NEWS FLASHES!
TRAGIC Anne Heche’s son Homer Laffoon, 20, scored a success in his battle to become executor of his mom’s estate when a court rejected a challenge by Anne’s ex James Tupper — with whom she has another son, Atlas, 13. The actress died Aug. 11 at age 53.
AMERICAN Idol is reeling after Season 19 runner-up Willie Spence, 23, died from injuries sustained in a Tennessee car crash! In an online tribute, the show announced Spence “will be deeply missed.”
SHAPE of You singer Ed Sheeran, 31, must admire fellow musician Sam Smith’s body of work — he gifted him a two-ton statue of a penis! “It’s actually wild,” chortles Smith, 30. “I thought it was a joke, but it’s a 6-foot-2 marble penis!”