Hugh Jackman is certainly not the first celebrity guest on TODAY to join Al Roker at the weather board. I would bet he’s one of the few to do so by interrupting the morning show host’s report. The Wolverine actor and Kate Hudson appeared on TODAY Monday morning to talk about their upcoming musical biopic on the 2025 movie schedule, Song Sung Blue. The movie is based on a 2008 documentary of the same name about the ‘80s Midwest phenomenon Thunder & Lightning, a husband and wife Neil Diamond tribute band. While the real Thunder & Lightning never met Diamond in their heyday, it turns out the X-Men actor has, and it's a story he decided to tell during Al Roker’s weather report.
Just after chatting with the Song Sung Blue actors, Samantha Guthrie passed the broadcast over to Roker to do the weather. The nearly 30-year TODAY show vet transitioned with a personal anecdote about singing “Sweet Caroline” with Diamond out on the TODAY plaza back in the day, and Jackman couldn’t help but one-up Roker about singing with the rock legend before becoming hilariously self-aware:
