For the past year, there have been rumors that Hugh Jackman and Broadway star Sutton Foster had been having an affair. The affair allegedly began while they were co-starring together in the 2022 revival of The Music Man, but the whispers got louder after Hugh and Deborra-Lee Furness announced their divorce after 27 years of marriage last September. Then, last month, Sutton filed for divorce from her husband of 10 years, screenwriter Ted Griffin. After that news dropped, a source close to Deborra-Lee confirmed that she’d had “suspicions” about her husband and his co-worker from the very start of the MM production.
Personally, I felt like the source speaking out for Deborra-Lee was all of the confirmation I needed to know that the rumors were true. All signs pointed to Hugh and Sutton being together, but waiting for the right time to soft launch their relationship. But as they gear up to do so, Deborra-Lee’s friends are not about to let it happen without making some waves first and defending their girl. Gossip blogger Tasha Lustig recently made a video about the Hugh/Sutton/Deborra-Lee drama. In it, she reiterated that she’d known Hugh was “up to no good” by running off with his “mistress.” At the end of the video, she proclaimed that karma would get both Hugh and Sutton for being cheaters while Deborrah-Lee was about to get a “glow up.” One of D-L’s friends got into the comments, calling the video, “spot on.”
A friend of Hugh Jackman’s ex-wife, Deborra-Lee Furness, seemingly claimed the rumors of his affair with Sutton Foster are true.
British actress and photographer Amanda de Cadenet appeared to make the bombshell claim in the comments section of an Instagram video alleging Jackman left his wife for Foster after the two fell in love while starring together in “The Music Man” on Broadway.
“You are on point with this one ☝🏻,” de Cadenet claimed in response. “My beloved friend Deb is about to have her glow up any moment FYI !”
I do really think that Deborrah-Lee is focused on moving on and healing and wants to be left out of the Sutton/Hugh drama. That said, she has some really good friends, and they are clearly so protective of her that they’re not going to go quietly. I bet they’re not really going rogue, though. DL’s an actress and a producer; she knows how to play the PR game. Fear of backlash from “sources” is probably why Hugh and Sutton haven’t started their soft launch yet. I predict it won’t start until after New Year’s. We’ll get dribbles of stories about how they spent the holidays together, love Christmastime in New York, and are really looking forward to what 2025 will bring for them as a couple, blah blah blah. I’m looking forward to seeing what Deborra-Lee’s friends have to say once they’re officially out as being together.
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I don’t know, man. Hugh and Deborah were together forever in HWood years and by all accounts had a successful marriage. Sometimes they run their course and life pivots. Sutton is age appropriate, they both seem like awesome people, and clearly these two beautiful musical theater nerds are compatible in a delightful way. Life is short; follow your bliss.
Life is short. So sure, cheat on your spouse. Lie to your spouse, instead of having the courage to “follow your bliss” with integrity. Humiliate them, because yolo. Do whatever you want, at someone else’s emotional expense. Don’t have a shred of honor.
That’s quite the worldview you seem to be advocating. I do not share it.
From the public perspective, how would this look if they didn’t cheat, but just started to fall in love, and then broke up with their significant others before they consummated their feelings? Would it look any different? I don’t think so. I think we have to admit that we don’t know whether they crossed lines or not.
@charlotte corday YASSSSSS! Preach! What they did to Debra is despicable. Given Hugh’s image of the “good guy” he now needs to tread lightly to keep up that lie as well. Props to her and her legions for not letting him get away with it.
@Charlotte Corday, IKR? Like c’mon!! Two cheaters cheated on their faithful spouses, petioles that have held them up, had their backs and supported them when they were a nobody and its “oh they fell in love” “oh Sweet Hugh’s relationship with that ole woman ran its course now he’s fallen in love with a age-appropriate younger woman”, like are you kidding me? The appropriate and humane thing BOTH these cheaters would have done if they had no love any more for their spouses was to leave them first, be single and then start dating. I’m disgusted at the Page six shameless writer that called this sordid affair “falling in love”.
@Tiffany, we will never know since these 2 cheaters decided to cheat on their spouses. That line was certainly crossed, there’s absolutely no doubt about that. I’m not sure why you say regardless of if they had left their spouses first it wouldn’t have made any difference because I can tell you for free that at least had they done that, they wouldn’t be cheaters. And they would have saved their spouses a lot of heartache. Once again, the honorable thing would have been to leave their spouses first, there’s nothing better than that.
