Hugh Jackman’s Predictable Affair with Sutton Foster
I know that we are all collectively disappointed in Hugh Jackman’s affair / shiny new romance with his co-star Sutton Foster. Jackman was supposed to one of the mythical Good Men Left in Showbiz. A man with a 27-year marriage to (Holy Misogyny Batman!) a woman 13 years his senior, Deborra-lee Furness.
But now Jackman has done the predictable, expected thing and chucked Deborra-lee for a younger costar, Broadway warbler Sutton Foster. A perennially perky woman who looks like a cross between modeling clay and Alvin the Chipmunk.
Here Jackman is gushing about his wife Deborra-lee in 2021.
Jackman and Furness wed in 1996, around two years after they met on the set of Corelli. In 2021, the Bad Education actor shared photos from the special day on Instagram, along with a sweet caption about their marriage.
“Being married to you Deb is as natural as breathing. From nearly the moment we met … I knew our destiny was to be together. In our 25 years — our love has only grown deeper,” he gushed. “The fun, excitement and adventure more exhilarating; the learning even greater. I’m forever grateful to share our love, our life – and, our family together. We’ve only just begun. Deb, I love you with all my heart!”
Alas, destiny was not available for comment.
Tracy, I have no idea who you’re writing about or why you think I care about some actor’s wandering dick.
The Wolverine guy! He starred in The Music Man! with his Schoompie, Sutton Foster, fittingly famous for Once Upon a Mattress. The show tunes write themselves.
Friend, either you’re closing your eyes to a situation you do not wish to acknowledge
Or you are not aware of the caliber of disaster
Indicated by the presence of a Schmoopie in your community
Well, ya got trouble my friend
Right here I say, trouble right in River City, why sure, I’m a vapid cheater
Certainly, mighty proud I say, I’m always mighty proud to say it
I consider that the hours I spend with my dick in my hand are golden…
Right, and why am I supposed to care about Hugh Jackman’s affair?
Apparently, you shouldn’t. No one cares. Everyone is thrilled for the couple, if you’re judging by the headlines. People magazine writes: Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster Smile and Hold Hands on Sweet Outing in Los Angeles.
They’re on a sweet outing! Doing sweet things! Holding hands!
This is a love that cannot be denied. Jackman and Foster worked together on the Music Man from 2021-2023, and in 2023 Jackman separated from the exhilarating Deborah-Lee. And in October 2024, Foster divorced her husband, and now — HOW DARE YOU INSINUATE THERE WAS AN AFFAIR — they can be together, free from interfering spouses
Except for the small matter that Hugh Jackman hasn’t filed for divorce.
Apparently, oops! he and Deborah-Lee never had a pre-nup. So, this isn’t exactly going to plan where the wife is supposed to recognize her obsolescence and fade gently into the shrubbery. Twas but a 27-year youthful indiscretion. My destiny is with Sutton! But I’m sure the lawyers will figure it out.
Where’s my Friday Challenge, Tracy?
Take your pick. Name the last Good Guy in Showbiz. Snark about Hugh Jackman, or Sutton Foster. Or write me a Schoompie Show Tune.
TGIF!
Keanu Reeves. All the way. He’s the last decent man in show biz. My goal is to be his personal assistant so I can bask in goodness.
I love Reeves’s work, and he seems like a mensch, but honestly, who knows anymore? I’m still getting over the shock of hearing Neil Gaiman is apparently a serial rapist.
I’ve learned the hard way not to lionize someone no matter how nice they seem, especially celebrities. I think staying a straight arrow is the exception rather than the rule in Hollywood.
The news about Neil Gaiman was so upsetting. Not just because the allegations are extreme, copious and vile- but also because I havelong been a fan of his work. I can’t say that I ever thought he was a great person. I actually only really knew of his work, and very little about his personal life,unlike someone lkike Keanu where Ithink we’ve all heard a lot of good things. But it sucks to feel like you supported a monster. Not to mention,now Idon’t want to support his career in the future and will miss out on media tat appeals to me.
I feel the same way, and knowing Gaiman’s background now as a Scientologist makes it worse. His parents led the UK branch and may have been responsible for an unsolved murder. Gaiman himself was an auditor for years. He’s never denounced Scientology either, and all clues indicate he’s still financially tied to them. Even if I wanted to keep reading his work (and I don’t), I couldn’t do so without seeing Scientology’s influence and his horrific views on women everywhere. Everything he’s touched is tainted for me now.
Personally, I’ve decided to use this as an opportunity to find brilliant new writers, especially women and young people of color. How many wonderful writers are out there who haven’t had their day in the sun yet, simply because they don’t have Gaiman’s fame attached to their work?
I always follow Margaret Atwood’s principle that “Wanting to know a writer [or actor or public figure, etc.] because you like their work is like wanting to know a duck because you like pâté.”
But I agree that Reeves seems pretty solid. Also long-married actors Will Farrell, Kevin Kline and quirky Christopher Walken. But, you know, ducks and all so I’m never that invested.
Hate to burst your bubble, but when I lived in LA in the late ‘80s, my roommate was constantly getting hit on by Christopher Walken. She had met him when she lived in NY, and he came to see her in LA. She never slept with him because he was always high and she thought he was gross. But I’m sure plenty of other women said yes.
