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Video: Fans react to George and Amal Clooney's baby news

See George Clooney posing Beyonce style: Fans react to his baby news
See George Clooney posing Beyonce style: Fans react to his baby news See George Clooney posing Beyonce style: Fans react to his baby news

George and Amal Clooney’s pregnancy news has sparked a few jokes about the couple “stealing Beyonce’s thunder”.

Superstar Beyonce made headlines for days when she announced she was expecting twins, siblings for Blue Ivy Carter.

Amal Clooney (Stefan Rousseau/PA)

Now Matt Damon has revealed George and Amal will be parents to twins.

"Those kids are really lucky" Watch Matt Damon react to his pal George Clooney's baby news: https://t.co/zam6q2mDmI pic.twitter.com/XozUNiy9cY — TODAY (@TODAYshow) February 10, 2017

Talk show host Ellen DeGeneres was one of many to congratulate the pair on Twitter.

She mocked up a snap of Hollywood star George holding up the message “we’re having twins” and sitting in the same pose as Beyonce – under a veil and against a backdrop of flowers – when she made her announcement.

Beyonce, of course, was in her underwear when she made her big announcement:

Some joked that Amal had stolen Beyonce’s thunder:

Other fans also pointed to the spate of baby news, with singer Pharrell Williams also becoming a father to triplets:

Of course there were references to Donald Trump:

And a snap of George’s head, not looking at all like gorgeous George: