Considering the fact that George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin have been together for about 10 or 11 months, it’s sort of weird to me that we have so few photos of them together. There are a few candid shots, here and there, mostly exclusives to one photo agency or to X17. There was the flat-out engagement photoshoot they did with People Magazine where we got to see Amal’s $650K ring. Usually, George takes his girlfriends out on the red carpet quickly, like, within a few months. I can’t wait for George and Amal’s first red carpet. That’s going to be amazing.
Anyway, the reason I was talking about how we don’t have that many photos of them together is because we have some new photos of them together. George was filming another Nespresso commercial in Cernobbia, Italy and Amal stopped by to kiss and cuddle her man. WHO ARE YOU?! And why does it genuinely feel like Amal hasn’t done a stitch of work in months? Something nice… I like her floral dress. Pretty. But really, the best part of these photos is Jean Dujardin, who was filming the commercial with Clooney.
As for all of the wedding stuff…yesterday, we talked about the report that Amal and George would do a civil ceremony in London in two weeks. But E! still says that the wedding plans involve Como.
Clooney and Alamuddin’s wedding is getting closer and closer. As E! News reported last week, the lovebirds will likely marry next month at his Lake Como home Villa Oleandra in Laglio, Italy. A source told us that the wedding will be very “small and intimate.”
“This is not going to be a huge Hollywood wedding with Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock flying in to Italy for a week,” explained the source. “George and Amal don’t want a media circus with paparazzi helicopters flying overhead and motorbikes chasing after them as they all arrive at the airport in Milan from Los Angeles. They want the wedding to be intimate with quiet but happy and fun dinners and lunches after they’ve said short but meaningful, hand-written vows in front of their loved ones. They want their guests to enjoy it as much as they do and they know that if the guest list reads like the Oscars invite list with lots of big Hollywood names there it will be intimidating for their families. They can do a party for movie industry friends in Los Angeles at a later date.”
Sure, okay. Just please please make it sooner rather than later.
Oh, and if you want a bit of Clooney History, check out this Radar story – it’s all about his divorce from Talia Balsam, who is currently married to John Slattery. Apparently, George and Talia fought like cats and dogs over money, community property, etc. Classic Clooney.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
I think Amal stopped by because of Jean Dujardin. How could she not?
seriously and thank god she didnt block my view of him
I don’t think it is possible for that girl to block a view of a toothpick.
Who’s the Old man in this commercial with Jean? 😉
Does Nestle source fair trade coffee? I’m guessing they must if George is spruiking for them.
I don’t have any concrete evidence and I’m too lazy to google, but I’m going to give a big resounding no to that one.
But George is so conscientious and progressive. I don’t get it.
Money talks? I dunno. Nestlé is f-cking evil. I’m totally RSVP’ing NO to their wedding.
This is the company who’s CEO said: “access to water should not be a public right” so I think mimif is probably on-point.
*sips vodka Kool-Aid*
Nestlé is the company that gave free formula milk to mothers in developing counties for just long enough so that their breast milk dried up and they then became dependent on a product they never needed in the first place and can’t afford. I seriously doubt that kind of corporate evil pays a fair price to farmers.
Go George!
yes, Nespresso coffee is fair-trade
Source please.
It’s not properly Fairtrade (as in to carry the trademark) is it? Note the weaselly words here: http://www.nespresso.com/uk/en/pages/faq-secret-capsule. However, they have worked with Fairtrade International, so a proportion of the coffee is fairly traded (http://www.fairtrade.net/single-view+M5a5d82d005a.html). I think, although can’t be bothered to Google, sorry, that they’re trying to extend into South Sudan to bring some trade to that benighted region, so that’s good.
On the other hand, I personally wouldn’t buy any Nestle product (too little too late and too many other ongoing sins) and I certainly wouldn’t use such an environmentally wasteful product as pod coffee.
For sure they are polluting the Universe with their capsules.
The capsule ARE recyclable and they encourage users to do so – I will cede that point.
Still evil though.
@tapioca
Unfortunately recycling technologies are different so that in many cities / countries this activity is not supported and you have to put them in the normal garbage.
