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| | George Clooney's public declaration of love to Amal now has a video, you guys | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Allegedly, George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are going to have a very small civil service today in London, which I suppose will be the ?legally binding? wedding ahead of the ?just for fun? wedding in Venice in a few weeks. If you believe the words coming out of George Clooney?s mouth, that is. Star Mag?s conspiracy (which is also a theory I mentioned on Monday) is that George said they would marry in Venice to throw people off the scent of a Como wedding. We?ll see. Speaking of George’s Sunday confessions, when George and Amal attended the Celebrity Fight Night event on Sunday, it was widely reported that he publicly declared his love to Amal from the stage. For the record, his exact words were: ?To my bride-to-be Amal, I love you very much and I can?t wait to be your husband.? NOW WITH
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| | Amal Alamuddin 'showed off her huge engagement ring' at an 'intimate' dinner | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?ve sort of come out on the other side on George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin?s engagement and the flurry of nonsensical reports about how loved-up they are. I used to just feel bewildered and disconcerted by how out of character all of this was. Now I?m just sitting back and enjoying it. It?s crazy and it will get even crazier if and when they finally do get hitched, which is maybe two weekends away. In the meantime, E! News reports that George and Amal had another lovey-dovey outing this week:
The love is definitely in the air for George Clooney and his bride-to-be Amal Alamuddin.
After gushing about his fiance at the Celebrity Fight Night Gala over the weekend, Clooney and his future wife went out for an “intimate” Italian dinner date at Harry’s Bar on Tuesday night.
An eyewitness tells E! News that the couple were “all smiles as they made their way inside the restaurant and looked very much in love” as they cozied up to each other at one point. “Amal showed off her huge engagement ring as the pair shared a romantic moment,” the insider added, noting that they were there for a couple of hours and that George frequents Harry’s often while in Italy.
The pair made their first red carpet appearance over the weekend, and their romantic evening out on the town was overflowing with PDA.
Clooney gushed about his lady while giving a speech at the event, telling the crowd, “I’ve met my bride-to-be in Italy and I will be married in Italy soon, in a couple of weeks. In Venice of all places! In closing, I guess what I would like to say is to my bride-to-be, Amal, that I love you very much and I can’t wait to be your husband.”
A guest told E! News, “She seemed so touched and overwhelmed and at that moment they looked right at each other and it was as if there was no one else in the room.”
[From E! News]
Who is providing these sappy quotes to media outlets? Is it George?s publicist? Or is it the gossip zeitgeist, that George ?has changed? and Amal is The One? And she adores her Sexiest Man Alive, The Forever Bachelor as well? ?it was as if there was no one else in the room.? Barf.
Also ? there are reports that George and Amal?s Venice wedding with just include about 60 people. 60 people plus Anna Wintour and the Vogue photographers, I?m hoping. Us Weekly says that they’ll do the civil ceremony this Friday in London, then on September 27th, they’ll do a bigger (but exclusive) wedding party at Venice’s Hotel Cipriani. So far the guest list does not include Brangelina, Matt Damon or Ben Affleck but does include Cindy Crawford, John Krasinski and Julianna Margulies.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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| | George Clooney to Amal: 'I love you to death & I can't wait to become your husband' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some more pics of George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin on Sunday night in Florence for Celebrity Fight Night. Just FYI, these are totally the photos we?re going to use when they finally do get married. Celebrities have to think about that kind of thing: ?When I announce my wedding/engagement, which photos will be used?? Generally, most media and gossip sites will use the most current photos we have, or failing that, the last red carpet photos we have. Considering Amal has been dodging the paparazzi for the most part for more than a month and considering these are literally the only red carpet photos we have of her, these are the photos we?re probably/definitely going to use. Unless Amal goes on a pap-friendly walkabout in the next week, then all bets are off!
Anyway, I really wanted to use these photos specifically because they came in later than the photos I used yesterday. There?s not much new stuff to report ? George said in his speech (he picked up a humanitarian award) that he and Amal would be getting married in Venice ?in a few weeks.? A source told E! News: ?He said he is an honorary 12-year resident of Italy and then said they were getting married in Venice. He also said to Amal [from the podium], ‘I love you very much.’” I still don?t know if I believe that.
