We have another million stories about Amal Alamuddin and George Clooney. Just like we’ve had every single day this week! Still, I’m happy about it. The Alamooney Wedding has been a joy to behold. It’s interesting to see George change up his image so quickly, and Amal has enchanted all of us to different degrees. But what if Amal and George are just dumb, Kardashian-esque famewhores? That’s what Natalia Naish, co-founder of Your Barrister Boyfriend, wrote in a “searing” post:
The founder of the website that propelled Amal Alamuddin to fame – and, it is claimed, first brought her to George Clooney’s attention – has hit out at the couple’s ‘wildly expensive, carefully choreographed, predictably sentimental and satisfyingly public’ wedding. Just weeks before meeting Clooney at a charity fundraiser last September, Beirut-born lawyer Amal, 36, (right) famously topped the ‘Barrister Hottie’ list, compiled by the website Your Barrister Boyfriend. This accolade was even mentioned during the wedding speeches.
Rather uncharitably, however, just days after the Clooney nuptials at the ritzy Aman Canal Grande hotel in Venice, the website co-founder, Natalia Naish, has written a searing critique of the extravagant celebrations, which received 40 pages of coverage in Hello! with the newlywed couple’s co-operation.
‘Seems quite rich, given George’s hatred of tabloids,’ Naish points out. ‘Amal has taken to her newfound fame like a duck to water, radiating “in love” while she struts her stuff in surprisingly short couture dresses. As the details of their four-day wedding emerge – the caseloads of tequila, the never-ending parade of Amal’s designer dresses, the boatloads of grinning celebrities, and the $13 million (£8 million) price tag – it all begins to seem slightly unseemly and in-your-face, especially for a couple who profess to be extremely private.’
Perhaps most woundingly of all, Naish compares Amal unfavourably with reality TV star Kim Kardashian, who tied the knot in May with rapper Kanye West. The lavish ceremony took place in Italy amid a media circus.
‘The problem I have with the Clooney wedding was not the excessiveness per se, but the back-patting smugness that has accompanied the entire courtship and ceremony,’ says Naish. ‘Even though George and Amal careened around Venice in speedboats, posed up a storm for the paparazzi like modern-day royalty and sold their wedding photos to glossy magazines, they received none of the tut-tutting that was directed at Kim Kardashian.’
While it’s true, The Alamooney Wedding did not get the same derisive press coverage as The Kimye Wedding, but to be fair… George and Amal did not have a gold toilet tower. That alone means that The Kimye Wedding was better! Seriously though… this lady does make some good points.
More stories from the tabloids/press outlets… Star Magazine’s source says that George invited a lot of his famous friends but “Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Sandra Bullock and Jennifer Aniston all backed out at the last second… George didn’t mind so much but Amal found it to be incredibly rude, especially coming from Brad, who George cares so much for.” Another source says that Brad and Angelina didn’t attend the wedding because they didn’t want to be a “part of the circus… They’re in their own world with the kids. They knew it’d be a zoo. It’s why they had such a small ceremony themselves.”
People Magazine also published some of the text from Nick Clooney’s toast to his son and Amal – go here to read. It’s been widely reported that Nick also told George and Amal to start having babies too. The National Enquirer also has a story about Alamooney babies – their sources say that George and Amal have been talking about kids “for months” and that they are totally considering adoption. I tend to think Amal will get pregnant – sooner rather than later – and then… hey, maybe they would adopt. But George’s rep shut down that story to Gossip Cop. The denial is weirdly worded, and really, who cares? Everybody knows that Alamooney babies are coming.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Almalooney are reaching a similar level – they don’t seem to realise very many people can see straight through the PR campaign and just don’t believe in any of it or maybe they just don’t care. The aim seems to be to “fool some of the people some of the time” (apologies to P.T. Barnum) and outside of the gossip blogs they are probably succeeding. I’m still more interested in the ‘why’ than the ‘how’ there’s so obviously an agenda at work.
I feel like in their minds this is all to raise awareness of their various causes. Like if they become some super famous power couple they’ll have more influence in the political sphere. It’s quite a risky technique though.
I’ve been getting a strong political vibe from these two. I think George is gearing up for a political career & she is all part of the scheme!
TraceyBrown, Pop Psychic on Youtube, just did a reading on them and her cards showed he will run for President, like this is all part of the plan.
They are only like the dreaded Kanye and Kartrashian in that they want to be high profile. However, the end result of this is to further Clooney’s political and philanthropic activism, and possibly because he wants to run for office someday. West and Kartrashian don’t even know what those words mean, as they’re too busy famewhoring for famewhoring’s sake, trying to make money off of people who are as stupid and tasteless as they are, and of course, demanding respect without working for it.
P.T. Barnum definitely applies, here. I think someone had something BIG on George, so he mounted an offense (hence, the rushed engagement and nuptials with a woman no one had heard of, previously) that cost him a king’s ransom. It will surface, eventually. He looks ashen.
I agree Santolina.
It will surface eventually if someone is holding onto something about him.
Interesting. I have heard through my sister, who runs in the same crowd as Stacy’s husband, about what Stacy has been saying. That she (Stacy) has said that her relationship with GC was all contracts for a certain amount of time, money, etc. There was no sex, ever, and she straight up said GC was gay. Maybe it’s that?
Or, Stacy could be lying to her husband so he won’t know she had a contract relationship, that involved sex, for money? IDK, that’s what I heard.
@prayforthewild: I would be surprised if Stacy was allowed to tell anything to others about Clooney. She got her money because she was supposed to keep quiet…
@siri: I understand your doubt. Supposedly this was through Stacy’s husband, and not directly from Stacy. I heard this from my sister, who has worked for a few of the large tech companies over the past 15 years. I thought it was interesting, as it comes from a completely different perspective, that of Stacy’s husband.
My sister doesn’t follow gossip, this was just said in casual conversation. I’m not saying it’s true, I don’t know that.
There have been marriages between gay men and straight women before. For instance, Cole Porter, Moss Hart, and Vincent Minelli, whose daughter, Liza married two gay men. Some of them fathered children while in their marriages.
I am sure there are many more, but I can’t think of them without researching. Point is, not every woman is hotly interested in sex. The new house near London, the private planes, the designer clothes, homes in many countries, could make many a woman jump right in. I would.
I agree, it is SO obvious.
George, was this perennial bachelor, who lived his life like a teenage boy. Went from woman to woman without a care and always professed how he would NEVER marry again.
All of sudden, out of nowhere, he meets this woman and he does a complete 360? Riiiiight, because she’s so special.
As soon as I heard he was engaged, which he seemed to do 5 minutes after meeting her (which was also bizarre), I knew, and I am sure most of the public knew, it was because he has political aspirations. Marrying a former wrestler, nanny, cocktail waitress, etc. wouldn’t look good for that future career. So Voila..
This is no storybook romance, this is calculated move. To be honest, their marriage is about as phony as LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian. All these calculated photo ops showing how “happpeeeee” they are, force feeding the public to try and believe in their agenda, and just like SkeezAnn and Eddiott,, this relationship is completely nauseating.
Sorry Leann – I responded above before reading your comment. I couldn’t agree with you more!! This has been one of those ‘too good to be true’ stories from the start.
You typed my thoughts exactly. The whole thing has been strange, to say the least. If this is one giant PR tactic, I sincerely hope his wife is in on it and not an unwitting pawn. That would be really tragic.
