{"id":131496,"date":"2025-09-10T00:32:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131496\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T00:32:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T00:32:13","slug":"george-clooneys-busy-career-jet-setting-lifestyle-has-cost-him-a-lot-physically-and-emotionally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/131496\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney\u2019s Busy Career, Jet-Setting Lifestyle Has \u2018Cost Him a Lot, Physically and Emotionally\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

George Clooney is raising fears he\u2019s putting his health in jeopardy with his relentless schedule after skipping several events at the Venice Film Festival due to illness, sources tell Globe.<\/p>\n

The sinus infection that forced the burned-out 64-year-old actor from promoting his upcoming Netflix movie Jay Kelly is a sign of a much more serious problem than a mere case of the sniffles, an insider says.<\/p>\n

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\u201cGeorge has so much going on he rarely gets a night off,\u201d the insider says. \u201cThat schedule might have been doable at 45, but he\u2019s not a young man anymore. He\u2019s got to learn to take his foot off the pedal, no matter how hard that is for someone like him to do. Otherwise, you start getting sick and that could lead to serious problems with a bit of bad luck.\u201d<\/p>\n

Doctors tell Globe that minor illnesses like a sinus infection are often an ominous sign the body needs rest and a chance to recuperate.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a message you ignore at your peril,\u201d Florida aging expert Dr. Gabe Mirkin, who hasn\u2019t treated George, tells Globe. \u201cAt his age, you need to give yourself a break or you risk more serious illness.\u201d<\/p>\n

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The ER alum\u2019s typically hectic schedule has been even more intense lately, sources say.<\/p>\n

Incredibly, this spring he shot Jay Kelly at roughly the same time that he rehearsed and performed in the Broadway hit Good Night, and Good Luck.<\/p>\n

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The Ocean\u2019s Eleven star has also been criss-crossing the globe to spend time with his 8-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, and convince his skeptical wife, Amal, 47, he\u2019s not an absentee father.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how he does it,\u201d admits a source. \u201cBut it\u2019s cost him a lot, physically and emotionally and mentally.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Insiders say while the activist actor has cut back on Democratic Party fundraising efforts over feeling scapegoated for Kamala Harris\u2019 2024 election defeat \u2014 after he torpedoed incumbent Joe Biden\u2019s presidential bid with a scathing New York Times op-ed<\/a> \u2014 he\u2019s still heavily invested in political kingmaking.<\/p>\n

According to our source, he hasn\u2019t entirely ruled out running for president himself \u2014 if he can figure out a healthier work-life balance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George Clooney is raising fears he\u2019s putting his health in jeopardy with his relentless schedule after skipping several…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":131497,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[64,63,134,38889,528,38890,91171,344,435,91170,91169,69862],"class_list":["post-131496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-george-clooney","tag-getty-images","tag-jay-kelly","tag-minor-illnesses","tag-movies","tag-netflix","tag-relentless-schedule","tag-sinus-infection","tag-venice-film-festival"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/131497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}