Amal Clooney made George wait 25 minutes before she agreed to marry him

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George Clooney appeared on The Ellen Show this week to promote Hail Caesar, his latest film offering and probably the first Clooney film I’ve been interested in for a very long time. But I love the Coen Brothers and I love that they almost always cast Clooney as a dunce. We haven’t had a good old fashioned Clooney promotional tour since last year’s Tomorrowland, during which we were inundated with stories about Amal Clooney and how fantastic/brilliant/amazing she is.

I’m at the point now where I think George partially (or mostly) got married to change his branding, his script, his public persona. He was at a point in his life where his stories were no longer “cute,” so he had to get some new stories. Enter Amal. And now he can’t (or won’t) shut up about her, about their marriage, about their wedding and all of it. So, when he was chatting with Ellen, he went into detail about how he proposed. This story has the weird vibe of feeling too rehearsed and completely untrue.

George claims he decided Amal was his future wife about six months into their relationship, a fact which will probably cause Stacy Keibler to do some math. He claims that they didn’t talk about getting married at all beforehand and that he alone tried to set the scene by lighting candles, cooking dinner and choosing their playlist. He makes it sound like it came so out of left field that Amal wasn’t even wearing a cute outfit. Then:

“I’ve got it all set up, timed out and the song is coming and she gets up to go wash the dishes, which she’s never done. And I’m like, ‘What are you doing?’ and she comes back in. And finally I said, ‘Ya know, I blew out the candle’ and I said, ‘I think the lighter’s in the box behind you.’ And she reaches around and she pulls out the box and I’ve got just the ring sitting in there and she pulls it out and she looks at it and she’s like, ‘It’s a ring’ – like as if somebody had left it there some other time…I’m doing all the moves I could do with my face, and I got down on my knee and said, ‘I couldn’t imagine spending the rest of my life without you.’ And she kept looking at the ring and she was looking at me and she was like ‘Oh my God.’ And now we know because of the playlist, how long it actually took, and it was like 25 minutes, 25 minutes! And finally I was like, ‘Look, I hope the answer is yes, but I need an answer I’m 52 and I could throw out my hip pretty soon.’”

Do you believe this story? Or is this just a monologue that he’s prepared? I don’t know. But I never thought I would see the day when George Clooney would be this eager to talk about his personal life to this extent. Oh, and he says at the beginning of the story that the proposal was “one of those horrible moments we didn’t talk about.” Yes, that’s why he prepared a monologue about it.

And here’s video of Clooney and Rihanna playing Never Have I Ever. Is it just me or was Clooney trying to flirt with Rih-Rih and she wasn’t having it?

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  1. Maya says:

    Has he forgotten the Tom Cruise couch jumping thing?

    I like Amal but from the beginning George wanted to “tell” the world Amal was different from his exes – she is educated, human rights lawyer, doesn’t care about his fame etc. and that is making me starting to dislike her.

    • Lizzie McGuire says:

      Right?! I like George Clooney, I really do but this story was meh on the verge of weird. He could’ve said I just got down on my knee & ask her to marry. The End. No other explanation, he doesn’t really have to share that with us, maybe he can share more about Amal’s work now that’s interesting to me.

      • Sass says:

        I am sure that one of his “people” with writing talent comes up with 3 or 4 anecdotes prior to his talk show appearances. All he has to do is pick which one to use. The stories will fit into whatever branding he is looking for at the moment.

    • teehee says:

      Its great to have a man finally not bash a woman. It only makes me feel bad for the exes– its one thing to sing praises but its another to diss a person when COMPARED to… yknow… just say shes great and never speak of the past. Especially cos its the past and you dont know who those people have now become or will become in more time…

    • kelly says:

      I don’t understand this mentality: someone ELSE trumps up the person they deem the most everything (worthy, important, etc.) and the dislike or hate is directed at the receiver and not the human loudspeaker? Why???

      Like when girls or guys hate the person the object of their affections has a crush on. The crush didn’t DO anything so why are they getting the blame?

    • Madge says:

      The fact that he describes proposing to his wife as a “horrible moment” says it all about where his marriage must be at right now. No man says that about his wife if he’s in love with her. That just slipped out.

