Star: Amal Clooney will ‘write you off if you can’t talk about foreign affairs’

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For years now, one of the major prerequisites for George Clooney’s beck-and-call girls has been “must be able to get along with Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber.” Cindy and Rande are George’s closest friends. They co-own a tequila company together. They own adjacent (and connected) home down in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico. Cindy and Rande spend part of every summer in Como, at George’s mansion. And for years, Cindy has been the one forced to make small talk with George’s girlfriends, a series of waitresses, wrestlers, wannabe models and party girls. Cindy has had to listen to George tell the same old stories over and over again and she’s had to laugh like she’s hearing it for the first time even when she’s heard that story fifty times.

So you’d think that Cindy would be relieved that George has finally settled down with Amal, a human rights barrister who can converse about subjects beyond “hair” and “clothes.” But this time around, Cindy thinks Amal is too “snooty.” And Amal doesn’t like Cindy because Cindy doesn’t want to discuss geopolitical turmoil in the Russian caucaus states over margaritas.

Sources tell Star that while George Clooney and Rande Gerber are BFFs, their respective wives, Amal Clooney and Cindy Crawford, are like oil and water… and done with the constant couples trips to their adjacent vacation homes in Cabo San Lucas.

“They are completely opposite people,” says a source. “Amal is an ice queen and is interested in only one thing: politics. If you can’t talk about foreign affairs, she writes you off.”

While Cindy has dealt with snooty Amal “very graciously” both women are telling their men that they can forget about a feliz navidad south of the border.

“Amal wants to go to London to see her family, and Cindy doesn’t want to be around either. The boys are sad – they love spending time together, and it’s looking like they’ll just have to start vacationing without their wives.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Ha, I feel like there’s some subtext to the “vacationing without their wives” thing, but I’ll ignore it for now. How weird is that Cindy was able to grin and bear it through all of those girlfriends for so many years and then once George finally settles down with a serious woman, Cindy is totally over it? And before you dismiss this as “oh, it’s just Star Magazine,” tell me what you think Cindy and Amal talk about? They really don’t have anything in common. And I totally believe this about Amal: “If you can’t talk about foreign affairs, she writes you off.”

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  1. Mar says:

    Cindy is so gorgeous! That last picture! Wow

    • Jayna says:

      I know. That last photo is gorgeous of her.

    • herewego says:

      Yes Cindy looks stunning.

      • joan says:

        I doubt that’s the problem.

        The real problem is Cindy — and some of you — couldn’t talk about anything beyond hair and makeup and gossip even if you tried.

        This contempt for someone because they’re intellectually above you is just sour grapes.

      • Sasha says:

        This reply is for joan:

        Thank you for the heartiest laugh of my day. 😀
        Did you reply to the wrong comment? The wrong thread? The wrong website?
        Whatever your malfunction, I thoroughly enjoyed it!

      • Nic919 says:

        Hey Joan my friends and I are all lawyers and we love to talk gossip when we get together because we do enough law talk at work. Lawyers who can’t talk about anything other than the law are we we call losers.

        Not saying Amal is like that. This seems like a bs story.

      • LeAnn Stinks says:

        Hey Joan,

        Is your statement genuine, or is this an early April Fool’s joke?

        Firstly, I am NOT jealous of Amug. That is akin to LeAnn Rimes claiming everyone is jealous of her-LOL!!

        Secondly, I would have NO interest in ever having a discourse with her because I find her politics, and “humanitarian” work, highly questionable, to say the least.

        Thirdly, she is so hypocritical. She really cannot afford to comment on how superficial and shallow Cindy Crawford is, when she has clearly had work done to her face. What a joke!

      • LeAnn Stinks says:

        Forgot to add, not to mention the thousands of dollars worth of designer clothing she wears as helped by her “stylist” that she acquired once she married her rich Hollywood husband.

        What a humble “human rights” barrister, most like a B.S.er, she is! LOL!

