I was just thinking yesterday that we hadn’t seen George and Amal Clooney in a week or two and that they were due to get pap’d, and here we are. George and Amal were photographed outside the Palm in Beverly Hills yesterday, where they had lunch with a friend. Amal is no cook, everyone has made that clear. But I don’t think she’s much of a hostess either, which is weird because George has always enjoyed hosting friends at his LA home. Before Amal, George was rarely pap’d outside of restaurants like he is these days.
Guess who they had lunch with? David Miliband, brother of Ed Miliband. Ed was head of the Labour Party in the UK from 2010-2015 and there’s some talk that David wants to come back to British politics (after he left a few years ago). The Guardian had a good write-up about David’s future plans and current political machinations – go here to read.
Amal’s purse is Dolce & Gabbana. It costs $1595 which is… a lot for such a small purse. I cannot find the ID on Amal’s dress to save my life. I will update if I find it. The look is pretty and appropriate for a Beverly Hills lunch at the Palm. Amal’s heels are crazy-high, right? They look like four-inch heels.
A few more details… George had a $20 in his hand to tip the valet. That seems generous, but George is reportedly one of the best tippers. He always takes care of the people in service, which is one of his best qualities.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Eccchhhh. Just lunch out? Sure, really.
How can she be continually papped outside restaurants, and yet she looks as if she doesn’t eat, ever? It is a mystery for the ages. I wonder what she puts in that teeny, tiny, mortgage payment, sized purse?
I was thinking the same thing! Does she just go to lunch but not eat? Is she just eating a plain salad with no dressing? Steamed veggies? She’s skinnier than a runway model.
That purse, after exchange, would pay for 1 month and 3 weeks of my mortgage approximately. Ridiculous. I have seen very similar purses, same colour, shape, size on sale for $30.00. And if it isn’t D and G? Oh well…fashion changes rapidly and that is a purse she won’t use in a year or two…at most. And I thought the same thing, why go to restaurants when you don’t eat?
her lunch.
I feel like the boy in the Parade watching The Emperor’s New Clothes,
There is nothing attractive about that skeletal woman. IMO
All her clothes hang on her like a sack and the sunglasses are wider than her legs. She looks terrible. Yuck.
I wonder if she get her extensions touched up while back in LA?
I’m not “thin shaming” when I feel her husband should be worried. Photos of her before the marriage show a woman with more weight. I’m not sure this pap life is good for her.
That skeletal woman could have IBS or another illness that prevents her from eating much. I know it all too well. So lets not throw stones at overly thin people. They aren’t all dieting to lose weight in many cases. Some have to get by on what they can tolerate without symptoms returning.
If you had an illness like IBS would you really feel like dressing to the nines and going to lunch a lot and getting papped by tons of media. I have a similar illness to IBS, and the thought of constantly getting photographed would drive me crazy. In addition just being out eating and maybe not close enough to a bathroom would be an issue. They have plenty of money and as stated she could host parties if this bothered her or them, as the story said he is seen a lot more now with her. People need to realize they like this social life and exposure or they wouldn’t do it. They have options.
She looks lovely here – George on the other hand looks like he has aged 10 years. His back pain must be back with a vengeance.
PS: David Miliband should have been the leader of Labour Party – he would have been the Prime Minister by now.
But what can you do when your own brother betrays you behind your back for power and greed?
Isn’t he the head of IRC (International Rescue Committee)?
Maybe they were meeting to discuss Sudan?
EDIT:
Did a quick google search: http://www.rescue.org/david-miliband
So maybe they met for a discussion on humanitarian issues?
Errr no Ed didn’t stab him in the back. He openly discussed standing against David in the leadership election.
If you want to talk about people stabbing each in the back, how about we talk about the fact that David was plotting to stage a coup to topple Gordon? While Gordon was still PM?
If you think David Miliband would have kept us the Scottish seats when he was seen as Blairite that’s laughable. Ed for all his faults took two seats off the Tories in England and increased the vote by 2 million. I doubt that David would have been unable to shake the accusation that they were austerity-lite.
