Has Bennifer 2.0 secretly broken?

It's not looking good. I feel sorriest for their kids, who keep getting bounced between a stream of new homes and their parents rotating plate of partners. Affleck's and Lopez's kids seemed close, now they may have to all go and learn to get along with a new partner and set of step-siblings.

I’m shocked! They both seem so grounded.

Jennifer sure is having a shitty year.

The kids have been around their parents long enough to know it wasn’t going to last.

The kids do seem close and will probably remain friends. If they do split I doubt it will be ugly.

Yeah two narcissists splitting never gets messy

J.Lo's stock has really fallen this year. I bet Ben dumped her because of that. They both thought they were going to be a sensation like they were in the 90's, but they are over too over the hill for most people to care.

They're terrible for each other. He needs to drink to be happy and she won't let him.

Thoughts & Prayers!

It's only a matter of time.

He’ll drop his kids off with Garner on go on a bender

I wish I loved anything in life just half as much as this guy loves alcohol.

Damn. And I thought it was really gonna last this time. I blame the press for dashing our hopes for a lasting, deep connection between these two charming narcissists.

Will this be divorce number 4 or 5 for J Ho??

[quote] Jennifer sure is having a shitty year.

Sometimes my imagination is too vivid. Jenny straining on the toilet, making odd facial expressions... ewwww

Maybe she can get back together with Diddy now?

Are they MISERABLE??? I hope so!!!

The second Saturn Return comes quite a bit later in life, doesn't it? So that can't be it, she's just having a good old fashioned annus horribilis.

Poor j.Lo! Always the bride, never the bridesmaid!

Why do people like these two get married?

Why don't they just live together? Both have shitty track records - including with each other - so WHY get married? How about just hanging around with each other until you get bored?

Compelling "evidence" from the article:

[quote]...and was then spotted without Ben as she headed to a dance studio in Los Angeles with her team. The actress and singer was also absent when the Armageddon star was on hand to brutally mock his close pal Tom Brady during The Roast of Tom Brady on May 5.

Unless it was "Take Your Spouse To Work Day" I don't see why Ben would need to be at a her tour rehearsals at a dance studio. Is he going to be a surprise backup dancer? Also, a Roast is not some fucking glamor show, there's not a red carpet. She doesn't need to be there.

I swear some of these articles think ANY alone time indicates a "problem".

Ben just needs his booze, a carton of smokes, a place to play poker and tonight's disposable floozy. No need for Jen.

He moved out.

R14 bitch has had like 8 divorces!

If those two crazy kids can’t make it…

[quote] How about just hanging around with each other until you get bored?

JLo likes the rush of romantic love and then the rush of getting married believing this time it’s the real deal. ❤️❤️❤️ Did none of you watch her movie and understand the message???

I hope this doesn’t impact sales for her tour…..I mean $8.00 a ticket is hard to recoup…..hehehehehe

Source please r23.

The source is the rag attached at OP, apparently

TMZ has it also.

I hope she gets custody of what's left of his liver, otherwise he'll be dead before Christmas.

R7: "J.Lo's stock has really fallen this year. I bet Ben dumped her because of that."

He was quite obviously embarrassed by her silly, sappy, "soulmates" movie. Straight guys hate that shit. J-Lo should know that by now, FFS.

He probably will die soon. He’ll drink himself into a stupor since nobody is around to stop him.

Somewhere Jennifer Garner is pursing her lips

The two year bearding contract is over!

L'Amour

L'Amour

TMZ is now reporting that Ben's been staying overnight at a separate house in Brentwood for at least the past week or so. They have the pap photos too. Couple this with JLo out house-shopping this week, and no photos of the two together in public for nearly 2 months, and I say a split is in the works.

There's not enough booze in the world to stay married to her.

Not even two years. Sounds about right.

Who is next for her?

A politician - weigth gain -divorce -charity

LOL r34...and saying in her adolescent-sounding, over-enunciated, explainy voice "See? I told you so!"

[quote] JLo likes the rush of romantic love and then the rush of getting married believing this time it’s the real deal. ❤️❤️❤️ Did none of you watch her movie and understand the message???

What movie?!

[QUOTE] TMZ is now reporting that Ben's been staying overnight at a separate house in Brentwood for at least the past week or so.

How nice it must be where you can just go out and grab a mansion in Brentwood on a whim.

Countdown to the late Friday afternoon news dump separation announcement.

Jennifer going back out relentlessly to make herself relevant again was probably not what Ben had in mind.

My thread title was better.

They paid $60 million cash for their house?!

What’s the situation downstairs? Is he formidable?

Surely “Gigli 2” would fix everything.

Strippers in the nearby have started waxing their poonanies since this news has been released!

This is a Code Red for J.Lo.

Ben was her “in case of emergency break glass” guy and if he’s out the door, she’s in quite the narcissistic pickle.

She can’t be alone. But no one’s lining up for a disordered, talentless, nasty bitch inching toward 60. And she only dates famous entertainers so she won’t settle for a nice banker or lawyer who might give her the time of day.

Ben is holding all the cards here. J.Lo may have to let him have his booze and broads on the side to keep this charade going.

She went all in on that stupid documentary celebrating their “love” and with her already looking like a fool with the $7 concert tickets, she can’t afford to go much lower.

After decades of treating people like shit, this is what you reap.

Perhaps Madonna can set her up with one of her boxer boyfriend’s friends.

"SCHIAPARELLI" !!!

Ben has had sufficient.

[quote] What’s the situation downstairs? Is he formidable?

His ass is flat.

That would be hilarious!

I saw this coming a couple of years ago.

[quote]They both thought they were going to be a sensation like they were in the 90's

It was the early 2000s.

They met on the set of GIGLI in late 2001, just a few months after her (second) marriage to backup dancer, Cris Judd.

By summer 2002, she had split from Cris and began dating Ben.

They quickly became a media sensation as "Bennifer" and were engaged in December of that year, with a wedding planned for September 2003.

The much-anticipated GIGLI was released in August 2003 and bombed critically/commercially.

Their engagement was called off in January 2004 and Jen quickly rebounded with Mark Anthony, whom she wed just a few months later in June 2004 (div. 2014).

Ben began dating Jennifer Garner in August 2004 and were wed in June 2005 (div. 2018).

Their mansion is like 2million square feet. He can't stay in another wing? It's that bad that he has to stay in a whole other property? Wow.

Ben Affleck reportedly staying at separate house from Jennifer Lopez as split rumors loom-Page Six

He's gone, girl! Have any of her relationships lasted?

I bet a baby would fix their marriage.

[quote] He's gone, girl!

It’s “Gone Girl”

Fundamentally there is something wrong with these people. What a waste of time and money.

Huh. I had expected them to stay together just to show us what assholes we are.

Run, Ben, run!

I'm rooting for Ben to eventually find happiness. He's a drunken wreck but he doesn't seem like an awful person. JLo can go fuck herself.

Jennifer will take him back.

They’re both a couple of phonies. Self serving and concerned about their brand. Ben is definitely the lesser evil.

and with her already looking like a fool with the $7 concert tickets, she can’t afford to go much lower.

Give her a little credit. The tickets are $8.

Agree, R65.

JLo can spend eternity with dirtball perv P Diddy. A match made in hell.

The vast majority of people would be more shocked if they were still together and happy than if they've broken up (again).

Now he finally has time to spend with his kids!

[quote],Jennifer will take him back.

Take him back? She’ll blackmail him to stay.

She’ll do anything to make this one “work.”

It probably reached the point where Ben couldn't tolerate even one more minute around her without being obliterated drunk.

Seriously, I assumed that part of producing a concert tour is testing the market to see if there is interest out there.

ooops, r72, I meant Jennifer Garner.

IDK if I agree that Ben is the lesser of two evils. He was a public drunkard for years and his kids witnessed it all. They'll probably be in therapy for years because of the way he's behaved.

Garner has a nice, cute, CEO boyfriend of several years. She doesn't want the drunk back.

[quote]Their mansion is like 2million square feet. He can't stay in another wing? It's that bad that he has to stay in a whole other property? Wow.

Jennifer has cameras in every room and the Ring camera catches him digging up bottles outside.

Jennifer: I think I go back to San Juan!

Ben: I know a boat you can get on. Bye, Bye!

Aww she just wanted to be a woman in love.

J Lo's divorce lawyer has the most secure job in Hollywood.

lol, r80.

I blame Affleck more than Lopez.

He should have known better than to marry. He should have insisted they be committed to eacho ther but it will have to be without marrying.

She's an amateur, Dahling!

ooops, committed to each other ^

If she were smart, she should have gone the marry the ugly billionare route like Selma Hayek did.

Has anyone alerted cray-cray Britney yet? She and Ben apparently "made out" back in the day.

I'll bet she'd love to twirl circles around him and rub her tits up and down while trying to pull down her pants and show her pubic region and lame-ass groin tattoos to him!

Who gives a shit!

Predictions for Ben's next divorce tattoo? Maybe the phoenix will just get a second head.

I had a weird dream that JLo was Filipina.

R85 🤮

Ben's best path to happiness would be for him to move to the beach, switch out the booze for edibles, open a Dunkin' franchise, and only make buddy films with Kevin Smith and Matt Damon.

[quote] her pubic region

Her cooter, y’all.

Yes, R85! He could scratch that itchy cooter for her! They could get drunk and high together and go driving.

Someone hook those two crazy mofos up!

I feel like a one-night stand with these two would be epic and movie-worthy. There'd be trashing hotel rooms, a fried chicken run, drunken debauchery, perhaps an impromptu flight to Vegas for a drunken wedding, lots of drugs and drinking, HOPEFULLY many Instagram videos she could post while he was drunk.

Baby, it's got the makings of a box office hit!

She's liking Instagram posts about bad relationships.

Why, it turns out this is a ZIRCON!!

Has-been actor leaves washed-up singing star! Film at 11!

Should it be "Have Bennifer 2.0 secretly broken"?

Turn the oven to OFF. They're done.

The r94 post is so telling of that.

I'm friends with one of J Lo's ex-husbands. Good luck Ben!

He looks like a new parent who hasn't slept in 3 days and the baby just started crying again.

R100 Tell us more, tell us more!