      • OhHellNo! says:

        @LeAnn Stinks

        You said it all so well, Thank you!
        Jealous of Amug or Falcor? lol
        I love both of your names for them, absolutely perfect.

      • LeAnn Stinks says:

        OhHellNo!,

        Thank you so much, and I know I have agreed with many of the comments you have made on this site, as well. : )

        Also apologies for the mistake above, that should have read, “more like a B.S.er, than a barrister.”

        Cheers! 🙂

    • GreatScott says:

      Amal is just ticked because she looks like a dog next to Cindy.

    • Daffers says:

      I thought Amal was pretty but not when you put her next to Cindy!

    • lola says:

      Cindy is still very beautiful. She has great bone structure, which means she’ll always be beautiful.

  2. astrid says:

    Yup, these two women come from totally different backgrounds. I’d find Amal sufferable too, if she’s like she is portrayed on the blogs.

    • herewego says:

      Amal must discuss, International affairs, Hair Extensions, Correct pose on red carpet, How to find your best angle when papz are taking photos, pap numbers on speed dial, which designers look best to show legs, hello kitty gloves, big gloves, Kitten heels, heels best for walking through airports, schedule of when one must appear for bearding duties at events.

      IMO Amal is just as superficial on some levels as George’s previous beards.

      She’s a beard.

      • nicole says:

        Herewego, I agree, also on us magazine website a commenter who says she worked in the industry for years says some pretty interesting things ab out George and Amal, and there marriage, dont know if its true, but I beleive it more and more. Check it out.

      • Sasha says:

        @herewego:

        Very funny but I might add… just as superficial (and manipulative) as Pappy George.

        I’ll also add that most if not all of Pappy George’s exes are now living their authentic, happy lives.

      • Sass says:

        I don’t think Cindy is stupid or beneath having a meaningful discussion with Amal. She graduated as her high School valedictorian and gave up a scholarship to Northwestern to follow her modeling career.

  3. GreenieWeenie says:

    why is everyone so threatened by a woman who can talk about something of substance?

    I swear, the media has one massive inferiority complex with respect to her. By all means, critique what she wears. But really–what is so odd about not wanting to talk about the same 3 boring topics (Hollywood? fame? fashion? what do celebrity types talk about anyway?) that must be constant conversation in these circles?

    • LadyMTL says:

      I totally agree with you that people shouldn’t be threatened by a smart woman, but if (IF) it is true that Amal is that snooty then that’s not much better. I consider myself very well-read and I do follow current events / news / etc but I don’t get snarky if someone else finds those subjects to be boring and would rather talk about the latest Avengers movie or how hot Actor X is. We all have different interests, after all.

      Now of course this all rides on if you believe Star’s piece and that Amal really is like that. 😛

    • zimmer says:

      I agree with you Greenie Weenie (love the name btw). Talking fashion, celebrities is fun, but for Pete’s sake, what is wrong with brainy women? I for one, like that Amal is smart and in the limelight. Don’t have to agree with everything she says, like her or even believe she has the best of intentions to appreciate the fact that she is a smart women that can discuss current events in an articulate fashion. She is admirable for that. I think George marrying an educated women makes the two of them good role models, better than promoting the Khardashion types that are famous for simply sex.

    • chelsea says:

      No one’s threatened. She was built up to be something she wasn’t.
      That and being an obvious famewhore. It doesn’t go well with the “woman of substance” schtick we keep getting.

      • When someone ONLY wants to talk about one thing (if that is even true), be it nail polish or politics, its tedious. And a bore is a bore, regardless of education. And really, what adult REALLY does only want to discuss one thing? If this story is true, then Amal is likely trying to intimidate the other women she meets with Her Massive Intellect. It’s great to be educated. HOWEVER, a truly well-rounded human being will be able to strike a dialogue with anyone, at any time. Personally, my degrees don’t preclude me from enjoying zombie movies and making weird and hilarious fart sounds with my hands against my mouth….I consider myself VERY well-rounded.

