George Clooney received an honorary Cesar Award at Friday evening’s Cesars, which are like the French Oscars. I had hoped that Amal would come as his date, and wouldn’t you know, there she is. Amal wore a feathered gown by Versace and she “showed off” her bump, in the common gossip parlance. I like the dress but I feel like a maternity dress – especially one tailored for her expanding bump – should have more stretch than this. I also feel like it’s slightly baggy in the bust? Not baggy, maybe that’s the wrong word, but there just seems to be slightly too much room in the bust. Otherwise… sure, it’s fine. She seemed very pleased to be at the Cesars. Apparently, she also was hellbent on wearing her hair down and in loose waves – her hairstylist gave a detailed hair report to People Mag.
As for George and his Cesar, he doesn’t speak French (but Amal does). So when it came to receiving the Cesar, Jean Dujardin came out and the two men did a nice little bit together:
After a lengthy clip real of his greatest hits, Clooney was called onstage by host Jerome Commandeur. Greeted with a standing ovation, Clooney thanked the crowd saying, “Merci, merci” several times. Commandeur then invited Oscar winner Jean Dujardin, Clooney’s Monuments Men costar, to present him with the César d’Honneur. The former costars embraced, and Clooney, excusing himself to the audience for his “horrible” French, asked Dujardin to translate for him. The duo proceeded to bring down the house, as his former costar gently ribbed him by purposefully mistranslating his speech, adding words like “handsome” to Clooney’s description of himself. After the actor listed a number of prominent French actors who have inspired him, Dujardin’s translation was a brief: “Trump is a danger to the world.”
The speech continued to get political, with Clooney cautioning the audience, “As we stand here today the world is going through some pretty momentous changes, not all for the best.” He added, “As citizens of the world we’re going to have to work harder and harder not to let hate win.” Dujardin added in French, “And for the 2024 Olympic Games be held in Paris and not Los Angeles.”
After a big round of applause from the local Parisian audience, the two friends engaged in an exchange of one-liners. When Clooney said, “Love trumps hate,” Dujardin translated, “Trump loves hate.” When Clooney said, “Courage trumps fear,” Dujardin translated, “Trump is afraid.” Clooney said, “Right always trumps wrong,” and Dujardin quipped, “Trump is always wrong.”
As for his expectant wife, Clooney gushed, “To my wife Amal, there isn’t a day that goes by that I’m not proud to be your husband. And I am excited about the years to come, and particularly the months to come. I love you very much.”
That’s very cute that Dujardin and Clooney worked that out beforehand, I’m assuming. Dear French people: we’re sorry about Emperor Baby Fists. Please don’t hate us, French peeps.
This photo, to me, is Peak Clooneys.
Also: when George and Amal were leaving their hotel, Amal had a weird fur (?) stole which made it look like she was wearing leg warmers on her arms. She was not, and she took off the weird stole by the time she posed for photos at the Cesars.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
I think she is beautiful. I know she gets a ton of crap for her clothing and styling (and I agree that she can miss the mark) but I just love the way she wears what she wants. As somebody who is 32 and still always worries about wearing the wrong thing I love that she doesn’t.
Same. Mrs Clooney has the canjones to wear whatever, because she’s not afraid to get her fashion wrong.
I think she looks lovely — maybe better than I’ve ever seen her — since she been preggers.
Same, her clothing isn’t always to my taste but I like that she just wears whatever she likes. She looks gorgeous here, the extra weight has softened her features a little and she clearly is making the most of ‘pregnancy hair’ so good for her.
Same, I keep wondering if I’m crazy on some of these fashion Posts, but im zero afraid to say she looks very sophisticated and fun and dramatic
She looks fabulous! And she’s clearly enjoying “pregnancy hair”. DuJardin/Clooney interaction is cute.
She looks beautiful, and he looks like his back hurts like hell.
I agree. She’s gorgeous & he looked like he was in pain.
Sometimes George looks to be in such pain and so much older than his age. But in these photos he looks good. Amal is a beautiful woman, sometimes her fashion choices might seem odd( # neverforgetthegloves) But she looks stunning here.
Maybe it’s loose up top for tender pregnancy boobs?
