Hugh Bonneville and his wife Lulu Williams recently split after 25 years of marriage.

And the Downton Abbey star, 60, has already completed his wedding to Canadian actress Claire Rankin, 53.

The pair have reportedly gone on a string of dates and spent time at his London flat, as well as an evening at the luxurious Broadwick Soho Hotel.

According to The Sun, Hugh also took the actress to an event at Buckingham Palace where she met Queen Camilla, as well as dinner with his Downton co-stars.

So, who is his rumored new girlfriend Claire Rankin? Read on to find out.

Who is Claire Rankin?

Claire Rankin is a Canadian actress who grew up on Prince Edward Island.

The star started acting in Shakespeare plays in the ’90s, appearing in shows like Ally McBeal, Without A Trace and House.

Claire, who is also a professional dancer, is currently starring in the Canadian comedy series Son of a Critch.

Claire was previously married to actor Josh Randall, who appeared alongside Hugh in the American sitcom Courting Alex almost twenty years ago.

How did Hugh and Claire meet?

Hugh has been on a string of dates with Claire just months after his split from wife Lulu Williams.

He reportedly spent time with Claire at his London flat, as well as an evening at the luxurious Broadwick Soho Hotel.

According to The Sun, Hugh also took the actress to an event at Buckingham Palace where she met Queen Camilla, as well as dinner with his Downton co-stars.

Claire was previously married to actor Josh Randall, who appeared alongside Hugh in the American sitcom Courting Alex almost twenty years ago.

Claire shared photos from her recent trip to London to her Instagram account, but Hugh isn’t in them.

An onlooker who saw the pair walking through central London said: ‘Hugh and Claire looked so happy together, they couldn’t stop smiling.

“They seemed like any other couple and seemed to really enjoy each other’s company.”

Hugh recently gave a talk to the young winners of a BBC writing competition with Claire in the audience.

On Wednesday they are said to have enjoyed dinner with Hugh’s Downton co-star Michelle Dockery.

On Friday, Claire shared a photo she took at the airport as she prepared to return to Canada.

When did Hugh divorce his wife Lulu Williams?

A spokesperson for Hugh confirmed in September that he and his ex Lulu, who lived together in their West Sussex home for 25 years, were ending their marriage.

However, it seems that the divorce did not go smoothly. A source revealed: ‘It’s clear Lulu feels like 20 years of marriage counts for nothing.’

Lulu often accompanied her husband to premieres and movie sets and her recent absence led to rumors that the couple was having problems.

The actor, famous for his role as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, had never shied away from expressing his love for Lulu, having previously called her his ‘base’ and ‘anchor’ and praised his wife as the backbone of their household.

A source told The Sun: ‘Hugh has been away from home a lot this year filming. He lost some weight this summer, he looked neat, tanned and relaxed.’

The heartbreak came just five years after the couple renewed their vows at Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas.

The pair met as teenagers but reunited later in life and got together in their 30s, thanks in no small part to Hugh’s mother Patricia.

Hugh has said: ‘Lulu ran a marquee company… my mother called her to rent some chairs or something and said, ‘Do you remember Hugh?’

“It infuriated me that I had to give my mother all the credit for reintroducing us.”

The former couple later tied the knot in November 1998.

In previous interviews, Bonneville claimed he was ‘completely indebted’ to his wife for the way she supported him throughout his career while he cared for their son Felix, 20, who had his own on-screen success.

“Lulu’s priority was to be a foundation for Felix and me and I am completely indebted to her,” he said.

Hugh Bonneville has gone on a series of dates with Canadian actress Claire Rankin, just months after his split from wife Lulu Williams.

The Downton Abbey star, 60, reportedly spent time with Claire, 53, at his London flat, as well as an evening at the luxurious Broadwick Soho Hotel.

According to The sunHugh also took the actress to an event at Buckingham Palace where she met Queen Camilla, as well as dinner with his Downton co-stars.

Claire was previously married to actor Josh Randall, who appeared alongside Hugh in the American sitcom Courting Alex almost twenty years ago.

Claire shared photos from her recent trip to London to her Instagram account, but Hugh isn’t in them.

An onlooker who saw the pair walking through central London said: ‘Hugh and Claire looked so happy together, they couldn’t stop smiling.

“They seemed like any other couple and seemed to really enjoy each other’s company.”

Hugh recently gave a talk to the young winners of a BBC writing competition, with the publication reporting that Claire was in the audience.

On Wednesday they are said to have enjoyed dinner with Hugh’s Downton co-star Michelle Dockery.

On Friday, Claire shared a photo she took at the airport as she prepared to return to Canada.

The actress, who hails from Prince Edward Island, began acting in Shakespeare plays in the 1990s, appearing in shows like Ally McBeal, Without A Trace and House.

MailOnline has contacted representatives for Hugh Bonneville for comment.