As I was reading this article, I started thinking about how anti Brad and Angelina I was way back when Brad left Jen for her. All these years later and I have totally changed my tune, as it is evident that Brangelina and the family appear to live much more genuine lives and seem to be motivated less by fame and more by the need to help others.
180. If he did a 360, he’d be right where he started.
Thanks Slim, you are so right, duh! Guess, it’s time to brush up on my Geometry-LOL!!
Katy, thank you for the chuckle. When you called me LeAnn, I was cracking up. Like anyone would want to be her 🙄
I don’t think Clooney and Alamuddin’s marriage is any “phonier” than, say, that of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver. It’s as much a means to an end as it is borne out of affection and respect. Down through history, these sorts of unions have been far more common than love matches. And in Hollywood, they’re endemic. ::shrug::
I think Alamooney is even worst because the Kimye wedding was supposed to be a unrealistic extravaganza, they are famewhores and they love it; George pretend he’s so serious and his wedding is so full of loving and between the famewhore who owns it and the famewhores who try to seem chic, I prefer the honest ones.
He’s going to be running for political office @frisbee so that’s the “why”
Is the sky blue?
What would the George Clooney that made a passionate speech about tabloids/paparazzi shortly after Princess Diana’s death have to say to George today.
Exactly I remember that and thought of it during the wedding.. well you know that saying no fool like an old fool.
I don’t think he believed a word of that speech himself. Mr. Hollywood is not averse to the right kind of attention, on his terms, which I think overall he’s been successful at leveraging and managing. He only pulls out the “waaaaaah, my privacy!” card when the tabloid is off-message. Regarding the wedding, yeah it was a massive, beyond tacky spectacle extraordinaire, but Forever Player Clooney got married to A Very Serious Person. OF COURSE they’re going to be boating around with a personal photographer taking “candids” standing on crates of tequila. OF COURSE we’re going to see everything down to the brand of underwear the wedding party wore. And OF COURSE George and Amal are going to mug for the cameras and wave adoringly instead of hiding under blankets behind the security detail.
Yes that was really the first time he decided to be the spokes person for Hollywood. But if you recall he backtracked. After his grand stand he got a taste of what it would be like without all flash bulbs. The paps/photographers stopped taking his picture on the RC. When he walked by they all dropped their cameras; refusing to shoot pictures of him.. which meant that he would not get any print for his projects. So he backtracked and tried to make a distinction between celebrity photographers and the “others”.. then he started waving and being overly generous to the RC photographers.
I don’t dislike George at all. But I don’t like how he gets passes. That people buy into the charm and overlook his obvious ways. George wants to be seen as the “last STAR”..and he doesn’t like not being considered that. I don’t like how he is so preachy. Matt Damon can be that way too.
NO TUT TUT? We’ve been TUT TUTTING all week and last week too about the Klooneys. I don’t know how to TUT TUT any louder.
TUT TUT TUT!!!!.
Here is a kind of a TUT TUT TUT in my culture simply mmxxxiuuu
Yeah but not in the media.I havent heard one negative comment about the wedding on any morning show,daytime talk show,entertainment show,etc.These shows made snarky comments about Kimye wedding.
I am sure Clooney’s publicist sent them all scripts to go by, just like the wedding was scripted down to every detail, with each photo posed for maximum exposure. I think both weddings were over the top spectacles and both should have received the same treatment in the media, but that will not happen. Anyway, each couple did their thing and it is their money to spend. Just disappointed in Amalooney as I expected more subtlety and less circus from George.
I just wish she had better posture. She ruins anything she wears with that horrid slouch.
They were all sent crates of tequila, no doubt. The truth will out, eventually.
Right now all those talk shows are on a Clooney PR script and they like a George.
They are also playing nice because they want to make sure they have access to him and his new bride if he grants interviews of the happy couple.
Klooney is King of the tut tut.. we better be careful or he’ll wind up with a show on E!
King Tut. With bated breath, I await the Lifetime movie about the courting and wedding. Who do you think will play George Klooney, Rob Lowe?
I don’t think they’ll go that far. I see them reshuffling the order of that “blockbuster” Liz and Dick movie to fit the timeline.
Babe, I got you babe…
Next week’s specials: Retribution on tap.
Do you want my instructions for the potato launcher?
@kiddo – Ha! Initially, I missed the entire point of your comment because I turned into Homer Simpson and thought “Mmmmmmm Beer”.
Do a gal a favor and make my retribution an IPA please. I like it nice and hoppy.
Whenever I see photos of George and Amal, they always look really happy. But it’s like they are happy with their surrounding and their situation, rather than each other. They don’t seem to have much interaction with each other, they are always smiling, but towards the camera or off into the distance. I guess that’s because they are out in public and they are happy to include everyone else in their happiness? Perhaps they are very different and more connected to each other when they are alone.
I’ve noticed that too. I’m struck by how incredibly pleased Amal appears to be when she is the center of attention. It’s a bit off-putting, in my opinion.
I think Amal/George may be even worse than Kim and Kayne. We have been conditioned to think that an educated mature woman would be above the spectacle while an aging Hollywood leading man would demand privacy. How wrong we all were.
This kind of bs is what Kim and Kayne thrive on.
Politically thirsty in a vintage, throwback kind of way. They even chose Camelot-esque wedding music. They’re totally crafting that image. Which will come first: announcement that he’s running for office or baby news?
+1
All of a sudden, Clooney changed his entire perspective of marriage, which he had for YEARS, in just a few short months? There is no way this isn’t PR, and they are milking it for all it’s worth.
PR or brain injury. You decide.
George may not have any Clooney’s to give!
there are Levels to this Thirst Kimye being The Subsaharan Desert of thirst the Alamooney affair more like a hot run in Cali in late august
And also Levels to the celeb Tiers with the Alamooney we arguably wanted to hear about it some and really he is like the president of A-List Hollywood … Then there is Kimye
+100000000
Yes and Yes
Like the Amalooney wedding was an episode of Four Weddings or Whose Wedding is it Anyway.
Your judging, there is cheese, but there is some solid entertainment
And the Kimye wedding was like an episode of… well Keeping up with the Kartrashians (or her sex tape) – tacky, boring and gross
Or to keep on that analogy The Kymye wedding is the super expensive gold leaf everything pricey wedding of 4 weddings where the other girls dont like anything, the Alamooney wedding is the one where everyone had fun and good booze
Right. YES! QQ- you always know just the right way to explain things. You have a gift my friend.
YES. People give Amalooney(specifically Amal) a pass for behavior they would roast Kimye about.
+1
“Are George and Amal just as thirsty as Kimye?” Yes.
I actually thought Brangelina’s wedding was more classy and real and heartfelt. I thought the wedding dress with the graffiti was creative and sweet and definitely one of a kind. I personally am very fond of small intimate weddings.
…but it was George’s and Amal’s special day and their money, so what ever floats their boat should be fine with everyone.
As I said in another post, IMO Brangelina’s wedding set the bar for celebrity weddings. It was all about their children, low key, intimate. In contrast George and Amal’s was a PR extravaganza. I’ll bet that when Kimye saw the flotilla of boats coming down the Grand Canal they thought, “why didn’t we think of that.” I’m also already sick of hearing about “style icon” Amal, which all the Celebitchy regulars who viewed her pap shots over the past few months knows she’s anything but. Please spare me the comparisons to Jackie O, Carolyn Bessette and Kate Middleton. It’s obvious that Anna Wintour will be giving Amal a fashion makeover that will be featured in Vogue; I predict an Amalooney cover in the near future.