And no I’m not a Ed Milliband fan (or a millifan) I’m much more of a Brownite and would have preferred Andy since Ed Balls bless his heart despite being right on the damage the Tory economic policies were causing tended to flail around like a drowning moose at the dispatch box, but this accusation that Ed “stabbed his brother in his back” is just not true
George looks cute. I like the suit and his goatee.
Amal’s dress is very pretty.
I like the dress and love that length on her. Not sure about those shoes with that dress? I’m so glad smaller handbags are back. I’m tired of being able to fit my car in my purse.
Pfft. It’s not a real purse if you can’t fit a mid size buick in there. Who cares if you can never find your keys or your pen or that pack of mentos you stashed in there. 😀
On topic, I like her dress too. But I never know whether to envy or sneer at women’s ability to wear heels that high. Unless it’s a wedge heel and even then I have trouble, I could never wear those. All my poor back and feet see is torture.
Agree with your purse requirements. Have to fit a decent novel in one for me. Never leave home without reading material and I never liked kindles.
Ha! I know what you mean, and for everyday, I have a monster bag – anybody need a stapler? Meat grinder? Extra pair of shoes? It’s like a clown car. But for going out, I like a smaller bag. Plus I think they are cute.
I guess I envy women who can walk in heels. I never could. It makes the balls of my feet feel like they’re on fire and I’m so miserable I can’t have any fun.
Lol! I need my purses/bags to be able to fit things as I toss them in. 1giant pocket will do.
Those shoes look twee. And she looks rough post weight loss/nose job. More andore I think she likes the pap attention to a higher degree than many think.
One day I will be able to ditch my Mom Bag (i.e. the bag that I carry so that my son and husband can hand me absolutely everything that they don’t want to put in their pockets when we go out) and carry a cute little bag like that. George looks good, but he also looks hunched over like his back is killing him.
He looks in such pain. I feel bad for him.
I find Amal’s taste in fashion really gaudy. Like, even though she’s rich, she’ll never look natural. Very try hard.
That’s exactly what it is. I couldn’t find the right text. It seems as if most of them are “try hards.”
She’s wearing semi-closed toed sandals after bunion-gate. DailyMail outted her for having massive bunions.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3254345/Amal-Clooney-gorgeous-green-attending-anniversary-screening-O-Brother-Art-Thou-alongside-husband-George-Clooney.html
She looks great and I love her lip color so much.
She looks fabulous. I love that purse color with that dress. Not crazy about the buttons at the back but the front is spot on and flattering for her physique.
What a classy erudite woman she is!!!!!!!! I’m sure with her innate sensibility and intelligence she would have done an exemplary job directing movies than some spoiled brat with high school diploma and a huuuuuuuge ego.
3, 2, 1, here it comes.
HERE WE GO!!!! Hahaha.
For real, always like that Clooney tips well. Solid.
ok…i’m not bragging here, really.
but my husband would tip that much, too.
i know that it’s super generous…(for common folk like us!)
we are from a humble background and are not rich.
we simply appreciate the service we receive when out and heck – $5, $20 – the difference won’t break the bank.
clooney?
i’d expect he’d be giving $100.
maybe it’s me.
amal’s style is lacking though she looks lovely enough here.
she’s just so awkward looking (just my opinion) so i think she needs to “dress up” all the time.
when she dresses casually it’s a disaster.
her style has vastly improved since marrying him – that’s for sure.
she must have a stylist.
I am really hoping certain people don’t take the bait and respond.
@ Zut alors
Me too, it look like someone let this troll out of the basement too early. 😆😆😆😅😅😅
Which spoiled brat without film degrees?
You mean David Cameron, Quentin T, Chris Nolan, David Cameron and Alfred H right?