A spokesperson for Hugh confirmed in September that he and his ex Lulu, who lived together in their West Sussex home for 25 years, were ending their marriage.

However, it seems that the divorce did not go smoothly. A source revealed: ‘It’s clear Lulu feels like 20 years of marriage counts for nothing.’

Lulu often accompanied her husband to premieres and movie sets and her recent absence led to rumors that the couple was having problems.

The actor, famous for his role as Robert Crawley, Earl of Grantham, had never shied away from expressing his love for Lulu, having previously called her his ‘base’ and ‘anchor’ and praised his wife as the backbone of their household.

A source told The Sun: ‘Hugh has been away from home a lot this year filming. He lost some weight this summer, he looked neat, tanned and relaxed.’

The heartbreak came just five years after the couple renewed their vows at Graceland Chapel in Las Vegas.

The pair met as teenagers but reunited later in life and got together in their 30s, thanks in no small part to Hugh’s mother Patricia.

Hugh has said: ‘Lulu ran a marquee company… my mother called her to rent some chairs or something and said, ‘Do you remember Hugh?’

“It infuriated me that I had to give my mother all the credit for reintroducing us.”

The former couple later tied the knot in November 1998.

In previous interviews, Bonneville claimed he was ‘completely indebted’ to his wife for the way she supported him throughout his career while he cared for their son Felix, 20, who had his own on-screen success.

“Lulu’s priority was to be a foundation for Felix and me and I am completely indebted to her,” he said.

Dune star Rebecca Ferguson has revealed that a former co-star of the film ‘yelled’ at her and made her leave the set crying.

The Swedish actress, 40, opened up about life on set as a younger star when she appeared on Tuesday’s episode of Reign with Josh Smith podcast.

During the podcast, Rebecca revealed there’s an ‘absolute idiot of a co-star’ who she will never work with again after the way they treated her on the set of a previous film – but confirmed it wasn’t Hugh Jackman or Tom Cruise which she played alongside The Greatest Showman and Mission Impossible.

“I remember there was a moment where this human being was so insecure and angry because this person couldn’t get the scenes out,” she said. “And I think I was so vulnerable and uncomfortable that I got yelled at.

‘But because this person was number one on the call list, there was no safety net for me. So no one had my back. And I would cry when I left the set.”

Rebecca recalled the co-star saying things to her on set like “Do you call yourself an actor?”, “This is what I have to work with?” and ‘What the hell is this?’ in front of the entire crew.

“I just stood there breaking,” she said.

Rebecca hoped she would get support from producers in that situation, but said that wasn’t the case.

But after being exposed to the co-star’s temper, Rebecca claims she came in the next day and spoke up for the first time. “Get off my set,” she told the co-star.

“I remember being so scared,” she said. “I looked at this person and said, ‘You can leave. I’m going to work on a tennis ball. I never want to see you again.’

Rebecca claimed that producers told her she couldn’t do that with the actor in question, also known as ‘number one’, because they had to be on set.

But the actress stood her ground and said the co-star could turn around and she would act against the back of their heads. “And I did,” she helped. “And I remember thinking at the time that I was so scared.”

Rebecca said she went to the director after the scene and asked why that behavior was allowed to continue.

She added: “The director said, ‘You’re right. I don’t take care of the rest. I’m trying to figure this person out. Because it’s so unstable.’

“It was great from then on, but it took me so long to get there. It’s been the last 10 to 12 years and I’ve been acting since I was 16.”

During the episode, Rebecca also talked about the valuable lessons she learned working with Timothée Chalamet on Dune: Part One and Dune: Part Two.

“I’m just having fun and doing a lot of different things, you know,” she said.

“He carries things. I remember times when I was giggling and having fun and I felt like it wasn’t really helping him. So I think I learned a lot from watching the process of one of our incredible independent actors on the set of a studio film.”

She added, “The respect you have to have for everyone… I learned more from him without him knowing.”

It comes after reviews for Dune: Part Two suggested it could be an even bigger hit than the first part.

Director Denis Villeneuve treated author Frank Herbert’s massive 1965 science fiction masterpiece with a two-part film, splitting the 896-page book in two.

The first film – 2021’s Dune – was also critically acclaimed, with an impressive 83% score on Rotten Tomatoes from 509 reviews, as well as a 90% audience rating.

The first wave of reviews have arrived for Dune Part 2 ahead of its March 1 release, earning a whopping 97% based on 112 reviews Rotten tomatoeswhile stars like Timothee and Zendaya continue their global press tour.

While the RT score will likely fluctuate as more reviews come in, the film has only received three negative reviews so far.

The film is set on the planet Arrakis, where young Paul Atreides (Chalamet) teams up with Chani (Zendaya) and her Fremen people to take back what is rightfully his.

