Image Credit: Getty Images for The Met Museum/ Hugh Jackman and Deborra-Lee Furness announced their split after 27 years of marriage on September 15, 2023, but their separation "happened a while ago" and was not a surprise, according to Page Six. "Friends and family knew about it," an insider told the outlet. They also added that the trouble in their marriage may have started even before Hugh returned to Broadway in The Music Man in February 2022. "Deb wasn't at rehearsals very much," the source said before adding that she "was even spotted snoozing during some of them.