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12/11/2015

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Popular hunk and veteran American actor George Clooney is in Edinburgh Thursday and he has been supporting a homeless charity.

George was mobbed by fans when he visited a sandwich shop in Scotland's capital city Edinburgh.

He visited "the Social Bite cafe, which donates all its profits to homeless people, leaving $1000 (about £650) at the cafe for the cause."

Around 200 fans were over the moon to get close to George and he was generous to fans, staff and the media posing for s series of fun shots some of which have already been posted online.

The publicity from today will help Social Bite and in turn help others through money raised.

Social Bite operates five cafes in Scotland; they claim to be a "social business."

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According to Mashable "One in four staff at the cafes used to be homeless, and all profits from the business go to a number of charities."

Social Bite online say this about a "social business."

We were inspired by the philosophy of a Nobel Peace Prize winning economist called Prof. Muhammad Yunus.

Our founders Josh and Alice came across Prof. Yunus in 2011 when Josh started reading his book “Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism”.

In his book Yunus describes the idea of a ‘Social Business’, where he was creating businesses, but not for the traditional purpose of making money, but for solving social challenges.  Josh and Alice became so inspired by this idea that they decided to fly to Bangladesh to meet with Yunus. They travelled to Dhaka in October 2011.

As they say the rest is history; you can read more about Social Bite here.

Mr. Clooney is set to meet another fan today; the person in question is Heather McGowan, 32, from Glasgow, who won a competition to meet Gorgeous George.

Clooney spent around 15 minutes at the Social Bite Cafe giving the business its 15 minutes of fame but big time.

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