Hugh Jackman and his former lead actress from Music Man Sutton Foster has made plans to ‘soft launch’ their relationship.
The new CLA comes as Hugh’s eThe strange woman Deborra-Lee Furness seemed to confirm the rumors about the affair and the real reason for their September 2023 legal separation in an explosive reaction on social media.
Deborra’s private Instagram account ‘liked’ An Video from October 26 from gossip blogger Tasha Lustig who claimed that Hugh’s rumored affair with Sutton was the reason they broke up.
Lustig’s post also claims that Hugh and Sutton have planned a ‘soft launch’ of their relationship in public to test reactions, with the gossip blogger saying they will have to ‘invent the Disney story of the ages’ to win over critics win.
Hugh Jackman and his former Music Man leading lady, Sutton Foster, have made plans to ‘soft-launch’ their relationship with audiences (pictured in 2022 at the opening of The Music Man)
Gossip blogger Tasha Lustig claims Hugh and Sutton have planned a ‘soft launch’ in a video loved by Hugh’s estranged wife Deborra-Lee Furness
Hugh, 56, and Sutton, 49, have already attended public events together and appeared smitten during the opening night of their show The Music Man on Broadway in February 2022.
They began workshopping Jerry Zaks’ Broadway revival of the 1957 musical in March 2020, before the musical finally hit the stage post-pandemic in February 2022 and ran for 11 months at the Winter Garden Theater in Manhattan.
Insiders say their affair on the show was ‘Broadway’s worst kept secret’ and now it’s claimed the ‘really happy’ couple are keen to take their relationship public.
“A lot of people on Broadway knew, and we kept it quiet because they’re both such nice and wonderful people. Everyone respected his privacy. But there was an affair and overlap. They are really happy now,” said a source close to Foster We weekly.
They continued, “Hugh’s whole image is that he’s the nicest guy in Hollywood, so he doesn’t know what to do with this.”
And while a source told DailyMail.com on October 26 that Furness “had her suspicions when Hugh started working with Sutton,” an industry source claimed the opposite to Us Weekly.
“Deborra-Lee was stunned when she learned about the affair on the show,” the insider said.
“It was apparently Broadway’s worst-kept secret, and Deborra-Lee was the last to know. [Worse yet,] he didn’t know!’
‘Deborra-Lee was stunned when she heard about the affair on the show,’ an insider has spilled (Deborra and Hugh pictured in May 2023)
Hugh and Sutton first began workshopping the musical in March 2020 before the musical finally hit the stage post-pandemic in February 2022, with an 11-month run.
Insiders say their affair on the show was ‘Broadway’s worst kept secret’ and now it’s claimed the ‘really happy’ couple are keen to take their relationship public (pictured in 2022)
Resurfaced interviews from The Music Man’s 2022 run have shown the pair publicly gushing over each other, both admitting it was “a dream come true” to work together.
Sutton spoke highly of how “incredibly kind and generous” he was to Hugh Fashion when asked about their professional relationship, he gushed that ‘he’s become one of my best friends now,” before adding, “we just spent Memorial Day with our families.” It’s really nice to meet new friends after the age of forty.’
Meanwhile, a source told Page Six last month that the couple ‘100 percent together and are in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together.
Sutton filed for divorce from her estranged husband Ted Griffin last month after 10 years of marriage. They share daughter Emily, seven (pictured in 2022)
Sutton filed for divorce from her estranged husband Ted Griffin last month after 10 years of marriage. They share daughter Emily, seven.
Her first marriage was to Tony winner Christian Borle, 51, from 2006 to 2009. Four years later, she confirmed her engagement to Griffin, an Ocean’s Eleven screenwriter.
Hugh and Deborra, parents of son Oscar Maximilian Jackman, 24; and daughter Ava Eliot Jackman, 19, announced their divorce after 27 years in September 2023.