The novel is widely considered one of the best science fiction novels of all time, but previous attempts to adapt it have failed, including an unproduced version by Alejandro Jodorowsky that was chronicled in the 2013 documentary Jodorowsky’s Dune, a 1984 adaptation of David Lynch and a 2000 miniseries.

Villeneuve’s decision to split the massive book in half appears to be paying off, with a thunderous response from critics, many of whom weren’t big fans of the first half of 2021.

David Nicholls’ romantic novel One Day became an overnight fan favourite when it was first released in 2009 and is now being rediscovered by a new audience thanks to Netflix’s adaptation.

The series – starring Leo Woodall and Ambika Mod – has scored an impressive 91% on Rotten Tomatoes and dubbed the ‘most bingeable show of the year’ by the Daily Mail’s TV critic Claudia Connell. 

But while Leo Woodall is enjoying a career boost for his portrayal as ‘pampered Southern toff’ Dexter Mayhew, the 2011 film adaptation had the exact opposite effect for actor Jim Sturgess.

Before bagging the leading man role opposite Anne Hathaway, the actor, now 45, was an up-and-coming star who had had small roles in TV shows such as Touch of Frost and The Other Boleyn Girl.

But what should have been a career-defining role for the star didn’t quite pan out as he may have hoped as the film was met with a series of particularly damning reviews. 

At the time, Time magazine dubbed the film ‘disjoined’ – saying that ‘characters that Nicholls brought so cunningly to life in the book feel rushed through a timeline, tied to an agenda’.

Meanwhile, the New York Post took aim at Jim Sturgess and Anne Hathaway’s lack of on-screen chemistry – before others dubbed the American actress’ Yorkshire accent a ‘Hollywood stinker’.

Following on from this, Jim went on to star in the 2012 adaptation of David Mitchell’s Cloud Atlas, which also divided audiences.

Most recently, Jim appeared in the 2022 rom-com Alone Together with Katie Holmes, which was given a 30% rating by Rotten Tomatoes users.

Here FEMAIL takes a look back at Jim Sturgess’ career following the fall-out from One Day – and how he’s deliberately shied away from the spotlight since.

Dubbed the ‘new Hugh Grant’ 

In 2010, it was announced that little-known actor Jim Sturgess had been cast as Dexter Mayhew in a film adaptation, which had a reported budget of $15m.

Speaking to The Telegraph at the time, Jim – who starred in the Beatles-inspired movie Across the Universe beforehand – admitted that he hadn’t read the book when he had his first audition.

He said: ‘I didn’t really think about it at all when we were making the film.

‘It’s only now that people keep asking me how it feels to play such a well-known and loved character that I’m starting to think, “S***, I hope I’ve been all right!”‘ 

Looking back on the casting process, Jim told The Patriot Ledger in 2011: ‘It was weird. I was about three-quarters of the way through the book, just enjoying the read, like anybody else. I was really immersed in the story, then suddenly I got the call saying I got the part, and it just totally ruined the last quarter of the book for me. I said, “Oh, God, now I guess I’m going to be this guy.”‘

Entertainment Weekly’s Emily Exton wrote at the time: ‘Jim Sturgess is certainly dreamy enough to play the handsome but daft Dexter Mayhew whose it’s-not-my-fault-everyone-loves-me outlook on life can be maddening yet adorable (maddeningly adorable?) all at once.’ 

Although Jim’s casting didn’t raise eyebrows, the announcement that Brooklyn-born Anne Hathaway would be playing Yorkshire lass Emma Morley was met with a wave of criticismfrom fans of the book.

One reader wrote on X, formerly known as Twitter: ‘Anne Hathaway as Emma? Really? Did anyone actually read the descriptions of the character? Anne Hathaway is not it. Horrible choice.’ 

Hitting back at the critics, the Hollywood actress said: ‘‘This is one of the world’s great love stories. It’s what you say to your man —not how you say it’. 

Director Lone Scherfig told The Guardian ahead of the film’s release: ‘It’s definitely a warmer interpretation of Emma because Emma is more provincial and shy and sometimes overcompensating.

‘Anne is a very warm actress. She has the warmth of Elizabeth Taylor or Judy Garland … I love Emma as she is in the book, obviously, but I also love Anne Hathaway’s version of her.’

When it hit screens in August 2011, One Day was a moderate success and pulled in $59m – but the reception from critics was particularly damning.

The Observer‘s Philip French dubbed it ‘thin, superficial and sentimental’ and said the casting of Anne Hathway was ‘disastrous’.

The critic wrote: ‘Her accent is all over the map. The best that can be said is that she sometimes resembles the youthful Maureen Lipman, herself from Yorkshire, at times bespectacled and possessed of fine comic timing, but who here appears to be rehearsing her repertoire of regional accents.’

What’s more, Time Out said the love story had been ‘filleted’ for the big screen and called Anne’s accent ‘too wayward to convince’.

The Hollywood Reporter was particularly gushing of Jim Sturgess’ performance – saying the actor had ‘staked his claim as the new Hugh Grant only without the fussy mannerisms’.

