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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 · 30/08/2025 10:46

"so there!"
Really? Well, I admire any woman who got into Oxford and became a barrister.

TartanBarmy · 30/08/2025 10:41

The description of her on her chambers website was likely written by her - that’s an advert. Like any other company profile.

I also know a few people in the “Legal 500” - it’s not as chichi as it makes out - one in particular is not a particularly good advocate but has charm and personality - by no means a great legal mind though!

Anyway. She has a good job but she is most well known for being George Clooney’s wife. I don’t think we’d have heard of her without that. And I think she’s as gay as he is! So there!

Invinoveritaz · 30/08/2025 09:40

YouonlyhaveonelifeGetagrip · 29/08/2025 23:38

Well there's no arguing with that. And you are someone who has the right to vote and to be on a jury.

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Actually I’m not. Make of that what you will.

Bambamhoohoo · 30/08/2025 09:24

Weepixie · 30/08/2025 09:17

And I won’t be explaining either.

The information needed to show your posts up for what they are is out there, they speak for themselves. End of.

I suspect from your post you don’t know what a junior barrister is and are offended on her behalf

Bambamhoohoo · 30/08/2025 09:23

She wasn’t an entrainment lawyer and she IS highly successful.

being a barrister in a prestigious chambers is an incredible achievement that few make (although- not a unusual route from Oxford do) she is elite. But she’s one of many in London, and not the worldwide legal star some are portraying her as. As just some random person, I have 2 friends myself who are in the legal 500.

She’s pretty average in elite chambers, and you would expect to find a human rights barristers in The Hague, so again that’s not the achievement it’s being painted as.

that said, the professorships, and charity/ consultancy/ committee opportunities do seem to have come from her marriage. They were highly unlikely to have been offered based on her career before clooney.

Needmorelego · 30/08/2025 09:22

If there actually was "an incident" that happened in Lake Como do people really think he would stay living there?
Surely he would have left ASAP?

Weepixie · 30/08/2025 09:17

And I won’t be explaining either.

The information needed to show your posts up for what they are is out there, they speak for themselves. End of.

NoSuchThingAsAFreeHoliday · 30/08/2025 09:13

silverygreen · 30/08/2025 09:03

Be that as it may, she majored in Entertainment Law in her one year at NYU.

That's not what you said though. You said she was "just a junior entertainment lawyer pre-clooney". That isn't true.

Why do you feel the need to rubbish her career?

Bambamhoohoo · 30/08/2025 09:07

Weepixie · 30/08/2025 03:36

Yet still you managed to downplay her professional achievements despite the evidence to the contrary.

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How? You haven’t responded to explain why

silverygreen · 30/08/2025 09:03

Be that as it may, she majored in Entertainment Law in her one year at NYU.

NoSuchThingAsAFreeHoliday · 30/08/2025 08:42

Tealeaf3 · 30/08/2025 08:38

Not sure what a lowly entertainment lawyer was doing at a meeting with Kofi Annan and Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in 2012

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Yes, that’s quite an astonishing deception.

Tealeaf3 · 30/08/2025 08:38

NoSuchThingAsAFreeHoliday · 30/08/2025 07:59

Are you honestly saying that she only has a career because of George clooney? She was an entertainment lawyer who has worked on trials at The Hague because of who she married? She’s in the Legal 500 and teaches at Columbia? All fixed? Do these gay messages boards say the earth is flat too?

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Not sure what a lowly entertainment lawyer was doing at a meeting with Kofi Annan and Vladimir Putin at the Kremlin in 2012

The Clooneys - is it real
NoSuchThingAsAFreeHoliday · 30/08/2025 07:59

silverygreen · 30/08/2025 05:04

A lot of that absurd success is PR spin. She was just a junior entertainment lawyer pre-Clooney.

He's gay. She's a beard. The babies were carried by a surrogate. The rest is PR, arranged by the same fixers that brought her in to show he isn't gay, after the incident at Lake Como.

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Are you honestly saying that she only has a career because of George clooney? She was an entertainment lawyer who has worked on trials at The Hague because of who she married? She’s in the Legal 500 and teaches at Columbia? All fixed? Do these gay messages boards say the earth is flat too?

