{"id":834543,"date":"2026-07-31T00:32:23","date_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834543\/"},"modified":"2026-07-31T00:32:23","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T00:32:23","slug":"george-clooney-and-amal-clooney-hollywood-actor-and-family-evacuate-luxury-french-home-due-to-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/834543\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney and Amal Clooney: Hollywood actor and family evacuate luxury French home due to wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ardee Napolitano<\/p>\n

July 31, 2026 \u2014 5:55am<\/p>\n

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Paris: Hollywood actor George Clooney and his British wife Amal, an international human rights lawyer, have evacuated their luxury home in south-eastern France as a result of the wildfires blazing in the region.<\/p>\n

The star behind the Ocean\u2019s Eleven franchise and other films made the statement on Thursday (France time) in a letter to Didier Bremond, the mayor of the town of Brignoles, about 90 kilometres east of Marseille, Clooney\u2019s publicist Guido Gotz said in an email.<\/p>\n

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Addressed \u201cDear Didier\u201d, the letter said the Clooneys had \u201cno idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment\u201d.<\/p>\n

But as they evacuate Brignoles they wanted to assure Bremond that, whatever happened to the community, \u201cwe\u2019ll be part of making it whole\u201d, the letter said.<\/p>\n

The Clooneys bought their home on a vineyard in the Provence-Alpes-C\u00f4te d\u2019Azur region in 2021 when it had an estimated value of about \u20ac9 million ($15 million). In an interview with Esquire<\/a> last October, Clooney described their \u201cfarm in France\u201d as their primary residence.<\/p>\n

The fire near Brignoles broke out Wednesday afternoon and burned some 100 hectares, local officials said. The blaze was far smaller than a vast inferno that has swept up the region around Bordeaux<\/a> in southwestern France in recent days.<\/p>\n

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About 700 residents from the areas near Brignoles had been evacuated, but were allowed to return to their homes on Thursday after the fire was brought under control, the officials said.<\/p>\n

Water-bombing helicopters remained deployed over the area after the evacuation order was lifted, the regional administration said. It said weather conditions remained unfavorable, with high temperatures and winds expected to pick up again in the afternoon.<\/p>\n

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The French government in December announced that the Clooneys along with their twins Ella and Alexander were awarded French citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In the Esquire interview, Clooney said part of the impetus for the move to France was that he was \u201cworried about raising our kids in LA, in the culture of Hollywood\u201d.<\/p>\n

US President Donald Trump seemingly welcomed the news the pair had been granted French citizenship, calling them \u201ctwo of the worst political prognosticators of all time\u201d and claiming the actor was better known for his politics than his \u201ctotally mediocre movies\u201d.<\/p>\n

But George Clooney hit back, saying he also wanted to \u201cmake America great again\u201d \u2013 starting with the US midterm elections<\/a> in November.<\/p>\n

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Europe is sweltering under an exceptionally hot and arid summer, creating tinderbox conditions for unprecedented fires that have flared from the Atlantic coast to the eastern Mediterranean and forced hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate homes and vacation spots.<\/p>\n

Firefighters also battled flames in the United Kingdom, Spain, Germany, Greece and Turkey on Thursday and were tamping down smouldering forests in southwest France where 224,000 people had been forced to flee. Romania shut down both reactors at its Cernavoda nuclear power plant due to low water levels in the Danube River used to cool them.<\/p>\n

In the Bordeaux region, wildfire evacuees streamed back to nine localities that authorities now deem safe after round-the-clock combat with the huge fire that ignited last week.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s the first somewhat optimistic day,\u201d said Sophie Brocas, prefect of Bordeaux\u2019s Gironde region who gave the go-ahead for nearly two-thirds of the 224,000 evacuees to go home, including 60,000 allowed back to three Bordeaux suburbs on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

Authorities said the blaze is no longer growing beyond the 420 square kilometres already affected \u2013 an area four times that of Paris. A heat wave \u2013 France\u2019s fourth of the year \u2013 gave way Thursday to cooler weather, higher humidity and even a little rain, helping the effort.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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