You know Kimye is punching themselves the face with brass knuckles because they didn’t think about doing the canal parade for maximum attention grabbing. They’re probably planning a vow renewal just so they can do it.
No they released pics too so they are not any different then Clooney or even Kim/Kanye. Its not ‘small’ and ‘intimate’ when the entire world gets to your so-called private pics. Brangelina probably did want to have the wedding of the year and they got it.
They have not set the bar for celeb weddings. Jay Z and Beyoncé has a true private wedding, not Jolie and Pitt.
+1.
Amalooney released photos and stories in at least 4 magainzes–People, Vogue, Hello and now Vanity Fair Italia with a professional photos from a photographer who followed them around. Yes, Brad and Angelina released one story (same in People and Hello) and the same photos in both. But Amalooney’s is overkill. No comparison at all.
“Thirsty” sums it up perfectly.
And Amal looks hella hungry too!
I’ll bet she hasn’t eaten in months.
LOL
LOL !!! Look out, George !!!
They’re much better to look at than Kanye and Kim but still what’s up with this selling magazine pictures of wedding? Even when Brad and Angelina did it, it just seemed …. Idk.. tacky. Like did you REALLY have to do that? I know it’s for charity and that’s magnificent but to me, it just exposed them for being manipulative and weird. I understand why people would sell the baby pictures but a wedding?
Ugh I guess I’m just upset that I don’t look at them the same way anymore. As you can tell it botherd me waaay too much lol.
I don’t find these two better to look at. I mean, Amal usually has a good shoe game, big her clothes are pretty boring. Kim’s are almost always distractingly awful, and I love/hate it.
And I think Kanye is really hot. There. I’ve admitted it. George will forever be hot in From Dusk Till Dawn, but that’s about it.
I just throw up in my month ……Uh you think Kanye is hot, that’s the first time I’ve every read in the comment sections of any blog of all the stories done on then that anyone found Kanye good looking besides hot…. Each to their own .
His weird barrel chested body with his women hips gross me out, besides all he wears his tops or jacket that cover his hips and tight pants bunched at the bottom, even his suit for his wedding was styled like that.
But them his awful personality and sour face couldn’t make him attractive besides hot.
I think Kanye is a nice looking guy.
He’s much better looking when he’s smiling (which is never). That pouty scowl he’s always sporting gives Ignori a run for the looking-miserable-face
Kanye hot?To each their own I guess.To me he has nothing to offer at all.He doesn’t even have sex appeal.
I think it’s icky that they sold 26 pictures. I think Brad and Angelina had about ten….and that was mostly with THEM in it. Very few had other family members/friends. But I feel like the 26 wedding pics are to show how George is the KING of Hollywood, with all of his Hollywood friends. I could be wrong, so I guess we’ll see when we see them–but I get the feeling that a lot of those pics will either be of other celebs i.e. look how many celeb friends I have, or show a lot of the ‘scenery’…..
And I also think it depends on how you feel about them. Obviously if you LOVED George Clooney, you’d love this. I just find it to be very odd, considering his past actions. He didn’t hide his relationships with his girlfriends, but he didn’t go all out like this. And there have been a ton of leaks that are obviously from his camp. That’s what makes it a lot more famewhorey than the wedding. If he’d had this big spectacular, without any ‘sources’ talking, then it wouldn’t have been so bad.
Compare his wedding to Brad and Angelina’s. How many ‘sources’ were talking about their wedding, in the entire time that they’d been engaged? None. We had very few tabloid stories about their wedding plans–I remember one about Brad being a bridezilla (which I can totally believe), and that rumor about them being married in Nice (the weekend before JA and JT got engaged). Other than that–nothing. And I never found Brad and Angelina’s wedding pics to be famewhorey or fake because Angelina said it herself, a few months before her wedding that it was going to be small and private, but they understood that their fans wanted to see, and that they were public people. They weren’t coy about it, and the last thing I saw, when I look at their pics was them trying to show off–like I see with George (which isn’t a bad thing).
And what’s especially funny is that I don’t really see straight out judgement for George. I think people just find it funny.
What? It’s obvious you love the JP. There were numerous stories about when they were going to get married. Same thing imo.
Just saw on FB–the 26 pics from the wedding are ‘extry’ from the pics in PEOPLE, Italian Vogue, et al……they’re only digital. You have to pay PEOPLE to get a digital subscription to look at the pics.
Clooney, you’re making me cringe.
ouch, yes, some good points but to me to as the saying goes “to each their own” I still really enjoyed it
I like when celebrities make a spectacle of themselves. It’s better than the faux humble “I’m just like you shtick” that’s so common these days.
Couldn’t agree with you more.
I get more annoyed by celebs who take the “humble” route in order to prove that they are still like us despite the fame and money, than this wedding. It may be over the top and extravagant, but very fitting for the people involved.
I guess that’s why this whole thing doesn’t bug me at all, I would have expected no less from him.
This lady isn’t saying anything that my fellow CBers haven’t been pointing out in the comments over the past week… and better I might add!
I personally don’t think the comparison to Kim/Kanye holds (Amal for example has not taken 14,000 selfies) but I do understand those that feel there are strong similarities.
*Sits back and pours another heaping spoonful of Amalooney artificial sweetener in coffee*
Pass the sugar girl!
The big difference to me is that Amal has built a very respectable career of her own using more than just her looks/body. Kim Kardashian has not, she simply sells every aspect of her vapid life. Not really comparable in my opinion.
The Clooney wedding was a spectacle, let’s see if the show continues before we decide if Amal is hooked on the attention.
She’s been hooked on attention since day one. Any reasonable person can see this. As to her respectable career, I can’t imagine anyone taking her seriously at the ICC after that spectacle of a wedding and that dress, but what do I know.
I think you are naive if you think Amal’s looks and her family’s promoting her profile and using their connections have not helped her immensely. They have. It is just the way it often works. However, despite her higher profile she remains still basically a junior member of chambers and not very experienced yet. It takes years and years of experience to get to a position where her unearned PR profile would be earned as a working lawyer.
Don’t think the comparison to Kim/Kayne holds either, but (opens packet of Sweet N’ Low) I do think the whole Almalooney wedding is just precious . . .
I was just thinking the same! Many commentators here could have written a far less sour-grapy sounding article with much better arguments. You don’t even need to compare these two weddings! I’m very curious now what George will do about this- it will no doubt anger him.
You know, that is exactly what I keep thinking about these two. Especially Amal. In the wedding photos, she seemed so camera ready and pose-y that I was like ‘ this girl definitely has bigger plans than George Clooney and he is just a pawn and poor guy doesn’t realise it’ but that could just be my imagination or that I just need an angle because these two did it just too soon. I can’t believe how this soon is possible! But then what do I know?
Besides, GC looked genuinely happy. So whatever….Congrats to them!
I’d rather look at pictures of George and Amal and of their wedding than pictures of wannabes Kim and Kanye.
