Have you missed Amal Clooney in the midst of the Cumbercrazy this week? I have! I miss Amal Clooney so much whenever she’s not around. I imagine her standing over my shoulder, tossing her blowout over my work. Well, we’re in luck! People Magazine has a story about what George and Amal Clooney have been up to this week, thank God. So, what’s Amal up to? Just having a late lunch at the Savoy with her husband, and scheduling a new case!
They both have crazy-busy work schedules, but newlyweds George and Amal Clooney are still making time for romance. The newlyweds enjoyed a date at London’s Savoy hotel Wednesday afternoon, leaving fellow diners starstruck at their surprise arrival.
“I think I was in a parallel universe!” says an onlooker, who was dining with her 80-year-old father at the time. “They just walked through the lobby and disappeared into another bar.”
Another diner at the 125-year-old London landmark added on Twitter: “Tea at the Savoy, first a Downton Abbey actor walks in, then Stephen Fry topped off by George Clooney & new wife …”
But Amal Clooney, 36, has plenty on her plate besides tea and cakes. The human-rights lawyer has taken on the case of Egyptian-Canadian journalist Mohamed Fahmy, who has been incarcerated in Egypt since December for what Amal describes as “simply reporting the news.”
In a statement released through her law firm Doughty Street Chambers in London, Clooney claims the Al Jazeera reporter’s trial was “fundamentally unfair” and that his imprisonment is “a travesty of justice.” Worse, she says his 7-year prison sentence has become “a great danger to his health” – partly because Fahmy suffers from the liver disease hepatitis C and cannot obtain the specialist treatment he requires from behind bars.
“He has also suffered a permanent disability in his right shoulder due to an injury exacerbated during his detention,” Clooney adds. “He will require a series of complicated correctional bone surgeries that also require extensive recovery and support not readily available in prison.”
Clooney and her colleague Mark Wassouf are waiting to hear if Fahmy will be released on compassionate grounds so that he can receive the treatment he needs. His appeal is scheduled for Jan. 1. Meanwhile, George Clooney, 53, is prepping for two upcoming movies – Money Monster, about a financial guru held hostage, and Hail Caesar!, the Coen brothers’ next comedy (plus he’s producing Sandra Bullock’s film Our Brand Is Crisis) – so it’ll be a very busy holiday season for the couple.
Taking on a case of a journalist imprisoned because of a lack of free press? Well well… it looks like Amal is aiming to be interviewed by Jon Stewart on The Daily Show (SHE SHOULD TOTALLY DO THAT). It’s good that she’s aligning herself with this kind of case – journalists around the world are becoming targets of death threats and imprisonment more frequently. More journalists are being killed in war/conflict zones every year as well.
Sidenote: my mom actually said this to me: “We’ve had a rough couple of months, haven’t we? My boyfriend George Clooney got married and your boyfriend Benedict Cumberbatch got engaged.” And it really struck me: for some women, George Clooney = Benedict Cumberbatch. Oh God… what if Benedict married Sophie Hunter in some kind of decadent, thirsty, splashy wedding spectacular like Clooney’s wedding? GAH!!!!
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I was just thinking that George and Amal were going to stay undercover and all…
well not really
Well, if George’s girl is going to use him to publicize her career, at least it’s a career with merit.
GC’s career looks rather silly when you read about it side by side with Amal’s.
Excellent point
Same here! I felt George was withdrawing from us for a bit.
Wrong! Can we puhleeze get Central Casting to give George a meemaw like JLaw’s in time for the Holidays? We need folksy leaks, George. It’d counterbalance the Jackie O jet setter thing.
But but but what was she wearing? Pics?
This?
http://lh5.ggpht.com/-z5NE5cmKGhw/VFt1plDHiZI/AAAAAAAAAWY/L_SM-qCDHW0/amal33.jpg
Man!! She is like a magnet to cameras, always finds one to stare and smile even in the dark!
LOL
Opened yr link and…Is that a cloonbaby bump? Sure looks like one!
It’s an older photo from some diner at Villa D’ Este, Lake Como.
I am so glad we can always count on them to bring a hired pap (when they want to be seen together).
Yay! We haven’t seen these two in a while!
There’s an Amal Klooney style blog that has photos of the last reception party, featuring the cockatoos! https://amalalamuddinstyle.wordpress.com/
Damn you. Of course I couldn’t resist the cockatoos.
The cockatoos! I want them!
