{"id":131857,"date":"2023-10-09T07:11:07","date_gmt":"2023-10-09T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/?p=131857"},"modified":"2023-10-09T07:11:07","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T07:11:07","slug":"eamonn-holmes-touching-tribute-as-he-officiates-corrie-icons-wedding-in-throne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluemull.com\/celebrities\/eamonn-holmes-touching-tribute-as-he-officiates-corrie-icons-wedding-in-throne\/","title":{"rendered":"Eamonn Holmes\u2019 touching tribute as he officiates Corrie icon\u2019s wedding in throne"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coronation Street stars past and present turned out to celebrate the marriage of Charlie Lawson and Debbie Stanley, but it was a certain familiar face presiding over proceedings that very nearly stole the show. <\/p>\n

Charlie, 63, and 59 year old Debbie\u2019s officiator was, remarkably, daytime TV legend Eamonn Holmes, 63, who\u2019s been close pals with the groom for more than thirty years. He conducted the service from an elaborate silver throne that had been set up for him, amid his ongoing mobility issues. <\/p>\n

Eamonn got the call asking him to \u201cconduct the ceremony\u201d a mere month before the wedding, joking, \u201cI should maybe become some sort of preacher.\u201d <\/p>\n

Charlie \u2013 who played Coronation Street\u2019s fiery Jim McDonald from 1989 until 2000 and made brief comebacks between 2003 and 2018 \u2013 couldn\u2019t have been more thrilled by Eamonn\u2019s appearance.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe actually legally got married two weeks before the proper wedding at Macclesfield Registration Office, with just three witnesses, so that Eamonn could do the service,\u201d he told OK!<\/b> , who exclusively covered the wedding. <\/p>\n

During the ceremony, guests sat on white chairs with sage green silk bows which tied in perfectly with pretty bunches of gypsophila – matching Debbie's bouquet flowers – lining the aisle, whilst at the head of the room sat officiant Eamonn, on a huge silver gilded throne.<\/p>\n

Charlie and Debbie stood either side of Eamonn, who had the guests bursting into laughter during his tongue-in-cheek ceremony duties., which included a quip suggesting Debbie 'could have married him', saying: "It could have been me, darling".<\/p>\n

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During our chat from their honeymoon villa in Portugal, Debbie explains that Eamonn's cheeky comment was due to the fact that she once 'fancied him' on TV and was nervous to meet him as Charlie's girlfriend two decades ago – a fact that Charlie was only too happy to reveal to Eamonn, much to Debbie's embarrassment.<\/p>\n

Charlie spoke fondly of his decades-long friendship with Eamonn, as he revealed that he thought it would 'give Eamonn a lift' when he asked him to officiate at the wedding.<\/p>\n

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Charlie told OK!<\/b>: "Eamonn and myself have both been in TV a long time and we've met over the years and become really good friends – we're very similar human beings. Famously, over the years, Eamonn has participated in lots of ceremonies \u2013 including George Best's funeral \u2013 and I couldn't think of anyone else better to oversee our wedding. <\/p>\n

"I'm also terribly aware that Eamonn has had a tough time with his health over the past couple of years, and I just felt that this would give him a bit of a lift. It transpired that he was quite nervous about the whole thing, but he's messaged us since and said that it was one of the best days he'd ever had because everyone was very kind to him."<\/p>\n

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