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The Clooneys - is it real

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VanessaSanessa · 29/08/2025 17:12

Just that, they seem so deliriously in love in every picture I've seen of them.

More power to them if they are that happy, they've both hit the jackpot in so many ways.

But.. to still look so enthralled with each other after so many years??

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RanyaJerodung · 29/08/2025 19:57

Well. What a lot of wild claims.
I would love it if Amal and George were just a regular, happy couple, with lovely children and a great life.
I do suspect there's jealousy with all this wild speculation about homosexuality, clandestine relationships and surrogacy! 😂

Athreedoorwardrobe · 29/08/2025 19:56

Define real?
Do I think they genuinely have a relationship? Yes.
Do I also think they perform that relationship in public to sell an image? Yes.
The two things can exist at once.

RanyaJerodung · 29/08/2025 19:55

Absentmindedsmile · 29/08/2025 19:52

So weirdly defensive. This is a mindless thread on a random website. No one’s opinions mean much. And no one claims their opinions are anything more than opinions.

we know nothing about any of these famous people, except what they choose to display.

so that’s my opinion. Take it or leave it! It really doesn’t matter.

It's not "weirdly defensive".
A couple of wild claims were made by you. I just wondered if you had any evidence at all.
Don't be so defensive, I was only asking for enlightenment 😂!
If you made it up, fine. I was only asking for clarification
Did you just make the stuff up?

Millytante · 29/08/2025 19:54

Blondiney · 29/08/2025 19:37

Perhaps but that certainly wasn't the story doing the rounds.

Gawd, not involving Italian gerbils, I hope!

Bloody Nora though, so what if there really were decadent gay soirées at yon villa. Who the hell would care?
The whole candy flossed tale about this purported scandalous homosexuality is beyond tedious, because none of it is actuated by anything more than generalised sour grapes and begrudgery, I reckon. (In the wider world, I mean)

It’s not as though Clooney were some fatuous anti-gay mouthpiece, after all. (Now if we had had snaps of a Mike Spence-type politico frolicking at Lake Como with an Italian Adonis, then sure, save a bit of space on the DMail front page)

EmeraldShamrock000 · 29/08/2025 19:53

I think they're genuinely in love.
He looks so much older than her, she is still absolutely gorgeous at 47.

Weepixie · 29/08/2025 19:52

80smonster · 29/08/2025 19:47

Get away from MY man @Weepixie 😂

FIGHT!!!!!

Quick, somebody mind meh handbag.

Absentmindedsmile · 29/08/2025 19:52

RanyaJerodung · 29/08/2025 19:46

You're "pretty sure" they're same sex attracted? How do you know?
How do you know the children were born via surrogacy?

So weirdly defensive. This is a mindless thread on a random website. No one’s opinions mean much. And no one claims their opinions are anything more than opinions.

we know nothing about any of these famous people, except what they choose to display.

so that’s my opinion. Take it or leave it! It really doesn’t matter.

kulafey · 29/08/2025 19:52

What a weird post. I've been with my OH for 17 years and can't take my eyes off him. He's the most fascinating creature to me. Endlessly interesting, funny, caring, smart. I adore him. Some couples are besotted with each other. It's sad that people assume it's fake.

LazySunbedDays · 29/08/2025 19:51

What are people’s real lives like if they have to throw hate at a couple that appear to be in love?
My DH still look at each other like that and we don’t have masses of hired help!

i’s surprised MN are allowing this thread to continue

Charlize43 · 29/08/2025 19:50

Absentmindedsmile · 29/08/2025 19:44

Pretty sure they’re both same sex attracted., that’s often alleged anyway. But she’s a Muslim and he’s a Hollywood actor.
Some one was writing about Italian stallion visitors to the villa. It’s probably got amazing decor inside.
Children from surrogate.

what do we know.

Edited

Imagine if they are both slobs and it was really dirty and messy inside: The shower tray clogged up with Amal's long hair and George missing the toilet bowl... Amal's expensive couture scrunched up on the bedroom floor... George's coffee cup rings on the furniture all over the place... 😂

Blondiney · 29/08/2025 19:50

daleylama · 29/08/2025 19:39

I think you're referring to his security team, one of whom had an encounter with a sliding van door that put him in hospital. I am struggling with the high school level of baseless gossip in this thread

Nope. I'm referring to the 16 year old Italian boy who was found naked on rocks at the bottom of a cliff. Kid had been out with Clooney and pals, got spooked back at the villa and jumped, allegedly. He survived but suffered life changing injuries. This was in 2013.

No idea if it's true of course but that's the story.

