Yes, another Clooney-Canalis post. Sorry, I just really, really do not want to write about a Kardashian today. If you’d like my first post-split summary on why and how Elisabetta Canalis got dumped, go here – it involves some speculation about her being into the cocaine-and-hooker scene in Italy, as well as one of Silvio Berlusconi’s girls. Anyway, there are new details about why George Clooney finally decided to end things with his famewhore girlfriend. Us Weekly says Eli was just driving him crazy – a source claims, “She drove him nuts… [there was] non-stop bickering over little things…He would only hang out with his friends, and more or less left her to herself and her friends.” Clooney spent his time “creating distance” for the past few months: “Work. [He] was knee-deep in pre-production on a couple projects.”

When Eli went to Cannes by herself, that’s when I started wondering if she and Clooney were having problems. Now it makes more sense – Clooney and Canalis only really had kinky sex in common. Beyond that, she’s just some vapid chick who loves to shop and work on her tan (which is how Clooney likes them), while Clooney is Mr. Man-of-the-World. Of course they fought. Meanwhile, The Daily Mail put up a new story, and they’re alleging that Canalis and Clooney were fighting non-stop towards the end as well. The Mail even gets lots of quotes from one of Eli’s good friends:

Eternal bachelor George Clooney dumped his girlfriend Elisabetta Canalis after they had a furious row at his Italian lakeside home, it emerged today. Just hours before the tempestuous bust up last week the couple had enjoyed a romantic dinner at their favourite hillside restaurant where onlookers said they resembled ‘cooing lovebirds.’ But the atmosphere became very different when they returned to Clooney’s villa where he was enjoying a few days off from shooting his latest movie in London.

Sources said the Ocean’s Star flipped after being being ‘pressed’ about marriage by Canalis – who two weeks ago had given a gushing interview about how she was ‘living a fairytale’ and hoped to wed the actor.

Earlier this month, the 32-year-old suggested marriage could be on the cards as she addressed Clooney’s reputation as an eternal bachelor, saying: ‘I could never be with someone who every time he opens his mouth says he doesn’t want a child with me or to marry me.’

But it appears he was not on the same wave length and after a furious row she stormed out of his Villa Oleandra on the shores of Lake Como and drove off to nearby Milan to be with friends. Canalis had also been unhappy at the fact that she had been on holiday to Mexico on her own recently as well as attending the Cannes film festival without her famous boyfriend. Last week Clooney was back in Italy and went for dinner at il Gatto Nero but the romantic atmosphere became decidedly chiller once they returned to the villa.

A source said: ‘The conversation turned to the interview she had given and about marriage and George was having nothing of it. Elisabetta then lost it because he had not come to Mexico or Cannes with her. The atmosphere was pretty red hot and the language was pretty fiery – it was a very fierce row and she then just stormed out of the house and went to Milan. It’s a shame really as she had met his family and he had been to visit her family and they all got on really well together but like any woman Elisabetta was keen to settle down sooner rather than later.’

Today Alfonso Signorini, editor of the magazine that Canalis had spoken to and a close friend of hers, said: ‘It’s all over – and it has come as a real surprise to me. They were getting on really well. Last week I was with Elisabetta the whole day shooting a programme and we were together until 1am and she must have had about 60 text messages from George. I said to her “Darling stop otherwise we will never finish her.” She was so excited about meeting him as he had a few days off from shooting his film in London. From what I know it was him who dumped her and she stormed out of the villa. I’ve tried to get her on the telephone but it’s switched off.’

Signorini also dismissed claims in several Italian newspapers that the relationship was a publicity stunt and said: ‘I’ve heard all this and I can tell you it was all for real. They were deeply affectionate towards each other. At the beginning it was all very passionate between them then things became more complicit – he is actually very fatherly but at the same time they did have a very complicated relationship. It’s not easy to be with a star of that calibre – when she gave us the interview a fortnight ago she was terrified about speaking of their private life because of him and of his lawyers and advisers. I’d seen them together a couple of times and I had been invited to a party they were hosting at the Villa Oleandra next month but I don’t think that will happen now.’

[From The Mail]

I can’t wait to see what Eli does now. Not career-wise, but media-wise. How soon do you think she’ll give an interview? I say it will probably be within the next few weeks. She’s dumb as a box of hair, but something tells me that she’s self-aware enough to know that there’s only a small window of time where we’re really going to give a crap.

Photos courtesy of Fame.