Hugh Jackman: ‘Gay Rumors Rile my Wife’

HUGH Jackman hates those gay rumors.
The actor — who’s been married to wife Deborra-Lee Furness for nearly 17 years — says his spouse isn’t keen on the constant speculation about his sexuality.
“Just recently, it bugs her,” Hugh told the Hollywood Reporter of “gay rumors” flooding the web. “She goes: ‘It’s big. It’s everywhere!”
Jackman met the fellow Australian actor, now 57, on the set of the television show Corelli; they wed in 1996.
“I was single when I met her, and she was single,” recalls Jackman, up for a Best Actor Oscar for his role as Valjean in Les Miserables.
“I was happy being single. I was out of a difficult relationship I’d had through drama school, and it was tumultuous and hard. I’d been living off 120 bucks a week as a student until I was 26.
“Then, when I met Deb, it was 10 times better than my single life. She was very beautiful. She was unbelievably fun — this energy, this spirit — irrepressible. And she had a confidence in herself. I had a massive crush on her instantly.
“She was sort of the opposite of me. I was very ‘Even Steven,’ and she was thrilling to me. I was always really attracted to that — though at one point, as it was getting really serious, it terrified me.”
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