Here are some more pics of George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin on Sunday night in Florence for Celebrity Fight Night. Just FYI, these are totally the photos we’re going to use when they finally do get married. Celebrities have to think about that kind of thing: “When I announce my wedding/engagement, which photos will be used?” Generally, most media and gossip sites will use the most current photos we have, or failing that, the last red carpet photos we have. Considering Amal has been dodging the paparazzi for the most part for more than a month and considering these are literally the only red carpet photos we have of her, these are the photos we’re probably/definitely going to use. Unless Amal goes on a pap-friendly walkabout in the next week, then all bets are off!
Anyway, I really wanted to use these photos specifically because they came in later than the photos I used yesterday. There’s not much new stuff to report – George said in his speech (he picked up a humanitarian award) that he and Amal would be getting married in Venice “in a few weeks.” A source told E! News: “He said he is an honorary 12-year resident of Italy and then said they were getting married in Venice. He also said to Amal [from the podium], ‘I love you very much.'” I still don’t know if I believe that.
Italian reports are more specific about Clooney’s wording – they have him saying “I’m getting married on September 26th. In Venice, in an ancient palace.” He also said they would only honeymoon for three days before he had to go back to work. Amal apparently told reporters that she’s definitely going to wear an Oscar de la Renta wedding gown. George apparently said: “I would say to Amal ‘I love you to death and I cannot wait to become your husband’.” WHO ARE YOU, GEORGE CLOONEY? He’s never, never been this guy. He’s never made public declarations of love. He’s never been this forthcoming with details about his personal life! What is he selling and why is he selling it so hard?
PS… I love the earrings but I hate her posture.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
If I hear another scrap of news about those two I am going to puke.
And I was a Clooney fan. Omg.
Agree, can I have the bucket when you’ve finished with it please? Come to think about it, can someone just pass me a bucket NOW!
Buckets for everyone!
Buckets for everyone, I agree! *runs off to the loo again*
*grabs bucket*
Former Clooney fan here, now officially over him. It’s like he’s become a caricature, and it’s incredibly embarrassing to watch.
“Hasten, Jason! Bring a bucket!….. Too late! Bring a mop…”
I’ll join you in the puking, this is really getting smarmy and ridiculous. I used to be a Clooney fan too, but I think that ended a while ago.
I am joining in on the puke brigade. Don’t get his game with this. Even if you are that “in love”this is strange for a 53 year old professional actor who has been in the public eye for decades. Pouring it on a bit thick!!
Also, this dress make her posture seem even worse. I don’t mind the black or the dress itself kind of classy, but her posture in it, especially the above pictures is awful. I didn’t notice it too much before but notice it a lot in this dress.
count me in as well. It’s like he’s completely lost his sense of humor and is permanently off his game. And she looks like a clown – her make-up is horrendous.
I’m getting hives from this it’s so uncomfortable.
Smarten up, you guys. I BYOB (bring your own bucket) before I open the posts, then I’m ready.
Ditto! Clooney has now been replaced – on my list and in my heart – by Idris.
Excellent recommendation. Thanks.
@Goodnames
I don’t know why but I just misread your post, at first sight I had read ‘I will bring you buckets for the challenge’ (maybe due to the daily news of the icebucket one we had for one month).
Surely, a puke-challenge in memory of old-Clooney-now-definitively-buried would be disgusting but.. Hey, no water wasted though lol
Lol. I don’t think we would raise much money with that one!
Back in my day there were buckets. Buckets as far as the eye can see.
*sheds a single tear*
Clooney filmed ‘Ides of March’ on my college campus when I was there and it was the coolest thing in the world. He seemed really relaxed and super professional. I really liked the movie, too. So, this whole wedding business reeks of desperation. Why can’t he just quietly be engaged and get married?
Same here. Clooney used to keep his private life on lockdown and refuse to talk about any of his girlfriends, now he’s blabbing to anyone who will listen about his relationship. Any mystique or charm he had has been lost.
I was about to say the same thing…BARF!
It is overkill and surely supports the theory that Clooney “doth protest too much.”
Is there room left in the nausea line if I bring my own bucket?
This is almost rising to Tom Cruise levels of couch-jumping.
I agree. I read the headline and immediately thought “Where’s the couch?”. And where’s Clooney sense of discretion? Yuck.
+100.
So funny about everyone’s reaction – I was thinking, “Oh barf!” after reading the headline.
I’m with you all on this one. When I read the headline I thought “‘what the hell has happened to Clooney?????” He has gone from being staunchly “Marriage is not for me…” to rushing off to the altar post haste, while gushing all over everything and everyone about his impending nuptials and fiance. It IS really, really strange. I wonder if he wants to enter politics and feels he needs the family man image to do so successfully. That is about the ONLY reason I can think for such a complete about face…
And the countdown to divorce begins….
Nah, he wants to run for a government office and he needs an acceptable wife.
YES!
That is exactly what I thought! He wants to get into politics.
i don’t think political aspirations explain Amal. maybe that Amy & Tina joke just really got to him and made him want to project a more traditional image. could that be it? could he be that ridiculous? i don’t get it. i just can’t buy that someone with his relationship history would suddenly be interested in this kind of commitment. Also, he’s just being too deliberate in drawing attention to it.
Did Clooney recently get hit on the head?
Hahahahahaha
he must have been.
Lol @ size does matter. As I was reading the uncharacteristic portrayal of Clooney a part of me tragically thought – oh no, everyone’s jumping on Clooney for something that could easily be attributed to some kinda’ insidious undiagnosed brain trauma. Isn’t it possible to have an aneurism no one catches but gets manifested in drastic personality change???
And LMFAO at all the bucket comments. I’ve got a guy friend on FB that just got married after a whirlwind brief romance where he now posts about nothing else but his disgusting declarations of love to his new wife. This was someone who regularly posted humorous things that were anything but cringeworthy. Oh, and he’s Italian, as his bride. Perhaps something in the Italian agua??? Maybe all that Fountain of love stuff is true and maybe these men have unknowingly ingested? Lol
Maybe they think if they tell everything people will stop making sh!t UP? Maybe this is their way of trying to control the narrative of “their love story”? I can’t figure out his game plan…………but I’m sure he’s got one.