Italian reports are more specific about Clooney?s wording ? they have him saying ?I’m getting married on September 26th. In Venice, in an ancient palace.? He also said they would only honeymoon for three days before he had to go back to work. Amal apparently told reporters that she?s definitely going to wear an Oscar de la Renta wedding gown. George apparently said: ?I would say to Amal ‘I love you to death and I cannot wait to become your husband?.? WHO ARE YOU, George Clooney? He?s never, never been this guy. He?s never made public declarations of love. He?s never been this forthcoming with details about his personal life! What is he selling and why is he selling it so hard?
PS? I love the earrings but I hate her posture.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | George Clooney checked into 2 medical facilities last month to treat his bad back | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I swear, I?m not making fun of the older people or the people with back problems. My dad had bad back problems for all of my life, and I know the look of someone struggling with their back. And I?m here to tell you ? George Clooney is in a lot of pain. He had a well-publicized problem with his back during and after filming on Syriana back in 2005 and Clooney claimed that he got everything taken care of back then. I didn?t believe him. It?s the way he walks, the pained expression he has when he thinks he?s not being photographed: he?s still struggling. Plus, I always thought that? er, how to say this? I always thought Stacy Keibler?s sexual ?acrobatics? probably exacerbated his back problems. Since George has been with Amal Alamuddin, he hasn?t been photographed that much, but on those rare times when I do see photos of him, he?s always hunched over and walking like? well, an old man. Anyway, this happened:
Almost ten years after filming the Oscar-nominated movie, Syriana, George Clooney is still feeling the effects of his on-set injury.
E! News has learned the actor traveled to Duke University earlier this month and then to a hospital in Dusseldorf, Germany to get his back injury looked at.
After hurting his spinal cord while filming a particularly violent torture scene, the 53-year-old actor periodically loses spinal fluid. As a result, it’s routine for the actor to tend to the injury when it’s warranted.
Clooney’s rep could not be reached for comment.
Clooney has had to cope with lingering effects since the accident occurred in 2004. The back injury turned out to be a torn dura mater, a membrane that covers the spinal cord. Symptoms included severe headaches that give way to spinal fluid leaks. Along the way, Clooney has still been able to maintain a sense of humor about the injury.
“What you learn after you’re 40 is it’s just about plugging up holes in the boat,” he told Men’s Vogue in 2005.
E! News can confirm Clooney is back in Italy relaxing comfortably.
[From E! News]
Yep, pretty much. Despite statements to the contrary over the years, George is still in bad shape and he?s still feeling those old injuries. I feel sorry for him. I feel sorry for Amal Alamuddin a little bit too ? she?s looking less like the power-partner and more like his pretty nursemaid.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | George Clooney: 'It's just fun to slap those bad guys every once in a while' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Just FYI, I would much rather cover THIS STORY at Variety which is the Queen?s Guard covering the Game of Thrones theme music. But this is what we get. George Clooney taking a victory lap because he likes to ?slap those bad guys.? Seriously. I guess it?s smart ? George picked a fight with The Daily Mail and instead of letting the controversy slip away, George is declaring victory and dancing a jig about it. George gave an interview to Variety, apparently conducted over the phone while he?s in Como, planning his wedding. George is SO weird these days, right? He literally just called Variety to talk about his fight with the Daily Mail.
?It?s just fun to slap those bad guys every once in a while, knock ?em around,? George Clooney told Variety Friday about triumphing in his spat with British tabloid the Daily Mail? Clooney, the son of newsman Nick Clooney, has held journalism in high regard (as seen in his film ?Good Night, and Good Luck?). So while he says he understands that some tabloids have always made things up, he is concerned about bigger issues than the Daily Mail?s lies about himself or even his family.
Speaking by phone from Lake Como in Italy, Clooney said ?I would sit with my friends and we?d just go, ?So they just sat at a computer and just went, ?OK, this is what I?m gonna say today.? I mean, literally, because you just go ?There isn?t literally an element of truth in this.? You just laugh, and let it go. I?m used to it after all these years. But the thing that bothers me is how much the Daily Mail is now bleeding into American press and becoming a source for some pretty legitimate newspapers. So that?s the thing that worries me.?
?Those are really bad guys and they do tend to tee off on everybody,? said Clooney. ?It?s fun when you can go, ?Well, this one, I know I have all the facts right.? Usually the argument is: ?Hey, we?re not gonna tell you our source,? and, ?Prove it.? And when they actually do it themselves it?s so great. You go, ?OK, well you obviously just screwed this (up), so I think I can get you now.?
The actor-activist said he?s learned that he has to choose his battles, whether it?s choosing which atrocities in East Africa to spotlight or which lies out of London to object to. ?That?s why you pick your fights at a tabloid. Every day they write things that aren?t true, but every once in a while they write something that is actually dangerous to your family, and it?s probably not true. And that?s the one you pick.?