      • Greenieweenie says:

        But how is she something she isn’t? She teaches at Columbia. She works. You might take issue with her clients but any defense attorney is subject to that criticism.

        I’m not defending her, I just think it’s weird that THIS is the angle the tabloid gossip has taken. Amal is snooty! She just wants to talk about foreign affairs! Oh please…like every woman who isn’t consumed by Hollywood is somehow a snob.

      • iSO says:

        Id rather be stuck on an island with an human rights activist than a model. Just sayin

    • GreatScott says:

      Because she is a fraud.

    • Kat says:

      I was also annoyed about the angle that if she’s smart, it’s likely to just be able to talk about one thing. I mean really, Amal Clooney’s a lawyer who deals with all sorts of people, as well as choosing to marry a Hollywood type and thus must move in those circles too. This means she needs to also be socially smart too, and be able to small talk and get along with a great variety of people. Not rant about foreign affairs with everyone she meets.

      I have a wide circle of friends, and with some of them I discuss politics, with some of them make-up (with some, both). This is completely normal, peeps! We women can be many things.

      Sure, maybe she IS snooty, but I’m not assuming anything yet. Everybody has the notion that George Clooney is a jovial, fun guy, who is also interested in politics. Why cannot his wife be the same?

  4. Sochan says:

    I don’t at all think that Cindy Crawford is shallow, but I can’t imagine her giving much of a flip about foreign affairs. She’s a businesswoman and a career woman with two young kids who are active in their own things, plus she has a husband who has his own thing going. I don’t imagine long-winded conversations on foreign affairs interests her nor most of the folks in George’s circle. So, if it’s true that Amal will blow off these types of people then she must be very bored among George’s set indeed.

    • LAK says:

      Rande and Cindy are the newsworthy friends, but there other people in the group, some of them are pretty impressive and spread around enough not to bore Amal eg Grant Heslov, John Prendergast, Marielle Frostrup and her husband Jason McCrue.

      • Jayna says:

        True. George has ten long-term close friends. Grant being one of them. Grant talks a lot about George in this Esquire interview. I love interviews in Esquire because they are so in depth and far-reaching. This interview came about when he had first been seen with Amal but but not linked as a girlfriend. Monument s Men had been worked on.

        I found it an interesting interview. George is always honest about how he stays in the movie game and able to make projects he cares about, Good Night Good Luck, Syriana, Michael Clayton, etc. His friend Grant said in the interview he doesn’t think George is a lonely man, but that he is a loner. All of the gay rumors are addressed in the article.

        I thought about how it must have hurt to have that movie bomb he was just in because it’s obvious he took it for a paycheck, since he never is in movies like that reading his interview, huge movies, for years now. Also, he’s now renovating that massive home, dipping into his fortune greatly, and Amal seems to be high maintenance. That is a huge change in George’s life and comfort zone when you think about it.

        I really don’t care about this marriage. Re-reading this article, I remembered why I liked George before all of this Amal overload the past year. A great read if anyone is interested. And I do think he is in a lot more physical pain every day than we realize.

        http://www.esquire.co.uk/culture/features/5480/the-george-clooney-interview/

      • dippit says:

        @LAK @Jayna You might find this interesting, I did (not necessarily for entirely positive reasons by assessing – definite contradictions, elements of pseud, and a love of ‘soft power’ positioning but… )

        http://www.scpr.org/programs/the-frame/2015/10/26/44977/george-clooney-grant-heslov-and-the-reality-show-t/

        ‘Our Brand is Crisis’, as a movie, isn’t playing too well either. It may have benefited from some less vested interest producer oversight. I can’t help feeling George has reached a point where he needs to take some time to think about and better define where his ‘professional (or related other interest)’ priorities lie. At the moment, and particularly since marriage, he’s risking diluting his ‘What does George bring to the table’ by seeming to over-extend use of his name in service to others. I’m not convinced that can be sustained for much longer without him losing a lot of the goodwill that’s given him such scope (limited) in the past.