Whatever his plan is, it sure seems fake. Its almost too surreal to be believed.
Enough already!!!!!!!
I wish she would stand up straight already! She looks like she’s developing Osteoperosis.
I think it’s because she’s taller than he is and she’s trying desperately to keep that dress afloat.
It’s her odd upper arm/elbow thing. She always pulls them to her ribs. Can’t figure out why.
Maybe she can’t? I am not saying is her case, but I keep seeing people talking about her posture and not realizing that some of us can’t…
For example, I have a back problem, thus no matter how much I try my posture will never be “good”. 🙁
as someone who has a slumpy posture, I know it happened to me because I exploded in height one year and never really got used to it. I feel like my shoulders are permanently slumped, and when i pull them back, it feels like I’m twisting them backwards and it hurts like a mother. I’m gonna give her the benefit of the doubt. She seems harmless
Oh I don’t mind them. It’s nice to see how smitten he is finally. I endured endless fake love photos of Clooney with Canalis, Larson and Kiebler. This one at least he really appears to love and it’s fine if I see photos of them. I hope we get some wedding photos out of it at least.
People who sit a lot sometimes have bad posture. That’s probably what she does, sit a lot at her lawyer job. She needs to go onto You Tube and get some good exercises to counteract that.
Yeah – I saw a chiropractor, and he said I “lost the slope of my neck” (apparently that’s crucial for standing up straight), so I can only stand up perfectly straight after a good cracking session!
Or Scoliosis @ Green is good. I think Renee Rousseau had this growing up and it affected her posture so she was forced to wear some kinda’ back brace to correct? Funny how I’m on a roll with medical reasons for all things Amal and George. It’s my way of making sense of bizarre observations.
The spine twists, sideways, with scoliosis. You end up with a jutting scapula. Isabella Rossellini (sp?) had this as well & had to be in a body cast for a year or so. I remember being checked for that in junior high, the age at which it usually commences. Isabella now has excellent posture. A lot of posture is structural, a lot is behavioral–.e.g., ballet dancers all have fabulously straight spines, while those of us who spend a lot of time slumped over computers, as perhaps a lawyer might, end up like this. She could improve her posture through conscious effort & exercise, but eventually there’s so much you can do, particularly once you’re in your 30s.
He is looking a bit rough.
Very pinched! Something’s wrong, hoping it’s his back and not worse. Sad to see him missing the glimmer in his eyes & the mischievous grin 🙁
He’s doing a Tom Cruise without the crazy.
Interesting you mentioned Tom Cruise. Cruise also gave the press the exact date and location (Rome) of his wedding to Katie Holmes. Who knew George Clooney would follow the playbook of Tom Cruise, the man with the worst PR game in HW.
I was just going to post that George will be jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch next!!! I think aliens have kidnapped Clooney and replaced him with this anti-clooney clone!!
I’m waiting for the Oprah style just married interview with George and Amal telling how the proposal went , looking lovingly at each other and George telling the world how she’s on his level and above everyone and a international lawyer and and and and and……
Puke bucket please.
Popcorn
…..disaster in two or three years writen all over it.
Cruise bizarre
LOL isn’t that the truth?
I’m not sure about “without the crazy”. Seems pretty crazy to me.
-without the Scientology.
Dare I say this? Can George really be head-over-heels in love? Really? Really? “I love you to death”. Suave George Clooney? In love?
Maybe this is what a Clooney mid-life crisis looks like. Instead of ditching the wife and kids and getting a convertible, he’s ditching his bachelor days, making a commitment, and presumably getting a sensible car (?)
@Birdix – You know your explanation actually makes a lot of sense.
Clooney and the reverse midlife crisis…huh.
I believe you’re right ….it’s his midlife crise
@Birdix ‘Maybe this is what a Clooney mid-life crisis looks like…’ Great analysis, I think you are spot on! Something happens to guys when they hit their late forties, early fifties. That being said, I would much rather see a bachelor like George ditch the bimbos and settle for an intelligent professional like Amal, than see someone like Johnny Depp ditch his family for a fame digger like Amber Heard…
I think you’ve nailed it. that’s the only idea that makes sense to me. hehe.
Ok, I know I’m a sap, but I actually think he loves her and sees her as the one he’s been waiting for. And he’s ready to get married. So he is…trails off…
…admit it, you don’t even believe what you wrote lol
LOL @ GNAT
Knowing you’re a sap is halfway to salvation…
Agree with you yet again,
LOL at “I love you to death” – who says that??
Men who don’t know anything about romantic love! I had a boyfriend who used to say it to me all the time. It drove me nuts,
i can picture only Kanye saying that kimmode
Right?!?
I’m so excited!! I can’t wait until we get actually wedding photos! I have my bottle of Boone’s all ready. I’ve even salt and peppered my cat’s fur as a tribute. Hip hip hurray!!!
Hahahaha
Damn, that Tina Fey joke really messed with his ego
Lol
This headline made me want to barf. Anyway, proclamations of love from a celebrity are meaningless to me. Too many celebrities have declared love for their spouse in an interview only to file for divorce a few months later. People fall in and out of love all the time. Considering his behavior in recent months, his words do not surprise me. I am only wondering about his motives behind them. Call me cynical but he does not love this woman. Sorry, not buying it.
reminds me of j lo explaining how i think bennifer was different. something like this one is about us, the others were about me. or vice versa.
Hahaha
As a romantic, I’d love to believe everything he’s been spewing
lately. But this whole thing just seems so phony and try-hard.
Also, I agree with Kaiser, anorexic Amal’s posture is terrible.
George can’t win.
I don’t know what he said. Italy has rags that make up stuff too. But since he’s marrying her and they are very close to the big day, I see nothing wrong with stating your happiness while on the podium. He was at an award show picking up an award. God forbid, George say something nice about his fiancee’. But, ooh, that’s so phony. If he says nothing, hey, it’s proof it’s a fake marriage.
