George Clooney is trying to enter British aristocracy after marrying his well-to-do wife Amal Alamuddin – well in the fictional sense at least.
George is due to make a cameo on British television series Downton Abbey alongside his Monuments Men co-star, Hugh Bonneville.
Recent pictures have emerged of 53-year-old Clooney with Bonneville’s Robert Crawley on the set of the period drama looking every bit the 1930’s English gent with smoothed-back hair, a grey wide-lapelled suit and dapper tie.
The Gravity actor is rumoured to be appearing in a one-off sketch appearance for a Downton Abbey special in support of British charity Text Santa – a fundraiser for UK charities during the festive season.
The Clooney cameo is scheduled to air on December 19 and will reportedly see the Hollywood-heartthrob play a wedding guest appearing in scenes with Hugh as well as Michelle Dockery‘s Lady Mary Crawley, Elizabeth McGovern‘s Countess of Grantham and Laura Carmichael’s Lady Edith.
Bonneville told Radio Times earlier this year that it was good to have his pal on set.
“He was incredibly generous with his time and his talent,” Bonneville said.
Adding: “He was great – he was a good laugh and sprinkled some sort of magic dust over our experience.”
Tom Cullen, who plays Lord Gillingham, leaked to UK talk show host Lorraine Kelly that George had planted a kiss on Dame Maggie Smith, who play’s Violet Crawley, the show’s matriarch
“I know he gave Maggie a kiss and she collapsed onto the sofa…” spilled Cullen.
“He’s a very handsome man, isn’t he?” he added.
It is believed that George filmed his scenes at Highclere Castle before his lavish Venetian wedding to 36-year-old British-Lebanese lawyer, Amal Alamuddin in September this year.
When the famed director was spotted in the English countryside it was initially thought that he might have been considering Highclere as a potential wedding venue but it later emerged he was there to film his Downtown Abbey debut.
George’s quirky cameo isn’t the first time a major megastar has waived their astronomical talent fee to play a minor part just for the hell of it.
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George on the set of Downton Abbey with his Monuments Men co-star Hugh Bonneville, who plays Robert Crawley on the period drama.
“He was great – he was a good laugh and sprinkled some sort of magic dust over our experience,” said Hugh of George.
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