Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, of all people, are the new Bennifer
As a seasoned celebrity photographer, Jesal Parshotam knows timing is everything. At the beginning of this year, he sensed that Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster, rumored for months to be an item, might finally be ready to take their relationship public.
Parshotam saw that Jackman had celebrated Christmas with family in his native Australia. Meanwhile, he knew that Foster was wrapping up a four-week run of 'Once Upon a Mattress' at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles. So he reasoned that after the holidays, the movie star would probably make the 13-hour flight to Southern California and stop to see her before flying home to New York.
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