Here are some new photos of Amal Clooney (UGH!!) in Greece today. She’s apparently only going to be in Greece for three days, and I’m sort of wondering if Amal is going to get pap’d the entire time. These aren’t really “street style” photos, thank God. I’ve always said: I like Amal’s work clothes. She has great taste in suits and professional work-wear. The problem comes when she’s left to her own devices on her “down days.” Then it’s belly shirts and floral jeans and ugly shoes. I like her dress here and she’s doing that cute newly-married thing where she’s wearing a lot of white.
As we just discussed in the previous post, Amal is officially back to work after taking off a lot of time this year for her multiple vacations with George Clooney, plus planning her wedding and all of that. During the engagement period, Amal was offered a UN job (monitoring and reporting on causalities in Gaza), but she refused, claiming that she had too much work to do. But by most accounts, her new position as advisor to the Greek government on the Parthenon Marbles is very, very recent. Like, she was just hired for this position in the last few weeks. The Telegraph and The Guardian both have extensive coverage of the issues involved with the Marbles and such. It seems to me that Amal was specifically hired not just for her legal expertise, but because she’s now Amal Clooney and the press will follow her everywhere, and Greece is actively courting the press and public opinion.
PS… Did she get a blowout this morning or does her hair just look like that normally?!!?
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
Helloooo, Mizz Lady!
You made me giggle with this comment. All of the cupcakes for you!!!
She looks great.
The hostile comments here sound jealous and spiteful. What did she ever do to you?
+1. After a few of the Amal posts, I noticed that the threads were inundated with new screennames, names I had never seen before and did not see on other threads, and I’ve been reading and posting here for over four years. I’m sure we have a troll here using multiple names. They are very clever about it, passive-aggresive, and try to get other posters to look like they agree with them.
I wonder if she enjoys all the attention now. She was living a civilian life, very accomplished in her own right, doing important work. As soon as she started dating George, her life changes for good. I know the attention is part of the package, I’d be really uncomfortable with it though. You married the man, but lost your privacy.
She looks like a cat you just ate all of the cream-I’d say she’s loving it.
Why is everyone freaking out about her hair? It’s not that great. It’s not Penelope Cruz hair. It’s not even Kate Beckett from Castle hair. Come on people. It’s brown and she washed it and round brushed it. And it makes her face look King Tut-esque. Too small for her hair.
I don’t get it about her hair either. She looks lovely and professional, but her hair is not THAT great. I feel like there are straggly frayed pieces in there. To me it looks like she needs a trim.
Oh yes, she loves the attention. That’s the first thing I noticed about her, how much she loves having her photo taken.
Looks like George got her an excellent stylist. Her wedding clothes were mostly great and this dress is perfection. No more toddler clothes! The “before” and “after” wardrobes have nothing in common – except that bizarre super short dress.
RE: King Tut. I had the thought that this woman really looks like Cleopatra or Nefertiti. Lebanon is not far from Egypt.
https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-0o7SYd9fq2M/TYBHmmmFirI/AAAAAAAAAOc/iG0rfPKOevs/s320/Nefertiti+bust+2.jpg
I think that she is beautiful in that way too. It was said that Nefertiti was the most beautiful woman on earth. (until Jolie, of course!)
Damn you, ABBOTT.
OMG, I totally Miss Cleo-d that one! (Also, don’t get on that bus, Kiddo).
I’m paddling out of the canal, right now, looking for BILL MURRAYNESS.
Meanwhile my hair air dried overnight and I didn’t have time to put mascara on this morning. Sigh.
Stepping up her style game, looks wonderful
Amal is a fake poseur. Just like her entire so-called relationship. And even after all of the extensive plastic surgery, she looks manly and unattractive from most angles, keeping many PR people amusingly busy working overtime to claim otherwise (SEE BELOW) Mommy Baria must be very hard at work in between calling Israel an enemy. All SO LOL! And anti-intellectual to the core.
