Niamh Cullen and her husband Jamie Gill supported each other through thick and thin, so it’ll come as no surprise that the pair formed a strong friendship before falling for each other.
In November, Niamh revealed Jamie had been diagnosed with cancer, one year after they said ‘I do’ in Italy, and weeks after sharing his diagnosis, she sadly announced he’d passed away.
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Here we’ve looked back at exactly how she and Jamie met, it’s a beautiful love story…
While the pair did meet on a night out, it wasn’t your typical evening on the town. Jamie won the best prize up for grabs during a night at the bingo, and it wasn’t a standard €50 hamper! Instead, he found the love of his life.
Niamh and Jamie first met at a Bingo Loco event eight years ago. The couple built up a firm friendship before falling for each other, with Niamh sharing on their anniversary in 2025: ‘I’m so happy you picked up my card at Bingo Loco and changed your plans to come with us to Metropolis Festival. I still remember that warm, fuzzy, excited feeling like it was yesterday.’
Niamh and Jamie dated for several years before he got down on one knee. They announced their engagement at the end of 2022 when Jamie popped the question in the most romantic way, much to Niamh’s surprise.
The influencer was gearing up to go Christmas shopping after taking a quick winter walk in Merrion Square Park, but her soon-to-be fiancé had other ideas.
During the stroll, Niamh noticed there was a card stuck to one of the trees with her name on it. On the front it said, ‘Love you’ and inside it was written: ‘Turn around.’ In total shock, she turned to see Jamie on one knee.
As if the couple didn’t have enough to plan with a wedding on the horizon, they squeezed another life milestone in, buying their first home together.
They moved into their new house at the beginning of August 2024, with Niamh sharing clips of the happy day on social media.
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‘I can’t stop crying! Is this real life,’ Niamh told her followers, accompanied by a clip showing herself and Jamie walking into their new home and standing in the kitchen in shock.
More clips showed the pair popping a bottle of champagne and hugging each other in their very own front garden. Niamh appeared overwhelmed with happiness as she stood in the empty house, alongside her soon-to-be hubby and their dog Abigail.
Niamh and Jamie balanced the mammoth task of decorating their new house and planning their wedding.
Niamh stayed on top of all of the planning, having secured her dream dress nice and early. She flew over to New York City to pick up her perfect gown, which she discovered when she first got engaged.
She took to social media to share the process of picking up the dress. She wrote: ‘Guess who said yes to the dress. I stumbled upon this dress the morning after I got engaged. Through all the legal stuff I didn’t know when we would be getting married but this dress never ever left my mind.’
‘I am so happy I found my dress of dreams, as I genuinely had zero clue what I would even like. I feel like this dress was meant to find it me, it’s so perfect, a lil evolution in itself!’ she explained. ‘The excitement, it’s all getting very real!’
Niamh and Jamie celebrated their wedding on Friday, November 8, 2024 in Borgo Di Tragliata, Italy.
The influencer looked gorgeous on her big day, wearing a fitted dress with puff sleeves and a skirt that flowed out into a train. Instead of a veil, Niamh had two floating pieces of material flowing down her back.
A host of well-known faces jetted over to Rome to attend the elegant countryside wedding including Bonnie Ryan who stunned in a dress from ASOS as she celebrated with the couple.
Niamh’s vow of ‘in sickness and in health’ kicked in immediately as Jamie was rushed to hospital just days after their wedding in November.
The influencer and her husband had navigating Jamie’s health journey and the ‘turbulent start to our marriage’ in private, but in November, Niamh shared her husband’s cancer diagnosis.
The fitness influencer told her followers: ‘Last weekend marked one year of our marriage. Nothing could have prepared us for the journey that was ahead.’
‘On day three of our wedding, Jamie became seriously unwell. What was meant to be a minimoon in Rome turned into ten days in hospital. We returned home, where Jamie had some scans and conversations about next steps.
Just two weeks before Christmas, Jamie underwent major surgery where doctors discovered a cancerous tumour. Our world shattered in an instant, but we stayed strong. Jamie bravely faced 10 rounds of chemotherapy.’
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‘There were ups and downs along the way, but nothing could have prepared us for what followed after his 10th session. He was rushed into hospital by ambulance, where he developed pneumonia that turned sepsis, just hours after his chemotherapy,’ Niamh continued.
‘It was scary and really not good. Not long after, he was rushed again to hospital with unbearable pain. We were given the devastating news the cancer had returned.
My world feels broken, my blood still runs cold, but I know this: my husband is a fighter. We will not give up.’
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On November 29, Niamh posted the awful update that Jamie had passed away.
Alongside a video of them together, Niamh wrote: ‘The unimaginable has happened. Our worst nightmare. My beautiful husband has been taken from us.
‘The light of my life. I was the luckiest to be loved and adored by you Jamie. I love you endlessly, not just now, but eternally. This video for me shows our unconditional love, fun and laughter. I’m broken.’
Messages of condolence poured in, with Louise Cooney among the first to say she was heartbroken at the loss of such a special man.
‘We love you both so much. He is such a loss. Heartbroken. Can’t believe it. I love you so much,’ Louise penned while Pippa O’Connor wrote: ‘There are no words. You have an army of love around you.’