It read: ‘Sturgess can now play any number of charming Englishmen with any number of weaknesses and flaws that women easily forgive.’

What’s more, Jim Sturgess – who was dating La Roux’s pianist Mickey O’Brien at the time – has always defended his co-star. In his 2011 interview with The Telegraph, the actor said he felt ‘connected and bound’ to Anne.

He added: ‘I would always wish I was doing a scene with Anne. When it was an Emma and Dex day I felt good about it.’ 

Over 10 years later, he has still insisted that he is a ‘stickler for accents’ in film and didn’t have a problem with Anne’s portrayal of Emma.

He told The Independent in 2021: ‘If someone does a bad one, I can’t watch the film. But I never felt anything like that while working with Anne at all. 

‘I think what happened was that she got a bad rep in America for her ‘bad English accent’, because people don’t know about a Yorkshire accent in America. 

‘I’ve had friends in America say it’s the worst English accent they’ve ever heard, but I didn’t think it was fair.’

In an interview with Seventeen magazine in 2011, Anne said: ‘The thing about the accent that was really important for me to get was that it evolved over the course of the film because as you get older your voice changes, the way you speak can change. 

‘I’ve met a lot of people from Yorkshire, and when they left the area or moved to London, their accent changed. You can meet 10 different people from Yorkshire, and they have completely different accents.’

Disappointing follow-up while Anne’s career skyrockets

After One Day, Jim Sturgess already had another huge Hollywood blockbuster lined up and appeared as Adam Ewing in the epic sci-fi Cloud Atlas opposite Tom Hanks, Halle Berry and Hugh Grant.

The film had a budget of $100m but only grossed $27m, which Sturgess later admitted was disappointing.

Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the actor said: ‘It was a shame to me that maybe American audiences didn’t pick it up so much. It wasn’t a surprise, but it was a shame.

‘It was a shame that people didn’t even get to have an opinion. It didn’t really get kind of distributed in a way that people were even able to know it was on, I guess.’

In contrast, Jim’s One Day co-star put the lacklustre reception behind her and went on to appear in The Dark Knight Rises and Les Miserables, which she won Best Supporting Actress for. 

Stepping into supporting roles

Following the muted reception to Cloud Atlas, Jim appeared in a supporting role in the 2012 film Spike Island, opposite Game of Thrones’ Emilia Clarke. 

He also appeared alongside Ray Winstone in the 2012 film Ashes about a son grappling with with father’s Alzheimer’s. However, it only has a 14% audience score on Rotten Tomatoes.

Between 2012-2018, Jim averaged about two film or TV appearances a year. Over the past decade, he’s slowly stepped into more supporting roles. 

In 2019, he bagged a role in the ensemble movie Berlin, I Love You – which was labelled a ’empty, boring flop’ by The Observer. Later that year, Jim married his screenwriter and theatre producer wife Dina Mousawi.

Two years later, he stepped into a leading man role once again when he appeared in The Other Me – about a architect who has an eye disease which enables him to see people’s real motives.

In a particularly damning review, Variety called the film a ‘muddled mirror of self-examination’ and referenced how Jim has has the ‘ill luck’ of appearing in other ‘fantastical misfires’ including Upside Down and Stonehearst Asylum.  

Jim has since admitted that he has found fame overwhelming at times and deliberately shied away from it.

Recalling the press tour for 21 in 2008, the star told The Independent: ‘I was driving down the strip and seeing my face on all these giant billboards. I checked into a hotel and all the blackjack tables had my face on them, and the room key had my face on it – it was a lot. 

In 2022, Jim appeared opposite Katie Holmes in the rom-com Alone Together – about two strangers who end up in the same New York rental during lockdown.

Although The Hollywood Reporter deemed it ‘superficial’ in places, the critic said it came to a ‘felicitously, sweetly and satisfyingly moving’ conclusion. 

However, Variety wasn’t so gushing – and said the drama ‘should have stayed in quarantine’.  

Drastic Career Change 

Following Alone Together, it appears Jim has taken a break from acting and is now focusing on a career in music.

Going by the stage name ‘King Curious’, Jim’s debut album is set to be released later in 2024 – but he has shared some singles with his 282 YouTube subscribers.

In a handful of interviews with small music magazines, which make no mention of his best-known role in One Day, Jim explained how he has always had an interest in music.

Speaking to Flanelle magazine, Jim detailed how he discovered his love for performing in school.

He said: ‘At a very young age, the local theatre in my town went to local schools to cast a load of kids to be in a professional production of Wind In The Willows. We were all auditioned and I was one of the kids, along with many others, that got picked to be a mouse or rat or whatever. And that was a huge moment for me. I connected profoundly. 