Yeah, it wasn’t much of a bubble anyway and all my bubbles come with “Please burst me” signs on them lol.
It’s amazing to me that some of these freaks ever get laid but even revolting warthogs like Weinstein had a few actually consenting partners. You can tell by the embarrassing way some notoriously horny celebs (cough, names, cough) act when in cruise mode that they’re really not accustomed to many people saying no. The more power and awards they have, the more they behave like tranced-out grinning toddlers in a toy store with zero self awareness.
Yup!
Ugly men are often powerful and have money- they’ll definitely get laid.
Maybe we should give up hope. I’m beginning to believe it’s a waste of time. Years ago I worked in promotions in entertainment industries. Very very few actor/famous sorts are not cesspools of disordered narcissism and ego vomit. Now I work with attorneys. Same thing. Ugh.
All worksites in certain industries should have warnings posted like the line in Dante’s Divine Comedy: “Abandon all hope ye who enter here.”
For now anyway?
Let’s hope. If not, I lose all hope period
I think we need to lose all hope
There appears to be an inverse relationship between men who breathlessly use words like “destiny” to describe their relationship, and the longevity of said relationships.
I suspect there are a statistically insignificant number of good spouse actors in Hollywood. You are talking about people with looks, vanity, narcissism and shameless self-promotion. The only worse place to identify a good spouse is probably Washington, DC or Wall Street.
I suspect you’re right. In which case, Jackman has kissed $100 – $125 million goodbye (his wife’s share of their assets) for a fleeting relationship. Assuming they get divorced, that is.
Sure hope it was worth it, Hugh!
Don’t forget, they have money and fame. Carnal catnip for many. Like the FW XW!🤣 Ba dump bump (rim shot).
P.S. Ryan Gosling maybe as well? Maybe it’s somewhat a Canadian man thing? Since he and Keanu are both men of the North? Although, Will Ferrell. Hmmm..
Hollywood seems like a nightmare for marriage even if you’re dealing with 2 partners who are sincerely devoted to each other. Who wants to travel all the time and never see your family?
Actor Mads Mikkelsen has kept his home base to his native Denmark and is known for going home for long stretches to spend time with his wife and kids. People have asked him extremely inappropriate questions in interviews, trying to dig up any potential sexual interest or affairs with his co-stars, but he always turns the conversation back to his wife and talks about how he can’t wait to go home.
You can tell an industry is a shithole when people presume infidelity as the default and view it as hot gossip.
Here here👩⚖️!
Since Tracy threw it open for anything.
I am putting woman cheaters aside for now:
My thought is what is it with so many men that they can not work closely with a woman and not want to screw her. There is no argument that most affairs and likely most divorces are caused by workplace perfidy. Yes I know, some men do manage to not indulge and some women are as bad a men. But overwhelmingly it is always a man humping his co-worker, or his direct report.
After almost three decades of lawsuits, men losing their careers etc; they still don’t learn. If you are intent on cheating how hard is it to get a woman who is not your co worker, so that at least you don’t lose your career. I am not endorsing cheating, I am saying that cheater are just so. damned. stupid.
It just seems that men will always think that they will be the one to pull it off. Those other guys that get caught they are just not as smart as me.
Just pondering, there is no real answer.
They’re entitled as*h*les who think with their little head.That is, if male. If female, they’re thinking with a different body part.
There is NO answer to why they think they will get away with it. Purely idiotic to think they will get away with it when so, so, so many before them did not. If the FW is someone in a position of power, the chances of an AP eventually throwing them under the bus is huge. But even if both of them were low on the totem pole, cheating with a coworker has so many risks. All it takes is one coworker to see anything that looks remotely suspicious and now the rumors start.
I can easily see how it happens though. Easy access. If the potential AP is at all attracted to them and /or is at all willing to deal with a married person? The FW has all the time in the word to pursue and convince them as they spend 40+ hours a week with that person. They probably spend more undisturbed time with the coworker than their spouse.
When you are fishing, you usually start out close to shore and can often,more simply, use a net. Just lazy and not enough hours in the day to put on gators and use a fly rod..gosh it’s exhausting!
True. In my FW’s case it would have been easy for him to fish outside the work fish bowl. Not only did he grow up in the area, and knew everyone; but there was an actual business where it was well known that was where the Police Officers went to meet town whores. But, to be fair in my ex’s case he actually brought the town whore into the work fish bowl, by helping her get hired. It was under the previous Mayor, and I doubt seriously if that Mayor knew, ore quite frankly he would have fired him. He hated my ex.
But at the end of the day, I am glad he got outed; I escaped a horrible second half of my life. The whore got the pleasure of sharing that.
By low hanging fruit I mean closer..Easy.. however, my cheater told me after D day, that he had not found anyone as good as me YET. DO you believe that one? Once I filed he went online and found a lady in California from another culture and shipped her in to tuck into my bed ….my cheater could not stand being alone and I had left him too soon! So that was not easy once his coworker reported him to HR. So, it varies. I am like you, the most grateful for his cheating so I could escape the worst years that will follow. Bipolar disease with compulsive coping by sex, DOES NOT GET BETTER. The new wife can start over. I’m exhausted
Oh I know what low hanging fruit means, and you are right a direct report willing to fuck their boss, unless they are coerced and they are not always, such as the case of my fw’s whore; but the whores that gathered to nab a uniform were the lowest of low hanging fruit, that is why they have the unseemly nick name of fruit broads.
