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Clooney flips off Fabio in Beverly Hills

I could hardly let the week go by without commenting one of my favorite people in Hollywood, George Clooney, and his encounter with super male model, Fabio. First of all just saying George Clooney and Fabio in the same sentence is funny, so I had to take the opportunity.

George Clooney and romance icon Fabio stunned diners at Hollywood’s (actually Beverly Hills) swanky Madeo restaurant on Friday, when they exchanged fighting words over a photo session at Fabio’s table. Actor Fabio was dining with friends when one stood to take photos close to a table Clooney was sharing with his girlfriend Sarah Larson. Sources inside tell me however, that several women who had won a dinner with Fabio were sitting at his table snapping photos of the hunk. Georgie thought the woman was trying to take shots of him and asked her to stop, a request that annoyed his fellow diner. Fabio went over to Clooney’s table to explain, but the conversation became heated, and the long-haired actor was overheard telling the “Ocean’s Eleven” star, “I thought you were a nice guy. Stop being a diva!” The encounter reportedly prompted angry Clooney to stand up and approach Fabio.

An eyewitness said, “The waiters broke it up before it got out of hand.”George looked annoyed. … George was drinking but he wasn’t drunk.”

Clooney reportedly skipped the rest of his meal, asked for his bill and left.

Fabio’s manager has refused to comment about the incident, but says, “George is lucky he didn’t end up in the ER.”

Fabio and Clooney weren’t the only celebrities dining at the restaurant on the night of the scuffle – Dame Helen Mirren and Joe Pesci were also guests of Madeo that night.

Come on… This is too surreal. I mean imagine being out to dinner in Beverly Hills and George Clooney and Fabio get into a shoving match, and the waiters have to break it up?! This is comedy my friends. There is no writer walking the line right now, that could have come up with something like this. I have to say, I know and love George, I understand he was being protective of his lady and his privacy, but it seems like Georgie was a little out of line. I mean he has to consider that Fabio although D or E list to George’s A, is a celebrity in his own right. Those poor ladies who won the date with Fabio, just wanted to get couple of pictures to remember the experience. So God forbid if one of the ladies got a shot of George as a bonus. Was it really going to kill George to let it slide? It seems to me, maybe George did have a lemoncello or three and got a bit rambunctious, and was dissing Fabio.

As far as George taking on Fabio, I’m not sure about that either. I mean George is a hard working guy. He is athletic and he works out, but he is always very busy acting and going on meetings, nights out drinking. Also George is a bit banged up, he has a bad neck from doing his own stunts, he has a bum ankle he hurt playing basketball, he always seems to have broken fingers and he just got into a motorcylce accident about a month ago.

Fabio is a pretty big guy and he’s in shape. I mean, really, what the hell does Fabio do all day? He sits around resting and working out, he’s at beauty and hair salons all day, tanning by the pool, he seems to be very well rested. He even withstood a bird flying into his face while he was riding a roller coaster a few years ago. The bird got the worst of it, Fabio only sustained a one inch cut above his nose, the bird was killed. Bird Story

I would love to see the two go at it, in a celebrity death match, or pay per view fighting event. Sorry to George, but I think Fabio might be able to take him. I think George would get some shots in for sure, but Fabio ultimately is a little to big and well rested for George. Maybe if George recruited Joe Pesci to be on his side in a celebrity tag team match, and Fabio would have got Helen Mirren on his side. Maybe that would have made it more fair. The pity is, we’ll never know.
… Diva DEEP!

George out and about with girlfriend Sarah Larson

Report on Fabio getting hit by a bird

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