‘I was engaged and stimulated, and I cared deeply about it. It was fun and challenging and hard work and the feeling of being a small part of something bigger is, to this day, what I love most about it. All the classroom anxiety was lifted, and I felt free to burn off all that energy. And I was good at it. And that felt good. So I wanted more.’

In an interview with Dek Magazine last December, Jim said that he been part of bands since the age of 15. 

Discussing his song Common Sense for the Animal, Jim said: ‘I’d always wanted to write a song about London but couldn’t really find a way in. So one night I sat on top of a night bus and just watched a Friday night unfold. 

‘I scribbled down what I saw and what I felt and the song kind of wrote itself. It’s a kind of weird, twisted love letter to my neighbourhood, I suppose.’

An official trailer for the upcoming superhero film Deadpool & Wolverine was released on Sunday.

In the clip, Ryan Reynolds was seen in character as the Merc With A Mouth, as he prepared to take on the Time Variance Authority and decide the fate of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

The feature film – which wrapped production last month – also marks the official return of Hugh Jackman to his old role as James 'Logan' Howlett, better known as Wolverine.

The trailer opened with Deadpool, whose real name is Wade Wilson, celebrating his birthday in the company of some of his friends, and he gives a short speech in which he kindly proclaims himself the “luckiest man alive.”

The superhero is then visited by TVA agents, and after they pull out the electric batons, he fires off an R-rated gag. “Pegging isn't new to me, buddy, but it is new to Disney,” before looking at the camera.

Deadpool is pulled through a portal and wakes up in the company of Paradox, played by Matthew Macfadyen, and after informing the mercenary that he had unknowingly soiled himself, Reynolds' character joked, “I wasn't unconscious.”

Paradox informs the superhero that he has “an opportunity to be a hero among heroes” and leads him to a control room containing footage created by the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

After Deadpool pushes his way toward a Wolverine-like figure lounging in a casino, the character says, “Your little cinematic universe is about to change forever.” I am the messiah. I am… Wonder Jesus.”

The superhero then takes on several TVA agents in different locations, and after one is chased away by an unseen force, he exclaims, “Oh my fuck!”

The mercenary proceeds to violently dispatch several attackers with both guns and his signature katanas, and Pyro, played by Aaron Stanford, comments, “God, I love this part!”

Deadpool is later shot through a cement slab and is approached by Wolverine, who remains off-screen as the former jokes, “Don't just stand there, you monkey, give me a hand up.”

Wolverine then shows off his claws, and the trailer ends after Wilson remarks, “No, I'm actually fine, thank you very much!”

Development of Deadpool & Wolverine began in late 2010, and in December 2019 the feature was confirmed to be in the works.

Jackman had been courted to return to his old role for several years, and Reynolds, who he has been friends with for years, confirmed that the performer would reprise his role as Wolverine in September 2022.

Emma Corrin, Morena Baccarin and Jennifer Garner will also appear in the feature, with the latter two reprising their roles as Vanessa and Elektra respectively.

Production on the film began in May 2023, and after filming was suspended due to the 2023 SAG-AFTRA strike, filming finally wrapped last January.

Deadpool & Wolverine will be released in the UK on July 25 and will debut in the US the following day.

Australia will take on India in the final of the ongoing Under-19 World Cup on February 11 at 1:30 PM IST.

New Delhi: After defeating Pakistan in the semi-final of the ongoing 2024 Under-19 World Cup, Australia will face India in the final to be played on February 11 at 1:30 PM IST at the Sahara Park Willowmoore Cricket Stadium.

Australia defeated Pakistan by 1 wicket in the last-over thriller at Willowmoore Park on Thursday. After leading his team to the final, Australian captain Hugh Weibgen said India is a class team.

Never had any doubts, had complete confidence in Vids and Raf to get the job done (laughs). Lots of emotions in the locker room. I still don't know what happened. Hard to leave Anderson out, but Tom Straker bowled incredibly today. We felt like we were well prepared for this match. We fought so hard. Every time we thought we were on top, we lost a wicket. 17 year old Peake, what calmness and maturity in the middle. India is a class team. We will love that challenge.

Straker's 6-24 were the best figures by a bowler in a semi-final or final of the U19 World Cup and helped Australia bowl out Pakistan for 179 in 48.5 overs, a half-century by Arafat Minhas (52) and an identical score by Azan Awais after Hugh Weibgen won the toss and chose to play first at the Willowmoore Park in Benoni.

In response, Australia first slumped to 59/4 in the 17th over and then looked down and out to 164/9 before a 17-run partnership for the last wicket between Raf MacMillan (19 not out) and Callum Vidler (2 not out) arose. ) helped them reach 181/9 in 49.1 overs.

Hugh Jackman continued his trip to Dublin on Wednesday as he shared wholesome photos exploring the 'beautiful' Irish countryside.

The Australian actor, 55, took to Instagram as he took in more of the sights during a walk and even came across a picturesque waterfall.

