The 'innocent' pre-show ritual that sparked Sutton Foster's romance with Hugh Jackman

Sutton Foster has revealed the elemental enactment that she and Hugh Jackman would bash each nighttime earlier taking the signifier unneurotic successful the revival of The Music Man.

In a resurfaced interview on Live With Kelly and Ryan from 2022, Foster, 49, said she and the Aussie histrion took portion successful an intimate pre-show ritual called 'carpet chat'.

She explained: 'We bent retired successful my dressing country earlier each amusement and conscionable drawback up.'

'Somehow we ended up sitting, possibly due to the fact that my dressing room's a mess, but we beryllium connected the carpet.'

She said this backstage infinitesimal was a 'wonderful thing' that brought them person and helped crook them into 'really bully friends'.

'That's been 1 of the champion parts of the full thing, that I've made this fantastic caller friend,' Foster said.

Jackson and Foster besides starred unneurotic successful Meredith Wilson's philharmonic connected Broadway from December 2021 until January 2023.

Soon followed rumours that the brace had struck up a romance, with fans questioning what was down Hugh's daze divided from his long-time wife, Deborra-Lee Furness.

Foster and Jackman yet went nationalist with their narration earlier this month.

The mates were seen locking lips beside their car at an In-N-Out burger edifice successful San Fernando, Los Angeles.

Jackman - who divided from his woman of 27 years Deborra-lee successful September 2023, embraced Foster arsenic she stroked his face.

Their outing comes aft the Logan prima attended a show of Foster's accumulation of Once Upon A Mattress successful Los Angeles and the brace were seen holding hands connected a day successful Santa Monica.

Foster filed for an uncontested divorcement from her hubby Ted Griffin successful October of past year.

She had been joined to the 53-year-old Ocean's screenwriter for 10 years.

Foster and Jackman person been beset in caller months by rumours that an matter betwixt the 2 scuttled their marriages.

Fans had remarked connected however adjacent they appeared to beryllium successful their off-stage interactions portion they appeared unneurotic successful The Music Man.

Furness seemed to lend credence to the rumours erstwhile she liked an Instagram station successful October from a gossip blogger who claimed that her hubby was 'running disconnected with the mistress' and readying a 'soft launch' of their relationship, according to Us Weekly.

A root told DailyMail.com successful October that Furness had her suspicions of an affair, but she was inactive 'blindsided erstwhile she recovered out'.

They described the romance arsenic 'Broadway's worst-kept secret,' adding that 'Deborra-Lee was the past to know.'

According to a RadarOnline report, Furness was peculiarly upset implicit the behaviour of Jackman's adjacent person Ryan Reynolds and his woman Blake Lively due to the fact that they allegedly 'kept quiet'.

'They kept their lips sealed retired of loyalty to Hugh,' a root claimed to the publication.

'Now she is seething with rage implicit being the past to know, Deb feels blindsided. She has a representation similar a alloy trap and isn't acrophobic to usage it.

'Debs feels cheated by each 3 due to the fact that idiosyncratic could person told her what was happening and they each chose to support their mouths shut,' they added.

Daily Mail Australia contacted Furness and Reynolds' representatives astatine the clip for comment.

Following Jackman and Furness' split, the erstwhile mates shared a connection addressing the breakup.

'We person been blessed to stock astir 3 decades unneurotic arsenic hubby and woman successful a wonderful, loving marriage. Our travel present is shifting and we person decided to abstracted to prosecute our idiosyncratic growth,' they announced.

'Our household has been and ever volition beryllium our highest priority,' they continued. 'We undertake this adjacent section with gratitude, love, and kindness. We greatly admit your knowing successful respecting our privateness arsenic our household navigates this modulation successful each of our lives.'