Sunday, October 30, 2011
Elisabetta Canalis: Clooney was a father figure who brought out my feminine side
These are some new photos of Elisabetta Canalis at the GQ Germany “Man of the Year†awards, where she was the escort of Roberto Cavalli. She’s wearing Cavalli too. She looks pretty good, but it’s all kind of meh. She always looks kind of drag queeny to me. Plus, she just looks overly-thrilled to be on a red carpet, getting her photo taken.
Anyway, I think Eli has played her post-breakup, post-Clooney career rather poorly. I understand that she wants to be famous in America, but the way to do that is not through Dancing With the Stars and the odd monthly confessional interview. If I was running Eli’s PR since the beginning, I would have encouraged her to do a big tell-all interview shortly after her split with George Clooney, and I would have encouraged her to give it to the highest profile American publication she could find. Perhaps Vanity Fair wouldn’t have taken her, but she could have gotten a profile in Allure or Marie Claire, and definitely Us Weekly. Instead, Eli seems content to give increasingly strange and damaged-seeming interviews to Italian publications, and her “revelations†about her relationship with Clooney seem increasingly clingy and sad. Here’s the latest:
Bacio and tell?
Elisabetta Canalis, the Italian TV personality who dated George Clooney for two years until their split last June, offers some surprising details about their relationship in Questo Amore (This Love), a new book by Italian journalist Bruno Vespa.
Praising the Oscar winner, 50, as “the person who valued my feminine side the most†and “also one of the best people I have met from a charitable point of view,†Canalis, 33, went on to say, “he has been a special for me, and very important, just as a father would be.â€
Asked by Vespa to elaborate, she said, “between us there was more of a father-daughter relationship. I was unable to clarify this up ’til now.â€
As for their breakup, Canalis â€" who competed on Dancing with the Stars earlier this season, denies reports that Clooney’s long-held aversion to marriage was an issue.
“George and I never spoke of marriage nor of having kids,†she says. “I don’t put limits to the possibility of having them, but neither George nor I had ever envisaged having kids together. The end of the relationship was not caused by a marriage issue, but instead by our personal needs.â€
Although Clooney has since moved on with another Dancing alum, Stacy Keibler, Canalis has only kind words for him.
“George is a real gentleman even in his private life,†she says. “I was very much respected both as a woman and partner.â€
[From People]
Skipping over the “father†stuff briefly, the part that caught my eye initially was that Clooney was “the person who valued my feminine side the most�?? I hope that’s a weird translation, because it makes Elisabetta sound like a total drag queen. Now, going back to the father stuff - that’s the most convoluted way of calling her ex an old fart. Which Clooney is, granted. He is an old fart, and his girls always stay the same age, and yes, at some point it does become more of a father-daughter type relationship. Some people think that’s sick or gross, but… whatever. I understand it.
Still, I don’t believe Eli when she claims that marriage and kids never came up. She wanted to get married. She said so in that now infamous interview, right before Clooney dumped her.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Written by Kaiser
Posted in Elisabetta Canalis, George Clooney
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Granted, one can become famous in America without an ounce of talent but Eli doesn’t seem to have that. Perhaps she can make a pilot tv show called “Keeping up with the Cannolisâ€.
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“Now, going back to the father stuff - that’s the most convoluted way of calling her ex an old fart.â€
Hahahaha!
Well that is a nice way of calling him the old fart. And now, that old fart, is dating someone in her 20’s.
I bet he is thrilled with being called Daddy by the ex.
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Even her hands look macho! Ugh..!
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Is Eli GQ’s pick forâ€Man of the Yearâ€?
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Good, I was hoping you would cover this. I have always liked Clooney and I still do but I do wonder if that father daughter thing was a hint that he is gay. I wouldn’t care if he is but it would be nice to know that there is a smart guy out there who does not want to get married or have children and not just running around with women as beards esp. since we are always railing on these stupid celebs who don’t know how to use birth control (ex ryan phillipe).
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I thought the last picture was of Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes.
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Maybe she couldn’t make a tell all interview because daddy Clooney paid her to keep her mouth shut. Eli would have never refused to pose for some American photoshoot, unless she’s got money.
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Holy crap! Her hands look HUGE in the 3rd photo. It almost looks like they photoshopped giant man hands onto her arms…wow!
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George is going to be annoyed by the “father-daughter†comment. How nonsexual of a comment can you get? Eli castrated him with 10 words. Gorgeous George is an “old fartâ€. Georgie fancies himself a playboy and likes to come off as man on the prowl. Now we know he’s prowling for a snuggle and a little prune juice.
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Apparently GC didn’t pay her enough, or the contract isn’t that well drafted, or Eli is just stupid, or all of the above.
Her interview didn’t make just GC look stupid, but herself as well, and it seems she won’t go away quietly, unlike Sarah Larson, who was in VF while she was still with GC.
