Hollywood heart-throb actor George Clooney has split from his Italian girlfriend of two years Elisabetta Canalis, the ex-couple said Wednesday.

NOTE TO READERS:  COULD THIS BE A FAKE GIRLFRIEND JUST LIKE THE ONES ROCK HUDSON HAD ?

“We are not together anymore. It’s very difficult and very personal, and we hope everyone can respect our privacy,” they said in a joint statement cited by People magazine.

IS THERE NO PRIVACY ISSUE — WAS SHE NOT GETTING ANYWHERE HITCHING HER STAR TO HIS SO SHE IS MOVING ON?

A spokesman for 32-year-old Canalis added: “It is a very personal and sad matter, and Elisabetta wants it to remain that way. She will be taking some time… and then will face the press.

SHE WILL FACE THE PRESS WHEN SHE HAS THOUGHT UP A FAKE STORY — ????

“She has not authorized me to say when the split happened.”

The celebrity couple were first seen in public at the Venice Film Festival in 2009, and had been spotted together in Italy as recently as last week, People reported.

THEY HAVE BEEN SEEN TOGETHER TWICE IN TWO YEARS AND BOTH TIMES IN ITALY — AND THAT’S WHAT THEY CALL A GIRLFRIEND?

The 50-year-old actor, voted Sexiest Man Alive by People magazine in 1997, was married to actress Talia Balsam from 1989-93, but has downplayed the chances of getting hitched again.

GOT MARRIED WHEN HIS CAREER WAS STARTING BUT  THEN GOT OVER IT FOR SOME REASON?

“I gave it a shot,” Clooney, whose girlfriends have also included Renee Zellwegger, told CNN’s Piers Morgan in January.

NAME DROPPING — RENEE ZELLWEGGER — IS THAT  TO REINFORCE A LIE?

When he was younger Michelle Pfeiffer and Nicole Kidman both bet $10,000 each that he would be a father before he turned 40. They were both wrong, and each sent him a check, according to the IMDb movie industry database.

MORE NAME DROPPING AND HINTS AT FATHERHOOD AND VIRILITY — FAKE OR REAL?

He returned the money, betting double or nothing that he wouldn’t have kids by age 50 — which he turned in May this year.

IS THIS MORE FAKE PRESS TO MAKE IT LOOK LIKE HE IS NOT ONLY HELL BENT ON NOT BEING A FATHER BUT THET HE DOESN’T WELCH ON A BET.

Clooney’s “The Ides of March”, a thriller about a US presidential campaign, will open this year’s Venice Film Festival and will compete for the coveted Golden Lion award, organizers said Wednesday.

NOBODY SAW THIS MOVIE BUT ODDS ARE THAT CLOONEY IS TRYING TO WIN ACCOLADES IN EUROPE FOR A FILM WHICH IN ALL LIKELYHOOD PORTRAYS THE USA IN A BAD LIGHT.

It’s time to apologize to Roger Ebert because Ryan Dunn was drunk as a skunk when he crashed and burned  his Porsche at 140+ MPH on a Pennsylvania Road — killing his innocent passenger Zach Hartwell.

Medical Examiner’s results of tests show that Ryan Dunn was indeed VERY DRUNK and that film critic Roger Ebert was right  on the money when he originally alluded to the fact that Dunn must have been drunk. 

 Originally, Jackass costars and fans alike mocked Ebert and called him out on his comments — but in the end the old cranky  film critic  was right. 

All the Jackass people are total Jackasses and TheDamienZone.com expresses sympathy only for Zach Hartwell.  We hope his family sues Dunn’s estate for every penny and then some .

There is something wrong with the entire cast of Jackass and they will see this as a badge of honor for Dunn — a drunk driver and a killer.  A lot of Jackass fans will think this was a cool way to go.    Look for more kids trying to hot the 140 mph mark — MTV doesn’t care — it’s not their kids.

So, Ryan Dunn killed his passenger when his blood alcohol was 2x the legal limit.  Ryan Dunn is a murderer and luckily he only killed one innocent person before he got a chance to kill many.   The world is better off without him and his stupid antics.

Read the update here — supposed to be a tribute to Cklarence Clemons:  http://thedamienzone.com/2011/06/21/rumor-lady-gaga-free-concert-on-beach-in-asbury-park-to-honor-clarence-clemons/

Roger Ebert, the thumbs up movie critic with the artificial face, made a lot of jaws drop off almost as much as his already has when he made a premature comment that Jackass star Ryan Dunn’s death in a car accident yesterday in Pennsylvania was the result of drunk driving.  Dunn and his passenger Zachary Hartwell were both killed in the wreck and a photo tweeted by Dunn shortly before the accident showed Dunn throwing back a beer — that does not mean that he was drunk — but that’s what they said about Princess Diana’s limo driver, right?

The point is that Roger Ebert is a miserable bastard because he has no face — it’s kind of sad but when you have no face, you’re going to be a miserable bastard.  You realize that the lower part of his face is a mask, right?

So, anyway, if the medical examiner determines that Dunn was not intoxicated at the time of the accident, Ebert owes a lot of people the hugest apology in car accident history.  His remarks might turn out to be even dumber than George Clooney’s anti-paparazzi press conference after Princess Diana’s death — Nah, nothing could ever again be THAT stupid.

