Actors Ben Affleck and Matt Damon have always been close but it turns out the two buddies are actually distant cousins.

The New England Historic Genealogical Society revealed that the good friends are actually 10th cousins once removed. Affleck and Damon share a common 10th great-grandfather, William Knowlton of Ipswich. Ipsich was a bricklayer who died in 1655.

“We suspected they might be related since both of them had ancestry going back to colonial New England,” said geneologist Chris Child, who did the research along with colleague Rhonda McClure .

Matt and Ben are related on their fathers’ side, said McClure.

George Clooney has a type, and brunettes with an ability to carry more than one alcoholic beverage at a time appear to be at the top of his list. The two-time Sexiest Man Alive, who split from Las Vegas cocktail waitress Sarah Larson in May, was supposedly spied eyeing one of her London peers last week.

Sources claim that Clooney, who’s still saddled with a suaveness-sapping, role-required dejected caterpillar on his upper lip, was chatting up a “pretty and petite” dark-haired drink-slinger at nightclub Whiskey Mist. Word is, he met her on a previous trip to town and went to the hot spot in hopes of seeing her.

“George arrived at the bar at midnight and went straight to talk and drink with a brunette behind the bar,” according to a source. “He looked very happy and was polite to the long line of female admirers who came up to talk to him.”

Update:

In between getting his flirt on, George also did some good while he was in London, raising a reported $14 million with a star-packed soiree that attracted the likes of Matt Damon, Scarlett Johansson, Bono, Guy Ritchie and Cindy Crawford. The funds are earmarked for his humanitarian-oriented Not on Our Watch charity, which he started with Damon and fellow “Oceans” buddies Brad Pitt and Don Cheadle.

Matt Damon reveals why he took a decision to take a break from his A-list day job for some time, which extends upto the end of the year.

“I took time off from acting until the end of the year to be with my family and enjoy our new daughter,” Matt said at a rally promoting Barack Obama in Florida. “But it is my responsibility to thank the American people for taking an interest in the political process. And in the next two days, I am asking them not to get complacent,” he added on the necessity of voting.

Update:

Matt and his lovely wife Luciana welcomed a beautiful baby girl this August - Gia. The couple already had two kids - Isabella, two years old, and Alexa, who is Luciana’s child from a former relationship.