I’m really waiting for GC to damage himself/his desperate campaign for an Oscar nomination with all this - Eli, Keibler, etc etc
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She is probably incensed at the mess that is keibler and had to strike him where she thought it would hurt him most. Nobody really cares what this person says and (I use the term loosely) thinks. If you look at these pictures objectively, she is unattractive and tattooed wreckage. She had better cling to cavalli like a lifeline, because he is her only meal ticket after this self-destructiveness.
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“the person who valued my feminine side the mostâ€
It sounds like she has more than the stereotypical female qualities and does more than being pretty or cutesy. We saw her motorbiking with Clooney and she’s very sportive so maybe Clooney got the best of both worlds but still appreciated her feminine side the most?
And I think her face looks fine. It is long but that doesn’t make me want to say it’s a horse-face or looks like drag queen. She’s doesn’t have a generic face, which is good.
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As feminine as her name sounds, she still gives me the dragqueen vibe aswell. She looks very masculine to me…
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Then why did she say in her pre-dumped interview she was living the fairytale and would never be with a man with no possibility of children. He dumped her after. I believe something gets lost in the translation with her. So the father daughter thing I don’t know if she meant as a diss.
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Makeup and styling dont do it for her.
She really looks masculine, her dress isnt flattering, almost no makeup.
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fade back into the wood work, bitch
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All I can say is she is a fame/attention whore who still using her famous ex name to get media attention, I just wish her manly self would go away.
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It makes me laugh when I read the polite aftermath [Clooney as her 'father figure'. Is she for friggin real?], all of which convinces me that George bats for the other team. Each ‘girlfriend’ signs on for a designated time period, and signs a confidentiality agreement, and serves her time. A little like what Tom Cruises wives do or have done.
He’ll end up doing a Rock Hudson or Cliff Richard. Come out when he is a geriatric.
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yawn, same old. Clooney is no prize but this is all about getting attention.
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How are more people not commenting on those hands!?! Seriously, they are like baseballs mitts. I didn’t think she was a man until just now….
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Her dress is gorgeous!
She is one of those women who look manly in some way. Therefore she’s attractive, but in an odd way.
Then again, she goes on and makes it worse: with a long, hard bone structure she cannot pull off “sickly thinâ€. She’d look more feminine and soft with more flesh.
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I dont think its an insult, what she’s trying to say about the nature of their relationship. My bf and i have a similar relationship and were only 5 years apart. Being older and wiser, he has the ‘caregiver’ role in our relationship. This is very normal and common. I imagine this role is more pronounced between people with an even greater age gap (like George & Eli)
Sorry, but it doesnt sound at all like she was ‘his beard’.
Her words were lost in translation again.
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I am sure George is furious about this. He has been slowly rolling SK out to everyone, with uneven results. Now he is being called a father figure, which he really looks like with SK. He should have quietly dumped Canalis, then done all the Award season stuff with his parents. Then Canalis would probably have kept her mouth shut. She did not like being dumped and then replaced so fast and so she hit Clooney where it hurts most…his masculinity.
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Wow. Way to bite the hand that got you all this attention in the first place. Reeks of sour grapes. The more she makes herself a public figure, the more I understand why Clooney got rid of her. She’s a celebriwhore.
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I’ve never been much of a Clooney fan, even when he was young and still reasonably attractive (and by that I mean pre-ER. He aged early and fast). However, I respect that he’s very up front about his lack of interest in marriage & kids. Now I’m rethinking the pervy old codger label I’ve always given him. Maybe he pursues barely legal women because they don’t complain about ticking clocks.
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I don’t like her but that’s exactly what he deserves for dating somebody nearly two decades younger. Idiot.
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Bettyrose, you consider barely legal in their early thirties? LOL I had a child and career and divorce by 30.
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And somewhere in Lake Como, George “Papa†Clooney, waved his cane around wildly, pushed away the spoonful of applesause Manny the poolboy was trying to feed him, popped in his dentures, made a Miracle Ear apt, called his manicurist, pedicurist, stylist, makeup artist, agent, and publicist (Their combined powers also known as Beard Patrol), and after being helped up on a step stool, yelled at Stacy “Its GO Time!â€
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I don’t know if Clooney is gay or not and I don’t care (in that I would support his movies or acting either way).
I think her comment as George as a father figure was a dig â€" I think Eli knew about all the gay rumors â€" what a great way to keep those swirling around!
I mean she gets him on every front with her comment:
- he’s too old and more like a father
- they didn’t have much sex, because he was too much like a father
- or, they didn’t have any sex because he’s gay
George will be pissed and I hate to see what magical media storm he will create to have her destroyed. (harsh word but it’s Sunday and my brain is still sleeping in!)
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GC must be kicking himself for dating her, she won’t just go away unlike the others.
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I love that dress but arm tattoos and evening wear don’t mix. Why does everything she says seem so cryptic? Like she’d like to say things but can’t: “The person who valued my feminine side the mostâ€. Huh? “Between us there was more of a father-daughter relationship. I was unable to clarify this up ’til now.†What? Does that mean they didn’t have sex or that she is a prostitute who was paid to have sex with “uncle†for two years? What does that statement mean? I’m sure George will be glad to hear all of that.
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