GEORGE CLOONEY - CLOONEY THRILLED WITH EARLY MOVIE FLOPS

Hollywood hunk GEORGE CLOONEY is thrilled a majority of his early movies flopped at the box office - because it stopped him from being typecast.

The 43-year-old actor doesn't regret making critically mauled movies including RETURN OF THE KILLER TOMATOES, RED SURF and THE HARVEST because they gave him the opportunity to tackle a range of genres at the beginning of his film career.

He explains, "I'm lucky enough, sort of in a backward way, that a lot of films that I did weren't particularly successful early, so I didn't get pigeonholed.

"I've been given free rein to try a bunch of different things and have them all fail at once!"