      Why is George still talking incessantly about the proposal a year and a half into the marriage? Something is very off about his constant promotion of Amal and their relationship in every interview having formerly been private about his private life. And when you look back at his embarrassing spectacle wedding in front of the cameras in Venice. The only reasonable conclusion is that it’s a showmance and she probably got an extra 1 year on the contract because she is a “wife”.

  2. lilacflowers says:

    Why do I fear that we will soon get the story of the first time George had sex with Amal?

  3. GoodNamesAllTaken says:

    Ok, I’m officially a total sap, but I thought it was sweet. Yes, he has probably told it before, but I believed it.

    • Christin says:

      He has told parts of it before.

      The part about how she was puzzled by the ring (thinking it might have been left by / for someone else) is hilarious. I could see that being true.

    • siri says:

      Yes, he told it many times, and there are quite e few different versions out there. He’s full of it.

  4. Greenieweenie says:

    Is this because he had a string of bombs? He decided to remake his image? Because he’s revealing himself to be a cheeseball.

  5. Beatrice says:

    Still trying hard to convince us it’s more than a contract!

    • Bella says:

      Exactly.
      Of COURSE it’s a contrast.
      They are a faux couple through and through.
      I’ve always loved George for what seemed to be his genuineness.
      The more I learn the more I’m disillusioned.
      The contracts run rampant in Hollywood.

    • nicole says:

      Beatrice, so true, he is so pathetic, he doesnt see how stupid he looks.

    • LeAnn Stinks says:

      Drum roll, followed by a major eye roll.

    • Madge says:

      George is selling his marriage like a used car salesman trying to sell a car he knows is a lemon.

    • Liberty says:

      Any bets on how long this contract will be for? A five year special, to get her London house done, and get him into some gov office?

      • nicole says:

        Its definetly not going to be the standard 2yr contract, a five years special sounds about right, but I dont think he will ever run for any goverment kind of job, because then the skeletons would definetly be let out of the cupboard.

      • Amelie says:

        Nicole:
        I’m beginning to wonder if it’s she who has political aspirations? Prime MInister of Great Britain maybe?

  6. Elisabeth says:

    it took her and her lawyer 25 minutes to read the contract before signing

  7. Little Darling says:

    I waver back and forth with George Clooney. Sometimes I don’t get the hype with him, I never really did, even as he Bachelored it out with every cocktail waitress in town. But then I hear him speak or read an interview and I think he’s charming AF.

    BUT as Tina and Amy said, this guy gets so much clout and such a high social standing in Hollywood when he hasn’t *really* warranted it, and he’s lucky to have someone as established as Amal even give a silly actor the time of day.

    Which leads me to my above point – he must be charming as hell.

    • OhHellNo! says:

      I think his money is the only charm!

    • Robin says:

      She wasn’t that established when they got together. She was a junior barrister of very recent call and was mostly a second to the various senior barristers and QCs on the cases. She’s managed to milk her marriage for all it’s worth.

      • nicole says:

        I recently saw old clips of her from the Julian Assange case, were they are walking out side with him to make a press conference, and shes basically in the background holding files, there is a blonde girl who seems to be his main lawyer. The way the pr makes it out she was his only lawyer, which is a load of rubbish, she’s only been brought to the front because of the gc thing, so she should be thanking her lucky stars he decided to make her his ‘contract marriage wife, or she would still be only carrying briefcases.

      • siri says:

        @nicole: The blond woman is Jennifer Robinson, an Australian human-rights lawyer, and she was/ is on his international team of lawyers. For Doughty Street Chambers, Amal’s employer, it used to be Mark Howard Stephens CBE, or John Jones QC, Amal was/is not an important player in this. I think it was the deal to make her front & center of his PR, whatever the reason.

      • Liberty says:

        siri, agreed. Two of my friends (London) say she was one of the bit players on that case, and still a beginner in general. She is getting a lot out of this contract, PR-wise, in their opinion.

  8. ReineDidon says:

    For bragging about her this much , maybe he is truly proud of her ! Also she’s an accomplished Lebanese woman, you must see that ego 😜

    • Madge says:

      At this point it’s gone so over the top it’s unbelievable. George never was a good actor and we’re seeing it now. Amal is no prize and not attractive by Hollywood standards where most actresses are former models. But Amal sure gets the prize for being the thinnest.

