The Hollywood actor married the British lawyer last year (14) and she has since become a regular in the style sections for her elegant clothes.

Clooney admits Amal has worked hard to adjust to her new life in the limelight, but insists she is handling her celebrity status with aplomb.

He tells Britain's Daily Mail newspaper, "She doesn't think of herself as a celebrity. It's just part of the deal that comes with us being married. I think it's a difficult adjustment when she's trying to walk on the campus at Columbia (university in New York where she has been lecturing) and she's being followed around when she's trying to talk to someone. Especially as she deals in the law, where you want to be able to have discussions about anything.

"But she's worked very hard and found a wonderful way of balancing what she does for a living and not being invaded by too much attention because of me. It's a tricky thing, but she handles it very well. I think it helps that her own work is so important. When she is involved with a legal cause, then there are serious consequences at stake - real life-and-death stuff. So the idea of being photographed, or asked some stupid question when she's out in public, doesn't faze her. She can handle it."

Clooney adds of the extra attention he now receives since he met Amal: "I tell you, before she came along it was bad enough. But now we're inundated.... She has to learn to be less fashionable!"