I’ve said repeatedly here in writing and in the podcast that before the end of the year, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are totally going to recreate the “Jenny From the Block” music video in real life. We’ve already got the paparazzi shots of them making out at a restaurant, and paparazzi photos of them on a balcony. One of the most iconic images from that music video is a bikini-clad Jennifer lying on her stomach on a yacht, while Ben leans over her, rubbing and kissing her famous ass. It’s still amazing and it’s still high art! And I’ve been trying to get these two on a yacht ever since we learned that they were getting back together. Well, guess what? Ben might buy a yacht to celebrate their love.
Ben Affleck has wasted no time slipping back into the old high-rolling life he led when he first dated Jennifer Lopez in 2002 – gambling at the Wynn in Las Vegas until 3 am, packing on the PDA with J.Lo at restaurants. But now that he’s looking to splash out on a multi-million dollar megayacht, friends are worried the 48-year-old might be trying too hard to impress his ex.
“It’s really the whole James Bond fantasy he’s had for years with the gambling and the alpha male posturing. Lusting after megayachts has always been part of that,” an insider tells Us. Some pals are worried about where Ben’s wild ride will lead.
“It’s great to see him happy and in love again, but the speed in which they are moving forward is unprecedented,” adds another source. Bust the insider says Affleck thinks a yacht is the perfect way to celebrate Bennifer 2.0. “That’s the thing he and Jennifer have in common: Bigger is always better.”
[From Us Weekly, print edition]
Can we form a prayer circle for Ben to buy a yacht? Please let it happen. Please let him name it after Jennifer in some way too. Obviously, he’s not going to name his yacht Jennifer, Jen or Jenny. But maybe J.Lo? Name it “Jenny From The Block” omg. People used to call her La Guitarra because of her shape, that would be a GREAT boat name. He could call the boat FLY GIRL. Anyway, yes, Ben, you should absolutely buy a yacht. And contact me for boat names. I’m so excited that we’re going to see Ben rubbin’ ass on deck of the Fly Girl by the end of the summer.
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— Kaiser@Celebitchy (@KaiseratCB) June 19, 2021
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Is part of his ‘Im a low-key guy’ schtick wearing ill-fitting t-shirts with huge stains on them? Bc I’m not getting high flying James Bond from this. Maybe Jimbo Bond. Maybe.
He looks very unwell.
The pressure is off for him to keep young looking for Amal, he is now with an older woman, so why not go Naturel
Yeah, I focused in on that stain too. That’s become a more interesting question to me than whether or not he’s going to buy a yacht. How did he get stain on such an unlikely area of his shirt? It’s not where food would drop if you were eating.
It looks like a foundation stain
Ah yes. Good call.
you make my day is so funny lol
Nah, he’ll remember soon that he’s a” serious” actor and director and starts to feel embarrassed again. He’ll drop JLo like a hot potato and blame everyone but himself.
Exactly why I wish Jennifer took this reunion as a fun summer fling and nothing more. Sigh, I was wishing she had learnt Ben’s pattern by now.
Please just keep the children out of this thirsty little fling. They all deserve better.
Pics up of his mom and kids supposedly visiting Lopez’ house this weekend.
Please call the yacht ‘Jenny from the dock!’
Yes, we need this. Jenny from the Dock, hahahaha!
OMG that is brilliant. We really need an upvote feature on this site. I don’t need to scroll down to know that you win this comment section!
Yes. This. It is settled.
Perfect!
YES!
Please do it.
I love this.
I have read all the other posts about the Royals, the Chrissy Teigen mess, I can’t with those racists colonizers, and that bully, I can’t anymore.
Bennifer 2.0 for me it’s a breath of fresh air.
Buy that yacht Ben, rub JLO a@s again! Do it for us, the world needs this!
That’s how I feel. We need Bennifer 2.0 to cleanse our soul from the more depressing side of gossip. We need a different vibe gossip-wise for the summer. Bum kissing for the people, Ben.
And Jlo kissing his huge Phoenix tattoo under the stars. She will visit Mykonos in August, they need a yacht. Pink diamond, I like this name for their yacht! Hahaha……
@Theo: now I need a cocktail named “Pink Diamond” LOL
I wholeheartedly agree. Bennifer 2.0 is a palate cleanser.
Ben buying a yacht? LMAO. Sure, Jan. US Weekly is ridiculous.
OMG, Affleck buying a yacht is so over the top! Bennifer 2.0 summer just keeps getting bigger and better. It’s still going to end with him sabotaging the whole damn thing. But am here for the hot sh*t show!