I give him the benefit of the doubt. He’s happy and excited. Maybe he’s met his partner in life and is in love.
No, Italy has ONLY rags that make stuff up all the time lol
You will never be able to understand even a tiny shred of news of any kind if you read two or three different Italian papers, you just have to go with one and that is it. Lol!
I bet he still has his sense of humour…..and also his usual decency about fairness. Surely he knows such statements would boggle everyone, and perhaps declared himself as a way of supporting Amal, whom so many are dismissing?
Dunno at all, but I just want to stay positive for them. (Excuse my soppy mood….I blame the change of seasons)
So if these were normal people wouldn’t we be saying you have only known each other a few months and you are getting married? I know Hollywood moves on a faster track but my gosh, this is ridiculous.
IMO Yes.
Look, I got married few months after I met my husband. And we have just celebrated our 23rd year together.
I can say we are pretty much in love, but we never went around talking about how happy we are. I mean this is something so precious and sensitive that I feel unconfortable discussing about this topic with other people. When I say “I love you”, the only person I want to hear is my husband. Our friends, our children, our parents, they all know how happy we are, no need to explain anything.
The way he is acting looks like puppy love, which is generally excused if young but not at 53. It also could be a PR game where you have to prove how in love you are. Voila his problem.
Also, I bet people did say to you or insinuate that it was too early to get married, but it sound like you acted mature in your love, not just infatuation, and they let it go. I know my husband is a decade older than me, and I got a bit of he is too old for you from people. In Hollyweird or George’s land, I would have been too old. Even non-celebrities get these comments, but he doesn’t have to read them if he doesn’t want to. Hard to avoid the relatives.
Yes, it’s the exhibitionism that strikes me as more of a concern here than the length of the relationship. The couples I know who talk the most about how happy they are tend to be the ones who are the most miserable behind closed doors.
I married my husband nine months after I met him. So I already beat Clooney lol
Well, he is 50 something and maybe he wants a kid or two. Since he changed his mind about not ever getting married again, he could have changed his mind about kids too, and she is not in her 20s…
Maybe they’ll be parents next year.
I wouldn’t be surprised if they start planning for a family right away.Especially if they plan to have more than one.I think they would have a beautiful family.
I’m thinking just the opposite…This one may not want kids and THAT was a major plus in his thinking about marrying her. They won’t have the pregnancy argument like all the others. This one is a professional…mind you….or so we’re told…She’s probably too preoccupied with business to consider taking time out for a family.
I agree with Suzanne. It is easier to have a contract marriage with a woman who doesn’t want children, has a legit professional job, and can agree to be in a loveless marriage as long as they help each other with their professional goals. He gets a wife “at his level” that he can use to launch a political career and she gets more fame and fortune. Even though she was rich before, being married to Clooney catapults her to a new level of astronomical wealth and perks. She also seems like a fame whore to me so she is loving the attention of being the woman who finally got Clooney to settle down.
You answered your own question, Kaiser.
Clooney has never been ‘that guy’ publicly, therefore his attempt to be romantically demonstrative is hitting a false note.
Which is not to say that articulating affection perfectly is preferred. The sincerity behind it is what counts the most IMO, and right now, Clooney hasn’t gotten to the beginner stage yet, which is sad since he’s 50+.
I think he has arrested development from alcoholism.
George is behaving like this is his first relationship and at 53 he looks ridiculous.
She looks so smug. Wow. That posture and the ill fitting dress aren’t doing it for her. Also her makeup is terrible. Clooney is finally behaving his age; delusional.
If he really gave such specific details to the press than I definitely think he’s trolling us now so that when the media is in Venice on Sept 26 he can point and laugh at them. I really hope the paparazzi pull one over him and leak pictures to the press before he sells them to Anna Wintour. Normally I wouldn’t wish paparazzi intrusion on a couple but if he’s trolling the media with false reports he deserves it. He can’t act all hot and bothered by the attention when he’s the one providing daily updates.
I will be among the few here but I don’t find Amal attractive. Great hair but pretty meh otherwise.
+1
You know, George is known as a huge prankster…wouldn’t it be something if he was pranking everyone!!!!
All of this so called info is nothing but a decoy.
I don’t think she is beautiful either. Attractive, but no raving beauty. I think it’s interesting that his 1st wife was a brunette and all the contract girlfriends were tall blondes. Now along comes Amal with her dark hair. There is more to this story. I’m not buying it. Count me as one of those Clooney fans who has lost interest. This attempt to make the public believe this is a real relationship is pathetic. Bad PR move, George.
She can be referred to as a “handsome” woman. Nuff said.
I am embarassed for him seriously.
+1
Can some give her a make over? Her style is so boring and basic. I understand she’s an intellectual, but can she at least try to look like she is the much talked about wife of an internationally known movie star and not the baby mama of a c list tv actor? Every time I see her I’m completely underwhelmed. The hair is flat and boring, the dress does nothing for her, the makeup is not right. Just please. Someone make her at least a smidge more glam. Not saying cake face or over the top style. Just a little more umpf. She’s boring me to tears. Sorry if this is ranty, she jus annoys me with her style.
At least she could try something original. Is she ” Intellectual “? So she could go for a “no label – no logo” path. Or totally unknown designers. Or an “eco-friendly” approach like Firth’s wife.
On the contrary, when you choose mainstream designers, it has to be perfection.
I kind of hope she stays like that. It’s boring that everyone needs a Hollywood make over as soon as they become known to the American public.
She looks like a lot of girls I knew in college that studied too hard and had no idea about fashion. It’s fine. She is a barrister not an actress or model.
sketchy that all of a sudden he’s declaring all this love for this older woman, which he’s never done before.
very good observation. we’ll see what he’s trying to hide (or sell) soon enough I guess.
They met a year ago.
How long should they wait two years?
She is way too thin!
She is a BEARD people. BEARD. BEARD. BEARD. George, just give it up, already. No one believes this crap.
