MSNBC hotshot Maddow, 49, hauls home the hefty annual salary — despite whittling down her on-air responsibilities at the network to one day per week after inking her 2021 deal! “Rachel has gone from being the hero of the network to the most hated,” an insider dishes. “People in TV are not rich. The hosts are rich. Everyone else is struggling to pay their rents and raise their families.” The staffing shuffle even ousted Noah Oppenheim, who headed NBC Universal’s broadcast news division, and pushed MSNBC newsgal Hallie Jackson from her 3 p.m.…

FEARFUL actress Felicity Huffman is finally resurfacing in a new TV role more than three years after being released from prison — and friends say it’s all due to her devoted husband, actor William H. Macy! The former Desperate Housewives star, 60, will hit the little screen in the ABC legal drama The Good Lawyer, a spinoff of the medical show The Good Doctor. Felicity will make her debut on a crossover episode airing March 6. Felicity was caught up in the nationwide college admissions scandal and, in 2019, she served 11 days in prison and paid a $30,000 fine. She was accused of doling out dough to alter her daughter Sophia’s college admission test score. “Felicity was really embarrassed,” confides a pal. “She didn’t even think about returning to acting, but Bill…