Back in the good old days, when Elisabetta Canalis and George Clooney were together, Clooney made sure that his girlfriend got some “jobs”. Clooney does this much too often – he picks up some cocktail waitress/escort and suddenly her job description is listed as “actress and model” and Clooney pulls strings with his friends to get her work. Personally, I find it kind of sad to see some 30-something “girlfriend of” try to pretend that she’s always wanted to be a runway model (Sarah Larson) or an underwear model (Elisabetta). When Eli and George were together, Eli got a contract with Roberto Cavalli, she got more “presenting/hostessing” gigs in Italy, and she got to make her debut on American television in the show Leverage. That’s really where it should have ended, because once people saw Elisabetta in action on screen, it was pretty obvious that her talents were never going to be found in front of a camera. Would you like to remember how awful it was? Here’s a scene from Leverage with Elisabetta and Timothy Hutton (poor bastard):
So, considering that Elisabetta no longer has a big Hollywood boyfriend who is actively trying to promote her, you would think that no one would even take Elisabetta’s calls, right? Wrong! According to Page Six, Elisabetta has been in LA, “taking meetings”. Ugh.
Elisabetta Canalis doesn’t appear to be wilting over her ex George Clooney’s new relationship with former wrestler Stacy Keibler. A confident-looking Canalis has been doing the rounds in Los Angeles taking meetings, sources tell us.
Showing off her figure in leather pants, she was spotted late last week dining at Ago in West Hollywood with girlfriends including “Watchmen” star Carla Gugino.
A source told us, “She looked carefree as she and her friends sipped white wine and dined on steak and langoustines.”
[From Page Six]
Well, maybe people are just being polite. She can take meetings and never get another role in Hollywood again. Of course, there will be someone, some dumbass, who agrees with Elisabetta and thinks that because Eli has made a “name” for herself (as “the girlfriend of”) then suddenly, she’s got a career. Look, I don’t have a problem with Elisabetta being a celebrity in Italy – good for her, and that’s where she should stay. But let’s not pretend that Clooney’s girlfriends should have Hollywood careers after he dumps them. After all, I’m sure Stacy Keibler is “taking meetings” right now too. There will always be a new crop.
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Taking meetings on what? Porn movie roles? Secretarial positions? Cocktail waitress openings? Because the woman cannot act.
She’s not a celebrity here, just a famewhore soubrette/hostess.
take a meeting in the bathroom…where someone will lock you in til the next ex-clooney girl is released.
Everybody is ‘taking meetings’ in Hollywood, and even if you aren’t,than it’s best to say that you are, to at least create the impression that you’re hot and happening. So sure, Eli canalis is taking meetings, too.
That said, it’s not true that she ‘suddenly’ became an underwear model when she was with Clooney. She was rather famous in Italy before she even met him, as a television ‘dancer’ (a so-called ‘velina’, which is a special kind of dancer used to sex up game shows and such in Italy) and for her calendars, for which she posed semi-nude and/or in underwear. In other words, if she’s a professional anything, it would be an underwear model. But sure, she wouldn’t all of a sudden have gotten a Cavalli contract if it wasn’t for Clooney.
Is taking meetings the new term for casting couch?
Oh, she wasn’t so bad in that scene. As good as any “Bond girl”, anyway.
well! she does have ‘strong’ facial features (i.e, she looks like a man). Nevertheless, it isn’t nice to be dumped by anyone, esp. George Clooney, even tho i guess she got her 15min fame out of this…
More than ever, I’m not convinced she’s a woman.
ELISABETTA has made the right decision, Clooney has downloaded, and now tries to live his life without tedious and heavy bonds. Good, you’ve got courage!
“But let’s not pretend that Clooney’s girlfriends should have Hollywood careers after he dumps them.”
Does this apply to Stacy Keibler? I guess not, she is an American celebrity (cough!)
ELISABETTA who has downloaded Clooney, not the other way….
@9, Justine: I don’t really get what you mean? What has Clooney ‘downloaded’ and who’s got ‘courage’? And what would be the ‘right decision’ on Elisabetta’s part? Not leaving Clooney, I presume? Because I think it’s common knowledge that the end of their relationship wasn’t her decision, he ended it when she started to bring up marriage.
I don’t mind George running from girl to girl. But, when its over, we are the ones who have to deal with the castoffs!
@12 Cherry : ELISABETTA has decided to terminate this relationship became too oppressive, full of rules and prohibitions, you can not say this .. this .. you can not do smile, do not smile, give me your hand, let your hand, do not wait for interviews. .. What a drag, what a bore!!………..
@Justine: correct me if I’m wrong, but given your surprising insights into miss Canalis’ love life, and your somewhat flawed English…
You ARE Elisabetta, aren’t you???
I don’t get why everyone is so down on this woman, good for her if she’s trying to make it in Hollywood.
Wow, I’m really surprised. Elisebetta was not bad in that scene with Timothy Hutton. It works because of her accent. Bravo.
@ cherry 15 :do not be silly, my English is imperfect is translated by google ..
ELISABETTA never replied and never respond to insults that this site has turned, he knows that you must pay a price for fame and notoriety. Calm yourself, I do not know ELISABETTA
She should go see Michael Bay. Sleeping with a director is still the easiest way to get a job in Hollywood.
she plays not worse than Teri Hatcher post-botox imho.
@cherry @justine
i believe justine is elisebetta, too!
@Cherry&Justine
Plz don’t stop!!!
Aww, brin, you beat me to it! 😉
So “taking meetings” = “working” (“the ho stroll” is silent) in Lohanese. Now, when are we going to start seeing pix of Eli with scabby knees?
