14 DAY TRIAL // Silver fox George Clooney made it very clear on several occasions that he wasn't the marrying type and women should stop trying. In consequence, he was quickly labeled as one of Hollywood's most desirable bachelors and everyone stood back and watched his list of conquests getting longer and longer over the years.
Many famous women from the A-list and B-list in Hollywood tried to sway him back on the path of righteousness, but George was the proverbial rock. The man simply wouldn't budge on his conviction that he should remain unwed until the end of his days and his many affairs and flings simply turned him into a more staunch adept of the bachelor life.
Until this week, when the world shockingly found out that one of the last bastions of the free male spirit, the wild mustang prancing around the wide fields that was the entertainment industry, had not only been tamed, but also convinced into marriage. And mind you, this was of his own free will.
So is this super woman that managed to make him do a 180-degree turn? That succeeded where so many other models, actresses and other famous people have failed? Is she some super woman, some Greek goddess with an unresisting charm?
No, far from it. Though she does possess a certain charm, Amal Alamuddin, the woman that today proudly stands to be called George Clooney's fiancée, is nothing short of ordinary, albeit very successful and very smart.
So, the women from all over the world can now still have faith in the fact that desirable men such as Clooney still have eyes to recognize potential, even if it's not covered with the golden shroud of celebrity.
Amal Alamuddin is a British human rights lawyer who has done some famous work, including representing Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks and the former Ukrainian prime minister Yulia Tymoshenko. So, she manages to tick two very important boxes for Clooney: politics and humanitarian work.
She has also served as a UN Special Envoy for Kofi Annan on Syria, and a legal advisor to the King of Bahrain, as well as on the UN council for the use of drones. As you can see, in the legal world, she's somewhat of a celebrity.
Apart from her impressive resume, she's also a lovely girl, born in Beirut but currently residing in London, she speaks French and Arabic fluently, and she's also a published author. Her looks didn't go unnoticed by her fellow legal friends, and she was actually named “hottest barrister in London.”
So, as you can see, Clooney does have some rather fine taste, despite his previous conquests who were merely chosen for their looks. Amal is everything that all his previous partners were not, which leads many to believe that for many years, he's simply been barking up the wrong tree.
“It's never too late to wise up,” some will say, and they're probably right, since George, good-old-“I'll-never-get-married-again”-George, finally found someone that tickled him not only physically but also intellectually.
George Clooney is big on politics these days, as well as humanitarian work, so it's very likely that he and Amal share not only the same circles these days, but also the same interests. Which just goes to show that if you keep at it, someday you too will find your significant other.
Oh, and let's not forget: all you smart women out there can now rejoice. There is new hope that good-looking men of a certain social status will no longer fly in fear over your intellect. You too can now land a man like George Clooney, Amal has made sure of that.