Besides, In my country they tell their customers not to refill the capsules.
They’re also lobbying hard to privatise water as they don’t view it as a basic human right.
Nestlé & Monsanto need to crawl into a hole together and die.
George and Amal don’t want a media circus
Aren’t they the ones selling tickets, (aka People covers, press releases, etc.) to this event?
yes. because surprise surprise..nobody cares!
Who is that hottie in the white linen pants?!!! Forget George
Jean DuJardin !
Also, Sexy Hot Frenchman seems to not wear any knickers either, eh?
@Schnee – your observational powers are excellent. 😜
I bless you for drawing my attention to IT…
He looks really good in that photo.
Does anybody care about these two AT ALL?
No. Except Kiddo, who loves her jewelry collection.
Ah yes… well Kiddo if you love jewelry you should visit Lorraine Schwartz instagram. Last night i was in bed when i checked it and i mesmerised.
When you take the time to read the story and post a comment you kind of do care.
Not necessarily. I make comments I don’t care about sometimes. Like this one. I’m even boring myself, so I can only imagine how asleep you must be.
I hate the way George used Matt Damon in that previous ad. Now he’s doing the same to Jean, presumably. Why do these guys say yes to being George’s second-in-command? I’d pick both of them over Clooney any day of the week.
Money?
Oh no, he’s not using them, but providing them with some really fast earned money:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-2507472/Matt-Damon-earns-cool-3million-star-20-second-Nespresso-commercial.html
Besides, the one with Damon is really lame…
I know of course that they agreed to do it and that there’s a lot of money in it for them. But George surely has comsiderable clout with Nespresso (I think he has them hire his partner Grant Heslov to direct those commercials), so they could have come up with a story that doesn’t make Academy Award winning screenwriter Matt Damon (and now probably Academy Award winning actor Jean Dujardin) look like an idiot.
You’re not wrong about that. At least the George Clooney one made a little sense (as she wanted his coffee instead of waiting for him to bring one back) but the Matt Damon one? What was that about? It made no sense apart from the woman being a cow. I hope the Jean Dujardin one is going to be at least funny like the one with John Malkovitch
@SuePerb: I liked the ‘Make an educated guess’ one with Malkovitch, but after that, it was really just meaningless, and mere repetition. I wonder when Amal is gonna be in one of those…an educated commercial 🙂
Damon donated his entire fee from the commercial to charity. Doesn’t matter if it was lame.
Don’t worry, we’ll get a ton of photos of the newlyweds during the Tomorrowland award campaign next year.
It’s so funny you picked the one and only shot of Amal actually smiling. In the majority of pictures she looks bored witless as for the PDA besides one weird hug there is none at all. Nice to see Amal get her hair and makeup done for the paps. These two have no chemistry she doesn’t even seem to like him most of the time. As per his awful divorce it won’t happen with Amal, an iron clad pre-nup ensures Georgie boy wont lose more then he wants too. Rumor is the marriage will last “officially” for five years but they really will be living their own lives. Amal won’t move to LA and the Cloonster won’t be giving up LA and the ladies for anyone which is ok there are certain things and people it’s rumored Amal won’t give up either. PR marriage made in Hollyweird no wonder no one is buying this farce. George should off married the wrestler even she isn’t as boring as Amal which is saying something.
Haha, this is funny
If it is a PR marriage, what is in it for her? Money? She had that already. Fame? Well apart from pap shots how much fame can she get from being a Mrs? Not much unless she is in the business herself. Career? Being Mrs George Clooney does not help her law career, those who think it does do not understand international law or how they get clients.
I know a lot of people think she has stopped working but they are usually those who do not understand what her job actually is (as they try to compare it to US lawyers), how it works and usually those who do not realise the ease (and cheapness) of travel around Europe done by millions of people all the time not just international law barristers.
I understand exactly what Amal’s job is. She is a JUNIOR barrister who should be interacting with her colleagues in person, not texting ‘Here’s how we’ll keep our latest human rights abuser client out of jail’ bullet points between Hello Kitty photo ops.
