United Kingdom, Dec. 6 -- George Clooney dealt with "very old women's" foot corns before he became a Hollywood megastar.

The 64-year-old acting legend worked as a shoe salesman aged 18, and recalled "a lot of 80 year olds" stuck their feet in his face, and they exclaimed having a "hammertoe".

Appearing on Live With Kelly and Mark, George - who shot to fame as hospital medical technician Ace on NBC's E/R in 1984 - remembered: "I sold ladies' shoes at a department store. For those of you ladies [in the audience], it's a miserable job for us!

"I was working at McAlpin's in Cincinnati, so we were selling a lot of support shoes for very old women, and I was 18, and there would be a lot of 80 year olds like, 'That's a hammertoe!'

"We had th...