I love this cover!!! I especially like the arrow to “the kiss that destroyed both their marriages.” That photo is a still from Ocean’s Eleven, if case you were wondering. That kiss was filmed before Julia Roberts even married Danny Moder and before George Clooney even met Amal. But we’re still going to talk about this! Not because I believe the Enquirer’s story that George Clooney and Julia Roberts are in the midst of a torrid, marriage-destroying affair. No, they’re not. I’m covering this because Julia and George both need Money Monster to be a hit, and if this is how they’re promoting the movie, so be it.
George Clooney’s real-life wife, Amal, and his movie wife Julia Roberts are at each other’s throats! Now their feud is threatening to end in a $220 million divorce! Reporters for The ENQUIRER have talked to top sources for the inside story of how jealous legal eagle Amal, 38, has warned “Pretty Woman” Julia, 48, to keep her hands off her husband!
Amal Clooney and Julia are “are at each other’s throats — and their feud threatens to end in a $220 million divorce” as a “jealous” Amal has supposedly “warned ‘Pretty Woman’ Julia to keep her hands off her husband.” A source says, “Amal has had enough! She’s sick and tired of watching George cozy up to Julia….To her, it’s cheating — emotional cheating. Amal feels like there’s only room for one woman in George’s life — and that’s Julia. She can never compete with their long history, and now Amal wants out. She wants a divorce — and it’s going to be expensive!”
The ENQUIRER also has the scoop on Julia’s husband Danny Moder – and the first film to get the suspicious husband fuming over the working relationship between George and Julia!
[From Gossip Cop & the National Enquirer]
As I said, I’m absolutely positive this is crap. I don’t even believe that Julia and George are particularly close in real life. I mean, she didn’t even go to his Italian wedding! They aren’t really that tight. BUT… Julia was hanging all over George in Cannes. Money Monster is being sold to the public as a Clooney-Roberts reunion, and George and Julia are trying to sell their “chemistry.” So this is what I’ll buy: that Amal was probably not very happy that Julia Roberts was goose-honking all over George. I mean, wouldn’t you be peeved/miffed if Julia was hanging onto your husband like this?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I honestly don’t think Julia and Amal like one another. Julia kept giving her the side eye on the red carpet and then was flirting really hard with Georgie I think to make her jealous. Interesting dynamics going on there.
Winner winner chicken dinner. LOL!
I doubt Amal cares. As long as she gets to use his credit card to buy anything and everything she wants, she’s happy.
That, and to continue using his surname to open all the doors which make her ‘career’ such a ‘success’.
If Clooney openly snogged Roberts’ face off on a RC Amal would still bed down in that ‘marriage’ for better or worse… and flashbulbs, lots of flashbulbs.
I think the side eye was because Amal had the fussiest, most simple looking dress I’ve ever seen. She kept having to fiddle with it. There would be shots of all the cast looking up, primed for a photo, and there’s Amal fussing with her dress, and George looking down trying to help. I would actually be pretty frustrated too if the promotional photos ops for our recent movie were held up by your wife trying to look cute (and she’s not even in the movie). Also, by that dress, you could tell Amal saw Cannes as a “look at me moment.” I don’t begrudge her going to Cannes and wanting to wear a beautiful dress, but it seemed like she wanted it to be a high fashion debut of sorts. There’s just something about that moment/dress, that cemented the “Amal is all about the attention” rumors and /or feelings for me.
I agree, HH. That dress looked nice on her but the way it was blowing up, to the point where we could almost see her underwear (or lack thereof) was ridiculous. She really does seem to be all about the attention, and to think it’s warranted because of her, and not whom she’s with.
That slit was SO high and unfortunate. And even though she was “off the clock,” I would assume she would still want to exude a certain level of professionalism while being in public. That dress was not worth the trouble. Yes, there were some beautiful photos, but there a lot of photos of her looking a mess. The slit wouldn’t stay, she couldn’t get up the stairs… I mean, girl… No.
There can only be one queen bee.