        I think his using the Amernia example in the ^^^ was unwise, for example.

      • Jayna says:

        @digpit. Thanks. Interesting article. I don’t think George is overextending himself. He produced the movie. I’ve never seen a movie blamed on the producer really. The reviews are laying the blame at the script (or maybe the director i) in that it needed to be more aggressive, more hard-hitting, not that it wasn’t a good story to be told, just a littler darker in intensity that it didn’t capture. Sandy is getting good reviews. It’s a dramedy. That’s a hard balance to hit. When you hit it just right, it’s amazing. Otherwise, it can be way too uneven. But it’s always in the script, let’s face it.

        In fact, after reading the interview you linked with George and Grant Heslov on the movie it really depressed me. George is right about elections and all that goes on behind the scenes, not even about ideology anymore. It really is a timely movie watching these debates and the joke it’s become. It made me sad but he’s right. I thought it was an excellent interview. Of course, he’s a more optimistic person than I am. I’ve become so negative about elections and if it will ever get better. Now it’s made me want to see the film even though the reviews are just okay. I love Sandy. I will wait for it on video, though.

        It’s just been announced George and someone else is producing a new Oceans 11 featuring all women. Sandra Bullock is going to be in the movie. That sounds great IF it’s a great script. I wonder who the other actresses are that will be in the movie.

      • Jayna says:

        @dipit I shouldn’t have said George and Grant get none of the blame . It was their movie project and they hired the writer. I agree. It was their project kicking around for a long time. The biggest criticism across the board is this:

        “What’s ultimately most frustrating is the evidence that the makers of this movie were fully capable of creating something as smart and ruthless as its lead character. They just decided to be ingratiating and sentimental. “

      • Noway says:

        There’s the blame for a bad movie from the public and then there is Hollywood studios and execs. Yes the more movies he has that aren’t successful the less likely he will get a green light to do the movies he wants to do. Yes he will have to listen more to the studios if he wants his movies distributed. At this point though his movie choices, scripts, etc. are a bit off for a while now, and maybe he should listen to them.

      • LizzyFizzy says:

        @Jayna, I agree–George looks suddenly aged lately, which makes me think it’s chronic pain. That can really take a toll on you.

    • Sasha says:

      @Janyna:

      You have found yourself to be a formidable celebitchy commenter for years now.
      You have been unwavering in your support for George Clooney and anyone associated with him.
      Frankly, I think you are wasting your time.

  5. Sayrah says:

    I suspect Amal is actually a pretty vapid pseudo intellectual person.

    The hair fussing pictures again…

    • Sochan says:

      This is what I’ve also believed from day one. I think she has a basic script that she adheres to which falls in line with whatever her personal political agenda is (we all have one), and that’s the backbone of her worldview. I know a few highly political people on both sides of the aisle who basically apply all their talking points to every single current events story that comes down the pike. They are not intellectuals and can’t have an intelligent conversation on say, a movie or a book. They just like to push their respective political agendas. The essence of a “shallow” person is that their primary concern is with the appearance of things and not the substance of things (which is a person we call “deep” — the total opposite). That’s Amal IMO.

      • dippit says:

        +1. Amal’s shown no evidence of being an intellectual in the true sense. She has an applied knowledge of, and qualification for, the practise of Law. It’s an achievement and not to be knocked. But, from her public statements (which remain scripted, not exceptionally eloquent, and quite limited in presenting beyond basic/trite), she’s not a great critical thinker or an original mind. Her writings indicate so, likewise.

        Again, that’s fine. She does a job (when she works) and fair play to her. The problem is the gap between her PR message “great exceptional prominent mind” and the reality of her as an educated lawyer, among many, performing to a reasonable level as a junior in her field. Technically, take away 18 months of PR blurring, and, on paper, she’s borderline an underperformer given some of her earlier access to advantages many of her peers haven’t had the benefit of.

