{"id":575776,"date":"2026-07-30T17:01:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575776\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T17:01:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T17:01:25","slug":"george-clooney-and-family-forced-to-evacuate-home-in-france-amid-wildfires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/575776\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney and family forced to evacuate home in France amid wildfires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hollywood star George Clooney and his family have said they were forced to evacuate their home in south-east France because of wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>The actor, 65, said he has \u201cno idea\u201d whether the home he shares with his wife, human rights lawyer Amal Clooney, 48, in the village of Brignoles will make it through \u201cthis terrible moment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to Didier Bremond, mayor of Brignoles, Clooney promised the pair are \u201ccommitted\u201d to supporting the village after the natural disaster.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"427\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/george-clooney-and-family-forced-to-evacuate-home-in-france-amid-wildfires.jpg\" alt=\"A firefighter walks by a controlled burn area to contain a fire near Lege-Cap-Ferret, during wildfires in south-western France\" data-title=\"France Wildfires\" data-copyright-holder=\"AP\" data-copyright-notice=\"Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved\" data-credit=\"Emma Da Silva\" data-usage-terms=\"This content is intended for editorial use only. For other uses, additional clearances may be required.\"\/>A firefighter walks by a controlled burn area to contain a fire near Lege-Cap-Ferret. Photo: Emma Da Silva\/AP<\/p>\n<p>The letter, shared by Clooney\u2019s publicist Guido Gotz, read: \u201cDear Didier, At this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we evacuate Brignoles we want to emphasise two things, first we hope you and the people of our city are safe and second that Amal and I are committed to making sure that whatever happens to our village, we are part of this community and we\u2019ll be part of making it whole.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe love Brignoles and our friends who live there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The pair moved to the area permanently in 2021 after purchasing an estate which Clooney described as their \u201cfarm in France\u201d.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"900\" width=\"640\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/1785430884_697_george-clooney-and-family-forced-to-evacuate-home-in-france-amid-wildfires.jpg\" alt=\"King\u2019s Trust 50th anniversary\" data-title=\"King\u2019s Trust 50th anniversary\" data-copyright-holder=\"PA Wire\" data-copyright-notice=\"PA Wire\/PA Images\" data-credit=\"Yui Mok\" data-usage-terms=\"\"\/>Amal and George Clooney at the Royal Albert Hall, London. Photo: Yui Mok\/PA<\/p>\n<p>The couple and their twins, Ella and Alexander, were awarded French citizenship in December.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"not-prose no-underline\" data-action=\"click\" data-category=\"Read more article clicked\" data-label=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/irish-president-leads-tributes-to-oscar-winning-musician-glen-hansard-1933797.html\" data-value=\"1\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breakingnews.ie\/ireland\/irish-president-leads-tributes-to-oscar-winning-musician-glen-hansard-1933797.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/2-34251105.jpg\" class=\"rounded-sm object-contain bg-transparent z-10 w-full h-full not-prose\" alt=\"President Leads Tributes To Oscar-Winning Musician Glen Hansard\" width=\"278\" height=\"156\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        Ireland<\/p>\n<p>President leads tributes to Oscar-winning musician Glen Hansard<\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Clooneys are co-founders of the Clooney Foundation for Justice, which provides free legal aid in defence of free speech and women\u2019s rights.<\/p>\n<p>The Kentucky-born actor is known for starring in the Ocean\u2019s 11 film and its sequels and TV medical drama ER, and won an Academy Award for best supporting actor for the 2005 film Syriana, in which he played a veteran CIA officer.<\/p>\n<p>He recently starred in Jay Kelly alongside Adam Sandler and is also known for romantic leads in films including One Fine Day (1996), Intolerable Cruelty (2003) and Ticket To Paradise (2022), but he has said he is no longer doing romantic films as he is \u201cnot trying to compete with 25-year-old leading men\u201d.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hollywood star George Clooney and his family have said they were forced to evacuate their home in south-east&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575777,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-575776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}