You mention David Cameron twice. Are there two film directors named David Cameron? I’ve never heard of either unless the British PM is also a film director.
not that anybody cares or even noticed, but my comment above is in the wrong thread.
i was not responding to LOOVVVe.
as wacky as LOOVVVe’s post is…strikes me that it’s about the Jolie…
As it seems Amal can’t even convincingly direct the contract marriage production and get many favourable reviews, doubtful.
/and I’m not a fan of your target for pot-shot. Not a fan of false equivalency fallacies either.
You need to try harder with your trolling… Go back to the Cumberbatch pages
You have to love it when the troll come out early in the morning, or in the words of Robert Pattinson demon who live in the basement.
I’m nether here nor there with these people, but this comment is just crazy and funny.
he looks like his back is killing him. he can’t even stand up straight anymore. does anyone know exactly what his back injury was/is?
I think he was hurt while filming Syriana but I don’t know the exact injury.
Amal is the woman on top in more ways than one 😉
My brother in law had the same thing as George (except through a car accident) not long before George said he suffered from it, so it is still in my memory. He punctured his dura mater. It is extremely painful and he needed constant blood patches to stop the headaches. The headaches are caused when there is air (space) where there should be dura mater. The blood patches fill the void and stop the headaches in a couple of hours. Surgery is needed to correct it and I presume George had surgery because you cannot just live with it. It takes 18 months to fix at the most (my brother in law took about 6 weeks , I think), and it heals itself. He would not be suffering from it now and he certainly wouldn’t be able to play sports (which George does)
I think he just has bad posture. His posture is like my ex’s.
He did some other damage as well as that. He’s talked about how his back is always going to be a problem for him.
I don’t believe he suffers from this sort of constant back pain that everyone talks about on this site when his lifestyle shows otherwise. He plays a lot of basketball which is a high impact sport and takes on roles which have either been physical or need to be in shape for the role. If he had constant back pain he wouldn’t have taken the roles due to not being able to fulfil it. The only time he has spoken about pain was during his Oscar campaign and spoke about the injury on the Syriana set which he suffered a punctured dura. People only talk about this back pain because of the way he is photographed, it could be just down to bad posture which is what his mum said he had in some interview (maybe some Oscar campaign one year) . While talking about all the pain he went through he even said how painful a lumbar puncture is which I am sorry it’s just not. I have had numerous lumbar punctures under my Neurologist so I know what they feel like.
Amal looks good here. She’s also good at keeping George in the headlines. In this case, and others, she brings the VIPs with her.
Good long-term strategy for a guy who needs to stay relevant.
Out of curiosity, what would be a normal tip for valet service?
I can not say too much…not making things up but protecting privacy…my boyfriend works at a restaurant frequente by many vips. Clooney is a generous and very unassuming customer. He is always welcome both for his topping and lack of diva behavior
That makes me smile…because I’ve always had a crush on him…even though he’s much younger…and I like the playful banter he has with his peers…which I think is more covering shyness or insecurity…like it is for me. I’m pleased to hear that he is not stuck on himself…and that he is generous. That tells me he is a pretty decent human being.
I absolutely love her shoes. I would kill for those legs and trade in my stumpy limbs. 🙁
I always think that even though she looks elegant, she would look better about 10 pounds of muscle heavier. She looks like a bird. But then, that’s my personal taste I suppose. I like the way athletes look better than skinny people.
Why would they be having lunch with David Miliband?
Does anyone know the logo on the folders (?) she’s holding?
It is the International Rescue Committee logo. David Miliband is currently that NGO’s president.
Sorry, didn’t see this. Said the same thing above! Think they are meeting on humanitarian issues, which is great!
She looks really pretty here I think. I like the shoes and dress. Kind of wondering what the envelopes are that she’s carrying from a lunch … or are we to be reminded that she’s an important, working Barrister?
The logos on the envelopes are the International Rescue Committee. David Miliband is currently their president, so perhaps she was looking at some work of his.