He looks exasperated with her. Poor, poor Ben.

I think I'd be exasperated with her. And turn to Bourbon.

[quote] I'm friends with one of J Lo's ex-husbands

The possibilities are endless.

[Quote] I blame Affleck more than Lopez.

[Quote] He should have known better than to marry. He should have insisted they be committed to eacho ther but it will have to be without marrying.

R81 it was all about rebranding💲💲💲💲

That actually sounds really nice, r90. I think he would be a lot better off if he just retired from Hollywood and the spotlight. I could see him in the Cayman Islands or Spain, fat as hell and happy.

Ben didn’t just make out with Britney, he fucked her shortly after she turned 18. He was basically stalking a teenager.

I hope they signed a prenup

[quote] He looks like a new parent who hasn't slept in 3 days and the baby just started crying again.

Only one with sagging tits.

R3, she's still got her new $60 million dollar home

she's been house hunting, r111. say bye bye to her new home...

Wtf did they need with a monstrosity of a home like that? For $60 million. They aren't Chinese billionaires ffs.

The entire relationship and re-marriage was about showing off. Look at me, look at me, look at me! More on her end than his I'd bet, although he was happy to go along with the entire thing. Ben is supposed to have some brains, but you'd never know it from the way he conducts his life.

Supposedly the contract to raise both their profiles through the roof was for five years. Did they amend the contract? Not getting the ROI they expected for this stunt?

I guess they can milk the publicity of a divorce for at least a year.

Or go the Brad and Angie route and milk the divorce for a decade. Do they perhaps own a winery they could fight over?

Is he drinking again?

He stole her hairstylist!

Don't worry, if she announces a split, she'll have another lined up within the week. She's one of those that has to have a man.

I don't think this was a business arrangement. The whole thing is too stupid and irrational for that.

I think they still share a lot of sexual attraction, paired with their respective need for attention and publicity (JLo) and mothering (Ben).

Jen's need to live in the spotlight and soak up admiration would exhaust anyone. And Ben craves a woman to take charge of him but also resents it.

Neither one can sustain a relationship for long, but rather than address their own character flaws, they both seek to be fixed by yet another relationship. Expect more marriages for both.

What is this DL nonsense about contracts?

These are two people who a) get caught up in the fairytale of being with another most eligible/hottest celebs; and b) recognize the huge lift in attention it will garner them.

There is no enforceable contract here. No reason for one, and every reason you wouldn’t ever want to attempt one.

[quote]And Ben craves a woman to take charge of him but also resents it.

No one wants to fuck Mean Mommy.

[quote]Wtf did they need with a monstrosity of a home like that?

Jenny loves her some real estate. A hedge against inflation and bad marriages.

I think this will be the easiest financial settlement in the sordid history of celebrity California divorces.

Neither of them has to take the other to the cleaners and no children are involved.

They should do a reboot of the Judy Garland/James Mason classic and call it:

"A Has-Been Is Born"

Ben is an idiot frankly. This is the same reason they broke up 20 years ago: he cares too much what the public thinks. Yes, J-Lo is an attention seeker and more than a bit nutty, but he loves her, and he’s giving up his personal happiness (again) because he doesn’t like the media talking about him. Dumb. If he is going to do this he should just stick to being alone.

[quote] Ben didn’t just make out with Britney, he fucked her shortly after she turned 18. He was basically stalking a teenager.

Link?

A heartfelt cover of this tune is what J Lo needs now!

JLo is what we call "DTM"—doing too much.

Agreed, r127 and it's classic aging-fast desperation that all humans experience for different amounts of time and levels of acceptance.

Older people are ignored. That's just a fact of our ingrained ageism. I'm self-aware enough to realize, looking back, that I ignored older people, too, if I was at a social function or within my family.

Now, I recognize it when younger people do it to me. I hate that phrase "What goes around, comes around" but I can't deny its truth.

I can't imagine how jarring that must be if you're a life-long attention addict, gorgeous when young, and have to come to terms with reality.

And don't hand me Madonna. I have nothing against her fans. I know she drew several hundreds of thousands in Brazil, but I wouldn't go to see her or Mick Jagger if they were performing free at my local public park.

I think the only person Ben ever loved was that horsey-faced woman who was his drinking buddy. He resents everyone else because he mistakenly believes they force him to be clean.

Shookus!!!

Their house is massive:

12 bedroom,; 24 bathrooms, a cinema, wine room, whiskey lounge and a spa with a hair and nail salon, and a sauna and massage room. And get this, there's also a separate, 5,000-square-foot sports facility, which includes an indoor pickleball court, boxing ring and sports lounge. On top of that, there's a 2-bedroom guard house.

The only problem is Ben is not allowed in the wine and whiskey lounges so everything else just looks pointless to him, including the wife.

[Quote] Is he drinking again?

when did he stop?

JLo needs serious help. This is like her millionth marriage.

[quote] 12 bedroom,; 24 bathrooms, a cinema, wine room, whiskey lounge and a spa with a hair and nail salon, and a sauna and massage room. And get this, there's also a separate, 5,000-square-foot sports facility, which includes an indoor pickleball court, boxing ring and sports lounge. On top of that, there's a 2-bedroom guard house.

They must have a lot of Roombas.

She's liking Instagram posts implying he has problems with communication. Its definitely over.

Ben, I am ready with the booze!

Jennifer was smart to stay away from the roast, she probably would have gotten insulted. I enjoy a roast but I imagine it's not so fun when a joke is directed at you.

Ben can be a charming boyfriend but makes a shitty husband. Jen Garner must be feeling a bit self satisfied after Ben and J-Lo acted like they were each other's one true love (and not their past husband/wife they had children with).

If you give him a good whiskey and a smoke, you know he’ll spill everything and send that glass flying into the wall.

[quote] Ben and J-Lo acted like they were each other's one true love

JLo’s one and only true love is and always will be, JLo.

And there is no second place.

What will become of the Liz and Eddie of our time? Reality show version, that is. Tune in tomorrow on social media!

There’s no way Ben enjoyed living in that mansion with her. He’d be happy in a barn as long as it had a fully stocked bar.

They split as rumors that Ben Affleck has sucked numerous cocks and gotten fucked up his SCRAWNY ass countless times.

“I hate that fucking bitch! What did I do? AHHHHHH” 🤬

R143 What kind of circumcisions does he like?

Inevitable. Every once in a blue moon, a remarriage succeeds. I have seen so many couples who went back for a second try, almost never succeeds. The reasons for the first split usually remain to reemerge. These two are serial failures at relationships, he is an alcoholic and moody, does not like being a celebrity. She is a raging narcissist, thirsty for public attention, aging and insecure. She also strikes me as very controlling. Surprised it lasted this long.

Considering all this, with the flop "documentary" and failed before it began tour, I see a Vegas residency as her next option.

Ben just needs to go someplace secluded where he can chain smoke all day and not hear any bitches nag.

[quote] Inevitable. Every once in a blue moon, a remarriage succeeds.

They weren't married the first time. They only got as far as getting engaged.

[quote] I think the only person Ben ever loved was that horsey-faced woman who was his drinking buddy.

Matt Damon?

J.Lo is going to crack up and have a complete breakdown any day now. There's only so much flopping one can take, especially when the world is taking so much joy in it. If Kiss of the Spider Woman bombs, her only path forward is to go full-on Sally Kirkland.

I'd like to be there for Ben

When Damon was pictured at the wedding, I thought I could read the thought bubble over his head:

“So, yeah, I know this ain’t going the distance but I’m hoping my good Buddy has a fun day and the excitement of the new marriage will keep him from ending up in the gutter for a little while.”

[quote] He looks exasperated with her. Poor, poor Ben.

I know everyone wants to think it is JLo. It's not. Poor Ben is an alcoholic and only he can fix/cope/deal with it. Loving an alcoholic is a losing proposition. JLo loves him but she also was naive or vain or both to believe that she could be in an equal, loving partnership with someone who is an alcoholic. I tried it once and it was misery for both of us. His need to escape from everything real was all-consuming.

Dunkin profits set to explode.

That documentary was insane. JLo was showing private love letters and emails Ben had written her and even showing some of the lines in the letters to her songwriters that created that shitty new album of hers.

Why is she so desperate for attention and validation from the public?

The 2nd go-round as a couple was not exciting to the public. Nobody even called them "Bennifer," anymore. They were too old.

The gold standard for public excitement (about a couple) was Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, who were 42 and 30, at the beginning of their relationship.

Same r153, I was with my boyfriend for years but no matter what I did the booze always came first for him. I felt like I was dragging him out of the house to go to anything social which I could see happening with J-Lo. Now that he is older sex isn't even a priority, he chooses to get drunk over sex which was the last straw.

Nothing will top Ethel and Ernest.

R155, it's like couples who do that on FB and instagram. They're not trying to convince us they're in love, they're trying to convince themselves.

Poor Jennifer! To willingly give up that fine piece of studmeat!

I think Ben should just give up on women and start presenting hole

Would now be a good time to invest in Marlboro?

Ben is by all accounts a huge douche. I'm glad he stepped away from trying to be Sean Penn 2.0. We didn't need that kind of help. He's also as big of an attention whore as she is. Remember when he threw away that standee of his Cuban girlfriend when they broke up and the paps just happened to be there? Sure Ben

Ben has a nice dick

Ben always blames the woman he’s with for his unhappiness. The reality is, he is the problem.

I like Ben. He once said that people would ask him what was wrong and he'd say nothing, this is just my face. I can relate, I've had people ask me that and I'd say nothing and they'd say you're frowning. I would tell them I'm thinking.

Ben looks like he’s died inside. Has done for a while now. Maybe not in the best place for a relationship. I hope he chucks in the booze and gets some psychological help. It’s not like he can’t afford it,

I could see them settling into a master/servant-type relationship.

They've been spotted together! (Daily Fail)

Who is really left for JLo to marry anyway?

(^.^) Diddy

Justin Timberlake, his career also is going down the shitter. ;)

The home they live in, the Wallingford Estate" was first listed for $110M and then relisted again and again when it didn't sell. They got it for $60M, so assuming it was WAY overpriced.