  9. Lorenzo says:

    So he was on his knees for 25 minutes while she sat in front of him doing what?
    For 25 minutes???
    LOL.

    I didn’t know he is that submissive…
    Did he wear a nice doggy collar?

    More details please!

  10. Fa says:

    we discussed this last year when he was promoting tomorrowland, he is repeating the story again

    • siri says:

      Just he can’t remember the details right. Like, he knows exactly how many minutes because of the playlist? So was it 25, 28, or maybe 30 minutes. The ring hidden behind her in a box, and Amal washing the dishes, it’s new. Seriously, I wish he would just stop talking about it. He makes himself look like a complete fool. Again.

    • Citresse says:

      Someone who keeps gushing about their relationship is suspicious. Kathie Lee kept doing it and we saw what happened there.

      • Christin says:

        In KL’s case, that may be why Frank’s little hotel room photo made the cover. She was constantly gushing about her so perfect family and fabulous marriage.

    • Amelie says:

      Exactly! Aren’t there any new anecdotes?

      • Citresse says:

        Well George could laugh and say his wrist is equal circumference to Amal’s thigh however I’m not so sure how well it would go over with Ellen and her audience.

  11. Maum says:

    Can’t he just stick to promoting the movie? I remember the days when Clooney was suave and charming.

    As someone said before, he’s been Tom Cruise-d.

    • siri says:

      Actually, he’s promoting HER. If you google Meet the Clooneys there’s an interesting read.

      • nicole says:

        Siri, I tried to read as much as I could, but boy if that is true, they are both a peice of work.

      • siri says:

        @nicole: Well, the site where this is on is obviously following a certain political agenda as well, so god knows. But many of the facts regarding her uncle, or her mother’s work are documented elsewhere as well. What people interpret into , and how they connect them, is another story.

  12. JustJen says:

    I do NOT like her. I never have, and I don’t buy that “she doesn’t care about fame” BS. She married him b/c he’s famous, he married her b/c she’s smart on paper, and not hard to look at. I knew he’d never marry Stacy, she was ok for parties etc but I’d bet my last dollar he thought an ex wrestler was beneath him.

    • siri says:

      All of them are contracts, only this one is smarter. He never wanted to marry, but reaching the 50, his PR probably told him to change his ways of signing on someone for 2 years max. So he got himself a different image (although I don’t think it works), and she gets her name printed everywhere. She’s “just” a junior barrister, and she would have to have worked VERY hard to become a “household name” within her field. After marrying him and taking his name, she already is called “internationally acclaimed”, “brilliant”, or “world-renowned”. This would never have happened without this merger. Usually, peole working in this field have to strenuously work their way up.

    • Zaytabogota says:

      She obviously loves the fame, she’s deliriously excited at the sight of the cameras and loves posing. Stacey is beautiful, way too sane for George.

      • nicolee says:

        Im glad that both Stacy and Elisabetta married both sucessful men and have beautiful babies, showed him for putting them down for not being ‘good enough’ for him and just stupid bimbos that he could use for a couple of years.

    • nicolee says:

      Just Jen, I agree, although I think she is hard to look at.

  13. lisa2 says:

    He already told this story last year. I would imagine that something else of interest must have happened this past year to talk about. George seems to tell the same stories ave and over again.

    • nicole says:

      It really shows, what a boring person he is, that he cant come up with some different stories to talk about.

      • Madge says:

        Well when you don’t really have a marriage it’s hard to come up with authentic stories isn’t it? Anyone who is really married has tons of funny stories to tell. It’s like he’s only seen Amal a few times since the wedding (which is probably true).

      • Amelie says:

        I’m curious that George isn’t telling the story of how he and Amal met. Aside from a proposal story, most couples talk about how they met. Instead. he is recycling the proposal story. Amal-for whatever reason-only does pap walks and recently has ramped up her professional persona/activities. I find it odd that she hasn’t done an interview where SHE talks about meeting/marrying George. Or alternatively, why she and George haven’t done a joint interview.