She always looks so over dressed, over primped and too high maintenance. Nice that she’s not slobby and presents very well but it’s a bit too extreme, especially coupled with the emaciated look. I think the frightening weight loss suggests the over exposure and backlash from their publicity campaign to sell her is having a negative affect on her emotional health.
Clooney should have known better than to advertise his wife like a product. Although I suppose she was/is entirely supportive of the media campaign to sell her to the public. If she’s a fraction as smart as her publicity frequently reminds us then she should have known that.
Yes! My sentiments exactly. Too much work. She is just too much. And I can’t with the starving look. For someone who goes to dinner all the time, she looks awfully thin!
Even though she is practically evaporating, she does look very pretty.
She looks beautiful and I love them as a couple. Or I just love George Clooney in general – don’t tyhink he’s that hot (too old for me, I’m only 23) but he’s a good actor and seems like a good guy! He’s a true movie star.
Purses do nothing for me, but that is a quality looking purse. Looks expensive and well-made.
I’ve never found her pretty, she looks very masculine and has a horsey face and as what have some said before, she looks like Mr. Bean in a wig and a make up but I do like her whole outfit. The dress is lovely and those shoes are sexy not really in to the color of the purse but it’s still cute.
I think she would be possibly stunning with 25 pounds on her. She’s very tall, so she needs more pounds than just “a little more weight”. This would flesh out her face and make it less “hard”. I think her mouth is very pretty and so is her nose. But it’s only makeup that is helping to hide how drawn and rough her face must really look. You just can’t be this thin (and the camera adds 10 pounds) and look soft and healthy. Collagen has a purpose! I fear for her health into her 40s and 50s without the collagen and fatty acids and lipids she needs not only for healthy skin, but also for her joints.
Her overbite bugs me.
See, I think it’s cute. If the lips are right an overbite can be cute.
This is the best she’s ever looked, in my opinion. Great dress style, length, PURSE, hair, lip color. More of this, please, Amal.
This is the best I’ve seen her look. The dress, the fit and length, just perfect. Very lovely. The shoes are fantastic. The bag, no.
He wasn’t leader of the Labour Party. His *brother* Ed Miliband was leader of the Labour Party from 2010-2015. He beat David into second place in the leadership contest after Gordon Brown lost the 2010 election. David then decamped to the US. He now wants to come back to save us from the socialist horrors of Jeremy Corbyn, our version of Bernie Sanders, who is the current leader of the Labour Party.
David is best remembered for holding a banana in a photo about a failed coup on Gordon Brown (when he was Prime Minister) and for refusing to provide evidence to British courts on whether or not the government had assisted the US in extraordinary renditions.
You guys should keep him. We don’t want any more banana photos, thank you. But tell George not to take any political strategy advice from him: he’s not good at winning elections or successful political coups.
Thanks, but no thanks. We’re already overloaded with homegrown turkeys. Now if you’d like to offer up Idris, James, Tom or Chiwetel, that’s another story.
PS. I’m sure we could work out a trade. Sean, TomC, Nic, Johnny spring to mind.
Possible issues/conflicts of approaches and interests in the offing re: IRC v UN (other agency) towards migration from conflict zones in the ME, and other Africa, to Europe.
Very complex, and not for this board perhaps, but if the purpose of this Clooney-Miliband seeming alliance is related to ^^^ then interesting.
However, for now, it’s safer to assume it may be Sudan/Congo related given George’s past focus.
Amal has no history to date of singular work in humanitarian effort, only loose tertiary involvement through her practise in law, so it would make sense for them to be uniting around a point in which George does at least already have some (pre marriage) prior connection.
Soft power in action courtesy of the LA Hollywood paparazzi.
Just worth noting, not all work labelled (self-determined) as ‘Humanitarian’ can be assumed as great or for the best on a “just because… “.
Didn’t George recently resign a UN titular role around the time he was reported to have met Amal?
David Miliband was always over rated as a strategist (LP). He just benefited for a time from cultivating low hanging fruit.
Admittedly now, it seems more about cultivating the frootlooped (Labour strategy).
