The Informant

Don't believe the rumors: Matt Damon is alive and well.

A story was going around last week, citing TMZ as the source, that Damon had died in a camping accident. The weird thing is that TMZ never actually reported this story. It's totally made up.

The very much alive Damon has been making the rounds for his new movie The Informant, which will be in theatres on Friday.

For his upcoming role as a mentally unstable whistleblower in The Informant (out September 18), Matt Damon told Entertainment Weekly that he happily gained 30 pounds.

“I definitely got doughy,” Matt, now back to his original lean physique, said. “I started eating like crazy and drinking dark beer. Between meals on set, I’d eat a No. 1 Value Meal at McDonald's and then Doritos on top of it. It was absolute heaven.”

Who will rise victorious?

Matt Damon rocks a bitchin’ Aloha spooner, a Barcalounger beer gut, a Marv Albert toupee and the kind of facial hair that needs a soundtrack behind going, “Bom Chicka Wow Wow.”

Matt is suffering for his art.

He was snapped on the Hawaiian set of his new film The Informant, directed by Steven Soderbergh, the same guy who made The Clooney go doughy in Syriana, a role that earned him an Oscar.

Could this look win Damon win his second Oscar since his 1998 win for Best Screenplay (Good Will Hunting)?