Why would they ever need such a grand, huge estate? That's so ostentatious, especially by Ben's standards. After his divorce from Garner he lived in a very nice but relatively modest house in Brentwood, near the Riviera iirc.

That house had to be JLo's idea, she's the showier pretentious one. However, Ben went along with it.

Ah, you know what? JLo has a new movie coming out on Netflix next week. Next Friday to be exact. I bet all these stories popping up now are to get her name in the news and get more viewers for the movie (and more ticketholders for her concerts). This is all just bullshit PR.

Have you seen Ben's plantation nouveau beach house in Georgia? He's not the chill one in the relationship. It's called "The Big House" not really a good look when he made Finding my Roots censor the fact that he's descended from slavers.

[quote] Poor Jennifer! To willingly give up that fine piece of studmeat!

There's only so much taffy one woman can pull, R160.

J lo should settle down with a nice man, like Mel Gibson.

r178 as long as she remember to BLOW HIM IN THE HOT TUB!!!

I don’t believe for a second that she welcomes this attention.

She’s a beautiful woman who wants everyone to see that she has it all. This again punctures the fantasy.

One tastefully done longplayer to announce your love to the world would have been sufficient, Jennifer!

Love Barbra

Give Ben my regards are you botoxed

[quote] I don’t believe for a second that she welcomes this attention.

You don’t know much about Narcissistic Personality Disorder, do you?

There’s something hard to articulate about Ben. In some strange way he’s a lot sexier when he’s in misery. I’m sure he’s sincerely unhappy but almost anyone would be at pains to conceal it, whereas he is positively Shakespearean in his display. And he knows the cameras are there. He wants it to be seen.

He could put on a convincing false face for the moment or two it takes to get from a front door and into a car. Instead, he displays his agony and indulges in paroxysms of rage over his never being left alone by the prying eyes of all his lessers who swarm like cicadas every time he and his wife, who is dying to be the showiest woman of the moment, emerge to the glare of the lights and the paps calling their names.

Is there another male celeb anywhere who gives all his power away like that? Who does he want to think he is? And why must he act like Sisyphus when ***he courted publicity all on his own***.

He could’ve been a dock worker. He could’ve tutored disadvantaged kids who wanted scholarships to colleges. Instead, he went for Hollywood and can’t believe even still that we won’t stop torturing him with cameras and attention. What the fuck did he expect?

You brought this on yourself, you fucking fool! Did no one warn you that you have the power to start it but never to stop it?

I liked The Accountant. But Accountant 2? Even J Ho said no. That's how this all started.

I still haven't seen the documentary in full, because there isn't enough tequila in the world for that, but there are a bunch of clips floating around from it that are worth watching for the sheer hilarity of her narcissism. In one, her team reaches out to all these big celebs to get them to do cameos in her movie and they all turn her down. And then someone asks "Do you want Vanessa Hudgens?" and she goes "For what?" 😂😂😂

She's seriously beginning to enter Faye Dunaway territory and I pray she leans into it.

This is why you never get back with an ex. You broke up for a reason. It always ends in disaster. The kids must be so confused.

[quote] The kids must be so confused.

You don’t know the half of it.

[quote] Nothing will top Ethel and Ernest.

For all we really know, JLo and Ben are breaking up for the exact same reason, which can be explained in two words: "Dutch oven."

[quote]Who is really left for JLo to marry anyway?

Shawn Mendes

My guess is that she will go young, the next time, as Cher and Madonna have done. She's rich, she's still attractive. Time to enjoy life with a young man who has no baggage.

[QUOTE]her team reaches out to all these big celebs to get them to do cameos in her movie and they all turn her down. And then someone asks "Do you want Vanessa Hudgens?" and she goes "For what?"

I'm surprised she allowed this in the film. She's unwanted and was most ungracious about Hudgens. Funny, yes, and I'm glad it was left in, but I can't fathom why.

If I were an alcoholic the last thing I'd do is get involved with a woman like Jen who needs to live her life out loud to provide a sense of fulfilment. Eventually your audience turns, which is happening now, and you end up on the front pages for an entirely different reason. I don't blame anyone for trying to find love but they both should have known better.

I think Hollywood hates her but has tolerated her because her “music” career was shockingly lucrative for a while.

Now, there’s really nothing left and there’s no need to fake it anymore. Her $8 concert tickets are less than a puppet show at a local community center.

I’m sure the whole industry is laughing at her.

8 dollars is incredibly affordable

lol I don't know where people are coming up with these $8 tickets. Even I would consider going if they were that cheap.

She didn’t want to sell tickets for $8. They were marked to move because no one was buying any.

Her entire tour is a disaster of disinterest.

A crisis of confidence?

Supposedly they have a non cheating contract that says if one of them is unfaithful, they have to pay the offended party $5 million dollars. How utterly ridiculous. They are both garbage people.

Oh you KNOW JLo was responsible for that cheating clause. Girl will never forget.

I can’t believe how many videos are online roasting her, her latest projects and marriage. Remember all the good press she got for hustlers???! She didn’t capitalize on it very well.

“This is Me…Dumped.”

[quote] She didn’t want to sell tickets for $8.

She never wanted to go down the Stoney End, but somebody forced her down the Stoney End!

[quote] Oh you KNOW JLo was responsible for that cheating clause. Girl will never forget.

She said that Diddy was the first man who ever cheated on her. I was thinking: "Really?"

JLo is really in trouble. I’d advise making up some unprovable medical condition to explain her erratic behavior that no one can disprove. Attention and sympathy. Win win.

Her control freak personality is enough to send the most tolerant man looking for a razor to open his veins.

I'm waiting for you Ben! Can't wait to change my last name to Affleck, it's easier to pronounce!

R162 made me choke. I heart you.

R183 I would like you to be my life coach please.

Ben Affleck is very smart, good looking and very talented. He is also a raging alcoholic. That’s all, that’s it. He chooses booze. JLo is batshit, but he seems to have a Keith Richard like tolerance for alcohol and cannot or will not stop. So fuck it. The women take it for as much as they can and then bounce.

That Diddy video is horrible. Is there a thread about it or have his PR zapped it?

Again, they don’t have a contract, people. You sound like tinfoil teenagers.

R207 with the video being on CNN I think Diddy’s PR team has bigger things to worry about than whether people are talking about it on Datalounge

To be fair to JLo, I know there is a lot to what r153 wrote, assuming that Affleck is drinking, gambling or both.

Al - Anon and Gam-anon helps a lot of people.

The thing is, she's so damn famous, she'd have to have a meeting come to her IF she can bring herself to admit she needs and wants that resource.

I’m not convinced the marriage is over. JLo will NOT want to get divorced again after all her gushing about this being fate etc. and Ben really doesn’t have the strength of will to make that move on his own. Even with Garner his way of getting out was to make his behavior so intolerable that she gave up, and that took years.

Gwyneth Paltrow said to Diane Sawyer in a 2003 interview when asked about Affleck, “Ben makes life tough for himself. He's got a lot of complications, but you know, he really is a great guy. So I hope he sorts himself out." She also said that Affleck’s perfect woman would be “any sort of stripper at Scores. Anyone that serves cold beer in a bikini.”

Is it really that bad? It's a vanity project not a lot cared about but was it the worst thing ever?

Ok nevermind that music sucks. Sounds like she's singing through her butt.

R213 I can't speak for 'This Is Me', but 'The Greatest Love Story Never Told' is basically like a mockumentary that isn't aware it's a mockumentary—all the cringe, none of the laughs.

I actually enjoyed it! I thought it was camp! I know I’m in the minority though.

I think she just got a little too hyped up on the fact that media & fan feedback was really quite positive when they got back together and she forget most people don’t really want to hear this much about it.

Ben can't love anyone else properly because he doesn't love himself or have the maturity to truly accept himself for what he is, when he is sober.

The alcohol and drugs help him forget that his dad didn't think he or their family was a good enough reason to stop drinking or be a sober stay-home dad. The alcohol and drugs helps him forget that he also fucked up as a dad, just like his dad before him, most likely like he swore to himself he never would. The alcohol and drugs help him forget every failure he has had, be it a professional one, relationship related, or a personal one where he feels he's failed himself.

There isn't a woman hot enough or patient enough that gives Ben that sense of peace, that alcohol and drugs do. It's why he so obviously holds hostility towards his sober self and sober life: he is smart enough to know he should be happier when he's clean and with a person who loves him but he's not because it brings him zero peace. So, he grows to resent whoever is trying to get/keep him from drinking and drugging and he hates himself, too.

He cannot deal with his failures as a sober person and his failures continue to increase as an addict every time he falls off the wagon, and each time someone comes along and drags him back into sobriety by his bootstraps he is faced with an increased number of failures. It's a sad cycle but one that only Ben has the power to stop.

R217 I know Ben likes his booze and his smokes. He's into other drugs as well?

Everything Goop said at R212 is 100% correct.

[quote] To be fair to JLo

No thanks.

R217 = JLo; in the midst of her narcissistic smear campaign.

so is he boozing or what?

Ben just needs a full time whore whose sole purpose is satisfying his manly needs. Okay, okay, I volunteer.

[quote] I wish I loved anything in life just half as much as this guy loves alcohol, coke, and waitresses.

FTFY R12.

The thing is, I don’t think they ever had any vision for what marriage would look like beyond looking stunning at an opulent wedding that would land them on mag covers and being photographed walking arm in arm.

I don’t believe either know how to just be, and be happy doing it. Things like making dinner and handing out together on the back deck enjoying a nice meal and conversation.

Wow she is harsh looking in the cold light of day.

R225 Oh please. No idea of what marriage was like. They've both been married for years before. If they don't know by now..

there is no way the sex is still good.

R221: incorrect. I agree with the posters who say she is a control freak and a narcissist. Also, I believe she's a crap mom, to boot.

I have empathy for Ben, because I have close friends who have struggled like he has. It's a torment. I hope he can sort it out for himself one day, for his liver goes.

She will never change, as narcissists never do.

* before his liver goes

She’s a controlling bitch who thought he was going to stop drinking because she told him to and because she monitors everything he does. That’s not how it works.

She looks proud of herself-he looks ashamed.

