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With her successful career as a pin-up and TV presenter in her native Italy, Elisabetta Canalis must have thought her life couldn't get much better. And then she met George Clooney. As they arrived at the Venice Film Festival onboard a speed boat last night, the 30-year-old Italian couldn't have looked happier. Clooney is at the festival to promote his new film Men Who Stare At Goats.

What do you do when Donald Trump pokes fun at your height and Fabio threatens to beat you up? If you’re George Clooney, you take it all in stride – and make a couple jokes, of course. The Michael Clayton star, 46, agreed to a good-natured Googling session in the April issue of Esquire magazine, and in it he’s asked about a laundry list of recent rumors about him – including his reported run-in with I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter pitchman Fabio. When asked about his alleged feud with Fabio last fall (in which the model said he could beat Clooney up), the actor responds, “Yeah, that’s probably true. He’s a big guy. There is a moment when you are actually in the argument and you’re thinking, ‘If I do get beaten down by Fabio, that will be far worse than the pain. I wouldn’t shake that.” Also found in the magazine’s Web search: • When Esquire discovers a Web site that calls Clooney “ gay, gay, gay ,” the good-natured actor quips, “No, I’m gay, gay. The third gay – that was pushing it.” D...