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The Oscar-winning actor and director George Clooney has about allegations of child labour at the Nespresso coffee company, for which he brand ambassador. Clooney is a member of Nespresso's sustainability advisory board, which to coffee is sourced from ethical and sustainable suppliers. He said: "We knew it was a big project when it seven years ago, and honestly I was surprised and saddened to this story." An undercover investigation by the UK TV company Channel 4 children on six coffee plantations in Guatemala coffee beans and large sacks of coffee on their backs. The farms coffee beans to Nespresso.

Mr Clooney has that, "work will be done" by Nespresso to any forms of child labour within its operations. Clooney about his own upbringing, living on a tobacco farm in the USA and picking tobacco during his school holidays. He said: "Having up working on a tobacco farm from the time I was 12, I'm uniquely aware of the complex issues farming and child labour." Nespresso said it has a "thorough investigation" and has all purchases from the plantations. It added: "Nespresso has zero tolerance of child labour. It is unacceptable. We will to do all we can to out child labour. It no place in our supply chain."