Anna Nicole Smith’s teenage daughter got to meet the celebrity of her dreams this month.
Dannielynn Birkhead, the daughter of the late model and the celebrity photographer Larry Birkhead, previous showed how excited she was to see the stage and screen star after getting tickets to see him perform on Broadway.
Her father even revealed that Dannielynn was so obsessed with this A-list star that she had gotten a cardboard cutout of him for Christmas.
Larry announced that his daughter got something even better in recent days — a chance to meet Hugh Jackman in the flesh after a performance of his From New York, With Love concert series.
He shared a sweet video of Dannielynn, 18, gushing over the 56-year-old X-Men star outside of Radio City Music Hall in Manhattan.
‘From a cardboard cutout Christmas dream, to reality,’ Larry wrote.
Anna Nicole Smith’s teenage daughter Dannielynn got to meet the celebrity of her dreams this month; she’s pictured with dad Larry Birkhead in May 2023 in Louisville, Kentucky
Dannielynn, the daughter of the late model and the celebrity photographer Larry Birkhead, previous showed how excited she was to see the stage and screen star after getting tickets to see him perform on Broadway; Smith seen in 2000 in Hollywood
Dannielynn got a chance to meet Hugh Jackman in the flesh after a performance of his From New York, With Love concert series, which he dad revealed in an Instagram video
Birkhead noted that the show appealed to all of Jackman’s fans, even though who only knew him as Deadpool’s friend Wolverine.
‘After singing, dancing for hours and even jump roping, he found the time to greet his fans outside in the freezing New York cold!’ Birkhead continued.
He added that Dannielynn was so animated that Hugh took note of her from the stage.
‘Hugh told her he was watching her enthusiasm during his performance of “A Million Dreams” from the film, “The Greatest Showman.” She was extremely excited and a bit in disbelief, when she got to actually meet him after all,’ he wrote. ‘His kindness and awesome performance really does prove that he is in fact, “The Greatest Showman.”‘
Birkhead concluded with thanks to Jackman for showing such ‘kindness’ to his daughter’ and for ‘making dreams come true,’ and he urged the actor’s fans to snatching up tickets when he returned for another run of performances from April through August.
In the video, the actor — who sported a rugged salt-and-pepper beard — met up with Dannielynn and other fans outside the theater and shared a hug with her.
‘I was watching you during A Million Dreams!’ he said with delight, before the video cut to a clip of Birkhead’s daughter clapping and cheering on her feet in the front row as Hugh strutted across the stage with backup dancers in tow.
Jackman’s stage show features songs from his hit musical The Greatest Showman, as well as Les Miserables, for which he was nominated for an Oscar after starring in the hit 2012 film adaptation.
‘After singing, dancing for hours and even jump roping, he found the time to greet his fans outside in the freezing New York cold!’ Birkhead continued
In the video, the actor — who sported a rugged salt-and-pepper beard — met up with Dannielynn and other fans outside the theater and shared a hug with her
‘I was watching you during A Million Dreams!’ Hugh said with delight, before the video cut to a clip of Birkhead’s daughter clapping and cheering on her feet in the front row as Hugh strutted across the stage with backup dancers in tow
Jackman’s stage show features songs from his hit musical The Greatest Showman, as well as Les Miserables, The Boy From Oz and The Music Man
In December, Birkhead revealed that he got his daughter a cardboard cutout of Jackman for Christmas
She had asked for tickets to see the entertainer perform, but the cutout was a sweet bonus
He also performed tunes from The Boy From Oz, a musical about the Australian singer–songwriter Peter Allen that he debuted on Broadway in 2003, and The Music Man, which her starred in on Broadway from late 2021 through early 2023 with his future girlfriend Sutton Foster.
In late December, Birkhead shared on Instagram that he had managed to get his daughter tickets to see the beloved entertainer, though she would have been content just to have a cardboard cutout of him.
‘All Dannielynn wanted for Christmas was Hugh Jackman under the tree. Since he wasn’t available, the next best thing had to do,’ the photographer joked while posting photos of Dannielynn beaming next to a cutout of Jackman, who smiled while wearing a lustrous plum-colored tuxedo.
Birkhead revealed in the post that his daughter would be seeing Jackman on Broadway, although it ‘almost didn’t work out,’ as the meet-and-greet tickets he found had already been snatched from his cart by quicker fans once he tried to check out.
But after Dannielynn reiterated that all she wanted for Christmas was ‘Hugh Jackman under the tree,’ Larry checked the ticket options again and found some new meet-and-greet tickets, and he beefed up the gift by getting a ‘life-size cutout of Hugh and put[ting] it under the tree.’
So, technically speaking, she got her wish, which saved Christmas. I’m just a Dad making dreams come true one day at a time,’ he joked.
Birkhead add that he was ‘Not sure what we are going to do with this cutout now,’ before revealing that Dannielynn had already put it ‘in her room.’
Hugh has lately been riding high following dark days after he and his estranged wife Deborra-lee Furness’ announcement in September 2023 that they were separating after 27 years of marriage.
Since starring opposite Ryan Reynolds in the blockbuster superhero film Deadpool & Wolverine, he also confirmed his new romance with his Music Man costar Sutton Foster earlier this month when they were spotted holding hands on their way to a dinner date.
Sutton was lending her support to Jackman again on Friday, when she was pictured arriving at Radio City Music Hall to see him perform.
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