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Christmas is stressful enough even without the whole world wanting to meddle in your potential new relationship and whether or not it has broken up two marriages.

Sadly, that’s what Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster are experiencing this holiday season.

Although the new couple is rumored to want to spend the holidays with their children, it turns out not to be the joyful time with loved ones they were hoping for.

First came reports that Jackman’s ex-wife Deborra-Lee Furness had quashed the Wolverine actor’s plans to spend Christmas with their children and his new girlfriend.

An insider told Woman’s Day that Furness was “not keen on the idea” of her 24- and 19-year-old children spending the holidays with their father and Foster, and said it would be some time before loved ones returned to the “ new “normal” and play the big happy family.

That source’s claims were echoed by an anonymous source who later reported it Closer that the former Broadway co-stars were preparing to spend less time together this holiday season so their loved ones could adjust.

“They are living apart because of the children and they are bracing themselves for much less time together than they would like during the holidays.” the insider said of Jackman and Foster.

They said the couple had expected some awkwardness from being together — after playing the on-stage love interests in the Broadway revival of The Music Man — and that they were “a little shocked at the reaction they got” when the rumors about their romance started to appear. spread.

“They expected something, but not that much,” the source added.

Any buzz about the potential showmanship turned into a full-blown romance, when Furness and a close friend apparently confirmed social media gossip accusing Jackman, 56, of having a backstage affair with Foster, 49.

According to gossip accounts, this is why the Australians ended their 27-year marriage in September 2023 (eight months after The Music Man ended its Broadway run).

Furness ‘liked’ a video claiming Jackman had run off with his mistress while the Australians were still married, and her close friend Amanda de Cadenet noted that the gossip report was ‘on the mark with this one’.

But the source told Closer that the couple is still “hopeful that something can be worked out.”

“There was a time when both families used to hang out before the stuff started to kick in, but now it’s awkward,” they continued.

“Even if they can’t open presents together at Christmas, Hugh and Sutton are talking about heading out sometime in the new year, just the two of them, for some rest and relaxation.”

The outlet had previously heard from another source that the Music Man couple’s romance was the real deal, and not just a rebound fling, and said that Jackman saw Foster as “The One.”

“He has been attracted to her for a long time and feels a deep connection that he just can’t ignore,” they said, adding that Foster’s connection was “something no one saw coming.”

“They fell in love, plain and simple.”

Ever since Foster’s decade-long divorce from her husband, Ted Griffin, set off the rumor mill, anonymous insiders have been leaking tidbits about the rumored couple left, right and center — with some saying their romance was “an open secret on Broadway.” . ”.

Neither Jackman, Foster, nor representatives for the couple have officially commented on the reports.