George Clooney Took His New Girlfriend on a Tanzanian Safari

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Josh Duboff


Alamuddin and Clooney in October.
Alamuddin and Clooney in October.

Imagine for a second that you're George Clooney. First off, you'd presumably spend anywhere from one to a thousand minutes stationed in front of a mirror, just gazing at your own visage in disbelief. But then, once you'd "gotten used to it," and started going about your daily life and dating people and such, you'd probably realize that, as George Clooney, you could get away with exerting very little effort. George Clooney could probably take a date to the garbage dump, and she'd still tell her friends later it was the best date she'd ever had ("That twinkle in his eye as he laughed beside the giant trash heap changed my life forever.").


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Yet-in spite of this giant head start, as it were, when it comes to dating-Clooney has been pulling out all the stops in romancing rumored new girlfriend Amal Alamuddin. Clooney took Alamuddin on a casual movie date . . . at the White House last month. And now we've learned-via some suspiciously well-composed photos in People-that Clooney took the lawyer to Tanzania for a safari. A safari! Even if Alamuddin couldn't help but get slightly annoyed when Clooney would not stop texting pictures of various animals to Matt Damon with captions like, "Your girlfriend's looking really pretty today," she couldn't stay irritated for long: she's on a safari with George Clooney.

But maybe safaris aren't your thing, and you're thinking to yourself right now, Eh, who wants a safari? They probably got all kinds of weird bug bites and sun burns! This lawyer, she can have him! Well, Us reports that Clooney also took Alamuddin on a vacation to the Seychelles for a tropical respite. Us has pictures of the two on the beach; he's holding a beer, and she's holding a tropical fruit. One imagines Alamuddin's friends are going to have a difficult time keeping it together at their next catch up-session brunch with Alamuddin. "Well, so, I, I mean, you probably saw the pictures, but . . . yeah, I just spent a week on a safari and on the beach with George Clooney, no big deal. But, uh, is your knee problem getting any better, Sharon? And, Kelly, did that, you know, did that bartender guy ever text you back?"


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