I'm sure she shamed him about his past failures, R232. She doesn't get that no one shames him as badly as he does, when he's sober. No one.

I’m going to embarrass myself and admit not only did I watch her movie musical (or whatever it was) I watched the behind the scenes doc as well.

It was obvious their relationship was already over. They don’t even like each other. Probably never did. Her movie was basically, yup, I did it again. Married too quickly and it’s already over. I don’t care though because I’m a hopeless romantic and I BeLiEvE iN L❤️ve!

[quote]JLo needs serious help. This is like her millionth marriage.

Forever searching for Daddy

For anyone that is amused by astrology, this was a reading done of Lopez by a well-regarded astrologer back when she was still married to Marc Anthony (frankly, it sounds like a very gentle description of "The Narcissist in Love":

Love and Sensuality:

Jennifer Lopez enjoys captivating people with the elegance and ease of her expression. She is a witty and engaging flirt, an avid player of the game of love. As a result, the history of her affections is liable to be episodic, a long series of chapters about conquests or fleeting love affairs. She may carry on some love relationships by writing letters.

Jennifer Lopez’s birth chart indicates an emotional function which is expressed in a direct and fairly impulsive way. She enjoys reaching out to other people and making discoveries. An eternal teenager with her gaze riveted on the future, she is imbued with an eminently subjective and personal idealism.

Jennifer Lopez would be unable to settle for a mediocre emotional life with just anyone. Only someone of exception, who is brilliant and successful, strong and generous, tender and loyal, can hope to arouse Jennifer Lopez’s admiring affections. This person won’t be easy to find… Then, if by chance they manage to disappoint Jennifer Lopez and fail to live up to the grandiose dreams Jennifer Lopez projected on them, their lives will be full of woe. Jennifer Lopez will not grant the benefit of any doubt.

Unsettled is the word that sums up Jennifer Lopez’s love life. Nothing is ever certain or final in this area. Her frivolous and mischievous nature helps her to meet and attract many potential partners, but they usually let her down. She will certainly have more than one long-term relationship.

From the outside, Jennifer Lopez seems to be detached and aloof, but on the inside she is an extremely complex individual, full of contradictions. Because she sometimes feels vulnerable emotionally, she tries to control not only her own feelings and urges, but may also strive to manipulate those of her partners. She aspires to a profound and enduring spiritual unity, but at the same time, the idea of abandoning herself and yielding to the other terrifies her. This anguish may be a source of rather extreme behavior patterns and a somewhat self-focused attitude which could damage the relationship. Because she is guarded and somewhat secretive, she tends to be suspicious and is especially uneasy about spontaneous intimacy, although she is fascinated by sexuality. Within the privacy of the couple, she will not express her feelings unless she is subject to some tension. Life may be peppered with frequent crises and feuds, arguments and spats which usually act as erotic provocation. This derivation of eroticism from anxiety tends to be one of the fundamental characteristics of her emotional and sexual functioning. As a result, she is likely to be attracted by stormy and complicated relationships.

R227, doesn’t matter how many times she been married.

She lives for and thieves on attention. She’s not going to get that same rush inside her home.

Narcissism is a cancer.

If he's living separately in a more modest rental in Brentwood, that implies to me that he moved out and initiated the separation, not her. That would imply to me that he got out to protect his continuing sobriety, not because he was failing at it.

That awful movie she did was the straw that broke the camel's back. She can't keep herself or her relationships out of the spotlight for 5 minutes. Affleck hates that, he's said so in the past. He looked mightily pissed in the last pap shots taken of them together, in NYC a month or so ago. He moved out and on first, not her. He may have done so to hold his life and sober state together.

[quote]Forever searching for Daddy

"Jennifer Lopez has always craved attention, says Judith Newman in Allure. When she was growing up in the Bronx, the 40-year-old diva did everything she could to keep everyone’s eyes focused on her. “I was always in gymnastics and winning medals, or in track winning trophies, or softball, or in shows as one of the top five girls. I was always getting noticed. And I liked it. I liked it.” But it wasn’t narcissism that drove her to seek the spotlight, she insists. Rather, it was a need to be loved and wanted by her frequently absent father. “I don’t want to get all psychological and in a therapy session, but my dad worked nights and slept during the day, so we never saw him much. When I was 5 or 6, I would lie in bed at night and tell myself, over and over, ‘I know my daddy loves me.’ Yet there was this kind of thing where I wondered about it … if because of his absence he didn’t care about me or about us."

Why are they called Bennifer? Thats sexist.

It should be Jennien.

Whatever brings her down.

This is some sweet, sweet schadenfreude. This bitch has been shitting on people all her life. She's truly worthy of cancellation.

I'm persuaded by the posts here that Affleck is embarrassed or regrets that floptastic," stupid "This is Me..Now" mini-movie.

But he should put the blame where it belongs by looking in the mirror.

Why didn't he put his sober or drunk foot down and refuse to appear in that awful presentation of her screwed-up relationship history?

For those of you who don't know because you had the good sense to skip it, Affleck appears in it, so point that finger at yourself. Ben.

And, let's pretend that right now, JLo is basking in the glow of all of her recent career moves being a hit. Affleck would be front and center loving it.

Face it, as an entertainer, right now, he's not well served by whatever good instincts he may have once had.

For example, that whole "Finding Your Roots" fiasco could've have been avoided if he had noted that his ancestry has come full circle; from slave-owning to his mother marching for civil rights.

But no, he pressured Henry Louis Gates to shelve that episode, and Gates, being the Star-Fucker Extraordinaire he is, caved.

Then it all leaked, as it should have, and everybody was embarrassed, as they should have Ben.

Ruh-roh! Ben spotted out without his wedding ring, by TMZ today. Looks like a split announcement is likely imminent.

^^evidence

[quote] She doesn't get that no one shames him as badly as he does, when he's sober. No one.

I don't think he's sober that often and for very long. When he is sober, I don't think he feels that much shame. I saw an interview where he talks about how "it's all good, now" with his kids. You can't just be sober for 30 days and all is forgiven.

People magazine is also noting that they spent Mother's Day apart, although both were in LA.

R218 I don’t think it’s the problem he has at the moment but there have been a few time periods in his career where he was visibly coked out (most noticeably during his bizarre press run for the flop SURVIVING CHRISTMAS which I think was not long before the first time he went to rehab)

I wonder how long we'll have to wait before we get Bennifer 3.0.

I think it's hilarious that they already apparently hate each other so much that they can't occupy the same VAST ESTATE with 12 bedrooms and 25 bathrooms? It's bigger than many boutique hotels, but they just can't possibly risk running into one another once a day or so.

He's such a fucking attention whore flashing his ringless hand like that.

I feel like he’s trying to humiliate JLo with that. If he’s not embarrassed by their second flop why should she be?

I’m all shookus’d up over this news.

I wonder if Lindsay has been Shookus'ing her ass in Ben's direction...

R239 Who cares? She’s a cancerous cunt. Fuck her.

Whoever had two years will win the office pool.

[quote] they can't occupy the same VAST ESTATE with 12 bedrooms and 25 bathrooms?

25 bathrooms? OY that's a lot of Ty-D-Bol!

I'm always baffled why big homes/estates need more bathroom than bedrooms. It's odd to me. Just how many different places do you NEED to take a shit??

Have you seen the size of J Lo’s ass??

R179 Why do people bring up the fact that someone had slavers in their ancestry? Slavery ended 159 years ago. It's not shameful to have bad ancestors everyone has them if you look closely enough. I had one of the nastiest slavers in America who came from one of the most important families historically. But my great-grandfather from that same family was an antislaver. That Nasty women who my grandmother called a social climber was Mary Ball. The mother of George Washington. She was exceptionally cruel to her slaves. Washington inherited them and worked to free them. Every country and every race has had slaves. There are more slaves today than there were during American slave times.

What kind of underwear do we think Ben wears? Hopefully they show off his ample bulge.

JLo was emasculating Ben. What with the drinking and smoking he didn't need another boner killer in his life at his age. Why doesn't he just stay single and drink and fuck and become an old fat pig like Nicolson did.

Why did he and Shookus break up? They seemed perfect for each other (in an incredibly dysfunctional way).

R261 In my fantasy, I'd say fashion bikini briefs. In reality, probably boxer briefs like all the dudebros.

I’m not sure why this makes me sad, but it does. Thought it was sweet they reconnected and married.

It was kind of sweet and I don't think Jennifer was bad from him for awhile. She seemed to pick up the pieces and keep him busy, give him structure and family contexts, and not too much a sloppy drunk.

Days, not weeks

I've known a few booze addicts. They are liars. So it's her fault that she thinks she can "heal" him and all that BS. He ain't changing for nobody. He doesn't have a problem with his behaviors.

It's sad in theory, r265...but the reality is she's a cunt. Five or six marriages (lost track) can't be wrong.

I wonder how Marc Anthony was able to stay married to her for 10 years. Quite the accomplishment in hindsight.

Probably because they never were actually together, r269

Boxer briefs definitely. Hopefully clean.

Hours, not days

[quote]Why doesn't he just stay single and drink and fuck and become an old fat pig like Nicolson did.

I lol'd at this but its so true. He should have gone this route, he'd be so much happier and we (the public) would love following the sight of it. I think Ben's upbringing - his Radcliffe-educated, feminist mother - keeps him off this road, however

r263, the best part of the Shookus era was their breakup - she furiously keyed his expensive gift car, leaving it in a public parking garage for paps to see. Classic bitch move, he hasn't had an equal partner like that since.

I feel like he and Shookus are much more intellectual equals. Also, he probably liked that she had a sense of humor.

Why is he famous? He’s a subpar actor at best, he looks like shit. His personal life makes him look like a fool.

He's an Oscar-winning producer (for Argo, a decent film) and arguably a better director than actor, although he was nominated for Supporting Actor in his heyday. He won his first Oscar for writing Good Will Hunting with Matt Damon, their first screenwriting foray out of the gate.

It's unfortunate his rocky and crazy personal life overshadows his career. He's responsible for much of that though. He could have left LA a long time ago, for more private quarters, but he loves the limelight there.

[quote] I don't think he's sober that often and for very long. When he is sober, I don't think he feels that much shame. I saw an interview where he talks about how "it's all good, now" with his kids. You can't just be sober for 30 days and all is forgiven.

