To think George Clooney's mother is deluded if he thinks he is his fiancee's intellectual equal?

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She is Oxford educated and fluent in three languages - just saying!

I agree with Kelly. Any male celeb who isn't married by the age of about 32 is rumoured to be gay. Then people start talking as if they know this as a fact when often it's just something they've seen alluded to in some trashy mag or on some showbiz forum. Do any of the people winking and nodding on this thread know something, or are they just trying to sound as if they do? Fair enough if you have inside and totally reliable information. But if not, a bit irresponsible behaviour to be spreading stuff like that around.

I think the OP was commenting really on the assumption that he's the catch, rather than the clever, well-educated, clearly highly capable and very lovely barrister.

Hadley Freeman puts it well here

The expression round here is

'I'll show my bottom on the town hall steps'

hadley freeman, like most feminists, is in denial about the facts of life. george Clooney is a famous, rich, attractive film star, that makes him a catch out in the real world.

I used to have a lot of time for George. Frankly, I don't take his calls anymore. Which is probably why he's now a'fiancéed to another.

What's going to happen to the pot bellied pig?

Jennifer Aniston is a famous, rich, attractive film star - definitely a catch out in the real world (and more famous, richer and arguably more attractive than her fiance) and yet she's seen as the lucky one - that's Hadley Freeman's point.

Hadley Freeman, like most feminists, is pointing out a double standard here.

A very close relative of mine has worked with his"fiancee" and says she is "super smart" and would never be made a fool of by anyone. Apparently, in the flesh she is utterly gorgeous to boot!
The general opinion of many of her former colleagues is that George is a very lucky man and is to be envied!

Not sure why an Oxford education, language fluency and being a barrister means one is automatically deemed intellectual.

Er...it's not. Two people who have barely got a brain cell between them can be intellectual equals.

Going back to George's mother, I thought her evident enthusiasm was rather sweet.

His last girlfriend was a pro wrestler. Without saying anything negative about her, I think most mothers, if you showed up with an Oxford educated human rights barrister as the following girlfriend, would get a bit over-excited.

Not sure why an Oxford education, language fluency and being a barrister means one is automatically deemed intellectual

Er...it's not. Two people who have barely got a brain cell between them can be intellectual equals

Kind of my point, in response to the OP doubting George Clooney being an intellectual equal because the lady has an Oxford education and is trilingual. Those facts do not make her "intellectual", and Geroge's apparent lack of similar does not render him "unintellectual".

He'll marry her as my money is in her being pregnant already and that's what's forced his (or her) hand.

Might. I just point out George has in fact been married before for five minutes

I went to polytechnic. Dies that mean that George no longer interested in me?

[Deluded]

Dies = Does

I didn't study English

I can't read all this I'm in a taxi but, sorry if this has been said, isn't she deluded if she thinks her don is straight? I bet he's got his eye on the White House or something.

Son not Don!! I have mad men on my mind

The pig died ages ago.

Yeah, that pig is long gone.

It's all very interesting. Now that I am home I need to sit down and do some proper googling.

I love a Clooney thread.

Able, yes. Intellectual? It doesn't automatically follow that a top barrister is going to be an intellectual, does it? In this case she might well be, I concede, but I don't see that it's a given.

I am so tired of reading that he is gay, btw, on no evidence at all that anybody has been able to cite.

On this evidence (article from the Independent with nine pictures, yes, nine, count them) of George and former significant others, he has got much better looking as he has got older.

I wish no real harm to Amal Alamuddin but should she and Mr AllMimsy have a nasty accident together, George and I would quite naturally turn to each other for comfort, wouldn't we?

If you measure someone's level of intellect purely on their academic qualifications, you will always be unreasonable.

Intellect/intelligence is measured in many different ways so far as I can see; emotional intelligence, creativity, compassion, thoughtfulness etc may be a different take on the traditional way that intellect is thought of, but are valid nonetheless

Same face if you ask me. He's fallen in love with himself

I thought the same thing, very very similar faces....

BTW LOads of oxbridge on here?

I have it on good authority (someone who works with her) that she is very bright and nice.
You would be unlikely to get tenancy at Doughty St without being very capable.
No idea though about George's intellectual credentials!