Honestly had my fw not a few years after our D, started treating our son like dog shit; I may have softened towards him. But after that, nope. I don’t think his case is that rare, but I do think he and the whore both got their just deserts.
During one of our talks after D-Day I said to my husband “If she wasn’t standing right next to you, if you had to leave work and make any effort at all, you never would have cheated.” His reply: “You’re probably right.”
It amazes me that affair partners think they’re special and somehow won a prize.
OMG. one of the things that asshat shitstain fuckwit said to me as an answer to same question: “because she was there.” Just a convenient hole. Perhaps stray dogs are pickier?
Low hanging fruit..we give cheaters too much depth. Untangling a skein that has 3 threads
I do think we (at least I) give them too much credit for having any ability to think things through. They as a lot are just not that deep. I was raised to think before I speak/act, to imagine what the possible consequences could be. They just don’t do that.
Tracy speaks of untangling their skein when mine is more complex and tangled . I’m doing me now
My life got so much less complicated one the D was over. I figured out that I was the one who made better financial decision, much less better life decisions in general.
I did decide that the reason I didn’t want to tell my family about the shit he was pulling our last year together, was simply because they would tell me to run like hell and I didn’t want to hear that.
I laugh when I think back to him saying he would handle the money because he was better at it. He ran us into the damned ditch. So glad I escaped that dumpster fire. He didn’t want me to have a job where I traveled because he could handle himself and I couldn’t. Yet not once in all my work travels since the D have I gotten in any mess, or dropped my pants for a co worker.
That’s how it worked out for my mom, especially financially.
My STBX actually said to me at one point as she was getting fired something like “my dad has so many affairs and nothing bad ever happened to him! Why am I the only unlucky one?” You simply can’t make this shit up.
So your STBX-wife is a woman in the 21st century who expected to be treated like a man in the 20th century? Somebody needs a history lesson.
Perhaps we infuse our cheaters with depth when there is only a shallow puddle of water.
More fool her for internalizing and emulating the behavior of the most abusive, shitty parent. It’s all the more reason for victim parents to bail in order to demonstrate to children that crime doesn’t pay, bad guys don’t always land on top and nice guys don’t always finish last.
They do it because for the vast majority of male cheaters, there is no accountability. My FW cheated with his direct report. They are now openly in a relationship, still working together, and she’s even been promoted. He’s received more than one raise (he’s an exec/minority owner so can’t really be promoted). Absolutely no consequences for either of them. That is why they do it. Because for an awful lot of them, they are the one that pulls it off.
Not sure that is the reason, many lose their jobs today. But who knows.
My fw was screwing his direct report for at least two years. How he kept it a secret I have no idea. When someone filed an ethics report he didn’t lose his job, but he did get busted and put back out on patrol. A promotion he only held for a little over a year. She down the line got fired for endangering police officers. She had been moved from Dog catcher to dispatcher, which could have been a good situation for her, but she was a flaming incompetent; so she blew it. They married and walked into bankruptcy together because of his gambling. True love prevails.
Purely anecdotal, but I’ve been in 2 corporate environments so far where people were openly having affairs and didn’t get punished for it. (One guy even got his sidepiece promoted.)
I think it really depends on the workplace. I can’t imagine it flying at my current employer, because we’re managed by functional adults and have strict compliance policies.
Also they are charming enough to smooze the world and have been doing it since age 4
FW underlings. He said she was respectful , polite to him and she did what he told her. I said of course its her job, she is getting paid, its her job to act that way towards you. He has OCPD so enjoyed power and control. Some women enjoy being subservient to their 16 year older mentor at work. Even if they do have professional degrees. Maybe even they enjoy giving up their autonomy and control to their older mentor/ boss. Some people like to rule and some people like to be ruled. Definitely gonna be a gender dynamic. But I did have a female dominatrix friend who had professional men who enjoyed subjugation.
Their smiling faces, all the cutesy love headlines & Sutton’s “perkiness” too….I just want to punch them in the face. For all the Deborah Lees & whomever Miss Perky was married to. My Friday challenge is to not want to punch them in the face 😜
Looking,
I see the stories online and just feel so bad for the 2 chumps. I think of how hard all of this is for us normal foilks. Those chumps have to see their exes splashed all over the news.
I feel especially bad for Deborra as she has long been derided in public opinion because she’s older. Meanwhile, if you look at their wedding photos, he looked rather dorky and she was a total bombshell.
“whomever Miss Perky was married to.” As I wrote in another comment: “Ted Griffin, to whom she was married for 10 years, a screenwriter. What I thought interesting on Ted’s wikipedia page: his grandfather was the 3rd husband out of 4 of a famous actress… His grandson Ted Griffin will be 2nd of (at least) three husbands of a famous actress…”
Eeee they’re soooo cuuute!
Particularly the way they’ve crushed at least two other people in their quest for happily ever after.
So stinking cute and adorable to ruin other people’s lives – yay.
I could never stand Jackman anyway. He always struck me as slightly cheesy and fake and barely above the level of a bad soap actor. Even the singing and dancing has all the grace and charm of a retired footballer competing on Dancing with the Stars.
