Actor George Clooney has written a grovelling letter to 300 residents of the Italian village he calls home.

Neighbors in Laglio - dubbed Clooneyville since the heart-throb moved there - have grown increasingly fed up with the disruption his presence has brought. And they feared they would lose the town's only public beach after Clooney snapped it up to add to his bulging property and land portfolio.

But he has been quick to assure them the beach will remain for everyone's use - and has vowed to clean it up and accept honorary Italian citizenship to prove his love for the town.

In an open letter he wrote: "I think of Laglio as the most beautiful town in the world. The people, my neighbors, are the kindest and warmest. "I have never and would never try to take the beach away... but the story got out there and seems to have stuck. "Allow me to prove that I am worthy of an honorary citizenship. Let me fix up the beach ..."

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Posted by Lawren at May 5, 2005 07:27 AM

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I hope that's true.

Says: Nanc' at May 5, 2005 08:02 AM

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YUM...Love that picture!

Says: EJ at May 5, 2005 12:47 PM

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