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 "This morning Amal and George welcomed Ella and Alexander
Clooney into their lives. Ella, Alexander and Amal are all
healthy, happy and doing fine," George Clooney's publicist Stan
Rosenfield said in an email.
He added cheekily, "George is sedated and should recover in a
few days."
Amal Clooney, 39, and the 56-year-old Oscar-winning star of
films like "Ocean's Eleven" and "Three Kings" married in Italy
in 2014, making them one of the world's biggest celebrity
couples.
Rosenfield did not say where the twins were born but the couple
appear to have been spending much of their time recently in
England, where they have one of several homes.
The couple adopted a low profile during the pregnancy, keeping
the news private for months before it was confirmed in February
by the actor's close friend, Matt Damon.
Amal Clooney largely continued her work as a human rights
lawyer, addressing the United Nations in March and urging the
international community to investigate crimes committed by
Islamic State in Syria and Iraq.
Nevertheless, celebrity news media speculated for months about
the sex of the twins, where they would be born and in which
country they will be raised.
On Tuesday, social media lit up with congratulatory messages and
"Ella and Alexander" was among the top trending topics on
Twitter in the United States.
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Many contributors praised the choice of names as a refreshingly
normal departure from a trend that has seen celebrity babies given
names like Apple, Audio, Bronx, North West and Rocket.
"Good lord, the Clooneys have given their twins lovely ordinary
names. Shocking. And they call themselves celebrities...," wrote
British journalist Nicola Jane Swinney on Twitter.
Comedian Ellen DeGeneres posted a Twitter message saying,
"Congratulations, George and Amal, or as I’m now calling you,
Ocean’s Four."
Congratulations also came from actress Mia Farrow and U.S.
journalist Katie Couric.
People magazine reported on Tuesday that former U.S. President
Barack Obama paid a long, private visit with the Clooneys at their
home in the countryside west of London on May 27.
George Clooney canceled a visit to Armenia for a humanitarian event
this past weekend, saying in a message to organizers that "if I came
there and my wife had twins while I was there, I could never come
home."
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant; Additional reporting by Melissa Fares
in New York; Editing by Jonathan Oatis and Lisa Shumaker)
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