'Yeee gods she is hot!!' Now the lawyer who called young female barrister 'stunning' on LinkedIn is caught commenting on a photo of his own DAUGHTER, 27 

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The lawyer who offended a young female barrister after saying her LinkedIn profile picture was 'stunning' used social media to call his own daughter 'hot', MailOnline can reveal today.

Married father of two Alexander Carter-Silk, 57, was accused of ‘disgusting’ sexism after messaging Charlotte Proudman, 27, because he told her: 'You definitely win the prize for the best LinkedIn picture I have ever seen'. 

Today it emerged he has also complimented his fitness trainer daughter Ellie, who is the same age as Miss Proudman, on an image showing her working out in a gym. 

He wrote on Facebook last year: 'Whilst I should not encourage lascivious comments about my daughter ... Yeee gods she is hot!!' 

Complimentary: Alexander Carter-Silk, 57, praised this picture of his daughter Ellie on social media, saying: 'Yeee gods she is hot!!'

Row:  Mr Carter-Silk, 57, a partner in a law firm, was accused of ‘disgusting’ sexism for saying young barrister Charlotte Proudman's picture was 'stunning'

Comments: Mr Carter-Silk put these comments online last year and a colleague said today: 'He is not a sexist pig. He just doesn't have a filter on his mouth'

Sexism row: Mr Carter-Silk's wife of nearly 30 years, Jacqueline, 60, is pictured left and Miss Proudman right

He also said: 'Smokin..... PhD?', a reference to his daughter's academic record.

Defending him today one former colleague said: 'He is not a sexist pig. He just doesn't have a filter on his mouth'.

Mr Carter-Silk, who lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife of nearly 30 years, Jacqueline, 60, was this week accused of an attempt to woo a high-flying barrister that backfired spectacularly.

The solicitor, who represented supermodel Elle Macpherson, complimented Cambridge PhD student Miss Proudman, praising her ‘stunning’ picture on professional networking website LinkedIn. 

Miss Proudman  responded saying she found his message ‘offensive’ and that she was not on LinkedIn ‘to be objectified by sexist men’.

After being outed Mr Carter-Silk said last night he had made a ‘prompt and sincere personal apology' over the comments, but Miss Proudman has refused to accept it. 

Asked if she regretted it, she said: ‘To be frank he shouldn’t behave in that way and then he wouldn’t need to worry about it ruining his career. But I very much doubt it has ruined his career.’ 

She added she did not accept his apology because he said it was 'for the offence that I have taken, so there is no acknowledgement that the message he sent was inappropriate or is sexist'.  

A former colleague today defended the under fire lawyer and said on the Roll on Friday website: 'I should say I actually know Alex. He is very outspoken.

'I remember being in a massive conference with a client and counsel and the client made a suggestion.. and his response was "you know.. that isn't as stupid as it sounds".

He added he just 'says what he thinks' and added 'Let's be clear - if this was a mere minion saying that she would not have made such a big thing of it'. 

Mr Carter-Silk said Miss Proudman should ‘win a prize’ for her photograph, adding it was ‘the best I have ever seen’ on the site. She responded saying she was not on LinkedIn ‘to be objectified by sexist men’ (pictured)

Charlotte Proudman, 27, said she has been targeted by internet trolls, who claimed she had ‘ruined’ her career, after accusing a married lawyer of sexism for complimenting her on her LinkedIn photo

Miss Proudman had first contacted him on LinkedIn and the source said: 'He DOES have an interest in Human Rights, given that he does privacy work. Her asking to link to him fits that'. 

The female barrister said today she has been targeted by internet trolls who claimed she had ‘ruined’ her career and would be blacklisted.

But Charlotte Proudman, 27, maintains she was right to embarrass Alexander Carter-Silk and and told critics: 'I am not a man-hating Feminazi'.

The human rights lawyer told the Daily Mail: ‘I have received messages saying: “You have ruined your career. You have bitten the hand that feeds you. There go your instructions from solicitors.” 

‘I have also had the usual: “You don’t look that great” and “It’s just a compliment”. It just shows the extent of sexism in the legal profession. It does appear to be very bad, particularly because it is male-dominated.’

She said she had ‘a thick skin’ but was concerned the threats she received on Twitter about her future were real. ‘We will just have to wait and see what happens,’ she said.

Describing the 'phenomenal backlash' she said: 'I have had vulgar comments discussing my physical appearance in quite some detail, and in a sexual manner, which serves to silence women'.

She told the Evening Standard: 'Professionals are using LinkedIn as if it were Tinder. There are websites designed for professionals to date. There is no need to use LinkedIn'.

A partner in one of the UK’s largest criminal law firms suggested Miss Proudman would be ‘blacklisted’ by solicitors. 

Franklin Sinclair, of Tuckers Solicitors, wrote on Twitter: ‘What an awful thing to do, what kind of world do we live in when a man can’t give a lady a compliment.getalife. Nomorebriefs4u. (sic)’

When she responded saying she would not want to work for ‘sexist solicitors’, he replied: ‘I should think you’ve blacklisted yourself from more than just sexist ones!’ 

MailOnline has approached Mr Carter-Silk and his daughter for comment. 

A spokesman for his firm Brown Rudnick said: 'Both Mr. Carter-Silk and the firm have promptly and sincerely apologised to Ms Proudman. We have also assured Ms Proudman that we are committed to gender equality and do not condone any words or actions that depart from that principle'.  

Despite accusations that his remarks towards Miss Proudman were sexist, a female lawyer who had previously worked with him said he had always behaved completely appropriately.

She told the Mail: ‘I never thought of him as a lech. He was bubbly and lively but I never heard any gossip about him. He was a devoted family man.

‘He will have been horrified at the outcry that he has been labelled a sexist pig.’

Another former colleague wrote on a legal messageboard: ‘He is very outspoken, but he is not a sexist pig. He just doesn’t have a filter on his mouth.’

The colleague added he was a ‘classic litigator’ who ‘says what he thinks’.

Mr Carter-Silk’s family regularly post messages of support to each other on social media.

On one occasion his daughter praised her younger brother, 17, for his performance in a fitness competition, while in another post she congratulated her father on giving a successful academic talk.

While she now lives in Manchester with her boyfriend, the family home is an attractive farmhouse-style detached property worth £700,000 in Cambridgeshire, which has a Land Rover parked on the drive beside an immaculate lawn.

The Carter-Silks, who have lived in the village for more than 20 years, were described as ‘perfectly decent’ and a ‘happy family’ by neighbours.

Mr Carter-Silk was said to be ‘slightly pompous’ but used his legal expertise to help out in the community, including working with the parish council and on a project to reopen a local pub as a community venture.

His wife is understood to have helped run coffee mornings at the local church. Mr Carter-Silk and his family declined to comment.