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Maria Menounos and boyfriend of 20 years Keven Undergaro kicked off the New Year with a surprise wedding.

The couple opted to tie the knot on live television Sunday night just before the clock struck midnight. Menounos, 39, who was hosting Fox’s New Year’s Eve show, surprised her father and mother, who’s battling stage-four brain cancer, with the happy news.

“I will be the coldest bride ever but the happiest,” Menounos captioned a video of her teary-eyed parents’ reaction to the wedding news. “Seeing my parents happy means everything!”

According to People, the TV personality, who had a brain tumor removed in July, wore a Pronovias lace gown that came with a matching coat. The groom wore a simple black tuxedo for the chilly ceremony. Menounos’ co-host for the night, Steve Harvey, officiated.

The couple tells the site they had two weeks to plan it and that the idea came from a TV producer.

“When I started working on the Fox New Year’s Eve special, I sat with the producer to go over what we were planning,” Menounos said, adding the producer wanted to have a couple get married right in Times Square. “She said, ‘Unless you and Keven want to get married.’ And I was like, ‘Ha ha, no.’ I was nervous, but I got in the car and kept thinking about it and I was like, ‘Wait, this really is kind of perfect.’”

In the end, it turned out to be the right decision for the couple as it eliminated the drama of planning a wedding.

“I really, truly believe that it’s taken us this long [to get married] because of the pressures of putting a wedding together,” Menounos said.

The couple plans to hold a New Year’s Day brunch with friends and family at their hotel.

“I’m excited to be able to call her my wife,” Undergaro added. “It’s been girlfriend for so long that it will be nice to finally, finally be able to say ‘my wife.’”