When Scrubs star John C. McGinley and fiancée Nichole Kessler tied the knot at their Malibu home on April 7, McGinley’s 9-year-old son Max almost stole the show.
After Max escorted the bride down the aisle, he darted back toward the house. “I barked out orders to make sure Max was okay,” recalls McGinley, 47, who plays the caustic Dr. Perry Cox on the NBC comedy. “You don’t usually have the groom [yelling] at the altar, but I couldn’t concentrate unless I knew Max was squared away.”
Turns out, Max, who has Down syndrome, was just fulfilling his best-man duties: He had gone to fetch Haley, one of the couple’s two chocolate Labs, to join her mate Hudson alongside McGinley for the ceremony. Says Nichole, a 34-year-old Ashtanga yoga teacher from Santa Monica: “The sweetest thing was Max walking back with Haley, then sitting down, thinking, ‘Okay, now I’m done.’ ”
The newlyweds also have Max to thank for hooking them up in the first place. While at the beach one day, McGinley’s dogs distracted him by almost getting into an altercation with two other dogs. Max, approached Kessler on the beach and McGinley spotted him talking to a woman behind him.
McGinley told PEOPLE last August. “I was like, ‘Max, you get the dogs. I’ll talk to the hot blonde.’ And so we switched.”
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