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Matt Damon realized it was time to shape up and trim down his waistline when his stepdaughter nicknamed him “Matty Fatty”.

The Hollywood star piled on the pounds for recent roles in The Informant! and to portray South African rugby captain Francois Pienaar in the new Clint Eastwood movie, Invictus.

Damon confesses he didn’t realise just how big he had gotten after filming on Invictus wrapped and was convinced his clothes had shrunk in the wash.

Even a quiet word of advice from his wife Luciana wasn’t enough to send him running to the gym.

He says, “My wife thinks I have a condition: the opposite of anorexia. I look in the mirror and I think I look great. We had to go to some film function and I put on a suit. I put it on and it came up to (my forearm). I thought, ‘That’s strange, my suit’s shrunk.’ So I put on another one, and same thing. Third one, same again. So I said to my wife, ‘Honey, this dry cleaner is no good. These suits were tailored for me.’ And she’s going,’ OK, do you think maybe you put on about 30 pounds?’”

It was only when his stepdaughter Alexia poked fun at his weight that he decided to get fit – but not before suspecting his prankster pal George Clooney was behind his ill-fitting clothes.

He explains, “The situation resolved itself when I said to my stepdaughter, ‘Come on, it’s time for dinner.’ And she goes, ‘OK Matty Fatty!’ Before, I thought it was more likely that George Clooney had hired someone to tailor my suits!”

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Matt Damon and director Paul Greengrass re-team for their latest electrifying thriller in Green Zone, a film set in the chaotic early days of the Iraqi War when no one could be trusted and every decision could detonate unforeseen consequences.

During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller (Damon) and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose of their mission.

Spun by operatives with intersecting agendas, Miller must hunt through covert and faulty intelligence hidden on foreign soil for answers that will either clear a rogue regime or escalate a war in an unstable region. And at this blistering time and in this combustible place, he will find the most elusive weapon of all is the truth

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Matt Damon, his wife Luciana Barroso, their daughters Isabella (b. June 11, 2006) and Gia Zavala (b. August 20, 2008), and Luciana’s daughter Alexia carefully cross the street on the way to the set of Matt’s latest film, “The Adjustment Bureau.”

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Matt Damon and newly engaged (to John Krasinski!) Emily Blunt begin filming Adjustment Bureau in New York today.

Adjustment Bureau tells the story of an affair between a politician and a ballerina and how it’s affected by mysterious forces keeping the lovers apart.

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Box office biggie Matt Damon gets big props from “Entourage” star Kevin Dillon for playing himself in an upcoming episode of the hit HBO series.

Well, if Matt can’t play Matt, who can he play???

Dillon told E! News that the movie superspy and NBA superstar LeBron James “knocked it out of the park” when they were on the set to do their scenes.

“They play a couple of guys who are doing some charity work, and they get Vince (played by Adrien Grenier) involved in charity stuff,” said Johnny Drama’s alter ego. “Really that is hilarious.”

The episode will air late in the season.

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