Much like last week’s New York Times write-up, People Magazine has decided to do an article about how George Clooney and Amal have taken New York by storm. For what it’s worth, I do think Amal seems a lot happier in New York. She gets pap’d on the reg, she gets to hang out with all of the important people, she doesn’t have to cook or pretend to care about George’s crew of dude-friends. In fact, it wouldn’t surprise me at all if George bought a nice apartment for them in New York as soon as he finishes filming Money Monster. Anyway, People’s write-up is mostly a summary of stuff we already knew/wrote about when it happened. But there was some new info! Some highlights:
A source tells People: “They’re having a great time in New York, both working really hard but also having fun together.”
Amal’s brother is in New York and he visited the set of Money Monster with Amal on Sunday.
Their two cocker spaniels are named Einstein and Louie.
Another source tells People: “Amal and George look happy and in love. They’re spending time with other couples and friends who are bright and driven and interested in improving the world.”
Amal’s not thinking about babies? “Amal’s very much in love and extremely busy,” says a source close to the lawyer, adding that she’s “not thinking about babies” at the moment.
George will be heading overseas in May to promote Tomorrowland. Will Amal come with?
That’s interesting that a “source” just wanted People Magazine to know that Amal is “extremely busy” and “not thinking about babies.” This is going to sound judgy, but I’m actually saying this as a matter of general pragmatism: the window for “we’re thinking about babies/we’re trying for babies” is closing very quickly. She’s 37 years old and he’s 53. What I’m saying is that they’re both a little long in the tooth to still be playing the “we’re not thinking about that right now, we’re just having fun” game. Now, if they don’t plan on having kids, that’s fine and it’s not my business or anyone else’s. But it seems more like Amal and George want to keep the baby speculation in the air for a year or so. This is called The Aniston Method.
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I wish people would lay off her womb!
And this entire time I thought she was closer to 47.
If they don’t want to have kids that’s their decision. Again, not everyone wants to have kids.
I think the criticism here is that their pulling a Jennifer Aniston rather than just shutting down all baby speculation.
Edited to say that I posted this before seeing all the JA talk down thread. LMFAO at JA basically being a meme for fostering baby rumors for the fame.
Crap. They’re.
Kristen Bell would not approve.
I can’t stand Kristen Bell and her husband.
Me, either!
Those jeans are so ill fitting.
Am I the only person who likes them? I know they’re not “sexy” but I like the way they hang in kind of a boyish way. I will say the way they’re dyed they look like they’d be scratchy and uncomfortable though.
Not alone, I’d wear them in a heartbeat!
No, I love them too, but you have to be tall and very slim to pull off this look.
It’s ill fitting,the only time and place to wear them cleaning the garage.
It is the same situation with Jennifer Aniston. Instead of just coming out and say she does not want children and pissing off judgy mothers she says it might still happen. Just like Jennifer Aniston I don’t think Amal wants kids either, she has a lot going on in her life already. I am sure she and George had a conversation about kids before getting married, and I don’t think he has changed his mind on kids. I just wish someone had the balls to come out and say “I don’t want kids and that is OKAY”.
Totally agree. I don’t for one second think either Aniston or these two are beyond allowing speculation to continue for a little attention. However, it shouldn’t at all be shocking to come out and say “actually we want to remain child-free”.
But the press speculating/asking someone about whether they want to have kids or not is also totally fucking rude. So there’s that.
Ellen has said twice now on her show that she and Portia do NOT want kids. Once wasn’t enough. She had to reiterate it a second time. The taboids just can’t let it go although maybe now they finally get it.
Spot on, it *is* rude to ask, celebrity or not. There should be mass training in how to utter the essential responses to all these personal questions: “You’ll be the first to know…” and “Why do you ask?”
I tend to agree. If George (like Aniston) had truly wanted children, he would have them by now. But once you become a People Mag favorite, you have to play to that crowd and never come out and say you don’t want children. But there are many successful folks who never have children, say so (Helen Mirren) and they still win awards and are popular. George’s problem may also be his back issue. Running after a toddler and playing with them while you yourself are in pain is no picnic. Children should not come into play just to fit the image or make someone else happy–didn’t his Dad say something at the wedding? If it is their choice, they should just enjoy their travel, eating at fancy restaurants, their dogs, and whatever else makes them happy.
