manchester

showbiz

Pitt stop at Clooney's for Angelina?

THE mayor's wife in George Clooney's Italian holiday retreat, Laglio, said today her husband could marry Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie at an hour's notice, as speculation mounted that the two stars might be planning to wed on the shores of Lake Como this weekend.

Clooney is a friend of the Hollywood couple and his lakefront villa in the town of Laglio is cited in Italian news reports as a credible location for such a ceremony.

Saturday has been mentioned as a possible date.

"There's a lot of movement at the villa, a lot of people there. We were expecting Clooney today but he didn't show up," Monica Mantero - wife of Laglio mayor Giuseppe Mantero - said.

She said Pitt and Jolie hadn't fixed a date with her husband but that "even if they contacted him an hour before he could still marry them."

Mantero, who lives across from Clooney's villa, said preparations taking place on the grounds were the ones routinely done ahead of the actor's arrival and that a reception in the garden didn't seem to be in the works.