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  • George Clooney, Amal Alamuddin Full Steam Ahead in Preparing for Lake Como Wedding

    George Clooney and Amal Alamuddin are full steam ahead in preparing for their much-anticipated wedding.

    Reports claim the 53-year-old actor and his fiancé will be married next month at his Lake Como villa in an intimate ceremony.

    “George has always loved Como, he finds it very peaceful and relaxing and now Amal has fallen in love with the area as well,” a source told E! News of Clooney’s Italian getaway, Villa Oleandra, in Laglio. “They want to start their married life there with the beautiful lake as a backdrop. George’s home on the lake is like a very well oiled machine. He has the local mayor fully on his side and the locals too and he can ensure that press and paparazzi are kept away.”

    “Doing the wedding in another area of Italy would involve too many people that he doesn’t know or trust and George wants to make sure that Amal and both their families enjoy the big day,” the source added. “They want it to be about them celebrating their love and respect for each other with their loved ones watching. And they can do that in Como while keeping everything fully under their control.”

    “This is not going to be a huge Hollywood wedding with Julia Roberts and Sandra Bullock flying in to Italy for a week,” said the source. “George and Amal don’t want a media circus with paparazzi helicopters flying overhead and motorbikes chasing after them as they all arrive at the airport in Milan from Los Angeles. They want the wedding to be intimate with quiet but happy and fun dinners and lunches after they’ve said short but meaningful, hand-written vows in front of their loved ones. They want their guests to enjoy it as much as they do and they know that if the guest list reads like the Oscars invite list with lots of big Hollywood names there it will be intimidating for their families. They can do a party for movie industry friends in Los Angeles at a later date.”

    Sounds about right, considering Clooney‘s desire to keep his private life private.

    Clooney allegedly told The Studio Exec the wedding will be a cheap affair out of respect for those less fortunate.

    “We are very concerned about the message we as celebrities and ambassadors to the world send out, especially in a time of financial crisis and austerity,” said the Gravity star, the magazine reports. “So the plan is a simple civic ceremony, followed by a lunch at Denny’s, the nearest one to save on cab fare and then back to a friend’s place for drinks and everyone brings a bottle…”

  • George Clooney Not Impressed With Tabloid’s Apology

    George Clooney isn’t impressed in the least with the apology he received on behalf of The Daily Mail for an article they published stating his fiancee’s mother wasn’t behind her daughter’s marriage to the actor because of religious reasons. Clooney called the article “at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous.”

    The article claimed that Baria Alamuddin was “telling ‘half of Beirut’ that she’s against the wedding” for religious reasons, Clooney explained earlier this week in a rare statement about his personal life. The piece also joked, he added, about the death of the bride in cases where a member of a Druze family–which Amal Alamuddin is not–marries outside of the faith.

    After George Clooney said the article was all lies, the tabloid removed it from its website and issued an apology, along with a statement made to E!, in which they said they had “accepted Mr. Clooney’s assurance” that the story wasn’t true. However, the statement also said the piece was “not a fabrication but supplied in good faith by a reputable and trusted freelance journalist” who had based her story on conversations with “senior members of the Lebanese community in the U.K. and the Druze in Beirut.”

    George Clooney doesn’t buy that for a minute.

    “The problem is that none of that is true,” he said in a statement to USA Today. “The original story never cites that source, but instead goes out of its way to insist on four different occasions that ‘a family friend’ spoke directly to the Mail. A ‘family friend’ was the source. So either they were lying originally or they’re lying now.”

    Clooney explained that he knows the tabloid was well aware there was no truth to their story because they published an article back in April saying his future father-in-law, Ramzi Alamuddin, married outside the Druze faith.

    Today’s world is already rife with fighting over religion. Just take a look at what is happening in Israel right now. George Clooney is well within his means for calling out The Daily Mail on their false statements and even more so for not accepting their trite apology.

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