Actorvist George Clooney's retirement home snub

Oct 25, 2006, 7:00 GMT

George Clooney has been stopped from visiting a retirement home in Italy.

The 'Syriana' star turned up at the private complex in Dizzasco to visit the residents recently but an overzealous security guard didn't recognise him and told him to leave.

By the time staff realised who it was George had already driven off, reports the New York Post newspaper.

George is no stranger to performing selfless acts.

The socially-aware star recently called on the United Nations to help stop the war in Darfur.

George - who has visited the war torn region several times - joined Nobel Prize winner Elie Wiesel for an informal briefing in New York in September to voice an appeal for help to the UN Security Council.

He said: "The United States has called it genocide. For you it's called ethnic cleansing. But make no mistake, it is the first genocide of the 21st century. And if it continues unchecked, it will not be the last."

George went on to insist that whatever the reason was preventing peace "it's not good enough."

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