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Westlife’s Kian Egan married his former Hollyoaks actress fiancee Jodie Albert in a paradise wedding in Barbados at the weekend.

The celebrity couple flew over to the romantic resort a few weeks before the wedding to spend time with their close family and friends before the wedding nuptials.

The pair exchanged vows in a romantic ceremony on Turtle Beach surrounded by close family and friends, while being seranaded by a gospel choir playing ‘Love is in the Air’.

The couple were both dressed in white as were most of the guests who attended the ceremony at the Grand House Hotel.

However, the dream wedding was struck with sadness with Kian’s cancer-stricken father unable to attend the wedding after doctors advised him not to fly.

Despite his fathers absence, Kian was surrounded by his other family members, including his mother Patricia, brothers, Tom, Gavin and Colm, and sisters Marielle, Vivienne and Fenella.

Hollyoaks actresses Carly Stenson, who plays Steph Dean, and Ali Bastian who played Becca Dean on the Channel 4 soap joined their former co-star in celebrating her marriage to boyband singer, Kian.

After the ceremony, Kian, 29 and Jodie, 25 headed to the reception at an exclusive mansion used frequently by Simon Cowell when he holidays on the island.

Kian is set to perform with Westlife in Christchurch, New Zealand, was spotted enjoying surfing and taking romantic strolls on the beach with his bride to be.

Kian proposed to Jodie in December 2008, after the couple spent over four and a half years together.

Speaking out after the engagement, Kian said, “I am so over the moon that Jodie said yes and I look forward to spending the rest of my life with her.”

Kian’s former bandmate, Brian McFadden is also due to wed Australian singer Delta Goodrem, after announcing their engagement and his divorce from his former wife, Kerry Katona.