Agreed!
Shheessh …he’s Laying this up so Thick I have a bad case of Peanut Butter Mouth!!
Yes. This whole farce is so bogus it’s actually stomach-turning. Agree with the Bucket Brigade up top.
Did he do a Fonz type stutter when he uttered the word ‘husband’? As in, “I cannot wait to be your (takes deep breath) huh, huhs, husband.”
“I love you to death and I can’t wait to be your husband” is usually the line you hear in the movie that tells you he’ll be killing her soon. Duh duh DUUUUUUH!!!
Hahahaaaa you are the best !
Their first marriage feels like a renewal marriage for Mariah & Nick. It’s all about the image – would love to know why he feels compelled to project this normal, romantic guy persona all of a sudden……..
Her last pap walk before this red carpet was 5 days ago. She went into Alexander McQueen in London for some sort of fitting.
The Daily Mail ran the article, Her outfit she wore was interesting and one of the worst.
The article ran Sept 4 in the Daily Mail.
Link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2744357/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-George-Clooney-bride-Amal-Alamuddin-visits-Kate-Middleton-s-wedding-gown-designer.html
Just popped over to the Daily Mail article. Another toddler design that is just unaccountably ugly!
Scroll to the bottom of the page and look at George’s expression. He’s not even pretending.
Thanks for the link — is that a ROMPER? (or a romper made from two halves of other rompers)? I can’t even……
Is it possible he’s just smitten? I’m cynical, too, but maybe he’s just really smitten?
…maybe …
Let’s see how George feels in a year.
I think I’m the only one who thinks Clooney has found his Annette Benning (Warren Beatty’s wife). He finally quit dating bimbos and met an intelligent woman and connected. I think they are great.
I don’t know if it’s his benning, but he is getting old. I can’t believe everyone thought he was gonna date a revolving door of cocktail waitresses till he is 80. I don’t think it’s that weird that he us settling down, this happens to most people at some stage.
Also all the comments about amals looks are unpleasant. She is different from his more recent exes sure. But actually resembles the only woman he ever married, talia balsam. She didn’t look like the typical Hollywood glamour puss either.
He sells too hard his lovestory to be honest in my opinion.If he was low-key ,i could believe that finally he found “the One” but here …..
Beatty didn’t date ‘bimbos’. He dated accomplished actresses and singers as famous – or more famous – than him. We’re talking the likes of Brigette Bardot, Diane Keaton, Carly Simon, to name but a few. Also, most of these women were close to him in age. Some of them – gasp! – were even older than him. And he had great chemistry with his women – you could tell that they were, if not neccessarily in love, then certainly in lust.
Clooney, by contrast, has dated a string of much younger women known only for being his escorts. And his body language with them hints at an asexual relationship – there’s never even a smidgeon of lust or even affection. And the same is true with Amal – this doesn’t look like a man madly in love, but one who’s slightly awkward being seen with his ‘fiancee’. Same old same old imho.
+1000
Etheldra
you are romantizing Beatty a bit here. Beatty has dated more famous people but most of them doesn’t strike he as members of the intelligentsia. As for age appropriate
Clooney was married to talia balsam as mentioned. She is not a bimbo but a perfectly age appropriate actress that these days are on Mad men, mariella frostrup, the British broadcaster for instance in another example of someone who is not a bimbo. Generally the women he dated when he was young were the same age as him.
With re to Batty, the women you mention are in his younger days. In his older days before benning he dated much younger women. You forget that Bennington is also 15-20 years younger than him.
Both clooney and Beatty girlfriends stayed a certain age as they got older. As is the case with many celebrity men. Leo for instance.
I don’t disagree with anything you’ve said, Hannah, and I wouldn’t call George’s girlfiends ‘bimbos’ either. Let’s face it, it’s not like he’s a towering intellect himself, whatever he might like us to think.
My point is that Beatty clearly loved women, and women loved him. His relationships were obviously real. Some of them were one-night stands, some long-term, many of them scandalous. There was none of the set-your–watch-by-it 2 year contracts with glorified escorts, as in Clooney’s case. (BTW Frostrup denies she and Clooney were ever lovers.) Also, many if not most of Beatty’s women were on his level in terms of fame and accomplishments, so he clearly didn’t see women as just non-threatening Z-list arm candy for his ego, as Clooney does.
So I think the two men are really very different.
Beatty is supposed to have slept with a lot of woman according to biographies. A LOT. We are talking Russell brand numbers here.It wasn’t just the famous actresses we know of, far from it. That’s why I think your view of him is a bit romanticised. If Beatty was a contemporary we would have called him a manslut.
Also never heard any of clooneys exes say bad words about him or this assumption that women doesn’t like him.
There are so many myths, johnny depp for instance has this image as the perfect romantic partner but if the new bio about Kate moss is to belived he is a moody, tantrum prone lover, a bit of a control freak that according to her friends ignored her in favour of hanging with his male friends, made her very insecure ( surprised celebitchy hasn’t covered that moss bio story some good gossip there) .
You can argue that beatty has better taste in women but all in all it just seems like we are looking at ageing playboys, that finally settle down. Maybe by finding someone most people would suggest are a bit more substantial than previous partners. Benning for instance is not as conventionally attractive as many of Beatty legendary flings. But she is a wonderful actress and probably met him at a time when he was getting vulnerable to age and mortality. Whose to say clooney doesn’t have it in him to feel that ?
”Also never heard any of clooneys exes say bad words about him or this assumption that women doesn’t like him.”
Of course not! The confidentialty clause in their contracts wouldn’t allow it!
I’m not saying Beatty was ‘better’ than Clooney with regards to his relationships with women. Just that the two men imho are very, very different. Beatty, as you say, had all sorts of relationships with all sorts of women. Clooney has 2 year showmances with Z-listers. I don’t think Clooney is a ‘playboy’ at all.There has never been any scandal about his love life, which would be odd for a ‘playboy’ who’s been a megastar for 15 years or more. He never seems to have any chemistry with any of the women he’s with. Yes, I know you can read too much into red carpet appearances, but when it’s so consistent, there just might be something to it. And it seems no different with Amal. I don’t see a hot couple who can barely keep their hands off each other – I’m not saying they have to be physically all over each other, just that there should be a hint of passion. I see an awkward twosome who don’t even look at one another.
