You'd think the man who's played devastatingly dashing roles in movies would be a regular Casanova in real life too, but not according to the story behind his marriage proposal. In an interview with talk show host Ellen DeGeneres, George Clooney revealed that his magical moment was cringeworthy.
He told DeGeneres he cooked a romantic dinner for his beloved, but what followed was a trainwreck. "I've got it all set up," Clooney recalled. "Timed out and [our] song is coming, and she gets up to go wash the dishes, which she's never done. I'm like, 'What are you doing?' [She] comes back in, and finally I said, 'You know, I blew out the candle' and I said, 'I think the lighter's in the box behind you.' And she reaches around and she pulls out the box, and I've got just the ring sitting in there and she pulls it out and she looks at it and she's like, 'It's a ring' — like as if somebody had left it there some other time."
Though Amal Clooney didn't realize that the ring was that of the engagement ilk, Clooney tried to save the moment by making an array of romantic faces. He finally dropped down to one knee and said, "I couldn't imagine spending the rest of my life without you." George Clooney told DeGeneres, "She kept looking at the ring and she was looking at me and she was like 'Oh my God.'" He said it took her about 25 minutes to answer the big question. The actor recalled telling her, "Look, I hope the answer is yes, but I need an answer — I'm 52 and I could throw out my hip pretty soon."
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