PS – on an entirely personal note: Gordon Brown, right man constrained (somewhat betrayed) by some wrong ‘un interests limiting him within, as a consequence, the wrong time. I hope, down the line, the then contemporary arbiters of history (as ‘fact’) better present him and his significance. Oddly, I think of him as one of the few who cared far less for creating his ‘legacy’ and far more about the there and then best job getting done.
Just my view, and also still mourning the late greats: John Smith; Donald Dewar; and Mo Mowlam.
I do not mourn, despite subsequent results, the passing of David Miliband to his new focus elsewhere – other than troubling that he still holds sway in now other arena ripe for his own opportunity/ism.
I was not a fan of Brown. But I agree he’s been maligned – think of him as a fundamentally decent man and I also hope history places him better.
I’ll join you in a toast to those three. And also to Michael Meacher, who died this last week. RIP to them all.
Sixer, fair play; I’ve never observed as to being as an ‘[…fill the prefix]ite’ of any complexion. I must confess a longtime personal connection, mainly through my hubs (backdate to ’70s student pols and beyond). Personal experience: absolutely “fundamentally decent”.
And I’ll join you in raising a glass to the Michael Meacher, not least as his true capacity for thinking outstripped the likes of McDonnell (in THAT hypothetical ‘like for like’ ish-ness).
Life continues, we go on, we must, otherwise… (yet to figure on the alternative, personally).
We can all do our historical textual (‘In Place of Fear’ – Bevan [amongst others], has been a near constant at my bedside for a while); No text (or slogan) ever undercuts (imo) our need to be and operate as a Party within a Parliamentary democracy (Bevan and Attlee, many others in concord on this).
Gonna guess we cut distribution of our recent voting differently; with commonality on Not Kendall?
Scottish vote?
Sixer, did try to reply but think I was Mod-ed out… nothing controversial, more just most likely Off/T.
I can’t imagine a mention of John McDonnell gets me circumscribed, as yet :D.
Commonality definitely Not Kendall!
I actually know McDonnell personally (also youthful campaigning days) and like him! Remain ambivalent about the Labour Party – if I’m honest, not keen on any of the tribes since they all seem to put tribe above solidarity. Watching from the wings at present!
Dippit exactly: If there’s anyone I hope history vindicates I hope it’s Gordon. He seems like a fundamentally decent man, and it’s not his fault Tony has an ego the size of small galaxy.
My opinion is in the minority here. I really like Amal and I think she’s boss and I actually like most of her style choices. This, however, is a Forever 21 crowd-pleaser.
1: It’s good to see Amal in a dress to her knees. Very flattering, IMO.
2: George, as always, can really wear the hell out of a suit.
3: Amal, eating lunch? As if.
4: George’s body is unnaturally bent, which indicates chronic pain. I just can’t understand how, with all his wealth and access to the best medical care LITERALLY in the world, he still hasn’t got healing for his back. It makes me think that sadly he’s partaking of habits that impede health and healing. No matter how great the medical care is that you receive you still have to do other stuff to aid the process. That generally includes giving up inflammatory agents such as alcohol, caffeine, and many types of foods (even some of the superfoods are inflammatory to a sick body), and making time for ample rest. It also can include de-stressing techniques. I just don’t see George being willing or able to lead the kind of simple, holistic, strict lifestyle that integrative healing demands. That’s the only explanation I can think of for why he continues to suffer from chronic pain. I feel bad for him — healing and wellness CAN be his reality.
Regarding his pain and condition, this is what he suffered:
“which he cracked his head open while filming a torture scene. Furthermore, he has explained that it took doctors weeks to figure out what had happened to him in the accident. Relief only came after his actress friend, Lisa Kudrow, referred him onto her neurologist brother, who noticed fluid leaking from Clooney’s spine, and realised that the condition was more serious than anyone had thought until that point.
