Hugh Jackman and Wife Separate

He was a good friend and frequent visitor

Can't believe it took this long.

I honestly thought they would be together forever.

[quote]The statement, signed “Deb and Hugh Jackman," concludes: "This is the sole statement either of us will make."

Do NOT ask us any more details

Anyone spot him on Grindr yet?

Obviously waited for their youngest to turn 18. What kind of a name is Deborra-lee? Is she a robot?

[quote]He’s coming out in months

Doubt it. I don't think he will come out at this point.

I see him as a Travolta, no matter what gay "rumors" are said just never acknowledging it.

The arrangement served its purpose and could have been terminated years ago. Maybe her recent Ozempic weight loss prompted her to seek an authentic life with a lady of her dreams before she gets too old?

Poor Georgie Clooney, he can't ever separate from his beard. The beard and her mother know what he did to the twink in Italy and have him over a barrel big time. He's stuck for life with the beard and her mother calling the shots.

As long as he doesn't hook up with Irina Skank (Miss Bradley Cooper's ex baby mama), He can maintain the allusion that he is str8. Once Miss Tom Brady did that "fake Hook-up" with Skank, I believe he is GAY!! It's like hooking up with Olivia Wilde( another fake beard Queen)

If these two kids can't make it...

Love is dead.

Next Up: Oscar performance with Lady Gaga.

I'm available

Vincent Gallo was right.

More like pursuing dicks in his butt.

She always seemed more like a business manager than wife.

Similar skill set for many marriages

Countdown to Hugh coming out as bi/pan or queer......

Shit is about to hit the fan. Expect a story… to be exposed soon.

Now he can spend more time on Bryan Singer's private plane

Yep, and it has to be a big one for them to finally give up faking it, r19.

Page Six isn't being shy about bringing up that he's had to deny gay rumors. Are they so specific with other celebs? Why they picking on Hugh? They even have a photo of him in shirt with fruit on it to go along with the article.

r20 r21 r22

This is why I absolutely love DataLounge. We know shit!

Well, now he can pursue penis without bringing his marriage into the mix. The true Boy From Oz.

Why do you guys think Jackman is gay?

Because he started out in musical theater?

Because he likes putting his dick inside other men and having men put their dicks inside him

His wife left him for Tim Scott.

R27, and you know this how? The gay rumors started when he played Peter Allen on the stage. Didn’t help that his wife was (is) older. Certainly he could be gay, but I’ve never seen any real evidence.

r29

As much as he screams gay to me, there's never been a single gay encounter with him that I've read about on DL..

It's unlikely that he's gay and not a single guy has spilled the details anywhere.

r31

The most you might get is Bi. But I am inclined to agree with R31 and R29.

R32 you're a fucking loser.

He’s trans

About 10 years ago there were nonstop rumors about HJ and his "business partner" John Palermo. When they "broke up" it was big news. They were hiding in plain sight. If you search around you will find many photos of Hugh and John frolicking together on the beach, at events, etc. Anyone who says there have never been rumors or evidence either doesn't know about or remember John Palermo.

I think Hugh is gay or bi, but not a slut.

Will he phrase it the way Kevin Spacey did when he was forced out of the closet? "I have chosen to live my life as a gay man" or whatever ridiculous drivel he sputtered.

I remember hearing a rumor that he’s a bottom — with women, though — and that he paid regular visits to a dominatrix at a certain underground club in Hollywood.

R36 thanks, wasn't aware of that.

Has he been seen out and about with a new much younger instawhore male friend yet?

I think the rumors started because his wife was older, hefty and not attractive by the time he hit it big. And bio kids were presumably not on the table, a deal-killer for a lot of straight guys.

IIRC, she was still considered attractive when they met on the set of Australian TV series Corelli, and in Australia was a bigger name than he was.

Not sure if ABC iview can be accessed outside Australia, but check out the size of his arm in the pic for episode 3!

And Vincent Gallo helped things along by saying he could see into their apartment and that they never interacted

A handsome man for sure, but as he is cursed by ittsy-bittsy teensy-teensy micro-nips I'm not attracted to him at all.

It's sad that people can't live their lives for fear of losing a career....you have to want a career bad enough to push down your true feelings and happiness.

R45, that's a lie!!!

R29, See: Allen, Peter. Then take off your blinders.

The statement mentions that the isolation aspect of Covid-19 turned their "love into friendship."

AKA, it hit them both: Life is too short. We have enough money. Leave acting for the stage and not in RL.

I think some shit is about to hit the fan, and they made the announcement ahead of it. Not sure exactly what ---but it seems like that, to me.

R36, In his 2004 Tony acceptance speech, Hugh singled out the “incomparable” John Palermo.

John's bjs are incomparable!!!

Unless you are a friend of theirs, why would you care? Is he going to fuck you? Are you going to fuck her? More importantly, will my theatre ticket seats at The Duke of York's Theatre to see Backstairs Billy in London in November be comfortable? Probably not.

I’ve heard both reasons given by folks who think Jackman is really gay, though it’s usually gay men who offer up the “unattractive wife” theory and silly straight folks who think playing gay means you really are gay. Jackman is usually linked to his longtime assistant John Palermo with whom he and Jackman’s wife had started a production company. As evidence, folks frequently cite the fact that Jackman and Palermo reportedly exchanged rings engraved with the word unity, but according to Wikipedia, Furness also received a ring and it was to celebrate their company.

Queerty source

John Palermo is 45 years old and started his illustrious career as an an Assistant to Bryan Singer, then pivoted to being Susan Sarandon's assistant for a few of her late 90's films. Then he hit paydirt as Hugh Jackman's incomparable assistant who swiftly and suddenly became a producer on many Jackman projects. I must say his ascent is legendary and nothing to sneeze at. This couldve only happened at Jackman's insistence.

