The Clooneys - is it real

I disagree that Clooney doesn't have real political power. The Democratic Party is highly enamoured with all things Hollywood, and Clooney is a leading Hollywood Democrat who is reputed to have a lot of sway with the governance of that party, not least because of the fundraisers he holds for them. His opinion piece in The NY Times about Biden has been credited (or discredited) with making the latter drop out of the presidential race.

There are plenty of self hating gays!

How have I never noticed this before?!! LOL

Actually he is gay. It’s well known in the industry.

Yep. He bats for the other team.

It was a gay man who told me the story. I'll be sure to pass your concerns onto him.

I remember reading about Brad Pitt and La Jolie, who explained that in order to remain at the very A-est of the A List, you have to have a truly enormous income way beyond that earned from acting.
You have to spend like you are Croesus on all the trappings.
You’d direct, certainly produce; or advertise (often away in Japan, out of sight), or maybe go in for viniculture, for example.

Needing such megastar glamour isn’t for everyone, but if you intend to be glad-handing heads of state, reclusive tycoons etc, for the benefit of their influence in causes you espouse, you need to be solid gold yourself (or be Bono….there’s always one!) to receive the invitation into their milieu.
They need the assurance that you are their equal in privilege, if no other.

Well, that was their excuse anyway!

jumped from wherever to whatever- all scuttlebutt

Please tell me where I said he fell out of a window?

As above George is a producer and director and don’t forget he’s been earning big money for over 30 years. That’s a long time for it to accumulate especially if he’s made investments. He’s also done a lot of promoting, particularly in SE Asia where you get big money and no one in the americas or Europe sees you.

tbh I don’t think the top lawyer/ famous person pairing is that unusual, although George and Amal are certainly the leading couple of that genre.

I think if Amal wanted power there were many better men to marry who carry real power, which George doesn’t.

i 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 😂

There is no record of a boy falling out of a window at George Clooney's Italian house in 2013 or any other time. But like all good scuttlebutt, why do some basic searches and spoil a good bit of implicit libel

I don’t think she’s gorgeous, attractive yes. Her hair looks like extensions. But she tall.
When was the last blockbuster Cooney was in?

I had a csf leak which is a horrible debilitating condition. I am still active on leak Facebook groups and Clooney is probably the most famous person who had it. (He was operated on by the leading surgeon in this area). It is not a secret, there is an interview where he talks about it I believe. But, but, but… firstly, it probably gave him a massive scare and maybe changed his plans to run for office. This condition does leave a mark even if you’re successfully operated on. Secondly, we leakers were somewhat disappointed that he chose not to be our advocate ~ develop diagnostics, train more surgeons and neurorads etc etc etc. Some people become passionate advocates and I think he is very private and probably chose not to pursue public office. He is indeed surrounded by gay rumors and such rumors are very rarely false unfortunately. So I do tend to think that a lot of it is PR because I think it’s difficult for him to come out, he’s naturally private (and he had a huge health scare that probably completely traumatized him on top of everything), Amal does get something (probably a lot) out of this relationship too. Twins firstly. Nice life. Como, Sonning, the US.

I'm still not very clear about the problems with Kate's buttons were, @Millytante , but I'll take your word it was a thing.
"it bespoke a grave moral lack" - what, the Clooneys or Kate?.

By being a successful producer and director, which can amass much more of a fortune than mere acting.

Oh it was a literal thing, I assure you! (I meant to write buttons, not button)

A certain American gossip site was very anti-Kate Middleton indeed, and this was even before MM was on the scene, and they got frothing mad when, as so often, Kate would wear a coat or jacket with a profusion of large buttons. She still favours such a look now. But it drove this lot bananas, as though it bespoke a grave moral lack.

Around then, the Clooney marriage was imminent, and Amal was daily ripped to pieces by them all. Rabid loathing.
The wedding itself was a hoot, because you’d have had to be from Mars to have found the objections to her look, or the general chic day as a whole, but they managed it with bells on.
Anyway, these two stupid stories were going on at the same time. No link, unless it was a hairstyle!

(I was writing a piece about this and another site at the time by the way, though I admit it makes me look very grubby now.)

Just basic gaydar. Yours needs tweaking.

No idea or even any thoughts on whether either of them is gay, but they have zero chemistry and come across as staged. I don’t buy that they’re a love match in any way, shape or form.

Couldn’t care less, though, if it’s working out for them. Good luck to them!

They’re homophobes, so thats their intention.

Hee hee hee! You’re right! OMG, I’ll never unsee that now.

Isn’t he an actor ?

Perhaps she's gay too,it's called a Lavender marriage

It wouldn't be a lie, he would be obviously gay but celibate and we’d be best mates and companions, sounds perfect to me nowadays. Marrying romantically to someone you think is straight but turns out not to be must be absolutely awful though.

Oh FFS.
‘Balcony accident’ seems to be a wildly popular activity of young Brits abroad, and in their case it’s just alcohol that’s blamed, rather than rampant homoerotic sin.

This thread has astonished me; I had no idea there was such hypocrisy and prurience in the air.
It’s like it’s 1985 again (but without the great music.)

This is so vacuous and really rather rude to actually gay people.