  14. CornyBlue says:

    Well I am glad that they got married or whatever so I was aware of such an amazing woman.

  15. Eleonor says:

    The best thing he has done recently is the “E.R.” reunion with Hugh Laurie. THAT was hilarious.

  16. serena says:

    He never hooked up with someone over 50yo. No surprise there, he likes em young. Douche.

  17. Ethelreda says:

    Honestly, you’d swear nobody ever got married before. And didn’t we hear this story last year? I thought he had been advised to tone down the faux gushing, but seems I was wrong. Trouble is, the more he gushes, the less people take him and his shammariage seriously.

  18. A says:

    Wow, she looks so much better here before she lost so much weight! https://rednationrising.files.wordpress.com/2015/12/amal-jared-cohen.jpg?w=748

    • siri says:

      Did you read the Meet the Clooneys story? It’s on the website you linked to.

      • nn says:

        I didn’t read all of it, I found it too disturbing and creepy.
        The rabbit hole is deep with these two.

      • dAsh says:

        I just read some parts of it. So, marrying someone with a different religion (Druze/Islam) for Clooney was part of the plan. And it’s interesting to know that Amal’s mother owns a PR company that represents her making it easier for them to manipulate whatever press they want for her and him. And the mother is also a member of the editorial team of a foreign magazine that made fun of the 9/11 tragedy. Her family’s background is shady as hell.

      • siri says:

        I think I have to read it again in order to get the full picture. Even if only half of that would be true, it’s very disturbing. But yes, Baria Alamuddin definitely owns a PR company, Globell Communications, and worked for Al Jazeera as foreign editor. I think the person writing this did a lot of research. Which is difficult to do, since they cleaned the internet of anything Amal- related. Just perhaps not well enough.

      • chelsea says:

        You linked to some extreme right-wing, anti-Muslim, anti-immigration site. Was it on purpose?
        “We now live in a post-Constitution, post-America world where Iran has a nuclear bomb, illegals have better benefits and protections in Western nations than those they had in their own countries, and radical Muslim extremism is used to exterminate Western-Judeo Christian values. ” That’s just the first sentence.

      • siri says:

        @chelsea: I didn’t link anywhere…but the picture shown leads to that site.

      • chelsea says:

        You are getting your information from a site that’s dubious at best, that’s the point.

      • siri says:

        @chelsea: I red this site for the first time today, and I’m quite capable to distinguish facts from fiction. Many of the facts in this story, however, you can find on the internet. How other people connect them, or interpret them, is not of my concern.

    • m says:

      Holy crap, she looked so genuinely stunning there, I can’t believe how much weight she’s lost. Amal is still beautiful but she could do with some more meat on her bones and that pic proves it. And here I thought that she was naturally skinny…

      • siri says:

        The man with her in the photo is Jared Cohen, director of Google Ideas, and Adjunct Senior Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations. He served as a member of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff, starting at the age of 24, and as adviser to Condoleezza Rice and Hillary Clinton. Very eager to make it big, he was one of the rumoured ‘love interests’ of Amal. But he had a long-time girlfriend, who I think is his wife by now.

      • Karen says:

        Wow I agree. Amal looks amazing here! Why do women think they look better as a stick?

        I am sick of hearing about the wedding, etc. it was 18 months ago. This marriage is so phoney.

      • norah says:

        she looked really nice and pretty here tbh –

    • Antigone says:

      She really looks beautiful in that pic!

  19. Zaytabogota says:

    He thinks if he keeps repeating himself we’ll all suddenly become convinced of their love. Nobody’s telling him that it’s the publicity campaign to sell their relationship at every opportunity that convinced the public otherwise.

  20. anon says:

    Amal is his BEARD. It’s a contract.

    • nn says:

      Yep. There was someone who actually dropped some “tea” on CB a long time ago when he was still with Stacey and this person said he/she knew Stacey’s current husband and said Clooney is gay and made Stacey sign a contract as a beard and that Stacey was still seeing her current husband while “dating” George.
      Not that anyone needs any proof, the lack of chemistry, just basic lust, was embarrasing to witness.
      He can’t even fake it.
      So if anyone wonders how Stacey moved on so fast and got married and pregnant so soon after the split from Clooney, well, she was dating him while she was still with gay George and when the contract was over she went on he m erry way to live a normal life.
      She did get some jewlery and gigs out of it so it wasn’t totally worthless.
      Btw, anyone know if there is a marriage certificate? I find it strange, aren’t they public records? I doubt the cloons are really married.