He's not sober. Alcoholics are always searching for an anchor, someone to cling to, completely unaware that they are unable to be a reciprocal partner in a relationship. They resent you and blame you for THEIR failures. It is truly toxic.

She seems exhausting.

I read that he was never over her even after marrying Jennifer. So after the divorce, he had another chance with J.Lo. He probably jumped thru all kinds of hoops just to fulfill his wish or desire or who knows what. The idea of something was probably sexier and better than the reality....it's probably too much work for ben now, in order to maintain the relationship. c'mon, we know the whore is high maintenance.

I thought he broke up with her, the first time.

Didn't he practically leave her at the altar the first time? (like maybe a month or two before the wedding). At least that's what I'm recalling, but could be wrong.

Jane Fonda called this early.

[quote]I wonder how Marc Anthony was able to stay married to her for 10 years.

Heroin?

I thought it was obvious as neon that they both were on the rebound from each other when he married Garner and she married Marc Anthony.

All I can recall from that period is saying to friends that I was hoping Matt Damon would crash the wedding and run off with him like what happened at the end of The Graduate.

If these two crazy kids can't make it work, what hope do the rest of us have?

If he looks miserable, I am going to assume she kicked him out.

R285 oh, to start the day off with a huge laugh 😂

If it didn't work the first time, what makes the think it was gonna work the 2nd time?

I wonder if she pokes his insecurities by saying things like, your hair looks so fake etc ...

I wonder if she feels disgusted by him. He must be useless in bed if he drinks and drugs

[quote]I wonder if she feels disgusted by him. He must be useless in bed if he drinks and drugs.

Why does everyone assume that Jennifer Lopez is a constant dream to be around?

I think there's no way he left her. Ben Affleck doesn't ever do the breaking up. He traps himself in relationships with confident women with strong personalities and extremely clear visions for what they want and what they want their lives to look like with the hope that they'll keep him in line and give him purpose, eventually grows to resent them for it, then relapses and blows it all up, forcing them to end it.

He probably fell off the wagon and she told him he couldn't be in the house if he was drinking, so he fucked off to Brentwood. He'll end up schtupping a shot girl or his masseuse or something to put the final nail in the coffin, gain 40lbs, go to rehab, very publically lick his wounds, rinse and repeat. No way will JLo drive him the way Garner did though. I can't imagine her having any patience or empathy for someone that isn't carrying his weight as president of her fan club/Disney prince.

I wonder 🤔 what she thinks of date night Dunkin’ Donuts?

I bet she secretly hates Matt Damon

“I fucking hate this bitch!” 🥃🚬

R276 he’s never been Oscar nominated in the acting or directing categories. His heyday of making good, not great films as a director and actor are long over. He’s already slid into doing B level shit. His Oscars for writing and producing are a fluke.

Ben has a writing Oscar for something he did not write.

Jen has a "singing" career but doesn't sing.

At least at this level they are a perfect match.

The best acting he's done in years was in that Dunkin Donuts commercial.

Maybe evah.

No one has brought this up but I always thought it was odd (and a bad sign) that she started shilling her cocktail line “DeLola” after they got back together especially when she’d always been known as a teetotaler. Not blaming her for Ben’s behavior but she should have held a hard line on that…like any alcoholic he’d take any excuse to say his partner’s a hypocrite so he should be able to do anything he wants.

That was a pure cash grab r300. YMMV

She gives and gives.

St. Jennifer.

You know.

Who was with Diddy when someone was shot by....

Was she driving the escape car through all those red lights???

Bonita & Clyde

Beautiful people like JLo are almost never good in bed.

The whole they’re trying to glimpse themselves in the mirror so they can see how hot they are.

They’re ok busy posing to get down.

I’m not sure if she was driving the getaway car, I think she was shooting out the back

[quote]Beautiful people like JLo are almost never good in bed.

Oh I beg to differ. JLo must have a magic snatch.

*publicly

Disney Princess 👸🏼 *

I watched this last night. She looks really odd and everything is so phony and awkward.

even her smile above looks phony as phuck

They are the same person. Both should have crippling imposter syndrome, but just Blue Steel their way thro it. Both flash their fingers to paps to denote marital status. Both like to flash their butts. Both call the paps. Both are addicted to relationships. Both are assholes

[quote] Beautiful people like JLo are almost never good in bed.

She only has a career because she is good in bed. She may not work as hard today but she definitely had skills back in the day.

Funny how she and Diddy are both having the worst time ever - at the same time…

r286, meet r25.

In all fairness to JLo R310, Those 73 Questions are all kinda awkward and staged.

JLo knew when she married him he had issues. He is a drunk and has a gambling addiction. And she is publicity hungry. Even worse than he is. I never expected them to last, but I'm surprised at how fast this unravelled. THings have not been going well for her. She has been flopping all over the place. Now she has someone to blame.

I wonder what Ben's post-divorce tattoo is going to be.

Ben is miserable being married. The only time he's happy is when he's with Matt and the other dude bros. He needs to face this fact instead of drinking to suppress this obvious truth.

[quote]He probably fell off the wagon and she told him he couldn't be in the house if he was drinking, so he fucked off to Brentwood.

More likely he was getting sick from all the fighting and tension and felt his sobriety slipping, so he moved himself out to the new rental. Unless he was totally out of control, I can't see JLo kicking him out even for drinking. She's too invested in seeing this marriage work and getting all the pr mileage she can out of it.

That back tattoo on Ben at r318 is just hideous.

Ben is her prize - her white male prize. A gift to herself. He’s an accessory for her.

[quote]That back tattoo on Ben at [R318] is just hideous.

I like tattoos more than most of you mincing prisspots do, but I have to agree. It looks like a design for a 2009 Ed Hardy T-shirt that was rejected for being too ugly.

He wasn't sober at that roast

All he needs is some hot pussy!

[quote] More likely he was getting sick from all the fighting and tension and felt his sobriety slipping, so he moved himself out to the new rental.

I don't think so. His sobriety seems to be other people's responsibility.

His OTHER Jennifer came to visit him at his 100k a month rental.

Not going to link, but it was on the Daily Fail.

I wonder if she and Leah Remini will repair their friendship. They seemed to mutually ghost each other after the wedding and I'm pretty Leah didn't attend.

My favorite part of the tattoo is the feather that just cuts off.

100K/month? Jesus that is crazy.

Maybe Ben is working on a film and needed to get away from her. She can't be easy to live with. She's had too many relationships and always ends up breaking up with them. Mark Anthony did slap her around, though.

Maybe the OTHER Jennifer is taking him to rehab again.

Maybe JennyG was just dropping him off a Happy Meal.

I thought Jennifer G was engaged?

TMZ has a pic of him wearing the ring again.

The wrote her some amusing dialogue for this......timeless actually.

WILL: You know, People, US, Star, The Enquirer. Sometimes I even go online.

JENNIFER: I'm sorry, are you saying that the details of my personal life-- the tragedy, the pain, the heartache-- that-- that's entertaining to you?

WILL: Oh! God, yes!

Jennifer Lopez: Congratulations, Karen and Lyle. And just remember, the secret to a happy marriage is - oh, who am I kidding?

He’s better off…and so is she…

He married Jennifer Garner because she was pregnant.

She was really funny on Will and Grace. She had great chemistry with Sean.

Back when they were making Good Will Hunting a psychic told them the film would catapult both of them to stardom and that Ben would find everlasting love with his soulmate -- an actress named "Jennifer." And he's been going back and forth ever since.

Trivia: The first film Ben directed was a short called: "I Killed My Lesbian Wife, Hung Her On A Meat Hook, and Now I Have a Three Picture Deal with Disney"

R337 = Scott Foley

[quote]Considering all this, with the flop "documentary" and failed before it began tour, I see a Vegas residency as her next option.

At Circus Circus. In the Clown Room.

She’s done. Stick a fork in her.

I think Ben likes her mother as a gambling companion better than Jenny's poussey, no matter how many times they've been around the block.

R339 You weren't kidding!

Maybe Ben is having erectile dysfunction if he is drinking again.

R339 if the psychic told him his soul mate is named Jennifer then it could be anyone: Jennifer Aniston, Carpenter, Jason-Leigh, etc.

And even Jennifer Coolidge!

Is there a distillery named "Jennifer"?

Jennifer Aniston would be a better match for Ben. She’s chill and would let him do his own things and not be a controlling nag.

Seems like for all their married life, it was Jennifer Garner who was willing to put in the work to keep Ben functioning. It took a very long time for her to give up the fight. Of course their three kids were a reason to keep trying, and I think Ben is not actually a bad person. I think he is just unstable. Almost as if he never grew up emotionally. Never had to curb his impulses. He seemed to need the stability of a family, and Garner appeared to mother him as much as she did their kids. That is just my impression. But I also feel like Jennifer Lopez is not willing to put in the work to deal with his dependencies and addictions. Where Garner would smother him with "care" Lopez won't. Or at least not in the way he may need. For Lopez telling him to get botox or fillers, is "care". LOL! The thing is Ben Affleck seems to keep looking for help from other people, when he needs to be looking within himself to handle his shit.

Jennifer Garner is the GOOD Jennifer. Jennifer Lopez is the WILD Jennifer. Too bad he can't have them both.

I don't think Jennifer Lopez has been "wild" in decades. She seems very very rich lady OCD.

He looks fed up and has for year or more.

His Dad is an alcoholic and has been all during Ben’s early years. Father was homeleess in and out of rehab, actor, aspiring playwright, and even a janitor at Harvard. See a pattern.

I was watching his Dunkin Donut commercials...which were really funny, except he had to stick Lopez in them and she was always the Scold. Always being the Grown Up belittling him. That was her role. I wonder if it reflected the relationship dynamics of their real life.

Ben is Ben. He’s a functioning alcoholic who always seems to have some kind of system in place to keep him from falling too far. Even if the system is just Jennifer Garner.

I imagine his ability to pull it together and make successful movies is a big way he is able to live with his alcoholism. “At least I have it more together than my Dad” type of thing.

Ben's first break came as a child actor. My generation was forced to watch this in 6th grade. No it's not Dana Plato level fame, but it explains a lot.

