Hugh Jackman may not have directly jumped in front of publicist Virginia Kim's vehicle and screamed "FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, STOP - IN ABOUT TWO SECONDS THERE'S GONNA BE A CRAZY DRIVER VEERING WILDLY OUT OF CONTROL ON THE ROAD!" in the literal sense, but apparently his chiseled movie star looks pretty much saved her life the other day.

Says Sydney Confidential -

Virginia Kim survived to tell her harrowing celebrity tale, when the car she was travelling to work in slowed to check out the Aussie actor having breakfast at Bills restaurant, Darlinghurst.

"He was kind enough to perch himself at the window table, looking very early morning scruffy but still very lush," Kim said in an emotional email.

"As we drove past the window (for the third consecutive time), we slowed the car to an absolute crawl and came to a very early stop at the traffic light," Kim wrote in the email.

"Two seconds later, a crazy out-of-control car came out of nowhere and crossed on to the wrong side of the road. Had we stopped where we were supposed to, it would have been a head-on collision."

"Hugh Jackman's good looks and our incapacity to take our eyes away literally saved our lives," she gushed. "He's the office hero."

Wow. Stirring and emotional stuff, to be sure. This reminds us of the time Mariah Carey warned a friend of ours that the charter flight he'd planned during a holiday in South East Asia was destined for disaster, thus sparing him from a fiery end - and by that, we mean the time our friend decided to stay in bed and masturbate to Mariah Carey's Playboy cover and ended up missing his early morning flight by ten minutes.

Hugh, Mariah - we salute you.

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