@sira:
Queen bee indeed! Anyone notice that Amal’s English accent is becoming more and more upper crust/aristocratic-a -la-Downton Abbey? I have viewed her interviews and noticed a difference.
I have to think she was wondering “why are you here?” Every photo call was the stars and director…and Amal. I don’t dislike her at all, but I don’t know that it was appropriate for her to always be there when she’s a spouse, not involved in the movie.
Aside from that, Julia has a bad habit of hanging all over her male costars like that to bring herself more attention. I wouldn’t be thrilled about that either.
Exactly! I get why she wanted to experience Cannes, but that doesn’t mean doing all the photo calls.
Yes, I thought the body language between Julia and Amal was very strange too. I didn’t see them look at each other once. And Julia was acting so over the top, it was embarassing! I would bet that these two can’t stand each other!
I was also surprised that Amal was in that line up at all. I didn’t see anyone else’s partner there involved in the photo shoot. Danny was there but not for photos. I get the impression Amal just likes the attention, maybe?!
Seems like Julia is a real b…tch. So try-hard on George, no matter the reasons.
I saw those pictures of Julia being so “aren’t I adorable” with George and got offended on Amal’s behalf even though I don’t really care about her. Just uncalled for swarming on someone else’s husband.
All the players involved in this story are vomit inducing.
^^ THIS
I agree wholeheartedly, LeAnn.
Although I also agree with Janet that even though I dislike all involved, the wife isn’t wrong in being at her husband’s side, but Julia’s continual mugging is always gross.
Why do either George or Julia need a big hit? Haven’t they made enough money already? Aren’t they permanent A-Listers?
Ego. I think for George it could be to keep his clout so he can keep producing the types of movies he likes i.e. not big budget explosion movies more think pieces. But to do that he has to bring in money for the studio.
Julia I don’t really know but probably ego and her pay check or keeping that horrible niece of hers employed
Also I believe he’s made comments that he takes this kind of movie as well as commercial work to fund the Satellite Sentinel Project.
They don’t need a hit but I’m sure they want they’re film to do well.
I just don’t think Julia likes sharing attention with ANY woman, whether its a co-star’s or the paparazzi’s, and decided climbing all over George like he was tree was the best way to keep the cameras on her. Maybe also why he pulled Amal up to take a photo with him an the cast: “Hey, Jules, I’m married, can you give it a rest?”
+1
She really can’t stand it. Remember that Late Night bit she did with Sally Field a few years back where they had to shout all the curses they know? Julia started out all cutesy, acting like she didn’t know any curses. Sally just went for it and the audience was loving it. By the end Julia was a mess, goose-honking and flailing and screeching at random intervals, anything to get the attention back on her.
If I was rich I’d pay off people to completely and totally blank her at an event, and fawn all over a female co-star instead. I think she’d go on a murder spree within about 5 minutes.
Missa, I didn’t think of that before. Quite an interesting was of interpreting their body language.
I won’t be surprised if you’re correct.
Amal must have known George and Julia have been friends for years, before she and George got married. Why the “alleged” jealousy all of a sudden?
Because it makes for good press.
Maybe she’s been jealous all along or maybe Julie ramping up the “cuddly” lately and it got on her nerves. My husband had female friends when I came along and a few of them seemed to have a hard time with it and totally started hanging all over him. They didn’t do that before. It was some kind of power struggle I guess or posturing/positioning. Needless to say, they got weeded out. It woldn’t surprise me if Julia is laying it on thick for the press, and posturing where Amal is concerned.
I do notice in the pics, George is holding Amal’s hand tightly – a gesture of reassurance and rank IMO.
Judging by those pictures, it looks like George would have a hella lot more fun with Julia than his wife!
And I gotta say, Amal does look mightily miffed in these photos. I’ve never seen one where she pursed her mouth like that….she’s definitely pouting.
LOL, that first photo is giving me Archie and Betty and Veronica vibes all the way!
Is George acting or is he really laughing with Julia? He looks… HAPPY. He never looks at Amal like that – he shows her off like an accessory.