        I get the impression Amal is a bit pseud, and the type to throw down her ‘brainy credentials’ no matter the setting, appropriateness in terms of company and conversation, or whether she is the brightest in a particular room or not. She has to believe/show she is and so will make that point. I’ve said before, I think she comes across as quite immature and ‘blank’ of character. So I can see a possible low Emotional Intelligence resulting in her being overbearing in asserting her own opinion of her ‘high IQ’ and inserting it into every conversation; especially if she thinks of others as lesser (models, actors etc). And, because she’s so wrapped up in her own ‘great mind’, she might fail to understand intelligence, attainment, ability to think and express etc come in many forms – not just for those who can throw down a couple of degree scrolls.

        Cindy had a full scholarship to a good university to study chemical engineering. A male dominated field in which she clearly showed great promise before she CHOSE to go another route; she made a success of that route too. So if this is close to true (Star*) then Amal would be dumb to be underestimating Cindy. It’s wrong to underestimate anyone because you think you’ve got the right/the superior brain of it sewn up. You miss so many other ideas and takes on life that way, and it’s not a sign of intelligent thinking.

        This chimes with many reports on, or indications from, Amal: Howard Stern’s ‘nearly an hour talking about herself/her work before she asked about me’; the cookery book gift ‘what you think I cook’ moment; journalist (other junior lawyer) blaming when she mis-spoke; reports of standoffish from the GGs etc. Add to the mix the underlying tone of recent Clooney ‘found his match’ – thereby shading his past girlfriends by implication.

        Lots joke about the ‘Amal the Exceptional (Unicorn)’ here, and there’s no doubt that’s been meant to be the message the public are to believe of her. That doesn’t make this report that unbelievable even if it is Star.

        /Got Shania Twain ‘Don’t Impress Me Much’ in my head now.

      • Sochan says:

        @ dippit

        Excellent commentary. Falls right in line with how I feel about her. I think she hit the jackpot with Clooney and he with her — both pseuds with a very high concern for their respective images and in love with their own minds — coming together as a “power match”.

      • Kitty says:

        Thank you, Dippit, you said everything I was thinking and more. That Cindy actually has a brain of her own. She isn’t just a pretty face.

        Nor has she felt the need to remind everyone.

      • Kitty says:

        Sochan,

        And I completely, agree about applying political talking points and in fact revealing themselves to be quite shallow.

        There are very few people who can elaborate past those talking points and have a connection to the actual history. Frankly, I get that vibe from Amal too.

      • Zen says:

        Cindy might have been smart once a upon a time, but she’s let it go. Have you read a recent interview of hers? She’s as vapid as you can get. Talking about how she made a massive sacrifice by giving birth (and temporarily losing her figure as a result). That’s her take on motherhood.

      • Greenieweenie says:

        But how do you even know? Have you read her professional writing? You can’t really go through the motions and be successful in your field without some substance. I just don’t get it. I would be loathe to critique her work until I actually had it in front of me to assess.

        Again, I don’t know how somebody can teach at Columbia with absolutely nothing original or intellectual to offer.

        I think I’m starting to feel that this is sexism in action. You can’t look at her credentials and draw these conclusions. But you know who is a pseudo-intellectual, who doesn’t have the credentials to back any of opinions about foreign affairs? George Clooney. But everyone congratulated his work.

      • Wireless says:

        @Greenieweenie Amal’s very smart technically (just watch her interviews; she knows her stuff), but so are all the other lawyers who graduated top of their class and landed great jobs. What’s that then, 1,000,0000 lawyers, at least, around the world? Being smart doesn’t mean she’s not a crazy fame-obsessed narcissist.

