Hugh Jackman admits wife bothered by gay buzz

Hugh Jackman has always seemed to laugh off those ever-present gay rumors.

But for his wife of 17 years, Deborra-Lee Furness, isn’t laughing anymore.

‘Just recently, it bugs her,’ Jackman admits in the new issue of The Hollywood Reporter. ‘She goes: ‘It’s big. It’s everywhere!’ ‘

The actor, currently bulking up to resume his Wolverine character in a new X-Men film, says Furness has been spending time on the internet where she has seen the rampant speculation.

That’s pretty much all Jackman has to say about the topic to The Hollywood Reporter but Lauren Shuler Donner, his producer on the X-Men movies, vouches for Jackman’s heterosexuality.

‘I have seen him with Deborra since the beginning of their trip to Hollywood, and I’ve been on five movie sets with him and have never seen him stray, have never seen him eye anyone,’ Donner says. ‘I met him when he did Oklahoma! [at London’s Royal National Theatre in 1999]. He was genuine, hugely talented. He was in love with his wife that day and still is.’