It’s been stated that Hugh Jackman isn’t the kind of actor who will ever win an Academy Award. Together with his Broadway showman persona, he’s extra of a Golden Globes man, and he’s been nominated for a Golden Globe 5 instances, successful as soon as in 2012 for starring within the movie adapatation of the hit musical, “Les Misérables.”
However this week, Jackman was listed among the many notable “snubs” when the 2026 Golden Globe Awards nominations had been introduced. After all, different A-listers like Gwyneth Paltrow, Meryl Streep and Jennifer Lopez additionally failed to attain nominations, although they had been performing in supporting roles of their respective movie and TV roles.
Jackman’s snub has actually stood out as a result of he’s been getting rave evaluations for the musical drama “Track Sung Blue.” He co-stars with Kate Hudson as a real-life Vietnam vet and recovering addict who finds love and a brand new objective in life by main a Neil Diamond tribute band. As Jackman’s romantic curiosity, Hudson scored a nomination, for Greatest Efficiency by a Feminine Actor in a Movement Image – Musical or Comedy. However Jackman, who’s one half of the film duo’s “glowing chemistry and spectacular musicality,” was overlooked.
So what’s occurring? Sure, it’s a fairly crowded subject for male actors this yr, however the Golden Globes have beforehand liked Jackman, in response to veteran Hollywood journalist and gossip reporter Rob Shuter. Talking on The Nerve podcast Thursday with Maureen Callahan, Shuter agreed that Jackman has change into a considerably scandalized determine prior to now yr, first as a result of he left his long-time spouse, Deborra-Lee Furness, 70, for Sutton Foster, a youthful actress, after which due to his friendship with Hollywood tremendous couple Ryan Reynolds and Blake Energetic, which briefly thrust him into the center of Energetic’s authorized drama with Justin Baldoni.
“Hugh Jackman, whose model can also be Mr. Good Man, his model took an enormous hit when he left his spouse for his co star,” Callahan stated, referring to how Jackman’s romance with Foster started as they co-stared within the 2021-23 revival of “The Music Man” on Broadway.
In 2023, Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness, introduced that that they had separated after 27 years of marriage. A yr later, it got here out that the separation was preceded by Jackman, 57, and Foster, 50, turning into very shut through the manufacturing of “The Music Man,” although individuals near them all the time denied that they began relationship through the present.
Writing on his Naughty However Good Substack, Shuter stated that the connection between Jackman and Foster sparked throughout “The Music Man,” and he was the one doing the pursuing. Foster, too, was married and was the mom of a younger daughter. Jackman “acted like a teenage boy round her,” one insider instructed Shuter, as his marriage to Furness had been “emotionally achieved for years.”
To advertise “Track Sung Blue,” Jackman invited Foster to affix him on the pink carpet for the movie’s New York Metropolis premiere Thursday night time. Though he and Furness finalized their divorce in June, he and Foster have been cautious about flaunting their relationship an excessive amount of in public, given its tabloid-esque beginnings.
In the meantime, Jackman’s different scandalous affiliation entails Ryan Reynolds, whose personal good man persona additionally has been broken prior to now yr, in his case by his spouse’s lawsuit in opposition to Baldoni, her “It Ends With Us” director and co-star. Energetic accused Baldoni of partaking in sexually inappropriate habits through the movie’s 2023 manufacturing and of launching a P.R. smear marketing campaign in opposition to her to silence her. Baldoni countered by alleging that Energetic used the harassment allegations as a pretext for her and Reynolds, her highly effective film star husband, to wrest management of the film from him.
Jackman has been drawn into this battle as a result of Reynolds, his “Deadpool and Wolverine” co-star, and Energetic drafted him into serving to to advertise “It Ends With Us” when it was launched in the summertime of 2024, whereas Baldoni was pushed to the aspect. Additionally they had earlier allowed Jackman and their different movie star buddy, Taylor Swift, to be current when Reynolds dressed down Baldoni for his alleged mistreatment of his spouse, Individuals reported. In accordance with the paperwork, Baldoni went to Reynolds and Energetic’s New York Metropolis penthouse in 2023 the place Reynolds “unloaded” on Baldoni about “how horrible it was” that he would ask about his spouse’s weight. In entrance of Jackman and Swift, Reynolds additionally alleged that Baldoni “was fats shaming Blake.”
Baldoni was left feeling “utterly embarrassed,” apologized and even broked down in “tears,” the paperwork stated. Critics of Energetic and Reynolds say that Baldoni, somewhat identified TV actor who was simply beginning out as a director, would have felt intimidated within the presence of main stars like Reynolds, Jackman and Swift.
Callahan described the dressing-down incident as “bullying” and stated that Reynolds and Energetic had been “attempting to destroy Baldoni’s profession earlier than it ever will get off the bottom.” She requested, “Who would belief both of them?” After information of that incident broke final month, she stated that Jackman would in all probability need to hold his distance from Reynolds, as a result of he can’t be related to that form of “bullying” habits and afford one other “ding” in opposition to his status.
Shuter concurred and questioned if Jackman’s failure to attain his Oscar nomination needed to do with both his Foster romance or along with his Reynolds affiliation. “That’s his viewers,” Shuter stated about Jackmand and th Globes. Shuter added: “Persons are actually cautious about Hugh. The final issues he wants is the stench of Ryan Reynolds round him, too.”
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