I’m with you. It just also seems like George and Amal had tons of fun, and the guests did too. Yes, there were too many pics, but it was also elegant and gorgeous, and in a wonderful location, and they didn’t have to announce a guest list or state just how important their wedding was. I think that is what separate them from the Kim/Kayne fiasco. Kim and Kayne’s wedding seemed exhausting and no fun at all. It was all about Kayne trying to achieve some warped perfection. It came across as brittle and tense.
In my opinion they are not there. Yet. At the moment they are level lower like Brangelina level of thirstiness.
I think we have to see if they keep it up. Kim and KW do this all the time. This was Amal’s big wedding. They couldn’t really hide if she wanted to have a big wedding so they had to work around it. If we see her doing this kind of crap all the time then I will call her a fame ho. Now I just see her as a bride having her dream wedding and she had the means to do it.
True but Amal could have still had her dream wedding with out making it a circus. They didn’t need to make it public when and where they were getting married months before wedding, they also didn’t need to release pictures of there wedding invitations weeks before the wedding
All criticisms are fair. I still don’t think he’s running for office though. A woman who defended Julian Assange, and Enron isn’t really First Lady material. Maybe he’s going for a higher diplomatic position within the UN? I don’t know if marriage would be necessary in that case.
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I don’t think he will run for office – he’s admitted himself that he has too many skeletons in his closet, but an appointed post is another possibility. And Amal raises his cred, for sure.
ITA on the diplomat comment. I have never believed he’d subject himself to public vote, but he wouldn’t turn down an ambassadorship or similar post if offered.
Am I the only one who thinks he’s having a midlife crisis? But instead of getting a brand new expensive car like most men, he’s getting married. 🙂
I love the fact that people use as a defense on him not running for office George said he wouldn’t. Well he also said he wouldn’t get married. He either lies or changes his mind. Either way I wouldn’t take his word for it. George has plan we are just not privy to them. Maybe an office of sort or something else who knows.
Politics means work. Hard work. And lots of compromises. I can’t imagine George wanting that. UN/Ambassador post-yes. Perhaps SHE wants to be an ambassador?? But don’t forget the financial connections she brings into this marriage, big Arab oil money. Her parents are very well connected. Which means, George can produce more instead of acting. He could make himself completely independent as a producer/director…
I don’t think he has plans to run for elected office, either. My sense is he recognized his personal life had become a national punchline and he wants to be perceived in a different light. A wedding to Amal, given what she represents (superficially), accomplishes that. It’s probably built on a foundation of real friendship and connection, but I don’t think our George suddenly found himself in love with “The One” and craving married life. No way. She fits the new script he’s writing for himself and, in time, we’ll all see what that is.
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I am pretty sure it is BS some of the people who cancelled at the last minute. NO way were Brad/Angelina and Jennifer Aniston ever ever going to be at the same wedding. Even if it was a million years later. It isn’t the Oscars.
“…all cancelled at the last second” would imply that they had accepted the wedding invitation and planned to attend.
Since it was a three day event it would have been too difficult for the Jolie-Pitts and Jennifer/Justin to avoid each other.
One couple should have just bowed out early rather than both pulling a no-show.
Seems a bit odd to me that ALL of them would drop out at the last minute, especially if he considers them friends. I think there may have been a tacit understanding that they wouldn’t attend/be invited so as not to draw attention from the bride and groom. I mean, no one is going to disrupt things to take a picture of Bono.
Same here. I think none of the mentioned persons was invited.
Yes, George and Amal are totally famewhoring.
Wonder why she was so angry that Brad didn’t show up?
Is she that much of a famewhora ?
Yes!
Both the Star story and the other one is BS. I’m not sure about Jen and Julia but Sandra, Brad and Angelina are all in the middle of filming .
Brad and George are not that close both have said so and that the only time they really get to see each other is during awared season. So Amal would not be made just tabloids trying to start something.
Malta is right next to Italy. It’s a hop away.
They were working on a small budget movie why would they stop production for two days to go to the wedding? They already have to stop so Brad can go and work on “Fury” promoton.
We don’t even know if they or the others were invited to the wedding.
It really doesn’t matter how far Malta is. I don’t think the movie has a big budget and considering Angie has another movie lined up to shoot and Unbroken to promote I don’t think stopping production so that the director and it’s two stars could attend was realistic.
i agree ,wouldn’t call her a famewhore ,but she loves the cameras
has anyone seen this blog? it was suggested by Lainey ,makes them look exactly like Kimye from the papz ,the smiles to the large familes
https://amalalamuddinstyle.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/amal-alamuddin-and-george-clooney-in-vanity-fair-italy/
@black orchid
OMG some of those photos, they do look very happy but the one when maybe a band is playing she is looking right at the camera and no one else is really. She is also sooo thin and her posture makes me want to run to pilates tonight.
@AG-UK ,she is rail thin ,i bet those dresses were glued onto her ,those pics made me believe she is having the time of her life,she loves the cameras ,its George who actually looks a bit withdrawn and tired,
I’ve been tough on George for this silly showmance but now seeing those VF pix I’m shocked that a professional woman, who is supposedly held in esteem, would allow herself to be seen in her bathrobe, in a bedroom …. being dipped by her husband, showing acres of her legs.
No grown-up professional woman would allow the world to see such images unless she’s lost her mind .. seriously lacking consequential thinking.
Who would want her as their lawyer now??
I think it’s all been a repetitive, predictable, famewhorey spectacle. But it has also been entertaining, exhausting, cringeworthy, exciting, funny and ridiculous.
To be honest though, I want the reason. Seriously. The motive.
Maybe no motive. Maybe they’re truly in love and will be together forever.
I just have this feeling there is a juicy, gossip mongers dream of a reason behind it.
Or maybe that’s just what I’m hoping for.
I’ve been taking this ride along with you, from first announcement of their courtship, to the data dump that is People’s coverage of the wedding. And yes, we are all still asking ourselves… WHY?
Perhaps, in the absence of a logical explanation, or after hearing too many theories, or maybe I am just high on sucralose, but I have come full circle to what I suspected at the start was Clooney’s motive.
Could this just be one giant, elaborate payback prank on Tina Fey and Amy Poehler?
I too thought at one point that it was a payback prank for Tina and Amy. But then actually go through with the wedding? Maybe the wedding isn’t legal and the officiant was an actor. Maybe they were married by Bill Murray?
Dun Dun Dunnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn
Seriously though. What big thing is going to happen next?
I’m so mixed up… I have no idea.
I mean have we really come to the point that we seriously discussing this as a prank. LOL
Where’s Freddy and whose going to feed your cats?!
P.S. Love your idea of Bill Murray as officiant.
Jaderu I love your comment. All I can say is “me too”.
I sat back to reflect on this (ha ha) and have decided that I don’t care how hungry or thirsty they are for attention because, at the end of the day they famewhore so that they bring attention to issues of humanity. He has/ continues to focus on conflict in Sudan & she is of course a champion of human rights. And so, I say, famewhore until your hearts content & save as many ppl while u do it & we will deliciously eat it up! Good on u G & A! As for Kimye, they r truly a representation of where we r in society w insatiable appetites for all things luxe & self involvement. It would b beautiful to c them focus their wealth & fame on others. It doesn’t need to b Sudan or human rights violations – perhaps literacy in America?! Something small but oh so big. Just sayin…
LOL A champion of human rights? Where are you getting this information? The woman was an adviser to the government of Bahrain. Bahrain is known mainly for their violation of human rights. She hasn’t actually done anything for human rights that I’ve seen before Clooney’s PR team manufactured her image.
