George and Amal Clooney hosted their annual “Albie Awards” on Friday night in London, at the Natural History Museum. In previous years, the Clooneys hosted their signature event in New York, but you have to remember that George literally escaped the US months after he sh-t the bed politically in 2024. Basically, George and Amal are now French citizens and they spend the bulk of their time in Europe.
Amal wore a golden Gucci dress for the event and she looked nice, albeit within her already-established showgirl aesthetic. Amal’s family attended too, Amal and George posed on the carpet with her mom Baria Alamuddin. People Magazine asked George and Amal about their secret to a healthy marriage after twelve years, and Amal said, “If you choose the most incredible person, then it all goes well from there.” George responded with: “She looked at me; she was talking about herself, of course. No, we’re just … We feel very lucky, very happy to have found each other.” Is anyone else surprised that they have actually made it 12 years? I am.
There were lots of celebrity guests at the Albies, including first-time Albie attendee Brad Pitt. Brad brought Ines de Ramon, who wore a weird lace dress. She looks like she’s going to a Ren Faire. I’m also including pics of Hannah Waddingham, who is never beating the “goes to the opening of an envelope” allegations, my nemesis Laura Dern and Emily Ratajkowski. It just occurred to me that Emily is actually George’s type. Or rather, his old type. Dark hair, great body, kind of trashy. I wonder if that’s something.
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- Celebrities at The Albie Awards at the Natural History Museum. The award is named after Justice Albie Sachs for his seminal role in ending apartheid in South Africa – aim to shine a spotlight on brave individuals who, at great personal risk, have devoted their lives to justice Featuring: George Clooney and Amal Clooney Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2026 Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- London, UNITED KINGDOM Celebrities attend The Albies 2026, an annual awards ceremony hosted by The Clooney Foundation for Justice held at Natural History Museum in London. Pictured: Amal Clooney, George Clooney BACKGRID USA 9 OCTOBER 2026 BYLINE MUST READ: Mario Mitsis / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- London, UNITED KINGDOM Brad Pitt and girlfriend Ines de Ramon attend The Clooney Foundation For Justice’s The Albies 2026 at Natural History Museum in London Pictured: Brad Pitt, Ines de Ramon BACKGRID USA 9 OCTOBER 2026 BYLINE MUST READ: HALLETT / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Celebrities at The Albie Awards at the Natural History Museum. The award is named after Justice Albie Sachs for his seminal role in ending apartheid in South Africa – aim to shine a spotlight on brave individuals who, at great personal risk, have devoted their lives to justice Featuring: George Clooney, Amal Clooney, Baria Alumuddin Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2026 Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Celebrities at The Albie Awards at the Natural History Museum. The award is named after Justice Albie Sachs for his seminal role in ending apartheid in South Africa – aim to shine a spotlight on brave individuals who, at great personal risk, have devoted their lives to justice Featuring: George Clooney and Amal Clooney Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2026 Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Celebrities at The Albie Awards at the Natural History Museum. The award is named after Justice Albie Sachs for his seminal role in ending apartheid in South Africa – aim to shine a spotlight on brave individuals who, at great personal risk, have devoted their lives to justice Featuring: George Clooney and Amal Clooney Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2026 Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Celebrities at The Albie Awards at the Natural History Museum. The award is named after Justice Albie Sachs for his seminal role in ending apartheid in South Africa – aim to shine a spotlight on brave individuals who, at great personal risk, have devoted their lives to justice Featuring: Laura Dern Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2026 Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Celebrities at The Albie Awards at the Natural History Museum. The award is named after Justice Albie Sachs for his seminal role in ending apartheid in South Africa – aim to shine a spotlight on brave individuals who, at great personal risk, have devoted their lives to justice Featuring: Hannah Waddingham Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2026 Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
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- Celebrities at The Albie Awards at the Natural History Museum. The award is named after Justice Albie Sachs for his seminal role in ending apartheid in South Africa – aim to shine a spotlight on brave individuals who, at great personal risk, have devoted their lives to justice Featuring: Emily Ratajkowski Where: London, United Kingdom When: 09 Oct 2026 Credit: Ian West/PA Images/INSTARimages **NORTH AMERICA RIGHTS ONLY**
I saw on Page Six that George felt the need to speak out about Presley Gerber’s passing. Not quite sure what the point of that was… you think your closest friends would know when to keep their mouths shut.
I saw the clip. He was asked, and he was very respectful, kept it short, and didn’t invade his friends’ privacy and grief with his answer. He was very protective of his closest friends and their loss, who are like his family, and wasn’t about to discuss Rande and Cindy’s private torment and grief. “Their grief is as you can imagine. It’s the worst thing that could ever happen to a family.” Very simple answer.
I second that, it was a simple and respectful answer. The question, on the other hand, was ruuuuude! How in hell do you ask this kind of questions on a red carpet at a fancy event, what kind of people pass for ET correspondents these days? Ffs.
Good to know, thanks for clarifying!
@Jayna
He would have shown respect for his friends if he had simply ignored the question and made no comment at all on the tragedy—after all, it’s not a topic for an awards gala, and it is such a deeply personal tragedy that *none* of their so-called friends should be talking about it publicly. Withoud Clooney everyone knows the parents are devastated .
Clooney went to the gala so Amal could show off yet another new, expensive dress—let them focus on that.
The knives are already out for the parents from the tabloid press looking back for all the clues at all the alleged dark and bad things behind the “perfect” family facade. Everything is being revisited and rehashed. Ignoring the question would have been a massive mistake and thrown fuel on that fire (what ARE they hiding?!). I agree the answer was fine.
