Jamie Foxx’s daughter celebrated her engagement in his bodily rehab room

Corinne Foxx refused to have fun a significant milestone with out her father, Jamie Foxx, at her aspect.

Weeks after her marriage ceremony to TV govt Joseph Hooten, Corinne divulged the intimate particulars of their engagement to Vogue — together with the steps that she and Hooten took to make sure her father’s involvement, within the midst of restoration from his sudden 2023 well being disaster.

5 years into their relationship, Hooten deliberate an elaborate spring proposal for his or her 2023 journey to Eire. “Nonetheless, when my dad bought sick, our plans modified, and we ended up spending our summer time in Chicago whereas he recovered,” Corinne revealed. “Little did I do know that Joe had modified his plans so he might nonetheless suggest on the identical day—simply in a unique metropolis.”

Hooten as an alternative discovered a Chicago park with cherry blossoms and known as upon your entire Foxx clan to take part, together with her mother, Connie Kline.

“He flew in my mother from Los Angeles and had my aunts hiding in a bush FaceTiming my dad your entire time,” Corinne shared. “He even deliberate a really particular post-engagement celebration in my dad’s room [at a physical rehabilitation center] in Chicago.”

She added, “It was a small celebration, however it was so intimate and significant.”

The couple tied the knot on Sept. 21, 2024 — a 12 months and a half after her father suffered a “medical complication” in April 2023. His daughter was the first to share the information of Foxx’s situation, although the household has since remained personal concerning the motive for his hospitalization. Whereas the state of affairs took Jamie out of the highlight for a number of months, he nonetheless had a marriage to have fun — and, fittingly, it was held at his personal Thousand Oaks, Calif., dwelling. 

“It was by no means a query. We at all times knew we’d get married in my dad’s yard,” Corinne stated. “He has probably the most attractive property. It already seems to be like a marriage venue. We couldn’t consider wherever extra particular than a house marriage ceremony. It simply felt proper.”

It was made all of the extra significant when her father walked her down the aisle. “It was extremely particular, contemplating his well being scare final 12 months. I walked right down to a strings model of ‘Georgia on My Thoughts’ by Ray Charles. My dad gained his Oscar for enjoying [Ray] in 2005. At 10 years outdated, I used to be his plus one and bought to share that particular second with him. There wasn’t a dry eye in the home once we got here down the aisle.”

Hooten stated that although he didn’t count on to cry, “all bets have been off” when he noticed Corinne and an emotional Jamie coming down the aisle, in direction of him.

“I used to be in awe of her magnificence and impressed by Jamie’s instance of fatherhood,” he recalled. “Throughout Jamie’s well being scare, the entire household went by and overcame a lot. Seeing all of us make it to this second simply opened the floodgates. It was stunning and in contrast to something I might have imagined.”

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Foxx was hospitalized for a number of weeks in 2023 and offered few updates till July, when he addressed followers straight in a self-taped video. 

“I simply did not need you to see me like that,” Foxx stated of his want for privateness. “I need you to see me laughing, having an excellent time, partying, cracking a joke, doing a film, a tv present. I simply did not need you to see me with tubes working out of me and making an attempt to determine if I used to be going to make it by.”

Later that 12 months, whereas accepting the Vanguard Award on the Critics Alternative Affiliation’s Celebration of Cinema and Tv: Honoring Black, Latino and AAPI Achievements, he revealed that he had seen a scorching tunnel, quite than “the sunshine” when he was confronted together with his personal mortality.