Brian Kennedy gets eyeful at TV presenter Kathryn Thomas' wedding after dress malfunction
Brian Kennedy got more than he bargained for when he sang for Kathryn Thomas at her wedding – when he got an eyeful after her dress fell apart.
Kathryn opens up today about how a horrible dress malfunction led to every woman's worst nightmare of her wedding day almost being ruined.
'Brian saw more of me on my wedding day than my husband did,' quipped Kathryn to the Sunday World.
The Q102 presenter married Padraig McLoughlin at Kilkea Castle in August 2019, where she wore a bespoke dress.
Wedding memories
'The rain just started lashing down as I was coming down the garden and myself and my dad had to run for it and then I reckon what I did, was step on the end of the dress,' recalls Kathryn.
'So, I think probably what I did was trip over the end of the dress, or stood on the end of the dress, and literally pulled the zip.'
When Kathryn reached the top of the marquee where she was due to exchange vows she realised something was seriously up.
'I was just sitting there, didn't really notice, and then I realised the zip was gone. I went 'Ohhhhh, I need to do something here' because in about five minutes I had to stand up and repeat our vows in front of the whole church,' she recollects.
Kathryn Thomas
'I said 'If I stand up now, literally I think the dress will be around me ankles', so I managed to get a blanket and put that around me.'
Brian, who's starring as Oscar Wilde in a nationwide run of the Phil Lynott play Moonlight, said Kathryn looked incredible.
'Of course then the dress started to come apart. She shouldn't have been running in it in the first place, like who runs in a wedding dress, nobody.
'It started to come apart, thank God there were little blankets around the marquee, so I quickly grabbed one of those and made sure, like her top was coming off, things were coming off.'
Brian Kennedy
'My first thought was cover the poor girl up as she didn't have any underwear on.
'My God what an eyeful, what a beautiful woman but even the beauty of Kathryn Thomas could not turn me straight, I'm very sorry!'
Kathryn asked her childminder to bring her daughter's blanket up to cover her up.
Brian did similar with another blanket belonging to her brother's kid.
'So Brian, in true heroic style, so nobody would notice, put the blanket around his shoulders as in 'ohhh, it may be chilly up at this end of the tent even if you're not feeling it at your end',' she says.
Kathryn Thomas married Padraig McLoughlin
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