George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin return to Venice. And they explain to us what it means to be happy

George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin they could end up on the Postcards of Venice, such as Piazza San Marco and its pigeons. This year the couple returns for the Film Festival: the actor is the protagonist of the Film in competition Jay Kelly. The first time of him dates back to 1998 when he landed to present Out of Sight. Many others followed. Over the years, the public has seen him change: from the consentment from the role of Dr. Doug Ross of ER – Medici on the front line to the consecration as a Hollywood star, from an unrepentant to happily bridegroom, like today, passing through the engagement phase (once also with Elisabetta Canalis). Venice for Clooney and Amal Alamuddin is not just red carpet and Venice Film Festival, but the casket that contains their love story from 2014, when they chose it to get married.

The celebrations lasted 4 days, Starting from 27 September. They said yes in a private ceremony at the Aman hotel, in front of the guests who arrived with flights paid by the spouses. The civil ceremony was made to Ca ‘Farsetti, the seat of the Municipality. In the Stucchi room their friend Walter Veltroni, with the tricolor band, read the articles of the civil code. Duration of Cerimona: about ten minutes. At the exit, the couple resumed off on board the “love” motorboat.

In 2017 they chose Venice again, this time the catwalk of the Film Festival, For their first official release after the birth of Gemelli Ella and Alexander. It is now a habit to see them parade beautiful and in love, hand in hand. Each time the images together confirm what they say in the interviews: their union is perfect so much that, he says, in 10 years of marriage they have never quarreled. «I feel so extraordinarily lucky to have met this incredible woman. I feel like I won the jackpot. And there is no day that passes when I don’t feel the lucky man in the world». She returns as soon as possible, the last time just a couple of months ago on the sidelines of the meeting with King Carlo at the King’s Trust Awards 2025: “I have a life partner who completely supports me in what I do. For this reason I never feel compelled to apologize or limit myself. I feel so incredibly lucky to share every day with him. And now we are four. I don’t take anything for granted. I appreciate every laugh and every moment of happiness that I simply feel with them».

And to think that the first time Clooney saw her commented to himself: «I will never win it. He will think I’m too old for her». It was 2013, the actor was 52 years old, he was already famous for the films but also for the fame of golden bachelor: after the wedding with the actress Talia Balsam and the divorce in 1993 had sworn that he would never get married again. Girlfriends had had different ones, however. Instead Amal Alamuddin, of Lebanese origins and raised in England, was 35 years old and was already a famous lawyer specialized in humanitarian causes and international law. Some photos on the net report the name of her ex -boyfriend Sebastian. Not even she wanted to be marked: “I was not enthusiastic about the idea of ​​getting married and having children,” he said to Vogue in 2018.

George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin upon arrival at the 2025 Film Festival

Jacopo Raule

However the fate put them together one summer eveningin his house on Lake Como. Once he told Clooney al Drew Barrymore Show: «It came to my house at Lake Como. The fun thing is that my agent Bryan Lourd called me and said to me: “I come with a friend. He will end who you will get married”. I told him he was an idiot. And that it would not have happened». They spent the evening talking to each other, they exchanged the addresses: “I started writing her letters, by hand” (a habit that will remain even after the wedding: she says that sometimes she leaves her letters on the pillow). From there they took to see and feel, to send letters and email: «We told us all we did. It was evident that for both it was no longer just a friendship». In the first appointment in London, in the autumn of the same year, the paparazzi found at the exit from the restaurant: “She pretended nothing: she was wonderful”. Then the holidays together, for Christmas, in Mexico and Kenya.

In 2014, just six months from the first appointment, of the golden bachelor there was no longer any trace. Clooney decided to ask her for her hand. He told the Drew Barrymore Show: «I had calculated everything. I had organized a playlist with the songs of my aunt Rosemary Clooney, I wanted to give it the ring during the song Why Shouldn’t i. It is a beautiful song. I put the ring in a small drawer behind her and cooked». Once the song has started, during dinner, the fateful moment has arrived. «The song starts while we are having dinner. Then I do it: “I think there is a lighter in the drawer. Do you take it? So we rekindle the candle …”. She opens the drawer, sees this ring and makes a opposite face. And it makes me: “There is a ring inside”. As if Someone had forgotten a ring years before there». Clooney had already knelt but she, suspecting a betrayal, greedy and disturbed, put us a little before replying yes, while the playlist went on, the magical moment dissolved and the knees began to hurt: “So I said to her:” Listen, I really want to marry you. But at the same time I am no longer so young and I am still on their knees … And I could break a hip“. So his” yes “arrived».
Clooney made some of his wife’s battles, starting from the engagement ring that mounts a ethical diamondthat is, a stone obtained and sold in compliance with human rights. Together they gave birth to the Clooney Foundation for Justicewhich offers free legal assistance to the victims of abuse of power.

Then in 2017 the news traveled that the couple was waiting for two twins. Many returned to remember that only in May 2015 the actor said that a son “was not his priority”. But then, just a few weeks later, he had disavowed by himself by adding that he and his wife were taking some time. Before pregnancy There was no shortage of the rumors of a crisis and an unauthorized biography written by the journalists Malle Brun et Spelle Zad perfidly reported that between the two Love was only a detail: they had married above all for calculation. He for having a woman full of style and brain next to him, to be able to be received by the greats of the earth.
Discovering the two pregnancy, the two, said Clooney, were not ready: «It certainly did not be part of our plans But Amal’s sister also has twins. At the twelfth week we were ready to see for the first time the baby in the ultrasound and at some point the doctor says: “You will have a boy”. And then he adds: “And a girl”. And I: “What?”. What a disaster. I reacted with something like that: “He’s joking, right?“But then today is the best thing in the world. At the time, however, I was terrified. I was 56 years old and it seemed frightening to me».

After the birth of the little Ella and Alexander (today they are 8 years old and by shared choice of parents no one has ever seen them in public), the actor who did not want children It has become the tender dad Which says: «Paternity has given me much more than Hollywood did. It gave me a sense of belonging, of home and unconditional loveall things that generally hope to be able to get from a really good career or a dog. You realize that this is much more. A family fills everything and makes everything funny». Amal Alamuddin could not be happier: “When I became a mother, George was the first to tell me:” I know you have this speech to the United Nations Security Council. You have to go, I will take care of the children, don’t worry “”. George Clooney, Amal Alamuddin and their children could no longer be perfect than that. Or perhaps, more than perfect, they are simply happy.