@Tiffany
Deborahs friends are the ones confirming the cheating, no one here is assuming that
I side eye people who don’t admit what they don’t know. Some consider emotional connections to be cheating, even if there’s no sex. If you want to double down on assumptions, go for it, but it’s still a lot of guessing.
Your way of thinking tends to be how I approach my life. But neither one of us was in their marriage and we don’t know how this all went down. Maybe Hugh was denying and professing his undying love for Deb. That’s a pretty s****y thing to do when you are having an affair. Maybe he gave her an STD or had her sign a post-nup knowing he was leaving. We just don’t know. She’s being quiet and her friends standing up for her isn’t making it messy.
Cheating Is part of a successful marriage? Just because they had a long marriage doesnt mean it was a success. Quantity doesn’t equal quality
If the marriage runs its course, get a divorce. Don’t wait for monkey branching to another relationship. It isn’t cute and it isn’t fair to your wife / husband.
It’s that simple. You fall out of love with someone, please leave them, be on your own and then get into the dating game as a single person because, as a single person, you are free to mingle. I can’t believe the excuses being made for Hugh, it’s just preposterous.
I think Deborah was his version of the portrait of Dorian grey.
It’s been two years since he cheated – going off of the music man being in 22- and he’s aged decades. His Deadpool promo pics were WILD. nearly unrecognizable. I know we all age and that sometimes it’s fast and sometimes it’s slow.
But Hugh was on a rocket.
Cheating on your spouse of 27 years is not “following your bliss”. It’s a f*cking selfish and disrespectful way to end a marriage. Deborra clearly didn’t expect this despite having some Spidey sense moments that maybe Hugh was getting a little too friendly with his costar.
Hugh has a nice guy reputation in Hollywood so I do not think there will be much of a backlash. They had a long marriage and that’s hard to maintain in Hollywood.
Agreee wholeheartedly!
They had a good run. Twenty five years is enough. Life happens.
This wasn’t life happening. This was a man actively choosing not to honor the 25-year commitment to his wife. And instead of breaking that commitment like an honorable person, he did it in a way that would most demean his partner of 25 years.
This is your take? YIKES.
The older I get, the more I agree with you. I was married and we had a good run, but ultimately the people you are in your 20s don’t resemble the people you are in your 50s. I don’t think cheating is a respectful way to end a relationship, but I also don’t think relationships need to last forever to be successful.
I concur; I am 60, 2nd marriage, married 25 years (more than 2x as long as my 1st marriage). People age, change over that time – we all grow and experience different things. The relationship doesn’t need to last forever, however, exiting the relationship in a way that is kind to your former partner (read that: faithful) while being respectful of everyone (partner, kids if there are any, etc.) is tantamount.
Quantity doesn’t equal quality
@ sassy if that quantity comment is targeted at @mustang Sally….yikes. There’s no need to be so rude. I hope I’m misinterpreting
There’s a way to leave a relationship for another relationship. This is not how you do it. People are left in pain, and while time does make it better, building back a community after the loss of trust in your primary partnership is not easy for everyone. Even though marriages no longer last, people don’t get into them planning to get out. You’re not supposed to be half in. No one operates a relationship that way.
Betrayal is brutal. If he cheated, his “life happens” is her heartache, loss of self-esteem, depression, anxiety, abandonment. Hopefully he didn’t cheat, but I’m not holding my breath, and if he did, I would never minimize the impact on the person cheated on.
25 years is enough? Life happens? Whew glad I’m not married to you
It’s very “Well I had a good run with this domestic appliance, but it’s time to upgrade”. My thinking was always if you had enough love to marry and create a family with someone, just treat them with respect if you want out at any point. It’s the least anyone deserves. Infidelity is not respect.
D-L (and Hugh) ought to remind her friends that they have KIDS. Being this messy favors no one. We have no idea what went on during the marriage, when things started to fall apart or what went on with Sutton. I don’t think a whole lot of Cadanet at this point either.
No one knows what their relationship was like except them. Any relationship with a significant age difference is going to have more issues long term. Marriages and relationships run their course and no one should have to stay married and trapped in a relationship without the possibility of divorce. The vib had been off between these 2 for years and she will get half of his fortune and set for life. Sutton is age appropriate and extremely talented. Using “friends” as sources to leak is so tacky and vindictive.
