Co-founder of Barrister Hottie website hits out at Amal Alamuddin for 'unseemly and in-your-face' wedding

 
Newly weds: Clooney with Amal Alamuddin in Venice (Picture: Getty)
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Rachel Blundy3 October 2014

The co-founder of a website which ranked Amal Alamuddin as the hottest barrister in London has hit out at her "unseemly and in-your-face" wedding to George Clooney.

Natalia Naish has slammed what she described as the "back-patting smugness that has accompanied the entire courtship and ceremony" between the couple.

Ms Naish previously put 36-year-old Ms Alamuddin at the top of her Barrister Hottie list for her website Your Barrister Boyfriend.

But in an article for Legal Cheek, she criticised the London-based lawyer for selling pictures of her wedding in Venice to glossy magazines - even comparing her to Hollywood socialite Kim Kardashian.

Comparison: Ms Naish said there were similarities between the Cloonies and Kim Kardashian and Kanye West (Picture: Getty)

She wrote: "The problem I have with the Clooney wedding was not the excessiveness per se, but the back-patting smugness that has accompanied the entire courtship and ceremony.

"Even though George and Amal careened around Venice in speedboats, posed up a storm for the paparazzi like modern-day royalty and sold their wedding photos to glossy magazines, they received none of the tut-tutting that was directed at Kim Kardashian.

"Why? Because Kim Kardashian is perceived as vacant and shameless while George is supposedly a sophisticated humanitarian."

She continued: "The entire Clooney/Alamuddin wedding was a masterful piece of Hollywood magic. It was wildly expensive, carefully choreographed, predictably sentimental and satisfyingly public."

Ms Naish went on to accuse Clooney, 53, of being hypocritical for publicly slating the behaviour of tabloid newspapers despite selling pictures of his wedding to Hello! magazine.

She said: "Hello! Magazine has just come out with an exciting 40-page spread of the wedding, giving us unlimited access to their intimate and heartfelt ceremony. This seems quite rich given George’s hatred of tabloids and his very public spat with the Daily Mail."

Yesterday Ms Alamuddin's best friend Jae Kim said men had been "intimidated" by her before she met Clooney.

She told People magazine that she had concerns her friend would not end up in a lasting relationship after she was voted the most attractive barrister in London.

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