I think Julia was pulling out all stops to SELL the latest George Clooney bomb, to get lots of outrageous photos of her megawatt grin, and to put the cherry on top by going shoeless at her very first Cannes. She’s savvy. She knew she had to with George’s box office appeal in red/negative and Jodie Foster (whom I love) being so restrained as a person. Those photos of her cracking her huge mouth open and being all over George were so incredibly strategic.
This! I doubt it’ll help this lame movie, though.
I wouldn’t consider it a lame movie. We went to the movie and we really enjoyed it. I loved all the actors and actresses in it, and it was well-paced. I think Jodie Foster did a good job as director. The first week box office was several million higher than they expected, so it did fine, I think, for what it is. It was projected to open at 10 to 12 million and opened at almost 15 million. The Cinemascore from audience-goers gave it a B plus. That’s about where I would put it.
It wasn’t a bomb like the movie he produced with Sandra Bullock in it.
@Jayna: After watching The Big Short, this to me seemed very mediocre. I’m not really interested in box office figures, but in what I can take from a movie regarding the subject, ideally combined with good entertainment. So I have to disagree about Foster’s work here- I don’t think building up and keeping suspense is a talent of her’s. I also find the plot to be ridiculous, and over-simplified. It’s busy, but leading nowhere. But ok, we all have different preferences when watching a movie.
@Siri, I said Jodie did a “good” job as a director, not a “great” job. I agree the movie isn’t as good as The Big Short. That was a fantastic movie. But I don’t consider Money Monster mediocre. I really liked it, but it wasn’t an A movie, like movies I loved like Spotlight, Brooklyn. Movie Monster was an enjoyable movie, though.
True this publicity to sell the movie nothing more so people can run to the cinema to see if their chemistry credible
Predictable PR to sell the movie, IMO.
However, I still think J and Danny will split once their kids are a bit older. Just a gut feeling.
Agree.
I think Clooney and Roberts (whom he has called “J-Ro”) are colleagues on good terms, and absolutely nothing more. The Enquirer needs to give it a rest.
He does always seem to have more fun with Julia than with his wife, based purely on pictures. They most likely friend zoned each other long ago and realistically nothing would happen between them at this point but it does make you wonder about the happiness of his marriage if they aren’t ever seen looking this happy.
Really? Because of red carpet pictures?
Sorry I don’t get how anyone could judge the status of a marriage by that especially when one of the people is a LAWYER!! Julia is a professional actor she knows how to turn on for those events so does George vs Amal (who I admitadly find annoying) is a lawyer she doesn’t and probably isn’t as comfortable.
The red carpet isn’t real.
I think he’s totally into Amal and he’d only be long-term with someone he “respected” intellectually. Which says a lot about his previous relationships and his attitude towards partners. Maybe shows he’s got a really high opinion of himself.
@Mango:
I agree with your post to a point…I think that George feels insecure and that is why he chose someone with “intellectual” pedigree.
Obvious ploy for their movie, but Julia is selling their chemistry with extra gusto.
+1 She’s also a typical alpha, needs to be top dog at all times.
Yes, she’s going full on Pretty Woman 🙂
I wouldn’t be thrilled, even if I wasn’t jealous. My husband had a secretary who worshipped him. He would never, ever have been attracted to her, so I wasn’t jealous, but it annoyed me that she did things like call him at home for flimsy reasons, constantly park her behind in his office chair for an hour and pour out her troubles, buy him little gifts… I just found it disrespectful to me and the fact that he was married. He has female friends and I’m fine with that, but it was clear she wanted more than friendship. I have to admit, it irritated me. But I guess it’s different when you have a movie to promote.
I’d be annoyed too. I’m not the jealous type either, but there is such a thing as crossing the line when it comes to disrespecting the other party in the marriage. I’ve witnessed this type of behavior in the workplace – pathetic advances which are never truly warranted or received.
Ooh, that’s pretty bad. Good for you for keeping your cool over it. My friend goes through this with her husband periodically. He seems to be a magnet for needy single women co-workers who think they can break up the marriage and become the new Mrs. My friend has seriously almost lost her mind over it a couple times.
