George Clooney isn’t just sipping espresso lakeside anymore—he’s now officially “Monsieur Clooney”. The Oscar-winning actor, his international human rights lawyer wife Amal, and their 8-year-old twins, Ella and Alexander, have officially become citizens of France. That’s right, the whole family is now fully certified to eat croissants and complain about tourists like the locals.
The decision to make the leap wasn’t just about baguettes and better healthcare. According to Clooney, it was a deliberate exit strategy from Hollywood culture. Speaking to “Esquire”, the 64-year-old actor opened up about why he and Amal chose the quiet charm of the French countryside over the noise of Los Angeles.
They’ve been living on a farm—yes, a real farm—in a region where Clooney says his kids are finally living like kids, not celebrity offspring.
No iPads, no velvet ropes, no red carpets. Just dishes to wash and conversations with grown-ups at the dinner table. He laughed about how he once hated the idea of farm life as a kid himself, but now? It’s the antidote he thinks his children need.
“I was worried about raising our kids in L.A., in the culture of Hollywood,” Clooney admitted. “I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life.”
And that’s a sentiment more and more stars are echoing. Just recently, Amanda Seyfried and Candace Cameron Bure both made headlines for ditching the glitz in favor of quieter, simpler lives far from Hollywood’s spotlight.
There seems to be a slow but steady exodus of big names trading fame for family—and Clooney might just be leading the pack.
He was especially candid about why France was the perfect fit. “France – they kind of don’t give a s— about fame,” Clooney said with a grin. That, he explained, is exactly the kind of world he wants his kids to grow up in. A world where paparazzi aren’t lurking in the bushes and your name doesn’t carry a spotlight.
The Clooneys still hold properties across Europe and the States—from England to Italy to Kentucky—but for now, it sounds like farm life in France is the new HQ. And George? He seems to be loving the switch from blockbuster sets to rural sunsets.
In a world where celebrity kids are often headline fodder before they hit middle school, Clooney’s move feels like a power play in the parenting game—one that says, “no thanks, we’ll take real life over red carpets.”