LOL! Over sized salt and pepper shakers Cockatoos? They are fun.
That white dress looks great there but Amal made it into a nasty short Mullet!!
Looks like George wanted a budget Vegas Casino themed reception.
“I think I was in a parallel universe!”
I knew eventually these two would tear a hole in the fabric of space and time.
Their love is so dense it made the space-time continuum collapse on itself. Have a seat McConaughey because the Klooney’s are the real space cowboys ’round here.
I thought it was the stench of tequila, boat fumes, and bad decisions.
*sprays Bill Murray scented Febreze to save the world*
I hate Fabreze. Please do not associate Murrayness with its awful floral overpowering synthetic olfactory assault.
If only we knew what kind of tequila they served at the wedding, we’d be able to figure it out…
I think it would smell better if everything was sprayed down with tequila instead of Fabreze.
Maybe we can fix the damage with spackle and ceramic cockatoos?
Sorry about the Febreze Kiddo. I panicked and the only other thing I had was a tube of Dugger Sin B Gone lubricant.
Here, Kidoo, take a Klonopin. KD Lang is passing them out on the Miles Teller thread.
Also, Bill Murray. Hm.
mimif, You are dangerously close to being tossed off the Murray Committee. GET OVER IT.
Better watch it mimif…Kiddo will make you promote Interstellar. A week in a talk show green room with AnnE will straighten you out pretty damn quick.
Too late, I already quit.
*Dons gas mask & sprays Febreeze all over The Committee*
ETA: *smashes cockatoos with shitty overhyped tequila bottles and throws in a mole for good measure*
*Gives mimif a lottery scratch off manicure, cheap jewelry and an ill-fitted nightie gown. Relinquishes her post on committee, while wearing a respirator, opens a window and shoves mimif out to the Hathaworld. mimif now to be known by world as mimEf. No Bramhall privileges.*
Where in the hell is GoodNames? I need her Satanic powers immediately.
Oh and you know bramhall is just a budget Wayne Coyne, right Kidoo?
@mimif. The committee will not comment on financial issues to outsiders. Go Google yourself ‘accidentally’, or something. lol
OMG you guys always do me in. LMAO Go google yourself accidently. *tears and snot bubbles*
*over and out for the weekend*
“I knew eventually these two would tear a hole in the fabric of space and time.”
“Their love is so dense it made the space-time continuum collapse on itself.”
Even Stephen Hawking couldn’t figure Amalooney out.
😉
I would like to talk about those heels, please.
Love, love, love them.
Sorry but I still find them boring as hell. The more they try the more all of this becomes a snoozefest.
Me too. He was at his best hanging with Tootie on Facts of Life.
Nah! Bendy has more class than that, they probably get married, go on a honeymoon and get back to work as quietly as a country mouse! 🙂
She looks ghastly/ghostly in that red dress, looks better in work outfits. Yeah, journalists are unfair targets of war and chaos. I am sure there are plenty others out there who need help too.
Everytime you guys use that picture as a thumbnail I cringe. That makeup looks like all of her beauty was washed away by Chlorox.
Batman & Robin was on TV the other day. It’s like that movie gets even more stupid the more I watch it. I have to say, though, awful as that film was, Val Kilmer was a worse Batman than George. At least George seemed to have fun doing that crapfest.
I just read that he starts work on a new film in LA on Monday, so will she move back to his LA house and work from there? Why is Clooney commenting on her cases. Does he choose them for her or something? That whole Elgin marbles thing came up so suddenly for her after he had talked about the “Parthenon” marbles and all. Seems he wants cleaner, less controversial clients for Mrs. Clooney. Amalooney are just so together on things it seems, which is nice.
In this case, the “Clooney” referred to is Amal. She changed her last name. 🙂
Ooops. My mistake. Thanks. But I do think they are moving towards more “human rights” clients, those that need defending FROM shady types, than the “equal rights” clients she has been defending, as they need defending, though they ARE the shady types.
And I think George loves to see quotes like this with ‘his’ name attached to them. All the association with a worthy cause, none of the work. Win win.
I think he has lot of input into her work/case choices and he is enjoying it too.
The girl has no arm flab. That makes me weep. I have arm flab and it makes me sad.
Gina, I have ‘flap in the wind’ arm flab–literally. Amal & Kate Middleton slay me. I am just green with envy.