Of his engagement to activist-lawyer-author Amal Alamuddin, Clooney quipped ?I?m marrying up.?
[From Variety]
Sigh? as I said before, George had every right to bash the Daily Mail. He had every right to set the record straight. He had every right to file a lawsuit (but he didn?t). But I don?t understand why he?s still talking about this. It sort of feels like George is trying to strengthen his political/journalistic/intellectual credibility ? with top human rights barrister Amal Alamuddin at his side, naturally ? but at the end of the day, it?s kind of bad media management. Maybe I?m alone in thinking that.
By the way, I hope everybody saw Amal?s graduation photo ? go here to see it. I?m not going to make fun of her for that stupid wig. I will make fun of Britain for still making barristers wear those stupid wigs though. I realize it?s ?tradition? but enough already.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney bashes the Daily Mail yet again: 'The coverup is always worse' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On Monday, The Daily Mail published a story about George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin and how Amal?s mom didn?t care for George because, as the Mail?s sources claimed, George is not Druze. The article?s sources claimed that Amal comes from a close-knit Druze family and that her mom wanted her to marry within the Druze clan. Less than 48 hours, George sent out a lengthy statement/open letter bashing The Mail?s story as journalistic malpractice and claiming that the Mail had gotten everything wrong. The Mail deleted the story and published this apology to George:
On Monday MailOnline carried an article which alleged that the mother of George Clooney?s fiance Amal Alamuddin would prefer her daughter to be married to a member of the Druze religious group. Yesterday Mr Clooney said the story was ‘completely fabricated’ and exploited ‘religious differences where none exist.’
In a statement MailOnline said: ‘The story was not a fabrication but supplied in good faith by a reputable and trusted freelance journalist. She based her story on conversations with a long standing contact who has strong connections with senior members of the Lebanese community in the UK and the Druze in Beirut. We only became aware of Mr Clooney?s concerns this morning and have launched a full investigation.
?However, we accept Mr Clooney?s assurance that the story is inaccurate and we apologise to him, Miss Amal Alamuddin and her mother, Baria, for any distress caused. We have removed the article from our website and will be contacting Mr Clooney?s representatives to discuss giving him the opportunity to set the record straight.’
[From The Daily Mail]
I thought that was interesting. Like, the Daily Mail says that they did have legit sources on the story and they have faith in their reporter but they?re withdrawing the story and offering an apology. It wasn?t the reaction I was expecting from the DM. Still, controversy over? Not so much. George has issued another statement to USA Today. This is totally bigger than Watergate.
There is one constant when a person or company is caught doing something wrong. The coverup is always worse. In this case, the Daily Mail has printed an apology for insinuating religious tensions where there are none. In the apology, managing editor Charles Garside claims that the article was “not a fabrication,” but “based the story on conversations with senior members of the Lebanese community.”
The problem is that none of that is true. The original story never cites that source, but instead goes out of its way to insist on four different occasions that “a family friend” spoke directly to the Mail. A ” family friend” was the source. So either they were lying originally or they’re lying now.
Furthermore, they knew ahead of time that they were lying. In an article dated April 28, 2014, reporter Richard Spillett writes in the Mail that “Ramzi, (Amal’s father), married outside the Druze faith,” and a family friend said that “Baria, (Amal’s mom), is not Druze.” The Mail knew the story in question was false and printed it anyway.
What separates this from all of the ridiculous things the Mail makes up is that now, by their own admission, it can be proved to be a lie. In fact, a premeditated lie.
So I thank the Mail for its apology. Not that I would ever accept it, but because in doing so they’ve exposed themselves as the worst kind of tabloid.
One that makes up its facts to the detriment of its readers and to all the publications that blindly reprint them.
