With her successful career as a pin-up and TV presenter in her native Italy, Elisabetta Canalis must have thought her life couldn't get much better.
And then she met George Clooney.
As they arrived at the Venice Film Festival onboard a speed boat last night, the 30-year-old Italian couldn't have looked happier.
The actor's usual suave appearance was let down by his bandaged hand, which he broke a week ago after accidentally shutting it in a car door.
Isn't life great: George Clooney and Elisabetta Canalis arrive by speedboat at the Venice Film Festival
Clooney is at the festival to promote his new film Men Who Stare At Goats.
The Oscar winner has spent the last two months with Sardinian Elisabetta, since being introduced by a friend in Rome.
They have enjoyed romantic boat trips during a sun-filled stay at his Lake Como home.
When tiring of his huge property, the Ocean's Eleven star, 48, has wined and dined his new love with in Milan and Rome - where Elisabetta lives.
She's my girl: A smiling Clooney, who broke his hand after slamming it in a car door last month, waves to fans
And the world's most famous bachelor even invited supermodel Cindy Crawford and her husband Rande Gerber for a break at his villa, where they spent their time tearing through the Italian countryside on motorbikes with him and Elisabetta.
Elisabetta is the latest in a string of attractive women to be linked to George in recent years.
