The Clooneys - is it real

I’d have thought it was his part as the Prince Regent in The Madness of King George, a rôle he was wildly wrong for, not least because his fat suit didn’t also fatten his face, so he looked downright weird.
Wasn’t there a dire Madonna movie too (excuse the tautology)?

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Lisa Snowdon?

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!

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

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

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

An older relative moved to California in early 80s and worked in construction and met George Clooney. He was by all accounts very much into women and a good lad.

I've always seen the rumour GC is gay but he's dated a lot of women in his time, would all those women be prepared to be a beard? It's also a bit unecessary. He was also 50 odd when he got married, again a bit unecessary to go through a whole marriage at 50, to cover up being gay when the rumour had already been around for many years.

Both are very attractive successful people. Lots of money so very little day to day drudgery. Why would they not be in a real relationship? Its not like it's hard to be attracted to either of them

Amal is not some mindless wannabe hitching her wagon to some sad no hoper, she is a very bright, hugely successful, internationally well regarded lawyer and was before they met. Why would she risk her hard earned professional reputation by pretending to be something she isn’t?

Sigh ..😔

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

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?

Leo Varadkar was firmly in the closet until he saw which way the country was leaning with the upcoming gay marriage referendum. Once he saw it would benefit his career, he came out. Up to that point he had been following a very conservative line, stating that marriage was between a man and a woman, children should have a mother and a father etc. Make no mistake, in certain areas even nowadays, coming out can ruin a person's career, especially if they have been pretending otherwise for a long time. Look how many people on this thread absolutely refuse to believe it of Clooney. You can understand that if he was, he would think at this stage he had everything to lose and nothing to gain by coming out.

God forbid he had friends of the same sex who'd stay at his house! The scandal!

You're seriously invested in this ! A bit sad really

I don't think George is gay. Though my gaydar is rubbish.

He was a notorious womaniser wasn't he, before meeting Amal? Didn't he date that British model who was a judge on a modelling show? I forget her name.

Amal was the full package, intelligent, good looking and highly respected in her field and didn't need George. She could have probably married an uber rich tech magnate or someone high profile from a political family. But I could see how he wooed and won her over.

He was punching above his weight and knew it. Didn't he sue newspapers who ran a negative story about his intentions towards her? He was smitten!

When I think of Hollywood wives Amal is easily the most authentic and intelligent. Still working as a high profile lawyer despite the pull of luxurious ease, and occasionally writing open letters to the UK government about certain issues

They're a true compliment of each other.

I don’t care what he is/was/whatever as long as he keeps on making films and he’s in good health and happy.

They are a Hollywood couple so it would be impossible to know what is really going on. Both seem like narcissists who need to be admired, as Hollywood people generally are...

In the 1940s people opened a magazine or switched on their wirelesses to learn that movie star Joan Crawford was having another lovely Christmas with her lovely and well dressed, adopted children. In the 1980s, after Joan had died we learnt that it was all a sham and they had been brutalised and abused by an angry drunk.

In the 1950s, Rock Hudson married his secretary (a very 1950s cliche) and everyone though he was heterosexual...

In the 2010s, Nicole Kidman said her face was completely natural (Baaaah!).

FWIW I would imagine Clooney to be bi. He would certainly have had every opportunity to be.

Perhaps the chap ate a dodgy prawn.
Young man + hospital doesn’t add up to ‘“debauched shenanigans in famous villa; news at six”

@BunnyLake I was married to a gay man, the problem was that he wasn't honest about it (to me or himself). We were not fabulously happy, it wasn't directly because he was gay but I think his treatment of me had unconscious links to his general disdain of women. We looked like a great "power couple" though, career success, lots of entertaining etc, big charade. I was young when it started, and when I left I was bitter at how much of my life I had wasted on that marriage.

Now I am old and I could see the attraction of a man who didn't want sex most of the time! But living a lie, whether or not you realise it, is not a recipe for happiness.

What?????

I thought it was me!

Rupert never struck me as a leading man in a rom com type environment to be honest. Perfect for sardonic, acidity type characters but I would never have bought him being a divorced father of two juggling fatherhood, whilst looking for love with a leading lady.