I also love how her PR pushes the angle that she’ll be back at work in London full time after the wedding AND that this is somehow the love story of the century.
Maybe on shouldn’t over-interpret a few photos. They don’t seem to have that much chemistry in those pics nevertheless this is just ONE day. Maybe they didn’t have a good day. Maybe Amal was bored. I red that actors very often had to wait on set for long hours without doing much while everything is prepared and that seems rather boring to me. Clooney looks like he didn’t sleep too well the night before.
Amal takes on HIGH profile cases as the Julian Assange case and there was another… .
She is not after money nor after a marvellous professional legal CV but she wants a certain status on an international stage à la UN but with less hours. She is not going to work till she faints. But bit charitable and a bit intellectual and some semi-social-political powers is what she is after, I guess. I find it hard to describe but I would assume she aspires to a status à la the one Queen Rania of Jordan or Queen Silvia of Sweden have on an international high-society stage.
Then her marriage to Clooney makes sense.
Or – they really are in love.
George and Amal are about as real as Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley.
What? You’re breaking my bubble. I saw them kiss once, I totally thought they were for rill.
LOL
You are not alone…
…. I am here with you….
Though we’re far awaaaaaay….
Nooooo…they were legit like Liza and David Gest.
Now there is a memory.
LOL Is this why the all important barrister was too busy to be involved on the UN panel to establish whether or not war crimes had been committed against the Palestinians? I’m sure they are all feeling the love and support in their plight from the world’s smartest barrister…
She is so in demand as a lawyer that she has been vacationing for months. She is now entering the final phase of wedding prep. , than there ‘ s the honeymoon, red carpets, other set visits, Christmas in Cabo, and so on….
Nothing wrong, of course, but what I am seeing is that she is following the same old pattern we have seen with the others. What makes her different?
The difference is she probably talsk about a lot more than the latest diet or their latest modeling job or hosting gig. She’s probably very interesting. And when the bloom is off the rose, she has a career to go back into heavy. The others scrounge trying to hold on to some C-lister status in the celeb world. That’s the difference.
As far as the rest, you’re right, she seems like the rest right now, pap shots they seem to enjoy and being his beck-and-call girl. Although, I did read months back that she was on a leave, had taken some time off, and he wanted to marry around the mark of a year from when they started dating and before she went back to work full-time sometime iate September when her cases are gearing back up, and he probably goes off to do a movie. I think they are getting married in the next couple of weeks probably.
She’s in her late 30s, went through seven years of college and has been working her whole adult life. If she wanted to scale back and take like a sabbatical or months off this year, just working more part-time, good for her. Maybe that’s all that is. And our posters from the U.K. say being a lawyer of the type she is over there is different anyway. And for all we know, back at their villa she is in files working on cases that are in the preparation stage. And she will be back full speed after the wedding,
What I hate about George and his women is they always seem to be hanging on to him not vice versa. Act like a man in love, George.
How do you know she is not working? Her line of work does not mean she is sitting in a certain office all the time. She is a barrister who works in international law, not a US lawyer; there is a huge difference. She can very easily work from Italy with occasionally popping to another country to see clients/other lawyers when needed. Her chambers are only filled with clerks who do the paperwork (not barristers unless they need to be there in particular) and in Europe (I am sure the US has the same) you can email paperwork easily. You can also scan a document if she needed it signed or sign it online. There is no need for her to be working from the same desk 24 hours a day
And what is George doing while she is at her desk in Como?
Sorry, I understand this can happen from time to time, but I don’t deem this possible for long periods. In every Job you need focus, time, energy and I am sure that the circus that surrounds him is particularly distracting.
Finally, I wonder If her clients are happy about her visibility and If they start doubting that her attention may be somewhere else. After all, she is not the only one in her profession.
I am just gonna say it, Clooney is an ahole and only after her started to become considered a “good” actor did people forget all the stories about what a tool he was starting back from his Facts of Life Days. The stuff about him fighting Balsam is not surprising. Didn’t he fight Kelly Preston for the engagement ring or was it the pig? Lol.
I just came here to write I will be singing the Facts of Life theme song all day now and I really miss blue marie.
