Hugh Jackman celebrates an Aussie `This Is Your Life` in honour of his wife

Hugh, sporting a black eye from his zip line crash at the Oprah show, talked about when he and Deborra-Lee Furness met as co-stars on the Aussie mini series Corelli in 1995 for the Channel 9 show, which has just been broadcast Down Under.

Hugh, 42, kept the secret until he and his wife Deborra-Lee Furness, 55, had travelled to Melbourne ahead of his appearance on Oprah Winfrey's chat show in December.

Hugh said: 'It was great to meet and work with her. She was famous and had been in America and it was my first role.

'I got into a car and she was going to drive. But she took off her sunglasses and seatbelt, jumped up on the seat and said, 'Hi, I'm Deborra-Lee'. I was very impressed. I thought, 'I like this woman'.'

He said he didn’t talk to her because he fancied her, but later invited her to a dinner party because he wanted to speak to her.

At the dinner party Deborra-Lee's mobile rang and it turned out to be a girlfriend saying she was with Mick Jagger and they were in a car out front.

Hugh said: 'I'm a huge Rolling Stones fan, so I thought she would have to go.

'But then she said to her friend, 'You tell Mick Jagger, I'm having dinner with Hugh Jackman'. We got together soon afterwards.'