I might have lost my mind if she had been at all threatening. I don’t mean to be mean, but it was an “as if” situation, fortunately.
Julia and Danny see Amal and George socially. She mentioned that when she and Danny go over to George’s house that’s where she sees the most difference in George and how marriage has changed him. I took it to mean he’s more domesticated, a homier vibe being married and sharing a home with Amal. I don’t now. But as couples it sounds like they hang out from time to time.
It’s the Enquirer filling those pages.
Yeah, I don’t see anything but friendship in their body language. But look at how he is hanging onto Amal, and she is looking at him. Those two are in lurve.
Amal looks older than Julia in these pictures! I can’t believe she’s 10 years younger!
I love histrionic Enquirer stories like this and the pictures are just hilarious. What I can easily believe is that Roberts is needs always to feel like THE girl in the room and has really weak boundaries about it…
Neither Julia, nor Amal like to share the spotlight. Unfortunately, it was the first time Cannes for both of them. Amal probably prepared herself really well for her big entrance with that yellowish ball dress, and she indeed managed to get more attention than Julia can handle. But I also had the impression that the rest of the cast wasn’t overly pleased with Amal’s dress show. George and Amal left Cannes right after that- I’m not sure if it was planned that way. I don’t think Julia and George are close friends, but rather working buddies, such as Brad&George. More PR than anything else. And I do remember one of these Globe award shows from some years ago, where Julia sat next to Clooney, and acted as if they are best friends, holding his hand all the time for no apparent reason, and it was annoying. So all in all, the story about divorces is BS, but these two women cannot be friends.
I don’t care so much about George and Julia, but I would like Jodie Foster to have a success. She did the movie for a pretty modest budget ($27 million) and it’s already over $37 million, so hopefully it does OK for her. Mediocre ratings though.
We went and enjoyed it. My sister and her husband went and really liked it also. I also want Jodie to have success with the movie. I went to support Jodie Foster. George and Julia were great in it, as were the other actors.
If you compare Money Monster and The Big Short ( 2 modest budget movies with big stars and difficult theme) ,Money Monster is boring because of Jodie Foster’s directing
Meh, Jodie Foster’s a crappy director. Little Man Tate was unbearably trite and dull, made worse by directorial choices, Home for the Holidays is enjoyable despite the direction, and The Beaver and now Money Monster have shown she has the amazing ability to take an interesting premise and run it into the ground. Even her TV directing gigs have been notably sub-par.
I love her as an actress, but she’s not a good director. I
Agree about Foster as a director. I’m always surprised how little she learned working with some really great directors as an actress, like Scorcese, Demme, Jonathan Kaplan, Richard Donner. But I also don’t think she’s a great actress, it’s always Jodie acting, with a lot of mannerisms. Her range doesn’t seem to be wide. I like her as a person, though, and her approach towards acting: “In order for me to spend three month on something, to understand it, it has to speak to me personally.”
The real winner here is “goose honking”. I can’t stop laughing
I know, “goose honking all over George” got my biggest laugh of the day for sure.
Somebody needs to tell Amal that SHE is not a Hollywood actress…she is a lawyer…and to STOP looking for every opportunity to pose…scouring the perimeter every where she goes in search for the camera’s photographing her. It’s not wonder she hasn’t fallen flat on her face since she is never looking at where she’s going….only who’s got the camera focused on her!
I’m OVER her…George acts like she’s the greatest thing since sliced bread…and for him…she probably is…but for the rest of us….not so much!
Hmm, I would have guessed that she does the red carpet stuff because George wants her to, to me she always looks a little bit uncomfortable and overwhelmed, which to me would be understandable for a normal person facing all this cameras. And George is always holding her very close as if to reassure her.
I agree with Suzanne. I think Amal’s extremely into the fame rather than being even a little uncomfortable with it. And George should know better than to encourage her to become just his plus-one.
Idk…I’ve thought for years that George and Julia were crushing on each other. Whenever you see them together, it’s like they both glow. Not saying that anything physical has or is going on, but I believe there’s some strong chemistry between those two and Amal probably can see it too. Whether or not she really gives a flip is doubtful.