That bothered me so much. Someone in the Clooney camp was also feeding details to the daily mail as evidence progressed, and with each additional factoid they dropped, I got more and more pissed off.
No way would George have done that without the Gerbers’ consent.
They’re recent Backgrid pics of Cindy & Rande in the DM, so they’re clearly coming out more after this horrific tragedy.
@Jegede
They aren’t even able to arrange their son’s funeral yet (according to reports), and they’re going to discuss with Clooney what he can or can’t say to the press? I think the last thing on their minds is that—their thoughts are completely elsewhere.
And the photos of them out for a walk aren’t surprising at all, considering that paparazzi are constantly lying in wait outside their home and in the surrounding area.
Ahh, I like Hannah Waddingham. I think because she started in this Hollywood game so late, she feels she has to hustle to network to make up for lost time.
The Clooneys are the phoniest couple in Hollywood. Since her beverley hills makeover all grandpa does is parade her around. Clooney has never been to a conflict zone and thinks he’s the spokesman for everything all because his father was a journalist. He’s insufferable and has made Amal the same.
@duchessofhazard: I agree! And honestly I think she’s just having a great time, and why not? I would
I find it peculiar that the Clooneys feel like they have reached some sort of order of magnitude in which they are good people to give out awards. Amal does some interesting work, but he’s a freaking TV star. Why is he handing out awards that sort of look like Nobel peace prizes? Why did they feel the need to do this? I noticed the celebrities are B List.
She does a disservice to professional women wanting to be taken seriously and not as a trinket for display to serve the ego of a washed up elderly male, albeit very rich.
I fail to see what his age has to do with anything.
I wondered about this as well. Dunno.
Continuing to hang around with Brad Pitt is a choice.
Especially for Amal. Human rights lawyer and all.
So George and Amal approve of Ines. Interesting.
There has been some talk about the Clooneys snubbing the Sussexes for this event. I think it says two things. One, the Clooneys were always royalists and the interest they showed to Meghan initially was because of her proximity to royalty, just like the Obamas. Secondly, the Sussexes were clearly team Biden and Kamala while the Clooneys are decidedly not. JMO looking at America from the outside.
It’s not really an event they’d attend anyway. But of course someone would say that.
Of course they approve of inezzz she’s no threat to term, both husband and wife hated Angelina Jolie and hated how she had elevated Pitt on worldwide stage that wasn’t acting related .
The Clooney’s “But being humanitarians is ourrrrr thing!”
Amal’s sense of fashion varies between 6 year old cutesie and Las Vegas showgirl. She has gone down so far from my original opinion of her as an intelligent and accomplished woman, primarily because how she is SO thirsty and princess-performative.
I never thought Amal was a beauty, but she’s one person who looks much better as she gets older.
(Even though her features are pretty much the same).
Her hair shade is gorgeous.
It was definitely a B-list celebrity event. Apparently, Brad wasn’t supposed to be invited, but it seems that without him and Ines, there wouldn’t have been anyone truly famous among the guests, so… George ought to reconsider whether keeping this whole thing going makes any sense, since, frankly, nobody cares about the award. Many people probably don’t even know it exists. But then again, one has to stroke one’s ego somehow while showing off one’s wealth to others.
Albies are starting to give EarthShot vibes. It was almost impossible to find out anything about the actual winners because the celebrity parade dominated. The New York Times covered the winners but I cancelled a couple of years ago. As for Amal’s showgirl aesthetic, I think it has, in terms of evening wear, progressed to loud and a little trashy. Possibly it’s because she hasn’t been photographed in business clothes for a while. And as someone further up pointed out, George does seem to parade her around, like a show pony. All their photo ops seem to be about what Amal is wearing. Has she resigned from her law firm and cut down on her work or career?
I see rhe hunan rights lawyer and her husband giving a dimension violence perpetrator wife beating children abuser Brad Pitt a platform to flunt & lunder his image with the no name thirsty young girlfriend. Its disappointing giving out awards got justice and humanity yet invited perpetrator who abuse women and children.
Agree.
No to both women in black! That see through dress is totally inappropriate and that velvet dress looks like something an elementary school kid would do if they got a hold of a Bedazzler.
Just once I’d love to see Emily R in a dress that doesn’t feel NSFW for me to look at.
Seriously! Did they not read what the evening’s event was for?
Hannah Waddingham has the best look IMO. Actually I like what Ines is wearing, too, even if it is slightly bridal. Amal in that gaudy monstrosity is a hard NO for me, so tacky.
The green dress was by far the best one. Looks great on her.
Classy.
I just can’t with the see through trend. Get a lining! It’s been going on for years and I’m over it.
Michelle, agreed. Whatever their reasons, they think who the hell they are (my favorite Bronxism) without actually earning any real prestige from their actions. Oh, of course George’s editorial attack on President Biden before elections– which earned him rightful wrath and condemnation. Then he bounced to Europe and pretends he’s American royalty. No, George, you ain’t.
And the money George has spent on his wife’s plastic surgery has backfired. She now looks like his daughter and he looks like a dirty old man. He should have used all that money either for his own plastic surgery, or to help his good friend Prince Will end homelessness.
I think a woman of 48 is old enough to decide on an age gap. He looks fine, and I’ve never particularly liked his looks. The ageism is strong.
I actually like Ines’ dress. Pretty color and the cut is flattering.
Clooney can bite me.
Laura Dern’s dress reminds me of my childhood Lite-Brite toy. (Which I loved. But as a dress? No.)