Clooney revealed his pain to ‘The Hollywood Reporter’, explaining: “We started doing these things called myelograms, where they shoot contrast into your system and you can see what’s leaking out. I had a two-and-a-half-inch tear in the middle of my back and a half-inch tear in my neck. The doctors did these blood patches, where they tie you down to a bed, and you’re awake because they have a long needle and need to know if they’re touching your spinal cord, and they take blood out and shoot it directly into your spinal column to try to get the blood to coagulate in those spots. I did about 15 of those over 15 days. It’s like getting a spinal tap every day, and you’re awake… I thought I was going to die.”
Clooney revealed that he was forced to take strong pain medication as part of a long line of surgery session, prescribed to him on Christmas Day, 2005. He discussed it, saying: “They’ll hand you a giant tub of Vicodin, which is not a good drug for me; I had a lot of stomach pain and I really didn’t like the high it gave me. Then there were other drugs. I was on morphine for a while, which created this horrible anxiety where I really thought I was in trouble.”
He finally turned to therapy, explained as: “I went to a pain-management guy whose idea was, ‘You can’t mourn for how you used to feel, because you’re never going to feel that way again’.” He continues to describe how he has come to live with the pain, confessing: “I’ve gone from where I can’t function… to, ‘I’ve got a bad headache’… My ears will literally pop and my head goes apeshit. But I’m scrappy.”
That sounds horrible. Poor guy.
It sounds horrible, but I stand by my previous comment. One of the WORST things you can do with pain is to drink booze. That’s all I’m going to say.
Now that is a different story than he normally says. Lisa Kudrow’s brother noticed fluid leaking from his spine? Now every report I read it was leaking through his nose. Why would he be tied to a bed during an epidural blood patch? And shock horror you’re awake? Yes because they are not that painful. If they were that painful you would have them under anesthetic because if you move during it, you will be paralysed. They are putting blood as close to the tear as they can which is in the spinal column to fill the void. After a few minutes to a few hours the gap is plugged and he would feel better. He got better after the operations.
“I tore my dura, which is the wrap around my spine which holds in spinal fluid.” Clooney says part of the problem was that he’d put on weight for the role. Despite the agony he was in, Clooney ruled out taking painkillers because there’s a history of addiction in his family, but the pain got so great, that he considered suicide. Clooney’s complaints were dismissed until spinal fluid started leaking from his nose. He has since had numerous operations. Before the surgery it was the most unbearable pain I’ve ever been through, literally where you’d go, ‘well, you’ll have to kill yourself at some point, you can’t live like this,’” Clooney said.
The pain he is talking about was about a month, which would ease after the blood patch. The pain would come back as the dura mater leaked more which would warrant another blood patch. This would go on until his surgery. Note he says before surgery. He would and did have the operation not that long after diagnosis because he was directing Good Night and Good Luck in February.
+1. The high-low dresses were ridiculous. As for George, it is obvious he has got some health problems.
Amal looks so pretty, the dress, shoes, bag on point I’d wear that. Actually I might try to replicate this look for a wedding coming up.
George is a very handsome guy. They look happy!
This is the first time i am commenting on Amal Clooney. I really respect that she made it as immigrants daughter and she reached such international level. But she seems so full of herself and thinks she is the only woman on earth that has brains and looks. And that really makes me lose respect for her !
I personnaly know lots of Indian and Arab woman issued from migrants families in Canada and Switzerland that work with WHO and UN to improve women rights in the arab world. And they don’t act like Hollywood famewores. I don’t think that she represents well the intellectual women in the world (at least from my perspective of Arab woman living abroad). She lacks class and attitude. My humble opinion
She may be an “immigrant’s” daughter but her family has always been wealthy. Not all immigrants are making ends meet with menial jobs.
NO not true both her uncles Nouveau riche “one is international weapon dealer ” ,MOM &DAD are middle class .
Best to change your name to avoid confusion because there is already a Maya.
Cute dress, hideous sunglasses.