Kind of reminds me of Steve Antin's reinvention in Hollywood as a Director and screenwriter after doing time as David Geffen's secret boyfriend.

Who is he looking at???

Palermo was an assistant to Bryan Singer, too?

He probably knows where the bodies are buried

Maybe they were a throuple and someone wanted to be a couple.

He might be gay, but as he's passed his peak I've stopped caring.

R51, Check your personal GPS; you've made a wrong turn.

The truth about what broke the marriage up is more mundane: he’s been having an affair with Sutton Foster, his “Music Man” co-star. It’s been very sexual, Jackman’s wife made a fuss about it at one point, insisting that the two only interact on stage, and they abided by that (her husband Ted Griffin waited things out, hoping it would end). But their attraction has apparently persisted seemingly ending both marriages.

Does this mean he isn’t gay? I guess so. It doesn’t prove he’s not bi. Maybe the wife didn’t mind affairs with men which were merely sex exercises, but she greatly resented a sexual and emotional affair with a woman, and a well known actress and personality at that.

Jackman is 55. Furness is 67. Foster is 48.

LOL

0/10

R59, I can almost guarantee they’ve never even seen each other naked.

An affair with Sutton Foster is HARDLY proof of heterosexuality.

R63, If only it were that easy.

R59 You should write a novel! This is a great work of fiction.

[quote]The truth about what broke the marriage up is more mundane: he’s been having an affair with Sutton Foster, his “Music Man” co-star.

I'm hearing this is true, that they're leaving their respective spouses for each other. Unexpected, to be sure. Once again, truth is stranger than fiction.

Such chemistry.

I did find it odd that Deb did not accompany Hugh to the Tony Awards two years ago when he was nominated for The Music Man.

He sat in the audience with daughter Ava.

Americans are fucking obsessed with the delusion that Jackman is gay. Because he is handsome and sings and dances.

Nobody thinks this in Australia. Lots of examples of hetero men in musical theatre. I know people who knew Jackman in his pre-celebrity days and he was a nice straight guy with girlfriends.

“I know people who knew Jackman in his pre-celebrity days and he was a nice straight guy with girlfriends”

There’s absolutely no evidence to back up that.

Not a name, not a photo, not a first person testimonial, not even a mention of any romantic relationship in his life prior to Deb.

[quote]Americans are fucking obsessed with the delusion that Jackman is gay. Because he is handsome and sings and dances. Nobody thinks this in Australia. Lots of examples of hetero men in musical theatre.

Umm, I really don't think the reason people think he's gay is because he's in musical theatre.

[quote] There’s absolutely no evidence to back up that.

Well, except that I work at the university that he graduated from and know a couple of his former classmates. Incidentally, we worked out at the same gym a few years ago in Bondi. He's a local and people know him around here. There is not a single fucking whisper of anything gay in his pre-celebrity days but he was understandably popular with the girls.

Sorry Mary, not every hot celebrity is a closeted tortured homosexual, in fact, 99% are boring straight people doing straight things like having affairs with younger women.

You’re so full of shit, I can smell you from here, R72.

Had a long term male partner he exchanged rings with

The "Never a whiff of gay rumors outside of DL" nonsense about Jackman is as strange as all the "What's it to you?" defensiveness in the Queen Latifah thread.

I too, thought the rumors of Hugh being gay came about mostly because of the musical theater career and older frump wife. However, that was before he fell hard for John Palermo.

[quote]Sorry Mary, not every hot celebrity is a closeted tortured homosexual, in fact, 99% are boring straight people doing straight things like having affairs with younger women.

You’re saying there’s a higher percentage of straight people in entertainment than in the general population? Are you sure of this, mate?

R72, Hugh might have been less than open around you, your friends, and his college mates waaay before his fame. Acting, as it were. And handsome guys are usually "popular with the girls." But popularity doesn't mean heterosexuality.

Besides, we've seen this movie before. It starred Rock Hudson, Ricky Martin, Richard Chamberlain, John Travolta, Michael Redgrave, Dirk Bogarde, and more.

Just a thought.

[quote]As much as he screams gay to me, there's never been a single gay encounter with him that I've read about on DL..

Flying in a plane with Bryan Singer and a clutch of twinks seems like a gay encounter to me.

I wasn't really onboard with Jackman as gay. There were possible signals, but whatever. Mostly it was his non stop oohing over his older wife that made me pause. Methinks the lady doth protest too much and all that. Now I keep seeing these planted stories online, likely from his PR team. Apparently he is writing a memoir that promises to reveal much, that he is going to be "honest with himself", and I just read that he is being very generous in dividing assets, on the condition that she sign an ironclad NDA. I though they were on such good terms. Well, it wont take long for it all to shake out.

R80, reading all that stuff about Jackman's memoir gives me flashbacks to the Academy Awards and Bradley Cooper and Gaga. Like how they tried so hard to hype the possibility that they were a couple (nobody on DL believed that one, that's for sure). It sounds like they are really trying to hype the shit out of this memoir.

I Feel bad for old frowzy Debra Furness. Hope she finds love. IMO if we're looking for a same sex relationship she may very well be the one to provide us with it.

The matching rings worn publicly by Hugh and his really gay "business partner" convinced me.

Whatever happened to that partnership?

As usual, I think posters are getting too hung up on the word gay. Mr. Bondi beach that insists Hugh is straight might want to consider the idea of bisexuality. Hugh could enjoy flirting with women, maybe fucking some, before slowly drifting towards men. It happens.

When people call him and many married closet cases gay, they usually mean open to same-sex action, or put another way, bisexual. Hugh is likely bisexual. We shouldn't have to get this technical on a gay website but here we are.