George Clooney On Facing Down Fabio, Those Gay Rumors & Donald Trump

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FIRST PUBLISHED: March 10, 2008 3:22 PM EDT
LAST UPDATED: March 10, 2008 3:32 PM EDT

LOS ANGELES, Calif. --

George Clooney has admitted Fabio would likely come out victorious if the two engaged in a physical fracas.

Last fall, news broke that Clooney and Fabio had engaged in a war of words after the "Ocean’s Thirteen" star thought the model’s friends were taking pictures of him and his girlfriend, Sarah Larson, during dinner at a LA restaurant. Following the incident, Fabio said publicly he could beat up Clooney.

And now, in a new interview with Esquire magazine’s April edition, Clooney said, had their verbal fight turned into a physical one, he would have lost.

"Yeah, that’s probably true. He's a big guy" George told Esquire. "There is a moment when you are actually in the argument and you're thinking, 'If I do get beaten down by Fabio, that will be far worse than the pain.’ I wouldn't shake that."

However, one thing Clooney said he could shake is being tagged gay to the third power.

When Esquire, who took Clooney on a tour across the Internet, told the actor about a Web site dubbing him "gay, gay, gay," Clooney said that was too much.

"No," he laughed. "I’m gay, gay. The third gay – that was pushing it."

Clooney also took on being labeled "short" by Donald Trump.

"I saw Donald Trump on Larry King and he was saying, 'Clooney is a very short guy. I mean he's a tiny guy,’" Clooney recounted. "I've met Donald Trump once, and I was sitting at a table. He came over, shook my hand, and walked away. I guess I looked about three-foot-five sitting at that table."

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