Every time Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness defended marriage before split
nypost.comannounced their split Friday after 27 years of marriage, fans of the famous couple know that the actors repeatedly defended their union against speculation about “The Wolverine” star’s sexuality.The pair met in 1995 on the set of the Australian TV show “Correlli” and married in 1996 at a church outside Melbourne, Australia.
The “Logan” star, 54, and Furness 67, adopted two children during their marriage: Oscar, now 23, and Ava, now 18.But rumors about Jackman began swirling in 2003 when he portrayed the openly gay singer-songwriter Peter Allen in the play “The Boy from Oz.”Pictures of Hugh kissing his male co-star Jarrod Emick on stage fueled the theory.
However, both stars have a long oral history declaring that was not the case.Furness spoke to Page Six in November 2011 about the whispers that her marriage was a sham. “The line I heard was, ‘Wolverine?
Who would have thought?’ Hugh and I don’t pay much heed,” she said. “It’s kind of tragic that these people have nothing better to do than gossip about people they don’t know.”Jackman confessed to The Hollywood Reporter in February 2013 that the whispers about his sexuality affected his wife. “Just recently, it bugs her,” he claimed. “She goes: ‘It’s big.
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