What’s it like to have coal for a heart?
lolling hard at this comment. perfect response!
LOLOL
Baaaaaaaaaaahaaaaaaaaaaaaa funny stuff. I think I love this dress.
Trolling score-65%. Needs improvement.
Oooooo…Santa isn’t going to leave anything under your tree.
Eva Longoria? is that you?
I don’t think she got a blowout. Her hair actually looks a little limp in these pictures. She looks great, though! Love her style.
I think the difference is all the filler pieces she had in it during the wedding-paloosa weekend.
Yes, you’re right. Her wedding-stravaganza hair was so much longer and fuller.
” It seems to me that Amal was specifically hired not just for her legal expertise, but because she’s now Amal Clooney and the press will follow her everywhere, and Greece is actively courting the press and public opinion. ”
I agree.
But I’d imagine that very many potential clients would not hire Amal for the very same reason. If I was fighting life imprisonment or even the death penalty, I wouldn’t want a lawyer who smiles and dresses up for the paps who follow her everywhere. I suspect that all the clients Amal takes from now on will be chosen with an eye to PR, on both sides.
And btw weren’t we told Amal is a ‘human rights lawyer’? What does the Elgin marbles case have to do with ‘human rights’?
I imagine her attitude and demeanor would change in life and death circumstances. C’mon. And she’s allowed to practice whatever law she knows how to practice.
”I imagine her attitude and demeanor would change in life and death circumstances. C’mon.”
It’s not about her ‘attitude and demeanor’. You can’t just switch the paps on and off. If you doll yourself up for the paps – and if you look at any pre-Clooney pic of her it’s clear she didn’t always dress up for work – then you are making your very serious work into a media spectacle. Just because this may not be a life and death matter does not mean it’s not a serious issue. Personally, if I was a high-paying client, I wouldn’t want a lawyer who courted the paps.
”And she’s allowed to practice whatever law she knows how to practice.”
She’s allowed to practice whatever she wants, of course. Nobody said otherwise.
My point is that Amal is being marketed to us very shrewdly. So she was ‘too busy’ to take on the ‘controversial’ Gaza job – surely more in tune with her ‘human rights’ background – but was suddenly available when it comes to a more media-friendly outing?
She’s worked on this before. This isn’t a new case for her. She was advising Greece alongside Geoffrey Robertson 3 years ago, now she’s just continuing on with that. And it’s very much in tune with her legal background. She specializes in international law too.
And she dressed the same before Clooney. She’s always had stylish designer clothes and perfect blowout hair. And she’s hardly unusual in that, barristers do tend to be well-presented.
She’s a barrister. She specializes in human rights, but also international law (which includes this), criminal law and extradition.
Pretty much this. Her hair does indeed looks great, but at some point I imagine the celebrity will get in the way of the actual lawyering.
As for the “human rights”, I guess that since the Greeks are in the financial sh***er, they’ve decided to restate their right to charge 5 Euros a head to human tourists to see the complete Marbles to keep the population’s heads above water. Which is fair enough.
It’s got to be better than having the whole world know that your most famous client (Julian Assange) would rather skip bail and spend two years holed up in the Ecuadorian embassy than rely on your legal team’s talents in court…
It’s not a new thing. It’s not really her case either.
Her chambers and her senior QC Geoffrey Robinson has advised Greece on repatriating the Marbles before. It ties in quite well with Doughty Street work – even in the human rights area – because much of it centres on what you’d call anti-imperialism. Whether historical, as in this case with the Marbles or current, as with some of the ICC work, Assange, and the like.
Doughty Street will also do pro-bono work for the little people – eg a recent case about gentrification in East London post Olympics, where they helped out a little local Occupy-type group.
You might not agree with their standpoints, but they’re all perfectly coherent.
I agree. I wouldn’t want her representing me now if I were in serious trouble in a foreign country. I realize she’s a serious attorney and has worked on serious cases. But the Clooney sideshow has changed that now. She’s going to be used for her PR value now, not her legal acumen.