[quote]His Dad is an alcoholic and has been all during Ben’s early years. Father was homeleess in and out of rehab, actor, aspiring playwright, and even a janitor at Harvard. See a pattern.

And suicide runs high in the family. Both his father's mother and his younger brother killed themselves, the latter with a shotgun. Both did this in Los Angeles, even though the family is originally from Boston-Providence (Ben's paternal grandmother was a weather lady in the 50s/60s at the local Providence station). LA has some kind of toxic draw for the whole family.

These two are non-stop drama.

Ben says in the article at r358 that he's "come to his senses" and it was all a "fever dream" that it could work. He loves the drama as much as she does, come one. He didn't realize this before they walked down the aisle? You'd think he was 18 years old.

The quotes here boost the notion that it was him who pulled the plug, who left their house and moved out to his own place.

R359 Or there is always the slim possibility that NEWSPAPERS MAKE UP A BUNCH OF DRAMA AND QUOTES to get clicks.

Men don't leave. Jennifer Lopez prolly threw him out.

R361 Straight men leave, but only when they have other pussy lined up. And even then they'll drag their asses as long as they can get away with it. Since that doesn't look like the case here, I agree it's unlikely he was the one who initiated the separation.

Sounds like she caught him stepping out on her (again).

I think it was The Drink.....

TMZ caught them together yesterday in the same car. So they might be not divorcing right away. I still don’t think they’ll last, but they might want to not perceived as multiple losers at marriage so soon.

Be perceived ^.

I blame Ozempic and the side effects.

Sto p denying yourself-Just eat the cake already!

They aren’t gonna break up. The relationship wasn’t generating 2003-level headlines, so now they’ll pull this “will they or won’t they” bs for however long it keeps them on the tabloid covers.

This really could have been a way (albeit lame) to try and boost her sagging concert ticket sales and drum up some "sympathy" for her.

I.E. - publicity stunt to raise their profile (what re368 said)

Ben has only been married once. JLo had more husbands

R363 = JLo’s PR, desperate for anything to stick.

R370 does the verb tense challenge you? Or maths? Ben has been married 2 times to date.

I wonder if they’re legally married anyway.

Oh, like Aniston and that Justin dude?

Yeah.

Did they sign a prenup? Media outlets said they don't.

Justin and Jennifer never married?

Isn’t he gay, too?

JLo gots 4 husbins.

If Matt was truly a friend, he’d say look Bunny I’ll be back. I’ve got to go sit on Ben’s face for a month and calm him down.

He needs to spend a drunken month in Las Vegas and gamble away his sorrows.

Be honest, if you had all the money he does and you realized the dream relationship you thought was going to make you happy has fizzled out and won't work out long term, wouldn't you go off the rails for a month and just get it out of your system?

I probably would. Not Vegas though, somewhere nicer.

[quote]Justin and Jennifer never married?

It came out that they weren’t after they broke up.

[quote]But I also feel like Jennifer Lopez is not willing to put in the work to deal with his dependencies and addictions.

Dunno about that. She spent a lot of time with Diddy who is into everything and then there was Marc Anthony who . . . well, heroin face.

Do you think Jeff Bezos really likes the Latina with the huge jugs?

She could care less about losing Ben. What she cares about is the world thinking she’s a loser in love.

That’s how narcissism works. It’s never about emotion or feeling or love.

It’s about you and what people think about you.

She’s a fucking abomination.

I take it the “Kiss of the Spider Woman” musical Ben is producing will have an awkward press conference.

"Taco flavored kisses for my Ben."

[quote] Sto p denying yourself-Just eat the cake already!

DONE!

Their marriage might have gone off the rails because her album/movie/doc about their boring ass love story garnered a lot of hate and criticism. Everyone on Tiktok is mocking her and her career is slowly circling the drain.

Honestly, if it had gone the other way, with her album/doc/movie/concert being a huge success, they would probably be happy.

He's probably miserable because he realizes he married someone whom the public loves to hate and he doesn't want to circle the drain with her.

Save yourself Ben!! Hook up with a hot actress that everyone loves! Sandra Bullock! Charlize Theron! Get on a winning team!

Jlo was on Kimmel tonight and was hyped up and seemed a touch nervous. She looked great.

She did look great. I guess she did not allow questions about Ben, though she mentioned him once.

Ben needs to stop caring what the public thinks. That has always been his issue. He lets media opinion dictate his life.

Bennifer is no more?!?

But... but.... their love was real and true! Is nothing sacred anymore? Do we believe in NOTHING?!?

Her album and tour would never be a success because she can’t sing.

Her original round of pop success was due to her being a big deal at the time with young women who buy music.

Those women have aged out. She’s aged out.

I think the public would like Jennifer if she lightened up a bit in attitude. Stop acting like she is some kind of global superstar.

Her diva-ness is her best feature.

She’s mostly a joke now.

Romances that Helen Keller can see are doomed… terrible singer who doesn’t realize it… and no one is seeing a movie for her acting.

She’s kardashian-adjacent.

[quote] Jlo was on Kimmel tonight and was hyped up and seemed a touch nervous. She looked great.

Was she promoting her failed album, her failed tour or her failed marriage?

My problem with Jennifer Lopez is that she is always "on." She seems so calculating, and so fake. And to the person who said Ben should marry someone everyone loves, he did. Jennifer Garner was very well liked. I think it would be refreshing if Jennifer Lopez took off her public mask and just acted like a normal person.But she is too locked down.

Being locked down [italic]is[/italic] her normal self.

I cannot imagine what it feels like to be so relentlessly ambitious. Is a person like that perpetually anxious? Excited? Pumped up and rearing to go?

[quote] I cannot imagine what it feels like to be so relentlessly ambitious with no talent.

FIFY

I feel a bit sorry for her right now (I don't usually). I mean she lost Ben back in the day and then she's had nothing but shit since then and he's actually shit as well but she got him back and I'm sure she was happy for a few months over it. Now.. it's all back to shit again.

At least she's not home hiding under the covers regardless of how shitty her life is right now. The girl can't choose a decent man ever. She's a dreck magnet.

[quote] The girl can't choose a decent man ever.

And what is the common denominator in all of these relationships?

Her.

Toxic bitch.

This about it.

That video or movie whatever she called it was something out of the mind of a teenage girl. I’m so in love! I want everyone to know how in love I am and, more importantly, how in love Ben is with me! Ours is one of the greatest loves! Men desire me!

It’s warped and immature. Sad.

She’s got the looks and the money and the career and she’s still doing things like that?

JLo is undoubtedly already dating. Most likely someone familiar who’s harbored a crush on her and she knows she can easily manipulate.

Has anyone seen Pitbull lately?

She has at minimum another three marriages ahead of her. Each one will be the new love of her life and this time will be different than the dozens of other marriages she’s had.

“I’ve never felt the way I do when I’m with (fill in the blank). That’s how I knew it was real love this time.”

Then the inevitable divorce and they’ll be erased like a mob hit. Never to be heard from again.

Poor Jenny, she might have been happier had she stayed on that block.

She tried the rich, white woman cosplay but it doesn't suit her. I think she was happiest with A-Rod but he cheated on her relentlessly. She also stayed with Skeletor for 10 years which is a record for her. Those Boston "Blue bloods" are also highly racist and never would have accepted her. It was a bad match back in the day, and nothing's changed.

Her picker's broken.

She went to the Met Gala and Atlas premiere alone? I wonder who Ben was fucking during that time?

[quote]She went to the Met Gala and Atlas premiere alone?

Maybe she’s turning over a new leaf? It’s possible for her to do things and live her life without a man. She needs to take years and be SINGLE.

[quote] Those Boston "Blue bloods" are also highly racist and never would have accepted her.

Ben? A Boston blue blood? Oh, please.

his father was a janitor and his mother taught elementary school. They're not even FROM Boston originally--Ben was born in Berkeley, CA.

[quote] She needs to take years and be SINGLE.

How about an afternoon? That’s close enough, right?

So should we hazard to say she's the modern Elizabeth Taylor?

Page Six reported that an inside source said:

“If there was a way to divorce on the grounds of temporary insanity, he would. He feels the last two years was just a fever dream.”

Yeah okay Ben. You’re the “healthy” one. lol

R414 - maybe he married Pam Ewing?

Man, R414, that's cold. One thing about Ben is he tends to be a real MARY asshole after breakups. Prancing around on the beach for paps showing off his "Phoenix rising from the ashes" tattoo like he was the victim after cheating on Garner and destroying their family; having his kids tear up and trash a cardboard cutout of Ana de Armas for the paps to see after parading her around daily to punish Garner for finally finding love again. Now this shit...

He's always the victim.

He’s a typical manipulator/alcoholic.

R413 Nope!

Liz not only had two Acadamy Awards and cured Aids, she also invented sign language

Ben didn't go with her because he was probably off the wagon. Did he ever attend a Met Gala? He had to be drunk to miss her Atlas thing.

[quote]Ben? A Boston blue blood? Oh, please.

His mother's dad was a very wealthy attorney in NY, she grew up in a pre-war building on the UES with doormen and the full monty. Graduated from Radcliffe. She was the one with the plantation slave-owning ancestry.

Dad was a troubled alcoholic with a checkered employment history but he also comes from blueblood stock, primarily from RI; grandparents were BOT at Brown, grandfather, great-grandad also Brown grads.

Ben was born in Berkeley when his parents were there, hanging out with other wealthy post-hippie grad students.

I saw a short clip of her on Kimmel, she looked amazing. She’s lost weight but it suits her. She was glowing.

She doesn’t need a man.

Quickie divorce and remarried by August.

It reminds me when I was 16 in Donver. Running up and down the Hill. A crazy little guy used to fucking. All dreams.

[quote] Was she promoting her failed album, her failed tour or her failed marriage?

Atlas on Netflix. From the clip it looked like Gravity on steroids.

[quote] His mother's dad was a very wealthy attorney in NY, she grew up in a pre-war building on the UES with doormen and the full monty. Graduated from Radcliffe. She was the one with the plantation slave-owning ancestry.