During his day out, he dressed warmly in a black padded jacket, a knitted scarf and a hat.

The Greatest Showman star wrote in the caption: “A few more memories of Dublin!”

He continued, “One of the most beautiful places in the entire country. Thank you for your hospitality.'

It comes after Hugh sipped a pint of Guinness in an Irish pub earlier this week during his tour of Dublin on Monday.

He learned the Irish tricks of the trade while enjoying some well-deserved time off.

Hugh cut a casual figure in a black graphic T-shirt and flexed his muscles in the video.

As he tucked into a pint of beer, Hugh repeatedly said 'so good' to the camera as he told fans he was back in Dublin – but he didn't specify what for.

He captioned his post teasing: 'Back in Dublin. Part 1.'

Last year, Hugh announced he had split from his longtime wife Deborra-Lee Furness in September – after 27 years of marriage.

The former couple revealed to fans that they split “to pursue our individual growth.”

“We are blessed to have had a beautiful, loving marriage together for almost three decades. Our journey is now changing and we have decided to part ways to pursue our individual growth,” the couple said in a statement obtained by PEOPLE.

'Our family is and will remain our highest priority. We undertake this next chapter with gratitude, love and kindness. We greatly appreciate your understanding in respecting our privacy as our family goes through this transition.”

The former couple signed the statement as “Deb and Hugh Jackman,” adding, “This is the only statement either of us will make.”

The couple tied the knot in 1996 after crossing paths on the set of Correlli in 1995.

Over the course of their marriage, they adopted two children: son Oscar, 23, and daughter Ava, 18.

Last month, rumors swirled that Deborra-Lee would leave her home in New York to return to Australia, where Hugh is from.

According to women's DayDeb's friends have been 'in her ear' about moving Down Under now that her marriage is over.

It's unclear if Furness listens to her friends, but she has spent time in Sydney in recent weeks promoting her new film Force of Nature: The Dry 2 and attending the Australian Open.

Hugh and Deborra-Lee bought a $21 million home in New York City before their shock split last year.

The X-Men actor and actress spent the money on a penthouse in New York City's Chelsea neighborhood in August 2022.

The purchase took place just weeks after the stage couple put their incredible three-story New York City apartment up for sale.

The pair had lived in the chic downtown Manhattan apartment since 2008 and they listed it in June 2022 for the whopping price of $38.9 million.

Former Playboy Mansion resident Jennifer Saginor has criticized Crystal Hefner for claiming she was “trapped” in her marriage to Hugh Hefner in her new tell-all memoir, while accusing the model of “playing the victim.”

Crystal's explosive book, Only Say Good Things: Surviving Playboy and Finding Myself, was released earlier this week, and in it the 37-year-old made a number of bombshell claims, including that she never loved the late magazine queen.

The blonde beauty also shockingly admitted several times that she felt trapped in their four-year marriage, which ended when he died on September 27, 2017 at the age of 91.

However, Crystal's claims have been strongly refuted by Jennifer, the daughter of Hugh's personal physician and best friend, Dr. Mark Saginor, who believes the former bunny “chose” to stay with him.

Jennifer took direct aim at Crystal, telling DailyMail.com exclusively: “Take off your bunny ears. Stop promoting a brand and image that you claim to be a victim of. It's inconsistent.'

She continued, “She chose to be there and she chose to go back. She plays the victim card, and this takes away from the actual victims of sexual abuse.

“I was there for four decades, and she was there for seven years. Crystal knew what she was getting into. She got paid for her services.

“She promoted the brand and continues to promote the brand. After making millions of dollars, she came out saying she was being held against her will.”

Jennifer, who grew up calling Hugh her 'uncle', spent her childhood at the infamous LA party venue and had her own room in the 29-bedroom mansion from the age of 12.

She has alleged that Crystal published several untruths in her memoir.

Crystal revealed that during their marriage she “looked for girls” for sex orgies with herself and the late magazine mogul.

She described how Hugh liked to have “at least five girls” at a time when they would get intimate in the bedroom.

The pin-up, who married the magazine publisher at the age of 26 and turned 86 in 2012, wrote: 'After the twins [Kristina and Karissa Shannon] were away, it became my job to help find girls who could come to the bedroom at parties in the mansion, or on an increasingly rare night out.

“It was a big part of the reason we even went out: for Hef to find new girls.”

She continued, “Sometimes Hef would point to someone. Other times I chose. He liked having at least five girls, and I knew what he liked. It was actually a relief to have other women in the bedroom with me, to not have to be all alone sexually with him. If these other girls did it, I didn't have to.

'And there were always so many girls eager to get into Hugh Hefner's bed, standing next to me at every party, desperate to be chosen. I felt torn; part of me wanted to reject them for their own good. But I also knew someone was coming, so it might as well be someone who really wanted to go.

