Hollywood star George Clooney has become French, along with his wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney and their two children, an official decree seen by AFP on Monday showed.<\/p>\n
The publication, in France\u2019s government gazette, confirms an ambition Clooney alluded to early in December when he hailed French privacy laws that keep his family shielded from paparazzi.<\/p>\n
\u201cI love the French culture, your language, even if I\u2019m still bad at it after 400 days of courses,\u201d the 64-year-old actor told RTL radio at the time — in English.<\/p>\n
\u201cHere, they don\u2019t take photos of kids. There aren\u2019t any paparazzi hidden at the school gates. That\u2019s number one for us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The now-dual U.S.-French citizen has a long attachment to Europe, which even pre-dates his 2014 marriage to Amal, a British-Lebanese human rights lawyer who speaks fluent French.<\/p>\n
Clooney owns an estate in Italy\u2019s picturesque Lake Como region, purchased in 2002, and he and Amal bought a historic manor in England.<\/p>\n
Their property in southern France — a former wine estate called the Domaine du Canadel, near the village of Brignoles — was purchased in 2021.<\/p>\n
They also own a New York apartment and a property in Kentucky, but reportedly sold homes in Los Angeles and Mexico over the past decade.<\/p>\n
The glamorous couple are parents to eight-year-old twins.<\/p>\n
Clooney told RTL that although the family jet-sets around, their French home \u201cis where we\u2019re happiest\u201d.<\/p>\n
Clooney is also a director and producer, and has two Oscars to put on whichever mantlepiece suits: one for best supporting actor in 2006\u2019s \u201cSyriana\u201d and as a producer on 2012\u2019s \u201cArgo\u201d.<\/p>\n
On top of his cinema pay cheques, he has raked in millions for celebrity endorsements, including for Nespresso, and got a windfall pay-out for selling his stake in a tequila brand.<\/p>\n
Clooney is not the only Hollywood luminary to want to go French: U.S. director Jim Jarmusch on Friday told France Inter radio that he plans to apply for French nationality.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would like a place that will allow me to escape from the United States,\u201d he said, also saying he was attracted to French culture.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood star George Clooney has become French, along with his wife Amal Alamuddin Clooney and their two children,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375895,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[712,49,48,75,337],"class_list":{"0":"post-376431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-apple-news","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=376431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375895"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}