George Clooney Travelling with his reporter dad Nick to report on the atrocities in Darfur in Sudan.

Ocean’s 13 star George Clooney braved gun-toting rebels, tarantula spiders and food poisoning to report on the atrocities in Darfur in Sudan.

Travelling with his reporter dad Nick, the actor was left close to tears after meeting hungry children in refugee camps.

Speaking exclusively to The Sun - Nick, 73, said last night:  “We were there for ten days. As George put it, ‘there wasn’t a moment there I didn’t think we could get killed’.

“Twice George had armed guys take his tapes away from him.

“We saw 30,000 refugees in a camp in neighbouring Chad. I saw things we thought finished with World War II."

The pair visited the war-torn African nation last year to film a documentary shown on the Community Channel in Britain.

The fighting in Sudan has left over 200,000 dead and millions more have become refugees.

Nick revealed: “It was a hairy way to travel. Walking through the night dodging tarantulas and snakes while you’re trying to use the loo, which is actually a hole in the ground.

“The worst thing that happened was George got diarrhoea. I told George not to eat the goat, just the potatoes and rice, but would he listen to me?

“He won’t even look at a picture of a goat now.”But George – one of Hollywood’s biggest stars – wanted to use his celebrity

Nick went on: “We are a news family, I’ve been a news guy for 55 years and when we sat around the table when George was a kid we talked about news and events around the world.

“That has stuck - we still talk about the most important issue of the day.

“George said, ‘Look pop, if they are going to follow me around with those cameras anyway why don’t we make some use of it’.

“He said, ‘Let’s go to Darfur, you be the reporter and I’ll be Elizabeth Taylor’.”

The Clooneys met one little girl who left them devastated when she pleaded: “please come back.”

Nick said: “It was very painful for George. There are so many ways they can die.

“These are the ones that come back to you in the moments just before you go to sleep. When you lose control of your thought process a face pops up.

“They had nothing, no possessions. We saw refugees sleeping by the side of the road and under trees.

“We saw results of the atrocities and listened to people’s stories.

George’s Hollywood bosses were not happy one of their leading men was risking his life in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Nick explained: “We were advised to take security but we decided it would be the wrong thing to do.

“We didn’t want a guy with an AK47 on his shoulder.

“It was very brave of George to go but, hell, I’m 73, I’m on a short rope.”

Nick revealed that he believes divorced George – who has had a string of girlfriends – will one day settle down and have children.

“He would say, ‘Pop, I was married. I’m innoculated’.

“But my guess is somewhere down the line some very funny women will knock his socks off and that will be the end of it.

“But if it doesn’t happen, it doesn’t happen.”

Nick and George are close friends as well as father and son.

“I like him, he’s a good guy. I like being around him, we have a good time.

“He was hilariously funny from the time he was a little kid. He still is.

“If there was a street light he would perform under it and he was the centre of attention of any class he was in.

“He wanted to be an actor from the beginning and I told him that was the most ridiculous thing I had heard. I wanted him to be journalist.”

”We just stuck our toe in there, those folks live like that every day.”

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