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Congratulations, would love to see them have a kid : )
Pregnant? Is that what it’s called when your abdomen is finally level with your hipbones?
I wouldn’t know.
lol
A British Justice Minister said Amal Gets Cases Thanks to her marriage to George CLooney.
He heard her speak at Court and said she speaks in a New Age media trendy kind of way…….
Justice Minister: Amal Clooney gets top cases thanks
George
By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3233231/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-Justice-Minister-Amal-Clooney-gets-cases-thanks-George.html#ixzz3n3uY8dwV
What the heck is New Age tendy way of speaking?
@Evermore translation: Ye Olde English (raised provincial upper middle, son of a solicitor) speak for “affected plummy mouthed, but with some trace of dodgy vowels and glottals (a companion/reversal of the faux Mockney thing) and NOT ONE of US” plus “media trained spouting insubstantial buzzwords, NOT proper Law gravitas”.
The former is a horrid, but still not untypical, anachronism. The latter carries some merit.
Overall, I tended to agree with the core substance of his point re her new attachment, by name, to cases for added PR purposes. However, his supplementary points betrayed his own prejudices which aren’t positive or constructive within the wider profession.
A case of dislike the source for me, but concede he had a valid in the key specific. I certainly know/believe enough not to send up a Fem or Class fuelled balloon on behalf of Amal on this one.
What on earth is a “new-age media trendy accent?” ?! That makes no sense! Now I want to hear what Amal sounds like…
Interesting, So without George Clooney marriage, she would not be getting some of these cases, according to the British Justice Minister.
Amal does not look pregnant to me. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are trying for a kid though.
Now Anne Hathaway, if anyone has noticed in her recent premiere pics, totally seems like she could be pregnant. She even looks like she’s glowing.
@Hally I am now off to look for the Anne Hathaway pics! (Today was a particularly awful day and CB – especially stories like this! – is just the best way for me to unwind and let my brain zone out…)
WE ALL made it through one year of the Amal+ Clooney marriage! Congratulations to us all!
Thanks you why didn’t we get a mention. Here hoping to survive another year of Amaland Clooney.
Doesn’t George have a history of only making it to the two year mark? He is half way there. Let us celebrate if he can last more than two years.
I can’t believe it’s been a whole year, so many memories, ‘ The Bucket Brigade’, the china cockatoos, the Tequila brand pushing efforts, the endless relentless tide of hype – all weathered together *sigh*. The only thing to do now is gird the loins and brace until the contract runs out…
Phew! Feels like 10 yrs, though, doesn’t it? As for Amal being pregnant, I’m sure she just looks that way after a *big meal* (for her). It’s an anniversary food baby!
“After four bites of her whole wheat pasta, interspersed with sips of red wine, she exclaimed ..’well that was lovely! Darling, let’s resume with our normal diets tomorrow, ok?'”
It DOES feel more like ten years! God help us if she is in fact pregnant.
I propose a tequila toast to US! Careful not to knock over the china cockatoos.
That will be a case of casamigos tequila to all of us!!
I especially enjoyed wedding-palooza.
Cheers!
Cheers to us and Almaloonies everywhere *raises Casamigos shot with one hand while the other hand cradles ceramic cockatoo to my bosom*!
I think the last thing they want is a kid. Amal is way too busy and George feels he is too old to start a family. They both absolutely agree on this. They are happy and obviously madly in love. They’ve had some great times over the past year. A kid? Not going to happen which is fine.
@Sabrine I don’t disagree with you but I also wouldn’t be surprised if they had a baby and a LOT of help a la William & Kate…
Lilacflowers this cracked me up! We BARELY made it…there have been a couple of times over the past year that my have eyes rolled so hard at a story about them that it easily could have become a medical issue :))
That pic of Big Pope and Baby Pope made my day! That’s adorable.
Did you watch the video? It’s actually some guy’s job to spot babies, fetch them, and hold them up for the Pope to kiss. It’s sort of an amazing job and a real resume boost 😉
The Pope has a baby wrangler!
That is just about the cutest thing ever.
Slow clap soul around? In what pictures does she look pregnant? Because I’m not seeing it.
I have come to the conclusion that some think her hip bones protruding in the flowy dresses make her look a bit pregnant. As the Facebook woman said and I agree, it is none of my business about someone else’s baby. Although I don’t think I could last through the coronation of a Clooney baby so hoping if they do have one less publicity, but I know I am a bit polyannaish.
Okay thanks all I saw was her hip bone showing which shows in all of the dress she wears fitted or flowy so I wasn’t sure why people came up to the conclusion that she looks pregnant.
I don’t see it either. I actually think she is anorexic I don’t believe that’s her natural build. The hip bone protrusion and temporal wasting is worrisome. She probably had more than a salad for once and it showed
Keep in mind when people are really malnourished their stomach also protrudes a bit. Unfortunately, I think it is possible she has these issues, as it looks like she has lost a bit of weight in this year too. Unfortunately, I think the anorexia comment is quite possibly accurate, and I hope it doesn’t progress more.
I think she is so thin that if she ate anything at dinner, it might show.
