George Clooney is an American actor and filmmaker who started acting on television in 1994. His first breakthrough role on NBC’s ER as Doctor Doug Ross gained worldwide recognition.
The actor received two Primetime Emmy Award nominations for his series ER. Throughout his career, Clooney won four Golden Globe Awards, two Academy Awards, and four Screen Actors Guild Awards.
His notable projects include ER, Ocean’s Eleven, Ticket to Paradise, Batman & Robin, Gravity, Up in the Air, From Dusk Till Dawn, and The Descendants.
The dashing actor married twice – first with actress Talia Balsam and second with a Lebanese-British Barrister, Amal.
His first marriage with Talia didn’t end well, and the actors parted ways in 1993 after staying together for four years.
After his divorce from Balsam, George decided to stay single until he met the love of his life – Amal, in July 2013.
“When they were introduced by a mutual friend over dinner at George’s home in Italy, there was an instant connection between the pair. After communicating over email for several months, George and Amal finally met up for their first date in London.”
“Amal ended up getting a quick introduction to the spotlight when the evening was captured by the paparazzi,” PEOPLE Magazine reported.
Despite the age difference of seventeen years, the couple got along really well, and just a few months into their relationship, they started vacationing together.
“We never talked about marriage when we were dating, and I asked her out of the blue,” he told CBS This Morning in 2020. “[It] took her a long time to say yes. I was on my knee for, like, 20 minutes. I finally said, ‘Look, I’m gonna throw my hip out.’ We told that story to her parents, and they’re like, ‘There’s something wrong with his hip?’”
Previously while speaking to E! News, the Batman actor said that although many people believe they have a huge age gap between them and that would probably make things complicated, it’s the opposite for them.
According to George, he took a lot of time after his divorce to choose a partner, and when he met Amal, he knew he was making the right choice.
“The long wait has provided me with a level of maturity that makes me the perfect partner for Amal. We agree on most things, and we don’t argue; we almost never argue,” he said.
“When you’re 61, which apparently I am… As you get older, you’re kind of looking at things a little differently.”
He said people often worry about the age gap between him and the human rights lawyer, but he has always found the difference ‘helpful’ in establishing a healthy relationship.
“You see, Amal wants to paint the wall yellow, and if I was younger, I feel like that’s a stupid color. And now you just go, ‘I don’t care. Who cares if a wall’s yellow?’” he explained.
As for Amal, the human rights activist and barrister whose clients include former Prime Minister of Ukraine Yulia Tymoshenko, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, Iraqi activist Nadia Murad, and Canadian-Egyptian-born journalist Mohamed Fahmy and many others, met Clooney for the first time when she was 35 years old.
Although the couple tried to keep their romance low-key, media outlets and paparazzi didn’t spare them and never let a chance go whenever they spotted the couple dating in public. When pictures of the duo started circulating in 2014, some social media users criticized Amal for her looks; some even called her ugly.
“I am completely baffled at the fact that when George Clooney finally decides to settle down he picks Amal Clooney, who looks like an ugly man,” someone wrote on Twitter in 2015.
“She’s pretty, but her legs are shapeless sticks and sticky,” said another while a third added, “So terribly thin too too thin boney old thing.”
However, no matter what the haters say, Amal Clooney is a gorgeous woman who is 45 now, and her charming husband, George Clooney, is head over heels in love with her.
“Every single day of my life, I just feel lucky,” George told The Hollywood Reporter in an interview in 2017. “Lucky in my career. Lucky enough to have found the perfect partner. Sometimes in life it doesn’t happen on your schedule, but you find the person that you were always supposed to be with. That’s how I feel, and I know that’s how Amal feels.”
What are your views on George and Amal’s love story and their big age difference. Let us know in the comments.
Sources: PEOPLE – CBS This Morning – The Hollywood Reporter
