Lisa Snowdon shares rare insight into ‘fun’ romance with George Clooney
This Morning regular Lisa Snowdon gave a rare insight into her relationship with former flame George Clooney in a new interview.
The ex-Strictly Come Dancing star has opened up about spending a “lot of time in Los Angeles” with the actor in the early 2000s, after meeting him on the set of a Martini advert in Barcelona.
In a travel piece for The Times, Lisa, 51, wrote: “I met George Clooney on a TV commercial in Barcelona, but we also spent a lot of time in Los Angeles. I was back and forth to LA for photoshoots and the BBC show LA Pool Party. We once stayed in a great apartment in Santa Monica looking onto the beach.
“I also got an apartment in Venice. I was working on E! Entertainment’s coverage of the Oscars and Golden Globes. LA was a great place to work and have fun.”
Lisa and George, 62, dated for five years and made various public red-carpet appearances together before calling it quits in 2005.
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At the time of their breakup, a Hollywood source told The Mirror: “It’s always difficult to maintain a long-distance relationship. They have remained great friends and there is no animosity between them.
“Lisa last saw George in LA at the beginning of May. They spoke on the phone regularly but they began to realise that the relationship had nowhere to go.”
However, a month before their reportedly amicable split, George had said that the pair “get along well” and that she made things “easy” for him in his career.
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“She has her own life and her own career and she’s very independent that way. She makes things very easy for me.”
Previously opening up about “wild” times with the Michael Clayton star, Lisa told The Sun: “George was charming, a really nice man, good fun and we had a great time. It was quite wild.
“Sometimes I think it will be written on my tombstone — ‘George Clooney once dated Lisa Snowdon’,” she added.
After breaking up in 2005, Lisa went on to date CSI: Crime Scene Investigation actor Gary Dourdan and Little Britain star David Walliams
The former I’m A Celeb contestant is now engaged to Yorkshire-born entrepreneur George Smart.
Lisa previously revealed that she had a “little fling” with George 20 years ago before rekindling their relationship in 2015.
Speaking about her fiancé on Loose Women last summer, the 51-year-old said: “’I’m so lucky, I do realise how lucky I am to have him in my life, it took me a long time to actually find someone who was as supportive as him.
“Bless him, it was right at the beginning of my menopause journey we got back together.”
She also claimed that while the pair have been “engaged for years” she was unsure if she was the “marrying type”.
“We’re really happy but I’m not sure whether we’re actually going to get married… I’m not sure I want a big hoo-ha!’
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