Anyway, Perez Hilton was all up in arms cause he’s a big ugly queen — did you ever notice that he looks like the old time ugly actor Charles Laughton — he got after Roger Ebert and said that Ebert was out of line but then Ebert countered that Perez Hilton’s fans agreed with him and not Hilton — who knows — who cares?   Ebert is messed up cause he had cancer — there is no known excuse for Perez Hilton’s loathsome ugliness on the inside and the outside — ugh — what a horror.

The end of the story is that Ryan Dunn and Zachary Hartwell are both dead and a lot of really ugly people are fighting about it.  Dunn might have liked that.

Lady Gaga is fighting a losing battle with a rare disease and in recent weeks she has gradually revealed the obvious consequences of the disease to her fans.

“Lady Gaga is suffering from a rare auto-immune disease called Alopecia Areata,” said Dr. Kilroy Morgan.

“Alpecia Areata is a disease where the body’s own immune cells kill of the hair follicles.   It happens rather suddenly and in Lady Gaga’s case, all the hair from her head fell out in a few days.  Her eyelashes and eyebrows also fell out as did her body hair.”

TheDamienZone.com learned that Lady Gaga first noticed the problem in Brazil this spring when she noticed that the pubic and thigh hairs that used to protrude from her bikini were no longer pinching her. 

“Gaga assumed that the last wax she got was a really good wax job but then when she took the bikini off in the hotel, all of her pubic hair fell onto the floor of her hotel bathroom, ” said a source close to Lady Gaga.

According to a police report filed by the hotel detectives, a cleaning lady wiped up  the stray clump of hair and tried to sell it on Ebay but was turned down by the bidding website.  Brazilian authorities have arrested the cleaning woman, Carlinella  Montanes (54) and charged her with tampering with bodily waste and attempting to sell prohibited substances through the Brazilian postal system.  Monatanes was not able to make bail of $US7,000 and she is being held in a local jail pending the arrival of relatives from Portugal who plan to pay the bail but must be present to attest to the fact that they will be responsible for monitoring Montanes.

According to the research we did here at TheDamienZone.com, there is very little one can do for the disease, and while it is not fatal, there is only a 10% chance that the hair will grow back.

“Lady Gaga has moved on to the Alopecia Totalis stage now,” said Dr, Morgan. 

“That is to say that the disease has progressed to the point where all her body hair, even the fine downy hair on her arms or legs, is gone.  There is very little chance she will ever get the hair back or if she does get it back it will be patchy and unsightly.  We are going to try cortisone therapy because that sometimes works.  It will cause Lady Gaga to gain weight in her face, but it’s the only chance she has to get her hair back.”

There is no known cause for Alopecia Areata or Alopecia Totalis but some doctors believe that it is caused by stress and sometimes it follows a battle with a viral illness as simple as the flu.  Exposure to radiation causes a similar disease process but the hair will return after the follicles recover from the damage.  Lady Gaga has not been exposed to radiation or anything like that.  Cancer drugs also cause the a similar condition but there is no reason to believe that Lady Gaga is being treated with any cancer drugs or that she has any form of cancer.

“Something turns the immune system against the hair follicles,” said Dr. Morgan.  “If we can stop that we might have a fighting chance to get the disease to reverse itself, but at the moment we are not encouraged because her hair loss is total.

Amy Winehouse tried in Belgrade to launch a comeback tour this weekend, but she was so messed up she she couldn’t even sing.  One Serbian publication called it ”the worst” concert that locals have ever seen. Tickets were very expensive especially for Belgrade where the average person earns perhpas the lowest wages in Europe.

A backup singer had to take over the show on songs that Amy couldn’t even get out.  She was struggling with, and the people booed the staggering singer.   Winehouse threw her mic to the floor, when she wasn’t mumbling lyrics. On video, she just wanders around the stage and sits down on equipment.  On some songs she just threw the mic to the floor and walked away.

Amy Winehouse is a mess and either she is truly messed up or she thinks that it’s cool to be a mess.  If she’s going to be like that she should just hurry up and die while she’s still a nobody.  She’s taking money from poor people.  She’s a skank.

Now her people say that Monday’s concert in Istanbul and Wednesday’s concert in Athens have been scrapped because “she cannot perform to the best of her ability” and feels “this is the right thing to do.” Her tour will resume July 8 in Spain.

Tabloids in the U.K. reported last month that doctors treating Winehouse for her longtime addiction to alchohol are up in arms emphasizing the urgent need for her to sober up after years of substance abuse. “It’s the last chance saloon for Amy,” said a source. “Doctors have come down hard on her because of the severity of her situation. It’s a harsh reality, but she had to hear it.”

For now, Winehouse heads home to England on an abrupt hiatus. Two clips of her botched Belgrade performance can be seen here:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0ZDMf6DTvk&feature=player_embedded

We were on top of the Weiner resignation this morning at 9:30am EDT — here is the story as we publish it this morning.

http://thedamienzone.com/2011/06/16/anthony-weiner-announces-resignation/