“She’s going to be used for her PR value now.”
Totally. Why not! Can you blame the firm?
No useful comment to add, though she looks very professional and chic as usual. Just waffling on ….
I’m recalling other high-profile lawyers in the UK who’ve also been well-known media faces, such as Amal’s own chief GR, and Michael Mansfield before. Even Gareth Pierce, a very serious type, with clients as controversial to many, like Amal’s, was courted by the media. So although Amal is in a different stratum admittedly now, it’s not totally new.
George was on about repatriating the British Museum Parthenon marbles some months ago, and we all recall the wonderful Melina Mercouri’s dedication to this. Seems a bit tangential as a case for Amal though, I’d have thought.
(Still, it was fun when Private Eye lampooned George’s sketchy info concerning the Parthenon/Pantheon, confusing Lord Elgin with Duke Ellington and so on). 🙂
Chris – as I said above, Alamuddin’s main boss-man, Geoffrey Robertson QC, has a history of advising Greece with regards to the Marbles. I think they’ve progressed to the point where we give them back but on a permanent loan rather than total repatriation. I think that allows “our” experts to continue working on them.
Sixer
Yes, my dumbo comment preceded your and Jessica’s useful ones! I hadn’t known the subject was even bring thrashed out…..as I mentioned, my erroneous impression has been that during my lifetime it crops up and gets squashed down again and again.
Many years ago the response was that Greece had not the essential conservation knowledge nor facilities…..but that is a very long time ago. The solution you cite seems acceptable though….too often the subject had been bogged down with a wider discussion about repatriating all artworks to their native lands, which gets everyone in a ruddy frenzy.
Grateful for the info, I’ll watch this with interest now.
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Chris – we had a really good discussion on this a while back, when Clooney himself advocated repatriation. You should look up the thread. I learned loads!
Thanks Sixer…….will do!
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“Chris – we had a really good discussion on this a while back, when Clooney himself advocated repatriation. You should look up the thread. I learned loads! ”
@Sixer:
You mean when he called the marbles “Marbles from the Pantheon” in a press conference for Monuments Men? Hope he learned in the meantime that those are the Parthenon Marbles. He also did not advocate repatriation, he just told a Greek reporter it would probably be good idea if they found their way back to Greece, without knowing much about the matter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=py9KlBEokR4
Her hair is very “poofy”, it’s very aging actually because it looks very news anchor-y-
Is she a naturally curly? Hair got that curly haired straightent look to it which can get that poofy look.
What is so wrong about aging? So many try to opt out of it instead of being natural and accepting the life cycle of all beings.
Geoffrey Robertson has a lot of history with this case and has worked on numerous similar cases. Amal worked alongside him on this case all the way back in 2011. It’s not quite as simple as this, but basically they’ve hired Robertson and Amal is part of his team. She hasn’t been hired as some sort of stunt, this is in her wheelhouse, it’s what she does.
Didn’t know that Jessica…..
The Elgin Marbles crop up every now and then, or seem to, so I hadn’t realised top flight lawyers were currently engaged in Britain . Jolly good, anyway.
It’s a wrangle that does need a rather famous or revered name behind it, to encourage real interest, I think. Every eruption of the story I can remember just seemed to fizzle out for various reasons including lack of ‘oomph’ factor.
I should have scrolled down, sorry!
Au contraire……far better that the likes of me quit posting ‘la la I’m clueless but here goes’ waffling!
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So, I can see her living in England due to its proximity to Europe and the Middle East (namely Lebanon and Dubai, as she has family there).
I cannot see George moving to London and living there, I don’t know why.
With all respect, I don’t get the obsession. I don’t think she’s any more attractive than the average woman. Not that I’m criticizing her looks because there would be absolutely nothing to criticize!
Ditto. There are plenty of attractive Harvard educated lawyers,of which probably have no desire to marry an old aging actor.
