George and Amal Clooney forced to evacuate their French home amid fires
George and Amal Clooney have left their French home after authorities advised residents to leave the area.
The Clooneys have found themselves packing up in a hurry, as wildfires rage through a hefty chunk of southern Europe and force even A-listers to leg it. Yes, George and Amal Clooney have evacuated their place in Brignoles, down in the south of France – part of a region getting battered by fires so big, the locals haven’t seen the like in years.
Dear Didier, At this point we have no idea whether our beautiful home makes it through this terrible moment… 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,
That was the Clooneys themselves putting it to the mayor of Brignoles – not exactly subtle, but probably the right sentiment given the circumstances. They’ve called the town home for a while, along with their twins Alexander and Ella, but the scale of this year’s fires has made staying put a bit of a non-starter, even for Hollywood royalty.
The fires and the fallout
In terms of the actual situation, we’re not talking a few fields singed round the edges. According to the Associated Press, the wildfire chewing through France is currently four times the size of Paris itself. That’d be enough to get anyone reaching for their overnight bag. Over in the Gironde region, CNN says nearly 224,000 people have already been told to leave. Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, where Brignoles sits, has apparently seen nearly 3,000 evacuations of its own. If this sounds like a disaster movie plot, well, this time it’s properly unscripted.
- Wildfires raging across France, Greece, Spain, and Italy
- French fire covers an area four times the size of Paris
- 224,000 evacuees reported in Gironde
- Almost 3,000 evacuated from Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur alone
Why France in the first place?
If you’re wondering why the Clooneys set up shop in a southern French village rather than a Beverly Hills fortress, George has actually addressed this. In an October 2025 interview with Esquire, he got quite honest about childhood, iPads, celebrity culture and all the rest. Growing up, he said he actually hated life on a farm, but now reckons it’s just the thing for the kids: dinners with adults, dirty dishes, less screen time – the works. Makes sense, even if it’s easy to roll your eyes when someone this famous talks about ‘normality’.
A good portion of my life growing up was on a farm, and as a kid, I hated the whole idea of it. 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.
Clooney’s always been pretty open about not wanting his kids to inherit Hollywood baggage. He’s wary of all the trappings of fame and reckons France is the perfect antidote, as, in his words, people there just don’t care about celebrity in quite the same way. ‘I don’t want them to be walking around worried about paparazzi,’ he said, which — even if you’ve got security gates and privacy hedges — is probably fair enough.