George Clooney Jokes It Was A ‘Terrible Mistake’ Teaching Twins, 5, A Language He Doesn’t Know

George Clooney admits helium whitethorn not person thought up erstwhile helium decided to thatch his 5-year-old twins a connection helium doesn’t cognize himself. “We’ve made a unspeakable mistake,” George, 61, told Gayle King during a CBS Mornings interrogation connected Wednesday, September 28. The big had asked the Burn After Reading prima if Alexander and Ella are “chatty.” “We taught them Italian,” George continued. “But we don’t talk Italian, truthful we’ve equipped them with a connection they tin harm america with. And we some don’t truly cognize what they’re saying.” George besides confirmed that the twins talk French arsenic a 3rd language, and quipped, “I’m from Kentucky, English is my 2nd language.”

Lately, George has been opening up astir his kids with his wife of 8 years, Amal Clooney, 44. In an interrogation with ET on September 14, the Intolerable Cruelty histrion admitted that helium doesn’t needfully attraction if the twins get into acting, again citing their expansive cognition of languages. “They tin bash immoderate they want,” George said. “My conjecture is that they’re a small smarter than me, so, they’ll astir apt bash thing — they already talk 3 languages, so, I’m inactive moving connected English.”

George & Amal Clooney (MEGA)

Hollywood’s astir respected power mates married successful a lavish Italian ceremonial 2014 aft a precocious illustration courtship, truthful Italian arsenic a language for their lone 2 children makes sense. Amal gave commencement to their children connected June 6, 2017 — and by each accounts, married beingness has been good to the Oscar winning histrion and his quality rights lawyer wife. In fact, helium erstwhile admitted that pursuing his divorcement from archetypal woman Talia Balsam in 1993, helium thought he’d ne'er remarry oregon person a family. George yet became known arsenic Hollywood’s astir eligible bachelor.

George & Amal Clooney, who are parents to 5 twelvemonth aged twins. (Nathan Howard/AP/Shutterstock)

“I was like, ‘I’m ne'er getting married. I’m not gonna person kids,’” George told GQ successful November of 2020. The O Brother, Where Art Thou dated a fig of precocious illustration actresses, including chap Oscar victor Renée Zellweger.  “I’m gonna work, I’ve got large friends, my beingness is full, I’m doing well,” helium continued to the magazine. “And I didn’t cognize however un-full it was until I met Amal. And past everything changed. And I was like, ‘Oh, actually, this has been a immense bare space.’”