KimberleyClark · 30/08/2025 07:57

mellongoose · 30/08/2025 04:24

Maybe it’s her that will run for president. She’s the brains of the outfit.

id love to see that!

She couldn’t run for President, you need to have been born in the USA,she was born in Beirut.

Charlize43 · 30/08/2025 07:50

I don't think Amal has a beard. All the pictures I've seen of her she looks clean shaven. I really don't get it where these stories come from...

Unless they mean?... She can probably afford a Brazilian every week.

SummerDaysAreTheBest · 30/08/2025 07:15

Millytante · 30/08/2025 01:13

Just how long did it take you to suss that out? 😂

In fairness to George Michael, being upfront about the subject in the ‘80s was no laughing matter, with a lot of people misunderstanding those death messages beamed at us on the telly by HMG, coyly hinting things at you in the gloom.

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Well, @MillytanteI was about 8 when Wake me up before you go go came out and I first fell in love 🤷🏻‍♀️

SummerDaysAreTheBest · 30/08/2025 07:10

silverygreen · 30/08/2025 05:04

A lot of that absurd success is PR spin. She was just a junior entertainment lawyer pre-Clooney.

He's gay. She's a beard. The babies were carried by a surrogate. The rest is PR, arranged by the same fixers that brought her in to show he isn't gay, after the incident at Lake Como.

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What was the incident at lake como?

Libertybellz · 30/08/2025 07:10

I think he’s gay because I’ve never fancied him and I know he’s very good looking and just my type and I have noticed I never fancy gay men, it’s a chemistry thing imo

autienotnaughty · 30/08/2025 06:49

I’d assume he played the field for years (maybe men and women) who knows? He’s got old and realised he wants more and sensibly met someone to be his equal. They probably aren't passionately in love anymore but thats normal.

silverygreen · 30/08/2025 06:14

daisychain01 · 30/08/2025 05:51

Are you always so keen to spread disinformation @silverygreen ? Or maybe you're just dripping with resentment and envy. Or possibly dismissive misogyny

you don't suddenly and magically become an international human rights lawyer and barrister with degrees from Oxford and New York just by getting together with George Clooney. Capability and talent does come into it, strangely enough.

Are you always so keen to believe in PR?

It's not disinformation, it's widely accepted gay gossip from gay men's message boards, but they of course would know nothing about being gay, and the longstanding tradition in show business of lavender marriages and beards.

daisychain01 · 30/08/2025 05:51

Are you always so keen to spread disinformation @silverygreen ? Or maybe you're just dripping with resentment and envy. Or possibly dismissive misogyny

you don't suddenly and magically become an international human rights lawyer and barrister with degrees from Oxford and New York just by getting together with George Clooney. Capability and talent does come into it, strangely enough.

silverygreen · 30/08/2025 05:04

yogpot · 29/08/2025 17:55

Why on earth would Amal, an absurdly successful human rights lawyer who has continued in this career and not attempted any kind of showbiz pivot, agree to be a beard? What possible benefit would she get from that?! She doesn’t need him!

I think he gets all the benefits in this relationship (and I’m sure he would agree!) in terms of social clout etc.

So perhaps they’re just a disgustingly attractive, successful couple who are in love. Enough to make my blood boil, tbh 😂

A lot of that absurd success is PR spin. She was just a junior entertainment lawyer pre-Clooney.

He's gay. She's a beard. The babies were carried by a surrogate. The rest is PR, arranged by the same fixers that brought her in to show he isn't gay, after the incident at Lake Como.

mellongoose · 30/08/2025 04:24

Maybe it’s her that will run for president. She’s the brains of the outfit.

id love to see that!

EachandEveryone · 30/08/2025 03:50

I don’t think he’s gay but he is camp.

Weepixie · 30/08/2025 03:36

Bambamhoohoo · 30/08/2025 02:16

That’s literally what I read a few hours ago. What doesn’t bear resemblance? It’s well known the chambers she works for, the cases she works on and the barristers she works with.

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Yet still you managed to downplay her professional achievements despite the evidence to the contrary.

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