I really do think Clooney was stung byAmy Poehler’s joke at his expense, and has tried to do some PR damage control by getting engaged to an ‘accomplished’ woman, though still one nowhere near his age or fame level. But, engagement ring aside, this is no different from his other ‘arrangements’.
Clooney’s women are contracted, from the start,of course they don’t say anything and he probably is nice to them, but I don’t believe for a moment that Clooney these relationships have been real, including this one.
I believe Clooney is bi…and his women have mostly been beards to hide that he is bi….and they all probably know the deal going in.
Ethelrelda, Interesting thoughts. I just don’t see this obvious contracted thing. I think Beatty had better taste in women more interesting women and because he is from that time pre internet he didn’t have so much speculation around his person he has escaped a lot of criticism. But I don’t see him as this gods gift to women. He was a guy that had a string of shortlived relationship way into his 50s. In so many ways the same as clooney even if you interpret his reasons for living that way differently.
And like I said in his younger days the women clooney dated weren’t just the cocktail waitress type. That happened later.
pager90 bi men have real relationships with women.
If Beatty slept with 13000 women that would mean he had enormous amounts of one night stands and it’s way unlikely he was ever that faithful. Hence I don’t buy this he was so good to women. Carole king is rumoured to have written you’re so vain about him. So there goes the idea that all his exes adores him.
After meeting Anette, Beatty gushed: ” it took about 10 minutes to fall in love with her, maybe 5. I was so elated to meet her, and yet at the same time i began to mourn the passing of a way of life.”
He went on to say that he very much enjoyed “adolescence” into his 50s. But that it fortunately came to an end when he met Annette.
Unlike what some people here said, he was certainly capable of gushing about Annette.
However one should remember this supposed quote is from an Italian site. Italian sites are notorious for making up things. It’s hard to know if clooney actually said any of this if one considers the source. But if he did he wouldn’t be so different from Beatty.
Beatty according to a recent biography had sex with around 13,000 women. Beatty disputes this count, but not that the number is high. I still think it puts him in another league.
Beatty slept or had relationships with most of his co-stars. Age didn’t matter to him. He supposedly had an affair with Vivien Leigh when she was in her late forties and he in his twenties. (Scarlott O’Hara if you don’t know who she was) He also slept with Madonna, Diane Sawyer, Goldie Hawn, Natalie Wood, Julie Christie, Jane Fonda, Diane Keaton, Leslie Caron, Joan Collins, Mary Tyler Moore, and the list goes on and on. Warren didn’t really have a type.
I wouldn’t call Clooney’s 2-3 year women bimbos, but they weren’t the women above either. A lot were real power makers. Being with Beatty couldn’t be seen as a career move for them, unlike Clooney’s.
Beatty changed gears and wanted a family. Their first child was born before they got married. He has made very few movies since being married, even though he is one of the most honored actors, directors and writers in Hollywood. Warren seems to be quietly and sweetly in love with his wife. Other than telling Barry Levinson after his first date that he was going to marry her, he never publicly paraded Annette in the media the way George presents Amal. I can’t see George Clooney giving up his career to be a house husband which is basically what Warren did, but time will tell. Beatty also goes to award shows now primarily for her not him. Can’t see George doing that either. FYI both Annette and Warren have a new film coming out next year that he is directing, writing and starring in with her about Howard Hughes.
Feels SO disingenuous to me! I would say midlife crisis but he’s beyond middle age. This has got to be irking his previous “girlfriends.”
most of his exes are doing just fine.
His exes got the fun of canoodling around with George Clooney for a few years, and then went off with improved careers and the possibility of marrying and having children with younger, healthier guys. Amal is signing up for taking care of him long term, which may involve a good bit of nursing a man with long-term injuries. I don’t know how jealous the Stacy Keiblers of the world are.
This is a clone. This is not our George. FACT.
Due to George Clooney’s superior genetic profile, he was the obvious candidate for a cloning project. FACT.
Whether this is project is funded by the CIA, a consortium of film moguls, or a renegade sperm bank, we do not yet know. FACT.
Bahahaha. Renegade Sperm Bank.
This is either Beardapalooza, version 20.14 or he plans to run for office in Cali or wherever and is playing house with this one ( Dress her up, show her around, vote for me…look, I am a loving, family man!! )
California voting for a Democrat does not need a family man. Give me a break.
Californians would likely shun him because he’s a celebrity rather than whether or not he’s married. Most Californians are still regretting electing Arnold into office.
I think his political aspirations are a little more on the International level. Look at his interest in Syria and all of the attention he brought to what was going on over there. Amal’s “international” work and lifestyle could add legitimacy to his aspirations, although as a former CA attorney who also worked for a large firm that handled high profile cases, I don’t find her all that impressive. I’m sure that she is a smart gal, having studied at NYU and Oxford. However, she wasn’t a Partner or lead attorney on any of the high profile cases she has been linked to. If she was so in demand at her firm, how could she be taking so much time off? Even if she was working remotely, she’s got responsibilities and billable hours. She can’t be wasting time getting daily blowouts, meeting with designers and getting photographed with George and his pals. I would bet money that she is on a leave of absence from her firm, and if she and George marry, she will stop working. I think she loves the attention, as does George, and they both have their own agendas. How many political couples can you name that are married or stay married just to legitimize their own aspirations. This is a business transaction, just like his contract escorts. It may last longer, they may get married, they may even have a kid. However, call me a cynic, but I don’t believe he suddenly found his soulmate and changed his attitude on marriage so quickly. I also think he took Amy and Tina’s joke too seriously, but just can’t or won’t put up with a beautiful, intelligent woman closer to his age, who likely wouldn’t put up with his BS. Amal was the compromise.