It’a always about Julia. She likes to present the all-American girl, every guy pines me, I’m the best pal ever. She does it with every man she’s filmed with: Letterman, Clooney, whoever.
That down to earth vibe was attracted everyone, but she uses it almost as schtick. I used to lover her and her movies, but she’s such a one trick pony and such a man user. My last was when she was all over Letterman for not marrying the woman who is now his wife. She made some comment about having a “nice little starter marriage”. What? All I could think of was how dismissive that was to Lyle Lovett. And, I really feel the only reason she married him was, bottom line, she knew the headlines would address “Pretty Woman v Homely Guy!”
I agree with most of what you’re saying, except the part about why she married Lyle Lovett. I don’t think she did it for publicity: I think she did it because she was desperate for some sense of normalcy. I believe JR absolutely loves the spotlight, loves to be the centre of attention, loves that every powerful man in Hollywood fawns all over her; but I also believe that there’s part of her that wants to be a regular person. That’s why she married plain old, unassuming Lyle Lovett, and that’s why she married Danny Moder, a guy who will never be A-List in his field, no matter how many JR films he’s the camera-guy on. She wants to be a wife and mom, living quietly in Taos, New Mexico with her less powerful, less famous husband — but she also wants the option of bursting out of the den every now and then for some of the attention that she so craves. That’s why she falls all over Clooney whenever she’s near him, and brags constantly in interviews about how close they are. It’s all a big competition — look at me, I’m so normal and quiet and mom-ish; but I am still friends with George F-ing Clooney, people, and don’t nobody ever forget that.
Don’t care for either woman.
What is up with that last photo of George, Amal and Julia? It looks like George has three arms! I kept stareing at it because it makes no sense.
Hahahahaha
The third arm belongs to the guy in the glasses who was behind Mrs. Klooney.
George is looking really grey in those photos
I would love a George and Julia hook up…but it isn’t going to happen in this lifetime.
Isn’t that the same guy that used to brag that he was Rosemary Clooney’s nephew right before he charged 10 bucks for head back in the late 70s?? Looky here, he’s rich and famous just like he wanted.
Julia hit a frumpy period for a while. I thought she was middle-aged looking in a frumpy way in Love, Eat, Pray. Then a few years ago she came back vavoom, looking amazing and sparkling. I remember thinking, uh-oh, she’s getting ready for single life or having a fling. But she and Danny are still together. Although, she did buy that home and land across the street from her recently. I remember reading someone posting that maybe she’s planning to put Danny over there. LOL She was glowing about Danny in an interview this year, so maybe the marriage is still going strong.
George Clooney looks pretty good in that Enquirer picture on the top right, but he hasn’t been really hot since he played Booker (Jackie’s boss/boyfriend) on Roseanne. Every time I see an article on him I struggle to remember back to when he was so fine. And Julia Roberts dumped Lyle Lovette. That man is hot as a fire cracker (listen to Up in Indiana “a man could drown in eyes…so blue) and she tossed him aside. So personally I think they’re all relationship idiots and couldn’t care less about any of them.
Julia is just being her usually annoying self.
It was Julia’s 1st Cannes festival and she was insecure and her reaction was to mean-girl Amal and be clingy with George because that was the easy thing to do, which he welcomed because often he’s overshadowed by his wife. He picked her, so it’s his doing. She was so great that he married her, so now live with it. He overdid it with Julia. She could have brought someone rather than be a third wheel. You don’t see Uma pull stunts like that.
This news got me curios in a magazine while in line. George and Julia are in the movie industry and Cannes is for them. It is good that George brought Amal but she looks like she wanted all the attention/camera to herself and wanted to compete (see all 3 pics with all 3 of them). The hold of George to Amal is to reassure her and Julia’s hold on George is loose and friendly not possessive. Even though Julia is an actress and is used to all of this, the pics looks like she is having fun and is just walking naturally. Pics of Julia and George looks like 2 long time friends/team mate celebrating their works success.