It must be tough being George Clooney.
He may be a gallus movie star with more money, job satisfaction and probably more of those wee coffee pods than he knows what to do with.
But one thing he’s short of is peace from nosey interviewers like me asking about his personal life.
At first he was a perennial bachelor and we couldn’t stop quizzing him on when he was going to settle down.
He started dating gorgeous human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin and then we grilled him on whether he’d propose.
And now he’s happily married to Amal so, given what tends to happen when a man and a woman settle down…
Listen, George are there any bairns on the horizon?
Given he must get sick of being asked stuff like this, I had to try to sneak in the parenthood question somehow when George and I caught up last week to chat about his new sci-fi adventure movie, Tomorrowland.
Confusingly, George plays a future version of one of the younger characters, and I saw my chance.
Pleased with my own cunning, I asked if that made him think of any little versions of himself running around…
“Oh, I liked how you got to that,” he laughed.
“A lot of people have asked about this as this is a film about the future, and they wondered if I saw myself with kids in the future.”
Ach, well, it was worth a try. So how does he deal with this question from, er, annoying interviewers?
“By never answering it,” he grinned.
The next day I was watching the telly when George was again asked about kids, this time by an American telly presenter.
He actually laughed and brought up me trying to sneak the kids question in.
I’m sorry, George! We’ve always got on well it’s pretty difficult not to like him, really so I hope he doesn’t mind when I interview him next.
Who knows, maybe it’ll be about his impending fatherhood?
But, for now, George actually only has one thing on his mind Downton Abbey.
Following on from his brilliant guest starring role last year, I asked if he wanted to come back.
“Since I almost single-handedly destroyed the Batman franchise, I think I could hurt that series really badly,” he added.
“They’ve actually asked me not to come back!”
It’s sometimes difficult to get a straight answer out of George I then asked him what people could take away from Tomorrowland, and he said Disney has promised everyone a free car.
In that spirit, if you buy next week’s copy of The Sunday Post I can reveal the editor will buy you a free swimming pool each!
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