George Clooney had to miss the press conference for his new Netflix movie Jay Kelly , which launches this week at the Venice Film Festival, due to what the festival moderator described as a “bad sinus infection”.

The press conference moderator said Clooney “should” be at this evening’s world premiere screening but the conditional tense left the door open to him not to being able to make it.

The moderator added that Clooney was sorry not to make the press conference and his co-star Adam Sandler quipped that “even movie stars get sick”. Co-star Laura Dern disclosed that Clooney was “devastated” not to be at the event.

It emerged last night that Clooney — who was photographed arriving at the festival earlier this week — had had to cut back on press duties due to the illness and also

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