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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Entertainment
Edward Helmore in New York

Films, fashion, law, politics: George and Amal Clooney’s growing global reach

George Clooney and Amal Clooney in Beverly Hills, California, on 11 December 2023.
George Clooney and Amal Clooney in Beverly Hills, California, on 11 December 2023. Photograph: Mario Anzuoni/Reuters

It took a famous TV doctor to diagnose the patient. After two weeks of turmoil in the US Democratic party over President Biden’s re-election bid, it was ER’s Doug Ross, AKA George Clooney, who wrote up a devastating evaluation of the incumbent president.

The 63-year-old actor was not in theatrical mode when he wrote a more-in-sorrow letter published by the New York Times last week that called on Biden to withdraw from the presidential race that the White House reportedly begged him not to submit, coming three weeks after Clooney helped raise $30m for the Biden-Harris ticket at a lavish Hollywood fundraiser.

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