Hugh Jackman's wife of 20yrs says the secret to marital bliss is picking the right partner

Deborra-Lee Furness, 60 and her husband, Hugh Jackman, 48, are living proof that celebrity marriages can be long and happy. She's 13 years older than he is (she will be 61 on December 8) but the couple have enjoyed marital bliss since getting hitched in 1996, after meeting on the set of a show a year earlier.

Quizzed on the secret to marital bliss, Deborah's advice was simple, 'Pick the right partner - that's my advice,' she said.

Hugh was more effusive in praise of his wife in a 2013 interview.

He said:

'I knew 100 per cent … I've never known anything as confidently or sure in my life that she was the one I was going to be with,' he said. 'In any marriage there's good times, hard times and bad times. Whatever happens I know we're going to tackle it together. 'Truly she's the greatest woman I have ever met.'

The couple are parents to two adopted children, Oscan Maximillian, 16, and Ava Eliot, 11.