I have to agree there. At least George is a humanitarian and is trying to do some good in the world while being a fameho(all of a sudden?) as oppose to Kimye who despite being given a lot in life only seem to care about things like leather jogging pants, designers in Paris and contouring.
george takes millions from nestle, he is a humanitarian when it suits him
She looks like a Tim Burton drawing in that red dress pic.
Tired of them already.
lol
First of all, Brangelina can get off their high horse right now because they also made their wedding photos public, m’kay? So…sorry to break it to you, guys, but your wedding is no longer small and intimate if the whole world saw photos and read all the details.
I do not understand people who claim to be “private” sharing their wedding photos. After my wedding, people posted photos of it to Facebook and I was apoplectic over that! I felt like my wedding was one of the most intimate moments of my life! And to have that moment splashed over social media for strangers to see…I was heartbroken. So I can’t understand these celebrities wanting to publicize their weddings in magazines.
You are correct. Brad and Angelina did not set the bar for celeb weddings. How are they private if they relaase the pics within the next few days? They probably wanted attention too.
Beyoncé and Jay Z had a true private wedding. Nobody even knew when it happened and we still haven’t seen any pics or footage from the their wedding at all to this very day.
And I would not really compare Clooney with Knaye West. Clooney is a Hollywood A lister loved by many. He is talented and does a lot of good charity work. Amal is an Oxford educated barrister and doesn’t really need him. This story seems false. I don’t think she cares about Brangelina either. Why would someone who is Oxford educated be concerned for 2 uneducated Hollywood stars?
Kanye West is more like a C lister now, and he doesn’t help anyone or seems likeable. Would Clooney ever mock 2 disabled people like how Kanye West did? I think being compared to Kanye West is an insult really.
Well, she married an “uneducated Hollywood Star”, so I think she does care. And why did she attend the actual event for human rights sponsored by the “uneducated Hollywood Star”?
She is not better than anyone else because she has an expensive education and it does not always mean you are intelligent, though I am sure she is.
Attending Oxford as an undergrad when you come from a privileged background and reside in the most exclusive part of London your entire life isn’t so far-fetched. Given her background, she isn’t really all that accomplished. She attended Oxford as an undergrad (3 years in the UK) and then 1 year of graduate work in NY. That’s 4 years of schooling in all. As to her not needing him, well she is clearly loving the attention her association with him has garnered her, and has very quickly taken to maximizing it, as has the firm for which she works.
Sara, she still had to do the work it takes to get that education. She wrote the exams worked the late hours. I’d say she’s extremely accomplished and she’s back at work now.
@Jen2 thanks a lot your comment is everything! @norlia Wow I never knew brad and angelina could be considered uneducated smh I feel So sorry for people who have to deal with you. Please do get off your high horse @stef leppard You sound So ridiculous first and foremost brad and angelina have a tight leash and if you believe that they actually said that and possibly in presence of people who listen and run to the tabs then you’re highly gullible.
@ Norlia just to correct you it was known when Beyonce and J got married JJ had pictures of them in white on the roof building. They confirmed it the next day and they showed video and Pictures of their wedding during their On The Run tour. When Beyonce was pregnant she was on some show and showed pictures of her in her wedding dress.
How are they uneducated? they both have some college education and do you feel the same way about the other posters?
WRONG! Jay z and Beyonce released a video of their wedding during their on the run concert she also showed her wedding dress for her music video best thing I never had. We did know about jay and beys wedding before it happened because they filed for a wedding license. Their wedding day was April 4th. The public knew about it a few days before, google it. And lol at you praising Clooney and his charity work and then calling Angelina uneducated. This uneducated star is a special envoy to the UN, a member of the Council of Foreign Relations, started the first global summit against sexual violence, was made a DCMG by the queen(the only American to ever receive the prestigious title).
Candylove, Monica
There is a difference. Yes they showed a small clip on their tour, but they did not give any details or pics to magazines or gossip blog like Brangelina, Kim-Kanye or George did. There a huge difference how they went about compared to Clooney or Brangelina or Kanye-Kim.
And I honestly cant find any real pics of Jay-Z and Beyonces wedding, and I don’t even recall news or pics of her wedding dress and the details. Google Beyoncé -Jay Z wedding and there are almost zero pics. Just one of her fitting into a dress but still, no pics of their wedding at all.
Brad Pitt and Angelina do not have certified college education, so I don’t know where you got that from. They are uneducated like many other Hollywood stars are. I do think both are well-spoken, but they are not educated about things like how politicians, doctors, lawyers, business people are. All I said was how to claim Brangelina are more private then George-Amal or Kim-Kanye is wrong since they too released their personal and private weddings pics and details to the press. If they were truly private then they would have not released any pics or details of the wedding.
@ Monica, wrong, Steven Speilberg and Bill Gates have the same title as Jolie too. Its an honorary knightship/damehood.
@norlia-second post. Angelina and Brad have and still have multiple interactions with politicians, and other professionals from physicians to architects. Brad and his organization are helping people in the US get into housing–New Orleans, Missouri, Native Americans in Montana and Veterans in NJ. Make It Right is an award winning organization as well, so he is not just talking, but actually doing something concrete. Brad and his family sponsored a hospital wing in Missouri in honor of his mother, so I think they understand physicians and other health care providers. Angelina works around the world with professionals–health care, politicians, the military, so that statement about them not understanding how things work is just not true. Angelina is the only American female with the honorary Dame, so she is unique in that way.
Both have interacted with US Congress and been to the White House. Also, George Clooney does not have a college degree, so, I repeat, she married someone who is, in your eye, not educated.
Sometimes book learning and working in a fancy office does not give you real ideas about how the world works and there is more to being aware and intelligent than passing an exam.
But in a way they did they sold thier wedding video and pictures as part of ther tour you paid for a ticket you got to see the video/pictures just like you paied for that magazion you got to see the pictures. When Beyonce was pregnant I do believe she was promoton her album at the time she showed pictures of her in her wedding dress and gave a few deal teals on her wedding.
I never said that they have a college certificate but both did go I do believe Brad left his last year . You never answered my question dose that mean the other posters are uneducated? In previous post a lot have said they didn’t go to college so does that make them uneducated ?
If you scroll down about 6 pictures you will seem pictures of the wedding JJ other sites had better pictures.
http://tanzanianexttopmodel.blogspot.com/2012/02/beyonces-never-dated-anyone-but-jay-z.html
@norila Speilberg and Gates were named Dame of of the Order of St Michael and St George, that’s news to me. You do realize there are levels to dame hood and knighthood. angelina was given the highest honor, one that has never been received to an American female. Even if, Spielberg and Gates were given KBE title, Knights commander of Order of the British Empire. the male equivalent to Angie’s prestigious title is KCMG, KBE is lower tier. So yes I am correct she is the only American to receive the DCMG title.
PS: I really respect education, so I don’t want to make it sound like having one is not great. I love learning and have multiple degrees myself. But it is bad to act as if having one makes you a better person. But sometimes people can get points on there way to a degree in adult education by supplying “life experience”, as there is a great deal of learning from living and contributing in some way to society, even without a formal education or degree. People should not be trashed for not having the opportunity to go to Oxford, which by the way, I would love to do.
