George Clooney’s new girlfriend has passed the friend test — at least with longtime Clooney accomplice Matt Damon!
Matt has been impressed with Italian entertainment journalist Elisabetta Canalis ever since he and wife Luciana vacationed with the new couple over the summer.
“She is a really, really wonderful woman,” Matt Damon told PEOPLE at the New York premiere of his new film The Informant on Tuesday.
“It’s nice to see my friend so happy,” Matt added.
Elisabetta Canalis has some competition for George Clooney’s affection — from a gay stripper! How’s a girl supposed to compete with that? The Oscar-nominated star got an eyeful from one male admirer while fielding questions during a televised press conference for his new movie, The Men Who Stare at Goats, at the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday.
“I am gay, George, and I think I am in love with you…Please take me,” the crazed fan pleaded, all while stripping down to his underwear in plain view of everyone in the room. “May I kiss you, please. Just one kiss?”
George was tickled pink by the close encounter. “It’s hard when you take a big chance and it doesn’t really work,” he replied with a chuckle. “It’s always embarrassing when you take one real big swing for the fences and it just falls flat,” he added. “It was a good try, though.”
Sporting a bandage on his hand from a recent mishap with a car door, George Clooney and his new armpiece, Italian MTV presenter Elisabetta Canalis, went public with their long-rumored romance at the Venice Film Festival on Monday.
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The 48-year-old bachelor arrived at the festival via water taxi with the 30-year-old actress/model in tow.
George and Elisabetta — christened “La Canalis,” or “Eli” by local media — have been dating since June, and are already being dubbed the new Brad & Angelina.
Clooney is at the festival to support his new thriller, The Men Who Stare At Goats, featuring Jeff Bridges, Ewan McGregor, and Kevin Spacey. The film opens in theaters Nov. 9.
George Clooney was recently injured in a freak accident at his home in Lake Como, Italy.
According to his rep, Clooney broke his hand after accidentally getting it caught in a car door. Ouch!
“There was an accident and he did break his hand,” the actor’s longtime rep Stan Rosenfield said Thursday. “… He was on his property in Italy and he shut the car door on his hand.”
Clooney, 49, was treated at the private Ars Medica clinic in Gravesano, Switzerland and later released. “The doctor has given him 30-40 years more to live, and no live animals were harmed during the wrapping of the hand,” Rosenfield added.
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