These friends do seem a bit rabid. I would be horrified if anyone announced my impending glow up.
Me, too @Christine! Friends don’t share private convos with the press unless it’s sanctioned in advance.
I hope she Is able to heal and find someone who will truly care for her and not cheat.
The only way I know Amanda deCadenet is from Absolutely Fabulous.
She was married to John Taylor from Duran Duran in the early 90s. Think she was a model / TV personality then and her father was a famous racing car driver.
Do we know if they actually cheated? They have divorced their partners and haven’t launched the relationship. Maybe they realised something was developing between them and divorced their partners ASAP.
Yes, any relationship can run its course, including marriages… But what’s the point in taking vows then? The resignation of the comments here sadden me, somewhat. I always thought the point of marriage is to stay together through thick and thin, but yes life happens and people fall apart, true. But those who make it: that is the point, and the “quantity” of years actually is the “quality” bc you’ve built a life together. There’s many sides to marriages, but stepping out in one, no matter what stage you are in, is always a bad look and also a betrayal. I am old fashioned, yes, but I have been w my husband since 2000, and sure,it has not been roses all the time, but overall it’s the work that makes a marriage and it is always sad to see when a couple is through with the work.
@UpInToronto my thoughts exactly.
A lot of the commenters here seem blase’ about the stepping out as if it’s ok. Betrayal is never ok.
Maybe I’m just old and cynical but I honestly think this is how a lot of long term relationships end. The couple is happy enough and has no particular reason to separate but the romantic spark has gone. And then one person meets someone else and that forces the issue. Going back to being single after a long relationship is hard, many people don’t want to do it, but given the choice between two relationships they’ll choose the new one. Break ups are always difficult whether there’s another person involved or not.
@TRIXC, I totally agree with you that this is how some long term relationships end. I don’t think I’m cynical but realistic because some people evolve as they age. This happens to relationships of people of all levels of fame. We’re just hearing about this one bc they’re famous.
This chick is messy, messy, messy with a long history of reinventing herself.
Sad
Another one who thinks with his dick.
I never would have guessed he would leave her for another woman. Now Ryan Reynolds, maybe.
Exactly, Claire. I mean, the whole thing with John Palermo. Really?!!!
Deborra-Lee Furness was a fantastic actress. At one point in Australia she was actually more famous than Hugh. Then sadly she sublimated her own career in favour of his.
I truly believe he wanted more fawning over him and Sutton provides lots of fawning. I wouldn’t be surprised if Deborah criticized him for shmoozing with Ivanka and Jared and he didn’t like it. Amongst other things. It’s amazing how some men like to have a wife that gives them reality checks, until they don’t. Midlife crisis, boom, and they only want sugar, not reality.
100% – I had a wonderful marriage where we both kept each other grounded, then along came someone who stroked hubs ego and convinced him things were wrong that weren’t (we made it past this, with a lot of therapy). At the time, our second child was just born, so more like an Ethan Slater sitch, but I digress.
This is classic wealthy male behavior – the first wife helps build the empire, the second enjoys the spoils so has greater bandwidth to express love and appreciation.
Given how lowkey Hugh’s wife has been for many years, to indirectly ensure the public knows the truth must mean it was worse that we will know. I sense some internalized (or not) misogyny in the comments – if D-L were younger or more “Hollywood attractive,” would we still say things just run their course? I don’t understand why this one is excusable. If he really was out of love, he should have ended his marriage when this happened, not when he found a spot to land. Imagine their kids now have to watch him loved up with a new woman when closure wasn’t brought, but forced. Both parties divorced their spouses – either they are both really terrible at knowing when a relationship is no longer there, or they cheated. I’d bet the latter. They will try to really shove this down throats when they do go public to change it into a true love story, and maybe they will hang on for a while, but there’s always a performative emptiness.
While I’m definitely a “follow your bliss” kind of person to a point, I can’t respect someone who cheats and lies to their partner of 25 years. Be honest and have enough respect for your former partner to keep it in your pants while divorcing and work on yourself. If your interest truly loves you, they’ll be waiting on the other side. I doubt any of that happened for Hugh and Sutton and I can’t respect that. I hope Deborah-Lee knows she’s better than this.