Ms. Clooney’s dress looks a bit dated but she looks positively beautiful. The cliché is right, women encinth do have that “glow”. By the way, another cliché is that the French hate Americans; if true then Emperor baby fists is going to make them hate us even more.
They better not elect the facist Le Pen then. Or they will have no grounds to criticise the US. Amal looks lovely.
The idea of Le Pen winning the presidency keeps me up at night. It would be a nightmare if epic proportions for almost everyone but especially non white people like me.
There had been an horrific wave of French nationalism- islamophobia- xenophobia so full tilt. The French seem low on humanitarian solutions. Wonder whose Putin energy into that election.
@Homegrrl Putin has nothing to do with it. The far right has been gaining in popularity for several years, they had almost 18% of the vote in the first round in 2012 (vs 27% for Sarkozy and 28% for Hollande). The massive influx of refugees for which the govt has no solution hasn’t helped matters. Neither has the fact that the current President has done nothing about the rotten economy, and has likely made it worse with his attitude of “oh, we’ll just raise taxes on everybody” to pay for everything, he seems to think it’s “free money” that people don’t actually work for. Add of course, the terrorist attacks in Paris and Nice and you’ve got the same conditions of “protest voting” that brought in Trump.
I’m French and I don’t think we hate Americans (well I don’t and I don’t know anyone who does, anyway), if anything, we feel sorry for you. And I must add that I admire the way American people are fighting back, it’s really inspiring.
Yep, that’s a cliché. I’m French, and I don’t hate Americans either… what would I do here if I did, anyway !
It was somewhat true when I first moved to France a couple of decades ago. I spoke no French back then. There was a noticeable difference in the attitudes of the waiters of the cafes my friend and I hung out in after they found out we were Canadian and not American.
She looks tired but happy. I sit here snuggling with my 6 month old and can’t imagine if there were 2 of him! His first tooth just cut through so he’s a handful and a half right now.
Ever since D Listed stated that she really loves the camera. I can’t unsee it now 😑
I don’t see how this is a bad thing tho . They both look beautiful , she’s having fun . Really there is nothing bad with this
I didn’t mean in a bad way ! She is very beautiful and extremely photogenic i’ve never seen an unflattering photo of her 😊
I mean, she’s a barrister. I’ve never met a barrister who didn’t thrive on attention and the limelight. It’s practically a job requirement.
Given what she does for a living and more specifically, who she worked with, I always found it pretty bemusing that anyone was surprised that she was comfortable in front of the cameras and a crowd. It would be very weird if she wasn’t.
Sorry, but why was clooney honored in the first place? There are way more talented actors & filmakers & more genuine activists than him.
From a french point of view, I think the Cesars Academy honors every year a famous actor/director like Clooney, Sean Penn, Kate Winslet… Just to have someone famous there… This ceremony is honestly pretty boring otherwise (the Clooney/Dujardin thing was one of the funniest thing of the night, and it wasn’t that great…)
(I hope what I said makes sense!)
Oh dear she worse than low celebs now she’s sending her hairstylist to give people magazine details of her hair, what next? How the babies were conceived? And she said she was not a celebrity and pretend she better than them. Darling you are nobody without clooney.
Her mum’s in PR and does a lot of these weird leaks.
Damn, she doesn’t even look pregnant from the front.
Her hair is to die for, and she is really, really beautiful.
I would be really excited if I was having twins for my first pregnancy, because I only want two kids, if I even have them. If it were twins on the first try, I’d be ecstatic to only have to be pregnant once. Lol
Amal looks so much better with the added pregnancy weight in her face. She looks younger IMO. And George looks awful, elderly and frail. They look more like dad and daughter than ever. I’m betting she will be a hands-on mom running around in the yard laughing with the kids, and he will be off in the darkened study popping Percocet and shifting uncomfortably in his chair wishing his back didn’t hurt.
I have to agree. He looks very pained and old. They’re lucky they can afford help, because she’s going to need it. I wonder if he’ll even be able to pick their children up!
I think their kids will be raised by nannies. George looked very healthy and young at his wedding and within a couple of years starting looking awful. Remember the Sony leaks? They revealed he’s quite affected by reviews and public perceptions. I’m guessing he knows quite well how they’re not that well liked.
