George Clooney and Family Flee French Home as Wildfires Rage: “We Have No Idea If It Will Survive”
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George Clooney and his family have left their home in southeastern France as wildfires continue to spread across parts of the country.
The Oscar-winning actor confirmed that he, his wife Amal Clooney, and their 9-year-old twins, Alexander and Ella, evacuated their farmhouse in Brignoles, a historic town in France’s Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region.
Clooney shared the news in a letter to Brignoles mayor Didier Brémond on Wednesday. In the letter, Clooney and Amal said they were unsure whether their home would survive the fires.
“At this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment,” the couple wrote.
They also made it clear that their connection to Brignoles goes beyond simply owning a home there. The Clooneys said they wanted the mayor and local residents to stay safe and promised to remain involved with the community even after the fires are over.
“As we evacuate Brignoles we want to emphasise 2 things, first we hope you and the people of our city are safe and second that Amal and I are committed to making sure that whatever happens to our village, we are part of this community and we’ll be part of making it whole. We love Brignoles and our friends who live there,” they wrote.
The evacuation comes as major wildfires continue to affect France and other parts of Southern Europe. The Associated Press reported that fires in southwest France had grown to an area roughly four times the size of Paris. CNN reported that around 3,000 people had been evacuated from the southeastern region where the Clooneys live, while another 224,000 people were forced to leave the Gironde area in the southwest.
French Interior Minister Laurent Nuñez described the evacuation in the Gironde region as potentially the largest peacetime evacuation in France.
Clooney and his family have made their life in France a deliberate choice. The actor previously explained to Esquire why he and Amal decided to raise their children away from Hollywood.
Clooney said his children have a more ordinary childhood in France, where the family lives on a farm. He compared their experience with the lifestyle they might have had growing up around Hollywood.
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“As a kid I hated the whole idea of it,” Clooney told Esquire. “But now, for them, it’s like — they’re not on their iPads, you know? They have dinner with grown-ups and have to take their dishes in. They have a much better life.”
The actor also said he was concerned about the attention his children could face if they were raised in Los Angeles.
“I felt like they were never going to get a fair shake at life,” he said. “France — they kind of don’t give a s— about fame. I don’t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi. I don’t want them being compared to somebody else’s famous kids.”
Clooney has also embraced farm life himself. In an interview with The New York Times in February 2025, he said he spends time driving a tractor and doing other work around the property.
“It’s the best chance at a normal life,” he said.
For now, that peaceful life has been interrupted by the fires. Clooney and his family have left their home, while the actor says he hopes the property and the wider Brignoles community make it safely through the crisis.
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