London, July 16 : Hollywood actor George Clooney has rubbished reports that he found new love, calling them "a ridiculous lie".

Just a month after splitting from Italian model Elisabetta Canalis, the "Ocean's Eleven" star was said to have confessed plans to bring a new girlfriend to the Venice Film Festival in August.

"The Italian press, from Corriere Della Sera to Tgcom, Ansa, NewNotizie, Sky. it and even Vanity Fair are all running a story that quotes me as saying that I'm bringing a 'new girl' to the Venice Film Festival. I never made that statement and it's not true," contactmusic. com quoted him as saying.

"It was made up to sell tabloid magazines. It's a ridiculous lie and should be corrected as publicly as it was originally written," he said. (IANS)