Best lawyer husband?

Social media erupted at the labelling of the Doughty Street junior in such a way as she was preparing to defend Al Jazeera journalist Mohamed Fahmy in a high-profile case in Egypt.

However, such descriptions will, by now, be old hat to Amal, who has become tabloid fodder since marrying silver-haired fox George in 2014. Hardly a week goes by without the Daily Mail swooning over and/or critiquing the former Sullivan & Cromwell lawyer's couture.

Yet suggestions the human rights barrister is not a successful career woman in her own right continue to circulate, not only in the press and in some elements of the legal profession itself.

While two-time Academy Award winner George rarely responds to tabloid tales about his private life, he has dismissed claims his wife is just a pretty face. 'I'm very proud of the things that she does in the world and who she is,' he told Entertainment Tonight in May.

This week, the A-list star, who played a womanising Beverly Hills lawyer in 2003's Intolerable Cruelty, admitted that he is in fact the 'arm candy' in his marriage to Amal.

Appearing on the new The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Mr Clooney was asked: 'What is it like to be the arm candy in a relationship, because she's the very serious person?'

'She must say, "We're going to meet some extremely intelligent people tonight - these are not show folk. Just be shiny and pretty",' continued Colbert.

'Shiny and pretty' replied George. 'That's mostly what I do now.'

Somebody give that man another award.