Clooney hogs limelight at Fantastic Mr Fox premiere

Actor George Clooney hogged the limelight at the opening night of the London Film Festival in Leicester Square after his co-star, Meryl Streep, bowed out due to illness.

Clooney, who was accompanied by his Italian girlfriend, Elisabetta Canalis, voices the title role in Wes Anderson's stop-motion adaptation of Roald Dahl's Fantastic Mr Fox and Streep voices his wife.

"It's great to be here and we have a bunch of films on show," Clooney said of the festival, which has three of his films in its programme.