I have been reading Celebitchy for many years and this is the first time I have EVER commented on anything. Besides the fact that everyone who knows me , knows that Clooney is (mine) lol I have to speak up and defend Amal. I am Jordanian and feel that I need to explain Lebanese women to everyone here. Most if not all the women really, really take care of themselves and are extremely fashionable albeit to the envy of other countries. I don’t see Amal acting any differently from countless other women who live their. They take pride in their figures and most are just as skinny and their wardrobe and appearance. Okay Amal now that I have defended you , give him back. j.k.
Yes, but she hasn’t always been this skinny. She looked very healthy when they first got together.
Fancypants exactly, there are photos to prove it.
Nancy; I met and befriended a woman many years ago from the Middle East. Her mother was sister of a king, and her father the Minister of Education in Israel – so she was educated abroad. She had more furs and jewels than anyone I had met, and style! She told me that many women are dressed to the nine’s beneath their burkas. Amal Clooney may now be jet-set with her marriage, but I agree with you that many Middle Eastern women are very fashionable.
The dress looks great on her and I love the bag (as ridiculously overpriced as it is). She really does have the Joan Crawford face going on these days.
I bought a similar Ted Baker purse for something like $150 recently.
Man -it must be a lot work to be her
Truly meant to not comment further on this post BUT, just read elsewhere there is a hair stylist, on social media, taking credit for THIS particular Wave, Blow, Whatever as exhibited (because it really is in the realms of exhibition now).
“George, let’s go meet with the President of the International Rescue Committee; have lunch at one of the tonier LA restaurants as I wear $++++ whilst I accessorize (with the addition of *an inappropriately small, for a legit ‘Business’ type of meet, cutesy $++++bag) by way of carrying ‘media fashionable’ folders… BUT gimmeeeee 3+hours for hair and makeup (and a social media credit for my hair person)” – said Nobody authentic in their understanding of effecting action for the best of others upon belief in simple public service, humanitarian action and aims, or mere application of ‘others beyond own ego’ EVER.
Of course these were not Amal’s exact words, but the tenor & impression based on incidental info (as seemingly accurate enough) is suggested, not least by the hair stylist credit for this outing(PAP Walk), but also by a year’s worth of body of evidence not dissimilar.
I’m getting lost keeping track of of who or what are the props in this, tbh. Staging is awful though.
Sorry Cleveland Girl, I was so gobsmacked at discovering Amal as the whole social media styled credit on hair, I failed to round my post to you off as relevant/triggered.
Your comment got me as a ‘yep, she’s working it (hard, for sure)… just let us really set ourselves to appreciating and understanding the method, purpose, and new root to access to such ‘working(s)’.
I don’t think they are a couple, nothing in their body language or interaction would suggest that. Just a new contract for George, this time including marriage maybe even a child soon.
Luciana, totally agree.
Their body language is off. They are not in step with one another in any picture, and she is actually covering her vagina with her purse. Her body language is away from him, and he is not reaching out. This is not a harmonious union.
Does she eat? Ever? Bobble head.
my thoughts too – air is free lunch then for her.
The only places they are ever papped together is going or leaving restuarants. Do they ever do anything together other than this, they seem such a boring couple, and it alway looks staged for the papz, and theres no way shes enjoying eating the lovely food you would get at these high class restaurants when she looks as thin as that. And she was a normal sizedd weight before she married him, there are pictures of her to prove it.
She looks pretty. Something is off with George, he looks unsure of himself. But maybe is just the pictures.
George has looked or presented as “off” throughout most of this marriage. Regardless of what anyone has thought about George’s *past* acting abilities, media-ed love life, rumours of other personal personal preferences, ’causes’ and other political interests, and tendency towards ‘playing the media – leave me alone, I’m lonely game’ (with subtlety) – he always carried it off with some aplomb. He rarely missed a cue, understood the beat of his script, didn’t repeat ‘bad’ performances, and appeared to own how his life and interests were presented. You might not always be ‘with’ him, but he did little to set you against him.
