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He said: 'While there have been some positive changes in leadership including your appointment as chair and the appointment of a new chief executive, there remains a cancer at the top of the organisation.

They met in Italy: George Clooney is happily married to human rights lawyer Amal Clooney with whom he shares two children. And on Tuesday the Ocean's 11 actor was looking back at how his love story began when he stopped by The Drew Barrymore Show.

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Ms Gittos has told how she felt 'blamed' for the death of her baby, and was horrified to learn that maternity staff had written in her notes she and her partner had refused medical care when they had not.

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Her pal: Asked about the best part of working with George, the Pretty Woman star said: 'Having a backup, having a friend. It doesn't make a lot of sense. And so, to be in lockstep with someone, it just makes it so much more fun' 'It's such a puppy pile of a job where there's so many people involved and then you're kind of sent off like this satellite to talk about it all by yourself.