But finding out he heavily sucks up to global villains like Rupert Murdoch solved a bit of the mystery of how he ever became an A-lister. When someone lacks substance and talent it always helps if they also lack conscience and principles. Even if Jackman made some little and late PC noises following the Weinstein scandal (saying the solution is that auditions shouldn’t be held in hotel rooms or without a third party present is about as effective as anti-rape underwear), from the press photo archives it’s clear he never had a problem cuddling up to Weinstein and other notorious monsters.
The bar cannot go any lower.
The US Congress has officially excused serial cheating as a reason to be denied access to power, trust and wealth.
The press still has no follow-up questions.
Not just serial cheating, but serial sexual assault.
We are headed towards the ground and can’t pull up.
I’d be disappointed to find out otherwise but it seems like actor/writer/director Michael Imperioli has been married nearly thirty years without being trailed by scandal. He’s famed for playing gangsters but, being from an Italian neighborhood in NYC myself (Imperioli was actually born in Mt. Vernon but then grew up near NYC), I’m never that surprised when it turns out that tough dudes from the hood can be more PC and respectful towards women than posh whitey-white weenies like Jackman because my dad was from the mean streets but never cheated and was an outspoken feminist.
Come to think of it, most of the actually effective feminist “allies” I ever knew were originally tough guys from the hood. I always thought it was the crucible effect– because, if they’re not destroyed and corrupted by it, some men who’ve seen the grisliest, darkest expressions of “toxic masculinity” might be more motivated to rebound the farthest in the other direction while someone more socially sheltered can pretend it’s not a problem.
Stephen Colbert & Evie McGee. Married in 1993. She’s one year old. Call me a romantic and naive, but they seem smitten with each other. ❤️
Never met them and am usually not invested in celebrities, but I’d be oddly crushed if anything were to happen to them.
Sorry to burst your bubble, but those two are still grossly triangulating Stephen’s old girlfriend who he was dating when he met Evie on a visit to Charleston.
They can’t get Stephen’s Chump’s name out of their mouths, over 30 years later. 🙄
Not a popular opinion, but I do not find Stephen Colbert sincere.
He gave a sincere interview for instance on Anderson Coopers podcast on grief, but I find his interviews and his monologues some what forced and deliberately constructed for fawning I could see him behaving very differently off camera.
But I have no idea about his marriage
*one year older 🤪
I am sad about this, but not entirely surprised. It’s actually more upsetting that the public thinks it is ok and thinks it makes sense since his current wife is so old? Just disgusting. Our culture still thinks affairs are not so bad and sometimes ok in certain situations. Ah
“Our culture still thinks affairs are not so bad and sometimes ok in certain situations.”
I often think that we Chumps here are the anachronisms. Reading the Chump stories here, and all of the celebrity bs in the media, I think to myself “Ex-FW was right. Everybody does it and it’s not a big deal.” But I don’t do it, I didn’t allow it to be done to me, and it is a big deal. If that makes me a small voice in a small minority then here I am in Chump Nation.
The idea that the public is vastly more accepting of adultery is nothing more than a wag the dog media spin campaign. In Gallup polls of public attitudes towards 19 of the most controversial issues since the mid-90s, adultery kept plummeting in public opinion until it came in dead last on the 2014 poll– below human cloning.
In response, major media seems to have gone on a double barreled corrective spin campaign to nudge views of adultery in the other direction. Not kidding. If you look up the 2014 poll, the top search results are packed with major news sources whining about public intolerance of adultery and even grossly misinterpreting the findings as a harem scarem measure of the rise in the radical Christian right (patently false since the same people polled showed a steady increase in acceptance of gay marriage and birth control).
It seems the orchestrated press campaign to increase acceptance of adultery over the past decade or so has paid off a bit since the last Gallup poll (which, likely under heavy pressure, removed the word “adultery” and awkwardly reworded it as “married men and women having an affair”) but not by a huge margin. Now cheating comes in one slot above human cloning but is otherwise still at the bottom of public acceptance.
It’s possible that the difference is a spooky measure of the influence of the media in bending public views. In 2014, a measly 6% of the public accepted adultery. Following the wag the dog campaign, a still rather measly 10% accept it. But it’s hard to say if there’s really been any increase in acceptence because the wording was changed to remove the hot-button term “adultery.” It still means 90% of the public (or more) think adultery is worse than suicide.
Oops, corrections: actually the 2014 poll showed 7% accepted cheating and there was no word change in the question about it since that time. I was going off the wording of news reports of the earlier poll: https://news.gallup.com/poll/170789/new-record-highs-moral-acceptability.aspx
Here’s a report of the 2022 poll: https://news.gallup.com/poll/393515/americans-say-birth-control-divorce-morally-acceptable.aspx
Me too! I am not acting like that as well. We must be in the minority, but it’s a good place to be lol.
I’m really lucky that I do see examples of good men around me that I work with on a daily basis. I see how they respect their spouses and gives me hope. However it is hard to read those comments down playing his affair
Yep- never mind that she was a well known actress in Australia long before boofhead Jackman came along.
Was looking for this comment. Truth!
This was well known in Aus. Deb was famous here and Hugh was not known
Sure, but that’s precisely why the younger Jackman chose her. 😉
Nice catch Disfor ✅🙌🏼💯
To me this morning “what do you expect she’s so-o-o-o-old” looks like just another way to blame the woman.