Now, for all some outlets constantly try to reinforce the telling of ‘happy, loved up George’, even those very media outlets are hard pressed to offer convincers for that beyond a sudden (very similarly phrased) conspicuous use of ‘quote source close to the couple’ (atypical for past George) OR, even moreso, through his pic or video affect and appearance when out and about.
It’s getting harder to think it’s coincidence that, when George is seen out (professionally or in his own time) without Amal, the majority of responses are of the “he looks happier/more like old George” type.
I read one comment (DM, hey ho) “if we didn’t know who these people were, it’d look like a drunken father introducing his uncomfortable son to a high end escort” or words to that effect. Maybe a bit harsh, but I can see the more and more “off” which gives that impression.
Me, if I didn’t know who they were, I’m seeing second hand car dealer, with a +1smoosher (given a clothes allowance but missing the mark, just slightly), and a guy who isn’t quite comfortable in the buying of. Sometimes, lately when I see suited (not Tequila T) George (especially with Amal in tow), I see/hear “jump in the river and learn to swim… God’s gonna buy you a satellite… ” which at least gives me an excuse to blast out The Hooters I suppose (small mercies).
Sum and substance, something changed and George increasingly looks hollowed out as a consequence. Certainly he appears to own to his own life far less, more PR Amal’s. Whatever the whatevers of the new dynamic it does look “off”, an actor playing a part which is over running and he’s no longer consummate enough (if ever was) to carry the role.
Amal looks lovely, very cool and nonchalant but George looks agitated or like he is trying too hard or something. I’ve noticed that often in pics of them lately.
He always looks so uneasy when he is around her, i just cant with these two, there is no warmth or chemistry there, they look like friends out for lunch not a married couple.
She looks like a man in the very first picture
He looks pissed at her in the second picture
I get a Ray Liotta in Goodfellas vibe from him
I’d still hit it
I’m probably way off, but I can’t help but get a Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy crossed with Jacqueline Kennedy vibe from Amal. Worryingly thin, very modern, with Jackie’s coloring and understated fashion styling. And being attached to a political, paparazzi-target of a man doesn’t hurt the comparison.
Dream on.
Money did not buy her class or style so far.
I never saw a picture of these ladies with their legs up in the air to present what should be private or in a see through hooker dress showing their panties to the world while grinning at the cameras and looking drunk.
And I really wonder what serious law firm would abide a team member having pictures like these spread all over the net, when normal people are fired for less.
Lorenzo, so true, shes no classy women.
i like the outfit, she looks really pretty. When it comes to Amal (or the duchess) there’s all this concern trolling and comments about anorexia and bulimia, however if anyone dares make similar comments about other well liked celebs they get shot down in flames.
Personally i think Amal is no thinner than most other high profile celebs and Hollywood starlets. She looks healthy so what’s the problem?
Amal looks gorgeous in this outfit. Love the shoes! The dress is very pretty and flattering on her emaciated frame. I really don’t think starvation is a good look, for anyone, so I wish Amal would eat more and put some weight back on. I also usually don’t like her fashion choices but she looks really good here, and that’s nice to see.
Gosh, they seem so cozy and loved up together! NOT
Clooney looks like he were in a lot of backpain. I am sorry for him if that is the case.
Love her shoes and bag.
George looks tired. I think he’s very much aware that people don’t like them. But he really wanted this couple to work out! Oh well, they can always enjoy the actual fact of their marriage and do what regular married couples do instead of running around trying to convince everyone they’re the best public advocacy/NGO/humanitarian/soft power couple ever. Totally ridiculous. Why does he have such a huge need to be taken seriously? I suppose there’s a genuine intention to do some good, but they’ve gone about it in an over-the-top way.
And Amal needs to spend less time picking out which designer outfits for which pap opportunity and hire a PR coach who can help her appear less smug and camera hungry. I’ve come across pics of her where she was practically leering at the camera and salivating at the paps. It’s so unbecoming and undignified for a high-profile legal professional that it’s embarrassing. Cringe, cringe, cringe.