Clooney Loses His Pig

Seriously, George Clooney's pig died. I didn't even know the had a pig, but apparently they have been best buddies for the last 18 years. Now E! Online reports that the pig, named Max, is gone.

Poor Max had arthritis and his sight was failing. Clooney commented on his pig's death to German reporters: "He was as old a pig as the vets had ever seen," Clooney said in the newspaper. "I was really surprised, because he's been such a big part of my life."

Originally, Max was owned by Clooney and his then-girlfriend Kelly Preston. "When George and Kelly broke up, he kept the pig," Marg Helgenberger, a colleague of Clooney's from a brief stint on ER, told People in 1996. "The guy always ends up with the pig. I wonder what that means?"

I only wish I was making this stuff up....

Photo from Clooney Network.