Star files for divorce amid Jackman romance rumours
Actor Sutton Foster has reportedly filed for divorce, amid rumours she and Hugh Jackman are romantically involved. Photo: Getty
Australian star Hugh Jackman reportedly has a hot new romance, just over a year after he and fellow actor Deborra-Lee Furness ended their long-term marriage.
Jackman, 56, is reportedly dating his former The Music Man co-star Sutton Foster – who shook up the whispers of a relationship with a bombshell move of her own this week.
Foster, 49, has reportedly filed for divorce from her husband of a decade, Ocean’s Eleven screenwriter Ted Griffin. There are multiple reports out of the US that she filed “for uncontested divorce” in New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday (local time).
Jackman and Foster were first romantically linked last December – just two months after he and Furness confirmed their split. They were subsequently photographed together frequently at events while they starred together in the Broadway production in 2022 and 2023.
“They are 100 per cent together and are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together,” a source previously told Page Six.
The outlet reports that Jackman and Foster have kept their relationship low key, and largely stayed out of the public eye.
“They are still together,” a source said.
“They go out of their way to hide it, but it’s common knowledge.”
Jackman filed for divorce from Furness, to whom he had been married for 27 years, in September 2023.
“We have been blessed to share almost 3 decades together as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage,” the pair said in a joint statement at the time.
“Our journey now is shifting and we have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth.”
The couple met on the set of Australian series Correlli in 1995 and wed a year later. They have two adult adopted children, Oscar and Ava.
Foster and Griffin married in California in October 2014 and have a young adopted daughter.
Elsewhere, Jackman is about to star with Kate Hudson in the musical movie Song Sung Blue, playing a married couple who form a Neil Diamond tribute band.
The movie, to be directed and written by Craig Brewer, is based on Greg Koh’s 2008 documentary of the same name. It followed the true story of Milwaukee couple Mike and Claire Sardina, two luckless musicians who went on to become local legends by performing hits from the Sweet Caroline singer under the name Lightning and Thunder.
Jackman was recently seen in the Marvel blockbuster Deadpool and Wolverine, where he reprised his role as the iconic mutant superhero opposite Ryan Reynolds’ ‘Merc with a Mouth’ after a seven-year hiatus from the part.
Even though he loved playing Wolverine again, Jackman admitted he didn’t miss portraying the character “for a long time”.
“I didn’t miss it for a long time,” he told Variety.
“Then, literally, it came to me one day as I was driving down to the beach. I knew I wanted to do this. I literally stopped the car, got out and called Ryan. He said, ‘Are you serious?’, I said, ‘I’m serious.’ And I hung up the phone.”
While he had “zero reservations” about reprising the character, Jackman insisted the team had to give him and fans a “good reason for it to exist” after Wolverine’s heroic sacrifice in Logan.
-with AAP
