2023, deemed as the year of celebrity breakups, took one of the most stable and long-lasting Hollywood couples, Hugh Jackman and Deborah Lee Furness. The couple were married for 27 years before announcing their sad but imminent divorce in September. Now, after a couple of months, rumor has it, the Wolverine star is giving love a second chance with a former Broadway co-star… but she’s married!
According to an unnamed source talking to InTouch, Hugh Jackman’s relationship with Deborah Lee Furness was more of a business partner nature than “man and wife. It became like a brother-and-sister type of deal. Things weren’t working on a physical romantic level.” This same source is the one who is claiming that the actor has been dating Sutton Foster, with whom he starred in the recent Broadway show The Music Man.
“Their romance is an open secret on Broadway. Jackman has been besotted with Sutton from the moment he met her. He followed her around like a puppy!” said the source. Allegedly, Foster is also reported to be “absolutely giddy around” him, and has even stated that sharing credits with him is “the greatest thing that came out of the whole experience.”
Apparently, it all started when they started working together, and Jackman showed he was more than just a big name in the industry. He “had a lot of power and approval over casting and billing, but he always treated Sutton like SHE was the star, and she was moved by that! He insisted that they share equal billing above the title of the show,” claims the source. But is this all true?
Well, as mentioned, Sutton Ford is married to Ted Griffin, best known for being the creative mind who wrote Ocean’s Eleven. They share an adopted six-year-old daughter. Right after the rumors of the alleged romance started to run inside Broadway and social media, Sutton Ford allegedly rebutted them by posting an Instagram post making it clear that she’s happily married and delighted with her family.
The sweet post shows Sutton with her husband Griffin and their daughter having a blast and looking more happy than ever. For fans, this is clear that she has nothing to do with Hugh Jackman other than mutual respect for their talents. Moreover, it’s said that Jackman is still very busy working out the divorce settlement as he shares a 100-million-dollar estate with Furness. The couple have two kids together, Oscar and Ava.
