George Clooney Reveals 9th Wedding Anniversary Gift for Wife Amal

George Clooney sticks to tradition when it comes to celebrating his wedding anniversary with Amal Clooney.

The two celebrated nine years of marriage on Wednesday, and Clooney, 62, shared what he got for his lawyer wife – who joked that she wasn’t too impressed with his choice.

“What is a gift? What did you find out? It was clay,” George said Extra while on the red carpet for the Clooney Foundation’s Albie Awards for Justice on Thursday.

“It wasn’t exciting,” Amal, 45, said after her husband revealed he had given her something traditional for their ninth anniversary, which is usually celebrated with a gift made of willow or pottery.

“Ceramics for the ninth anniversary. So I gave her the pot,” said George.

Amal again laughingly stated that it was not the best present she had ever received as she called the gift “something that is not very exciting”.

As George explained what he got for her, Amal also joked that the two “have to wait another 16 years or so” before the traditional anniversary gift becomes something particularly impressive.

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Amal and George Clooney at the Clooney Foundation for Justice event.

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George married Amal in 2014 in an intimate ceremony in Venice, Italy. Walter Veltroni, a close friend of the couple and former mayor of Rome, officiated.

Despite how private it was, the wedding was one of the most sought-after events of the year, with star-studded guests including Matt Damon, Anna Wintour, Bono, John Krasinski and Emily Blunt, Cindy Crawford and Rande Gerber in attendance as they said: “I do .”

There were three days of partying in Italy before the wedding, and Amal’s mother, Baria, told PEOPLE that the intimate ceremony was full of love.

“George and Amal radiated love all night,” Baria said at the time. “The wedding was so incredibly special, it was legendary. These three days – the friends, the families, the atmosphere, everything – will stay with me for the rest of my life.”

As for why they decided to get married in Italy, George told PEOPLE that the two met there, so it made sense. “We have a home there. We knew we wanted to get married there,” he explained.

George Clooney and Amal Clooney in Venice, Italy.

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In the nine years since they were married, the Clooneys have had twins Alexander and Ella, 6.

For A ticket to heaven actor, getting married and starting a family was completely unexpected.

“We never talked about marriage when we were dating,” he said CBS Sunday Morning 2020, “I asked her out of the blue [and it] it took her a long time to say yes. I was on my knees for about 20 minutes, finally I said, ‘Look, I’m going to dislocate my hip.'”

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However, when she did, his life was never the same.

“There is no doubt that Amal has changed everything for me in my life,” he continued. “It was the first time that everything she did and everything about her was infinitely more important than anything about me.”

He said of their children: “And then we had those two chumps. It’s very fulfilling and something I didn’t … expect at all.”

Amal Clooney and George Clooney at the 2023 DVF Awards during the 80th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2023 in Venice, Italy.

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George also joked that they made a bit of a mistake raising them.

“We made a terrible mistake,” George Gayle King said CBS Morning last year. – We taught them Italian.

“But we don’t speak Italian,” he continued. “So we’ve armed them with language they can use to harm us. And we both don’t really know what they’re saying.”

Confirming that the twins speak both Italian and French, George teased: “I’m from Kentucky, English is my second language.”

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