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	Now Magazine 2003




Thanks to Libby for the above pics

Now Magazine George is the leading man again...at dancing Imagine telling this story to your friends and their likely response to it. It's been another run-of-the-mill day at work and you're just arriving home.

As you go in, your dad tells you that there are visitors -a bunch of blokes on motorcycles who asked for help after one of them broke down.		Being the hospitable sort, your dad had invited them in for a drink and a meal while the bike was fixed.
This in itself isn't particularly stunning, but the sight that greets you as you walk in the next room is -because there's George Clooney, sitting eating dinner in your house.		The film star repaid the kindness of his host -who had no idea who his guest was -by dancing with his daughter and one of her friends at their home in Portofino, Italy, before continuing on his touring holiday by Harley-Davidson motorbike. No one would believe you, would they... until they see the pictures


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When your in trouble it doesn't matter who you are,as heart-throb George Clooney found out when his motorbike broke down during a touring holiday in Italy. Stranded on the side of a windy road near the northern village of Nuova Olonia, George was saved when passing farmer Bonifacio Ferraro offered him a lift and invited him in for dinner, without a clue who his American visitor was. The friendly farmer, who never watches TV, only realised something was up when his son...
George can't believe his bad luck-his bike is well and truly knackered.
Niko came home, followed by half the village. Bonifacio said later, "My son couldn't quite believe his eyes when he walked through the front door to see George Clooney sitting at the kitchen table.
He told me who he was but, to be honest, I've never heard of him. " Photographer Dardo Rigamonti, who was in the village at the time, commented, "In a way I think George quite liked not being recognised - he seemed very at home. The hole reason he was in the area was to get away from it all."