That breaks my heart and makes me furious in equal measure for Deb. She is a goddess!! She is a major force in reforming Australian adoption laws and arguably is one of our greatest film actors. She was spotted at the Australian Open with her daughter looking so warm and loving and it must be said, still gorgeous. Love her!! Hugh sucks!!
Yep, Keanu all the way! And I’m hoping for Tom Hanks to also be a hold out and never cheat, seems like a good guy as well. I was grossed out by Hugh Jackman after I saw him in Deadpool 3 and then found out after that he was yet another cheater. Ugh.
This keeps happening, with stars and just us regular people, because it is being normalized and cheaters aren’t held accountable. If there are no legal consequences, like that for drug dealers/users, thieves, rapists, murderers, etc., then why not cheat? You just have to deal with some unpleasantness for a time, and the voila!, all is right in the world when the cheater runs off with the Schmoopie!
People will say, cheating isn’t as bad as murder or all that other stuff! Tell that to someone who loved their partner and was cheated on. Being stabbed in the back by the one person in the world you loved and trusted the most, feels that bad.
Well, not to mention the fact that some cheating DOES end up with the Chump being murdered.
I mean, obviously there is a LOT of cheating going on and the murders are rarer. But I am sure the loved ones of Lacey Peterson and Sanann Watts don’t think cheating is “no big deal”.
I hate to compare various Chump stories and imply one is worse or better. If a FW has a one night stand and the chump finds out, they now have their lives thrown into the same chaos as someone who’s FW cheated for years and hid assets, procreated with the AP etc I want to make it clear this isn’t a contest.
But I think so many people see affairs in very simple and contained terms. “Oh…. he met her and instantly fell in love, he loved her so much more than his wife, what do we expect him to do?” Or they see it as “oh, she was horny and just slept with him once in a moment where she lost her sense, it’s just a physical act, no biggie”
But it’s so much more. People don’t usually fall in love in an instant. If you are married and you end are in love with someone that isn’t your spouse, you made many small and frequent CHOICES that let you reach that point. My FW met his AP online. I don’t know much about how it all happened. But surely, they didn’t go from 0 to 60 in an instant. He had to of been online flirting. Who knows how many women he had casual flirtations with before he met the AP and it grew into a full on affair. And then it was years.
And in the end, we are divorcing. And LACGAL being the right call and all, divorce still has so many parts that suck. Losing family, security, a so called partnership of years, your home, time with your kids. While sure, lots of Chumps initiallynsit and emoan “why do they love the AP and not ME?” But it goes far beyond losing a romantic partner. Our entire lives are upended.
It’s worse than death- so much worse.
They behaved DELIBERATELY and KNEW it would kill us or at least permanently scar us.
I totally agree. I have felt dead inside since my FW cheated. Has definitely left a permanent scar.
My ex-therapist said that by me feeling that way that it keeps me attached to him and that I should not spend energy on that/him. Spoken like a person who has never been betrayed by the love of their life after almost 30 years together. It’s super easy to say, when not in the other person’s shoes. It’s not that she was wrong, it’s just real easy to say when it’s not you that it has happened to. It is traumatizing, leaves you with permanent trust issues, PTSD, anxiety, panic disorder, hypervigilance, etc. All cheating does is destroy and like you said, it’s done DELIBERATELY, which makes it so, so bad. The worst thing you can do to another human.
I read several articles that say people that mate poach and people that ALLOW themselves to be poached, suffer from Dark Triad personality. Scary people.
ChunpyGirl,
” It’s not that she was wrong, it’s just real easy to say when it’s not you that it has happened to.”
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This is one of the hardest things. Like you said, your therapist was right, and I WANT to be in a place where the FW has NONE of my energy. But I’m not sure how to get there. I can’t go fully No Contact because we have kids, but I am extremely low contact. I will not engage in his attempts to draw me into a conversation. If it’s not about the kids or something divorce/financial related that I need to respond to, I don’t.
But he still manages to get under my skin at times. I don’t let on, hoping that if he can’t find his kibbles, eventually he will stop looking.
But sometimes I find myself thinking of something so random and getting upset. It’s like he is still somewhat central in my life and he really shouldn’t be, but I am not sure HOW to get there. We are still in the thick of the diovorce process. If all goes smoothly from here, it could be finalized this summer. For now I just try my best to move forward and hope that more time is the answer. We had a very long and stupidly dragged out pick me dance period, so that is part of the problem. I feel like I have been HERE in this shitty position for SO long, it feels like it will never get better.
Tom Hanks is a cheater….Rita Wilson was the OW. I am always upset when someone who seems like such a good guy isn’t.
Me too. And when it comes to actors, when I find out, I find it harder to watch their movies. Just changes how you feel about them or perceive them. They are great actors, but sucky people! But I bet them being actors made it easier for the to deceive their partners.
I guess I know more celebrity gossip than I should. Rumor has it Tom Hanks cheated on his first wife Samantha with RITA Wilson after he met her on set .
Until the judicial system treats it as abuse, nothing will change.
Agreed. But people seem content with looking the other way (or blaming the Chumps) so I doubt it will ever happen. But no harm in hoping it will some day change.
Yep- most ordinary citizens don’t care until it’s them.
It’s amazing what base behaviour people will accept and how they still want horrible people in their lives- or try to keep both chump and FW then end up with no one.
