George and Amal Clooney’s 6-Year-Old Twins Listen to Heavy Metal

George and Amal Clooney’s 6-year-old twins are growing an unconventional style in music.

George, 62, and Amal, 45, opened up about Ella and Alexander whereas attending the Albie Awards, an annual occasion held by the Clooney Basis for Justice, on the New York Public Library on Thursday, September 28. Whereas sharing the uncommon parenting replace, the couple described the kids’s current curiosity in music.

“He’s began taking part in heavy metallic music, really,” Amal informed Entry Hollywood, referring to her husband.

George isn’t the one fan within the household, apparently. “The youngsters are listening to heavy metallic,” he teased. “They’re headbangers.”

He then clarified, “It’s not totally heavy metallic. It’s simply heavy sufficient that they will bang their heads.”

George joked that any musical means their youngsters could have can’t be credited to himself or Amal. “Not that we’re in any manner musical,” he mentioned. “We’ve got no musical expertise … we ruined the gene pool for them.”

The Albie Awards, named after Justice Albie Sachs, honor 5 people who put their lives in danger within the identify of justice.

“We’re thrilled to announce this yr’s awardees for The Albies; they’re heroic journalists, human rights defenders, and attorneys from the DRC, Ukraine, Iran, Syria, and Thailand who’re risking their lives in pursuit of justice,” reads a press release on the Clooney Basis for Justice’s official web site. “The Albies are a homage to these whose fearless devotion to human rights deserves admiration and assist.”

“We dwell in a world the place we are inclined to have fun superstar…I’ve made a residing off of it,” George defined on Thursday. “But it surely’s additionally not such a foul factor to have the ability to take all of that spotlight that fairly truthfully we don’t want and shine it on the individuals who really want it.”

He continued, “For those who can shine it on them, you’ll be able to have an opportunity of preserving them out of jail or preserving them from getting killed, which is what they’re dealing with each day. The 5 individuals right here that we’re honoring are nonetheless continually in danger. They’re going to go house, and so they’re in danger. So, I can’t consider a greater cause than for everyone to point out up and honor them.”

The actor and Amal, an completed human rights lawyer, met in Lake Como, Italy, in 2013 and acquired married in 2014. They welcomed their twins in 2017.

“We by no means talked about marriage once we have been relationship, and I requested her out of the blue,” George informed CBS in November 2020. “[It] took her a very long time to say sure. I used to be on my knee for, like, 20 minutes. I lastly mentioned, ‘Look, I’m gonna throw my hip out.’ We informed that story to her mother and father, and so they’re like, ‘There’s one thing unsuitable together with his hip?’”

Whereas George and Amal could seem to be a picture-perfect couple, they’ve put an excessive amount of work into their relationship. “Like all marriage, they’ve had their challenges and wanted to adapt to sure conditions and challenges,” a supply informed Us Weekly in April 2021. “It’s taken compromise, establishing boundaries and plenty of persistence to maintain the connection on monitor however they’ve carried out simply that.”

Earlier than their charitable evening in town, George and Amal have been having fun with a soothing summer time in Italy with their youngsters. An insider solely informed Us earlier this month that the pair have been “taking turns with taking the children to actions” and infrequently “take turns making ready the children’ breakfast and lunches.”

The twins, in the meantime, “take boat rides, do water sports activities, have a small group of pals within the space their age they’ve playdates with,” per the supply.