+100
Sam, are you in the US? Barristers are not like lawyers tied to, or employed on a permanent basis by, a law firm, and obligated to keep office or “lawyer” hours. Barristers are basically self-employed, so set their own hours, choose when (or not) to work, which cases to accept or decline and set their own fees. Here in Australia, barristers charge upwards of $5K – per day.
George is a sensitive guy, and I think all the jokes about him dating women with little education, and dating them to cover for his sexuality finally got to him. He wants to be taken seriously, and it was hard to do when he was choosing his next girlfriend right before awards season began.
George has a plan, and Amal is the foundation. She lends him credibility in political circles. She is impressive, and I think he has immense respect for her. Does he love her? I think they have an interesting partnership that will serve them both well in certain arenas, but I don’t feel he is romantically attached to her. How they will deal with the long term lack of affection, time will tell.
THIS. And what epiphany posted below. I hate pretending like I know what’s in famous people’s hearts, but frankly I don’t have anything better to do and this courtship has had a whole semi-casual royalty feel. They kind of remind me of Prince Albert & Charlene (except Amal doesn’t look suicidal).
Also – clearly I am alone on this – I think Amal looks pretty terrific. The first thing I thought of when she started showing up in the rags was ‘how does a non-famous person have consistently great hair like that?’.
@chick b. I think Amal looks great too, especially in these pictures with George. Yes her posture could be better, but she has al lovely slender figure which is flattered by the black silk strapless dress. She has a face that is both striking and sweet and a great mane of hair. I think she is elegant.
Chick
I’m very much a fan of Amal’s looks and style too, you aren’t alone!
She has the type of beauty I should love to have…not 100% perfect, but interesting, but with a very expressive face, and a great smile. I’m definitely smitten. 🙂
The difference is Charlene dated Prince Albert for almost a DECADE. Charlene also lived with Albert in Monaco for four years before they got engaged got to know him regardless of what the tabloids tried to say Charlene knew Albert well and he knew her well, nothing was sudden about their union or marriage.
Amal and George dated only a few times then suddenly got engaged.
Everybody enjoying how privately George “I value my privacy” Clooney is conducting what is supposed to be the most important relationship of his life? This entire relationship has been contrived – I still think he’s going to run for something. His past drug use and promiscuity will actually work in his favor, especially in California, where voters are used to celebrity hijinks. People will think, ‘see, he’s used drugs, he’s slept around – he’s just a regular guy, and he’s honest!’ And his foreign born wife won’t hurt one bit in a state with a high immigrant population.
Love? Who knows. I’m sure he loves what this marriage will do for him from a PR standpoint. A mediocre actor like George didn’t get where he is today by being a sweet, sentimental guy – there’s a ruthless streak there no one should ever underestimate.
He is a director and producer of some really interesting movies, and that is one of the reasons he is such a power player in Hollywood.
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He’s not really a mediocre actor. He was amazing in The Descendants, funny as hell in Oh Brother Where Art Thou, and has become a talented producer/director. I have no idea what goes on in his private/romantic life (and don’t really care) and I think most posters with strong opinions that his girlfriends are merely beards and Amal is nothing more than a springboard to politics don’t know squat about his life. Conjecture is one thing but vehement declarations of who or who he isn’t should be best left to those who know George well. We certainly don’t.
I wish him nothing but happiness with his soon-to-be-wife.
“What is he selling and why is he selling it so hard?” Good question. A couple of other theories: 1) He’s being blackmailed and/or his life is in danger. 2) He wants to distribute his movies to a wider international audience and the Alamuddins can help him.
I’ve wondered since the fight w Steve Wynn if Steve had something on him and quietly let him know?
Engagement came after the fight with Wynn in Vegas.
Amal’s last pap walk before this outing was five days ago
The Daily Mail ran the article, Her outfit she wore was interesting and one of the worst.
The article ran Sept 4 in the Daily Mail. I think her mom or a lady was there or met her there .
Link http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2744357/SEBASTIAN-SHAKESPEARE-George-Clooney-bride-Amal-Alamuddin-visits-Kate-Middleton-s-wedding-gown-designer.html
I just saw the pictures and I was going to say her dress wasn’t that bad until I realized it was a jumper my god is that one ugly outfit.
So tired of this guy -_-
I’m telling myself that any story we are hearing about George and Amal is completely made up because I refuse to believe that George Clooney has really turned into this. It’s like he has had a completely personality transplant.
Seriously, ‘I love you to death and I cannot wait to become your husband’ – there’s no way he actually said that.
Eventually Amal is going to wake up one morning and realized that she married an old man with back problems. Enjoy your time now, “kids”.
It’s really odd, but looking at her face above, all I see is a mixture of Elizabeth Canalis (sp?) and Angelina Jolie. With Elizabeth’s face winning the battle.
When you see her talking, it’s completely different. It’s like looking at Anne Hathaway’s sister but doesn’t translate in photos.
She is on this clip on BBC News being interviewed about Yulia Tymoshenko and Ukraine.
http://vimeo.com/90740322
Amal knows, she signed the contract just like the rest of them. This is so fake, the beard is practically casting a afternoon shadow. Fake, rehearsed lines and Contracted and now everyone knows her as the international lawyer who landed Clooney. All of it looks so rehearsed, so contrived. IMO
LAK, it’s the haircut. She got the same one Canalis had (layers).
“I love you to death!” he said and jumped up on the couch.
This whole thing is so bizarre and I don’t understand what’s going on here…
I’m pretty sure something is lost in translation. George doesn’t talk like that even if he was trying to convey that sentiment.
I feel like her strapless is too low on her chest and that it could be hiked up a good inch or two.
Me too. Doesn’t look right on her. But I do think she’s a pretty lady.
She is attractive – and I like that she’s intelligent and well educated. And not a actor/reality star/croupier or something
More like six inches!
just wanted to ask why George stopped dyeing his eyebrows?
Okay, George, you win. Cut this crap out, and Tina and Amy will apologize for that joke they made at the Golden Globes. They didn’t realize it was such a sore spot, but you’ve had your revenge on them – and on all of us who laughed at it – now.
