George Clooney Urges Media To Stop Publishing Photos Of Celebrities' Children, Calls It 'Intrusive'

George Clooney has called out a U.K. tabloid and other outlets for publishing photos of actor Billie Lourd's 1-year-old son.

In an open letter to the Daily Mail on Thursday, he urged the British tabloid and other similar organizations to stop publishing photos of celebrity children, saying they are “intrusive.”

Clooney stressed he saw pictures of Kingston Lourd, the son of Billie and grandson of the late actor Carrie Fisher and Creative Artists Agency managing director Bryan Lourd, on the Daily Mail, and stated even his children are threatened by the photos published by celebrity-hunting paparazzi because his wife, Amal Clooney, is a human rights lawyer and he is an actor.

“Having just seen photos of Billie Lourd’s 1-year-old baby in your publication, and the fact that you subsequently took those pictures down, we would request that you refrain from putting our children’s faces in your publication,” he wrote.

“I am a public figure and accept the oftentimes intrusive photos as part of the price to pay for doing my job. Our children have made no such commitment. The nature of my wife’s work has her confronting and putting on trial terrorist groups and we take as much precaution as we can to keep our family safe,” he continued.

Clooney also said celebrities cannot protect their children if publications put their faces on their cover. “We have never sold a picture of our kids, we are not on social media and never post pictures because to do so would put their lives in jeopardy. Not paranoid jeopardy but real world issues, with real world consequences,” he added.

He concluded his note by saying the need to sell advertisement isn’t greater than “the need to keep innocent children from being targeted.”

Clooney’s request isn’t the first time a celebrity has asked a publication to respect the privacy of celebrity children. Several other celebrities choose not to share photos of their children on social media or blur their faces in their posts to protect their privacy. When he was alive, Michael Jackson also resorted to elaborate face coverings for his children whenever they would go out.