To be fair regarding Brad Pitt’s lack of schooling…he almost completed his final/senior year of college. In fact I believe he is only 3-6 units (equivalent to one or two classes) of general electives shy of graduating with a BA in journalism from the University of Missouri….a school with a HIGHLY regarded journalism program. He may have a perpetual “duh”‘look on his face, but uneducated? I think not.
@Stef Leppard – Brangelina can get off their high horse right now
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Umm, I wasn’t aware that Brad and Angelina had made any kind of negative comment about George’s wedding.
LOL at Brad and Angelina constantly being dragged into events that have absolutely nothing to do with them.
I so agree. Them not attending is getting more attention than who did. They have said absolutely nothing about this event and the tabloid stories are all BS. They have proven time and time again that no one in their circle talks to tabloids.
LOL! Wow, people take any kind of negative comment about the Brange waaaay seriously. DO NOT DIS THE BRANGE! I was mostly joking about their high horse, but I was not joking about side-eyeing their publicizing their wedding. It’s sad, IMHO.
I’m just glad the Daily Mail is taking the gloves off and printing the article Amal and George’s FAMEWHORING . I think George thought his letter to them weeks ago had them running scared not to write anything negative .
The funny part is that the Mail helped build them up right after the engagement. I remember a particularly OTT story about her mother being considered movie star beautiful.
Her mother should have sent them candy and flowers for running that nonsense.
Yup. They did. The DMail was just laying in wait, IMO it’ll get worse.
DM is a nasty little paper, and this might just be the beginning…
Wait. Movie stars want our adoration? Who knew!
Is Amal an asset if George wants a political career? Well, this accomplished attorney does distract from scrutiny of George’s past. Her British citizenship shouldn’t be a tough sell. It will come down to her religious background. In today’s climate of fascism and fear, good luck, Mr. C. You’re going to need it. And be sure the missus wears her asbestos undies and rhino hide suit if you run.
I actually think in California her defense of Enron would be the kiss of death for a political career (since they were responsible for rolling blackouts) much more so than her religious background. In Kentucky her religion and her British citizenship would do her in that order . I just don’t see her giving him any cache in an election it reminds me of a Teresa Heinz in 04 branding problem.
On the other hand George is on the cover of Newsweek this week for his work in Syria I think he is probably going for a diplomatic post.
+1.
It’s an insult to the Syrian people for this clown to be discussing their problems when he just spent 13 million dollars on a lavish, wasteful wedding and has been jet-setting for the better part of the year. To use people’s misfortunes for his own gain is despicable. I can’t stand this fraud anymore.
The level of fame-whoring and wastefulness is beyond the pale. I don’t mind so much that they made it such a public affair, I’m just perplexed as to why!??!
I agree, the wedding was too public for people who say they are private. It’s like they wanted the wedding to be like royalty. I don’t agree with the comparisons with Kanye and Kim though, no one compares with those two famewhores.
As for the money their wedding cost – it’s their money, do whatever, but I would like for him to use his own money when donating to charities as well.
As for those invited – Jennifer Aniston? really? since when are she and George Clooney that close? plus her at the same place as Brad and Angelina? um no.
After all this publicity, I don’t want to hear George utter anything about Paps invading his privacy.
She and George are a whole lot closer than Brad–she’s the one who introduced them, if I’m remembering right. But maybe their friendship faded. I don’t remember the last time George said anything about Jennifer, or vice versa, or when they were photographed together in the same room/awards show.
I’m assuming neither couple were invited. Brad and Angelina were filming; I don’t know what Jennifer/Justin are doing. I don’t think they’re filming.
ah, didn’t know she introduced Brad to George (although since Brad was bigger than Jennifer before they got together, I would have thought Brad would have known Clooney first). I agree though I haven’t seen George and Jennifer in pics together or said anything about her or vice-versa, so that’s why I thought it was strange they mentioned her.
They probably weren’t invited, or if Brad and Angelina were, as you said they were filming same as Bullock. I don’t really think George and Brad are that close though.
Don’t think Jen had anything to do with Brad and George being introduced. I believe they had previously met as Pitt’s Head of the Class and one of George’s other failed sitcoms filmed on the same lot. I also think they ran into one another several times through the late 80s – early 90s at auditions (they both auditioned for Thelma & Louise)
Jennifer Aniston did not introduce George and Brad.. both men have said they met for the first time when Brad did the first Ocean movie.
If George and Jennifer were so close one would imagine he would talk about her more. But he doesn’t drop her name interviews the way he does Brad.
The French media is reporting that Amal’s Lebanese uncle is an arms dealer. Ziad Takieddine. Google the info. Not good publicity for George. Wonder if George’s PR people knew about him?
YES. And frankly, they are ten times more boring. At least talking about Kanye’s inappropriate rants is fun. Clooney is dull and Alamuddin seems thirsty for pap attention.
Exactly. He was mildly interesting to me years ago, in part because I liked his father when he hosted a movie show on a cable network in the late 1990s.
Perhaps all the ‘same level’ banter that framed this courtship was really about their well-matched love of attention. And that they seem dull.
I don’t think is right to compare Clooney and Amal with Kim/Kanye and say Brangelina is better. All three couples released pics and details of their wedding to gossip magazines so its not fair to call one couple a famewhore and the other one not.
And really, what an insult to Amal to be compared to Kim kardahsian, a woman who got famous for f–king some dude in a sex tape. Atleast Amal has a career and is an educated woman.
+1000, Ms Naish. Couldn’t’ve said it better myself. Unseemly, back-patting smugness indeed. Unfortunately for them, when the marriage flames out in 3-5 (maybe 7 if there’s a kid), it will all play out just as publicly. Live by the sword, die by the sword……
+1
The Kardashians are in the fame whore business..no illusions, no pretending. Their spectacle vows were in character. This fiasco costs much more, went on forever and every bit of their relationship has been sold to the highest bidder..classless. In the end, what’s the big deal? He married the same woman he’s always been with..all better educated than him, eager to be in the spotlight, and young enough for that whole daddy thing. Same old.
Wow I loved the first line of your post: The Kardashians are in the fame whore business..no illusions, no pretending. And you are so right. Clooney is on the front cover of Newsweek this week on Sudan. He really thinks he’s the man. Yet he’s achieved nothing for that country except publicity for himself and a few Hollywood “humanitarian” awards. The guy is a fraud. Visits refugee camps in the Sudan for some PR then spends millions on an ostentatious wedding and nearly a million on an engagement ring. What a shallow person.
Patricia, you don’t know George so why would you say he is a shallow person?
Let me assure you – he’s not.
Well said Patricia , George does appear shallow.
+1.
Am I the only person wondering why we still have no proof that KimYe were legally married? We know all that stuff in Europe in May was for show, there was nothing leagal about it. I mean Kim shows off everything she can for self promotion BUT not proof that she and that crazy man are truly married? I don’t get it.
The big thing that makes Brangelinas’ wedding classier is that no one knew it happened until after the fact. So whatever pictures they sold the actual day of the event was about them and their family. They waited a full week and ‘honeymooned’ with their kids before they announced. Kimye and George & Amal created a build up for their wedding and put the whole thing from start to finish out there the public might as well have been at the wedding.
If there were a famewhore ranking I’d put Kimye equal to George and Amal and Brangelina much lower. The classiest thing would have been to release no photos of course but in no way does it compare.
Great post. I agree with every word of it.