I could say something about the regular “happy” but basically empty of substance reports (NYTimes and this) on their activities, but, I guess it is par for the course.
Amen. And OMG, is it National Get In Your Womb Business Day? If she is going with The Aniston Method for PR purposes, then gross on her. If not, then gross on the source/People for treating the woman, as usual, as a Must Want Babies Only-dimensioned person. Call me when there’s this much attention paid to whether the MAN in these relationships want to be a father or not.
Lainey grates, but these are the days I appreciate her for her unapologetic I DON’T WANT KIDS AND THAT’S PERFECTLY FINE SO BACK UP stance.
I don’t even understand why it’s being asked. Like whenever I see someone 35+, male or female, with ZERO kids, unless they’ve said otherwise I assume that they don’t want any kids. And that’s fine. And it’s fine it they DO want kids, and just don’t feel right about it at the moment.
I don’t understand why it has to be a big deal, a big PR game, to be honest. It’s dishonest and is just annoying. I was watching old Oprah shows, and saw Leo on, from when he did “The Aviator”, and all these goggly eyed women were just sighing and fluttering their eyelashes over every little thing he said–if he was going to get married, make babies…..he said he wants to. Now, I don’t think that Leo plays the marriage/baby card very often (last time he was asked about it was The Great Gatsby promos), but I think he likes the image of “Bad boy who cavorts with bad girls, and will eventually settle down with GOOD GIRL and make little Leos”….and that feeds his female fans, that fantasy.
Just YUK.
I can’t stand Lainey, but good on her for that comment.
“They’re spending time with other couples and friends who are bright and driven and interested in improving the world”
*eyeroll*
Thank goodness these two came along. The rest of us dumba** peasants were just fumbling along, picking our nose and plus size wedgies out of our butts, hoping KIng George and the Serene Queen Blowout would save the world for us.
Who is writing for People magazine these days? Their “source” quotes are a step away from Harlequin novels.
Anyway, as for me… I am spending time with other CB commenters who are snarky and witty and interested in passing the time commenting on celebrities who are bright and driven and interested in improving the world.
*picks wedgie out of my butt crack*
I guess that leaves Rande Gerber out. I don’t see him trying to improved the world and some big philanthropist.
Sure he is one Cassamigo’s tequila shot at a time.
They should watch out they are starting to fall in the too preachy for the peasants category with they are improving the world while dressed in a $3,000 casual ripped jeans outfit. It’s all a bit much.
Yeah, the rest of our fat asses are dull and apathetic and trying to do all the damage we possibly can. K.
Some of us are even too apathetic to bother with the damage part.
Well, at least they stopped throwing “he finally found his equal” at us. But if they are now hanging out with all these “bright world beaters and change agents”, who was George hanging out with before? The Mexico crowd seems the same to me, he just has a wife instead of a girlfriend.
Reading this People article made me lose brain cells, not gain them, so won’t be a part of the new in crowd. Oh Well.
Thank you.
Really…..it’s good to know that someone with such an inflated sense of her own importance has unfettered discretion to discern who is “bright” and “driven” enough to be graced with her presence. I’m glad that Justice Sotomayor made the cut. 🙂
This is the third article in less than one week that refers to her being “extremely busy,” besides the NYT article and the NY Post article that I linked in a previous post. Of course, these references bolster the false narrative of her being a hard-working professional, and counter allegations online that she is not working full-time. However, our eyes do not lie. It’s conceivable that we’re not seeing work that she’s doing behind the scenes on her cases in London, but what I see is a part-time guest lecturer in one law school class that meets twice a week for one half of one law school semester (6 weeks). Every lawyer’s schedule is different, of course, but I don’t know any lawyer, much less any hard-working professional, who has the time to do pap walks to dinner every other day, and the apparently extensive beauty regimen associated with them.
I know, right? Because God knows, no one else on the planet aside from rich New Yorkers has anything intelligent whatsoever to say about anything.
Don’t get me wrong; I love New York, and London, and most of the places where this overexposed couple flutters off to. But please don’t insult the many of us with brains and ideas who don’t have the influence and/or desire to swan about as if we’ve got a lock on the entire human experience. Jeez!
