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<\/a>A recent pic of the Jackmans, before the split.<\/p><\/div>\n
My teeth almost fell out of my head when I read the news on Friday! If Mr. X had learned of the split before I<\/em> did, and tried to make me guess who it was, even with five hundred clues, I would never have guessed this one in a million years!!!<\/p>\n The weird thing is that, after having an undying non-stop crush on Hugh since I first heard him sing on\u00a0SNL<\/em>\u00a0in 2001, I had told Mr. X that I was finally over Hugh just two nights prior to the break-up news! I\u2019m not sure why the crush had lessened, but that he sat in Novak Djokovic\u2019s box during this summer\u2019s Wimbledon Men\u2019s Championship certainly contributed to the demise. (Hugh’s Wolverine vibes didn\u2019t help Novak, thank goodness\u2014he lost to twenty-year-old Carlos Alcaraz.) Hugh had also tweeted<\/em> his support of my least favorite player back then. So I believe seeing him do all that is where my love for him began to wane.<\/p>\n Just look at that gorgeous face!<\/p><\/div>\n But the embers of my flame never went totally away. My heart does<\/em> still flutter a tiny bit when I hear Hugh talk or see him smile.<\/p>\n As you\u2019re reading this diatribe on my love for him, the show biz folk among you may be thinking, \u201cDoes Karen not know he\u2019s gay???\u201d Well, first of all, I don\u2019t know\u00a0anything<\/em>\u00a0for sure unless I\u2019ve witnessed it for myself! (We should all try to live by the old famous admonition, \u201cBelieve half of what you see and nothing of what you hear.\u201d)<\/p>\n But of course<\/em> I know that that’s the prevailing word on him. And even though I very rarely pass rumors around, I heard some inside info from an incredibly reliable source some years ago. So here it is:\u00a0 When I saw Hugh\u2019s amazing performance in\u00a0The Boy From Oz<\/em>\u00a0in New York in 2004, I had breakfast shortly after with a producer of a different Broadway show, (whom I\u2019ll call \u201cTom\u201d here,) and we discussed my massive crush on Hugh, of course. Tom laughed and told me that everyone in the theatre scene there knows that Hugh is in a relationship with his assistant, John. I was shocked. I protested that, just because Hugh plays a gay icon, (Peter Allen,)\u00a0in the show, doesn\u2019t make him gay in real life. Tom insisted it was true and that everyone knew it but kept it as quiet as possible because they adored Hugh.<\/p>\n Hugh Jackman in the middle, (of course,) his wife on the right, and his assistant on the left, back in the day.<\/p><\/div>\n I still took it with a grain of salt, but then, I witnessed something that caught my attention. It was when Hugh won either the Tony for the show just a few months later, or when he won an Emmy the next<\/em> year for hosting that earlier Tonys show. Whichever it was, he not only thanked his wife, but his assistant John, who was shown on camera in his seat, practically bubbling over with love. I literally gasped seeing their interaction. I didn’t want it to be true, (only so I would still have a chance with him, if my beloved Mr. X and I ever broke up, God forbid, and bite my tongue,) but it did sort-of explain his marriage to a chubby woman who is thirteen years older than he is. (Actually, his choice of an older, not-thin wife means I<\/em> still have a chance! But I always have better footwear<\/em> than her<\/em> nerdy choices! That\u2019s for sure.)<\/p>\n Just a couple of examples of Deborra-lee’s dreadful footwear! And there are sooo mnay more! This one was just the other day.<\/p><\/div>\n And this one was a few years ago. How has no one told her to do better with the shoes??? (Perhaps that’s why he’s leaving her.)<\/p><\/div>\n Then a few years later, I saw a picture on the internet, (of course,) of Hugh and another hunky guy at the beach holding hands. A few months after that, a woman whose show business website I occasionally wrote for called me when I was packing for a trip, so I wasn\u2019t paying attention while we chatted. For some unremembered reason, we got on the subject of the Jackmans, and I absentmindedly mentioned that picture I had seen. The woman was gay herself, and in the biz, so I figured it was not a big deal. But she went nuts on me, saying she was friends with Mrs. Jackman, who she was sure would \u201cnot stand for\u201d Hugh being gay. She was so upset that she never called me again, even though I was still supposed to be writing for her endeavor! If I hadn\u2019t been distracted by actively packing during our convo, I would not even have mentioned it. And I\u2019ve kept that whole Broadway rumor to myself ever since, as though Hugh was my friend whose secret I was protecting.<\/p>\n But gay or straight, it doesn\u2019t matter, not even one little bit. Hugh Jackman is still my second choice to Mr. X. But a word of warning to him…Paul McCartney is still waiting in the wings…of my heart.<\/p>\n High Jackman and Deborra-lee Furness on their wedding day, looking sort-of like a boy and his mom, don’t you think?<\/p><\/div>\n Whatever happened between the Jackman duo, it has worked for all these years, and I think it\u2019s very brave of them to do whatever it is they want to do solo now, especially in these awful days of celebs’ every move being watched, recorded, and scrutinized by strangers.<\/p>\n The one thing I absolutely do<\/em> believe is that Hugh and Deborra-lee are best friends and will always<\/em> be.<\/p>\n Someone on a comments page when the news hit last week wrote that people don\u2019t break up after this long together if one or both of them don’t have a new love interest on tap. I assume that person will be on Hugh\u2019s<\/em> part because he has a gazillion options, while I feel that poor Deb doesn\u2019t have any. And I semi-agree; why rock the steady boat with someone you’ve loved for decades, on whatever level it was, except for a newer shinier option?<\/p>\n So, anyway, we can all speculate all we want about why the Jackmans broke-up, (or were together to begin with, for that matter,)\u00a0 but I doubt we\u2019ll ever find-out. And it\u2019s none of our business, anyway!\u00a0 We should all just wish them the best, and then focus on our own lives.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a><\/a>