Cristina Everett
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Ryan O'Neal and longtime love Farrah Fawcett are finally getting married.
"I've asked her to marry me, again, and she's agreed," O'Neal, 68, tells Barbara Walters in an exclusive interview on ABC's "20/20."
O'Neal says the couple, who have been together since 1980, "will" wed "as soon as she can, say yes ... Maybe we can just nod her head." "I promise you, we will," he told Walters. "Absolutely."
The wedding is sure to be a high point in Fawcett's three-year battle with anal cancer that has left the actress, 62, now "fighting for her life."
As for the couple's attire during the wedding ceremony, O'Neal says he and Fawcett have joked that he'll dress "like a gigolo. You know? And a little thin mustache and slicked-back hair. I don't know. We have fun, we tease about that." "I used to ask her to marry me all the time," O'Neal tells Walters in the interview to air on Friday. "But ... it just got to be a joke, you know. We just joked about it."
The couple has a 24-year-old son, Redmond, who is currently in rehab following previous drug convictions.
Update: On Thursday, June 25, 2009, Farrah Fawcett, 62 passed away. Ryan O'Neal was by her side.
