Hugh Jackman's ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness was 'suspicious' of his Broadway costar Sutton Foster

Hugh Jackman's ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness had 'suspicions' astir nan character moving pinch Broadway prima Sutton Foster in The Music Man.

It comes amid renewed rumors of a romance betwixt nan Wolverine actor, 56, and Foster, 49, pursuing her split from her husband Ted Griffin, 53. 

The Tony-winning Broadway prima revenge for uncontested divorcement from nan screenwriter, successful New York County Supreme Court on Tuesday, Page Six reported.

Furness, 68, reportedly had concerns astir nan brace teaming up for nan Broadway accumulation successful 2022 - a twelvemonth earlier Jackman announced nan extremity of their 27-year marriage. 

'Deborra-Lee had her suspicions erstwhile Hugh started moving pinch Sutton,' a root told DailyMail.com exclusively. 'Their narration is not a concealed to her.'

Furness, who shares adopted children Oscar, 24, and Ava, 19, pinch Jackman will not reside nan caller speculation as she refuses to speak publically astir her ex.

'Deborra-Lee wants to beryllium near retired of this narrative,' nan root explained. 'She is not going to reside this aliases speak against Hugh.

'When they divorced, they agreed to support everything that happened during their matrimony private.' 

 A 2nd insider added: 'Time has passed for Hugh to mourn his divorcement and now Sutton is complete her relationship, they are getting person to making it official. 

'They aren't going to shove it down everyone's throat. They became adjacent friends while moving together and sewage to confide successful each different complete their individual troubles.'

They continued: 'Hugh still has tremendous respect for Deborra-Lee. They person kids and that is what is important to them both. The are repairing what they can, and will ne'er talk sick astir each other.'

Jackman shocked fans erstwhile he filed for divorce from Furness past September.

'We person been blessed to stock almost 3 decades together arsenic hubby and woman successful a wonderful, loving marriage,' they shared astatine nan clip successful a associated statement. 'Our travel now is shifting, and we person decided to abstracted to prosecute our individual growth.'

Months later rumors began to swirl that Foster and Jackman had grown close, pinch insiders this week telling PageSix that they are now 'in love.'

'They are 100 percent together and are successful emotion and want to walk nan remainder of their lives together,' an insider told nan publication.

'They are still together. They spell retired of their measurement to hide it, but it’s communal knowledge.

Georgia autochthonal Sutton, whose play profession spans 30 years successful theatre, movie and TV, was antecedently joined to Christian Borle from 2006 to 2009.

She joined Griffin, whose credits include Ocean's Eleven and The Wolf of Wall Street, successful 2014. They stock adopted girl Emily, seven. 

'He belonged successful my family,' she told People of Griffin successful 2018. 'I didn’t really understand nan conception of motherhood until he came around.'

Jackman is presently successful nan process of completing his upcoming tell-all memoir, which promises to driblet awesome bombshells astir his life.

Furness has remained comparatively quiet since her divided from nan Prestige prima but revealed she had 'big plans' for her post-breakup profession and was embracing change, backmost successful January. 

She besides told Australia's The Daily Telegraph: 'It's exciting. You cognize what, change, transition, improvement is simply a small frightening and we are each a spot frightened of it but I deliberation it is astir apt our top gift.'