      • Noway says:

        @Greenieweenie I think it is admirable your admiration of higher education and specifically Columbia, but you obviously have never worked at any University. Trust me guest lecturers which is what Amal was at Columbia aren’t always that impressive or wonderful sometimes they are just well known. Now my contention from Amal’s professional bio is that her PR bio has been padded to sound more impressive. Don’t really know why, because her career accomplishment aren’t that bad to begin with, but I guess they just wanted more. Only time will tell why the hard sell.

    • Zombie Shortcake says:

      I started to wonder about her intellectual and academic credibility when I read that students in the classes where she guest lectured at Harvard were banned from talking about her and said lectures. That is virtually unheard of when big name academics give university talks. They tend to be highly publicized events, both leading up to and afterward with regard to details of the talk.

      • Snappyfish says:

        Again w/the chemical engineering story. She did get into northwestern. A v v good school. She was in the engineering program for 1 semester. At xmas break her freshman year she was done. She just admitted on Howard Stern that college was when she was struggling w/school & she had the opportunity to model, so she did.

        She had a brilliant career but to spend ONE semester in college does not a chemical engineer make. She is as bad as Amal w/the whole “I’m SO much smarter than the others” shtick. Christy Turlington, one of the prettiest of all, has a masters from NYU & never throws that card around.

        Cindy & Amal are both shallow. They should be best buds

    • laura in LA says:

      This was Howard Stern’s impression of Amal as well, that she talked on and on about her work and herself: http://www.celebitchy.com/405500/amal_clooney_believes_george_clooneys_uneducated_friends_are_beneath_her/

      Amal may be an intellectual, but lacks the curiosity and charm that make for an interesting conversationalist and personality. So as smart as she is, perhaps she’s socially inept?

      • Greenieweenie says:

        This is more like it. I could accept this criticism of her. Socially awkward, bad fashion taste, whatever. I really just reject this “she’s a faux celebrity lawyer poseur” angle.

    • Nimbolicious says:

      I’m glad it isn’t just me who saw the lead photo of Amal fingering her hair and staring vacantly into space and then chortled at the headline. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if she IS in fact as snooty as hell, but only because she presents as so darn self-impressed — NOT because she has evidenced herself to be an authentic intellectual giant.

  6. Cat'sMeow says:

    How many men have connecting homes? I’ve always been kind of “meh” about the gay rumors, but I’m starting to reconsider.

    • Sochan says:

      I think he’s straight but has a hard time connecting on a deep level with women, I really do. He’s not close to any women unless those women are connected to his close male friend. He’s not close to his sister, and tends to reference his father far more than his mother. His relationships with women are shallow and always on his terms — they get dumped when they deviate from his parameters. I think he likes Julia Roberts because she’s a ballbuster and friendship with her probably feels like friendship with a guy. I think he likes Cindy but it’s more like he idolizes her the way he idolized Audrey Hepburn: perfect and unattainable. That’s also shallow.

      • siri says:

        I agree with everything except for the straight part. I think he’s gay by now, after wondering for awhile if he might be ‘asexual’. I think he feels best with women who are like “one of the boys” (Bullock, Roberts), and values friendship more than anything. His father probably was the dominant part in his upbringing, and in the house in general. His mother seems rather soft.

      • Sochan says:

        @ siri

        Interesting! I’ve always believed his mother was the dominant force, hence George’s attachment to his father and to other males.

      • herewego says:

        I think George is bi or gay and Amal is still just his beard wife.

    • Jayna says:

      They have neighboring properties in Mexico, not connecting houses. George’s is up for sale..

    • nicole says:

      He is very hard to figure out, sometimes I think he is definetly gay othertimes, I am not sure. I definetly think there is very strange things about his relationships, and his marriage is no different.

  7. Abbott says:

    I’m the same way… except replace ‘foreign affairs’ with ‘Golden Girls.’

  8. Sara says:

    Ah, the dumb model and the clever brunette….such an original tale.

