The Clooneys - is it real

Umm.. I suspect it was his revelations about being a teenage rent boy ( not very family friendly) and his very indiscreet and bitchy ( though hilarious) memoirs that tanked him in the US, rather than just being gay.

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.

😂😂😂😂

I'd love that to have been the thread!

I bumped into them a few years back walking on a towpath in the middle of nowhere near their home in the UK. They were the most stunning couple, politely said hello and carried on their way. They certainly looked like a normal couple to me, not showbiz, just real. We were totally flabbergasted as we realised who they were! Good luck to them.

@Bambamhoohoo am a massive fan of Amal but my understanding is she’s a junior barrister (or was when they married) and not quite the worlds legal trail blazer she’s sometimes portrayed as. But she’s brilliant and does very interesting work. She’s someone you’d love to hate if she probably wasn’t also funny and kind 😂

The Amal you’ve described bears no resemblance to the one here.

https://www.doughtystreet.co.uk/barristers/amal-clooney

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.

I wouldn't be shocked if he was gay.

If so, my assumption would be that she is not keen on a sexual relationship with a man (or anyone, maybe?) but wanted kids and a family life, or that possibly her family had fairly traditional expectations around marriage.

But maybe they are genuine.

Quite! It was a coming together of equals, which was certainly a clean break from George’s usual practice.

I’ve heard he’s gay

And me - he's constantly texting me at all hours, so tedious.

Have no idea

but I have always found him to be disingenuous proven when he claimed to be in shock over allegations towards Harvey Weinstein

he has a reputation of being a prank joker I’ve yet to met one who isn’t a twat

Neither of them settled. He was the Hollywood a list, confirmed bachelor with his pick of any girlfriend he wanted and she is absolutely stellar in her field, ridiculously intelligent, wealthy and stunning to boot. Who wouldn't be happy!

Typical woman, eh. Letting sentiment get in the way of a more advantageous marriage.
Why, if she’d held out a bit longer she might even have snared the last Kennedy standing, and think where she could be now! On the hostessing list of The Man With The Golden Oval Office! 🤣

What would she get? A few billion. Do you have any idea of his net worth? And attention. She absolutely craves the camera.

But a loving relationship cannot be allowed to go around unchallenged!
There must be stamping of feet and gnashing of teeth, and a crusading zeal to sniff out just one tiny iota of hypocrisy or bad faith there, so that the whole enterprise may more satisfyingly be mocked and made dirty by ravening observers.
What a time to be alive, to be sure.

Wentworth Miller is the star of Prison Break!

Well yes, she’s a household name now. How many other human rights lawyers can your average non lawyer name? And yes, together with her husband, she is massively influential amongst those who fund politicians.

If there were other marriage options who wielded more power, she didn’t marry them, did she.

He didn't fall out of a window, the story is he fell off a cliff either running away from or being chased by 'someone' at Clooney's villa in Lake Como.

That was in 2013. Then, the story goes, Amal was hired by fixers to be George's wife.

Ok yes you win, George clooney was the only and ultimate political powerhouse option for marriage and we can see now how politically powerful Amal has become thanks to that.

Did she get the job?

If you are a human rights advocate with a long term agenda for world wide change, do you marry,

1. A transient politician, just the one, with a limited shelf life and influence, who could be out of his job within a few years and completely forgotten; who has to act/make policies that won’t piss off his big donors and at least attempt to observe the interests of the people he serves, both of whose interests may lie in very different places to that of his wife, and in fact whose interests may be the opposite of his wife’s HR agenda; and in fact, working with his wife’s agenda in mind could result in a direct conflict of interest and could be seen to be completely unethical and undemocratic, which would actually reflect pretty badly on both him and his wife, especially if she is involved in active legal cases that conflict with or even involve the government as a litigant, as many HR cases do; or

2 A massive, global star known for 30 years to have an HR agenda to the point of being seen as an expert in the field; who has used his interest in that agenda to influence successive leaders and would be leaders from one of two major parties that produces the most powerful leader in the world once every four years, and when one is done, he can just move straight on to the next one; all the while, he himself remains unfettered by conflicting interests, to do and say exactly what he wants to do and remain single mindedly focussed on the agenda, because he is a private citizen not accountable to an electorate; and as such, is absolutely willing and able to push his clever wife’s agenda free from conflict or question over his ethics - as is she, free from the taint of whatever a politician husband might have to do to remain in power. And he’s part of the Hollywood elite, that every would be leader wants to be cosy with, because they have the sort of soft power and influence and money that nobody who has come through politics via the traditional routes can possibly have. And on the side, wealthy (probably billionaire from all his non acting interests) husband can set up a foundation that can wield even more influence in your chosen field of HR influenced philanthropy, something a politician husband on even the most well paid public salary wouldn’t be able to fund.

What's 'Beard'?

Popbitch has also been very wrong about people and successfully sued by Max Beesley and Paddy McGuinness among others.

Not heard of the poor Italian boy, then.

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