Brad and Angelina did not release the names of guests at their wedding, besides family. But if you look closely, in the one photo where they are leaving the chapel, you can see David Fincher filming it. His face is blurred out, but it is him. They could have bragged forever on who was there, but kept it private. So, who knows who was actually there. And why does no one question or ask “Where was George?” Yes, no photos would probably have been best, but it was limited and only one set of photos.
Exactly. Yes they all sold their pics but we didn’t have a countdown to the wedding with theirs like Kim and Kanye, George and Amal. It wasn’t months of reporting their every move until the big day or details being released every day by their PR. Kim, Kanye, George, and Amal made the tabloids money just by doing tons of photo ops before and after the wedding. Brad and Angie just do married released their pics and went on with their life. We didn’t get a huge spectacle like the other two. I really think people aren’t seeing the big difference. Btw, George and Amal have had about four wedding covers now and Kimye had that huge Vogue cover before the wedding even happened.
Amal is reveling in all the attention. It’s not subtle at all.
True.
Their “business arrangement” marriage is just like Kimye’s, only much classier.
Amalsballs
Thirsty…don’t think she’s had a big gulp yet but she seems to be on the way. If George wants to maintain his private life which he has always held sacred in the past, he needs to reign her in a little bit. I can only imagine how mortified he would be to be compared to reality stars, in particular the Kardashians. If she’s enjoying the headlines a little bit too much, the marriage may have been a divorce rehearsal.
+1.
Damn, most of you are negative and cynical.
Did any of you ever consider that maybe, just maybe, George actually is in love with this woman and being George, put on a glitzy, over-the-top wedding to show the world that he finally met THE one?
As for Amal……. She is beautiful, classy, intelligent and accomplished.
The end.
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I don’t think people are being cynical. George has found the one several times over but just didn’t marry her/them except for his first marriage. He is 53 years old and a person doesn’t usually go from basically living in seclusion he so despises the paps to having this look at me wedding. He could be doing it for her as she is younger and I’m guessing never married before. I wish them as well as I wish any stranger a happy union. Just hoping her feet reach the ground and they return to their private lives. I’m sure he’s altered his feelings somewhat out of love for her, but a man doesn’t usually do a 360 on his standards at this stage of his life.
Only god, and George know the truth, ok. He’s probably smitten, but I would think perhaps more out of a cultural ‘inferiority complex’. Law degree, three languages…yet in Europe, that’s not such a big deal. Truly not. I don’t think it’s cynical to call Clooney out on this, since it’s an obvious PR move. He did not really change, just his image did. And some people are less willing to buy everything he’s trying to sell anymore. Let’s just agree to disagree.
It’s all good with me. Happy Weekend!
@Lara Morgana – you must be completely unfamiliar with the the very cynical. hypocritical and ego-driven Clooney that most people will have observed over the past decade or so to have such a pure perspective.
He was in need of an urgent brand change and, as gloriously beautiful and delicious and scenic as the weekend spectacle was, and no matter how enjoyable to watch it was, make no mistake, that’s what we were witnessing: a rebranding. 🙂
+1
I think you have to be of a certain age or at least mindset to understand Clooney.
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Great post. So true. George’s PR people just released the official wedding certificate to all the media outlets today so there’s more famewhoring today. I think it’s to distract attention from the negative stories comparing Amal with Kim Kardashian and the stories in the French media about Amal’s arms dealer uncle Ziad Takieddine.
+1. Agreed.
Why in hell would he think he has to release the marriage certificate? Who does that? Someone trying real hard to make the public believe he is legally married. Why???
Yes, I found the release of the marriage document really bizarre. Honestly, who does that? And why?
I agree with you Lara. I think he has truly found the one. I think it’s great, looking forward to following them either here or fashion blogs.
It’s all a set up for his next path into politics. Yawn.
I wonder if People Magazine is PO’d that they purchased the photos, but the other publications seem to have gotten free access or did all of them pay Amalooney for access? Vogue and Vanity Fair got better photos too, so I would not be happy to pay if others got it for free.
http://www.tio.ch/TioTV/people/812541/l-elefantino-zurighese-che-cade-e-fa-il-giro-del-mondo
Talk about your attention seeking antics…….
LMAO.
I bet they were just doing it because of the crowd.. listen to the onlookers..
yes.. famewhoring is not for the human race alone. Now it is all over the internet..
they got what they wanted.
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now on a serious not.. that was precious.
Humm I thought the author has received money from Baria to pRomote her daughter, so she would indeed capture someone, since she was dumped by her ex. Mom got tired of implying her daughter was pure. Needed to hurry up and get her married.
It’s only the media that is keeping this couple out there, he has changed too much. When was the last time he paid attention
to his
charity. He has come off as an aging personality who doesn’t know his own mind.
She comes across as “George I want to be in your next movie”.
Precisely. Well-put.
I used to like her, and GC by extension, but now I think they’re both gross attention whores.
I had a feeling Amal was major Famewhoring when Kate Middleton’s favorite paparazzi mentioned on twitter he had to go because Amal was about to take her strolls.
Someone (Amal’s PR) was tipping him off, it seemed IMO.
Most of the DMail stroll walks come from the same papz.
About the wedding….I believe out of politeness and friendship for some , George did invite the stars mentioned in the article, but they were either working or didn’t want to deal with the circus.
I ALWAYS felt he was jealous of Brad and Angie and their philanthropist endeavours…Jolie was in Dafur LONG before Clooney got involved. He is trying to UPMANSHIP Brangelina! Watch out…it’s coming!
This. Jolie introduced Darfur mission to Pitt and then Pitt brought Clooney in then Clooney started bringing the camera with him when he went there and all of sudden, it’s all about George and Darfur. He haven’t really done anything ground breaking there, just more good PR for his image.
I don’t think he’s running for office, he just want to be the next power couple – the next Brangelina. Brangie gets the wildest screams in RC and all the journalist go crazy, he wants that level of attention. It’s obvious.
Nothing George Clooney has done in Sudan has made a blind bit of difference and all that coming from a man who just squandered millions on a media circus of a wedding and close to a million dollars on an engagement ring. Someone tell him to stick to acting. Humanitarian? Get real. This guy’s no Mother Theresa or Bill Gates. George used the involvement in Sudan for PR to remake his image into a “humanitarian” just like he’s using his wife now.
George will be furious at Brad. He probably invited Brangelina to the wedding and then Angie one upped George by marrying in secret a few weeks before to upstage him. And their private nuptials made George look like even more of a famewhore. George will pay a price for shoving his relationship in front of the cameras – Brangelina live in a bubble surrounded by bodyguards. I agree that George wants to be a humanitarian power couple with Amal but having seen Bennifer and Brangelina, and even the PR circus around JFK Junior and Carolyn Bessette why would George want his life to descend to that?
Agree.
Yes, Agree with Hissy & Patricia.
Why would a person be jealous of someone else’s philanthropic work? That sounds really petty.
Yes. I’ve always had that feeling, too. Thank you for saying it. Brad & Angie had the gravitas and the prestige and George, for all his accomplishments, had a public image that was *cheapened* and undermined (in my opinion) by his approach to and handling of his personal relationships.
Maybe he has genuinely matured and he IS this new version of himself – but somehow my feeling is that this is a guy who’s trying to be something he isn’t, who is chasing an image without substance because of his own incredible ego. Hence the spectacle, the headlines, the photos and the parade. Damn, I’m cynical on this one! Sorry, George.
