During an episode of Watch What Happens Live this week, Anderson Cooper and Ellen Barkin were Andy Cohen’s guests and a lot of crap went down. Some of it I really don’t care about, like Anderson and Andy apparently got into a tiff about Kathy Griffin leaving Fashion Police, with Anderson sticking up for his friend Kathy and Andy Cohen sort of throwing some shade. None of that is important (to me). Because Ellen Barkin played “Spill the Tea” about George Clooney & Amal Alamuddin’s wedding last year! And some of her comments were very interesting.
WWHL host Andy Cohen and fellow guest Anderson Cooper took turns asking Barkin questions about the A-list affair, including “Who got the most drunk?” and “Did any famous people drunkenly hook up?”
In fact, a lot of their inquiries were booze-related. “I can only speak for myself and that would be a big yes,” she replied when asked if the majority of guests were drunk throughout the festivities. And when pressed about the food, Barkin answered, “I would say spectacular, [but] I didn’t eat. It got in the way of my drinking. You know what, I’m not lying, I have no f—king idea. I didn’t eat a thing all weekend.”
As to whether any celebs hooked up at the highly publicized event, Barkin first replied, “Not that I’m aware of,” before asking, “What do you mean ‘hook up’?”
“Fool around that night,” host Cohen explained. “Possibly,” she said, revising her answer with a coy smile.
Barkin said she wasn’t surprised that the former bachelor settled down.
“I always felt he would,” she said. “I felt he was just waiting till he felt like he wanted to.”
As for the Oscar winner’s new wife?
“She takes great care of him and all his friends,” Barkin dished of Alamuddin, 37.
Amal “takes great care of him and all his friends.” That’s interesting. Really. I’ve always thought that was the dynamic of George’s relationships, like the ladies had to fit into his life, spend time with his friends and organize their schedules around him. But Amal was supposed to be different! Amal and George were supposed to be equals! He was supposed to take care of her as much as she took care of him! As for Ellen never doubting that George would get marrie eventually, that he was “just waiting till he felt like he wanted to,” sure. I guess we can go with that.
I’m including the video below. Beware, Ellen’s face work will make you wince a little bit.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
How could you not eat the food?!!?! Drink all you want but I bet the food was amazing, and these Hollywood people won’t eat it?!? What a waste!
I know right, that’s the only thing that matters. The food and partying.
BILL MURRAY said the salchichas were fantastic.
Did he?? Thank god. Good to know someone ate something. *adds eating salchichas with Bill Murray to bucket list*
Well, um, I kind of just made that up. But if they served Mexican cocktail sausages at their wedding, you know he would!
Bahaha I should have known. See I was thinking it was logical given all the tequila that they would have Mexican food, and BM would definitely chow down. I still want to eat with him.
she has got the time to take care of them, she seems to have quit her job.
She needs to send him to rehab if she wants him to see 60. The guy drinks waaay too much.
Ps. I wonder if she drinks too? It seems like GC’s crowd drinks themselves to oblivion.
Amals outfit is YES.
I’m not surprised about the drinking at a Clooney event. Tequila pretty much puts people under the table.
Why are George and Amal constantly getting/letting their friends talk about their relationship and praising how wonderful and smart and beautiful and real they are?
The more they talk about this couple the less I believe they are really in love and together for that reason.
Be like other couples like The Brady’s, Jolie-Pitts, Hanks, Roberts, De Niro etc these couple never get their friends to talk about them and have been together for decades and seem genuinely in love.
As for the taking care of him and his friends – despite the fact Amal is educated and bought up in a western world – she is from MiddleEast. There and in Asian countries – they teach the daughters that a wife should take care of the husband, that’s it is her duty to do it. I personally don’t brlieve in that despite being indian and bought up in UK and firmly believe that if I take care of my husband – he should be doing the same.
While I agree in general Barkin is no talking head. Besides, she was asked.
@Maya – yes, it’s really strange, their seemingly desperate need to be publicly praised and feted and held up as a shining example of a (power) couple.
A genuinely happy, confident couple (like the ones you mention) wouldn’t require this type of constant ‘look at us, aren’t we so special’ affirmation.
I think I’ve answered my own question. 😉
George’s friends have a vested interest in maintaining and promoting the Clooney image, Rande, especially. It’s about money, power, status.
When does Amal have time to ‘take care of George and his friends’ , anyway ? She doesn’t even have time to get over jet-lag and unpack her suitcase.
And what does ‘taking care’ even mean? Stocking the bar and making reservations at Mr Sushi ‘s? 🙂
I think making him continue to appear straight is the biggest part of her new job description! But yeah, I hardly think she’s doing his laundry and cooking him dinner…..
I have been a George Clooney fan for yyyeeaarrs, too many. I devoured every aspect of the wedding with glee. Loved it all, a bit over the top, but hay?
What I have noticed since IS THE NEW YORK showbiz “MAFIA” that surround this couple. They were all present at the wedding and they are the most vocal in talking about the “madly in love couple” since the wedding. No one else just the MAGIC New York circle.
