George Clooney says wife Amal is now watching ER reruns, and ‘it’s getting me in a lot of trouble’

‘I’d forgotten all of the terrible things (my character) was doing picking up on women and things’

George Clooney has revealed his wife Amal Clooney’s reaction to watching old ER episodes starring the actor.

“My wife is watching them now and it’s getting me in a lot of trouble because I’d forgotten all of the terrible things (my character) was doing picking up on women and things,” he told Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes, and Will Arnett during an appearance on their SmartLess podcast this week.

The NBC medical drama famously ran for 15 seasons after premiering in 1994. Clooney left the series in 1999 but earned two Emmy nods for his role as paediatrician Dr Doug Ross, whom Clooney himself recently described to The Independent as “a womaniser” and “a drunk”.

Was there a chance Amal would feel at all starstruck watching her husband on ER, which shot him to international fame? “Yeah, that's not my wife,” Clooney joked.

The Midnight Sky actor, 59, who shares three-year-old twins with Amal, had glowing things to say about meeting his wife, an international human rights lawyer.

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“The truth was I met this amazing woman and she took my breath away and she was brilliant and funny and beautiful and kind and I was sort of swept off my feet,” he said to the podcast hosts.

“We got engaged after a few months and got married within the first year that we met,” he continued, discussing how the pair married in 2014. “[It] surprised me more than anybody else in the world, and everybody else was pretty surprised.”