{"id":551571,"date":"2026-07-30T16:44:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T16:44:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T16:44:08","slug":"george-and-amal-clooney-evacuate-from-french-house-we-do-not-know-whether-our-beautiful-home-will-survive-george-clooney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/551571\/","title":{"rendered":"George and Amal Clooney evacuate from French house: \u2018We do not know whether our beautiful home will survive\u2019 | George Clooney"},"content":{"rendered":"

George and Amal Clooney<\/a> have been forced to evacuate their home in south-eastern France as a wildfire burned nearby, his agent confirmed to Associated Press on Thursday.<\/p>\n

The Clooneys bought their hilltop estate, Domaine du Canadel, in Brignoles in the Var in 2021 and it has since become their primary residence. Last December, the French government awarded the whole family \u2013 including the couple\u2019s nine-year-old twins \u2013 French citizenship<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In a letter to Didier Bremond, the mayor of Brignoles, the actor wrote that while \u201cat this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment and as we evacuate Brignoles\u201d, he wanted to \u201cemphasise two things\u201d.<\/p>\n

\u201cFirst we hope you and the people of our city are safe and second that Amal and I are determined to ensure that, whatever happens to our village, we remain fully part of this community and [will] contribute to its rebuilding. We love Brignoles and the friends we have there.\u201d<\/p>\n

The fire near Brignoles broke out on Wednesday afternoon and burned some 130 hectares (321 acres), local officials said. Some 600 residents were evacuated and four firefighters injured.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Esquire magazine earlier in the year about his rationale for relocating from the US, Clooney said neither he nor his wife, a highly respected human rights lawyer, did not want their children either observed by paparazzi or being raised with an urban myopia.<\/p>\n

\u201cA good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid I hated the whole idea of it,\u201d he said. \u201cBut now, for them, it\u2019s like \u2013 they\u2019re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grownups and have to take their dishes in. They have a much better life.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"George and Amal Clooney have been forced to evacuate their home in south-eastern France as a wildfire burned…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":551572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-551571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=551571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/551571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/551572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=551571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=551571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=551571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}