Parenting is hard…just ask George Clooney.
The Hollywood actor, 61, revealed that he and wife Amal Clooney, 44, found themselves in a tricky situation thanks to an ill-considered parenting choice.
The pair appeared on CBS Mornings Wednesday, gushing about their five-year-old twins after host Gayle King asked if they were “talkative.”
“We made a terrible mistake,” said the actor. “We taught them Italian.”
“But we don’t speak Italian,” he added. “So we’ve armed them with a language they can use to harm us. And neither of us really know what they’re saying.”
When he discovered that their children speak both Italian and French, George laughed, “I’m from Kentucky. English is my second language.”
Amal, who is a lawyer, described their son as “a great prankster” – and it’s all thanks to his famous father.
“You taught him all these lessons and now he’s pranking his father back,” Amal told George
The Clooneys, who married in September 2014, welcomed their twins Ella and Alexander in June 2017.
Last year, Amal revealed that George taught their kids how to prank people while stuck at home during the pandemic.
“For the time being, he mainly learns pranks. But we’ll see if it develops,” Amal told Entertainment Tonight at the time.
George replied quickly, “Well, I think those can really pay off over time.”
It’s no secret that the Oscar winner is a professional prankster, especially when it comes to his co-stars.
George once put a marijuana leaf sticker on Brad Pitt’s car that read “F–k Cops,” he said on “The Howard Stern Show” in December 2020, leading to Pitt’s arrest almost immediately.