Sources tell Us Weeekly Canalis met with producers last month to discuss playing an international secret agent.

“She’s very excited about the part as well as the chance to break into American television,” an insider spilled to the mag. “She knows she’ll be over here (the U.S.) to be with George at the Oscars so she’s hoping to shoot some of her part then,” the snitch adds.

Canalis is currently featured in the ad campaign for the Spring collection from designer Roberto Cavalli. The upcoming third season of Leverage – featuring Timothy Hutton and Christina Kane — is scheduled to debut this summer.

George Clooney is donating $1 million to Hope for Haiti Now: A Global Benefit for Earthquake Relief, the multi-network telethon he is co-organizing this Friday, Jan. 22, The Insider has learned. Hope for Haiti Now will also feature more than 100 of the biggest names in entertainment throwing their support behind the citizens of the earthquake-ravaged island nation.

George will be hosting a telethon for Haiti that is set to air on MTV and VH1 Jan. 22, the Up In The Air actor The Hollywood Reporter’s Roger Friedman Thursday. According to Friedman’s scoop, George has been in touch with celebrity pals — including Sting — who have agreed to participate in the fundraising event.

Nearly 500,000 Haitians are feared dead after the earthquake that struck just outside Port-au-Prince.

Cavalli creative director, Eva Cavalli, picked out the eye-dropping satin set Elisabetta dons for this striking image.

“For my next underwear collection I was inspired by a real woman, with appeal, charisma and sensuality,” Roberto Cavalli said in a press statement explaining his decision to have Elisabetta front the latest campaign. “Elisabetta Canalis and I have been friends for a while now, we have already worked together in the past and so I was sure she was just perfect for enhancing the spirit of this advertising campaign… and I was not wrong! Her Mediterranean beauty and intense appeal interpret an intriguing super-feminine woman…the result is amazing!”

The pair were set up on the date by a mutual friend, a tattle blabbed in a scoop to Britain’s Daily Star this weekend. However, the source alleges that the evening was a disaster due to Madge’s bad jokes. Word is George didn’t find the “Borderline” singer to be quite the Flip Wilson she thinks she is.

Who knew?

“He figured she is a smart, accomplished woman, so why not give it a try?” the insider explained. “They went out for dinner in New York but it turned out really bad. She kept trying to make jokes that weren’t at all funny the entire time and didn’t want to have a real conversation. He couldn’t wait to get out of there.”

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.

“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.”

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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.

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.