Resurfaced interview fuels romance rumors between Hugh Jackman and Broadway co-star Sutton Foster

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A two-year-old chat show interview of Hugh Jackman and his then co-star and now rumoured girlfriend Sutton Foster has resurfaced in which she declared it was a “dream come true” to work with the Aussie actor.

The pair played romantic leads on the Broadway show The Music Man from 2021 to 2023 and appeared together on Late Night with Seth Meyers to promote the production during its run.

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“The show is so joyful, and I’m having the time of my life playing opposite this guy,” Foster said in the 2022 interview.

Jackman quipped: “You had to say that, but thank you.”

“I did!” Foster said, “But it’s like — it’s a dream come true. Truly.”

However the admiration was mutual with both admitting they were “intimidated” by the prospect of working with the other.

“You’re Hugh Jackman,” Foster said to the Australian star.

“And then our names are really big on a giant billboard.

“And I was like, ‘Oh God, that’s gonna cost a lot of money when they have to replace me’ … I was pretty convinced I was going to be fired for several weeks.”

And Jackman had a similar response, telling his co-star he had watched “everything” she had been in.

“This is a six-time Tony nominee, two-time winner,” he said of Foster.

“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.

“And I’m the guy who, in my first show, Beauty and the Beast, it was in my contract that I had to have singing lessons once a week.”

The rumoured relationship was reportedly “no secret” to Jackman’s ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness, who had her “suspicions” about the co-stars.

“Deborra-Lee had her suspicions when Hugh started working with Sutton,” a source told DailyMail.com.

“Their relationship is not a secret to her.”

Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are reportedly dating.

The source went on to say Furness, who split from Jackman in 2023, “wants to be left out of this narrative” and would not be commenting.

“She is not going to address this or speak against Hugh.”

Interest in the two-year-old interview comes days after it emerged that Foster had filed for divorce from her screenwriter husband Ted Griffin after 10 years of marriage.

The 49-year-old actress and Griffin married in Santa Barbara in 2014 and adopted their daughter Emily in 2017.

Griffin has written Hollywood hits such as Ravenous, Matchstick Men, and Ocean’s Eleven.

Rumous about Jackman and Sutton first began to circulate in December 2023, a few months after Jackman and Furness split, when In Touch magazine reported the Wolverine actor was “romancing” Foster, who also starred in the TV show Younger.

US outlet Page Six has also since cited multiple sources claiming that Sutton and Jackman, now both divorced from their spouses, had fallen “in love”.

“They are 100 per cent together and in love, wanting to spend the rest of their lives together,” an unnamed source told the outlet in October.

The new couple are reportedly trying to keep details of their relationship private.

Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness in 2022.

“They are still together,” the source says.

“They go out of their way to hide it, but it’s common knowledge.”

Jackman and his wife of 27 years Furness announced their split on September 15 last year, in a statement saying they were separating to pursue “individual growth”.

“We have been blessed to share almost three 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,” the Australian stars said in a joint statement to People.

The couple met in 1995 on the set of the ABC prison drama Correlli when Furness was the star and Jackman was just a young up-and-coming actor.

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