George Clooney Took His New Girlfriend on a Date to the White House
Josh Duboff
Generally, George Clooney's relationships follow a similar trajectory: Clooney and the Woman in Question begin dating, marked by an inset on an Us Weekly cover ("George's New Love!"), and then in a flash-within weeks, seemingly-she is escorting him down red carpets and vacationing with him at Lake Como; finally, about two years later, they part ways. But Clooney's new, somewhat mysterious (we'll get to why momentarily) relationship with British lawyer Amal Alamuddin is bucking all previous George Clooney Relationship tradition.
Clooney and Alamuddin were first spotted together back in October on a dinner date in London, after which they "shared a cab" (which is like the bat signal for tabloid editors). Outlets quickly dug up a dossier on the 36-year-old Alamuddin: she represents Julian Assange; she topped a "London's Hottest Barristers" list in 2013; and she's Oxford- and NYU-educated. (All of which is to say: aside from the "strikingly gorgeous" part, she is somewhat out of step with the traditional Clooney girlfriend.) But, though their evening out received much attention, Alamuddin has not been seen with Clooney since, and Us reported shortly thereafter, per one of their sources, that Alamuddin was "just a friend."
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But now there has been a plot twist, as it were, as Alamuddin was Clooney's guest at a special screening of The Monuments Men last week held at the White House. As far as dates go, a screening at the White House makes fancy dinner and a shared cab in London seem like "take-out sushi and Netflix." That is a date. That is like the George Clooney of dates. And they appeared to be quite enamored of one another at the screening, as an 88-year-old World War II soldier named Harry Ettlinger-who aided in the recovering of stolen art from the Nazis, helping to inspire the film-told People, "They were holding hands." Yes, this elderly war veteran has given us a quote right out of a middle school playground. And he has more to say about Clooney and Alamuddin: "[Alamuddin] is a beautiful lady. I said to myself, 'George, you did a lot of good things and you sure know how to pick them!'" Get this guy a co-hosting gig on Access Hollywood, please.
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