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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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IMissSparkling · 29/08/2025 18:08

HollyhockDays · 29/08/2025 18:05

As a pp said what would be in it for Amal being a beard?

She won't be doing it for free!

charlieandthechocolatfactory · 29/08/2025 18:09

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 😂

This

and she is absolutely stunning

DipsyDee · 29/08/2025 18:09

Amal definitely likes the attention

ItsATemporaryOne · 29/08/2025 18:11

I changed my name for this! But my parents live next to the Clooneys! Lovely by all accounts. And he’s not gay!

AmyDuPlantier · 29/08/2025 18:11

ChrisMartinsKisskam · 29/08/2025 18:07

Oh Yeah I remember reading that about him
and Randy Greuber

Doesn’t GC want to eventually go into politics and therefore needs a wife / 2.4 kids to

however when I o hear the name Randy Grueber I always think of Hans Grueber in Die hard 😂

Eventually? Isn’t he about 60? I think if that was his plan he’d have started it by now.

MinnieCauldwell · 29/08/2025 18:12

Amal has it all going on; incredibly successful career, (a proper job not Hollywood), handsome film star husband and she is gorgeous looking, those legs and hair!

Endofyear · 29/08/2025 18:18

I hope so! Of course, most couples put on a good face in front of the cameras and they probably have the usual domestic couples niggles that we all have. But I've been married 35 years and would say I'm still very happy and in love. It's not that unusual is it?

ChrisMartinsKisskam · 29/08/2025 18:20

HollyhockDays · 29/08/2025 18:05

As a pp said what would be in it for Amal being a beard?

She was hugely successful and wealthy but i
doubt if it was private jet / unlimited money Hollywood film start wealthy

i mean if she hadn’t married George would she have able to afford the lifestyle she has no which is pretty much unlimited money

now she gets to continue her career and all the access to George money / fame

pretty sweet deal for her

and the twin wernt they IVF or rumour of that

also George has always played the leading man / lover in all of his films
he can’t exactly come out and say he is gay when he’s playing the ladies leading man

PermanentTemporary · 29/08/2025 18:21

I can’t help admiring them. I was the right age to have a massive crush on him in ER (tbh I preferred Dr Greene but he is still exceptionally easy on the eye) and have intermittently read various highly angled interviews with him (confirmed bachelor, probably gay, never going to marry, oh he’s marrying a really interesting woman who’s also gorgeous). I have now got the clear impression that he does what the fuck he actually wants to do. More power to them both.

isitelsa · 29/08/2025 18:23

What is it with people who are so sad in their lives, they think that's the only way EVERY other person must be going through life.

TaupeMember · 29/08/2025 18:24

Im not saying one way but youd be pretty dense to not know that some film stars are in the closet as the ones out as gay don't make the same bucks at the box office, and therefore stay in the closet and have fake girlfriends.

WooleyMunky · 29/08/2025 18:24

SpaceRaccoon · 29/08/2025 17:20

Beard.

Clooney, not Cruise...duh

backandforthup · 29/08/2025 18:27

SpaceRaccoon · 29/08/2025 17:20

Beard.

Oh please

Vitriolinsanity · 29/08/2025 18:27

My friend has met them. She applied for a post as their nanny. She said they were smashing. George answered the door himself and, frankly, if that’s not a banging start to an interview I can’t think what would be better.

PermanentTemporary · 29/08/2025 18:29

I find it completely believable that he’s bisexual. He has that Cary Grant energy.

SwedishEdith · 29/08/2025 18:32

TaupeMember · 29/08/2025 18:24

Im not saying one way but youd be pretty dense to not know that some film stars are in the closet as the ones out as gay don't make the same bucks at the box office, and therefore stay in the closet and have fake girlfriends.

I agree. I've no idea and couldn't care less if he (or she) was gay or not. But is it really that easy to be gay as a lead actor in Hollywood?

bumblebeedum · 29/08/2025 18:33

Wildfairy · 29/08/2025 17:25

That’s actually laughable, clooney is clearly not gay, and even if he was, he certainly wouldn’t need a beard, nor would a successful human rights lawyer agree to it and have kids with him. Cmon, lazy comment,

Yet he’s a brand ambassador for nespresso a nestle company. Nestle the company well known for its human rights violations particularly child labour?

SuperTrooper1111 · 29/08/2025 18:34

He's not gay. Those rumours have plagued him for years and he's said if he was gay, he'd be out and proud. It's also hugely disrespectful to Amal to claim she's been bought – the woman is a human rights lawyer who's spent her career advocating for trafficked people!

He was waiting for the right woman to settle down with, an intellectual equal he was never going to find in Hollywood. Plus, his mum has the same look as her (minus long hair)! There is a saying that men end up marrying their mothers...

The Clooneys - is it real
Glitchymn1 · 29/08/2025 18:36

SpaceRaccoon · 29/08/2025 17:20

Beard.

I thought you meant because he had a beard 🥴🤣literally lol

allwillbe · 29/08/2025 18:37

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 😂

Well said:)

MrsKeats · 29/08/2025 18:39

I know someone who dated George’s cousin. It’s well known that he’s gay.

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 29/08/2025 18:43

There is not one out n proud gay man,currently, in Hollywood.
Just sayjng

TomatoSandwiches · 29/08/2025 18:44

I don't think he is gay at all, I do think he was putting feelers out for an " appropriate " wife to have children with and one that leveled him up in a more serious context.
Amal is gorgeous but as a high performing woman with an illustrious career her choices of decent men that she was attracted to and that could treat her they way she should were probably small.
They seem to be a perfect match in that they meet each other's requirements and now have a lovely little family, I'm sure love has grown with time even if it was more of an arrangement in the beginning.

SuperTrooper1111 · 29/08/2025 18:44

Didshejustsaythatoutloud · 29/08/2025 18:43

There is not one out n proud gay man,currently, in Hollywood.
Just sayjng

Neil Patrick Harris. Matt Bomer. Wentworth Miller. Sean Hayes. Luke Evans.

I could go on.

Pollyanna87 · 29/08/2025 18:45

YouMightThinkThat · 29/08/2025 17:24

Lazy and not particularly well thought out comment.

GC is massively into human rights over the whole spectrum and the idea that someone of that mindset would go that far to keep himself in the closet is beyond absurd.

If he cared about human rights, he wouldn’t work for Nestlé!