Tontostitis · 29/08/2025 19:49

TomatoSandwiches · 29/08/2025 18:44

I don't think he is gay at all, I do think he was putting feelers out for an " appropriate " wife to have children with and one that leveled him up in a more serious context.
Amal is gorgeous but as a high performing woman with an illustrious career her choices of decent men that she was attracted to and that could treat her they way she should were probably small.
They seem to be a perfect match in that they meet each other's requirements and now have a lovely little family, I'm sure love has grown with time even if it was more of an arrangement in the beginning.

This is what i think. I think they maybe have a kind of arranged marriage as they were so well suited and it's grown into a deep friendship and love but they do not come across as loved up and something is just off about them. Maybe they are both bi maybe not maybe he had political ambitions and COVID and fatherhood made him change his outlook and direction. They seem very content but something just doesn't look 100%.

kittensinthekitchen · 29/08/2025 19:49

Bepo77 · 29/08/2025 19:19

My dad's friend's cousin's parrot's aunt met him once and got the impression he's gay, so that settles it

Do you think either of them couldn't make a friend?

YanTanTetheraPetheraBumfitt · 29/08/2025 19:48

theDudesmummy · 29/08/2025 19:41

@YanTanTetheraPetheraBumfitt read the thread

Mmmm, I have. Not sure what your point is, genuinely.

RanyaJerodung · 29/08/2025 19:48

Millytante · 29/08/2025 19:43

Isn’t it time everyone piled onto the Princess of Wales about her fondness for button on her clothes? (That was the other ongoing big thing when the Clooneys married in Venice, I recall 🤣😂)

I don't understand. What does "button on her clothes" mean?
What was the ongoing thing when the Clooneys married in Venice?

80smonster · 29/08/2025 19:47

Weepixie · 29/08/2025 19:39

I understand. I really do.

Seemingly he’s not just two timing me with Amal there’s some other bird called @80smonster also in the picture!

Get away from MY man @Weepixie 😂

CountryMouse22 · 29/08/2025 19:46

Millytante · 29/08/2025 19:43

Isn’t it time everyone piled onto the Princess of Wales about her fondness for button on her clothes? (That was the other ongoing big thing when the Clooneys married in Venice, I recall 🤣😂)

What does 'fondness for button' mean?

RanyaJerodung · 29/08/2025 19:46

Absentmindedsmile · 29/08/2025 19:44

Pretty sure they’re both same sex attracted., that’s often alleged anyway. But she’s a Muslim and he’s a Hollywood actor.
Some one was writing about Italian stallion visitors to the villa. It’s probably got amazing decor inside.
Children from surrogate.

what do we know.

Edited

You're "pretty sure" they're same sex attracted? How do you know?
How do you know the children were born via surrogacy?

Absentmindedsmile · 29/08/2025 19:44

Pretty sure they’re both same sex attracted., that’s often alleged anyway. But she’s a Muslim and he’s a Hollywood actor.
Some one was writing about Italian stallion visitors to the villa. It’s probably got amazing decor inside.
Children from surrogate.

what do we know.

Millytante · 29/08/2025 19:43

CareerChange24 · 29/08/2025 19:39

This thread is funny. My cousin’s best friend’s step-sister said it’s true. Most women don’t know what their own husbands are upto, never mind Amal’s

Isn’t it time everyone piled onto the Princess of Wales about her fondness for button on her clothes? (That was the other ongoing big thing when the Clooneys married in Venice, I recall 🤣😂)

Rhaidimiddim · 29/08/2025 19:42

ItsATemporaryOne · 29/08/2025 18:11

I changed my name for this! But my parents live next to the Clooneys! Lovely by all accounts. And he’s not gay!

We live close to Sonning. I've never seen them, but a friend encountered them out walking by the Thames one Boxing Day. Arm in arm.

theDudesmummy · 29/08/2025 19:41

@YanTanTetheraPetheraBumfitt read the thread

Loubylie · 29/08/2025 19:41

I heard Clooney on Desert Island Discs and decided he was gay. I would put money on it. Never met him though, so what do I know?

YanTanTetheraPetheraBumfitt · 29/08/2025 19:41

theDudesmummy · 29/08/2025 19:33

On the topic of Ireland having had a gay Taoiseach, yes, but I think the USA is very very far from electing a gay president, which is presumably what Clooney would want if he went into politics?

I see no sign of him going into politics.?

daleylama · 29/08/2025 19:40

Weepixie · 29/08/2025 19:35

It’s not @ChrisMartinsKisskam who’s the sad one here.

Well that's a pointless remark