      • OhHellNo! says:

        @ nn says:
        If you google meet the clooneys, it will take you to a site where all is revealed, and there is a hell of a lot to read. No sign of a marriage certificate can be found and yes if they had a civil ceremony which they had to do to make the marriage legal it is publicly documented, but there isn’t one!
        It will take a while to read but it is eye opening, if you follow the other leads there is even more and it just gets more disturbing.

      • siri says:

        @OhHellNo!: Some things on this site might not be correct, or just suspicion. I remember they had a civil ceremony at the council in Venice, and Walter Veltroni, a former mayor of Rome and old friend of Clooney, was in charge of this. But every step of this wedding celebration has been shrouded in secrecy, so no wonder people start speculating. Nobody has seen anything except them walking into the council building. No pedestrians and traffic were allowed during this time.

      • nicole says:

        nn, it seemed very fishy to me, the way Stacy married so soon after there relationship, and there were rumours of Stacy with a man(the jared guy she married) before they broke up. The we see pictures of George hanging out in Lake Como with his rumoured bf ws and the rumours start to pick up again, and then suddenly out of nowhere he is with Amal in very arranged photos in London for the world to see, the whole thing is a big setup.

      • siri says:

        @nicole: someone mentioned on another thread that Stacy was with Jared the whole time while acting as Clooney’s beard. That it was a job, and her future husband was in the knowing. Hard to believe people would do that, but I truly think most people working in this industry have no shame, as long as it sells an image, and makes money.

  21. Maggie says:

    The dress Amal is wearing is very cute but would be better suited to someone either younger or a thicker thigh. It looks silly on her in my opinion.

    • nn says:

      I would say younger, thicker and shorter.
      Amal needs to gain some weight she looked much better before, now she looks like a dragqueen.

      • Citresse says:

        Doesn’t George prefer the dragqueen look? I mean his buddy Gerber likes to slip on some heels and wig now and then after a few shots of tequila?

  22. lowercaselois says:

    I am usually am a sucker for proposal stories and two people building a life and family together, but when I was listening to this interview I kept thinking to myself a 50 something guy proposing to a 35 something year old woman and all the pageantry that went into his very public wedding and it did nothing for me. Off the subject, Hail Caesar is not getting good reviews from the local critics around me. Another bomb for George.

    • Tiffany says:

      The Coen’s interview sure as hell has not helped. Between the budget and marketing, George is going to have to think of something to turn this cluster around. The Sony leaks shows us he gives a damn about it.

    • siri says:

      The critics so far seem to be devided. But the general tone of the reviews seems to indicate it’s not one of the better Coen films.

      • Citresse says:

        As far as Coen films, I keep hoping for a sequel to No Country for Old Men. If they’ve stated no, then I hope they change their minds.

      • siri says:

        That was a wonderful film, and I don’t even know why I liked it. I also found Fargo intriguing.

      • Citresse says:

        siri
        Fargo was excellent too.
        Interesting in that I shut off the first viewing of No Country for Old Men after about ten min into the film because I found the pace too slow. Second time, well worth the patience as the story picked up and grew more intriguing and interesting ie the survival skills in motels/hotels and other locations by both the hunter ( the hit man) and the hunted.

      • siri says:

        @Citresse: True, they did take their time. But the acting was superb, and somehow they managed to keep up the suspense. It’s perhaps really just the first 10-15 minutes, where you wonder where this is going.

  23. Mudflaps says:

    The only thing I found intetesting in this story is that Amal does dishes,

    I’m still flummoxed as to why so many people dislike Amal. She sounds pretty cool to me. Clooney on the otherhand always kind of bugged me but I don’t find him talking about his proposal all that annoying. He was asked a question about it no?

    • Amelie says:

      But both she and George have stated that she doesn’t cook. No cook, no dishes. I’ll bet she’s never cleaned a bathroom either.

