" She said she was so taken aback that "I almost walked past George Clooney without hugging him.

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He says American business leaders showed him great hospitality, as did a farmer who he said kept hugging him.

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Mr Reeve said the announcement has had a surprising impact on customers, with some hugging him in the street and crying.

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He said that after one meeting to discuss a new contract, Mr Warren gave the boxer an expensive watch and "I remember Joe hugging him".

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For the Conservatives, it is the first trial of David Cameron's strategy of separating Mr Blair from his party and hugging him so tight that he expires in Tory arms.

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So you hugging him on back, you know?

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The new young pretenders of aviation are people such as Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic and Herb Kelleher of Southwest, neither of whom can see a member of his staff without hugging him or her.

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That put him to sleep, but in between doses he woke and cried again, saying that a gator had his leg or a bear was hugging him to death or a snake had wound itself around the long part of his arm and was crushing it.

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If anything, his time hugging the corners of fame made him seem even more admirable as a man who refused to sell himself or his legacy out, no matter what temptations were available in a celebrity-crazed culture.

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"Michael, Christopher and Andrew now have to grow up without him, " McCormick said as Jackie Califano sat in the front row of the courtroom, hugging her sons, 16, 13 and 8.

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