She’s appeared in wedding photos, red carpet captions, and screen credits for two decades. The only words ever attributed to her come from a few lines her husband, Craig Ferguson, put in his own book.
The party was thrown by a Scottish expatriate named Jeffrey Scott Carroll, in Manhattan, sometime around 2005. Craig Ferguson almost skipped it. He’d already sat through one event that evening he didn’t want to attend, and by the time he reached Carroll’s gathering he was tired and grumpy. A woman walked over to say hello to their host. Carroll turned and said four words: “This is Megan Wallace Cunningham.” Ferguson, by his own account, more or less lost the ability to speak.
Cunningham has never given an interview. Everything else on the record about her marriage comes from what Ferguson wrote or said himself, or from news coverage of events they attended together over the years. That includes what she told Dick Cheney at a White House dinner and how a blizzard nearly wrecked her wedding.
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How they actually met
She had no idea who he was. A friend pulled her aside and warned her that he was on television, in a tone Ferguson later compared to a warning about a serial killer, but it didn’t seem to register. Her own family was Scottish. Her grandfather had emigrated from Edinburgh with nothing and built a fortune in America, and she’d been to Scotland often enough over the years to catch every reference Ferguson made that night.
Nothing happened between them right away. She was living in New York and working as an art dealer; he was three thousand miles away in Los Angeles. They spoke on the phone for months before he talked her into flying out for a weekend, and once she did, neither pretended the timing was accidental. Roughly a year of flights back and forth followed before she moved to Los Angeles to be with him.
By 2008, they were far enough along that Ferguson brought her to the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in Washington as his date, introducing her to Dick and Lynne Cheney. She got into a friendly disagreement with Lynne Cheney that night about a pair of Picasso sketches the Cheneys kept out of sight, insisting they were too good not to hang. Later, Ferguson told her he thought Dick Cheney had been staring at her. She brushed it off, joking that Cheney was probably just “appraising my diamonds.”
A wedding nearly lost to a blizzard
They married on December 21, 2008, on a farm belonging to her family in Vermont. Ferguson later told the Burlington Free Press that the date happened to fall on the winter solstice. The wedding was originally planned for sixty guests. A blizzard buried the roads that week, so the reception venue became unreachable and the ceremony happened at the farmhouse instead, in front of the fifteen people who managed to get there. Cunningham’s brother Colin, a chef at the Boston restaurant EVOO, put dinner together from whatever was left in the freezer, including roast beef and scalloped potatoes. Ferguson wore a kilt; his bride’s dress came from Les Habitudes. People’s report on the wedding at the time put Ferguson’s age at 46 and Cunningham’s at 26, which would put her around 44 today.
He announced the marriage a few weeks later, live, on “The Late Late Show,” holding up his ring and joking about getting married in a state that had also legalized civil unions. Around the same time, he told People that he’d spent a while worrying Cunningham liked him because she watched his show, before realizing “she was only interested in me because she hadn’t seen my show.”
What’s on the record since
Their son, Liam James Ferguson, was born in Los Angeles in January 2011, according to People. Ferguson also has an older son, Milo, from his second marriage. In 2019, Ferguson published a second memoir, “Riding the Elephant.” Reviewers who covered it at the time say his affection for Cunningham comes through clearly.
Cunningham’s own career shows up mostly in credits, not headlines. She’s listed as a consulting producer on Ferguson’s 2011 special “Does This Need to Be Said?” and as a writer on two more, “I’m Here to Help” in 2013 and “Just Being Honest” in 2015, according to her IMDb page. In 2017, she made her only real appearance on camera, co-hosting a six-episode series called “Couple Thinkers” for the clothing brand GANT, traveling with Ferguson to interview people like Arianna Huffington and Neil deGrasse Tyson about aging and ambition. GANT’s own materials described her at the time as a former art dealer.
Outside of that, the documentation is mostly photographic. Getty Images has her beside Ferguson at the European premiere of “Brave” in Edinburgh in 2012 and at a Farm Sanctuary gala four years later, among other events, each caption naming her without a word in her own voice.
Why she’s back in the conversation this year
In April 2025, Ferguson and Cunningham sold their home in Scotland, a thirteen-bedroom castle in Ayrshire. That same month, they bought a two-bedroom co-op on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a few blocks from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the same neighborhood where Cunningham was working when they first met. “We’re very happy to be back in New York,” Ferguson told the New York Post.
He’s brought her up again more than once since. In February 2026, he appeared on “Live with Kelly and Mark” for a segment billed around how he met his wife. The following month, in an interview with Scotland’s Sunday Post, he called in from what he described as his wife’s family home in Vermont and referred to her, in the present tense, as a New York art dealer.
None of it has come with a quote from Cunningham herself. Seventeen years after Ferguson first wrote about meeting her, the fullest account of who she is still comes from him.