But you know what Hazel, I bet we’re both nicer and can cook better! LOL. Even as a stick figure in my twenties, I had little muscles in my upper arms. Kind of like a Popeye situation. I guess that’s why full sleeves were invented!
Arm flab is the destiny of all women after a certain age. I think that fat changes it’s position to let the males know that we are no longer sexually available. Fat moves from breasts to arm flaps, and the waist thickens while the legs get skinny. I’m not trying to scare anyone, but there is a certain freedom that comes with this transition. I’ve become ever so bold! Fierce actually…
I’m a little embarrassed by my post, so let me add a few words of caution for women who see ageing and the prospect of losing youthful sexual prospects, as frightening.
A great deal of aging can be ameliorated by several things. If one maintains a regular weight, changes in body fat placement are not extreme. To keep legs from getting skinny (and to keep your butt up), you must continue to exercise (don’t just sit down and stay there). You can avoid sagging in the face by not yo-yo dieting in letting your face get fat, and then thin. Wrinkles are avoided by sunscreen, and safe sun practices. Retin A is very helpful for this as well. Also a whole food diet, including lots of green smoothies will give one a healthy glow. Add sauna’s for elimination of toxins, and you look pretty good. This is all without botox or surgery.
You can be beautiful when you are older; you just can’t give up on the maintenance projects of youth!
Do they live together? It’s seems like they never spent more than a few hours together since they married.
+1
I was just about to ask this! What are their living arrangements? Do they actually feel at home in each other’s homes? What is the division of closet space? How do they plan their time around work?
This case has a lot of traction here in the UK. Big ol’ one minute silence for them not so long ago (http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/jun/24/uk-media-one-minute-silence-protest-jailing-al-jazeera-journalists). Aren’t Doughty Street representing the other two?
Hope these journalists get out of there either way and go home.
No Doughty Street are not defending the other two. It has always had huge coverage in the British media for nearly a year now mainly because of the farce it has been and especially when the defence were made to pay to see the evidence against them and then the defence team crumbled mid way when lawyers up and left the case because of Al Jazeera’s coverage against Egypt and they were the ones paying for the defence.
After the trial they all went for new lawyers. Peter Greste hired Farag Fathy Farag, Baher Mohamed hired Mostafa Nagy and Mohamed Fahmy hired Negad el-Boraie and Amal
They also managed (all the lawyers combined) to have their case appealed on 1st January which is quite something because the hundreds of Muslim Brotherhood were not allowed any appeals. Canada and Australia are trying to put pressure on the Egyptian Government but they won’t play ball.
in my opinion, Canada is not pushing hard enough. Our foreign affairs minister has been far too silent on this. its horrible and i really hope Amal will bring more attention to Fahmy’s case.
Thanks, Sue. I’ve been following what C4’s Paul Mason has been saying about it, but that’s all.
To be fair, this case has been listed on her pending client cases list for months. She’s talked about how most of her clients are inaccessible due to being imprisoned and that they are waiting to get access to them.
I guess she finally talked to this particular client and can comment more substantially on his condition and his case.
Where was Amal when this case was actually going through court? She is part of an Appeal team and she is not the lead Lawyer she is a Junior but attaching her name gives whatever case more publicity. Let’s hope they get all three reporters out. She is very late to the party but the girl will do anything for good PR go check out her client list at least these reporters are actual victims of injustice which is something that can’t be said for her usual client base. Amal will need to decide fashionista or serious lawyer. Can’t help but notice not a single picture of this tea? George was back in LA not long after the wedding party in London. George and Amal have already spent most of their marriage apart and this will continue but there will be plenty of smoke and mirrors lot’s of rumours of where they are but never any pictures it’s all an illusion like this marriage.
There was a fan photo of GC alone, seated at some outdoor restaurant table in England a few days ago. So he is still there, or was there this week.
When the case went through court Al Jazeera paid a bunch of lawyers to defend them, many of the lawyers including the lead lawyer Farag Fathy got up in the middle of the trial and said, I’m not doing this anymore and stood up and left as did some of the others because of Al Jazeera’s attitude (who were the ones paying) towards Egypt. The trial continued with some that were left, so when the guilty verdict came in all three journalists decided they needed to get some new lawyers.
Mohamed Fahmy hired Amal and an Egyptian human rights lawyer (Negad el-Boraie). Negad el-Boraie and Amal are working together on an equal footing. Both lawyers were privately hired directly by Mohamed Fahmy not by Negad el-Boraie saying he needs an assistant. Mark Wassouf (Doughty Street) is the junior barrister on the team.
