George Clooney shocked everyone in Hollywood this week by getting engaged to girlfriend of just six months Amal Amulddin. The 52 year-old has always insisted he'd never marry again following the failure of his first but it seems the gorgeous lawyer managed to change his mind and we think we know why.
Amal isn't your usual Clooney arm candy. The Beirut born beauty was Oxford educated and has already represented Wikileaks founder Julian Assange as well as being a legal advisor to U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan and the King of Bahrain and she's still only 36. While those are impressive on their own we have a feeling it could well have been Amal's British accent that was the secret to hooking Clooney.
Last October, around the time he was first linked to the legal mind, he revealed he was pretty "intimidated," by the British accent.
Speaking at the Britannia Awards in Los Angeles last year,where he took home the Stanley Kubrick Britannia Award for Excellence in Film, he told the Press Association: "Americans are very intimidated by the English accent in general, particularly if you are an actor you are just better, and I remember the second or third year of ER and Alex Kingston came on the show.
Was it Amal Alamuddin's accent? (Splash News)
"The first day we were in an emergency room scene and we are all looking at her like, 'She is very good, I mean she is really good'."
"It's the English language and the English accent that we are all very intimidated by," he added.
He also has previously admitted he loves Downton Abbey, which is pretty much the most British show on TV anywhere these days. Admitting he wouldn't mind a part he said last year while promoting Monuments Men: "We all love that show, it's huge,"
"I am too lowly for a part, I don't think they want me. I can't do the accent either. It's all very Dick Van Dyke,"
Sounds like George has a proper soft spot for the British accent!
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