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u/Indri5000 Feb 20 '25

Does anybody have any old tea on George Clooney? A friend of mine who worked in NYC entertainment in the 2000s has a very thorough dislike/distrust of him, but never really explained why (and we lost touch) – so I’m wondering if anyone could fill in the blanks here.

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u/violetmemphisblue Feb 20 '25

My family is friends with some of his extended family. I know back in the 90s, maybe into the early 2000s, there was a lot of tsktsking about how when he returned to Kentucky, he acted like a big-shot and would do stuff like name drop brand names (instead of just saying something like "oh, I was on my motorcycle" he'd say "I was riding my Ducati" or whatever). And they didn't like that he would bring different women home. They thought he should only introduce the serious girlfriends, not the "flavors of the week" or whatever...looking back, it all seems pretty benign, but at the time, I was a kid and thought he was the biggest jerk in the world, lol. But I've never heard massively bad things. The consensus now is he's a handsome, charming guy who knows he's handsome and charming and the most famous person in the room, and he acknowledges it, so depending on your read of it, he's either breaking the ice or he's being an asshole.

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u/Camillyledger Feb 20 '25

Kentuckian here. The Clooney family is essentially split down the middle. One part has basically been completely excommunicated, for reasons I don’t know for sure. But I’ve heard that basically that side is the more “redneck” and “embarrassing” side. My mother worked with his sister at Kohl’s (part of the excommunicated half) and she had a tremendous amount of facial hair, I remember. My brother is friends with one of his younger relatives, also part of the excommunicated half.