George Clooney Is Joking About Cutting His Own Hair With an Informercial Gadget…Right?
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Over the weekend, George Clooney shocked CBS correspondent Tracy Smith by claiming he’s been cutting his own hair for 25 years using the Flowbee, an 80s-era infomercial hair trimmer that sucks your hair into a tube, cuts it, and then swallows up the trimmings with a vacuum.
According to the Flowbee commercial, which plays like a sketch comedy writer’s fever dream of bad hair and canned 80s disco (it was indeed parodied in Wayne’s World), the device provides "a professional-level layered haircut at home."
Could this possibly be true? While Clooney has certainly been sporting a barely-changed version of the same close crop for the past two decades, it’s worth pointing out that he loves pranks, and while his escapades tend to be directed at his co-stars, he’s not above dragging the press into them—in 2005 he devoted two weeks of his life to staging a fake wedding for Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, which involved hundreds of high-profile reporters and high-top table rentals for helicopter photos. It seems likely enough he’s resorted to lifting from his Batman successor Robert Pattinson, who often fabricates stories during interviews for his own enjoyment.
But that hasn’t stopped a flood of guys trying to copy him, who naturally crashed the Flowbee website the day Clooney’s confession aired. Meanwhile, already-converted “Flowbros” finally found the safe space they needed to reveal that they, too, had been cutting their hair with an as-seen-on-TV device for years. The company, which was already enjoying a hefty sales bump this year, seems to have unwittingly stumbled into the endorsement of a lifetime. As of reporting, all their products are currently sold out. But just in case anyone needs to hear this: Cutting your hair with a Flowbee will not make you look like George Clooney.
Flowbee System With Super Mini Vac
$140.00, Flow Bee
Originally Appeared on GQ
