Canal cruise for the Clooneys

Women of the world — it’s over. George Clooney is off the market.

That, at least, was the tone of the Twitter reaction yesterday to the news that the American actor had tied the knot in Venice with his fiancee, human rights lawyer Amal Alamuddin.

The couple were married in a private ceremony at 8.18pm on Saturday, and while the phalanx of waiting photographers had no access to the main event, paparazzi did manage to get shots of Clooney in black tie on a boat called Amore as he was being ferried to the luxurious Aman hotel on the banks of the city’s Grand Canal.