George Clooney has spoken out about his wealth and why he once turned down $35 million for a day's work.

The 60-year-old actor recently spoke to The Guardian about his recent projects and ever-increasing wealth. During the interview, the Ocean's Eleven star was asked if he ever says to himself: "You know what? I think I have enough money now."

To which, Clooney responded: "Well, yeah. I was offered $35m for one day’s work for an airline commercial, but I talked to Amal about it and we decided it’s not worth it."

Clooney married wife Amal, a human rights lawyer, back in September of 2014. The ceremony took place at the Ca' Farsetti palace in Venice, Italy, and the pair were married by the former mayor of Rome, Walter Veltroni.

After confiding in his wife about the airline commercial, Clooney went on to explain:  "It was [associated with] a country that, although it’s an ally, is questionable at times, and so I thought: 'Well, if it takes a minute’s sleep away from me, it’s not worth it.'"

Forbes magazine states that, back in 2017, Clooney received an annual take-home higher than any actor in history - but it wasn't for a movie role, it was for his tequila.

Clooney co-founded the tequila company Casamigos with friends Rande Gerber and Mike Meldman, and the trio's hard work quickly led to it becoming the fastest-growing super-premium tequila brand in the United States.

Casamigos was eventually acquired by British liquor giant Diageo for $700 million.

Elsewhere in the interview, Clooney revealed how he has been able to become one of the most successful actors alive today, without having any scandals or public embarrassments against him - and he puts it all down the age.

He says: "I was 33, 34 when ER took off, so I was older, right?"

Comparing his trajectory into fame with his aunt, beloved singer Rosemary Clooney, he explained: "Rosemary was a huge singer – huge! And then rock’n’roll came and she lost her career. And she didn’t get it, because at 21 she thought she was the real deal and by 26 it was gone. So, I’m lucky enough to understand how little the fame side has to do with me."

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If you didn't know already, George Clooney is a bit of a prankster. Aside from his many leading roles and Oscar wins, Hollywood knows him as someone willing to the extra mile to dupe his friends and co-stars.

There are dozens of examples out there, from the time he found a painting in the trash and convinced his friend that he'd painted it for them, leaving them to hang it on the wall for years - to the time he drank a producer under the table by drinking water instead of vodka.

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His Hail, Caesar! co-star Alden Ehrenreich once recalled that the 57-year-old actor convinced him, Channing Tatum, Josh Brolin and Jonah Hill to turn their backs to the cameras at the film's premiere. "So we did it and George didn't," Ehrenreich said. "There's a great picture of George laughing at the camera with Josh and us looking like idiots."

Then there's the time that Matt Damon was staying at Clooney's villa in Italy, where he was hoping to slim down for a role.

Clooney convinced the wardrobe girl to take his Damon's trousers in an "eighth of an inch" every few days:

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"He was then just eating a grape and saying, ‘I don’t understand why I’m getting fatter,’" Clooney said on The Graham Norton Show. "I did that for about three weeks.”

It's weird to think this of such a prestige actor, but Clooney definitely has a peculiar sense of humour - and it hasn't left him as he's embraced fatherhood either. He and his wife Amal married in 2014, and now have eleven-month-old twins Alexander and Ella to look after.

He spoke about what it's like to have kids on a recent episode of Good Morning Britain, where he spoke to hosts Charlotte Hawkins and Kate Garraway. "I thought my life would be focused on my career, not relationships, and I'd sort of accepted that," he said. "And then. . . all of a sudden we have these two knuckleheads around who make me laugh every day."

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In the same interview, he shared a story that wasn't quite as sweet. He once played a trick on a housekeeper, where he pretended to eat from a dirty diaper. Yep, you read that right. But don't worry - it was just Nutella inside...

"I was shooting a TV show in Italy and I went and got a new nappy and I put Nutella in it and threw it in the trash can. I came in an hour later and there was an Italian housekeeper in this house that we were staying in.

"I said 'Amal wants to know if the Alexander did poo poo or pee pee, poo poo or pee pee?'. I opened up the trash and got the nappy, (holding it up) I rubbed it in my face and tasted it, and she screamed and ran out of the room."

Yeah, that sounds about right.

And it looks like the Clooney pranks aren't going to end with him, as he explained he hopes the kids will learn a thing or two from him as they grow up. "I'm going to teach my kids a lot of good tricks," he said.

One of the world's wealthiest actors has finally opened up about how she got rich.

When you think of the world's richest actors, who comes to mind?

Maybe Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise, Jennifer Aniston, or someone along those names, right?

Now what if I told you that the world's richest actor is actually someone who you may have never even heard of?

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Born in Chicago, Jamie Gertz initially rose to fame in the 1987 movie Less than Zero starring alongside some other big names like Robert Downey Jr. and Michael Bowen. She then went on to star as a vampire on the hit drama The Lost Boys and while she hasn't really peaked at the Box Office or taken on any big-name roles, she still sits comfortably on the top of a very elite list of celebrities.

The American actress-turned-entrepreneur is the richest actor in the entire world with Forbes reporting that Gertz's net worth is around the $8 billion mark.

This far exceeds the wealth of any celebrity in the world, let alone just actors.

In fact, the 59-year-old has more money than the next three stars on the list put together - Taylor Swift comes in at number two with $1.6 billion, followed by Rihanna at $1.4 billion, and then Selena Gomez at around $1.3 billion.

But how did Gertz manage to become so successful?

It turns out that the star gave up pursuing a fully-fledged acting career (her last movie appearance was in 2022 for a cameo appearance in Jason Orley's I Want You Back) and instead, she's now chasing other ventures.

Gertz married her husband back in 1989. Credit: Vivien Killilea/Getty/An American Fantasy

In 1989, the actress married Tony Ressler, an American billionaire businessman, and together they started securing deals to keep that money flowing including becoming the co-owners of the MLB team, the Milwaukee Brewers as well as for the NBA team, the Atlanta Hawks.

Combined with her investments in other businesses, she's managed to secure herself a fortune over the years.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter back in 2018, Gertz cleared up some rumors about her success.

"Everyone thinks I married a rich guy," she said at the time. "But I made more money - way more money - than Tony when I met him. I paid for our first house. I paid for our first vacation. I married him because I fell in love with him."

Gertz and Ressler back in 1989. Credit: Ron Galella, Ltd./Ron Galella Collection/Getty

Ressler also confirmed that at the time he knew his soon-to-be wife was an actress, though he wasn't quite sure what her actual credentials were.

"He was a nice guy with a job,” Gertz said of her now-husband. "Which is what any Jewish girl from Glenview would want. It would have been nice if it was a doctor or a lawyer, but a banker was OK, too."

So there we have it guys, even if you marry rich, make sure you have your own avenues of money flowing in - that's the life lesson we all learnt from this, right?

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