Melbourne, Apr 6 : Aussie actor Hugh Jackman has revealed that his wife Deborra-Lee Furness turned down the chance to party with Brit singer Mick Jagger, and chose to be with him instead, during their courting days.

It happened in 1995 when he had invited Furness, who was starring alongside him in the ABC drama Correlli, to his house for a dinner party.

"She's very cool. I had a huge crush on her," the Courier Mail quoted Jackman as telling London''s Mail.