Tweetin' Trouble


Elisabetta Canalis, the Italian hottie attached to George Clooney's hip, is dating more than the infamous ladies man - she's also been courting trouble! (Seriously - why don't I have a job at Us Weekly? The elegant drama of that sentence kills me.) What's the problem? Well, it turns out Elisabetta was playing it a little fast and loose on her Twitter account and re-Tweeted a slam comparing Jennifer Aniston to Iggy Pop. Funny? Well, yes. Bitchy? Hell, yes! Dangerous? Absolutely, especially for someone who's expected to help George uphold his classy/lovable image. Details, via Celebitchy

[Last week, LaineyGossip was the first site (to my knowledge) to point out a particular bitchy/hilarious/nasty RE-tweet on Elisabetta Canalis's Twitter account. Canalis had re-tweeted this message (in Italian): "I'm flipping through the new Rolling Stone. Iggy Pop on the cover is the double of Jennifer Aniston." Well... the sh-t hit the fan. I covered the story here, and many, many publications covered it as well, including Canalis's later denial that she had done anything. Canalis wrote (in English): "I JUST RED [sic] ON GOOGLE that I TWEETED something bad about J Aniston,let me be clear,it's a complete LIE,I would never do that!!" So, total denial. Except that now Elisabetta's Twitter account has been totally cancelled.

LaineyGossip thinks that George Clooney "finally stepped in" because "Ely is trying to work in America now. And there's no working in America right off the get if you piss on the MiniVan Majority's favourite best friend. More importantly, George Clooney can't afford to cut those bitches off either. So Ely is no longer tweeting." Or it could have nothing to do with Aniston, and more to do with the sudden realization many of us had that Canalis isn't all that bright. The whole incident reeked of a Lohan-esque shenanigan, and the veil was lifted. Of course, both George and Ely were smart enough to know that they both looked like idiots.

Of course, there is something to the theory that George and Ely were terrified of Aniston's most rabid fans. The comments on this site alone went batsh-t insane with our two stories, and I imagine it was like that on other sites as well. Canalis made some lifelong enemies with that one little re-tweet.]

Sure, it was a re-Tweet (I love that "re-Tweet" is accepted and understood in our lexicon now; like Google) and not her direct opinion, but the damage was obviously done. And that was only a RT - imagine if she'd actually come up with that opinion of her own! Horror of horrors. I kind of feel for her. I Tweeted a few humorous observations about in-laws a while back, which my mother-in-law happened to read. Rest assured, I'm still paying for it a year later! Can't we all just get along? Though Clooney clearly falls in Brad Pitt's camp, George and Jennifer remain friendly. And that means Elisabetta has got to play the game, by proxy. The famous can't simply rely on looks anymore; they also have to be politicians. Start stumping, Canalis! 

I couldn't resist digging out this vintage footage of Elisabetta, strutting her stuff on a talk show. She's the very aerobic brunette in the clip above. Congrats, George!

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