[quote]Dad was a troubled alcoholic with a checkered employment history but he also comes from blueblood stock, primarily from RI; grandparents were BOT at Brown, grandfather, great-grandad also Brown grads.

That does not make them Boston blue bloods.

You have to be from the right families in Boston and grow up there to be a Boston blue blood.

R422 = JLo.

R413 Liz was talented and earned her diva title.

Point is r427, both sides of his family are WASPy and wealthy. They aren't blue collar janitors. The Afflecks are very old-line in RI, they go back three hundred+ years there and have deep longtime ties to Brown.

Matt Damon's father, iirc, is descended from Boston Brahmins or from extended relations thereof.

Not comparing her to LIz's talents, just the proclivity to marry often, and to the same man.

Jennifer Dahrlink! Remember you must give back the ring but keep the stone!

Zsa Zsa Gabor ,Belge, Hilton, Sanders, Hunter, Cosden Jr.,Ryan, O’Hara, de Alba, von Anhalt

This picture of an exasperated Jen Garner having to stop to get a bloated and bedraggled Ben his precious fast food on the way to rehab is the perfect representation of what I imagine being married to him is like. He probably bitched and whined and slurred the whole drive.

Alcoholics are THE biggest babies, second only to heroin addicts.

Was Ben at his daughter's graduation? Please don't tell me that Dump was a better father that day.

He was never really in love with Garner. She wanted him for a long time. She is not the innocent people think she is. Ben was going to leave her and then she got pregnant with the boy so he stayed on. That marriage was 80% her doing the work.

[quote]She is not the innocent people think she is.

Do you have some insider information? I've never heard anyone say a bad word about her. Even people who knew her before she was in Hollywood have said both she and her family are exceedingly kind and decent people. The fact that her kids seem as stable, normal, and happy as they are in and of itself speaks volumes about her, because they sure didn't get it from Ben.

The stories of JLo's assholishness are legion, R436. Now, apparently, we are finding out she was a gun mule for Diddy.

If I get it correctly, Garner's critics here at the good ole DL have pointed out she dumped her C or B list former husband and traded up to Ben.

We're to infer that's at odds with her wholesome image.

If she did cheat on her former husband, the one before Affleck, and dumped him for Affleck, I don't think that's particularly remarkable or condemn-worthy.

Why single Garner out for that behavior?

And I write this as not finding her not at all compelling either as an actor or a celebrity.

R437 The comment you're replying to was about Garner (which is who R435 was discussing), not Lopez.

Didn't Garner marry Scott Foley? I loved him in Scandal! And then she cheated with some French actor guy that worked in the same series as her? Memories are vague?

Garner is flawed, but compared to Lopez, she’s a saint.

Yes, I think we can all agree that Jennifer Garner is an okay person while JLo has probably gotten scores of service people fired for looking at her the wrong way.

Actually, JLo demands no eye contact, R442.

It's in her multi-page list of demands.

Yawn. Wake me up when Affleck starts looking at houses. He has exhibited good taste in the past, less as half of Bennifer.

Lopez has atrocious taste in everything.

I think Garner dumped Foley for her Alias costar Michael Vartan and then dumped him for Affleck.

Vartan was so smokin hot. Lawd!

I’m anticipating a Britney level breakdown. Hopefully.

Ben is one lucky son of a bitch. Clearly he builds his closest relationships with people who will "parent" him. Matt Damon is a Grown up, Jennifer Garner is a grown up, and Lopez is, but the jury is out on whether Lopez is willing to take on that role. Ben depends on other people close to him, to provide the guard rails, and he is like a 12 yr old pushing to see how far he can go before someone stops him. IMO he is lucky to be alive. People don't realize that prolonged use of alcohol, creates brain lesions and it affects your personality. A drunk 25 yr old is not the same as a drunk 50 something. He either stops or he will get much worse until he can't function. Early onset dementia, and monstrous behavior are in his future.

R448 as the son of a woman with alcohol induced dementia, you are not wrong. At all… 🫤🫤

I've never heard that you can get Brian lesions from booze.

His brain is probably like swiss cheese, full of holes.

What is he doing instead of booze? Pills? Does he work out?

He does coke too so add Parkinsons

Jennifer Garner was such a doormat.

Jennifer wasn't a doormat. she ran the operation. she controlled him.

Jennifer Garner was trying to "rescue" him for the sake of their family. But the relationship was toxic for both of them. I don't consider her a doormat. YOu never know how you'll react when you have kids. And ben can be very convincing with all his promises. Most alcoholics are.

JG knew what he was like from the beginning and procreated, anyway.

Jen G loved that he was wild when they were young, it turned her on. When she became a mom, she grew up. She wanted her husband to grow up too as most every lady does when they have a family. Some men live up to fatherhood and you see their wives completely turned on by the men they then become.

She waited through his infidelities. She tried pushing through his tantrums. She tried mothering him through his addictions. But he never grew up and blamed her for his unwillingness to do so.

JLo convinced herself she was the one --THE ONE-- he would grow up for. Well, he glowed up for her.

He doesn't want to grow up, for anyone. Growing up means facing everything he hates about himself and loves drinking away.

As long as he values drinking it away more than the feeling he can have of being an adult who deals with the problems he's caused for himself (and others), no relationship he ever has will ever work no matter who he's with or how much effort she shovels into him.

[quote] She wanted her husband to grow up too as most every lady does when they have a family.

Mary.

I don't know whether his infidelities were an issue, or if it was more about the gambling and the alcohol. He was addicted to gambling. Big time. InVegas. Private games that involved Toby Maguire, ARod, Leo,etc. and other "Eastern European types." It was common gossip back in the day. Affleck lost ridiculous amounts of money.

Ben was banned from a casino coz he was counting cards and won too much money

I don't think Jennifer cared...as long as he came home to her.

I'm sure they had rules, you can do this but not that etc...

R457 = Dr. Fill

Ben should get a large face tattoo to mark this critical turning point in his life.

He needs to get into Prince Harry's treatment clinic.

Run, Ben, run. Can you imagine being married to JLo?

[quote] Can you imagine being married to JLo?

Yes.

Did Marc Anthony cheat on her or did he get tired of her BS?

Probably both r467. Anthony was a major pussy hound (he has several children by several women at this point) and major cokehead, if rumor is to be believed.

Mark Anthony used to beat his girlfriends. JLo knew when they got married that he had a bad temper.

A major cokehead? I thought I'd heard he was into heroin.

I suppose both can be true, however, there's usually a predilection for one over the other.

You are probably correct r470, I just heard he was heavy into drugs and assumed it was blow.

She’d be enough to make any man relapse.

Marc Anthony smacked Halo around a few times as well, or at least that’s gossip on the streets. She’s a mess. He’s horrible. Ben is also a mess looking for a mommy.

mommy with a dick and hairy balls and ass

A mommy named MATT.

A LOVAH named Matt…

Marry Me….

[Quote] his father was a janitor and his mother taught elementary school. They're not even FROM Boston originally--Ben was born in Berkeley, CA.

and they produced 2 alkies: Casey and Ben

Casey's history with women has been shady too

Ben is a dirtbag, but JLO is a cunt of the highest magnitude.

[quote] Ben is a dirtbag, but JLO is a cunt of the highest magnitude.

Was this how Matt began his wedding toast?

[quote] or at least that’s gossip on the streets.

R473, are you from the block?

After reading the initial reviews for Atlas, I must say she's really going through a rough patch.

If JHo plays a "brilliant data analyst who saves humanity from AI" you know that movie is going to bomb.

[quote]Ben is a dirtbag, but JLO is a cunt of the highest magnitude.

Wow, now imagine you know them let alone ever met them.

R485 = Casey Affleck, will act for food.

Casey Affleck? I haven't heard a word about him since he took up with some teenager.

She is basically playing herself again, isn’t she?

Ben is the opposite of gallant. He's a fucking cad. An underused word

"You, sir, are a cad!"

I’d take Ben over Casey any day; something’s really off with Casey—he seems like he has some hidden evil inside him.

Love this drunken interview with Ben.

^^I gotta say - I think the "really off" thing probably is what informs his acting. His character portrayal in Manchester by the Sea was intense. It was a gut-wrenching movie.

Maybe she can get with Brad Pitt and he can get with Angelina.

Why the fuck not??

Bradifer and Bengelina.

Brad Pitt needs to get back together with Jennifer Aniston and not get involved with any more psycho bitches.

oh wow. I hadn't seen this. he really does have a problem.

...by which I mean video at 492.

The Ozempic is making her eyes and neck sag. Then it will reach her ass.

Looking quite deflated and saggy at r498. Her "Blue Steele" face at the latest stupid awards was also not great...she had the "I'm better than all of you" look on her face.

When Jesse James came out in 2007 I thought Casey Affleck was a beautiful man. I recently saw it again and I don't know what I was on. He's so mid.

I don't think Casey is, in any way, good looking.

He does seem to "inhabit" his role, though.

[quote] He's so mid.

I take it he’s not “king” or “goals”.

I like Casey better with a beard. Thought he looked good and was hilarious in this Dunkin Donuts SNL skit.

Didn't he skip Ben's wedding?

[quote]The Ozempic is making her eyes and neck sag. Then it will reach her ass.

Her ass is all she has left. Once it deflates, she’s done.

Has she announced a new lover yet?

That DD skit is great.

Casey was cute in the movie Race the Sun with Halle Berry. (We watched it in high school and he's older than me, fuck off. )

Casey looks like a rodent when he's beardless.

The Jesse James movie was underrated (imo). Casey Affleck was good and Brad was shockingly good, to me anyway.

He was absolutely chilling in the movie Killer Beside Me. I’m guessing he has a dark side in real life he drew from for his character.

Nah issall good

That movie was dark.

The body language here says it all.

Ben looks like shit there. She’s sucked the life out of him.

Honestly, I think part of why he went through with the wedding was he knew she wouldn’t tolerate the drinking so that would force him to be good. That doesn’t usually work well.

He looks like he just got off a five day bender complete with whores and blow.

Ben's facial expression is that of a teen being kissed by an overweight, distant relative they have never met at a family wedding.

What's up with his strange coloring at the temples in the awkward kiss pic?

Rug burn, r517.

Ben's filler is starting to travel.