WHAT GIVES???
George was never all New York New York before?
I was more interested in Andy calling Kathy Griffin out. It has been rumored that he fell out with her and it looks like with Bravo too. E! and Bravo are under the same umbrella, interesting…
I’m hoping that Amal will not be criticized today, for being intelligent AND gracious.
I don’t think anyone is criticizing her. We also don’t know what Barkin means by “taking care of”. For all we know, she kept pouring her new husband and his friends more drinks while laughing at them.
who did this? Amal is disliked for being the submissive wife who pretty much gave up her job and even her own name the moment some man came along and rightfully so. why should we not share our two cents about a woman who is not helping the empowerment of other women? what do her achievements matter when she still behaves like a 1950s wife? what will teenage girls reading about her think? that a marriage is more important than having a big career? that you should give up your own name to be little Miss Clooney?
Spare us, please. “The empowerment of other women”. The last time I tried that I was shooed away for not towing the line on Hilary Clinton and other assorted war-mongers (Condi, Madeleine Albright, Victoria “Eff You“ Nuland).
Why is it “1950s” to want to take care of the man you love? Why must it always be about everyone else around you and not the person with you. Are you married? Are you in a long-term relationship, have you had one? The love of your life comes First.
And when you get married, as it is a wonderful thing to do, the big career must respect the marriage. You are not room mates.
”Little Miss Clooney” indeed. You only wish you were in her shoes, with her beauty and intelligence. My advice is: grow up.
Just out of curiosity are you married successfully? The reason I ask is because this comment makes it seem like an unequal marriage. Yes I have been married happily to one person for a long time-since George’s first marriage. I would think they take care of each other. Just a very odd thing for a friend to say, unless he has a dying illness. Especially since Ellen is known to be an extremely independent woman, even in her marriages.
@Anna, “The love of your life comes First”
for you maybe but for a growing number of women it does not. deal with it. i have long term relationships, they are not the most important thing in my life.
it’s funny how i am instantly asked about being married. as if my worth lies in that. times have changed.
we’ll never see a change in our society if we do not call out women like Amal, she has professional success but like so many others throws it away for some dude.
Amal is now a public figure and if she pushes this Disney crap than we need to adress it.
@RhiRhi I agree. If she wanted the Disney princess route which is what they did with the constant publicity and the princess style wedding then she has to realize a certain portion of the public is going to call them out on it, especially since the world has changed quite a bit. Even Disney didn’t have the last ” pseudo-original” film Frozen end in happily ever after marriage. If Disney can change, I think the world needs to take note.
Personally, I think they George and Amal don’t care. If they wanted to to have their “happily ever after” not scrutinized they could have kept it a bit more quiet. Either that or again as George said in his emails to Amy Pascal from Sony maybe he is a bit out of touch now a days on this too. Who knows?
Do you know this woman? She just seems like a shallow, paparazzi-loving rich girl who has had everything handed to her on a silver platter courtesy of mommy and daddy, including her job connections. Nobody believes that she and George are connected by anything more than a contract marriage, like all his previous relationships for show.
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i don’t see the big deal. I’m a successful career oriented woman and I’m a great hostess. Being a feminist didnt make me forget that I was raised right and host the people who come to my home, whether my guests or those of my SO, to the best of my ability.
I get that everyone here has a problem with George. Can we not take it out on his wife?
Logic is not welcomed in an Amal post! 😉
She didn’t say hostess. She said he takes good care of him and her friends. This is a very strange comment, not quite online with Eva Mendes’ sweatsuit and divorce comment but weird none the less. Why wouldn’t they take care of each other. Plays into the scenario that George just uses his women as accessories, and they join his life not they compliment each other. This is the brouhaha over this comment, but really not different than what some are surmising anyway, just weird that a friend would say it.
I saw that interview and thought that Ellen Barkin did say anything or reveal anything that the gossip rags have been saying. To me, the only difference between Amal and the rest of the girls he dated, is that George married Amal. I notice all his friends talk about how she fits into George’s life, never about how George has had to adapt to hers.
I tend to agree. His friends have said the same things about all of his former girl friends. It almost seems like a script they are reading from. It is always about George and his friends and his life. But, she like the others is not being forced to do anything they don’t want to do. They enjoy the lifestyle and what it brings. But she has the ring, so she won’t be summarily dismissed when he gets bored. But what does George have to adapt to? It just seems so one way.
This. We will never see George on a group vacation with her friends.
Amal loves those mini-shirts and can’t really pull it off, at her age. She always looks try-hard and famewhore-y. I guess that’s what she and George have in common.
Love the coat, but the dress is way too short.
What the hell is up with Ellens Hairline?? She looks like a balding man! Too many facelifts?! o.O
Ellen Barkin is being a bit bitchy, ouch. Well, it becomes her, so I don’t mind. Neither do the Clooneys, hopefully ))