I LOVE her dress, but I just don’t find her attractive. Not sure why either.
Love the dress too. I don’t really like the sunglasses ,they’re very Jackie Oish. I find her attractive. I think she’s pretty.
She’s not a beauty, for sure. But I like that about her. She looks striking without being beautiful because of her poise, or style. I don’t really like the sunglasses either, just most of the clothes.
It’s so strange to see GR defer to her when they arrived in Greece as she’s now the bigger celebrity as far as gossip media is concerned. Never thought I’d see GR defer to anyone for the sake of the media. He’s usually front and centre of any media circus.
LAK
When will Kathy Lette get into it all too? ‘The Amal I know’ type of thing for Hello. Lawks.
Kathy Lette also knew George from her Hollywood Days as a writer on a tv show he was on.
George once asked Kathy Lette out for a DATE, when she was writing for a TV show in Hollywood.
Quote: ,……………..
Australian author KATHY LETTE Admits She Turned GEORGE Clooney DOWN FOR SEX
The Daily Telegraph September 07, 2009
AUSTRALIAN author Kathy Lette has revealed she once turned down Hollywood’s most sought after bachelor George Clooney for sex.
Lette told The Mirror newspaper that she met Clooney when she cast him in his first TV gig more than 20 years ago. At the time, Lette was writing sitcoms for Columbia Pictures, and gave Clooney his first role in 1987.
“I turned down George Clooney for sex. He was cute-as, and he asked me out! But there was always hostility between the writers and the actors, because the actors earned more,” Lette said.
“Years later, living in London, now with two babies and covered in vomit, I had a visit from one of my writer friends. We were watching ER and I was like, ‘Wow, look at that Dr Ross. Isn’t he gorgeous?’ And she was like, ‘That’s the guy you cast, who asked you out.’ I screamed, I cried, I lay in the foetal position on the floor. I should probably call George up now and say, ‘About that date…”
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If anything, it indicates a very secure man, entirely comfortable with his own (well-established) status, and more than used to the ways of the media.
I agree, LAK. Robertson IS usually front-and-centre. I wonder whether he isn’t such an ego-hound after all and it’s all been about exposure for the cause/case?
Sixer: I think GR and their chambers have been alittle too happy to promote the Clooney connection. They were sending out press releases the minute the engagement was confirmed. There are so many chambers/law firms with starry/impressive connections, but this chamber is more than happy to promote itself on the back of the Clooney connection. And that’s why I was side eyeing his demeanour in Greece.
birds of a feather me thinks as far as famewhore-ness and all that.
Chris2: Kathy Lette has already given her 2p’s worth on Amal. Something about her beauty and general gorgeous-ness. I can’t remember where I saw the quote, but it was on the eve of the wedding.
It’s always funny to me that GR and Kathy Lette are married because she pops up in the most unusual circles which makes sense when you make the connection.
Oh, sigh to it all. LAK, I suspect you are correct.
LAK, Sixer
Blimey it must be noisy some evenings over dinner with GR and Lette….she’s just so relentlessly ON always!
I’ve just found a few old orange Penguins of Rumpole of the Bailey in my study…..that’ll settle my lawyer/celeb concerns for the evening! (Imagine Amal facing Leo McKern on her first day at work! Ouch)
I really like the dress, but wish she would do something else with her hair…I think she may look very sophisticated in a french twist.
due to all her pics i have seen , i have come to think that she always makes sure that the cameras find her smiling
I cannot unsee her huge nose before the plastic surgery.
She’s got great hair but I want to see her in a fresher style and maybe a just a tad shorter
2 articles about her in one day… I though we would be over her after the wedding
I think she looks great, and I certainly don’t shade her for changing her last name. She’s very professional, end of story.
Yep, I’m pro Amal too.
I really enjoy her style, she’s super-capable and accomplished, she was obviously giddy with delight in Venice and why not?, and her name is her own business…..(it’s one ancient thing in my feminist rant-code that I no longer care about.)
