Hugh Jackman’s hot chemistry with Kate Hudson causing problems at home: report
Hugh Jackman’s ex-wife would be justified in saying that karma is a you-know-what amid a report that his new girlfriend, Sutton Foster, is having a hard time watching his “sizzling” on-screen chemistry with his co-star Kate Hudson.
Jackman, 57, and Hudson, 46, are delighting critics and moviegoers with the love connection they show in the hit new film, “Song Sung Blue,” playing real-life couple Claire and Mike Sardina, who were part of the Milwaukee-based Neil Diamond tribute act Lightning & Thunder.
Foster, on the other hand, is “mad with jealousy,” sources have told Radar Online. It’s also irksome to the Broadway star that Jackman and Hudson became close during filming of the movie and while on the “Song Sung Blue” press tour, the sources said. Hudson even joked on social media that the handsome Australian actor became her “work hubby.”
Perhaps, the Tony Award-winning Foster, 50, is reminded of the fact that her romance with Jackman began when she worked closely with him on the Broadway revival of “The Music Man,” from late 2021 to early 2023. At the time, he was in a long-term marriage with actor Deborra-Lee Furness, while Foster was raising a young daughter with her screenwriter husband Ted Griffin.
In a 2022 TV interview during the show’s run, Foster revealed how she and the 6-foot-2-inch Jackman spent a lot of time together, alone, in her dressing room before every performance, sitting on the carpet, talking. “We call it carpet chat,” Foster said in the interview. “It’s such a wonderful thing,” Foster also said. “We’ve become really good friends.”
As is well known, Foster and Jackman became more than “really good friends” during “The Music Man.” Sources close to them always denied that they became intimate before Jackman and Furness announced in 2023 that they were separating after 27 years of marriage. But in 2024, Furness confirmed a report that said that her husband’s alleged backstage relationship with Foster caused their divorce.
Furness and Jackman’s divorced was finalized in June 2025, shortly after it was reported by Page Six and other outlets that Foster had moved into Jackman’s New York City penthouse, which he had once shared with Furness. A source at the time said that Furness was “shattered knowing Sutton is making the penthouse her own — the place she poured her soul into.”
If Foster is bothered by her boyfriend’s connection to Hudson, she might at least take comfort in knowing that the “Almost Famous” actor — and daughter of Hollywood royalty Goldie Hawn — has been in “a rock-solid relationship” with musician Danny Fujikawa, since 2016, according to Radar Online.
But Foster could also be bothered by another issue: Her belief that she would have been suitable for the role that went to Hudson, sources told Radar Online. Foster would be around the right age for the role of Claire Sardina. She’s also an award-winning actor, singer and dancer, twice winning Tonys for best actress in a musical. Moreover, she demonstrated strong screen presence and comedy skills while starring in the TV Land comedy-drama, “Younger.”
A source told Radar Online: “The first thing people may wonder when they see ‘Song Sung Blue’ is, ‘Hey, why isn’t Sutton Foster in this movie with Hugh?’
“She’s the right age, she has the right look, and, unlike Kate Hudson, she’s actually an accomplished singer,” the source said.
But perhaps not surprisingly, the producers knew they needed another movie star — opposite Jackman — to headline “Song Sung Blue.” The source said: “The vision for this project required that Hugh star opposite someone who is equally famous, and that disqualified Sutton.”