There is NO similarity between the two weddings as far as I am concerned. Except: the arranged marriage. Cloony and Amal are friends. She has agreed to let him still date Rande. Amal gets exposure and money, Clooney gets everyone off his back about his sexuality.
I don’t care that we could see George and Amal on the boats in Venice. We did not see the wedding, until People was printed. There was no gold toilet. There were no names etched into marble. Kim has no life but the spotlight. Kanye is a narcissistic egomaniacal singer.
Amal is a lawyer, Clooney is a well known and liked actor. Just because the weddings were expensive, that means they are the same?
+1 to half of the theory.
But IMO
Kanye is a egomaniac singer and he has extremely successful career.
George is a egomaniac actor (philanthropist) and has an extremely successful career.
Both are egomaniacs.
George does not come across as egomaniacal to me. He may be arrogant and pretentious. I know too many narcissists unfortunately. Kanye is definitely one. It always about him, all the time. Just like Kim and Beyonce. George is very different. His life is not all about his face, his body, his singing. He seems to spread the love.
full disclosure: I have always had a teeny tiny crush on George.
I think they’re a lot worse. As someone who is interested in neither, I can tell you that as an outsider this wedding seemed less private than the Kamye one.
He’s had recent cheek work done and she is in no way echanting to me. And yes, they are very like Kimye. He’ll be running for office as soon as the child is old enough to do the press tour for votes, if not sooner.
I wish George Clooney would marry quietly like Brangelina and then inform afterwards. I expected him to do that. Because really – Clooney is too old for this stuff. He is not some Kardashian or Timberlake. It really surprises me that he went so public with his wedding. I personally don’t care and don’t read all those wedding stories. But I am tired of it anyway. Just stop George Clooney, vanish for a while.
It’s already been announced that there will be another wedding event for Amal and George in London in 3 weeks time for high brow Lebanese people including some Lebanese politicians. So another PR stunt is already being planned by George’s PR people. I bet Amal will be there in some cutting edge designer outfit and George Clooney will be whoring out his private life again for more publicity. He’s a fool to be going down this route. He thinks he can outsmart the media. I hope it backfires on him badly.
You’re right, it IS foolish in the end. In the meantime, he will make highly usable connections, mostly via Amal’s parent’s network. I also wouldn’t be surprised if a new film production company comes out of this colaboration. Could make him independent from big studios. I wonder if he understands what he’s up to, getting that involved with people he doesn’t really know. But so far, he seems to enjoy all the attention.
On a scale of 1 to 10, how many minutes before Amal is in a Nespresso advertisement?
I had the same thought. He did put Stacy in his tequila ad…
Amal and George are a class act. Their wedding has been the best in recent memory. They don’t care about Kim/Kanye. Honestly that whole analogy is ridiculous. Let them enjoy their marriage.
Apparently they want us all to make sure we see them enjoying every minute of it. Not classy (and a letdown as I used to be a fan of both)
To each their own. I went to City Hall with my husband, but I think a Venice wedding with great friends, taxi boats, excellent food would be fantastic. Who cares about the paps. They had fun and it was their wedding day, I’m not going to shade them for that. I just wished they invited me!
just wait and watch – gc and aa want to be the next bp and aj ( there i have said it ) again. gc wants to compete with bp – why i dont know ? and positioning aa to be the next aj with her humanitarian work etc – how this marriage is going to work between london and italy or la i honestly dont know. frankly dont care either – used to like gc but somehow this was simply a higher version of kimye. at least kimye are honest in that they want fame/attention
*Is* she Muslim? Well then she doesn’t have to wear a hijab. And BTW not all Muslim women wear the hijab.
Amal is a goddess. She’s a doll. She’s perfect. Love, worship, adore. Plus she’s from the UK. Fabulous, stylish, elegant. She’s too good for George and I’m sure he knows that. Can you imagine waking up to bright woman who speaks several languages and who looks like thaaaaat? I’m sure the team of people who found her were sent big fat bonuses. Give her a year and she’ll move Carine Roitfeld and Karl Lagerfeld to tears. She’ll be more stylish than Princess Mary, Queen Letizia and Queen Rania put together. Catherine will look like a bag lady compared to Amal.
Is this a serious post.. because.. WHAT????
LOL!
IIRC, recently I read a rumour that George’s MO was to have scouts looking for suitable women. If true, then those bonuses must have, indeed, been fabulous for finding Amal.
You’ve really captured the flavour of how he’s marketing her.
Actually, I believe her mother was looking for a suitable husband for her daughter as well via her PR company. This probably was a mutual effort 🙂 I’m sure Amal will soon be sitting in the first rows of fashion shows. But I don’t think she’s very mature, just incredibly clever.
Yes, seated with Anna Wintour at the fashion shows.
I would also bet she eventually does a cameo in a George movie.
This woman loves the fame. There’s a few Vanity Fair pictures that were telling. In one She has a super short dress on ,doing a Rockettes leg up pose, in front and center of a group of George’s male guests. Her pose would rival any starlet. It looks like she’s auditioning for dancing w the stars in the photo. So odd.
Good God! Just watched ENews with footage of the spectacle.. The canal was lined with photogs and Amal was working it HARD. She preened and twirled to make sure every camera got a good view. I couldn’t believe how many cameras were going off as she got on and off the taxis, and especially as they walked into civil ceremony. I knew it was bad and over the top, but wow…the photos we’ve seen don’t show the entirety of the outrageous spectacle. To see her in action, jaw-dropping bc she’s not a movie star or model but was perfectly at home being the queen of the universe. And George was just as bad, obviously.
She’s not Muslim, she’s Druze. They consider their faith to be a new interpretation of the three monotheistic religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam, and they believe in one God.
@Jaded: She is the daughter of a Druze father (which is an ancient offshot of Islam), and a Sunni Muslim mother- so that makes her roots Muslim. Obviously, she’s not practising this religion, otherwise she could not easily have married like this.
Why would “ol’ toothy” Julia Roberts not show? And Aniston; I think she still doesn’t want to run into you know who. Not sure I believe they were invited. Why not just show, play it low key, and attend a great party?
The fact that they call each other ‘friends’ in showbiz doesn’t mean they are friends in real life. I don’t think they were invited.
Their divorce will be FABULOUS!
if i was marrying a movie star, and getting a fairytale wedding of my dreams, I would be in heaven. and smiling like a fool the whole d&mn time. not fameworey. besides, if she didn’t smile and pose nicely, people would be commenting on that. can’t win in this situation. before the wedding, when she was getting papped, she was wearing some whack outfits so i dont think she really cares. it’s george and a stylist making her look so nice now.
I don’t think George is going into politics. I thought so at the beginning but not now. I think he has something in mind.. but he also likes and needs to be the top dog. He doesn’t not like being Mr. Entertainment.
The wedding happened very fast to me. Trying to be married and work is hard. Especially if you are both busy. Time will tell how strong they are as a couple.
Anyone see George walking a bit off in the past few months? After all this hoopla I’m finally starting to wonder if a baby announcement will come by February. I do believe he’s had a vastomy after all his Z-List waitresses and wrestlers. So with getting married I can totally see him reversing it to have the family man look. Gotta have the child too and she’s 36 so it’s very possible and I kinda feel it too.
Baby Clooney due Oct-Dec 2015 stated on 10/5/2014