George Clooney wants to date a man to foil paparazzi

Oct 3, 2006, 13:56 GMT

George Clooney plots compassionate plan to foil all paparazzi and the magazines that pay them. /MATTEO BAZZI

George Clooney wants to date a man - to confuse people about his love life.

The 'Ocean's Thirteen' actor wants to be seen with as many different people as possible to throw gossips off the scent of his real lover, and has lined up a hit list of Hollywood beauties, and one heartthrob, who he would like to be seen with.

Clooney recently survived a nearly life-threatening case of in-flight food poisoning on the trip back from a humanitarian mission in Darfur, the "actorvist" has been doing some soul-searching about how to best employ his worldwide notoriety.

A brief effort trying to raise awareness of the ongoing genocide in Darfur proved insufficiently fulfilling, Defamer.com reports that "Clooney's deeper appreciation of his own mortality has led him to rededicate his remaining, precious days to the cause he finds most ennobling: celebrity privacy rights."

He revealed in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine: "I want to spend every single night for three months going out with a different famous actress. You know, Halle Berry one night, Salma Hayek the next, and then walk on the beach holding hands with Leonardo DiCaprio.

"People would still buy the magazines, they'd still buy the pictures, but they would always go, 'I don't know if these guys were putting us on or not.'"

Meanwhile, George - who won an Oscar this year for his role in 'Syriana' - has already decided who should walk away with an Academy Award next year.

He revealed: "I will tell you right now that my 'The Good German' co-star Cate Blanchett will win an Oscar.

"She's the best actor working today. Not actress, she's an actor. It's intimidating, in a way, to work with an actor that good."

He added: "Johnny Depp just keeps doing really good stuff and Clive Owen is the big find in the past two or three years.

"He's, like, a man - there's a sexuality and a masculinity that I think is really interesting."

(C) BANG Media International