My Wedding Day with Jenny McCarthy: ‘I had brain surgery and I got married in the same year'

"November 7 was the only time that fit and I had free — he had to book an appointment with me to get married"

We got married on November 7, 2011. Martin asked me on Christmas Eve 2010 if I would marry him. That’s a bit of a long story; I had just been diagnosed with a brain tumour, and I was going to have the surgery in February 2011. 

My friends used to slag me every Christmas, saying, ‘Well, did he ask you yet?’ I used to say, ‘Sure, he would never ask me at such a typical time as Christmas’. Martin said when he heard me saying that, he made his mind up to ask me on Christmas Eve, as I definitely wouldn’t be expecting it.