George Clooney is forced to prove he can cut his own hair with a thrifty Flowbee

George Clooney appeared less than impressed when he was forced to prove he can could his own hair with a thrifty 80s gadget, the Flowbee, on  Jimmy Kimmel Live. 

The actor, 59, recently said he has been using the appliance for 22 years and it appears as though Kimmel, 53, wanted proof of this during his show. 

However, he did admit that his assistant actually Flowbees his hair for him and joked that it would be ‘cheap’ if he did it himself.

A Flowbee is a vacuum haircutting system sold on teleshopping channels, which cuts and simultaneously vacuums up the trimmings.

George gave it a go anyway, while on the show to promote new movie, Midnight Sky.

He said: ‘I’ve been doing it for many years. I’ve had it [a Flowbee] for 22 years. 

‘My assistant got it originally off of television, then it broke down and you couldn’t get them for a while.’

Kimmel said playfully: ‘People who have assistants shouldn’t be Flowbeeing their hair.’ 

George replied: ‘I got her to Flowbee my hair for me. I don’t do it myself. God, that’s cheap.’ 

The Gravity star originally  opened up about his surprisingly thrifty grooming habits during an interview with Tracy Smith on CBS Sunday morning.

‘I’ve been cutting my own hair for 25 years,’ he claimed – later admitting his assistant does all the work. 

‘My hair’s really like straw, and so it’s easy to cut. You can’t really make too many mistakes.

‘So, years ago, I bought a thing called a Flowbee, which when we were —’ he said, just as Smith interrupted him in shock: ‘You did not!’

The interview then cut to a clip of a Flowbee infomercial, which showed how the device works.

An infomercial staple for decades, the product has been advertised on US television since the late 1980s and is essentially a vacuum cleaner that also cuts hair.

The device automatically clips hair while the vacuum removes the clippings, instantaneously eliminating the messy aspect of a haircut. 

Similar devices have been used in space, where floating hair clippings pose the potential dancer of interfering with important electronics.

‘I still have it!’ the Hail Caesar actor bragged. ‘My haircuts take literally two minutes.’

Flowbee was even responsible for the actor’s perfectly coiffed look during his interview.

‘Listen, man, it works!’ the screen star gushed during the televised chat.

The Monuments Men star also spoke warmly of his wife Amal Clooney, with whom he shares three-year-old twins Alexander and Ella, saying she ‘changed everything’ for him.

‘There is no question that having Amal in my life changed everything for me,’ he said. 

‘It was the first time that everything that she did and everything about her was infinitely more important than anything about me. And then we had these two knuckleheads. It is very fulfilling and something I didn’t see coming.’

The actor and director insisted he never talked about marriage earlier in their relationship.

‘We never talked about marriage when we were dating. I asked her out of the blue, took her a long time to say yes. I was on my knee for like 20 minutes, I finally said, “Look, I’m gonna throw my hip out.” 

‘We never talked about having kids, and then one day we just said, “What do you think?” We go to the doctor and you do the ultrasound. They’re like, “You got a baby boy!” and I was like, “Baby boy, fantastic!” 

‘And they go, “And you got another one there.” I was up for one. All of a sudden, it’s two. It’s hard to get me to not talk and I stood there for like 10 minutes just staring at this piece of paper going, “What? Two?”‘ he recounted.

Clooney also said he had developed a new sense of ‘sympathy’ for his mother following lockdown.

‘It’s been a while since I did 15 loads of laundry in a day and mopped floors and all these doors over here I stained,’ he said.

‘I always say I felt like my mother in 1964, because she had two kids and no help. I don’t know how she did it now, I have more sympathy for her now than ever.’