MATT DAMON ON 65 MILE AFRICAN BIKE TRIP

Matt Damon

Sexy star Matt Damon cycled off on a 68-mile Cape Argus bike trek yesterday in South Africa. The actor joined his brother Kyle and former rugby captain Francois Pienaar among the 35,000 riders attempting the very hard bike challenge. Damon will be playing Pienaar in Clint Eastwood's new movie "The Human Factor," about the South African Springboks' Rugby World Cup win in 1995. The Hollywood icon and his team hit the road with the words "MAD" and "Are you crazy enough?" printed on their cycling jerseys.

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BEN AFFLECK CELEBRATES ANNIVERSARY

It was a Hollywood night out when stars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner celebrated their three-year wedding anniversary, by sitting down to dinner with actor Matt Damon and his wife, Luciana Barroso. The couple were accompanied by Affleck's childhood pal Damon and his very pregnant wife, for a two-hour dinner on the patio of Nobu in Malibu on Saturday night. According to People.com, they ate cooked fish and sushi rolls and toasted the couple's anniversary, which was on Sunday, during dessert.A source says, "Ben and Matt were entertaining the girls with stories, and they were all laughing a lot."Jen and Ben were in a great mood, and they left Nobu hand in hand."

MATT DAMON FIGHTS TORRENTIAL RAIN

Matt Damon braved torrential rain to meet fans at the London premiere of 'The Bourne Ultimatum' the other night.The 36-year-old actor - who has reprised his role as former CIA assassin Jason Bourne in the third instalment of the action series - spent an hour signing autographs outside the Odeon cinema, in Leicester Square.Damon - who was accompanied by his wife Luciana - ruled out ever playing suave British spy James Bond, despite similarities with his character. He told BANG Showbiz: "My English accent is crap, so there is no chance of me doing Bond."The star also hinted that 'The Bourne Ultimatum' would not be the final movie in the series.He added: "If Paul Greengrass wanted to direct another one, then maybe we will."Damon was joined on the red carpet by his co-star Julia Stiles - who plays agent Nicky Parsons in the movie - who wowed drenched onlookers in a royal blue Zac Posen dress.Other guests included Kimberly Stewart, 60s supermodel Twiggy, British TV presenter Lisa Snowdon and Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell, who arrived without girlfriend Kirsten Dunst.Pop superstar Prince avoided paparazzi by forgoing the red carpet and instead snuck through a side entrance of the cinema with his twin backing dancers, Twinz.

MATT DAMON REGRETS STARVING

Matt Damon gets his Hollywood Star

Actor MATT DAMON regrets starving himself for his role in 'Courage Under Fire' because it led to bad health.Damon lost almost 50 pounds to realistically play the role of a heroin addict in the 1996 movie.But The Departed star admits his strict exercise and diet regime was too dramatic.He says, "I went too far. I got sick and I wouldn’t do that again because it was just too much. At the same time it helped the performance. I didn’t have to act at all - I was a wreck."I was getting dizzy spells and hot flashes. I didn’t say anything to anyone for a while because I was afraid I might be really ill."

MATT DAMON BANNED FROM GUNS

Matt Damon was banned from playing with guns as a child. The Hollywood star - whose stars as former CIA assassin Jason Bourne in the 'Bourne' trilogy - was not allowed to play with toy firearms because his mother thought they glorified violence. Damon said: "My mother wouldn't let me play with guns as a kid, and I still think about what roles I take and the way I handle guns in a film. "It's about the desensitising of violence, which happens particularly in American culture. Often on TV and in films when someone is killed there is no consequence for the person doing the killing." Damon, 36, was trained to use a number of firearms for the first movie in the action series, 'The Bourne Identity'. He said: "I went to a former Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) shotgunner and he took me out into the desert outside Los Angeles and we would work seven or eight hours at a time, firing handguns, rifles - you name it we used it. "I wanted it to be that when Bourne handles a weapon on screen he looks like he knows exactly what he is doing and you only get that sort of authenticity from familiarity." The third film in the series, 'The Bourne Ultimatum', is due in cinemas next month.

MATT DAMON HATES PUBLICITY

Hollywood star MATT DAMON has vowed to continue courting as little publicity as possible - because all his acting heroes keep their privates lives under wraps. The 36-year-old wishes there was an air of mystery around more celebrities. He tells American magazine GQ, "The better the actor, the less you know about his life. "I mean, nobody’s better than (Robert) De Niro, and you don’t know anything about him, right? Look at Meryl (Streep). We don’t know s**t about Meryl. Look at Clint (Eastwood). And Jack Nicholson. And Brando. Marlon Brando - who f**king knows, right?"

MATT DAMON NEEDS TO BE SEXIEST

Brad Pitt with George Clooney and Matt Damon

MATT DAMON is so tired of 'OCEAN’S THIRTEEN' co-stars BRAD PITT and GEORGE CLOONEY beating him in sexiest male polls he’s putting together a campaign fund. Both Clooney and Pitt have been named the hottest men alive by various publications in recent years, but Damon has only ever made it into the top ten. Next year the frustrated actor is aiming to conduct a proper campaign to strip his hunky pals of their titles. He says, "I’m going to get a war chest going and save my money. George said I was close this year but I ran out of money for my campaign, which is why he won."