    I have many interests: celebrity gossip, fashion, history etc. But honestly, all of my friends also are activists for various causes, especially the environment. When you’re an activist, by necessity your world revolves around your causes…so I find it hard to socialize with people who don’t care at all about the state of the world. I don’t find them dumb, many people who are very bright and high-profile are not concerned with poverty, famine, global warming etc. i just find it harder to relate to them.

    • minime says:

      +1
      I agree it can’t all be resumed to the dichotomy clever-dumb. It is mainly about relating to someone. Most people can do small talk but obviously people feel closer to the ones they can relate to and with whom they can have a conversation with. Nothing spectacular there.

  9. antipodean says:

    If Amal is as well versed in all these matters, as is constantly vaunted for our attention, she is probably also capable of making conversation with all echelons of society. As an actor’s wife she is also probably aware of how superficial most of their conversation will probably be. One can put up with superficiality on occasion, but it would be difficult to be satisfied with that level of connection in a chosen friend. It is probably something she will just have to try and adapt to if she wants to keep hold of Gorgeous George.
    A bit of a red flag that the boys are sad, but will compromise by going on holiday together, a deux! Poor them.

  10. shewolf says:

    I just don’t believe it. Anyone who wears a gold lamee dress is completely capable of talking about pizza and getting laid.

  11. yvonne says:

    Its all BS. She knew his friends well before she married him, so its doubtful she’s going to all of a sudden start being snarky. It’s all a ploy anyway to get the boys together. (wink)

  12. Robin says:

    People who are interested in only one thing (politics or whatever) are boring and people who look down on others who can’t or don’t want to talk about their sole area of interest are rude.

  13. Jayna says:

    Meh. Cindy said in a People Interview about her book when asked about Amal that she was great and was interesting but also really showed an interest in who she was talking to and their interests or job or something like that.

    Cindy looks great in that photo. Her hubby isn’t aging that well.

    • LAK says:

      Cindy is a PR pro. She’s not going to diss Amal. As far as I’m aware she’s never dissed any of GC’s women.

      On the other hand Howard Stern said Amal was completely self involved – not his words, but my interpretation of his impression of Amal and the brief time he spent talking to her.

      • Jayna says:

        I didn’t get that impression from Howard at all. He said he kept asking her about herself because he found her fascinating and when she would ask about him he didn’t want to talk about himself

      • Noway says:

        This cracks me up, I have known people who have worked with Howard for years, and to think anyone who uses anything he says on air about anyone he met for any purpose except humor is hysterical. Not that he is making it up, but trust me it is an exaggeration of mammoth proportions on just about everything and you just don’t know which way he is going with it. If you ever meet him, he really isn’t what you would expect. Now Amal could be vapid or engaging, but trust me from whatever Howard said on air you don’t know or even know what Howard really thought either.

    • Sochan says:

      That’s because her hubby hasn’t had massive amounts of work done for years.

      So fed up hearing women complimented for their beauty and aging so well when they’ve clearly had work done.

  14. mp says:

    eh, they can talk about fashion and travel. “OMG I LOOOOOVE the Eiffel Tower”

  15. minime says:

    I don’t find it hard to believe and even though I’m not Amal’s biggest fan, I can sincerely understand it…She is not sporadically seeing these people, she’s dealing with them pretty often. Even if she would be able to have banal conversations, that I guess she is, it would get really boring if you wouldn’t be able to discuss more serious topics every now and then. Even if she’s not that special snowflake that the press tries to sell, she is specialized in international law. Certainly she finds those kind of topics interesting!
    We are all commenting on a gossip blog and I’m pretty sure many of the commenters here are accomplished, intelligent people, who are actually capable of discussing more than gossip. And let’s face it, how many have significant others with friends with whom we have no topics in common apart from talking about the weather. People are different.

  16. Pandy says:

    Truthfully, I also kind of write off people with little interest in current affairs. But I’m down with celebrity gossip! So well rounded ….