Amal was hired because June 2013 she was amongst those appointed by the IBAHRI on a fact finding mission to Egypt regarding the changes in Egyptian law. As Mohamed Fahmy was there and reporting on all these kinds of things he most probably knew of her.
DanaG, I think it was an arranged marriage that was rushed (for mysterious reasons that will someday surface) vs. a romantic marriage, like the fluff they rammed down our throats. Thus, the “smoke and mirrors” as you so aptly put it. Nice try, PT Barnum-alooney!
Yup. My BS radar has been pinging madly since the Roll-out began, and has only gotten louder since Venice and the cockatoos and the back-of-the-limo pissy faces.
And who’s to say that the Savoy lunch date even really happened? Absent photographic evidence to the contrary, anyone can be said to be anywhere, and a quote from a non-existent “ecstatic fellow diner” can be easily thrown in for good measure.
There just seems to be too much investment by someone (PR flacks and/or Baria, I assume) in making this woman happen and in proving the validity of this odd coupling.
Perhaps she married for professional publicity. They are known far and wide, after all.
I get so tired when people talk about how rich people have super busy schedules so they can’t see each other.
Dude if u want to see your wife take time off of making movies and hang out with her. If u don’t want to hang with her then don’t.
Is it bad if I like Amal wayyyy more than I like Mr. Clooney? Is it possible that she is too good for him and he knows it? I think I have a girlcrush on her and I am a middle-aged, married woman.
I feel the same way. I really like her but I never really cared for him.
She’s slumming, for sure. But if it makes him clean up his act and behave like less of a sexist douche, then that’s good, I guess. I kind of love the idea of HIM tagging along on HER adventures around the globe! I think I need help. I kind of love her! I love that she’s no starlet or bimbo and has her own money and high profile career that makes being an actor look shallow and insipid!
Okay, I need to get a life.
Maybe, but we’re not used to her yet.
I can assure that anyone else lunching at the Savoy barely blinked at these two. They were nobodies.
She is just so beautiful. I love looking at her. I admire her talents.
Me, too! I can’t even be jealous… she is so out of his league.
The nonsense with the media creation of Amal Clooney as some kind of superwoman, made me think of an Ayn Rand novel-I think it is The Fountainhead-The plot concerns the case of a character named Howard Roark, who is really an architect of great talent and the media, represented by a fiendish character named Ellsworth Toohey, who is a “respected” art critic. To summarize, Toohey destroys Roark thru his published columns and a conspiracy of other papers join in. Although Toohey’s motives have to do with control/power, he essentially seeks to destroy someone (Roark) whose only ‘sin’ is the pursuit of truth/excellence thru his buildings. Roark is a supremely talented architect and incorruptible and he doesn’t care about anything, but doing excellent architecture. The media, in the case, of Ms. Allamuddin, is creating a fictional superhero. The person they are writing about, doesn’t exist. I wonder what exactly she has done to merit any attention? My point in writing about this is the media and whether truth has any role in what they write…
Who else but our mothers think we’re G*d’s gift to the world? Amal’s mother is a journalist, skilled in using the news media to manipulate public opinion. Baria Alamuddin is behind creating this “brand” for her daughter and George is part of the deal.
http://bariaalamuddin.com/
Santolina:
You’ve given me a great idea for a screenplay. It’s a story about an aging Hollywood male actor who has persistent rumors about his sexuality. Anyway, this character- who has vowed never to marry- suddenly marries an unknown middle eastern type 30-something gal. This younger gal-who appears to be just your average high achiever professional woman-is transformed into uberwoman thru her mother’s behind-the-scene manipulation of the world media. I think Meryl Streep, who does great accents, would be excellent as Baria.
Brilliant casting choice for Baria. Who would play Amal?
In answer to Santolina above…
Since I am more of an old movie buff, the only actress that I can think of is Ann Baxter-a-la-“All-About-Eve”. Why this choice? Amal appears to be an (deliberate) enigma, but despite the manipulation of the media, I do not think of her as a Bambi. No, I suspect she is an Eve.
Here is a link to the movie trailer for those who haven’t seen it.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042192/
The whole “human-rights lawyer” title reminds me of Bridget Jones Diary. Didn’t Mark Darcy handle the exact same case? LOL.
