It looks like George Clooney’s new Italian piece is going to be sticking around for the long haul. And by “long haul”, I mean “until George Clooney buys her a new wardrobe, shows her off on a few red carpets, then unceremoniously dumps her two months from now”. The woman’s name is Elisabetta Canalis, and she’s a 30-year-old Italian actress and “television personality”. She’s also got something else going for her, and I’ve got two theories about what that mysterious other factor is. Either she’s great in bed, and Clooney has decided to keep her around for a while and make her legitimate with some well-placed press, or Elisabetta has a really good publicity team of her own, and she’s going to milk this “relationship” for all she can get out of it, press-wise.
Everyone has been groping around for older photos of her, while photo agencies are loving this week’s photos, like these, of Elisabetta in a skimpy bikini. She’s being described by some as a voluptuous Italian girl, but I don’t see it. Yes, she has an incredible body, but she’s not very curvy. I thought George liked them with bigger boobs? Anyhoodle, Radar has been running stories about Elisabetta all week. Just this morning, they put up a NSFW photo still from her 2007 film Virgin Territory. Guess what? Elisabetta is topless, in a nun’s headgear. Classy!
Meanwhile, People Magazine, the official record on all of the A-List celebrity stuff, decided to put up a profile of Elisabetta. To me, this means that she’s getting the Sarah Larson Treatment by George and by the press. “The Sarah Larson Treatment” is what I call George’s actions for the year (2007-08) he was “dating” (“paying”) Sarah Larson, a Las Vegas cocktail waitress/bartender/model/maybe-call-girl. Clooney legitimized her for a short time, classing her up with expensive frocks and modeling gigs, paying for a boob job and making sure she was on his arm at the 2008 Oscars. Behold, People’s Sarah Larson Treatment for Elisabetta:
The Italian showgirl Elisabetta Canalis, who was recently spotted on the back of George Clooney’s motorbike, has a warning for her lovers: They will have to share her bed with her dog!
Canalis is a well-known face on Italy’s TV screens and is now becoming famous around the world as the woman currently linked to the 48-year-old movie star. So who is she? The model and actress is a horse-loving 30-year-old known as “Eli” to her friends, as well as a former flame of top soccer stars.
“I have now become more fussy about who I date. And in any case my future boyfriend will have to share my bed with [her mini Doberman] Piero, too,” she recently told Italian magazine Tu. “Before in love I used to play much more, now I don’t want to waste any more time with wrong relationships. I just want someone who can make me find tranquility. I want to get home and find a person who can make me feel good.”
Canalis burst into Italian viewers’ consciousness on a satirical daily news show 10 years ago. She made her first appearance on Striscia la Notizia in 1999 as one of a duo of silent showgirls who danced around and carried the news reports.
After three years on the show, Canalis moved on to co-host a weekly soccer show, acted in some TV series, including comedy called LOVE BUGS and appeared in some Italian b-movies. Canalis also went on to do three topless calendars. And she was a roaring success. Her 2003 Max calendar was the best-seller of the season, according to an Italian publisher’s stats – and, according to rumors, the cause of her breakup with her boyfriend of three years, former soccer star Christian ‘Bobo’ Vieri.
Vieri isn’t her only footballer ex. She’s also been linked to Reginaldo and another handful of players, prompting some of the media to define her as a “serial soccer star dater.”
“Elisabetta is a beautiful girl full of life who embodies the Mediterranean woman: dark hair and a full figure. Elisabetta is a go-getter who is not afraid of expressing her opinion,” Alfredo Rossi, a journalist and friend, tells PEOPLE. “In a few years she has built a successful TV career thanks to her determination and hard work.” He adds that her biggest passions are horses and her dogs, Andrea, Piero and Vittorio, who lives at her family home in Sardinia.
And it sounds like she is ready for a longstanding relationship. On her private Facebook wall she writes, “I believe that the time has come to meet the love of my life.”
Clooney and Canalis met for the first time last week in Rome on the rooftop terrace restaurant of the Hotel Majestic, where the actor was dining with brothers Manuele and Michele Malenotti, owners of Belstaff, which Clooney has done ads for.
The couple spent a couple of days in Rome – with Clooney staying at the Hotel de Russie, a source confirms to PEOPLE – and Canalis, who lives in Milan, was photographed leaving the hotel on a number of occasions.
The Italian weekly magazine CHI, which is due out this week, reportedly has pictures of the pair kissing and hugging. The cover of the magazine has Clooney sitting with his arm around Canalis, who smiles as she leans back on to him in a cosy embrace.
Sources in Lake Como, where Clooney has a home, have confirmed that the pair have been out and about there too. They went to “Il Gatto Nero” (one of the his favorite haunts) and were seen having a drink at Harry’s Bar. The pair were also spotted – again on Clooney’s bike – in the center of Milan, where they stopped off at the Armani cafe.
[From People]
Isn’t this a bit gross? I tend to think this People piece was a plant by Clooney’s team, not Elisabetta’s. He must really like her – well, he likes her enough to keep her around for a short time. This week there were more George Clooney announcements. George is going to be bringing his drama Men Who Stare At Goats to the Venice Film Festival (in August), and will then bring his comedy Up In the Air to the Toronto Film Festival (in September). Many people are now thinking that George wants to have someone pretty on his arm for the festivals, and having some girlfriend will probably help promotes those films. The Sarah Larson Treatment, Redux.