  17. tealily says:

    I like Cindy, but I don’t know why we are assuming that she has more in common with Amal than with Clooney’s other gals. She started out as a model and has expanded her “brand” since… I’m sure she has more in common with other models than a lawyer.

  18. Pondering thoughts says:

    And I totally believe this about Amal: “If you can’t talk about foreign affairs, she writes you off.”

    Can George talk about foreign affairs?

    IF that is true and it is a capital IF … well, having interests is fine but ignoring everybody else’s interests: not good.

  19. Christina says:

    I don’t know … I had a very serious job and I was THRILLED to meet people who didn’t know anything about “my” world. I hated talking about politics all day AND night. If it’s what you do for a living, having people around who have nothing to do with it can be truly liberating. Maybe days on end of meaningless conversations would get old but Cindy Crawford is an intelligent woman in her own right so I’m not sure I’m buying this. Unless Amal is just a really awful person. It doesn’t seem as if she has any personal friends??

  20. What's inside says:

    I don’t know enough to form an opinion of Amal Clooney and would like to see and hear her in action for about 5 minutes. That would be enough to tell me what I’d want to know about her. I like George Clooney and his career choices, though he has got to be over the whole show business scene. I have heard for years that he suffers with chronic pain and health issues and in the last 5 years he seems to have lost some of his luster. Amal has polished up nicely with George financing the make-over, but she needs to stay away from glitz. The gold lame was cheap looking and I think she would benefit from about 10-15 lbs of weight. I wonder if she went back to smoking?

  21. nicole says:

    I get a very stuckup vibe from her, and from certain photos and little tidbits I have read about, I beleive this story moretrue than not. There is something about her that is cold and conniving, and I just cant warm to her. I also found it very condescending the way George made out that because she was smart, she was only good enough for him to marry(big MR harvard educated himself ha!) all the other girls were stupid etc, he showed what a tool he really is.

    • Zen says:

      I don’t get the fuss over Amal though. You can find hundreds of lawyers with equal or better qualifications and resumes than her. It’s who she’s married to, really. She might be smart but her CV’s definitely been blown up by a hungry media.

  22. Hazel says:

    Such hooey. It’s the same old boring trope. Two women couldn’t possibly get along. They must be rivals.

  23. LizzyFizzy says:

    I hope this is a fake story, because if it’s not, that’s probably not a good sign for them. If Amal is asking George to give up longterm, significant friendships, it makes me actually sad for him (along with how in pain he looks lately) and signals that they’re a mismatch. I don’t quibble with Amal’s professional credentials and career,* but he is over 50 and has been close friends with the Gerber/Crawfords for what, 15 years? 20 years now? And then he has a whirlwind romance with someone, marries them, and has to drop people who’ve been in his life for far longer?

    If the genders were flipped and this was a successful actress in a new marriage to a serious lawyer (that she’d just met) who declared that her Hollywood friends were “vapid” and she should drop them and spend more time in London, we’d call that isolating her, right? I feel like this is the story of many classic Hollywood actresses who tried to marry men outside of Hollywood because they wanted more in life and found themselves miserable and awkwardly stuck between worlds–Rita Hayworth’s unhappy marriage to Aly Khan, for example. Or the rumors about Grace Kelly being totally bored in Monaco after the glow wore off being a princess. If he retreats from his old life by marrying someone he barely knows, he may decide he wants it back someday. Difficult to do if you’ve sold the houses!

    *Amal’s fashion choices perplex the heck out of me, though. She should be talking to Cindy about how to dress!

  24. BNA. FN says:

    I’m calling this a non story.

    Brad and Angelina will be on Today show on monday, yah!!

  25. Chelly says:

    Amal is what I call a 5 who think she’s a 10

  26. Adaven says:

    I’m ashamed to admit that I write people off if they won’t talk with me about love affairs of my movie favorites.