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

Daily Mail​

08-07-2025

Amal Clooney has revealed she has a strict rule for guests at her home in order to protect her children's privacy.
The human rights lawyer, 47, and husband George, 64, are parents to eight-year-old twins Ella and Alexander, and reside in the English countryside.
With her representing several high-profile clients and leading landmark campaigns and being married to one of Hollywood's biggest stars, Amal has emphasised how important privacy is to her.
In a new interview, she explained that 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.'
George has frequently discussed his struggle to maintain his and his family's privacy, elaborating most recently in an interview with GQ alongside Brad Pitt, in August.
The actor said he and Brad were at a level of fame that few others had reached, where they were unable to step out in public without being followed by paparazzi.
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.'
It comes after it was revealed in April that Amal could be banned from returning to the US alongside other top UK lawyers under sanctions imposed by Donald Trump.
It was reported that the attorney was 'cautioned' by the Foreign Office that legal advice she provided in a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could mean she may be denied entry.
Amal and Georgw are said spend most of their time at their homes in the UK and Italy, although they also have property in the US.
The president issued an Executive Order against the International Criminal Court claiming to combat anti-Christian bias and condemn the 'illegitimate and baseless' charges against Netanyahu.
The action included financial sanctions and travel restrictions against officials working for the organisation.
Lawyers including Baroness Helena Kennedy and Lord Justice Adrian Fulford, who were involved in the decision to issue the warrant, also received warnings, The Financial Times reports.
The warnings to the lawyers are 'due to the legal advice they provided to the International Criminal Court in a war crimes case against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant.'
Trump issued Executive Order 14203 - Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court in February - banning ICC official Karim Khan, who is from the UK, and his family from the US and seizing his American assets.
The President warned that more measures could be on the way against 'those responsible for the ICC's transgressions', including freezing their property and blocking entry to the US.
If additional sanctions end up getting handed down, Amal - who served as a special adviser in International Criminal Court Prosecutor Khan's investigation that led him to seek arrest warrants for Israeli and Hamas leaders - could be barred from the US.