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Elisabetta Canalis had child-like relationship with 'paternal' George Clooney

By April MacIntyre Oct 30, 2011, 19:18 GMT

05/18/2011 - Elisabetta Canalis - 64th Annual Cannes Film Festival - Roberto Cavalli Boutique Opening - Cavalli Boutique - Cannes, France © Pixplanete / PR Photos

Shocking news as sex-bomb Italian host Elisabetta Canalis says that her "boyfriend" George Clooney and she had a 'father-daughter relationship'"

'He has been special for me ... just as a father would be,' she says in a new book.
The former "Dancing with the Stars" contestant Canalis and George Clooney's relationship was revealed to be a sexless one in journalist Bruno Vespa's new book "Questo Amore" (This Love).

People reports that her relationship with one of Hollywood's masculine icons was a bearded ruse, described as "more of a father-daughter relationship," which she "was unable to clarify...'til now."

For years, Clooney has weathered many rumors because of his confirmed bachelorhood, but Canalis claimed the breaking point was marriage talk, "George and I never spoke of marriage nor of having kids...I don't put limits to the possibility of having them, but neither George nor I had ever envisaged having kids together. The end of the relationship was not caused by a marriage issue, but instead by our personal needs."

Clooney is now seeing "Dancing" former contestant Stacy Keibler.