DAILY DISH: Jackman left in stitches
13 JUN/11

JOHN COULBOURN - QMI Agency



Hugh Jackman doesn't seem too scarred, physically emotionally, from his close encounter of the painful kind with a few stage lights during an ill-fated zip-line run on Oprah's show.

The Aussiea actor/singer/dancer slid from the top of Sydney's iconic opera house to the stage, where Oprah was waiting to welcome him with open arms in taping one of her last shows.

While in Rotonto thursday to promote his upcoming one-man show next month, Jackman winced and laughed as her recalled the incident, his hand going almost automatically to his left eye, which he narrowly avoided injuring during the mishap. All it took , he says, was "a couple of stitches that were done very well" by a young medic, who was initially more than a little reluctant to take a needle to the famous face of Wolverine.

"Maybe I should call the manager, mate," jackman quotes the star-struck medic as saying. After a hurried and largely whispered telephone conversation with his higher-ups, however, the young man turned to Jackman and said, somewhat resignedly: "Apparently, I'm doing it."

And very well.