'I trusted them to make their own decisions about their bodies as adults, but I also felt a responsibility to make the whole experience exciting for them. Or if it's not exciting, then at least not that uncomfortable.'

In response to the candid recollection, Jennifer said: “To admit that she recruited women to bring to Hef… she is admitting that she put girls in harm's way and then profited from it.

“Crystal is trying to monopolize and make money off a dead man who gave her everything she wanted until he couldn't give it any longer – and now she keeps taking.”

Jennifer previously spoke candidly about her father's close relationship with Hefner and how she viewed them as lovers.

In the documentary Secrets of Playboy, she said, “My father and Hef had a spiritual bond that I don't think any of these wives or girlfriends could ever compete with.

“Their friendship was like, next level. They were like soulmates.”

Jennifer continued in the film, “They went really far. They became more than best friends. They became [lovers].'

In her memoir, Crystal said she felt trapped in her marriage to Hugh.

“I felt trapped in the mansion, trapped in my role as caregiver, but I also didn't want to lose him,” she wrote.

“He had been a huge, extraordinary presence in my life. He rose above everything. It was hard to imagine life without him.”

In a recent interview with DailyMail.com, she revealed that she never had sex alone with her late husband during their marriage, which lasted from 2012 until his death.

The model also made it clear that she did not enjoy the group sex encounters with her husband and the other women.

Jennifer isn't the only former associate of the late mogul who Crystal has called out for her memoir.

Kimberley Conrad, 61, who was married to Hugh from 1989 to 2010, also accused her of “making a quick buck” from the book.

In a statement to TMZshe said, “While a few people express their version of their idea of ​​events in the hope of riding a wave of headlines and making a quick buck, we all have to ask ourselves if we want to live in an environment where people refuse to live . taking responsibility and using words like 'coerce' and 'survival' to describe choices they voluntarily made at some point in their own lives.”

Hugh Hefner‘s second wife, Kimberly Conradspeaks out against Crystal Hefnerclaiming that lately she has been trying to make a “quick buck” by bad mouthing Playboy founder.

“We must be wary of those who try to destroy things because they no longer benefit from it,” Conrad, who was married to Hugh from 1989 to 2011, said in a statement to TMZ on Friday, January 26. (Conrad shared sons Marston and Cooper with Hugh).

Crystal, for her part, was married to Hugh, who was 60 years her senior, from 2012 until his death at age 91 in 2017.

“While a few people express their version of their idea of ​​events in the hope of a wave of headline relevance and a quick buck, we should all be asking ourselves if we want to live in an environment where people refuse to take responsibility and using words like ‘coerce’ and ‘survive’ to describe choices they voluntarily made at some point in their own lives,” Conrad continued, claiming that Crystal had gained “fame, opportunity and money” during her relationship with Hugh.

In the years following the deaths of Hugh, Crystal and many other former playmates, including Girls next door actors Holly Madison And Bridget Marquardthave spoken out about their time with Hugh.

Conrad shot back at the negative stories about her late ex-husband, saying, “If you want to talk about exploitation, this is exactly what these women did to Hef in his later years and at the end of his life.”

Crystal has released her memoir, Only say good things: Surviving Playboy and finding myselfon January 23.

When the book came out, she said she felt “trapped” living in the Playboy mansion Today that her dynamic with Hugh “was weird and difficult. Looking back, he used and manipulated me in every way possible for his own gain.”

As for why she waited seven years after Hugh’s death to release her book, Crystal said she “needed time to think.”

“I went to a lot of therapy to figure it out,” she said NPR on January 24. ‘I’m having trouble dating now and when I look back I feel like things affected me more than I realized because I was in that bubble for ten years. And a lot of people were following our lives, and so I thought I should put these thoughts together. I have to, you know, write this for them, write this for myself to heal. And hopefully it can help other people.”

Crystal said she hopes to help people in “abusive relationships” and teach young women about “value and self-worth.”

“I know the Playboy Mansion is a very unique, different place, but some of its lessons are universal,” she continued. “And I think it’s important because Hef controlled the story. And at some point you realize that you are losing your own identity and that you are losing yourself. After a while it eats away at you inside.”

Hugh Hefner’s ex Kimberley Conrad is speaking out against Crystal Hefner

When Hugh Hefner passed away in September 2017 at the age of 91, no one could have predicted that less than a month later, the #MeToo movement swept through Hollywood, exposing years of sexual abuse by some of the industry's most high-profile men.

The late founder of Playboy magazine, who held sex parties at the historic LA mansion where he lived from 1971 until his death, would certainly not have survived if he had lived any longer, according to his third and last wife, Crystal Hefner. .

In an exclusive interview with DailyMail.com, Crystal said her husband died 'just in time' – adding that the mansion would 'absolutely not' have survived the powerful #MeToo movement.

“I've been thinking about this because #MeToo happened literally a month after his death. He left Earth just in time,” said Crystal, who released her memoir Only say good things: Surviving Playboy on Tuesday – said.

