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To wonder why the Press aren't banging on about the age difference between George and Amal?

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CateBlanket · 12/09/2014 21:45

looking at these pictures he could be her dad but are the Press banging on about the 16 year age difference? Er no. You don't think it's because he's a man, do you? If a woman of 53 was marrying a 36 year old man, she'd be labelled a cougar and he'd be a toyboy but Amal isn't being called a toy girl!

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Onedropoflove · 15/09/2014 09:52

It's ridiculous how mainly men in Hollywood can't come as as gay. For those already established as A list stars I can imagine it would be impossible and not fair to their beards or children. It would still be scandalous even today.

OldF0ssil · 15/09/2014 10:36

I must be very naive. Would anybody marry a man knowing he was gay and have children with him? and even if they all got on very well as a unit, with a friendship at the centre of the family rather than a romantic relationship, would you feel you could expect your children to collude with the facade as the years rolled by?

Well, maybe so. I had children with an asshole as it turns out. A gay friend might have been a better choice. But I don't think I could have done it if I'd had a good self-esteem and been self-aware. Which I wasn't when I was young. It's just so hard to believe that people would knowingly marry a gay man.

Onedropoflove · 15/09/2014 10:47

It depends how each would benefit I suppose. People have unconventional families all the time. I guess if you are best mates underneath it all.

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mrsjavierbardem · 15/09/2014 11:35

Re famous people being gay: I don't think sexuality is perfectly simple and straightforward for everyone. There have been people who have moved up and down the line between heterosexuality and homosexuality as their sexuality has changed or evolved or expressed different times of their lives.

Many of us know what we are but I think there has always been a group that travels between the two places and they don't fall into simple categorisation. I know a woman who was married, had kids, had a brilliant professional career. Got divorced, married a woman for 15 years, they split up, are still massive friends and then she was with a man and is now single and happy. I think the gender of the person she loved was irrelevant and her sexuality was expressed to the person first.

Saying a famous person is 'gay' is a bit offensive because, because people should be free to define themselves up to a point. With the exception of political hypocrites and those who support homophobic behaviour/legislation while they are secretly or actively homosexual. There is an argument for outing the hypocrite but I still don't like outing people.

So George and Amal. It is up to them really and both are grown ups. You can see exactly what he sees in her after years spent with women who may not challenged him intellectually. Also this is uber arm candy for him, what a massive status symbol she is for his social group to see. She is with him on her own terms and the press are right to say she is as much of a catch for him as vice versa. The point is every marriage is up against it and these two have a lot of respect for each other so they have a similar chance to many.

I'd like to see the prenup though, I wonder if he let her draw it up. I'd make a bit for that lakeside property honey...

Onedropoflove · 15/09/2014 16:06

When is thd wedding anyway?

OldF0ssil · 15/09/2014 17:21

mrsjavierbardem it's not offensive to say somebody is gay! gay isn't an insult is it? it's a fact (or an untruth). Big deal whichever way.

Most people identify themselves more clearly than 'bi-sexual'. I am saying most people. So it seems to me like an odd feeling that it's offensive to describe somebody as gay! Maybe we'd be wrong but I don't see how it's offensive Confused

PistolWhipped · 15/09/2014 17:27

Javier, which of George's exes do you perceive to have not challenged him intellectually? I hope you don't mean the 6' 1" stunning female wrestler with a PhD in molecular biology.

Cariad007 · 15/09/2014 17:33

Stacy Keibler? She doesn't have a PhD.

Cocolepew · 15/09/2014 17:45

She is, so a cover, bet he's going into politics.

Bradley needs to dump that Suki person, I can only wait so long.

OldF0ssil · 15/09/2014 17:48

George doesn't have a phd either!! I think it was his mammy who reckoned that his previous girlfriends hadn't been able for his great intellectual might. I dated a man with a similar mother.

OldF0ssil · 15/09/2014 17:51

PS, if a man's girlfriends haven't stimulated him intellectually then that's his fault for choosing girlfriends that haven't stimulated him intellectually! Plenty of very clever women capable of stimulating clever men, if those men are smart enough to choose girlfriends on the basis of their personalities.

He went out with a french waitress years ago, celine bartran (?) but sure 'even the waitress' was bilingual and has a degree.

limitedperiodonly · 15/09/2014 18:32

I'm not that impressed by George Clooney's cosmopolitanism.

After he split from Celine Balitran he talked in magnanimous terms about securing a Green Card for her so she could live and work in the United States.

This was a white French woman who was a waitress in a very upmarket restaurant and was had the happy opportunity of using that job to meet rich men fund her way though university. In that well-known hell-hole, Paris. In that notorious warzone and economic sewer, the European Union.

The way he talked about it she was clinging onto the helicopter in the last airlift from the US embassy in Saigon.

Onedropoflove · 15/09/2014 19:32
Grin

That's a horrible thing to say about his exes. www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/george-clooney-engaged-look-back-3466046 I don't think any of them are as daft as brushes just good beards

PistolWhipped · 15/09/2014 19:36

Cariad, I was being sardonic.

Guffawing pleasingly at LimitedPeriod's post.

PistolWhipped · 15/09/2014 19:37

What is a 'beard'?

squoosh · 15/09/2014 19:38

A 'beard' is a person who poses as a celebrity's partner to disguise the fact the celeb is gay.

Bakeoffcakes · 15/09/2014 19:39

I have it on very good authority that contracts were involved with previous girlfriends.

Things which might have been covered by the contracts were length of relationship and various allowances payment.

Onedropoflove · 15/09/2014 19:48

Like TC?

PistolWhipped · 15/09/2014 19:49

Jimmy Krankie, then?

Onedropoflove · 15/09/2014 19:50

The thing is, he started out playing a sex god doctor or at least Doug Ross made him internationally a sex symbol. I can see how it carried on from there.

PistolWhipped · 15/09/2014 19:51

Bakeoffcakes, stop with the intrigue. You know nowt.

Grin
Kimaroo · 15/09/2014 19:51

Another one here that thinks GC looks old for 53. If I didn't know him and someone said he was 70 I'd believe them.

PistolWhipped · 15/09/2014 19:52

I have it on very good authority that George Clooney tea-bagged that dog off The Artist.

squoosh · 15/09/2014 19:57

He doesn't look 70!!

Poor old George.

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