Ben Affleck‘s dad says he is the final to learn about Bennifer 2.0.
Timothy Affleck was approached by the tabloid The Sun to weigh in on his son’s reignited romance with ex-fiancée Jennifer Lopez.
“In fact I’ve heard of her,” the 78-year-old mentioned of multi-hyphenate J.Lo. “However I’d no thought about any of this. I discuss to my children about their lives once I see them,” noting he hadn’t appear them, additionally together with Casey Affleck, just lately as a result of COVID, “and so they share with me what they need to share.”
As for whether or not it was true Ben, 48, had been “pining” for Lopez, 51, within the 17 years since they break up, Timothy replied, “I’ve by no means heard of all that nonsense.”
The senior Affleck, who’s most likely much less in the dead of night concerning the romance than he let on, coping with probing tabloid reporters within the 25 years his son has been an A-list star, then turned the dialog into promotion for Ben’s non-profit, Jap Congo Initiative.
“I simply want folks would give attention to the great work my son does in Congo — the ladies he helps there,” Timothy mentioned. “There are vital tales the media needs to be reporting like that, not this nonsense.”
This “nonsense” — the shock reunion of the exes we wrote off within the aughts — has been charming the leisure world this spring. In April, as Lopez formally ended her engagement to Alex Rodriguez, amid his DM scandal, she did not miss a beat, easily rebounding with Ben as in the event that they spent no time aside.
After a rendezvous in Miami, a Lopez supply told Folks issues are severe between the pair.
“This isn’t an off-the-cuff relationship,” the insider mentioned. “They’re taking it critically and need it to be long-lasting.” Additional, they’re “slowly beginning to discuss concerning the future.”
Issues certain seemed severe once they have been photographed holding hands in L.A. this week. In addition they walked arm in arm after eating along with her supervisor, Benny Medina, and movie producer Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas.
And all of the insider leaks are juicy, however the grin on Ben’s face when he was snapped by a paparazzo leaving Lopez’s L.A. residence this week after a sleepover spoke volumes.
There’s nonetheless a lot to be labored out between the pair, who’ve 5 children between them. (She has twins with third husband Marc Anthony; he shares three children with spouse Jennifer Garner.)
“They’ll proceed to journey backwards and forwards between Los Angeles and Miami,” the Folks insider mentioned. He is based mostly there together with his children. Lopez has a house there as properly, but additionally spends time in Miami.
Ben’s mother and father break up when he was 11, together with his dad, who struggled with alcoholism, shifting from Massachusetts to California to deal with his dependancy when the long run star was 16.
Ben, who’s additionally struggled with dependancy, instructed the New York Times final yr, “The older I’ve gotten, the extra I acknowledge that my dad did the perfect he may. There’s a whole lot of alcoholism and psychological sickness in my household. The legacy of that’s fairly highly effective and generally arduous to shake.” (Timothy has been sober for greater than 30 years, he instructed The Solar.)
Ben stays very near his mom, Chris, who’s recurrently photographed visiting him and her grandkids in L.A. So a real barometer of how severe Bennifer is shall be when the couple is photographed along with her — as his ex Ana de Armas was final yr. Chris additionally stays close with Garner.
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