I prefer Barrister Barbie instead of Serene Queen Blowout myself, but to each their own….
Well, you can be judgy about her age and pregnancy. But getting pregnant early in the marriage is a mistake, as far as I’m concerned. It’s not all a bed of roses and so romantic adjusting to married life and throwing a pregnancy and baby into the mix. They are newlyweds and should have fun and get to enjoy each other as now a married couple and enjoy life and focus on each other and blending their professional and personal lives together, not put the stress of a baby on a new marriage. That’s my two cents. She’s still got a few years and has probably saved some eggs. And maybe they aren’t even sure if they want a baby anyway.
There was a time when GC would disappear for months and now we are receiving weekly updates?! Common GC. Stop it.
Judging from his outfit, he’s preparing for the apocalypse, so….
Ugh, YES. And it’s making me dislike him even more. Before, I didn’t like him because he always completely dominated the Oscar Roundtable discussions…..Kentucky this, Kentucky THAT. Dude, shut up.
And ever since he got with Amal, I think he thinks he’s SOOOO much smarter. Like by osmosis or something. And I can’t believe how famewhorey he got with his wedding. I swear we were hearing news about it for at least a month before AND they had different sets of wedding pics in like three different magazines AND they were released weeks apart (it seemed)…..just WTF? Stop it George. Just stop.
And seriously–I don’t think anyone ever thought he wanted marriage OR babies. So why the need to release this puff piece (or any of the others)…..you got married, that’s a turn around, but in the grand scheme of things, I don’t think it’s in the same stratosphere of having kids when you said you didn’t want them……
I stopped liking the bonehead when he made fun of Charlton Heston’s Alzheimer’s. He is a tool!
Seriously….what has happened to him? Judging from the Daily Mail photos, the happy couple has been papped almost every other day. Those same Daily Mail photos depict a man who is not happy with all of the paparazzi attention, even if he invited it through the wedding coverage.
I know that this was probably a false image too…..but what happened to the fun-loving prankster before this fateful union?
He has (or had???) a lot of friends and colleagues in Hollywood. I don’t recall him being so pretentious that he would deign to determine which friends and colleagues were “bright” and “driven” enough to socialize with him. I endorse Michael K.’s body snatching theory, at this point.
she’s always so thrilled to see the paps.
Um, is George a suicide bomber?
IKR? WTF?!
Not unless you count Monuments Men’s box office receipts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpaOy8b8X6A
I see you have the internet under control now, lol.
@Kiddo – I found out yesterday that you can put words on pictures of cats and it makes it look like the cats are talking. It are so fun.
Omg, I need to do that cat thing!
taterho LINK!
@Kiddo – Ask and you shall receive…
taterho link
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Just a reminder ladies, you may be accomplished, educated, and well financed, but your uterus will always be the most important thing about you.
(As a side note, biologically, yes, she’s older, but adoption is always an option for late- life parents.)
I’m extremely busy and not thinking about babies either. I think I deserve a people mag cover. Let me just call Tracy Anderson first so I can lose 20 kgs by eating whatever I want and not being controlled by the vanity disease.
Now that I’ve said my piece, if they don’t want kids, good on ’em. No one should be forced to reproduce. Being a parent is a gift, but also a responsibility. One has to be ready for both, and not everyone is.
And finally, and this is by far the most important point – those dogs are CUTE
Those dogs are the best thing about either of ’em!
Agreed. Why were these dogs not front and center during the wedding, wearing adorable life vests as part of the gondola flotilla?
I miss New York. If I were her, teaching at Columbia, just married and in love, floating around New York with all doors open to me, I’d be too busy for babies, too.
Okay. Except it’s all an illusion. Smoke and mirrors.
Amal doesn’t want children right now or ever. I got it.
People are so boring: marriage is NOT just for procreation, jeez. Maybe ask more interesting questions, dear media? People get together and mary for so many other reasons. Babies are not the only thing a woman can or should want.
Right? It’s really nobody’s business if they want kids or not. They just got married. Maybe they don’t want kids. Maybe they’re trying but don’t feel like sharing that with the immediate world. I think it’s rude.
