George Clooney at dinner in London

That's okay, Nicky.

In my view this is all about Al Bashir and Sudan with the very best legal brains around who could advise on the subject, and possibly take the case further.

Anything else is on the periphery.........

@melbert wrote:International Law and Human Rights barrister Amal Alamuddin

Melbert, you are a genius   It is not easy to find an identity simply by looking at the picture....Thanx.

I like the idea of GC dating educated and knowledgeable women. This means that he likes intellectual conversations and appreciates a women not only  for her outside looks.

As for this debate on whether this was a date or a professional meeting....I think it might have been a date because of how she is dressed. However, the motive might have been human rights, Darfur, legal issues etc.....it may be both. Also, I do not think it is right to seek romance all the times he meets a lady. People gather, talk, exchange ideas, laugh....for numerous reasons.

@party animal - not! wrote:The man with his back to the camera is likely to be Geoffrey Robinson, QC, who is head of the law firm that Amal Alamuddin works for. He's married to Kathy Lette, the Australian author

What's your source ?

Interesting books, ...   LINK

I don't know about a date there is someone else there so maybe not As for how she is dressed if you go out to dinner you dress up so I think that explains how she is dressed. There is just no explaining her taste in ugly footwear though.

Yes there is, eastern folks love bling bling, glittering, sparkling stuff, ... yeps !  

A date with two laywers isn't really romantic is it ?   

No, it isn't Atalante, but if he's their client, he's got the best in the business there.

And the dress code for lawyers is often discreet, and they may have come straight from a meeting at their offices

So wait, did you gals marry him off yet? any thoughts on where the nuptials may take place? surely he was proposing to her that night. They just needed a third person there, to be a witness, to George's proposal, just encase he try's to back out. Middle Easterners take these things very seriously!
Explain's the Red Dress!!!

Oh and Carla don't be hard on yourself some of the most miraculous things have happened to average people (not that you are) Look at Mother Mary!  

@Atalante wrote:

@party animal - not! wrote:The man with his back to the camera is likely to be Geoffrey Robinson, QC, who is head of the law firm that Amal Alamuddin works for. He's married to Kathy Lette, the Australian author

What's your source ?

Interesting books, ...   LINK

Oh, I did not see this before....If the head of the law firm was present as well, it is so obvious it wasn't a date. It was legal advice over dinner.

Carla 97 - pls do not feel down or discourage yourself. I don't like it.    We should not compare ourselves to others. Every person is authentic and beautiful, and anybody is able to move the mountains. Have faith! I believe in you.

I don't know why folks here keep insisting this is a date.

It's very obviously a dinner that was most likely either fact finding, background or strategy meeting regarding Sudan - based on her background.

That you all want to make more of it is puzzling to me.

Something profound would have had to taken place within George. I can't imagine this was a romantic date.IMHO

@Doug Ross wrote:She's not his kind of girl.

I agree, not George's kind. Too me she looks older than George.

@isogotit wrote:

@Doug Ross wrote:She's not his kind of girl.

I agree, not George's kind. Too me she looks older than George.

I don't think she's older than him... Maybe she's 40

She is not a girl she is a woman , she looks about 40. It was a business meeting don't believe it was a date at all.

His wife was older too. A couple of years actually.

That never stopped him marrying her.

Canalis, Keibler & Jakisic all look like they're in their 40s.

I find myself asking Would George bring her home to Rande and Cindy? Bring on Monika.  

@GiGi wrote:I find myself asking Would George bring her home to Rande and Cindy? Bring on Monika.  

Why? Does he need their seal of approval who he dates?  He did that and chose Stacy Keibler & look at how devoid of genuine happiness you say she felt the last two years in a quasi relationship.  Same applies to him.  What price to pay to please others?   

Rande & Cindy Crawford stand more to gain by Clooney's high profile friendship than vice versa. CC is a former model & pretty much  B-list these days. Rande is usually described as "her husband" in the media.
They need George's high profile more than he needs them.

Ocean wrote:His wife was older too. A couple of years actually.

That never stopped him marrying her.

Canalis, Keibler & Jakisic all look like they're in their 40s.

Yes, his wife was older, but she was in her early 30s at the time.

So was he. And he's in his 50s now.

I can't believe already on page 3 over one dinner in London !

 

@Joanna wrote:I can't believe already on page 3 over one dinner in London !

 

I agree, a bit worrying  

I've been commenting basically the same thing. We get off the wagon, finally seem to agree it wasn't a date and then someone else comes on, expresses doubts and starts this up again.

Folks it had to be a business dinner which was over two nights ago. chill.

Fava and Ocean, George was 28 and Talia 30 when they married in 1989.

Hey, it´s bon vivant, eh? A bit complicated, nuanced, conflicting minefield to navigate at times, but bon bon. Just act like you have been there before.  

I had to watch cricket today (at my friends house). I´m sure even the best character actresses couldn´t pretend to be enthusiastic and enjoy that sport. It was so boring that it worked. Jesus.

I wasn´t thinking about this dinner that maybe was not a date after all, or anything, but how, at the beach, ocean refuses to stop kissing the shorelines no matter how many times it’s sent away...

you a poet!

How do you get him marrying from a business dinner. Which this obviously was.

mah... strange but... it's really like that
are we so worried about his love life or we don't want to care about OUR business?  

This thread keeps meandering all over the place. It's about dinner in London. Other than that is really wasting time. And yes, it's me you make a good point.

Can I just say that I hate it when people say
"Jesus" as a form of expressing their frustration.
It offends me personally.
I'd rather hear something like "What the fuck" instead.

Rant over.
 

OK can we GET BACK ON TOPIC?

George, Dinner, London. Thanks.

Dinner OVER!

@Joanna wrote:Can I just say that I hate it when people say
"Jesus" as a form of expressing their frustration.
It offends me personally.
I'd rather hear something like "What the fuck" instead.

Rant over.
 

Thanks for saying it. xx

Since we can't seem to keep this topic on topic we're locking it for now. Thanks for all your comments.

Just feeling nostalgic and revisiting this thread.  How time has flown.  Sigh.

Yes time has flown , they have been married 6 1/2 years and the twins will be four in June.
George said himself no one was more surprised at him getting married than him. George
definitely is the poster child of never say never.

I honestly can't believe it's been 7 years.  I remember some of these posts like it was only a few years back.  I still can't get my head round the idea that George isn't going to turn up on a red carpet with another random showgirl/stripper/wannabe model/party girl.

Mm, little did we know he'd been writing to her for months, had just been at the Abbey Road

with the London Philharmonic, and shortly after that would be hiding out in her flat for weeks in

Notting Hill!

Thanks for that blast to the past!

@LizzyNY wrote:It seems like yesterday. We were so sure it was nothing but a business dinner. Boy, were we wrong! Seven years and 2 kids later and they're still going strong. Just goes to show you, you never know what's really happening in someone else's life.

It made me a little sad to see the names of posters we don't hear from any more. I hope they're all well and happy. I'm afraid we've lost Joanna in more ways than one.

(Sorry. I meant to post this to "George has dinner in London" but it turned up here. I don't know how to move it back. )

Here you go, LizzyNY.

Thanks, Katie! All these years later and I'm still a Luddite!