Hugh Jackman's Wife SLAMS Rumors About His Sexuality

Deborra-Lee Furness can't assistance that Hugh Jackman was smitten with her astatine archetypal sight. Go find your ain hunky, multi-talented movie star!

"We conscionable had this astonishing connection," Furness said successful 2020 connected Anh's Brush With Fame about her hubby of what was past 24 years. "And I consciousness blessed that I experienced that I consciousness similar I met my soulmate, immoderate that is."

Jackman has made definite that helium continues to specify "soulmate" for his partner, amiably subscribing to the "happy wife, blessed life" motto that's truthful fashionable to repetition but proves alternatively hard for a batch of celebrities to implement. 

But the Tony victor doesn't caput putting successful the work, considering that's however they got together—and stayed together—in the archetypal place.

"My archetypal occupation retired of play school—it was a monolithic interruption for me. I was truly scared," Jackman told Jess Cagle on People TV successful 2017. "Deb, she was a large star. I get picked up, and Deb is successful the beforehand spot of the car. I'll ne'er forget. She took disconnected her seatbelt and she turned astir and enactment retired her manus and took disconnected her sunglasses and said, 'Hi, I'm Deborra-Lee Furness, bully to conscionable you.'

"I retrieve thinking, 'I similar this girl.'"

Jackman has gushed astir however everyone connected acceptable had a crush connected Deb, but he was the fortunate bloke who got to instrumentality her out.

"I knew precise early. I knew earlier Deb knew, adjacent erstwhile she tried to interruption up with me, I knew," the Bad Education star shared successful 2018 connected the podcast Aussies successful Hollywood, hosted by Jenny Cooney, a idiosyncratic person of the couple. "I managed to speech her retired of it, convey God. I'm a precise indecisive person, you cognize this astir me, Deb really knows this astir me. I tin number connected 1 manus the magnitude of times successful my beingness thing has felt that wide to me."

But with her, "I conscionable knew 100 percent...I adjacent knew erstwhile she was trying to enactment retired reasons to interruption up with me...That is grace, arsenic acold arsenic I'm concerned."

That being said, Jackman, who's celebrating his 54th birthday Oct. 12, told Cagle that he's "literally the big successful the relationship," portion his woman is "just similar a small kid. I'm the [one saying], 'Babe, this is not a ineligible parking spot.' 'Oh, travel on, Mr. Goody- Goody.'"

Furness besides broke her regularisation astir not dating co-stars, astatine least during filming, but she had this persistent 26-year-old falling successful emotion with her and they did person an "instant connection"...

Jackman said that helium was having the "best experience" moving with Furness adjacent earlier they started dating.

"I invited 20 people," Jackman recalled. "She came implicit and I said, 'Deb, springiness maine a manus with the dessert.' My dada was a large cook, and helium taught maine however to marque crêpes suzette. It's a bully hr to marque crêpes suzette." 

Furness was the archetypal to inquire what his woody was, wherefore helium hadn't talked to her for a week.

"I said, 'I got a crush connected you. I'll get implicit it, I'm sorry,'" Jackman shared. "She goes, 'Oh? Because I've got a crush connected you too.' I ne'er successful a cardinal years thought she reciprocated."

Their romance became the worst-kept concealed connected acceptable and, 11 months later, they wed on April 11, 1996.

Furness was 40 erstwhile they got joined and they started trying for a household close away, but there were immoderate years of vexation up earlier they had kids.

Absolutely true, but it's comic however questions astir one's intersexual predisposition proceed to titillate successful immoderate circles.

"It's, to me, not the astir absorbing happening astir a person, anyway," Jackman said connected Australia's 60 Minutes in 2013, addressing the strangely persistent rumor that he's gay. "I bash get frustrated for Deb, origin I spot Deb go, 'Ah, this is conscionable crazy!'"

Furness added, "If helium was gay, fine, helium would accidental he's gay. It's annoying due to the fact that it's not true."

Yet to this day, the operation of being handsome and bully and knowing however to sing and creation inactive seemingly throws immoderate radical for a loop.

"He's been cheery truthful galore years," Furness said with a laughter connected the Sept. 29, 2020, occurrence of Anh's Brush With Fame. "I was gay, too. You cognize erstwhile I did Shame? I was gay. They were shocked erstwhile I got married." (In the 1988 film, she played a lawyer who, portion connected a motorcycle travel done the Australian outback, meets a teenage rape victim and encourages her to property charges against her attacker, starring to major issue's with the perpetrator's wealthy, connected family.)

"When you find a spouse successful transgression that you share, and you turn together—and beingness is pugnacious arsenic we cognize it, it's not each good—and erstwhile you person idiosyncratic determination that is truthful supportive…you tin truly basal subordinate naked. You person to," Furness explained to Ahn Do. "When you've got kids and beingness and whatever, you basal determination subordinate naked, authentic, warts and all, this is who it is, and you're loved, there's thing better."

Jackman excessively has appreciated traveling done beingness with a existent spouse by his side, idiosyncratic to stock each the highs and lows with.

In fact, helium told Ellen DeGeneres in 2016, with his 20th wedding day coming up, that he was grateful that helium met Furness erstwhile helium was conscionable starting out, earlier helium was famous.

"Because," helium said, "everything that's happened successful my vocation and on-screen, off-screen, we've ever done it together."