(Kidding aside…good for her! It seems like she’s doing important work that makes a difference. I wonder if she sees this marriage as a platform for elevating her causes and cases…?)
She certainly does make George and his fellow actors jobs look ridiculous. She is quite the woman. Good for her.
OMG, dear “diner” they are regular people just like you. You might even be smarter or better looking objectively speaking. Or have a better love or professional life.
Why do grown ups get wide eyed over anyone like that is beyond me.
Sort of makes it sounds like all brits pee their knickers whenever there’s a spotting, doesn’t it?
George has always had women fit into his life and where he is and lives or off on set. I know he is in love right now and ready to sacrifice, but England has never been someplace that George has lived nor shown an interest in living. So spending a part of his time there for Amal and their marriage requiring more compromise on his part because of her career and life in the U.K.,, I wonder how long he will be into that.
He has lived a certain way all of his life, and these are big changes and he is older and set in his ways. He wants to do it now, but will it last?
Where are the pictures of this room on wednesday??? Strange that there are no pictures as Amal and’ fhotographed going the bathroom !!!!!
I love meeting my guy in the middle of the day before I go back to work. It really makes the day so much better and refreshes me.
That’s all I got. I just can’t work up enough emotion about these two to be outraged or excited by this breaking news.
I imagine that she has one of those big fans on a rolling boom in front of her, just out of frame. It leads wherever she walks. What else could account for the incredible Loreal movement of her hair in every single photo??
She’s freakin’ perfect. That pink dress and the shoes. WANT.
She can keep the Clooney, just give me her wardrobe and hair!
This is nothing..first blind at cdan is about her reality show push. Mom is perfect as brit Kris, and cloon is getting progressively smaller and sillier. No one will be surprised, will they?
No, especially the Celebitchy-ites who’ve already called it “Keeping Up With the Klooneys!”
This is bs. George would never agree to a reality show.
I want Benedict Cumberbatch to disappoint his fangirls in every way possible. I will laugh and laugh and laugh.
I’d like to hear more about Amal’s cases without dragging boring George Clooney into it. What she does is interesting. What he does is not.
George started to be boring only after he dated Amal ,and being lawyer does not make someone a hero “esp if you represent/ed tyrants”,journalists may be manipulator too.
and you won’t publish my comment again.CB
Yeah I don’t get the Amal is a hero. Her firm represents some not so admirable people. She is not a lead attorney. She is a junior attorney. She is not upfront arguing cases. So I think the public is making her job and her position much more than it is. She went to Greece and we got a few pics and heard her talk for a second… but what wast he outcome. What has changed. What is she actually doing.
It is always amazing to me how people are so taken with someone because of their job and that they speak more than one language. My brother speaks 3 languages. He worked overseas for about 9 years. came in contact with many nationalities through his work. Doesn’t make him better than anyone that doesn’t speak another language.
Response to Sanolina above…
Re: casting of the Amal character…I sense that she may be like the character of Eve in the movie, “All About Eve,” Ann Baxter played her in that film…too bad there isn’t a modern day Ann Baxter!
I like your interpretation of the Amal character as a cunning, two-faced, ambitious opportunistic fame-hungry climber, like the one Ann Baxter portrayed in AAE. In a modern-day version, I could see Amy Adams in the role. What do you think?
I am clueless who to cast for Amal’s role…when I’m not watching old film noir, I like foreign films. Do do you think Angelina could play her?
You know, that crossed my mind. But I wouldn’t cast Angie for the AAE interpretation because she’d need to be convincing as a dewy-eyed ingenue. Maybe Keira Knightley? Who would play George, the aging A-lister with a secret?
LOL! Keira would be perfect, skinny and gauntly. Can Harrison Ford play GC? 😛
Interesting!
Cast:
Ray Liotta is George
http://edmnations.com/ray-liotta-stars-in-david-guettas-spaghetti-western-themed-lovers-on-the-sun-video-watch/
and Penelope Cruz is Amal
http://www.bestfreejpg.com/penelope-cruz-hair-fashion-31429/
Wow, they’re almost lookalikes.
My thought for casting George is either Jon Hamm or Alec Baldwin. And, Brigid Bazlen or Polly Walker for Amal-They are both Brits. Polly Walker is amazing!
I lunch at the Savoy and then go back to work… doesn’t everyone? 😂
George hit the jackpot. She is WAY too good for him. Just sayin….
Yes. He’s very lucky. I hope he’s happy too.