Hugh Jackman by no means shied away from exhibiting his admiration for his Broadway co-star — and rumoured new flame — Sutton Foster after they had been on the promotional path for The Music Man.
Certainly, the pair mutually gushed over each other in interviews for nearly two years till the musical’s run resulted in 2023.
They waxed lyrical in regards to the present and one another on late-night discuss reveals, purple carpet stops, magazines, newspapers and in social media posts; Jackman even took time on-stage to orchestrate a birthday singalong for his main woman.
Now, a photograph has emerged revealing what is perhaps the second the mutual adoration between the pair started.
In July 2021, Foster shared a picture of her and Jackman “backstage at Completely Fashionable Millie virtually 20 years in the past”.
Foster was catapulted from understudy to the starring function because the titular Millie Dillmount within the 2002 Broadway manufacturing, which earned her a Tony Award for Finest Efficiency by a Main Actress in a Musical.
On the identical time, Jackman was the breakout star of the primary X-Males film (premiering in 2000), through which he originated the function of Wolverine (aka Logan Howlett).
Within the picture, Foster remains to be in her glowing purple costume, whereas Jackman seems each half the happy (off-duty mutant) fan.
Foster captioned the picture after the characters they had been finest recognized for on the time, and the celebrities they’d come to co-star as: “Millie and Wolverine. Harold and Marian.”
The pair later reunited on-stage in 2022 within the lead roles of The Music Man: as con man Professor Harold Hill and music instructor, and love curiosity, Marion Paroo.
Throughout an look on Late Evening with Seth Myers in 2022, Jackman confessed that he had been a fan of his future main woman since he noticed her in Completely Fashionable Millie a long time in the past.
He stated he had seen “the whole lot” she had ever appeared in and was “intimidated” to work together with her.
“This can be a six-time Tony nominee, two-time winner,” he stated.
“I noticed her do Completely Fashionable Millie whenever you had been like 4 years previous. I’ve watched the whole lot she’s executed. It’s wonderful.
“And I’m the man who, in my first present, Magnificence and the Beast, it was in my contract that I needed to have singing classes as soon as every week.”
After all, for no matter shaky begin he had, Jackman would go on to show himself a gifted showman starring in stage and film musicals all through his profession. In actual fact, in 2004 Jackman gained a Tony and Drama Desk Award for his Broadway portrayal of Peter Allen in The Boy From Oz.
In one other clip from the late evening interview, Jackman described Foster as “the perfect on this planet at what she does”.
In latest weeks, the hearsay mill was despatched into overdrive over claims the pair had been “in love” however preserving their romance underneath wraps.
Including gasoline to the fireplace, Foster filed for divorce from her husband of 10 years, screenwriter (Ocean’s Eleven) Ted Griffin in October. It got here simply over a 12 months after Jackman and spouse of 27 years, actor and producer Deborra-Lee Furness, introduced their separation.
Whereas the stories of Jackman and Foster’s supposed relationship — which neither social gathering has publicly commented on — might have come as a shock to celeb watchers, their romance was allegedly an “open secret on Broadway” .
“They’re 100 per cent collectively and are in love and need to spend the remainder of their lives collectively,” one other supply instructed the publication.
“They exit of their method to conceal it, nevertheless it’s frequent information.”
Jackman and Foster had been first linked in December 2023, when In Contact journal reported the Australian was “romancing” the twin Tony Award winner.
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