Clooney to wed in Venice in ‘couple of weeks’

LOS ANGELES - Agence France-Presse

George Clooney and his fiancee Amal Alamuddin will wed in Venice soon.

George Clooney says he is to wed his fiancee Amal Alamuddin in Venice in the next few weeks, less than a year after the 36-year-old lawyer began dating Hollywood’s most eligible bachelor.

The heartthrob US actor’s spokesman confirmed the wedding venue but not the date after Clooney let slip his plans to marry the British human rights attorney in the picture-postcard Italian city.

“I met my lovely bride-to-be here in Italy, whom I will be marrying in a couple of weeks, in Venice of all places,” People magazine quoted him as saying at an awards ceremony Sunday in Florence, Italy.

Reports suggested they could tie the knot on Sept. 26, but the A-list actor’s spokesman Stan Rosenfield played this down, telling AFP: “He did not give a specific date. I can only confirm that he is getting married in Venice,” he said.

Clooney, one of Hollywood’s most sought-after bachelors, announced in April that he was engaged to his then 36-year-old girlfriend. News that Alamuddin had stolen 53-year-old Clooney’s heart caused a global media frenzy and furious speculation about when they would wed.

They had come out as a couple last October in London, and since have been seen together in New York and on trips to Tanzania and the Seychelles.

Clooney was married to U.S. actress Talia Balsam for four years between 1989 and 1993 but has shown little interest in settling down since, instead going through a string of younger model and actress girlfriends over the years.