BBC Countryfile star gets married amid heartbreaking cancer diagnosis

BBC Countryfile presenter Adam Henson and his wife Charlie have opened up about their last-minute wedding after their world was shattered by a devastating cancer diagnosis.

BBC star Adam and his wife Charlie already have two children together, but the shock health battle pushed them to tie the knot. In his new book, Christmas on the Farm: Wintry Tales from a Life Spent Working with Animals, an extract from which has been published by The Telegraph, Adam recalls the moment the pair decided they should wed.

On the way back from hospital the couple were trying to absorb the heart-breaking news that Charlie had been diagnosed pancreatic cancer in spring 2021 following months of stomach problems. While in the car, heading back to their Cotswolds home, Charlie asked Adam something "very important".

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Charlie said: "I told Adam I wanted to get married. We had been together for many years and had never felt we needed to marry: for me, having children with Adam was our commitment to each other. A wedding had never been important. Now, suddenly, it was the most important thing in the world."

She added: "It’s ridiculous but I really, really wanted everyone to know how much I love Adam; most importantly, I wanted him to know. It was suddenly such a big thing."

Adam was still trying to process what they had just heard at the hospital, with the TV personality's first thought being how they would managed to pull a wedding together on top of everything that they would most likely have to cope with,