George Clooney recalls regularly handling old ladies' foot corns before fame Joey NolfiDecember 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM 0 George Clooney recalls working with feet on 'Live With Kelly & Mark'Key Points George Clooney appeared on Live With Kelly and Mark for a lifespanning interview. The Jay Kelly star reflected on one of his first jobs as a shoe salesman. Clooney said he regularly had to deal with hammertoes and old ladies' foot corns. Before he hit it big as the star of ER, George Clooney regularly performed borderline podiatric operations of a different kind.
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Joey NolfiDecember 5, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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George Clooney appeared on Live With Kelly and Mark for a life-spanning interview.
The Jay Kelly star reflected on one of his first jobs as a shoe salesman.
Clooney said he regularly had to deal with hammertoes and old ladies' foot corns.
Before he hit it big as the star of ER, George Clooney regularly performed borderline podiatric operations of a different kind.
The Jay Kelly actor appeared Friday on Live With Kelly and Mark, where he told cohosts Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos about a less-than-glamorous job he held as an 18-year-old aspiring performer.
Clooney, now 64, recounted working as a shoe salesman in one of his earliest gigs, and said that the job came with "a lot of 80-year-olds" who would stick their feet in his face and exclaim, "That's a hammertoe!" The actor stretched out his own foot out to demonstrate.
To liven the mood, he then recounted handling old ladies' feet — particularly, their corns.
George Clooney recalls his past job working with old ladies' feet on 'Live With Kelly and Mark'
"We had this thing — people would come in, old ladies would have a corn. A bunion. Corn," the Oscar winner said, running the gamut of foot conditions.
Clooney described his in-depth process, telling Ripa and Consuelos, "You had a little plastic corn with a Mr. Potato Head, and you had a stretching shoe that had holes in it. You first sprayed their foot with blue powder on the corn, and then you put it in, and you looked, and then you put the thing and you stretched the corn hole. You stretched the corn."
Ripa clarified of the convoluted process, asking Clooney, "So, you were the original version of cornhole?"
The Live audience laughed as Clooney quipped back with a smile.
"Yes, I am," the Ocean's Eleven actor said, turning toward the studio crowd. "That's probably not how I want that to be phrased. I know you do. No, it's good for you, good for your show!"
Later in the interview, Ripa asked Clooney if his time filming ER earlier in his career made him feel "medical" and smarter as a result of playing an emergency room doctor.
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George Clooney in 'Jay Kelly'
"No, you feel dumber," Clooney said, adding that "the doctor looks at you like, oh, you're an idiot" when he attempts to diagnose things himself.
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Still, Clooney said that his longtime friend and fellow actor Richard Kind often consults him for advice on various concerns, and that he's "not wrong, often" about whatever he chooses to diagnose Kind with.
Live With Kelly and Mark airs weekdays in syndication. Check your local listings for showtimes in your area. Clooney's latest film Jay Kelly — directed by Noah Baumbach and also starring Adam Sandler — is now streaming on Netflix.
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Published: December 05, 2025 at 10:45AM on Source: OPERA MAG
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