And I agree 100%. What is it about our culture that it feels so entitled to pry?
Oh…My…God. Are you being serious? They’re the ones who are putting these stories out to the public to be commented on. If they wanted privacy they would stop shoving themselves down everybody’s throat in a constant barrage of PR stunts. The tone was set when they invited the world to witness their 3 ring circus of a wedding.
Okay, call me crazy but my question isn’t whether they want kids or not, because don’t really care; but why does Amal walk around all the time with her nose up in the air? Is she smelling something? Is she trying to make her neck look longer? Does she have some sort of medical condition which causes her head to fall backwards? And is it just me, but when she comes out of a building and the paps are there, is it a requirement to brush her hair back with her left hand thereby showing off her wedding band? THESE are the questions we need answers to. Not what she ate or whom she hung out with.
Head up ass-itis is the medical condition.
I don’t care if they want babies or not, I’m just confused as to why George Clooney has been shoving his wife into the public eye with a massive pr campaign since he met her. If he had kept his life private, they could live in relative privacy as he always loudly proclaims to want. Obviously not. They are both annoying famewhores. I can’t figure out if the publicity is just for the attention or if there is an ulterior motive. Their relationship seems so fake?
It continues to be a strange thing. It appears that the fluff is now primarily designed to make her the It Girl of professional women.
I don’t mean to be snarky, but Amal, seems to be into the new lifestyle and her version of being a very important human rights lawyer. Also, not everybody wants children or should have a child. George is into the Oceans 11 bachelor lifestyle, career and probably has been fixed, so he can’t have children. This stuff comes from the Clooney PR machine again, to make Amal a very important person. But as Kristen Bell says, ““I wasn’t positive I wanted kids. But I can now confirm having them is absolutely unmissable. ”
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PR Team releases this BS story. Then they come on to sites this one and pretend to have a serious discussion about having children. They’re so obvious, it’s like they believe we’re all supposed to be a bunch of idiots.
+1000
It is very odd to me that whether Clooney is married or dating the need to keep these women relevant and in the public eye, is so important to the Clooney PR machine. New York is a big place and to know that Amal was going to be on the movie set is obviously set up for the paps. You don’t see Jodi Foster, who is directing the flim or any of the actors in the photos, just Amal and George.
I actually believe it was part of the deal that she doesn’t want any. This relationship is about raising their profile together, not about starting a family. I cannot even picture them with a child. They’re trying to build up some VIP status as humanitarians for themselfs, so I doubt there is any thought spent on parenthood.
Nobody has been THAT aerated about speculating re the choices Amal (and George) may or may not be making about reproduction – odd that Clooney (very over active) PR have chosen to put themselves ahead of a query curve that hasn’t really started curving.
But, anything to reinforce Amal as “busy”… and whatever yadda yadda their PR by numbers approach deems as shorthand for the “Amal is the ace-ist, top of toppermost iconic model of fem-i-ness EVER” message is today.
Is that “bright” enough for the shallow Clooney fameho pool to catch some secondary bask and glow by reflection? And “driven” enough to not have time or f**ks to give in their days to publicly disabuse the Clooney PR piggybacking abuse of them by association?
Self proclaiming (via PR) your exceptionalism isn’t exceptionally “world changing”, just, increasingly, exceptionally desperate and sad.
Got it George. Amal is just the greatest woman ever ever ever otherwise you wouldn’t have married her. You must be a very shallow insecure man. Wow.
Wait…I AM fatwithcats…
I am very confused by these pictures. I assume he has faux explosives strapped to himself b/c he’s filming. In a couple of the shots, it looks like a set. In others, it looks like they’re just randomly walking around. With bomb-looking stuff on. In New York.
I’m sure he has plenty o’ security, but I lived in New York for 15+ years and I’m thinkin’, security or not, there are enough wackjobs with guns doing crazy shiz in the world to warrant taking off the vest. While walking around. In New York.
How hard is it to take off the damn vest, George? Think of the unborn babies Amal is extremely busy not thinking about, man!
Methinks the suicide vest is code for he is ready to cash out.
These two are pretentious twats.
YOU said it kaiser.that was what i was thinking too.