Idiots.
Tom, seriously? Yep, had no clue. Good feeling gone…
I guess Keanu is really the LAST good actor standing. If that keeps, then all men should model his behavior! Or at least, the ones who are rotten and need to NOT be. CL says there are good men out there. I have yet to find one, personally. But I will never lose hope.
Tom Hanks had an affair with Ginnifer Goodwin, and probably others.
Never heard that rumor but he’s long been trailed by reports of being gratuitously horrible to less experienced actors. But the nasty flipside thing is apparently true of a lot of actors famous for cute and “cuddly” roles like Bob Hope. It kind of reminds me of the Baby Herman character from Roger Rabbit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A8eblBCZXII
Sorry, Tom and Rita started as an affair when he was married to Samantha Lewis. Oh, DESTINY! Don’t blame yourself, they’ve done a good job rewriting the public narrative.
Tom Hanks marital fidelity? Might want to research that one a bit more, unfortunately.
Oh no. I didn’t need to know that. Ugh. Sounds like a Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward redux.
So my #2 cheater was 9 years younger than I. Which at 29 and 38 (both of us were cut loose by career cheaters,) felt just and worthy. But fast forward 30 years the difference no longer seemed as worthy. I felt like Anne Bolyn waiting for the axe to drop due to cheater #2s flirting EAs, outright bragging and then public fishing/ affairs. Not to mention my cheater #1 horrible experience and being burned once already. So was i set up to fail? Perhaps, but I believed that our love was stronger. However, I did marry a disturbed child,..not recognized at the time, then had to raise him as I thought would benefit my values.But that. Did. Not.work. You can’t make a silk purse out of a sows ear. So our poor Chump today, may have been expecting this blow for years and hung on like a loving Chump does. Words MEAN NOTHING and actually having sex with your cheaters means nothing either. What has meaning is ongoing loving actions tied to the words and sex. I can imagine Jack’s Chump was sidelined for a long time. Cheaters character’s are always the same. So i would give this ‘new’ chump.a hug, shed a tear together for the lies and drink to the relief I felt after it was over. You just get so very very tired of holding on to a marriage alone. Good for you, no prenup( all of us chumps need one i must quickly add)..that will leave you more financially secure than the majority of Chumps. Welcome to Public humility but also rising from the ashes.
I don’t think the outcome is that different in women who were younger to begin with: my mom was over 10 years younger than my dad. He still exchanged her for an even younger model once she hit 45. The outcome is almost only different if the option to exchange for younger doesn’t exist or would be deemed too much effort for him/she’s a “too good wife appliance and doormat”. That’s how I experienced my mom’s friend group – they were all exchanged for younger just because the men could. I keep circling back to lottery millionaires – one of the first things that gets exchanged often is the wife. There are exceptions, of course, but not many. The problem is in part evolution, of course. Socialization too – patriarchy doesn’t socialize men into ever deeming something other than looks and self-effacing servitude attractive in women. Most real admiration is reserved for other men instead.
(Again, as I said: exceptions to all rules. But that’s the minority.)
hugh jackman is a steroid wanker
it’s true, said my troublesome canker
a mid-life quick change–
anorexic on stage–
10 minutes to hear he’s a spanker
😄
I vote for Mark Hamill as last of the Good Guys. He’s been married to the same woman for 40+ years.
Unfortunately, just being married for a lengthily time, doesn’t mean someone is faithful. I was married to mine for about 30 years when he cheated. Although I don’t have proof, I don’t believe he cheated before then, as there was never any tell tale signs before then. When he did cheat, it was the classic, textbook signs. I just feel that trust is earned and no one should trust their partner 100%, unconditionally. Tracy reminds us all the time adult love comes with conditions.
Alan Alda, whose most famous role was as Hawkeye (a commitment phobe womaniser) in MASH, has been married to his wife Arlene for over 67 years and appears to be a genuinely decent man.
Another famed role of his was in “Same Time, Next Year” (1978) with Ellen Burstyn – a tale of two married cheaters in a decades long once-a-year affair at the same hotel… some real Twu Wuvv Schmoopie nonsense. I’d like to think today’s women are more aware of the red flag of a trauma dumping married dude who wants a married side chick to string along for decades in a cheap situationship.
My friend had seen them in The Music Man a few years ago and had immediately texted me, and I quote: “Maybe Hugh isn’t gay afterall?? Sutton & Hugh are totally fucking. WTF?”
Hollywierd seems to get a bit carried away when it comes to Australian men – they’re all fair dinkum cute little larrikins that can do no wrong.
Some of us know better- and definitely don’t give them a pass for being famous, built like Action Man or for have carefully cultivated their I’m just a regular bloke, maaaate who loves me missus persona.
I’ll even spin a bit of bullshit about destiny to make those girlies and cute old ladies swoon- they’ll never believe I’m just a garden variety arsehole under my plastic good bloke veneer.
Some of us never bought it.
I don’t know if you’re an Aussie but the gushing over Scottish born Aussie Jimmy Barnes who has been married to his wife Jane for 40 years is comical. He has had several love children out of wedlock, you can only assume when you walk down the street and see an adult somewhere between 20 and 40 years old there is a chance Jimmy Barnes is the father. But still he is lauded as a happily married man and wonderful father. He admits being an alcoholic for most of his time as a rock star/during the marriage. Even he doesn’t say he is a saint. It is silly putting these people on a pedestal.