      • Mudflaps says:

        Lol!! Yep, i’m sure too she’s never cleaned a bathroom. However, i know people who don’t cook but they do clean the dishes. If it was just them two that evening somebody had to clean the dishes. maybe the chef cooked the dinner and then left?

  24. He said he blew out the candle and asked if she could get the lighter to light it again? That makes no sense. If my boyfriend did that, I’d tell him him to light the candle himself!

    It doesn’t sound like a real story. That being said, I think they have a legit marriage and that he was so willing to finally marry because she’s such a strong, independent woman.

    • Madge says:

      Amal looked desperate and attention seeking in that little girl dress at the Hail Cesar premiere so I don’t know about her being strong and independent. Also with the rate at which she is losing weight I’m not sure she’s mentally all there anymore. The photos from the premiere looked …. rather pathetic. She looked like a desperate young starlet. Look at me!!! Look at me!!

  25. ArtCollector says:

    Only this blatantly phony union could make Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes look like Romeo and Juliet by comparison. This entire Klooney marriage is so fake it’s ridiculous.

  26. Mary Carol says:

    That marriage is over. They are just negotiating the exit. He wants no dirt on him. The prenup reportedly called for a $20 million signing bonus, so she is set. She’ll get the Thames house, and net close to $35 mil for less than two years work, plus millions in clothes. Lucky girl. But he will be even luckier to rid himself of her.

    • Sue says:

      Mary Carol, you seem to have inside information. Could you elaborate? How do you know the sign on bonus was $20 million? How do you know he’s planning his exit strategy?

    • siri says:

      I had the gut feeling he wants out, too. Simply because it didn’t work the way they had planned. But then that Ellen show was on, and he starts gushing again about things 18 month ago…so, not so sure about this.

    • annna says:

      Sure Jan.

  27. HoustonGrl says:

    Id be annoyed if some guy’s romantic version of a proposal involved me finding a ring in a dish drawer and having to be like “moi??”

  28. Nimbolicious says:

    Really? A year and a half into his marriage to The Most Exalted Unicorn Ever Known and all he can come up with to entrance us all is the same scripted proposal story with a couple of new yet inconsistent details? Get your story straight, Kloons, or make up a new one. And fast, because you’re starting to lose us all at “hello”………

  29. Anne says:

    I guess we all kind of feel this is a fake relationship. . . ugh.

  30. jinx says:

    I didn’t read the article, sorry. These people bore me but I just had to comment on Amal’s dress, Her dress is very pretty. Reminds me of all those dress ads I see alongside fb – it gives her that youthful vibe. But, IMO her legs are really thin, like bone thin – almost too thin for the dress. So, youthful in a prepubescent way.

  31. hayley says:

    Looks like they wear the same size shoe…?

  32. CentralParkSouth says:

    Kaiser asked: “Do you believe this story?”

    No.

    I also think these are the kind of moves George was describing doing with his face during the fakeproposal:

    https://onmogul.com/stories/these-new-pics-of-george-clooney-s-wedding-are-stunning

    And, note to George: When your wedding photos look like a scene straight out of Cabaret, your con game may need some serious work, playa…Just sayin’.

  33. Liberty says:

    I would say the thread to the real story leads to two hotels in NYC and two clubs in Atlanta, Georgia, USA.

  34. Rockin Robin says:

    Omg. Please stfu George! These lil love stories are exhausting! It wS cute at first but now its ugh!

  35. Chrissy says:

    I watched the video and I still don’t understand how it took 25 minutes? Her response after he asked her or from the time they sat down to dinner and him proposing. I would be annoyed if I had to find a ring and the guy wasn’t immediately saying will you marry me. Given his former dislike of marriage, I doubt Amal was thinking he was really proposing until he actually said something to her.

  36. Auntie Git says:

    I think his marriage to this impressive woman has a heckuva lot to do with potential future political candidacy. But maybe I’m jaded.

  37. Calendar Cat says:

    The proposal bores me. What would be great is to have Ellen’s people ask a bunch of confident, single, beautiful, witty and smart women who happen to be over 50 this: Would YOU ever have sex with 54 year old George Clooney??