Hugh Jackman reveals his tennis fanboy side

HUGH Jackman has gone on a gleeful selfie spree with his tennis heroes as he ticked a Wimbledon visit off his ‘bucket list’.

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HUGH Jackman has gone on a gleeful selfie spree with his tennis heroes as he ticked a Wimbledon visit off his ‘bucket list’.

Looking positively swashbuckling, the Australian actor is sporting a ‘Van Dyke’-style beard and moustache for his role in the forthcoming Peter Pan movie Pan. Jackman will play pirate Blackbeard.

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The unabashed 45-year-old tennis fanboy delighted in spectating from the Royal Box of Centre Court and disported himself joyfully throughout the VIP area, making memories with various tennis legends.

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Jackman posed alongside world number ones Rafael Nadal and Serena Williams, 2013’s “inspirational”champion Marion Bartoli and runner-up “talented and delightful” Sabine Lisicki.

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Pan is being directed by Joe Wright (Atonement, Pride and Prejudice, Anna Karenina) and will also star Amanda Seyfried and Rooney Mara as Mary and Tiger Lily, with Garrett Hedlund playing Hook. Cara Delevigne has also signed on but her role remains unannounced.

In this new take on the JM Barrie classic, Peter Pan is an orphan spirited away to Neverland, which he discovers he is destined to save from Blackbeard.