Ugh, for how long do we have to bend over and take it from these two thirsty people and their publicists? I wish this self-important schmuck would take his fake unicorn wife, his contract marriage and his test tube babies and go hole up in Lake Como or Lord-and-Lady-shire or wherever. Enough with them already.
Can we please not use test tube babies as an insult.
Agree!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“test tube babies”. Classy.
You were there at the conception?
“Ugh, for how long do we have to bend over and take it from these two thirsty people and their publicists?”
Is someone making you read about George and Amal against your will? If not, you could have just skipped this article since you find them so objectionable.
It’s a gossip site, for eff’s sake. A place to voice our opinions and articulate an eye roll should we so desire. I’m not their PR team so I don’t feel obligated to fawn over a crappy dress or buy into their calculated marriage and family rollout.
And for what it’s worth, I don’t give a rat’s ass how people choose to conceive or bear their children. It’s their business, but what they’re selling I ain’t buying; in this forum I feel I’m within my rights to call what I see as total bullshit on the part of two insufferable preeners. I get that people might not like the terminology, but that’s just how I see it and how I say it for today. For those that get their dander up over it, well hooray that we live in a country where (at least for now) there is still freedom of speech so we can all throw our two cents in.
Why is it that every time someone gets called out for saying something rude, they bring up free speech? The government isn’t trying to punish you for your opinions about the Clooneys, so let’s just leave freedom of speech out of it.
If you don’t care about/for the subject of an article, just skip it rather than bitching about it in the comments section and making rude comments speculating about how their children were conceived. For someone who claims not to give a rat’s ass, you’ve sure expended a lot of mental energy on it.
Um…I brought up free speech to point out everyone’s right to an opinion, not just mine. And just as I can opt to read or not read sycophantic drivel about Hollywood dumbasses, or to comment or not, you have the same right to ignore whatever the hell I say. Or to do as you did, which was to expend “mental energy” on doling out advice as to how someone else should do or not do their gossip.
Yeah that thirsty women who went to Oxford and works as a barrister specializing in international law and human rights, worked at The Hague in the office for the prosecutor, teaches law and has been appointed to a number of United Nations commissions. She’s practically a kardashian. And can you believe all her pap strolls (her going to work) and how I know all about her from a few photos on gossip websites and people magazine. And don’t get me started on George with his humanitarian work in Africa, co-founding various charities and organizations to stop mass atrocities and helping Haitians earthquake victims and lately Syrian refuges. Yeah real thirsty. Please have some perspective. “Test tube baby” boy, you got them there. Eye roll.
Enjoy the Kool-Aid.
Wow, just saying that both these people are pretty good role models for a gossip obsessed world. We’re battling a narcissistic racist sexist fascist as president and a congress that wants to take away health care for millions and deport brown people. That’s who I save my vitriol for.
AnneC, you can have energy for both. I’ve followed their big-love pr campaign from the start and George really wanted to go big on this one to boost his humanitarian brand. I think the love is genuine but it’s a matter of two narcissists in big love and needing the world to know about it and their good deeds. You know what? I think I’ll just subscribe to the Oxfam newsletter or whatever if I want to know what good role models and humanitarians are doing on the ground.
@Nimbolicious – I can see where you’re coming from, if that helps at all. Objectively, there are lots of reasons to side-eye and dislike these two.
My issue with them is the contrast between how they present themselves and how they actually behave. My main and biggest grievance is, in the context of this thread, how Amal can be praised for wearing, yet again, an outfit full of careless brutality. (For those who don’t know, google how ostrich feather are obtained for the likes of Prada and then tell me how she and this dress can possibly be praised). But this is the norm for her, whether it’s ostrich feathers or snakeskin or alligator or whatever. She clearly has no interest in how the clothes she wears came to be. As long as she can draw attention somewhere, then all’s good in Amalworld.
And she’s wearing a dress with mink panels in the latest pictures and yet, somehow, again, we’re supposed to ignore this and just comment on how shiny her hair is and how blooming she looks and how etc etc etc.
I can’t play nice with this because I wouldn’t do it for anyone else so why should I do it for them?
