Clooney Calls on Daily Mail to Stop Posting Pictures of His Children – The Hollywood Reporter

George Clooney took the bizarre step of penning an open letter addressed to U.Ok. tabloid The Every day Mail and different publications to “chorus” from publishing footage of his youngsters, twins Ella and Alexander.

Within the letter, the Oscar-winning actor was reacting to the information that the Mail‘s web arm Mail On-line took down footage of Billie Lourd’s child and requested that the publication and others not publish footage of his two youngsters with spouse Amal, for worry of “real-world penalties.”

Clooney wrote that the character of Amal’s work as a global legislation and human rights lawyer meant that she was “confronting and placing on trial terrorist teams” and their youngsters’s anonymity would assist with protecting them protected from such teams. The letter added, that the Clooney’s had “bought an image of our youngsters, we aren’t on social media and by no means publish footage as a result of to take action would put their lives in jeopardy.”

The actor accepted that his fame and notoriety meant that he was truthful recreation for “oftentimes intrusive images” however that his youngsters had by no means made such a “dedication.”

This isn’t the primary time Clooney has taken umbrage with the Every day Mail, a down-market sensationalist right-wing information group. In 2014, the actor rejected the Every day Mail‘s apology for printing a false story about Amal’s mom, on the time describing the paper as “the worst form of tabloid.”

Clooney’s open letter in full is beneath.

An open letter to the Every day Mail and different publications. 

Having simply seen images of Billie Lourd’s 1 year-old child in your publication, and the truth that you subsequently took these footage down, we might request that you simply chorus from placing our youngsters’s faces in your publication. I’m a public determine and settle for the oftentimes intrusive images as a part of the value to pay for doing my job. Our kids have made no such dedication.

The character of my spouse’s work has her confronting and placing on trial terrorist teams and we take as a lot precaution as we will to maintain our household protected. We can not shield our youngsters if any publication places their faces on their cowl.

We’ve by no means bought an image of our youngsters, we aren’t on social media and by no means publish footage as a result of to take action would put their lives in jeopardy. Not paranoid jeopardy however real-world points, with real-world penalties. 

We hope that you’d agree that the necessity to promote commercial isn’t better than the necessity to hold harmless youngsters from being focused.

Thanks,

George Clooney