GEORGE CLOONEY took the unusual step of penning an open letter addressed to U.K. tabloid The Daily Mail and other publications, asking them to “refrain” from publishing pictures of his twins with wife Amal.

The actor’s letter — which referenced the news that the Mail’s internet arm, Mail Online, had taken down pictures of Billie Lourd’s baby — implored the publication and others not post pictures of his children, Ella and Alexander, for fear of “real-world consequences.”

Clooney wrote that the nature of Amal’s work as an international law and human rights lawyer meant that she was “confronting and putting on trial terrorist groups,” and their children’s anonymity would help with keeping them safe from such groups. The letter added that the Clooneys had “never sold a picture of our kids, we are not on social media and never post pictures.”

In 2014, the actor rejected the Daily Mail’s apology for printing a false story about Amal’s mother, at the time describing the paper as “the worst kind of tabloid.” (SD-Agencies)