He has no filler in the one place he should - his flat ass!

He is stupidly trying to work things out with this useless heifer. He’s as pathetic as she is!

That pic at R513, it looks like the veins are popping out of his temples! I think her summer tour being canceled is more stressful for him than her.

He probably thought it was going to be 3 months of hookers and cocaine, but it looks like it will be,"PAPI! There's paparazzi! Quick, give me a kiss!"

This is, of course, AFTER she calls the paps to tell them where they will be.

Has anything they’ve ever done been a secret?

How does Marc Anthony even get any women let alone JLo? He looks like a skeleton with hair and a raging smack addiction.

R524

1. Singing talent.

2. A huge cock.

He’s also well endowed financially too from what I’ve heard. Women will always have babies for an ugly rich man!

I think it’s all a charade so she has a reason to cancel her tour. I do believe their relationship is a hot mess but it has gotten way too dramatic.

JLo…too dramatic?! It’s not possible.

um, wrong thread obv. ^^^

Wow ben LOOKS LIKE CRAP in the kiss pic.

I honestly believe they cannot afford their new 60 million dollar house payment. This was an easy way to get out of the massive debt. She thought her movie, etc would catapult their earnings. She was wrong. I bet once the house sells and the economic stress dissipates they will magically reunite.

It can't be the house payment. She's rich rich. More than twice as rich as Ben.

Ben moved into a rental and they're selling the house, probably on the advice of their divorce lawyers. An announcement will be coming soon.

Ben, for all his short comings, complained about her lifestyle, and how lavishly she lives. That monstrous house was the final straw. She was sinking money they didn't have into it. R531 is right. Can you imagine maintenance and upkeep? it's not just buying the house, it is upkeep. She was going to use up all his gambling money.

R531, according to the real estate rags, they paid $60 mil IN CASH.

As wealthy as they both are, I think that $60 million cash was a lot. I wonder how they did it: 50/50? I don't think either one of them, alone, had enough money to pay cash for that house.

Did you know that's Ben's mother is named Christopher?

Geza.

TMZ is reporting that it’s over. I believe it.

This icky relationship has reeked of old mothballs from the get-go. Please, no more.

I just can't get over how embarrassing it must be for her to have made that movie about their love story

Poor Jenny from the block. So unlucky in love.

How long until she’s engaged again? I give it three months.

[quote] The insider added, "She lets him smoke, which is huge—she hates smoking and to be around that as a singer is a straight no, but he never gave up when they were dating and married. She won't give up this relationship. She's going out there looking as normal as she can. [bold] It's sad to see her dimming her shine to try to keep him."

[quote] She lets him smoke, which is huge—she hates smoking and to be around that as a singer is a straight no

Second-hand smoke could only improve her non-existent vocal “talent.”

[quote]she hates smoking and to be around that as a singer is a straight no,

This whore ain't nobody's singer...why should she care about how smoke affects her so-called voice?

Marc Anthony, don't even think about salvaging this flotsam.

When you’re a lip syncer you can smoke as much as you want.

[quiote]she hates smoking and to be around that as a singer is a straight no

It's good then that she's not a singer.

She has something missing and I don't think Ben's Big Dick is enough. Dumb Bitch, you should've just fucked him on salary.

Jennifer Garner’s PR is certainly working hard in this thread. Are they going to try to spin this into a Brad-Angie-Aniston love triangle for the next few years?

Can’t stand Jennifer Garner and her fake church girl act. Hate her weird pouty, kissy lips and odd baby voice.

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Wow. Benny looks like complete shit.

Time for Ben to get a better wig, also why does his face look so long now?

Ben at R552 looks as bad as Matthew Perry did.

He looks positively haggard, like he's been held in some prison camp situation and subjected to daily torture sessions.

Of course Garner is in good with Ben's mother

I had JUST arrived at the point where he didn't annoy me anymore. And then...he went back to the succubus. He's his own worst enemy. But that's usually the case with addicts.

If they hadn't married, they'd still be a couple and spared themselves the headache of a split.

Marriage changes a relationship, and oftentimes, not for the better.

It wouldn't surprise me if they stayed a couple after they divorce.

He's fucked. JLo has sucked the life-force out of him like the vampire that she is, and he's had 3 kids with that exasperated mommy/ex-wife of his, so he'll be tied to her the rest of his life.

What he really needs is his bros Matt Damon and Tom Brady, or at least Ana de Armas to give him some lovin'.

After the divorce JLo will be hooked up with another dumbass, but she will forever have to live with the fact that her album and documentary, which is ALL about Ben and her love for him, is out there. Even if it's in the discount bin at the dollar store, it's still out there.

I wonder if Ben waited to divorce her until her album and doc came out so he could cause her embarrassment and humiliation? Seems like he would do something this petty. I like Ben and feel sorry for him, but he doesn't have a grown-up approach to ending relationships that make him miserable. He seems very passive-aggressive.

R552 it’s high time for him to push the Benjamin Button

At R552 his ass looks very flat.

It's good that they don't have kids together, that could have gotten ugly.

Man all that botox he had gone from r513's photo to r592's photo.

This pic says everything about their relationship. She loves being in the spotlight, and he hates it.

Divorce is the only way out of this mess.

He's in desperate need of a personal trainer.

JLo had enough ass for the two of them.

This despite JLow's latest sexy masterpiece about Ben?

(And thanks for the smelly visuals , Jen.)

"Missing your body climbing on top of me, slippin' inside of me / The way that I ride it, bodies aligning, look at our timing / I forget about the world when we're alone / Only thing that ever felt like home."

How embarrassing r568. It makes her sound so desperate.

Nobody wants to hear some postmenopausal woman singing about riding a dick. No wonder her career is over, who does she think the audience is for this??

R568 Jesus Fucking Christ! I may have to run to bathroom to vomit.

R570 I'm sure their kids will love it.

All the songs to make your stomach turn.

I'll try again

I live in the midwest and I see better looking men than Ben all the time. Even though J-Lo is a pain in the ass I will say she is very attractive. But sadly Ben can go on and date 20 year olds, Jennifer will probably end up with another gay escort like Casper.

Lopez doesn't need to date losers like Casper, she could easily get an attractive tech billionaire ala Bezos or someone else seeking pr and attention. She is levels more talented and attractive than Lauren Sanchez, for example. Her ego for whatever reason, and her need to control everything holds her back from finding someone truly compatible.

If Serena Williams can snag a tech bro (she seems a little dim to me, but talented) so can Jlo.

Is he really drinking again?

Did he ever really stop?

Ben is on a very weird diet. Does he even work out? His legs are so skinny

Acites bod.

Flat butt and legs like baseball bats.

ET reported last night that Ben’s rental is $100k A MONTH! JFC.

I actually feel bad for all of them. Ben especially because he's battling addictions, Jennifer Lopez because this is it for her, and she is having a really bad year. Easy to point fingers and place blame and be haters, but still. And Jennifer Garner who is "trying to help" along with his mother. Why?Because she helped raise his three kids. And the teenagers have their own shit to deal with. You know shit is bad when you're in your 50's and you gotta ask Momma for help. Then you factor all the media attention and the gossip and speculation, non stop, it is brutal.

R584 I don’t feel one ounce sorry for them. They’re both assholes. Affleck is in his 50s. Whatever addictions he may have, when is this grand moment when he gets them under control? Either you man up or continue living like shit. And he looks like hell lately, but I’m sure it’s been no picnic dealing with her.

She’s always been a minor talent, who wants to be worshipped and adored. Problem is very few do. The horrible documentary and cancellation of the tour brought that home. They both, however, have plenty of money and will move on to other people like they always do. Most people break up in the entertainment industry. These two are nothing special.

All the stress is showing. Aye Papi!

[quote] She is levels more talented and attractive than Lauren Sanchez, for example.

Lauren Sanchez seems like she will totally conform her life to her man's life. Yes, it's a billionaire man. JLo would not be able to do that. Yes, Lauren Sanchez seems self-centered, but I'm guessing she totally strokes Bezos, figuratively and literally. JLo can do that for a minute, but then she's asking what can you do for me, now.

Jennifer is not eating.

Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck stayed away from one another at his 12-year-old son Samuel’s graduation Wednesday morning amid speculation that their marriage is over.

Both stars arrived separately at the special event, with Lopez bringing her 16-year-old twins Max and Emme to support their stepbrother and Affleck inviting his mother, Chris Anne Boldt, as a plus one.

The “Jenny from the Block” hitmaker, 54, appeared to be in high spirits as she entered the graduation with a seemingly honest grin across her face.

Did the they comingle or conoodle or at least acknowledge one another? The reportage is lacking. can’t someone shakedown the witnesses 💰

[quote] with a seemingly honest grin across her face.

What? There are a bunch of cameras on her. You think she's going to show her true emotions?

Here's the menu for the Brentwood resto where they had brunch. "Caviar bumps" on the menu. WTF?

[quote] Her ego for whatever reason, and her need to control everything holds her back from finding someone truly compatible.

She’s a malignant narcissist. The only person “compatible” would be someone with similar brain damage. And then they’d annihilate each other.

She would never settle for someone as unglamorous as a CEO. Not enough attention or camera flashes.

And that’s all she wants: attention.

A sick, disordered individual.

Now the Daily Fail is saying that she wants to "rebound to her ex, A-Rod". I remember reading a Vanity Fair article about those two and thinking they were so perfect for each other. Two Type A's who just go, go, go. I was shocked when they broke up.

coz A-rod cheats all the time.

Ben's a narcissistic asshole too. Have you seen him suck the air out of the room on a sports or political show? He's the worst. He calls the paps and now that Ben Looks Sad has become an internet meme, he's playing it to the hilt. He talks shit about the mother of his children and on top of it he's a degenerate gambler, cokehead and stewbum. Plus so vain that no matter how drunk he is, he's never pictured without that wiglet

Has anyone EVER seen Ben without his purported wiglet? I'm really curious to what extent his alleged hair loss has gone.

Jen would only be happy dating someone more famous than her. Tom Cruise, maybe? At least her parents were Scientologists, so they have that in common. Can you imagine all the publicity?

Glen Powell wants publicity, he would be a good candidate for her

Does she have any famous girlfriends?