@Justine & Cherry ladies don’t be silly, Everyone knows the contract expired. Canalis is just trying to extend the Clooney association for as long as possible. It beats going back to going to parties with Berlosconi 😉
Well, I think it’s sad that a 50 year old man is pimping out his young cocktail waitresses in Hollywood like they’re some kind of talent. He’s forcing his friends and business associates to accommodate his flavour of the month for him, to risk their brand and give these hos a job just because Clooney asks. The whole thing seems really immature and gross on Clooney’s part.
She has to be a he. Seriously her and the Kardashians I swear are men.
Please….. Her 15 minutes are already up and she does look mannish. George has moved on, so should she.
That top pick screams TRANNNNNNNNNY….Maybe she should take a meeting about getting the rest of that adams apple shaved down and some hormones for some curves.
She was horrible on leverage. You could hardly understand a line she said (unlike such great Italian beauties as Sophia Loren or Gina Lollobrigida) and she looked like she was terrified when she was saying them. It was the whole presentation really, the body language, stiff scared face, bad delivery of lines. Leverage was horrible last season, and the plot that had EC was ridiculous, obviously someone wrote it for her at the last minute. I hope they’re not taking her back, the show has been much better this year. And whoever said she was as good as the Bond girls, are you kidding? The Bond girls were already actresses when they got their roles, not velinas.
If “meetings” = “knobs in the mouth hole”…check, she’s totally taking meetings. Those tattoos are dreadful. They’d be so easy to remove, too. She seems super smart.
Roberto Cavalli looks like he reeks. Cocaine’s a hell of a drug.
“taking meetings”
What, like taking the minutes? Srsly, what the hell else would it be?
Cavalli is disgusting.
Sometimes I look at pics of her and I find her to be extremely striking and beautiful, other times I think she looks like a lanky gay guy with a wig and a boob job…so confusing
google translate is awesome!
haha @shankat knobs in the mouthhole, beautifully put
I don’t see anything wrong with trying to cash in on being Clooney’s girlfriend. Good for all of them! Every second of every day people cash in on opportunities. Clooney got to where he’s at now by cashing in on famous relatives. I’m not bashing him either, it’s just the way it is. We all network to get ourselves jobs and money. All the tabloids, gossip websites, etc., are making money off of celebrities so they would be just as guilty as George’s girlfriends.
per elisabetta l’amore e sempre stato la cosa piu importante della carriera del successo non si e mai molto interessata.si e sempre mantenuta con il suo lavoro e non ha permesso nemmeno alla sua famiglia di mantenerla.lei e di ottima famiglia i suoi genitori sono persone di cultura decisamente ricchi e lei nella sua isola e la principessa della sua gente.suo padre e uno stimatissimo professore universitario sua madre ha ben tre lauree.so quanto poco vi piaccia la canalis ma prima di cloooney mai nessun scandalo ha sfiorato qusta ragazza .ha fatto comodo a molti implicarla nello scandalo cocaina perche parlando di lei si sono dimenticati tutti della polizia dei politici implicati in questo scandalo tutti gli italiani hanno dimenticato il perche di quell”in chiesta purtroppo noi italiani siamo abituati a coprire gli scandali facendo pagare persone innocenti e quando si sa la verita per le lungheze burocratiche e sempre troppo tardi per rimediare. la canalis ha pagato in immagine qualcosa di inesistente in quanto nessun giudice ha mai interrogato la canalis.lei e stata interrogata solo dal gidice del processo a berluscon ida boccassino la quale ha ritenuto che elisabetta e clooney non hann o mai partecipato alla famosa cena berlusconi li ha citati per lo stesso motivo per far si che dicessero che non erano presenti.ida b occassino e uno dei piu grandi giudici italiani e se non ha citato la canalis e perche non esisteva nulla di quanto asserito dal teste.elisabetta e sempre stata di una bellezza sconvolgente in italia e sempre stata famosissima e ha scelto di vivere negli usa prche li nessuno la conosce e non ha i paparazzi fuori casa ha detto a vanity fair ed e vero.da sempre ama los angeles perche le permette di vivere nell’anonimato e libera senza fotografi fuori dalla porta ha una casa a new york ma per lei los angeles e il posto dove desidera vivere e nonstante quello che pensate di lei per giunta senza conoscerla lei e di una bonta infinita. questi due anni con clooney non sono stati facili l’hanno resa di una infelicita infinita lei ha una soglia del dolore molto alta credo che nessuno avrebbe sopportato quanto detto dagli amici di clooney si e lasciata scivolare addosso la meschinita degli amici di clooney di tutti non senza dolore non ha mai detto nulla nei confronti di nessuno si e vissuta si vive la sua sofferenza con dignita da quella grande persona che e.non ha perso nulla con clooney e clooney che ha perso na gran brava ragazza ed e lui che ha bisogno di dimostrare con la nuova ragazza d’essersela la sciata alle spalle lei nella sua normalita non ha bisogno di dimostrare niente a nessno ed e qui la differenza tra la canali e clooney e non e poco .
I am reading all these comments and I am truly ashamed as an american…how rude and judgemental these comments are.
First of all…are you all jealous..ask yourself why does it bother you so much?
Italian tv and culture is so different then USA…might i add it is open about sexuality/the family situation is better because they are closer then americans.
Elisabetta has made a great name for herself and kudos to her…all you debbie downers out there look at yourself and start thinking positive maybe you will be happy in your world.
Wow…I think she is beautiful
Remember life is a journey …clooney was in her life for a reason ..let them appreciate that and move on…you were not there to know the details…and why would you want to know..shallow???
i think she is beautiful and i think clooney can be who he wants to be…
so stop beating these people up…and get a life yourself…really…
btw..did you ever visit ITaly? you should you would learn more about life/love and family..
btw i love berlusconi and i would hang with him in a heartbeat…
stop being so narrow minded and open up your world a little
Ciao
A presto!