{"id":246958,"date":"2026-01-16T00:09:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:09:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246958\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T00:09:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T00:09:09","slug":"holly-carpenter-shares-update-on-dads-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/246958\/","title":{"rendered":"Holly Carpenter shares update on dad’s health"},"content":{"rendered":"

Model Holly Carpenter has revealed her heartbreak over her dad spending the last seven weeks in hospital.<\/p>\n

The Dubliner shared the sad news that she didn’t have a great Christmas because her dad Karl has been in hospital for the last seven weeks.<\/p>\n

Karl was diagnosed with a rare blood cancer, myelodysplastic syndrome, in February 2020 and was unable to make the trip to his daughter’s destination wedding in France last year because it clashed with his treatment plan.<\/p>\n

\"HollyHolly Carpenter and dad Karl. Pic: Holly Carpenter \/ Instagram<\/p>\n

Updating her followers on Instagram, Holly<\/a>, who married Jamie Hunt last year, said: ‘Did I have a good Christmas? Probably not, I was kind of glad to see the back of Christmas, and my dad’s been back in hospital for nearly seven weeks now, and I won’t get into it, but obviously it’s been quite difficult, and so that is probably why I’ve been quite quiet. <\/p>\n

‘So apologies for going dark, I guess. And it’s hard to come on and just talk normally and be animated and positive when you’re not feeling that way, you know. So I’d rather just like not force it, but I have been posting a few little bits and bobs.’<\/p>\n

Holly first tied the knot in a legal ceremony<\/a> in Dublin in May, where her\u00a0dad was there to walk her down the aisle<\/a>, but on her second wedding day in France, it was important to Holly that her dad still got the ‘first look’ before her guests.<\/p>\n

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Holly previously shared that she was\u00a0horribly trolled for having two big weddings<\/a>\u00a0but said she has no regrets about hosting both days as her dad walking her down the aisle at her ceremony in Dublin made it ‘really special’.<\/p>\n

She said: ‘Back in May, when Jamie and I got legally married, we were still really optimistic that he would be able to make it, but we still decided to make this Dublin wedding really special, just in case.<\/p>\n

‘It was so intimate and so perfect, and Dad was not feeling great that day, bless him, but he still turned up and walked me down the aisle.<\/p>\n

‘Honestly, I’m just so happy that we had that day and the way that he has framed it in his mind as he’s like, “That was your wedding day. I was there to walk you down the aisle. France is just a big party with your friends. Go and enjoy it”.’<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Model Holly Carpenter has revealed her heartbreak over her dad spending the last seven weeks in hospital. The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":246959,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60],"class_list":["post-246958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/246959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}