I wonder what Thor is up to in Byron Bay. He seems like a good lad, walking around with no shoes and wotnot.
Omg you are hilarious!!!
Oh Christ, don’t talk to me about Mr Barnes!
Dickhead McCluggage is his biggest fan and has been since I met him at 19-absolutely obsessed with the clown and apparently models his morals on the same.
We all know Mr Barnes likes a bit of variety but I was shocked to learn someone I know had dealings and she was so young at the time she had no idea who the man was!
Just ewww!
And the amount of people saying his wife is some sort of great example- nope- I feel very sad for her. It wouldn’t be worth it to me.
It’s possible Thor is all good- long may he remain chilling in Byron away from the Wallywood crazy stuff.
My favourite Aussie tradition growing up was when they would award Father of the Year to a sportsman, usually a cricket player that spent most of the year away from his family overseas. Pat Cummins seems like a very nice man and during a recent presser his child stood side stage and said “dad”, to which Pat replied “just a minute mate” or something, which should be enough to get him over the line before he jets off to India.
Haha he’ll probably win- which is miles better than this year’s joint winner…. The amazing Mr Barnes – 😆😆😆
Come to think of it that was the exact playscript my FW used with the kids “just a minute mate” before racking off, unfortunately not overseas to make any money to send home due to having no skills or talent, but usually just to “bunnings” etc for 8 hours at a stretch, must have got lost somewhere between aisle 2 and 9, those blasted screws are very hard to find.
Haha WeedFree. Screws are what lots of absentee FWs are hoping to find but they don’t actually get those at Bunnings!!
Signed Fellow Aussie with too much experience of trades people lol
Seventy six blow jobs led to the big charade
With a hundred & ten more jobs done by hand.
They were followed by blows and blows
By the finest of the ho’s
The cream of every broadway show.
Seventy six blow jobs done by morning sun
With a hundred & ten more jobs done by hand.
Well over a thousand deeds
Taking care of Hugh’s needs,
There were fucks of every shape & kind.
There were moans and groans and rapture in the dressing rooms,
Climaxing, climaxing, every single day.
Double fucks and orgies squeezed between the tunes
Each hard dick having its big, fat say.
There were cast and crew who clearly knew who Hugh would screw,
Plundering, plundering, louder than before.
Noises and the quiet sighs
And ecstasy between her thighs
We’ve all seen this endless play before
Seventy six blow jobs tanked the marriage vows,
While a hundred and ten more fucks blazed away.
When Sutton said Harch Harch Harch
The feet of Hugh began to march,
So went the start to Hugh’s sashay away
Genius 🏆
Fantastic!
Brilliant
Sensational! 😆😆
This is excellent–very clever!
Well done!!!
As far as sensational celeb news goes, I think Perez Hilton hits the right note by peppering the report of Jackman’s and Sutton’s marital monkey-branching antics with “brutal!” and “OMG!” and “Oof!”
So a guy who has everything going for him trips over his dick and f*cks everything up for himself and his family. Ahhh well, with the lack of a pre-nup, the queue of lawyers ready to help the soon to be Ex-Mrs Jackman pull his wallet out of his ass sideways will be a long one.
LFTT
Disappointed in you prisoner 24601. Why can’t these people just get a bloody divorce first instead of worrying about their image, bank balance, etc. He looks like a kid in a candy store.
I always felt bad for Deb anyway always being cast as the hag who trapped a younger man against his will, a beard for a closet gay, etc, when he described going after her as a young man. She seemed like she was very invested in being a mum and advocate for children generally and she looks happy with her daughter in a recent photo at the tennis, hardly a picture of doom and gloom, probably happy to shake him loose once the dust settles. The love of a mother and daughter that looked very authentic and reminded me of my relationship with my daughter. No romantic love can beat that, in my books.
I commented the same thing further upthread seeing her with her daughter at The Australian Open this week. I really hope she reads all our comments and feels our support ❤️
Yeah- Deb was definitely the talent in that family.
She doesn’t need him at all and is probably happy to not have to pick up his toys any more.
She has the love of her children – she’s already won.
Dare I suggest Matin Sheen as the last good man in showbiz? I understand he has been married since 1961!
Mr Rogers and wife Joanne. Please please please let there be no tawdry hidden dirt on them. He’s the ultimate show biz good guy.
Here’s why I care about this story. My final D day was July 2022 when my 12- year old son (the only child still living at home) informed me that dad was leaving not to “go be on his own for once” for a couple of months after 26 years with me but to actually shack up with his coworker who is almost 20 years his junior. The movie Son starring Hugh Jackman (who looks like my ex in the haggard face way) came out in November 2022. I saw it at the first screening. The much younger schmoopie there is played by Vanessa Kirby (who my ex openly drooled over throughout the first 3 seasons of Crown). So, many parallels. The movie was an insight into the horrible cost of cheating and abandonment and the very limited, if any, gains of swapping wife appliances (Hugh was quickly back to workaholism and trying to gain approval of his dad as attempt to escape his new life and schmoopie). Same numbed out, joyless existence as before but now amid wreckage. I resented the centrality awarded to Hugh and his non-existent conscience in the final scenes and my heart was breaking for off screen Laura Dern. I watched that movie once and the message was clear. Hugh worked on this movie for months and got into character for it and learned nothing. He is just not that deep. His message to Deborah is sickening in their flatness and primitivity. Life and relationships should be all fairgrounds and rollercoasters. Deborah simply failed to exhilarate. What a waste.