Photo credit: Hector Vallenilla, Pacificcoastnews.com
She looks like a man. My nephew, to be exact.
haha. She DOES look like a man, which is probably a huge turn-on for George.
why hasn’t this guy died of an std already?
Ha Ha. Good ole typical George. Bang ’em and then move on to the next starlet looking for fame. Jon Gosselin, please take note on how a true player plays. George has got this down to a “t”.
I hope (Elisabetta is it?) sticks arounf for at least a year. Would love to see how she “performs” on the red carpet.
LaineyGossip is reporting that Elisabetta has been in some low-budget pornographic films; she said she saw a video where she performs felatio and then gets it all over her face.
I agree. I’m over this guy’s womanizing bullshit. Grow up already George. I hope it falls off. Disgusting.
I don’t get GC why does he keep dating this low-class girls. And I’m sure she’s publicity hungry like his previous GF.
why hasn’t this guy died of an std already?
No illegitimate babies either.
*le gasp* A man who uses condoms maybe?
He’s George fuckin Clooney, he probably feels a little itch and goes “Chlamydia, I’m George Clooney. NO.” and Bam! No more STD.
Honestly I think he got a vasectomy a few years back. Otherwise you KNOW one of these girls tried to get pregnant by him many a time. And that’s why it hasn’t worked.
I used to wonder why someone didn’t just try to snag him the old-fashioned way and I think that’s why.
There’s live porn links of this woman and it’s not nices.
“I thought George liked them with bigger boobs?”
Well, if he does he’ll just buy her a set. Wait a couple of months; she will probably “magically” grow a more impressive pair.
Look, this woman does NOT look like a man, she’s a very famous person in Italy and doesn’t need a publicity stunt either. Plus, she is NOT a porn actress. Check your facts before writing this rubbish.
she should have worn that garlic necklace but now its too late……………
“Honestly I think he got a vasectomy a few years back. Otherwise you KNOW one of these girls tried to get pregnant by him many a time.”
Or what other people are suggesting is that he doesn’t have sex with them.
I have no idea if it’s true, but they might be a beard.
As good looking as he is, the way he loves ’em and leaves ’em is a total turn-off. Just can’t get into him any more.
Orangejulius ~ TOTALLY! What I used to think was suave is just nasty. I can’t even watch him as Danny Ocean anymore. Over. It. Completely. He really should just hole up with all that money and disappear.
…but does he have a glove save? Non.
She is not a porn actress !!! What are you talking about? And please, she does not look like a man!She is naturally beautiful. No fake teeth (Angelina) brest (Pamela) or body (Demi) as most of your beloved American stars.
I think it’s been pretty well documented that George prefers the company of, er, professionals. Why does society (read: People magazine) feel the need to make it into something it’s not?
For whoever thinks she “looks like a man” (what kind of men do you know LMAO), check this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFsq3zkd2A
it’s her behind the scenes during a GQ spread
She looks a bit like Jerry Seinfield.
Europeans don’t have issues with being nude. If he’s happy, than that’s what matters. Too many people brea off relationships because of what friends or family think of the girl. Look at what happened to DiCaprio. She is now married to the biggest quaterback ever. Hope George doesn’t listen. So what she’s a model, or nude. Your not the one who is seeing her and I bet George doesn’t care or mind who we see as long as we are happy. They make a cute couple.
She looks like Teri Hatcher or even Cindy Crowford. Pretty
I’m not sure that she looks like a man but there is something odd about her. She looks very youthful and has a nice figure though.
as usual American people are stupid and they do nothing to hid their stupidity…….. if all of you are becoming green of envy because your “loved” George this time choose an italian girl and not a stupid blonde american one why you do not admit that instead to write a mountain of sheet against a girl that, honestly speaking, is one of the most “clean” ones in the italian television? Please, accept that Americans are not always the best………
She is a poor second to the stunning Sara Larson…getting rid of Sara was the biggest mistake in his life…they were adorable together…George looked truly happy with her, and , no matter what anybody says, she has not cashed in to make her mill with a tell all book..I hope he goes back to her…this one looks masculing and VERY TOUGH
First of all folks these are not very good photos of her, she’s in the water for Christ’s sake. I wanna see how good you all look in the water. do a little google image search on her and you’ll see what she really looks like. she is not a porn star, thats the silliest thing I’ve ever heard. And FYI, she already has walked the red carpet, we do have them here in Italy too! She’s a gorgeous sweet girl who has worked very hard to get where she is and is well respected and known in Italy. Try informing yourself before posting!
To all Italians,I’m afraid that, according to Anglo-Saxon tastes she does look somewhat masculine.We are used to blondes without very strong features. For example her jaw looks like someone who has been on steroids and she has a very penetrating stare- more like a man. She is good-looking but also seems much older than her age. I’m nearly forty and don’t have all those lines when I smile.She looks older than me!!
How the heck does she look like a man?! She has a really cute face with a very feminine body. I think you need to look at yourself in the mirror first then take a look at her because you seem to be looking through distorted eyes!
Why do so many people care about this handsome couple. I am happy when I see others that are happy. Shame on all of you that posted negative comments. There is nothing cool about cruel.