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October 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have more in common than their childhood friendship, the Hollywood stars are also distant cousins, it has been claimed. The New England Genealogical Society have found evidence that the actors are tenth cousins, once removed.

October 9th, 2009 Buddies Damon, Affleck are also distant relativesBOSTON — It seems Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are more than childhood pals and Hollywood collaborators. According to the New England Genealogical Society, they're also cousins.

September 25th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Matt Damon likes actor George Clooney because he has a great house and loves to spend on his pals. "George has this beautiful place in Italy where he brings all of his friends and he is an amazingly generous person as well, askmen.com quoted Damon as saying.

September 24th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood star Matt Damon is using his popularity to help provide clean water to people living in poverty-stricken Haiti. This is an initiative by the actor as part of his non-profit company water.org, which he launched earlier this year.

September 21st, 2009 LONDON - Matt Damon is all set to play Scott Thorson, Liberace's gay lover, in a new movie. Damon, famous for his action roles in the Bourne series, has agreed to take up the demanding role.

September 19th, 2009 LONDON - Oscar winning actor George Clooney wants to direct Matt Damon in a new movie called Hamdan v Rumsfeld, about Osama bin Laden's former chauffeur. The actor has singled out Matt, with whom he previously starred in Syriana, to star in the film, reports femalefirst.co.uk.

September 17th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Matt Damon was so unwilling to confess that he had put on weight that he thought George Clooney was playing a prank on him by paying someone to alter all his clothes so they did not fit. The actor, who put on 30lbs for his role in new movie 'The Informant!', said that he did not realise that he could not fit into his clothes anymore.

September 14th, 2009 LONDON - American actor George Clooney has vowed to take revenge against his 'Ocean's Eleven' co-star Matt Damon for joking to a foreign reporter that the former is set to marry his gay partner. Damon, 38, had recently admitted to having fuelled rumours that Clooney, 48, is gay, leading to a reporter stripping off his clothes and then propositioning him during an interview.

September 11th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon has denied reports that he had plunged to his death from the mountains of California. Rumours surfaced online Thursday that the "Ocean's Eleven" actor had slipped and fallen off the Palos Verdes mountains but Damon showed fans he was alive and well during an appearance on "The Late Show with David Letterman" and laughed off the bogus claim, reports contactmusic.com.

September 8th, 2009 LONDON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon says he had fun while working on "The Informant" because he could binge on food as well as skip his workout sessions. "It was very, very easy to gain weight.

August 25th, 2009 MATT DAMON's dreams of playing real-life alien expert BOB LAZAR are back on - a new biopic about the scientist has been greenlighted. Damon was reportedly onboard to play Lazar four years ago when movie executives at New Line were hoping to turn his life story and his recollections of working at S4, a secret military base located at Papoose Lake in Nevada, into a movie, but film plans stalled.

August 15th, 2009 LONDON - Matt Damon has confessed that he enjoyed gaining weight for his new film 'The Informant!' as he was allowed to chew on anything he desired. "I definitely got doughy.

July 23rd, 2009 Oscar winning Hollywood star Matt Damon (Good Will Hunting) was in Delhi and Chennai in India this week for his H2O Africa Foundation, which aims at raising awareness about clean water initiatives. Damon the spokesperson and co-founder of this Foundation (2006), has undertaken the projects in Uganda, Central African Republic, Ghana, Kenya, Ethiopia, Rwanda, and Niger.

July 11th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Hollywood actor Matt Damon plays a "stalkerish" in 'Entourage', says show's star Adrien Grenier. According to TV Guide, the 'Ocean's Eleven' star recently shot for the cameo in the hit HBO series' season finale.

July 4th, 2009 LONDON - Actors and close friends Matt Damon and Ben Affleck played poker at an event in Las Vegas to raise money for charity. The Oscar winners joined event host Don Cheadle and actors Brad Garrett and Danny Masterson and retired boxing champ Mike Tyson Thursday night for the charity event, reported femalefirst.co.uk.