Amal Clooney Shares Rare Insight Into Family Life, Reveals Her Strict Household Rule Guests Must Follow To Safeguard Her Kids’ Privacy

Amal Clooney reveals why she doesn’t allow people to use phones inside her and husband George’s home

Human rights lawyer, Amal Clooney has shared the firm boundary she sets at home to shield her young children from public scrutiny – a no-phone policy for guests.

Amal, 47, and her husband actor, George Clooney, 64, are parents to eight-year-old twins Ella and Alexander.

The lawyer, who lives in the English countryside with her husband and children disclosed the rule in a new interview, saying it’s all about preserving her family’s privacy.

According to her, she has banned phones at her home in order to remove any ‘intrusions’ and to ‘minimise any impact’ on her kids.

Speaking to Glamour last week alongside close friend Charlotte Tilbury, she was asked about how she maintains her privacy in a world where everything has become more and more public.

The mother-of-two replied:

“Creating private moments and spaces is becoming increasingly difficult. But that’s also why we entertain a lot at home. I now have a phone basket that I use to take everyone’s phones away!

It’s important to get that balance where you have time alone with your family and with your friends where people feel like you can have a safe and frank exchange. And I would say becoming a parent means you’re more troubled by some of the intrusions.

So we do the best we can to minimise any impact on our children. We don’t put our children out there, we’ve never put their photo out there or anything like that.”

Amal’s comments come months after George opened up to GQ in a joint interview with longtime friend and Wolfs co-star Brad Pitt, discussing the challenges that come with global fame.

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He explained:

“A lot of people – even who reach a fairly high level of fame – find a way to be able to kind of live a normal life, walk around the streets of New York without being followed and stuff like that.

“And there’s, I dunno, five or six of us where it’s just never subsided. And there’s never been that like, ‘Hey, let’s take a walk through Central Park and not get hammered.’ It just hasn’t happened yet. It will, obviously. But it hasn’t happened yet.

“So I have a goal of trying to protect, I don’t want pictures of my kids. We deal in very serious subject matters, with very serious bad guys, and we don’t want to have photos of our kids out there. So we have to work hard at trying to stay private, and it’s tricky, as you can imagine.”