Honey G and Mrs Clooney: schoolmates, but not classmates
IN the midst of a fairly cataclysmic week for the world, those of us with a little perspective made time to appropriately freak out at another unnerving rip in the space-time continuum.
It emerged that The X Factor wigga Honey G and Amal Clooney (George’s mot) went to school together. The thought of a high-profile Gucci-wearing lawyer, activist and wife of Clooney having just one degree of separation from a dollar-sign wearing reality TV star, just blew everyone’s mind.
Did they braid each other’s hair? Do detention together? And would intellectual powerhouse Honey G let Amal cog her homework? The mind boggled. But perhaps when we pause for a second it’s really not all that strange that the human rights campaigner and X-Factor contestant share an alma mater. There’s lots more they share.
Both are style icons, and love a bit of bling. Honey is seldom seen not covered in gold dollar signs. In fact, frankly, how the Daily Mail Online resisted including Honey alongside Alma in their “get the look” column, is beyond us. And there’s more. Both Alma and Honey also have a strange fascination with 1990s relics. Honey dusted off Kris Kross’s forgotten classic Jump Jump for one of her X-Factor outings while Alma has been making George feel young again for years now.
Lastly, both have blurred the boundaries between cultures and races; Amal is British and Lebanese, while Honey G is a white lady who seems to think she’s black. Both have endured their hardships as well: George’s jokes for Amal and Sharon Osbourne’s quips for poor old Honey.
All we’re saying is that all things considered, it’s fairly difficult to see who’s done better.
And the next school reunion should be fun.