He’ll have to make the red carpet Award Show rounds with her for a full year as married committed husband with ,His wife, so he can SHOW everyone He’s a married, committed man and everyone will say how she tamed George yadayada yadayada yadayada.
In my secret fantasy world, after Tina and Amy apologizes, he stands up on his wedding day, yells “PRANKED!”, and then walks off with a blonde aspiring actress on each arm while Amal hosts an ironic unwedding.
She doesn’t look like cheap trash. I can see these two together. He appears quite smitten so good for him!
Maybe Casey Affleck’s making a mockumentary on Clooney now?
Many times the Playboys are the most helpless romantics under all that armor. I suspect George feels the tic toc of time and wanted to make a larger life for himself than he had. She seems like a very formidable woman and I think he just got caught unaware and fell very hard for her.
He once said he adored Talia and loved her, but he married at the wrong time and was bad at it.
I just don’t get the hate for Clooney no matter how deeply he is able or unable to love. He treated his ex-girlfriends fine. He didn’t lie to them. His career consumed him, and he dated some young things that were available when he was and accommodated his schedule. He didn’t make them do it. He and Amal seem to work, whatever the dynamics.
He is so gracious on red carpets and funny and never acts above anybody. The man is grateful for his career, has parlayed it into putting out as far as producing and directing and acting in some of the most intelligent movies of the past 15 years, which we are in dire need of. He has done great humanitarian works. More than anything I love his self-deprecating humor and his loyalty to his friends and his lack of pretentiousness
Read this interview last year. He didn’t hit it big until 33 on ER and so was driven unlike younger guys who make it and take it for granted. He used every second off to go make movies, etc., trying to capitalize on a shot he wasn’t sure he was going to get by 33. He paid cash for his houses in the earlier years because he never knew if it was going to go away.
But this interview makes me love George even more and reminds me why I did. And his back and forth with Russell Crowe was hysterical. His praise of Brad Pitt is very sweet. He’s in a dying breed of real movie stars, a man’s man.
http://www.esquire.com/features/george-clooney-interview-1213
Wow did you drink all the Kool aid! I liked George too. Mostly because his movies and television shows were entertaining, and he seemed to be a nice guy. However, I see him as a guy not the second coming. I always knew the guy was selling an image that was most likely not entirely him. Which is what any of those articles are, they will highlight the good parts like a resume.
I think he has had his personal miscues with people and life just as anyone. His comments mocking Charleston Heston’s Alzheimers, the Princess Diana death and war with ET, and I don’t think him slamming Leo Dicaprio about a basketball game was really all the gracious and self deprecating. FYI anyone notice Leo was smart and didn’t respond, odd considering I usually find Leo to be a bit of an ego too.
Now I don’t think it is a lot of hate on here for George just more of a WTF moment. This man has drastically altered his gorgeous George the lovable womanizer to the happy about to be married man at 53. He seems to be acting like a giddy star struck in love kid. Sorry if a few people who have spent decades with the old image are not buying the new one yet.
Now I am less of his fan, mostly because I haven’t been enthralled with his work as much. With the exception of the Descendants which I think mainly because I love Alexander Payne movies, Argo- attributing that to Ben Affleck mostly- which is hard for me to do because I never liked him as an actor and Gravity – could have done without him in that movie too, I haven’t liked his work as much. I think he is celebrity selling his private life too, and that bothers me.
And this part in the article will always make me love George, his love of animals. It doesn’t hurt that I have a black mixed cocker spaniel too. Plus, he called about the dog on his own, not some assistant.
” A few years ago, however, he lost one of his dogs to a rattlesnake. He is a dog guy—a little sign about men and dogs adorns a living-room wall otherwise dominated by signed photographs of dignitaries—and he set about to get another, preferably hypoallergenic. He saw a black cocker-spaniel mix on the Web site of a rescue organization and called the number. The woman who answered said she’d be happy to bring the dog to his house, but then she explained that the dog had been abandoned and picked up malnourished off the street. “He has to love you,” she told George Clooney, “or else I have to take him back.”
At first, he found himself getting nervous—“freaking out.” What if the dog didn’t love him? Then he responded. “I had some turkey bacon in the refrigerator,” he says. “I rubbed it on me. I’m not kidding. When she came over, the dog went crazy. He was all over me. The woman said, ‘Oh, my God, he’s never like this. He loves you.’ ”
I love this story.
What happend to this dog? The story is about Einstein, last seen on photos with Stacy Keibler…
@ Mike agree! after all their’s more to life than just Hollywood.
Normally, “I love you” is love.
“I love you very much” or “I love you to death” is something else. Watered down, you might say.
What he is *really* in love with is the rosy view of his future as a politician climbing ranks as Regan did… from Bedtime for Bonzo to Governor of CA, to1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
She is an international law/human rights lawyer, and he has in recent years become quite the human rights supporter/spokesman (Darfur,anyone?). As if that isn’t a match made in PR heaven; come on, people, don’t let the severe nausea strip you of your cynicism and perspicacity!!!!! Egad! Scopolamine patches for all!
The grand parents in the old country used to stress having a proper education since
” a man does not like a stupid woman” . Had they known about Mr. Clooney they would have been proven correct.
“Beauty and brains “- a lethal combination indeed.
GMAB George fell in love with Amal before Tina Fey joke,before Steve Wynn fight.
Can’t rewrite history now……….
The engagement came just after the Steve Wynn fight in Vegas and the Tina fey joke was months before the engagement.
Tina Fey…joke At Golden Globes January 2014 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=L4v3qWIRyQE
Engagement or Amal’s PR contract with George April 2014
All we need now is some couch jumping. SMH
LOL I was thinking the same thing! He’s just a step away from couch-jumping XD
Her dress reminds me of something Angie would pick to sashay along the red carpet with Brad 😛
He is either:
A.) Not faking it and is in the honeymoon phase which will come crashing down HARD
Or
B.) Trying to fool everyone (it’s not working) for some yet-unknown PR stunt or run at politics
Only those who have no concept of what a long-term commitment means talk like this. No matter how much you love your significant other, forever is a long time and it takes dedication to each other and the relationship to have a chance at lasting. I think a high school boyfriend would say crap like this to me as other posters have previously mentioned. Yeah, definitely broke his heart into a million pieces. Oopsie.
run for public office. that’s the only thing that makes any sense to me with the stuff coming from him lately.
