George Clooney – actor, human rights campaigner – is engaged to British-Lebanese lawyer and author Amal Alamuddin. The tabloids are to be expected to take an unhealthy interest in the love life of a couple like this, but sometimes, just sometimes, a peeping Tom like the Daily Mail can go too far.
Clooney has penned an excoriating statement for USA Today, damning a recent story in the Mail that alleged that Alamuddin’s mother “has been telling ‘half of Beirut’ that she’s against the wedding”, and that her family “joke about traditions in the Druze religion that end up with the death of the bride. Let me repeat that: the death of the bride.” He points out that Alamuddin’s mother is not Druze, has not been back to Beirut since the engagement was announced, and that she is in no way against the marriage.
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