{"id":477324,"date":"2026-06-01T10:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477324\/"},"modified":"2026-06-01T10:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-01T10:52:10","slug":"james-van-der-beeks-ex-wife-heather-mccomb-marries-three-months-after-actors-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/477324\/","title":{"rendered":"James Van Der Beek\u2019s ex-wife Heather McComb marries three months after actor’s death"},"content":{"rendered":"

The ex-wife of the late James Van Der Beek has got married, with her describing it as a ‘special and a truly magical weekend’ months after the actor’s death.<\/p>\n

Over three months ago on 11 February, James Van Der Beek died following a years-long battle with colorectal cancer.<\/p>\n

The Dawson\u2019s Creek star \u2018passed peacefully<\/a>\u2019 as his wife, Kimberly, said he \u2018met his final days with courage, faith, and grace\u2019.<\/p>\n

Tributes poured<\/a> in from friends, family and across Hollywood for the 48-year-old as a GoFundMe was set up<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Among those remembering the star was Van Der Beek\u2019s ex-wife, Heather McComb, who shared a throwback photo from early in their relationship<\/a>. She wrote: “I sit here in immense gratitude for the special connection, friendship and love that James and I shared that has endured through decades.”<\/p>\n

Now, months after mourning his loss, McComb has now shared the happy news that she has remarried.<\/p>\n

\"McCombMcComb shared a photo from her 21st birthday as she paid tribute to her ex-husband. (heatmccomb\/Instagram)<\/p>\n

She married actor Scott Michael Campbell over the weekend in Missoula, Montana, writing on Instagram: “Our hearts are full and humbled by all of the love that we are surrounded by. God is good.<\/p>\n

“Thank you to all of our family and friends who travelled from all over the country to be with us.”<\/p>\n

McComb went on to thank all of those who helped put the wedding together as Campbell said he was \u2018beyond blessed\u2019 to marry the \u2018beautiful soul\u2019.<\/p>\n

McComb and Van Der Beek married back in 2003 before a divorce in 2010.<\/p>\n

The pair were described as having remained \u2018good friends\u2019 when their split was confirmed in 2009.<\/p>\n

Reacting to his death in February, the Party of Five actor said she was \u2018heartbroken\u2019 and \u2018especially heartbroken\u2019 for \u2018Kimberly, his beautiful children and his amazing family\u2019.<\/p>\n

\u201cJames was a beautiful soul filled with so much light, love, talent, humour, depth, sensitivity, knowledge and a deep love of God that shined through him,\u201d McComb wrote.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe shined so bright yet was so humble and human.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"McCombMcComb married Campbell over the weekend. (heatmccomb\/Instagram)<\/p>\n

Following his split from McComb, Van Der Beek married Kimberly in 2010. They had six children together: Olivia, 15, Joshua, 14, Annabel, 12, Emilia, 10, Gwendolyn, seven and Jeremiah, four.<\/p>\n

McComb had written in February: \u201cI know that James loved being a father so much and oh how he loved Kimberly with his everything. True soulmates. How she showed up for him with such grace is so beautiful and something I will forever admire.<\/p>\n

“James was a blessing to all that knew him and because of his boldness to share his journey with the world so bravely is now a blessing to all.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The ex-wife of the late James Van Der Beek has got married, with her describing it as a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":477325,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[921,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-477324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-celebrity","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477324","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=477324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477324\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/477325"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}