*summons blue marie*
Talia Balsam and John Slattery have been on Mad Men for YEARS. They have incredible chemistry.
Based on the haggling that went on when he divorced Talia, a very detailed prenup might be in order. Be sure to list who gets which mattress and box springs, Amal.
So the rumors of George & Amal getting married this weekend were just a decoy for the Jolie-Pitt wedding? Maybe this whole engagement is a sham? LOL
I think that whenever George gets married, that prenup will be iron clad. He has spoken on how he ended up with ulcers after his divorce from Talia.
Is there a way one can bet on the length of this marriage? Might as well earn a few dollars making the bet.
Um, Jean Dujardin is so flipping gorgeous. Whoa. I was scrolling through the pics and then- BAM! God, he is hot.
When I saw his picture, I thought – “Ooh la la!”
I am so happy to keep reading every detail of their Lives… NOT!
Actually, the name of the city is Cernobbio and it’s right down the road from Laglio, where George lives.
I bet Clooney is PISSED that Brangelina knocked him off the headlines, LOL!
Is it me, or is she looking seriously underweight? I mean, she was thin to begin with, but now her arms look like toothpicks and in the frontal shot it looks like there’s nothing but skin and bones under that dress. Yikes!
You can read some details about an example of Amals recent work here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/may/03/amal-alamuddin-george-clooney-gadaffi
Kaiser you should really stop giving Amal the same “when is she even working” treatment you give Duchess Kate, because this woman has accomplished a lot in her live already. Even if she’s taking some time off to organize the wedding – why not? But she’s most probably not. As someone stated above, she can do paperwork from a home office and reach every country in Europe and the Mediterranean within a few hours. She’s not only working in the courtroom, Amal is also working as an advisor and publishes papers. It’s perfectly possible, that she’s working on presentations or publications for weeks at home in Italy and flies to the occasional appointment in London or elsewhere from time to time.
Julian Assange is planning to leave the Ecuadorian embassy and a lot of things can happen after he’s out of the building. So how do you know that she’s not working every day on strategies how to cope with those different situations? She doesn’t have to sit in an office in London every day to do that…
THIS.
“the 36-year-old barrister had already gained a high profile as an adviser to former UN secretary general Kofi Annan”.
If she hadn’t worked hard she would have gotten that job.
I’ve said the same thing a couple of times normal people usually have stuff to do outside their workplace: going to the grocery, the gym, and why not an apéro with friends, even during the week: I go out with my girlfriends on wendsday evening after the gym.
She is working and planning her wedding, probably she had slowered her working routine, but she doesn’t deserve a shade like she was the Duchess Wait.
Dupe
The UN is rife with BS. And Amal is hardly running the equivalent of quick errands on her lunch hour. She is a full force Beck N Call Clooney Girl — which is probably the only thing rife with more BS than the UN and about a few thousand rungs below waiting for a Prince, even Wills.
“Adviser” can be anything from 24/7 on duty to a monthly 30-min phonecall.
Kofi Annan doubtlessly is a very busy man and I am quite sure he has more than 1 adviser.
If they wanted a quiet wedding without the media circus, they would’ve stayed quiet about it. She likes the attention and he does too.
I think I saw that dress at Anthropologie. I don’t get this coupling either. Chris Martin should be dating Aladdin and George should be dating Jennifer Lawrence or something, weird Hollywood dating time warps or whatever
She looks fabulous. Love her nod to Jackie O.
this is a joke, right ?….only in “wannnabe” kinda way.
A total PR sham. I get that George’s minders want to reinvigorate his image by pairing him with an intelligent woman for a change. But this was the wrong woman. She is unappealing, not that pretty and has a large hook nose. The feedback from the public to them as a couple is very negative and everyone can see she doesn’t work. Also Clooney has been pimping this relationship for all the PR he can get e.g. professional close ups of the ring etc. George does seems so desperate for some good PR. Are his films really doing that badly? If his PR people read all the social media posts they would call the wedding off. Also Clooney is an actor, Can’t he even act like he is actually in love with this woman?