Hugh and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness have never been shy about their love for each other, but Hugh may have shared just a little too much information recently.
The 44-year-old Wolverine actor revealed that when he plans to take his wife out on the town, he dresses like a sexy stockbroker to impress her.
“When my wife met me, she said she was looking for a stockbroker,” he revealed to UK Cosmopolitan in the November issue.
“So if I want it to be a great night out, I’ll wear a suit – especially Tom Ford – and I’ll start talking about stocks and bonds. Then I know I’m going to get lucky… just kidding!”
And although he doesn’t mind dressing up in a sexy suit for his wife, Hugh doesn’t consider himself a sex symbol.
“I still see myself as this skinny long-legged person,” he says.
“That body I have is for The Wolverine. I did work on it, but it’s not my natural body, and I get a hard time for it. Deb tells me, ‘Your job, as my husband, is to be fat and chubby so that no matter what’s going on with me, I look great.’”
Hugh, who has been married to Deb, 57, for 17 years, still can’t believe she picked him all those years ago, when he was just starting out in the business and saw himself as a “nobody”.
“I had a dinner party and asked her and 10 others. Her phone rang and it was Mick Jagger, inviting her to a party,” Hugh remembers.
“All I remember is hearing Deb say, ‘I can’t because I’m having dinner with Hugh Jackman.’ I thought she was crazy – I was an absolute nobody.
“I knew she was a keeper, yet I was her worst nightmare. I was a young, 26-year-old new actor; all the wrong things.”
Hugh and Deb are the ultimate long-lasting Hollywood couple, with a strong relationship and two adopted children, Oscar, 13, and Ava, 8. So what’s their secret?
“I’d say 80 per cent of marriage is choosing the right person and, with Deb, I just knew,” he says.
“We were really close friends before we got together. But in any marriage there must be some sacrifices. No marriage survives if both people are selfish. Obviously, there has to be a great attraction and love. I ring Deb about 10 times a day.”
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