“I feel like the mansion was so unique and couldn't be replicated. It was a weird social experiment at the time, but I don't know how he would have held up during the #MeToo,” the former Playboy cover model added.

While Crystal is adamant that the Playboy empire “absolutely would not” have continued after Hef's death, she did not believe her late husband would have suffered the same fate as Harvey Weinstein, the powerful film producer now serving 23 years in prison for rape and sexual abuse.

'I never saw [Hef] like a predator. But I do remember when the Cosby stuff came out, like when I was at the mansion, and Hef knew about it,” Crystal said, referring to the 60 women who came forward in 2015 to accuse actor and comedian Bill Cosby of drugging . and rape them.

In her book, Crystal revealed that during their marriage she “sought girls” for sex orgies with herself and the late magazine mogul.

She described how Hugh liked to have “at least five girls” at a time when they would get intimate in the bedroom.

She told DailyMail.com during the sit-down that she never had sex alone with her late husband during their marriage, which lasted from 2012 until his death.

'I was scared. He was used to some kind of show, some kind of circus up there. So just me? That is not enough. It's easy to feel like you're not enough there,” Crystal painfully recalled.

The former Playmate also admitted that it had been a “relief” to recruit other women to have sex with Hef so she didn't have to have sex with him “all alone” – an admission that has caused some backlash among fans taken care of.

“I feel like people are trying to impose something on me that, you know, doesn't really apply. It's not like we really started liking bars or anything like that. So many girls would come to the mansion and so many girls would be like all of Hef and want to go up there,” she said.

'People just flocked in. So I didn't really have to do anything. It was endless. It was to the point where I was like, “Oh, my god, okay.” It was difficult.'

The blonde beauty, who told DailyMaill.com that she recently decided to change her last name back from Hefner to her maiden name, Harris, wrote in her book that she was “never in love” with her last husband.

She told DailyMail.com that she also didn't believe he was in love with her.

“I think he loved me as much as he could. I think he loved sex, and himself most of all,” Crystal said, laughing.

After years of therapy, which Crystal said was necessary to heal after leaving her ten-year stay at the mansion, she was still able to laugh at some of the madness that took place there.

One of the absurdities was the mirrored ceiling above Hef's rotating bed, where decades of orgies took place.

“I've always wondered, 'What's that mirror on the ceiling? Probably barely,'” she joked to DailyMail.com during her candid sit-down.

In her story she wrote that so many women were vying for the chance to be with Hef under the mirror on the rotating love mattress.

'There were always so many girls eager to have a turn in Hugh Hefner's bed, standing next to me at every party, desperate to be chosen. I felt torn; part of me wanted to reject them for their own good. But I also knew someone was coming, so it might as well be someone who really wanted to go,” she wrote.

“Sometimes they would try to hang around and hold on to Hef and suck on him. There seemed to be an endless stream of women desperate to get into the mansion; it never slowed down.

'And it further reinforced the feeling that I couldn't possibly walk away. The more other people wanted what I had, the tighter I clung to it. If someone stuck around for a while, I tried to find out what they wanted. Female friend? Playmate? What?'

The model, who was married to Hugh until his death at the age of 91 in 2017, made it clear she did not enjoy the group sex encounters with her husband and the other women.

She wrote, “Here I was in the Playboy Mansion, in Hugh Hefner's bed with Hugh Hefner inside me, beautiful naked women around me, and there was nothing sexy about it.

'This wasn't about making love. It was about power, control and influence. It was a performance. I auditioned for a role. I thought it was about my strength.

'After a while he was just done, no climax, just done. Suddenly he waved us away and almost pushed us aside…' she wrote.

Crystal continued that he would “finish the job himself” and while his face was “contorted like he was in pain,” she “freaked out” because he was “having some sort of eighty-one-year-old man fit.” but he was fine.

'It was the strangest five seconds of my life. He gave us each a pat on the back. “You can stay here overnight if you want, and you are welcome to spend the weekend with me and my babies,” she wrote in her book.

In the memoir, Crystal shared more details about life in the Playboy Mansion – famously populated by Hugh's hand-picked Playboy bunnies – including how her husband had a “vicious streak” and was addicted to Viagra and painkillers.

Hugh died on September 27, 2017 at the age of 91 due to heart failure and blood poisoning after contracting a fatal form of e-coli, leaving behind a fortune reported to be $43 million.

Less than a month later, on October 16, 2017, actress Alyssa Milano took a stand against sexual abuse on social media, paving the way for women worldwide to come forward.

The Who's The Boss actress tweeted: “If all women who have been sexually harassed or assaulted wrote #MeToo as a status we might give people an idea of ​​the scale of the problem.”

A-list actresses – including Jennifer Lawrence, Gwyneth Paltrow and Uma Thurman – shared their own experiences and #MeToo was born.