After Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness surprised the leisure world final 12 months by asserting that they have been divorcing after 27 years of marriage, the “Wolverine” actor was mentioned to be engaged on a memoir, wherein he promised to “open up about his life like never before” and share some “bombshell secrets.”
May a kind of “secrets” be that Jackman has discovered love once more with a Broadway co-star? And will he share that the romance started within the waning years of his marriage to Furness?
Such questions at the moment are swirling round Jackman and stage and TV actor Sutton Foster, his co-star within the hit Broadway stage revival of “The Music Man,” which ran from late 2021 to early 2023. Discuss a romance between the Australian actor and Foster gained traction this week after it was reported that she had filed for divorce from her screenwriter husband, Ted Griffin, after 10 years of marriage.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JUNE 12: Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster carry out a quantity from “The Music Man” onstage on the seventy fifth Annual Tony Awards at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor on June 12, 2022 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by Theo Wargo/Getty Photos for Tony Awards Productions)
Web page Six reported that Foster, 49, filed for uncontested divorce in New York County Supreme Court docket Tuesday, “amid buzz she is moving on” with Jackman, 56.
Rumors that Foster’s marriage was “on the rocks” started “swirling” in Broadway circles when the Tony Award-winner co-starred with Jackman in “The Music Man.” A number of sources instructed Web page Six that Foster and Jackson had fallen in love.
“They are 100 percent together and are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together,” one supply has instructed Web page Six.
NEW YORK, NY – MAY 01: Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness attend “Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art Of The In-Between” Costume Institute Gala – O at Metropolitan Museum of Artwork on Could 1, 2017 in New York Metropolis. (Picture by John Lamparski/Getty Photos)
A number of sources additionally instructed Web page Six that Jackman and Foster “are going strong” however that they’ve tried to maintain their relationship out of the general public eye. “They are still together,” a supply mentioned. “They go out of their way to hide it, but it’s common knowledge.”
In Contact Weekly reported again in April that the romance was “an open secret” on Broadway. At the moment, Jackman was nonetheless technically married to Furness, 68, although the 2 have been separated. For her half, Foster was nonetheless married to Griffin, whom she wed in Santa Barbara in 2014 in a robe she picked out on the TLC present, “Say Yes to the Dress.” Foster and Griffin are dad and mom to a daughter, 6, whom they adopted collectively.
Foster apparently couldn’t resist the charms of the good-looking, famously toned, 6-foot-2-inch Jackman. A supply instructed In Contact that she was “absolutely giddy” round him after she was forged to play “Marian the Librarian,” the love curiosity of conman Harold Hill within the basic musical. Jackman, in the meantime, “was besotted with Sutton from the moment he met her. He followed her around like a puppy!”
Nominees Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster attend the 2022 Tony Awards Meet The Nominees press occasion in New York, on Could 12, 2022. (Picture by Angela Weiss / AFP) (Picture by ANGELA WEISS/AFP by way of Getty Photos)
Foster reportedly admitted that she and Jackman “became close” whereas sharing rehearsal area through the present’s manufacturing, In Contact reported. In addition they made notable crimson carpet appearances collectively, wanting very very similar to a pair once they attended the Tony Awards in June 2022 at Radio Metropolis Music Corridor.
“The Music Man” closed in January 2023, and Jackman and Furness, 68, introduced their separation eight months later. On the time, Web page Six reported that the divorce was “a long time coming.”
The Australian couple, who’ve lengthy lived in New York Metropolis, introduced their break up because the youngest of their two kids was turning 18.
Now, it seems there is perhaps one other issue within the break up — Jackman’s co-star. In fact, her title didn’t come up within the separation announcement, which was amicable and well mannered. Jackman and Furness mentioned that they had “been blessed to share almost three decades together as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage.” In addition they spoke about how their “journey” is “shifting” and so they “have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth.”
