“George Clooney rang me at two in the morning,” Jackman told People magazine Monday at the “Australia” premiere in New York.

“I was half asleep and I said to him, ‘Ah, George sweetie, good to hear from you.’ He goes, ‘Shut up, Jackman!’’’ the Aussie actor recounted with a laugh.

”[He said,] ‘I know what you did! You started this big campaign that’s been going on and [you] took the title away from me,’” Jackman continued.

“I thought that was unnecessary,” he reportedly deadpanned.

Clooney always seems like a pretty funny guy in interviews so I imagine he probably is when people tell stories like this. Clooney is like Frank Sinatra (Chairman of the Board) and everyone else is just a cronie.

His father was with him when he arrived in New York and said that his father was real uncomfortable with the idea of talking to his son about being “sexy”…lol

Looks like Jackman will have to move on to hiding behind bamboo shades now since this should move him up in the harassment status by the bloodsucker reporters.