Thank you for understanding, Guesto, and for what is a much more reasoned analysis than what I freely admit is my own bitchery (albeit highly satisfying to air). Indeed, the disconnect between the Persons-of-Excellence and Integrity presentation and the underlying narcissistic thoughtlessness and phoniness is what makes me vomit into my own throat.
Oh no thanks needed.
I love a big, ballsy, take-no-prisoners ‘stream of consciousness’ approach anyway, and when it’s applied to these two frauds, well, to not appreciate it would be me failing to be me. 😉
I wish you were my neighbor ❤
I agree with Nimbolicious and Guesto completely. George wanted a huge brand boost from this marriage and is as in love with her as he is with the idea of himself as a soft-power player. She never met a camera she didn’t love and her outfits are crass and cruel. Both crass and pretentious.
Thanks, but I’ll listen to Jodie Foster and not this guy who spent millions on his wedding etc, claims his ex-gfs just weren’t good/smart enough for him, and turns around and tries to lecture people on how they should behave.
I agree that Amal is problematic (seriously, fur and feathers in the same outfit??? but Jodie Foster ain’t shit. BFF with noted trashbag Mel Gibson? Uurgh
Nimblesomethin’
It’s not a fake marriage. Not a contract. I don’t know them but am close friends with people who do. They are head over heels in love. Not sure why it makes you feel good to angrily claim otherwise, when you don’t know. I would look at that with a therapist.
Yeah….thanks but no thanks, Bumble. Maybe you want to get with your own shrink and reflect on (a) the need to condescend to strangers and (b) the compulsion to make it known that you know people who know famous people.
She looks great.
And her hair are amazing.
Beautiful.
I think she looks absolutely beautiful. But why are there so many award shows celebrities have to dress up for? It seems like there’s a pat on the back show every week!
I thought she looked quite beautiful. I watched the clip and George did a great job, and the translation bit on stage was cute. I think George talked more at the end about serious things and there was no translation interrupting him. I can’t be sure.
I thought he choked up a little when talking about Amal. It was sweet.
I think she and the dress look fabulous. Girlfriend really does love that camera.
are they real feathers?
Yes, ostrich, which she wore with a fur stole. And then wore mink the following day.
Apart from disliking the dress for the above reason, I thought it way too showy and very out of place at the Cesars.
Pictures of the lovely Jean DuJardin would be appreciated. He’s the only thing I could stand in the godawful Wolf of Wall Street. If you haven’t seen The Connection, check it out. Excellent film. Covers some of the same ground as The French Connection.
Please tell me that’s not a Visible Bodysuit Line in the second picture.
I was in Venice when they got married and saw them. They both look gorgeous in real life!
She might as well wear dog fur. Birds are killed and plucked while still alive- it’s an heinous fashion choice. She’s beautiful and accomplished but needs a lesson in compassionate choices.
I totally agree. Choosing real fur and feathers is abhorrent and cruel. These animals do have their feathers plucked while alive and other animals are skinned alive for their fur. They also lived horrible miserable lives on fur farms.
She looks lovely but I hope the feathers are synthetic.
The fur also.
I’m no Amal apologist, but I think this is one of the most stunning maternity red-carpet looks I have ever seen. Aside from that weird thing going on with the bodysuit line/odd seam along the hip crease, this is perfection. Yes, it skims the bump but in a nonchalant way, like “yeah the bump is a thing that’s happening, but it’s not the focus of what’s going on.” Look at this utterly simple shape which dissolves into this shimmering, soft texture at the bottom. Look at how awesome her skin looks and how her super shiny hair doesn’t fight with her dress for drama because the top is so simple.
A nod to the people who noted she could have opted for faux fur and feathers – there’s really no excuse in this day. Still, I like that the dress is about this simple contrast of textures. She’s always looked better in really minimal silhouettes with a 70s or 90s vibe and this is about that kind of elegant simplicity.
She doesn’t look pregnant at all.
I don’t really have opinion on either but I can’t understand why anyone in this day and age would wear fur? Really? I swung in to the dislike camp. I would have thought she would be more evolved than that. It’s just gross.
+100
Loved Amal’s styling but not so much the dress (it was okay). Clooney and Dujardin’s skit was hilarious and well made!