[From USA Today]
OMG, George Clooney is Twihard-Proofing the Daily Mail!! He?s got the documents! He?s got the DNA tests! He will prove journalistic malpractice, by God. Seriously though, George makes a good point about the ?sources? and the buffet of weird/false reporting about Amal. And it?s his right to do so, and hey, it makes for great gossip stories. But that?s sort of the problem if you?re George, right? He?s brought SO MUCH attention to these Daily Mail stories. It?s The Streisand Effect.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney bashes The Daily Mail's Druze article in a new open letter | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On Monday, The Daily Mail published a lengthy article in which they claimed Amal Alamuddin?s mother didn?t care for George Clooney because she wanted her daughter to marry someone from their Druze faith. The Mail claimed that Amal?s mom believes in insular Druze-only marriages and child-rearing and that since there?s no conversion method for Druze, George could never be worthy. I covered the story yesterday, as did many other blogs and outlets this week. And now George Clooney claims that the entire article is fabricated and that his would-be mother-in-law is not Druze:
I want to speak to the irresponsibility of Monday’s Daily Mail report. I seldom respond to tabloids, unless it involves someone else and their safety or well being. The Daily Mail has printed a completely fabricated story about my fiance’s mother opposing our marriage for religious reasons. It says Amal’s mother has been telling “half of Beirut” that she’s against the wedding. It says they joke about traditions in the Druze religion that end up with the death of the bride.
Let me repeat that: the death of the bride.
First of all, none of the story is factually true. Amal’s mother is not Druze. She has not been to Beirut since Amal and I have been dating, and she is in no way against the marriage ? but none of that is the issue. I’m, of course, used to the Daily Mail making up stories ? they do it several times a week ? and I don’t care. If they fabricate stories of Amal being pregnant, or that the marriage will take place on the set of Downton Abbey, or that I’m running for office, or any number of idiotic stories that they sit at their computers and invent, I don’t care.
But this lie involves larger issues. The irresponsibility, in this day and age, to exploit religious differences where none exist, is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous. We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal.
I’m the son of a newsman; I accept the idea that freedom of speech can be an inconvenience to my private life from time to time, but this story, like so many others, is picked up by hundreds of other outlets citing the Daily Mail as their source, including Boston.com, New York Daily News, Gulf News, Emirates 24/7 and so on.
The Daily Mail, more than any other organization that calls itself news, has proved time and time again that facts make no difference in the articles they make up. And when they put my family and my friends in harm’s way, they cross far beyond just a laughable tabloid and into the arena of inciting violence. They must be so very proud.
[From USA Today]
Okay. I think George has every right to be angry and he has every right to correct the record and call out The Daily Mail for making up stories. So, this is completely justified. Full-stop.
If I wanted to parse – and I’ve gone back and forth on this – I could. Easily. I could find an angle, because while I think George is completely justified in writing what he wrote, I think this statement is a tinder box full of religious and freedom of speech controversies. But so was the original DM article that started everything, so blah. Let George’s words speak for themselves.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | George Clooney & Amal 'definitely want kids ASAP,' just after the wedding | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In the heat of the Met Gala coverage yesterday, I noticed something weird: George Clooney was trying to get attention for his engagement to Amal Alamuddin. Still. Didn?t he get enough attention last week? I guess not. To be fair to Clooney, the tabloid press has only had a week to really go all out and dig into Amal?s past, and maybe (??) this isn?t George?s doing. Like, this isn?t part of his Certified Fiance Rollout. But I?m a conspiracy theorist at heart, and I?m proudly wearing my tin foil hat of TRUTH and I think Clooney?s publicist had a hand in these stories. First, let?s hear about when Clooney and Amal will marry and if BABIES are on the menu.
Now that George Clooney has finally found ?The One,? he?s wasting no time in settling down to family life. RadarOnline.com has exclusively learned that he and fiance Amal Alamuddin will tie the knot in just a few months ? and are planning to have a baby soon after that!
?The wedding is to take place in September,? an insider reveals to Radar exclusively. And though London is already being discussed as a potential venue, the source insists, ?They?ve told family and friends they will only disclose the location at the last minute, and it will be very private. Neither George nor Amal want the wedding to be a public affair ? and her family really doesn?t either.?
Clooney, 53, has kept his in-laws opinions in mind throughout the process of wooing his bride-to-be, the insider says. When it came time to propose, ?George didn?t get a formal permission from her dad, but it was an indirect hint,? the source reveals. ?He definitely tossed the subject of marriage around with them so that he knew they would approve, but he really wanted the proposal to be a total surprise, and didn?t want to give away any hints about when it was going to take place.?
And now, the family is influencing the couple?s baby plans too! Clooney and Alamuddin, 36, ?definitely want kids asap,? the insider says. ?Her father is getting older, and he really wants to see her kids [before he dies].?
?Out of all his kids, he?s especially proud of Amal,? the source explains. ?It would mean the world to him to see her become a mom.?
