Hugh Jackman’s heartfelt message to wife Deborra-Lee Furness on 27th wedding anniversary

The couple have reached a milestone in their marriage – and Hugh Jackman says it’s all thanks to his beautiful wife.

Hugh Jackman celebrates 27th wedding anniversary. Picture: Hugh Jackman/Instagram

Hugh Jackman and wife Deborra-Lee Furness are more in love than ever as they celebrate their 27th wedding anniversary.

The Aussie actor, 55, marked the special occasion with a gushing post about his wife, 67, on Instagram.

“I love you Deb. Today is our 27th wedding anniversary. 27 YEARS!! I love you so much,” he wrote alongside a love-up photo of the pair. “Together we have created a beautiful family. And life. Your laughter, your spirit, generosity, humor, cheekiness, courage and loyalty is an incredible gift to me. I love you with all my heart.”

The couple met on the set of the Australian prison drama Corelli in 1995 and were married the following year. In 2000, they adopted their son Oscar, now 22, in 2005 they adopted daughter Ava Eliot, now 17.

Hugh Jackman thanks his wife for the beautiful life they’ve created. Picture: Hugh Jackman/Instagram

Jackman opened up about the secret to his decades-long marriage in a recent interview on Smooth Radio, saying “honesty and intimacy and making time” is everything.

“You can’t just assume that things will just tick along OK. You have to make time,’ he said in the February interview.

“And intimacy is about really sharing what you’re going through, feelings, and checking in with the other person, checking in what they need from you, checking in, how they’re doing, checking and beyond.

“Just because it’s so easy to get caught up in the day-to-day of life. That’s hard enough. Kids, school runs, whatever it is, sleepless nights, it’s tiring. So you have to be checking in with each other.”

Hugh Jackman on their wedding day in 1996. Picture: Hugh Jackman/Instagram

The couple have also never spent more than two weeks apart throughout their marriage, despite their busy filming schedules.

“Well Deb, when I met her had done 20 movies. She said, ‘Hugh, we’re never going to be away from each other for more than two weeks’. I said, ‘Great, why?’ She said, ‘I’ve just been on too many movies, and I see people drift apart,’” he recalled during a radio interview with The Grill Team in 2019.

“People think you’re going to fall in love with your leading lady and have an affair, it’s not always that. It’s just you get used to living apart and you get used to living a life on your own … then when you hit a rocky patch you’re not together, you’re already living your own life, you’re on location, an all of a sudden that person over there looks fantastic.”