Pal: Elisabetta Canalis "Stormed Out" After Clooney "Dumped" Her
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Elisabetta Canalis isn't ready to talk about her breakup with George Clooney -- but her close friend Alfonso Signorini is.
The Chi magazine editor -- to whom Canalis opened up in a revealing interview about her marriage plans -- spilled new details about the former couple's intense romance on Italian TV show Rai Uno Thursday.
"It's all over," Signorini said. "It has come as a real surprise to me. They were getting on really well."
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Signorini spent a day with Canalis, 32, just last week, and it seemed things were going just fine with Clooney, 50. "She must have had about 60 text messages from George! She was so excited about meeting him as he had a few days off from shooting his film [Gravity, with Sandra Bullock] in London."
Shedding intriguing light on the sudden split, he added, "From what I know it was him who dumped her and she stormed out of the villa." (Clooney famously keeps an incredible estate on Lake Como in Italy.) "I've tried to get her on the telephone but it's switched off."
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He shot down talk that their two-year relationship was an elaborate publicity stunt. "I can tell you it was all for real," Signorini insisted. "They were deeply affectionate towards each other."
Not that the relationship was easy, he stressed. "[Clooney] 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 caliber."
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Canalis even thought twice about discussing their relationship in her on-the-record chat with Signorini, he added. "She was terrified about speaking of their private life because of him and of his lawyers and advisers."
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10Sandra, I find it sad that so many women such as yourself have tunnel vision and find the need to cubbyhole people, especially men who don't want to get married. You've decided to use the age-old and extremely tired phrase that he's commitment phobic. You and your type are pathetic. You're one of those women who do not feel complete unless you're married, am I right? Yes, I am. That's just sad. Maybe if you realized your potential and the unlimited aspects of life, you wouldn't be so old-fashioned and believe that you can't exist without a man.
I get so tired of reading catty posts from women hating other women (unless it's one of the kardashians!). George is definitely a self absorbed, commitment phobic guy who definitely uses his celebrity status to his benefit only. Her only fault is thinking he could change. She will appreciate her next boyfriend way more after this jerk.
ELIZABETH,DO NOT FRET ABOUT GEORGE,I DO THINK HE HAS A PROBLEM WITH COMMITMENT, AND YOU ARE BETTER OFF.MARRIAGE TO GEORGE WOULD NOT BE AN IDEAL SITUATION,FOR HE HAS A ROVING EYE.
The more she talks the more attention on her.
star of that caliber: lol
She's a big girl, he was totally honest from the very beginning. I don't feel at all sorry for her.
Umm, how about NOT talking about your personal life with a superstar, who might actually want to keep SOMEthing private in his/her life?? What a dumb broad.
I think it is to keep his private life as private as possible? She was also maybe afraid to rock the boat, talking about their relationship. George Clooney has always been frank that he wasn't going to marry again and she mentioned that she would like to get married. Maybe she was afraid that would turn him off?
lawyers and advisers? how many stars use lawyers and advisers to help them with their relationships? Sounds like a tom cruise situation.
What a weird, dysfunctional relationship. Why would you want to be with someone you're "terrified" of - for what, free gowns and going to award shows? I mean, really, lady, grow up and get yourself a real man, one who is your EQUAL, not your FATHER. I like Clooney as an actor, but I've always thought he was a jerk as a man.