Hugh Jackman has reportedly confirmed his relationship with Sutton Foster a year after splitting from his wife of nearly 30 years.
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In September 2023, Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness announced that they were ending their marriage after 27 years.
The couple, who met in 1995 on the set of the Australian TV series Corelli, share two kids, Oscar, 23, and Ava, 18.
They released a statement about their separation, which read: “We have been blessed to share almost 3 decades together as husband and wife in a wonderful, loving marriage. Our journey now is shifting and we have decided to separate to pursue our individual growth.
“Our family has been and always will be our highest priority. We undertake this next chapter with gratitude, love, and kindness. We greatly appreciate your understanding in respecting our privacy as our family navigates this transition in all of our lives.”
The statement, signed “Deb and Hugh Jackman,” concluded: “This is the sole statement either of us will make.”
Before the couple’s divorce, the Wolverine star was linked to Sutton Foster, his co-star in the 2022 revival of The Music Man.
Rumors amped up after blogger Tasha Lustig shared a video on Instagram claiming that the co-stars allegedly began a secret affair when they were on the Broadway show and married to their exes.
The post amassed 2.3 million views and received 26,554 likes – with one of those allegedly being from Furness, who reportedly “liked” it from her private account, according to US Weekly.
In the video, which was published in October, Lustig claimed that Jackman “blindsided” Furness by “running off with the mistress,” and suspected that the co-stars were planning to “soft launch” their relationship in the public eye soon.
Well, two months later, Jackman and Foster were spotted smiling and holding hands after a dinner date in Santa Monica, California, on Monday (January 7).
Jackman was pictured sporting a blue turtleneck shirt, a bomber jacket, white pants, and blue sneakers. Meanwhile, Foster is seen donning a long trench coat over a gray dress and black pointed-toe pumps.
One onlooker told Page Six that the couple was “walking hand in hand” right before the paparazzi “jumped out and took a few shots”.
The new couple has gushed about each other in the press, with the 49-year-old actress – who filed for divorce from Ted Griffin – telling PEOPLE that Jackman is “an incredible costar,” and noting that he is “one of the greatest guys ever”.
During the pair’s joint appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers to promote The Music Man in May 2022, Foster said: “The show is so joyful, and I’m having the time of my life playing opposite this guy.”
The admiration was mutual, with the actor adding: “This is a six-time Tony nominee, two-time winner. Like, I saw her do Thoroughly Modern Millie when you were like four years old. But I’ve watched everything she’s done. It’s amazing.”
Stephen ‘tWitch’ Boss’s widow has revealed the dancer’s last heartbreaking words to his daughter before his tragic death.
On December 13, 2022, it was announced that Boss, who was best known for his appearances as the DJ on the Ellen DeGeneres Show, died at the age of 40 after his body was discovered at a motel in Los Angeles.
The TV star’s cause of death was ruled as suicide by a coroner, and county officials further confirmed that the late dancer died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound, TMZ reported.
Boss shared son Maddox, eight, and daughters Zaia, five, and Weslie, 16, with his widow, Alison Holker.
More than two years after her late husband’s unexpected death, Holker spoke to PEOPLE about Boss’s final days, revealing that he dropped their eldest daughter, Weslie, off at school before he went missing.
“I wish I could be your Superman,” Boss reportedly told the 16-year-old – who happened to be the last person in the family to see him alive.
“Having someone say last words to you that you didn’t really process at the time as being anything wrong… that’s really hard, especially as a teenager,” the 36-year-old dancer told the outlet. “She handles it with far more grace than she should have to.”
“We took the steps to really help her, and communicate with her, and make her feel seen and heard,” she continued, adding that she and her kids began intense therapy in the wake of the late DJ’s death.
“I think she also sees those words as something beautiful, and also ugly. It’s a battle that she’s going to always have with herself, but I know she can see it from both sides,” Holker shared.
Elsewhere in the interview, Holker disclosed that weeks after the TV star’s death, she found drugs in their home, specifically hidden inside shoe boxes.
“I was with one of my really dear friends, and we were cleaning out the closet and picking out an outfit for him for the funeral,” she said. “It was a really triggering moment for me because there were a lot of things I discovered in our closet that I did not know existed. It was very alarming to me to learn that there was so much happening that I had no clue [about].
“It was a really scary moment in my life to figure that out, but it also helped me process that he was going through so much and he was hiding so much, and there must have been a lot of shame in that,” Holker added.
The mom-of-three believes that she and Boss had “very honest” communication about everything, including his marijuana use, sharing that he would go into their guesthouse to smoke or drink after their children went to bed. “That was his alone time. It was his time to recharge, and that was okay,” she said.
But as she looked through her late husband’s journals hoping to find clarity and closure after his untimely passing, she learned that he ha