My vote for the last good guy is Colin Firth! So, if you didn’t know he was chumped by his wife Livia Guiggioli. Yup! She cheated on HIM! Colin did the pick me dance, took her back for a while and then they divorced after 22 years of marriage. His career is still great and she’s the fool.
That’s right. Seems like a lovely guy.
Chumps, I give you Pierce Brosnan. No affairs that I’ve ever heard of, and I just checked to make sure. He was widowed from his first wife Cassandra in 1991 and met his current wife Keely Shaye in 1994. So no overlap. He’s an environmentalist, animal welfare advocate, breast cancer awareness advocate, and was an ambassador for UNICEF. He is said to be kind and generous in person.
I have liked him ever since his Remington Steele days so I’m glad he has a reputation as a good person.
Ron Howard, Kevin Bacon, Billy Crystal, Henry Winkler. That’s all I can think of.
What a creepy, flat, little pair Hugh and his Schmoopie make. Deb sounds like a woman of richness and depth, Hugh has made a prize FW loss right there.
I initially suspected it might have been Hugh who was the FW in that breakup.
The reason? – I felt there was something so very off about the duo Wolverine PR presentations of Hugh and Ryan Reynolds (who is said to have been a FW with first wife, Scarlett Johansson).
The hubris and self belief of both was ugly. The arrogance of both was palpable. They clearly thought they were both rather hilarious and neither are.
I think FWs do dive to the bottom of the ocean as far as their moral compass and ‘fellow travellers’ are concerned.
My FW kept increasingly close company with his weasley cousin, who cheated on his wife, prior to my own dday.
FWs have their own agency of course, but not the depth of character or the steady inner sense of self to align with goodness and decency.
I would hate to occupy Hugh’s empty wasteland world.
Deb and her children have one another’s love and they are going to be ok.
So very disappointed in Hugh! Send a copy of LACGAL to Deborra-lee Furness asap Chump Nation are right behind you
It’s so amazing how once you know they are cheaters, you see them COMPLETELY differently. Yuk. Disgust me now.
Since I’ve seen the pictures of Sutton Foster and Hugh Jackman dancing from 2014 I’ve wondered just how long that affair went on…
I loved “Younger” in which Sutton starred. After a while (listening to his podcast) I thought Nico Tortorella (one of her two love triangle co-stars) positively insane and in hindsight definitely narcissistic (although I rooted for his character on the show), but Sutton’s other co-star in the love triangle was Peter Hermann – he has been with his wife Mariska Hargitay for 20 years. Love him.
I think we should also mention Sutton Foster’s chump: Ted Griffin, to whom she was married for 10 years, a screenwriter. What I thought interesting on Ted’s wikipedia page: his grandfather was the 3rd husband out of 4 of a famous actress… His grandson Ted Griffin will be 2nd of (at least) three husbands of a famous actress…
I am so disappointed in Hugh Jackman. I really thought he was one of the good guys, and I thought that he and his wife were adorable together. This Sutton lady needs to remember that if he did it with you (being a married husband and father), he’ll do it to you.
My hope for Ms Furness is that she finds a wonderful, handsome, kind and wealthy hunk of a man to hang out with. She deserves only happiness moving forward.
It’s possible, but unfortunately unlikely that Ms Furness will find that: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/259637606_The_Golden_Years_Men_From_The_Forbes_400_Have_Much_Younger_Wives_When_Remarrying_Than_the_General_US_Population (wealthy men – “wives substantially younger, 22 years younger on average”)
and https://www.vox.com/xpress/2014/12/9/7332691/men-remarry-younger-women (general population remarriage – 20% of men remarry to woman over 10 years younger – but I don’t even find this graph that helpful, because it should factor in the age at remarriage. OKCupid Big Data showed that men go younger the older they are – the gap widens instead of staying the same.) The word “pick” in the title is of course wrong and has also been proven by other research to be wrong: women have no choice but to go older and preferences are actually slightly younger, like 5 years younger men, for women after the age of 40, but that’s not a real option because most even a tiny bit younger men are either completely unwilling of that or just sex or sugarmama. And I’ve seen that play out way too often even for women who although older look exactly the same age as the younger guy due to good genes.
But she will roughly get over 120 million USD at least, so she will be set up for the (statistically) 10 years that she still has on this earth (she’ll be 80 then). She may actually get one of those sugarmama seeking toyboys (which can be dangerous however – resentment or at worst danger to life to inherit) or just stay alone.
There aren’t many actors I like. And one of my criteria is how they behave in their personal lives. Mark Ruffalo is my favorite actor and I have always been relived that he is a happily married family man. I also love George Clooney.
Oh yes, love Mark Ruffalo!
But now Jackman has done the predictable, expected thing and chucked Deborra-lee for a younger costar, Broadway warbler Sutton Foster. A perennially perky woman who looks like a cross between modeling clay and Alvin the Chipmunk.
No prenup, hmm? Joke’s on Jackman. I hope his wife gets a tough lawyer and an amazing settlement!
$125 million is a nice piece of change!