With an Amal and George doll set, Mattel could have a goldmine on their hands. Christmas could be utterly magical with an Amal Wedding doll and With his distinguished gray hair, George would make a fabulous Ken. They could put him in mini genuine leather Jon fluevog shoes.
50 Shades of Troy McClure, with Amal filling the guest role of Selma Bouvier.
LOL. I love Troy McClure and miss Phil Hartman. George and Amal will never be as funny or witty.
He looks like somebody finally smashed the portrait in his attic.
I wouldn’t be at all surprised if George unleashed this new pda as sort of a “f- you” to all the critics of the union, especially all the harsh critics of Amal. And also to support her. It can’t be easy being the center of media attention when you aren’t used to it, and George has some completely insane (and by insane, I mean really schizo) fans who post terrible, lying crap about her on other websites. That sounds like the most likely scenario to me. I’m not surprised he picked an unusual type of woman, he had a hangup on an unusual type before he married Talia. I don’t believe he wants to jump into politics, and I do believe George loves this woman. I bet the details of their married life have already been agreed to. She will have to deal with a lot, but hopefully she will be fine and I wish them all happiness.
Stunning, glamorous, beautiful. No complaints.
Yeah, but what George loves even more than his bride-to-be is posing with her. Look, a human rights lawyer! He’s from another era. Paul Theroux’s “mythomania” comments, anyone?
Meanwhile, she’s like, “Hey, I’m as hot as those HW bimbos.” A pair of egomaniacs.
Yup, she’s more educated and a lawyer, but the George Clooney roadshow she’s doing is the same as the others. She also looks just as in love with the FAME aspects as the others were. Amal looks quite smug.
…and I know Amal’s PR peeps alert the papz of her papz walks ,because One of Kate Middleton’s favorite photographers hinted as much in a tweet months ago.
Dayum, she’s loving the camera. A bit much for a celebrity newb but guess she’s been prepping in overdrive for this new status
And no Cloons, you and Equal cant have my anniversary date….if you do, I don’t know but just NOOO
You Guys are funny. I think someone has been slipping horse doping drugs in his coffee for breakfast
I have always had my suspicions about some agenda going on here, but I do hope he really has found the love of his life and it works out well for them. Unfortunately Clooney is known to be over the top exuberant at the start of relationships and then suddenly, without warning goes ice cold on the romance, perhaps a two year engagement might have been a bit more sensible.
ITA. He strikes me as one of those “loves to be in love” types. It’s likely very real for now, but he needs the honeymoon phase POW or he’s out.
I think this describes his pattern very well. And I know a couple of long-term singletons who are like that. Everything is in overdrive for the first few weeks or months and then the chase (and novelty) ends and the relationship sputters to a slow end.
His track record combined with his declarations to never marry would be cause for concern. I think someone is leaking these loving tidbits to convince us (and maybe themselves) that it’s real.
Wow!
I think Amal looks very similar to his ex wife. Maybe he’s finally all set with cocktail waitresses & wrestlers because he’s found a younger more glamorous version of his 1st wife.
He is selling his gender preference.
He doth protest too much.
She just comes across so try hard to me. And she looks like she has a major eating disorder. Look at her arm. Get this lady a sandwich, stat!
He’s getting ready to run for office. That’s what this is all about. He’s creating an acceptable candidate. It’s sickening.
Amal looks really, really pretty. That’s all I will say.
i really like george but frankly all this declaration of love etc is a bit ott for me. People were jumping on cruise for the sofa thing – whats the difference between him and gc. I think he bought his own press and somehow has forgotten that a movie star is only as good as his last film and frankly his last films are lousy. so by talking about his personal life has diminished him – because the more you talk about yr personal life the worse it always ends up getting. If he is happy that;s gd for him but it is too off from his behaviour till now. doesnt gel imo. and amal’s dress not doing her any favours especially with her posture either. the dress looks like its going to fall off any second.
The only time my girlfriends or I ever said ” i love you to death” was when we were about to break up with someone. Southern thing.
Clooney doesn’t talk like that, not even now, when someone, or something, hit him on the head. “I love you to death” sounds like a line from “Mommie Dearest”, I mean, really…I can believe he’s smitten with her, but more out of a ‘cultural inferiority complex’ than love. All her achievements that were listed repeatedly, yet they are not uncommon among educated people of her generation in Europe. Not to diminish them, but if one takes the time to look closer, they were blown out of proportion big time. So to me it looks like a combination of things: his age, health, the Poehler/Fey joke, Stacy’s fast rebound, his friends being married with kids, publicly dismissing his pranks as childish, his last movie(s) unsuccesful, in short: a belated midlife crisis combined with a lot of desperation. He made a good living out of the image of the eternal bachelor- and it simply doesn’t work anymore. So a new one is created. I’m quite sure he knew Amal longer then reported, and that she was picked. I would be very surprised to hear she wants children. In many ways, she still seems to be a child herself, an highly educated one, never mind. But a high education, and a career do not equal maturity, or life experience. Politics for George? Doubt it. As much as he’s a player, working THAT hard, and having to make huge compromises on a daily base, is not his thing. He loves the good life too much for that. Mutual ‘humanitarian projects’ with Amal, perhaps. As long as they are both happy with this arrangement, it’ll work to both their benefits. What happens when Amal doesn’t want a father figure anymore and matures, time will tell.
The more I see them together, the weirder they look as a couple. I don’t doubt they’re in love (I’m not much for “beard” conspiracies in general) but the mismatch is striking.
Tom Clooney…….. er…George Cruise….uh……Meh!!!