[From Radar]
Oh, Clooney. How dare you play The Aniston Card! Babies are coming, I promise! First a family-centric wedding and THEN babies, totally. Except that last week we were being told that Amal?s holiday will come to a close in the Fall and she has to go back to work. True, she could still be a lawyer while pregnant (I doubt Julian Assange would mind), but? I just doubt that babies will be happening immediately. Also, I laughed at this: ?Her father is getting older?? Yeah, and George is some spring chicken.
Radar also has a longer story about how Amal?s father approves of George, even though Daddy Alamuddin feared the idea that ?Amal?s accomplishments and education would be neglected in the press ? and even by George.? Sounds about right. Funnily enough, this has the whiff of Clooney PR too, because of how the article ends:
And for the first time, Clooney, 53, seems content to share the spotlight with a worthy partner.
Amal, 36, ?is not a gold digger,? the source insists. ?She has her own money and things going on, and George has told people that?s why he knows he can trust her and wants to be with her. She isn?t going to be arranging paparazzi photos like some of his past girlfriends have done.?
[From Radar]
BURN. Burn on Sarah Larsen, Elisabetta Canalis and Stacy Keibler. We?re going to need a tub full of ice for all the burns.
The Daily Mail also has a story about the wedding and all of that ? go here to read.
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Photos courtesy of Getty, WENN.
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| | George Clooney Is Engaged? | | Added 10 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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In a shock to everyone, George Clooney proposed to his 36-year-old British lawyer girlfriend, Amal Alamuddin, sometime in the past two weeks. Yea, that George Clooney.
On April 23, the twosome were spotted dining together at Craig’s restaurant in West Hollywood — and, according to one onlooker “they were toasting the engagement.” The infamous Hollywood bachelor even told a fellow diner that they were engaged, the witness claims.
“This is the healthiest relationship I’ve ever seen George in,” a source recently told Us. “He seems incredibly happy, and Amal is such a sweet and intelligent girl, who has her own thoughts and ideas and doesn’t just bow down to everything he says.”
“It’s actually not that surprising. He likes a woman with brains and class,” the source tells Us Weekly. “She’s the full package. His first wife Talia came from a good family and was very smart herself. He’s happy and found his ideal match. He didn’t settle, so good for him.”
Clooney divorced his first wife, Talia Balsam, in 1993 after 4 years of marriage.Since then, itfeels like he’sran through most of Hollywoodtrying to find the perfect woman. It’s like Cinderellabut in this case the foot is his penis and the shoe is a vagina.
The post George Clooney Is Engaged? appeared first on The Blemish.
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| | George Clooney Threw a Hissy Fit in Vegas | | Added 10 years ago | Source: The Blemish |
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George Clooney and Steve Wynn are snipingateach otherafter a drunken fightat a Las Vegas hotel. Not a fight with fists or anything. A fight with words.
During a group dinner at Botero in Wynn’s Encore hotel where everyone was drinking, things got heated when one of the CAA execs at the table told a joke about former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev. That didn’t sittoo well with Clooney who got all huffy when the subject turned to Obama.
?He stood up and threw a hissy fit? at the CAA guy, Wynn said in a telephone interview, his first comments on the dust-up.
?Then he sat down and started talking about the Affordable Care Act, and that?s when I spoke up,? said Wynn, a frequent critic of Obamacare. ?He didn?t like that either. I think my discussion about the Affordable Care Act was the straw that broke the camel?s back.
?When he?s drinking, he considers himself a close personal buddy of the president.
?He got up and said, ?I don’t have to listen to this (expletive) stuff. The only person who got excited at the table was George, and he ran off to another bar.?
Clooney?s partners were ?mortified,? Wynn said.
?Clooney?s fun to be with when he?s sober,? Wynn added. ?If you have a chance to drink with him, you want to get there early, and don’t stay late.
?Everybody who?s in my business, the casino business, knows to take actors with a grain of salt.?
Shots fired. Clooney issued his own statement which paints a different picture.
There were nine people at that table … so you can ask them. … Steve likes to go on rants.
?He called the president an asshole … that is a fact … I said the President was my longtime friend and then he said ?your friend is an asshole.? … At that point I told Steve that HE was an asshole and I wasn’t going to sit at his table while he was being such a jackass.
?And I walked out. There were obviously quite a few more adjectives and adverbs used by both of us. Those are all the facts. It had nothing to do with politics and everything to do with character.?
When Clooney and Wynn fight it’s pretty boring since it’s pretty muchlike two girls getting bitchy at each other. If this were Sean Penn, there’s no doubt he’d ask someone to hold his weavebecause shit was about to get real.
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