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Three things. 1) she’s pretty. 2) i’m glad she’s committed to continuing to work and 3) FOR sure a blowout.
Whether she likes the attention or fame is kinda irrelevant to me, because… all I focus on is how chic the woman looks. As much as I hate-love Duchess Kate’s boring outfits, I love-love Amal’s!
Honestly, if our pap-worthy fashion celebs are accomplished professionals, then AMEN. Kim K and all similar others, exit door’s on the left. Thank you.
I agree Sesame! I love the Amal posts. She’s gorgeous, stylish, educated and successful. I will take her over Kim Kardashian and most of the Hollywood “starlets” 100% of the time.
It looks like there are a number of much more senior lawyers working on the case, so why is this being presented as if Mrs. Clooney were the lead attorney? At some point she’s going to have to choose whether she wants to be a lawyer or a celebrity, because currently she’s not behaving like a professional. There are ways she could and should have gone about her business in Greece without inviting this circus. Her incessant clothes-horsing, grinning and posing is really unseemly.
She looks very polished and very professional.The length of the dress is more suitable for a professional than what she has worn in the past. The name change is no surprise but the cynic in me can’t help but think it’s for attention.
Somebody out there tell me what these references to plastic surgeries are about…The woman doesn’t look like she’d had anything done to me….her nose is still large…her lips don’t look puffed up…her eyes are huge…what else would they have fixed? Great hair…knock knees and turned in feet with bunions…THAT could stand fixing…and she makes Angelina look chubby…she’s so deathly thin…but other than that….I think she’s very attractive and not manly looking at all. Who cares if she’s a beard…she landed a rich, attractive Hollywood star…and he’s handed her what most women would die for…a mansion on her own island…WTF more is there? LOL
There is a person who published Amal’s photos from before she met Clooney. Tipsy at parties, with her ex. The hate from her/his posts is just overflowing. Seriously, you’d want to wash your hands after reading them. And I love gossip and private info! But this is just seriously sick. But as the photos are so private, they give this person’s claims some credibility. So people repeat that she had two nose jobs after the engagement completely ignoring the fact that the nose is still the same and that the girl was papped like every second and would never get away with a bandaged nose.
Come on…her nose is NOT the same. Nor are her teeth.
It looks like she had a nose job at some point, but it was well before Clooney because she had this current nose when she was representing Assange a couple of years back.
Happened all the time in the business world, when I lived in NYC I’d see a lot of Wallstreet men and women go get there noses done, but not in a Hollywood perfection type way, but just a natural refining of what they had, to look natural and it was quite hard to tell , but I’d see them with bandages and black and blue , swelling until it went down, but when the work was done, their noses still looked quite natural.
My question is, why is so many pictures does she lift her head so her nose goes up in the air? I realize some cameras may be up high but it just looks weird to me.
Who called the paps? It’s been a feeding frenzy.
It looks like there are a number of much more senior lawyers working on the case, so why is this being presented as if Mrs. Clooney were the lead attorney? At some point she’s going to have to choose whether she wants to be a lawyer or a celebrity, because currently she’s not behaving like a professional. There are ways she could and should have gone about her business in Greece without inviting this circus. Her incessant clothes-horsing, grinning and posing is really unseemly.
She looks amazing. I saw another pic of her in Greece wearing a great pants outfit with shoes to die for. I love that she’s working on this case. Greece deserves to have her marbles back.
I’m just glad she hasn’t given up her career in order to follow George around just like many have predicted she would.
I can’t comment on her choice of fashion. However, I do know that she was involved in consultations on the Parthenon Marbles as early as 2011, so this is not a new interest for her – its just that the meeting were generally held in private, and the press didn’t pick up on who was attending, because she didn’t count as a big name then.
My source – I was in the meeting & papers distributed there had her name listed at the end.
Just curious, why would a human-rights lawyer be involved in the repatriation of the Parthenon Marbles? Why would Greece request her?