George Clooney is Off the Market!
Finally!!!!
For all of you who are in love with a man who seems like he’ll forever be a perpetual bachelor, this news should give you teeniest bit of hope: the bachelor to end all bachelors, Hollywood heartthrob George Clooney, is finally taking himself off the market.
Georgie Boy has had a string of beauties on his arm for longer than I’ve been alive, practically. He’s a distinguished ladies man, dating one woman for years before the inevitable breakup occurs — probably when said woman realized he wasn’t ever going to propose.
But the unthinkable has happened. The 52-year-old actor got down on bended knee to propose to Amal Alamuddin, the British human rights lawyer he’s been dating since the fall.
Alamuddin doesn’t fit the bill of what GC usually goes for. His women tend to be arm candy, demure and far less accomplished. I’m talking about soap star Krista Allen, waitress Celine Balitran, cocktail waitress Sarah Larson, reality star Stacy Keibler and TV host-turned Dancing with the Stars alum Elisabetta Canalis. While all were beautiful, if any was MENSA material, you wouldn’t know it.
Alamuddin, however, is the full package, the real deal. In addition to being Oxford-educated, the 36-year-old an extremely successful international lawyer who has represented some pretty big names — including WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. She is also a published scholarly writer, co-editing the book “The Special Tribunal for Lebanon” and co-authoring an article in the Journal of International Criminal Justice.
I don’t know George Clooney from Adam, but I’m proud of him. I’m proud of him for breaking the mold, for realizing a woman of truth worth when he saw her, and from refusing to be so gun-shy that he would have lost her or let her go.
But let me warn you in case you’re getting too hopeful about your own bachelor: Amal Alamuddin is the exception to the rule. Many of us wish to be the exception, but sadly, most of us are the rule. When it’s true love for both of you, you’ll know it. You’ll accept one another, and your relationship won’t make you feel sad, or miserable, or longing. It will feel right.
I wish you luck with your own George Clooney-style bachelor, and I also wish you luck in being able to let him go if he’s not giving you what you want or need. Remember, you’ve got to do what makes YOU happy.