Yeah it looks more like the start of a malnutrition belly to me…
Am I right in thinking that she wouldn’t be eating sushi if she was pregnant? Although a Clooney baby would be quite entertaining gossip…
That’s what I thought too, but I don’t know for sure. Anyway, every time a woman in Hollywood wears a loose fitting dress the pregnancy rumors start churning!
Haha! That’s true, why didn’t anyone else see that? Back to the baby-watch countdown clock…
A Clooney baby announcement could quite possibly break the Internet.
Congrats to them. I think they’re in it for the long haul tbh.
I do too. He wouldn’t be renovating that mansion in England if he wasn’t. That’s a massive undertaking and a real commitment as far as changing up his life to be spending part of it in England. He was set in his ways and even planning to live in England just part-time and all this energy into this massive mansion renovation is a sign to me that are a true couple with give and take. I think she shook up his life in a good way. I have to admit that I do enjoy watching her fame-ho with her outfits.
You may be right, but I’m not responding to their 10 year anniversary party just yet. Maybe platinum cockatoos for a gift. Keep in mind the house could be a parting gift too, along with the fabulous outfits. Wow being married to Clooney sounds like it could be a great gameshow.
He not renovating the mansion his self so it’s not really a big under taking and his moving to England also really doesn’t proves anything. Goop, Madonna, Kate Hudson ex… moved to England and got divorced so who knows.
At the same time they are Kardashion level attention seekers and are on the same level as Kaley Cuoco when it comes to trying to sell there relationship.
I’m not even sure he wants to live there for longer periods of time. It might be a home base for her, and her extended family, not him.
It’s not like Geirge is hammering ye old nails himself – what kind of commitment does it take to buy an estate and pay other people to work on it while you summer in Italy and party with your boyfriend in LA? I certainly don’t think buying a house means commitment to these people.
@Jayna you could be right but considering the amount of money he has, the renovations could be a drop in the bucket. To peasants like us 😉, that sort of investment would most likely signify a significant commitment, but with them, who knows. He could be buying time to placate her if she is pushing to spend more time in England (although it looks to me as if she could be just as happy in NYC or LA, so who knows!).
Yes, the whole four year contract perhaps? lol
Whoa.
Well totally thought Barbara Walter’s declaring Amal as ‘Most Fascinating 2014’ was a crock but the Clooney PR definitely deserves a Most Most Fascinating title. NOT a good thing but relentlessly ‘interesting’.
Bracing myself for whatever hype assault on us is planned for Year 2. Though can’t help wishing Mama Baria had got her stated wish for a 1st anniversary Vow Renewal… Cockatoos included. Slightly wiser PR heads must’ve nixed that.
Seems there’s way too much invested in this arrangement for a contract lapse yet. 1st being Paper anniversary maybe they renewed with dotted line signatures. Onward to Cotton (2nd)… a layette maybe.
Almost getting to enjoy their fakery as a staple feature instead of disliking it. Not into Kool-aid though.
I want a ten-page spread of their renovated mansion and grounds when the home is completed. I love those English country home photos. They had Christine McVie’s on Daily Mail the other day. The Clooneys’ estate is on the River Thames. So the photos would be magnificent. If they are going to fame-ho, please give me what I want.
Seems a reasonable quid pro quo. From what I’ve seen CBwise you’ve dug in in quiet, but not gullible, support. Me, I went sceptic in weeks and completely soured on it’s authenticity by month two.
Your loyal, but not unquestioning, benefit of the doubt surely deserves a ten-page spread. Though, I advise you start by asking for 25… settle at 18. I believe the Clooneys know all about the media negotiating game 😉
AND insist on a full page of the Cockatoo Room. I know it wasn’t on the plans but we know they have to have one, right?
Oh btw, that Thames stretch is splendid.
@Dippit, you’re right. I deserve this spread, and I don’t want three pics. I want them to go big. But if he sells his magnificent Italian villa on Lake Como to fund that project, he’s a fool. I love it.
http://www.themostexpensivehomes.com/neighborhoods/george-clooneys-incredible-lake-como-mansion/
@Jayna I’m worrying from your posts you may be on the turn into the darkside in seeing the light on this.
You want that 18-page (Cockatoo Room inc) spread, keep the faith. Do Not steal their anniversary thunder by seeming to convert to sceptical snark. They need you as a CB constant in their neverending spin.
Be a proud upholder for the apparently minority view ;). Believe he’s not so foolhardy in this (whatever) thing to sacrifice Como.
*snarkfree* THAT really would be a compromise too much for him as I don’t believe it would be bourne of a truthful love, sadly. He’s seemed most himself (whatever that is, NEVER been my business) there. I’m a fellow Italiaphile, although prefer Garda as The Lakes go, so, in that, I wish him as unfoolish, from the heart.
I can now stop tossing and turning about in my sleep knowing that the love that eclipse all love since the beginning of time is still very much alive. I can now go on living my life and fret no more because these to lovers,net soulmates have survival the sand of time I.e. a whole friggin year.
One year, big deal. Of course they would make it to one year, it would of been a complete joke and embaressment for George if it didnt, after the big hoopla of there engagement , then the big showy wedding. Usually his relationships last the two year mark, lets see. I still think this is a contract, and that big house in England is for her and her family.
