{"id":34411,"date":"2025-10-07T05:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/george-clooney-says-his-kids-have-a-much-better-life-living-in-france-than-in-la\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T05:42:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T05:42:07","slug":"george-clooney-says-his-kids-have-a-much-better-life-living-in-france-than-in-la","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/usa\/george-clooney-says-his-kids-have-a-much-better-life-living-in-france-than-in-la\/","title":{"rendered":"George Clooney says his kids have a &#8216;much better life&#8217; living in France than in LA"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i.insider.com\/68e490e9cc993f9955cfa606?format=jpeg\" alt=\"George Clooney and Amal Clooney.\"\/><figcaption>George Clooney said he was &quot;worried&quot; about raising his kids in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p>Taylor Hill\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<ul>\n<li>George Clooney says his kids have a &quot;much better life&quot; living on a farm in France than in Los Angeles.<\/li>\n<li>He says his twins are not on their iPads, eat dinner with adults, and help clean up afterward.<\/li>\n<li>&quot;I don&#039;t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi,&quot; the actor said.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>George Clooney&#039;s kids are growing up away from Hollywood, and that&#039;s exactly how he wants it.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Esquire published on Monday, the actor spoke about family life and his decision to raise his kids in France.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;You know, we live on a farm in France. A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid I hated the whole idea of it. But now, for them, it&#039;s like \u2014 they&#039;re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in. They have a much better life,&quot; Clooney, 64, told Esquire.<\/p>\n<p>The actor added that he was &quot;worried&quot; about raising his children in LA, in &quot;the culture of Hollywood.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life,&quot; Clooney said. But in France, he added, people are largely indifferent to fame.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I don&#039;t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi. I don&#039;t want them being compared to somebody else&#039;s famous kids,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Clooney and his wife, human-rights attorney Amal Clooney, welcomed twins, Alexander and Ella, in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere in the interview, Clooney made light of the age difference between him and his kids.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The only thing I feel lucky about is that I&#039;m so much older that the idea that my son would be compared to me is pretty unlikely, because by the time he actually will have done anything, I&#039;m gonna be gumming my bread,&quot; he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Clooneys are famously protective of their kids&#039; privacy.<\/p>\n<p>The actor wrote an open letter to the media in November 2021, urging outlets to avoid publishing photos of their kids due to his wife&#039;s line of work.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;The nature of my wife&#039;s work has her confronting and putting on trial terrorist groups, and we take as much precaution as we can to keep our family safe,&quot; he wrote.<\/p>\n<p>In a July interview with Glamour, Amal Clooney said she has a no-phone rule for house guests to encourage in-person connection while protecting her kids&#039; privacy.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;And I would say becoming a parent means you&#039;re more troubled by some of the intrusions. So we do the best we can to minimize any impact on our children,&quot; she said.<\/p>\n<p>This isn&#039;t the first time Clooney has talked about how life in France gives him a sense of normalcy.<\/p>\n<p>In February, he told The New York Times that his farm in France is his primary residence, though he also has homes in England and Kentucky.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;Growing up in Kentucky, all I wanted to do was get away from a farm, get away from that life,&quot; Clooney said. &quot;Now I find myself back in that life. I drive a tractor and all those things. It&#039;s the best chance of a normal life.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>A representative for Clooney did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent by Business Insider outside regular hours.<\/p>\n<p>Clooney is among several Hollywood stars who have spoken about leaving Los Angeles because of privacy and safety concerns.<\/p>\n<p>During a SiriusXM interview in 2024, Jessica Biel said she and Justin Timberlake left the city to protect their kids from the paparazzi. Since 2018, they&#039;ve lived mostly in Tennessee and Montana.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Lindsay Lohan told Elle that she has fewer worries as a mother living in Dubai than in New York and LA. Lohan moved there in 2014 to step away from the Hollywood spotlight.<\/p>\n<p>Read the original article on Business Insider<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>George Clooney said he was &quot;worried&quot; about raising his kids in Los Angeles. Taylor Hill\/Getty Images George Clooney says his kids have a &quot;much better life&quot; living on a farm in France than in Los Angeles. He says his twins are not on their iPads, eat dinner with adults, and help clean up afterward. &quot;I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34412,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34411","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34411"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34411\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agooka.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}