Who’s the woman in the backseat? Struck me as a bit odd for a romantic dinner, but then maybe that’s just me.
Social Media guru, Samantha Barry. Formerly BBC, now CNN.
Draw your own conclusions as to her inclusion on a supposed romantic outing.
lol! The jokes endlessly write themselves with these two.
@Zombie Shortcake, don’t they just. I’m trying very hard to ration myself on snark but they keep serving for return shots.
Is it wrong that, with every pap walk of a million shots of Amal laser seeking the lenses, I check the background for Mama Baria peeking from behind shrubbery planter/a pasta menu/copy of Vogue with a “‘at’s my girl, work it” expression?
Wow, funny how I noticed her there in the backseat but then questioned her presence no further – because there’s always someone else, are they ever alone on vacation or these supposedly romantic dates?
Hatching there plot for the coming year of how they work the media. I dont think these two have ever had a romantic dinner date, there is always someone with them. They didnt even have a honeymoon together, the greatest love story of all time, what a laugh.
@Laura in LA @Nicole heard tell one of the Summer Italian romantic stops to eat ‘alone’ was quite a production. Not the Hog ride with high-def in transit pap shots; the later ‘arrived alone, casual like, on a Vespa’ (apparent candids only). They even storyboarded several drivebyes (and ‘no security/people’) of the restaurant into the narrative, apparently. Just like a regular vacationing couple checking out menu boards of local eateries before plumping for one, right?
Gotta laugh.
What! A “social media guru” (what even IS that job btw?!) went with them for their romantic anniversary dinner / date night? What on earth? These two are so ridiculous.
Perhaps Amal would like to be a “legal expert” on CNN, which could later lead to her being a commenter/correspondent herself on international legal issues…I mean, Chelsea Clinton was a special correspondent on NBC…another Oxford graduate with little to no experience explaining the world to us.
She looks like a clownish Mr. Bean with that harsh make up on.
How much weight has she lost, how much free clothing has she received and how much plastic surgery during this glorious year of marriage?
The important questions!
She doesn’t seem to be parading herself around so not sure where these comments come from. She goes where she has to; otherwise the only time I see her is leaving a restaurant with George in the late evening. Plastic surgery? Nothing. She’s had nothing done. She’s not an actress trying to look younger.
Pfffft.
How did Zayn Malik become so arrogant yet the other guys seem so down to earth and grounded?
Is it just me, or does Amal always seem to know exactly where the camera is? In the second photo it looks like she’s leaning forward, passing George, so she gets in the picture.
And the times she doesn’t know where it is, she’s looking for it. LOL
Not just you! She lives for the cameras IMO.
Part of being a barrister, working on the kind of cases she works on, is walking out of court and presenting yourself in the right way for the waiting cameras (solemn, jubilant etc.), while immediately seeking out and zeroing in on the media you particularly want to address.
People act like she’d never seen a photographer before hooking up with Clooney, but there were more paps when she was working with Assange than there were when she got married. She’d done TV interviews before. None of this was new to her, it’s just been amplified.
Girlfriend really does love the camera, doesn’t she?
My thought exactly. Always smiling, always looking like she’s on the runway. George does tend to pick women who like to be photographed.
In those pics George looks like someone who has been shipwrecked on a desert island for at least five months.
LOL
He is very leathery looking and old in these photos.
And we thought it wouldn’t last…shame on us!!!!
Ps: i wonder if Amal will ne at NYFF53 tomorrow with her husband…
I don’t usually care for her fashion choices (or her clowny makeup for that matter) but I LOVE that striped dress.
Hollywood casts a weird spell. I remember when Tom Cruise was sterile. I remember when George Clooney, in so many words, said he had been sterilized (I believe daring any woman to come forward with a paternity suit against him and win in court). I know someone who claims to know him and his family (I’ve seen pictures) personally. He said that George was ruminating over the consistencies in his life, pre-fame and post-fame. One of the things he mentioned (allegedly): Never would make a good father, before or after. That says all that needs to be said right there (if it is, in fact, a true statement).
Parsing your ‘insider’ info: I get George in full-on navel gaze and special snowflake existential angst. The Sony email dump signalled that as not untypical, even if he’d kept that seeming tendency in him well hidden before.
Still doesn’t make the apparent Amal arrangement make ANY more sense; in fact, even less so.
I recall as a casual read ‘oh George Clooney, he’s alright’ I was 1st time struck by an off-note by him in a mag interview a couple of years ago. Bad monochrome photoshoot, a dotty suit.
So much since… so much why? Nothing quite chimes right.
Just waiting for him to announce his political campaign. Amal would be the perfect political wife. Obviously that’s why he married her.
A woman who comes from the Middle East and is not Christian? And has defended people who are pretty shady? No, Never. Very bad choice for an American politician’s wife.
The whole thing really is a head scratcher. I do believe he has political ambitions, so how can he not know all this about the American voters?
I hope their 2nd year of marriage features the words ” low and key’ and “out of the public eye”.
Ha! Good one, golden retriever!