I am here too.
I’ll bring the cocktails!
@Eleonor – Cheers to that!
But (butt?) he already has a yacht. I only know this because it docked here where I live a couple of years ago, and it created by a buzz.
@Heat
I thought I had heard Ben had a yacht. Ben also has a. AIrsteam. He mentioned in an interview that he bought the one they used in the Accountant set. Can’t see JL. hanging out in an Airsteam, lol!
I am just waiting for Ben to get a J’lo tattoo…that is more permanent & harder to remove than something he could sell off…
Yes, he definitely does. I remember this too. Maybe he wants to trade it for a bigger one? Or the story just could be false, you know, gotta create that buzz!
The part that stuck out most to me is how his friends are already side-eyeing him for this relationship… but.. but… I thought they weren’t going to talk to their friends anymore about their relationship?? LOL
Many rich people rent yachts for a month, several weeks, a summer, etc., but Ben actually owning a yacht? Nah, I don’t believe it. And I’m thinking of a huge yacht like the kind you see Leo on or Simon Cowell. I guess, he could own a small yacht. I don’t know anything about yachts. LOL Of course, I’ve been wrong many times about Ben before.
Poor Ben, look at that miserable face lol. He knows he’s way in over his head with this shitshow. Just saw that apparently ARod was at Lindsay Shookus’ bday party lmfaooo. Bring in more clowns, this circus is starting to grow on me.
Wow really? Tacky. Arod is such a sleaze.
No! I think that’s hilarious. Maybe ARod does have a sense of humor.
Actually I just read ARod’s spokesperson said he and Shookus have been friends and only friends for fifteen years so unfortunately we won’t see dueling dates in the Hamptons. But we might still see some run-ins because he’s renting a Hamptons house only a mile from JLo’s. Fun!
I mean, the paps caught an expression on his face that may have only been there for a matter of seconds. He could be thinking “do I still have milk at home or do I need to get some?“ or “Holy crap it’s hot out“. Whose face looks perpetually blissed out and happy?
omg right? i hate when people say this stuff. it’s pure projection.
For a “happy” man he looks awfully unhappy.
This is the gossip we all need and deserve after the past 16 months of pandemic life!!
I really don’t think Ben looks unwell. He’s almost 50 now, and he’s lived hard, let’s be honest. Addictions age you. But I don’t think he looks unwell. I like a more rugged looking man and that could be coloring my view though.
Maybe the filler he put in his face is finally gone? I don’t think he looks unwell, but Ben is fragile. People forget that it wasn’t that long ago that he bottomed out horribly with his alcoholism. The drive to rehab with Jen. It was sad. He was close to beginning filming The Way Back when it happened, and the director thought the project wouldn’t go forward. Jen called him with a message from Ben, that he really wanted to do this film. So the director waited for him. Ben was extremely fragile during shooting. That’s why it’s the best performance of his life. Many scenes were kept with minimal people on set while shooting.
The director said he had a breakdown in one scene while talking to his estranged wife. “It was probably the second take, Ben just had a breakdown. I’m getting chills thinking about it. It was like the dam broke and everything came out. I just remember the crew, everyone was frozen, watching him bear his soul. It was obviously real. A lot of things that he probably had to say in his own life, or maybe he had said, I don’t know.” They left moments of that scene out as they felt it was too intrusive. It’s probably why I loved the movie. You felt the rawness of his performance because he was tapping into his own emotions. He said it brought back his love for acting again.
So my point is people are forgetting how fragile Ben is regarding his alcoholism. He looked solid during the Ana period during 2020. After their breakup, I worried wou.d we see another relapse. So far not anything overt has happened. It doesn’t mean he hasn’t had a drink. But he hasn’t spiraled again. He does look somewhat emotionally fragile to me. I think he “needs” Jennifer Lopez. I think he wants this relationship right now. I’m beginning to think this is real. Will it last a year from now? Who knows?
I think he ‘needs’ a relationship too. Yes people need to come to a relationship whole and he has maintained his sobriety but he seems like someone who does better in a relationship.
How about they both take the cost of a yacht and equally donate that money to a good charity?
This Bennifer 2.0 is grinding my nerves! PR and thirtsy, both of them. Ugh!!
This is really silly. Try harder,Us Weekly!
So true!
Very unpopular opinion, but here goes: I think Ben has always loved JLo. Gardner got pregnant to trap him. He stayed and was utterly miserable. If she hadn’t gotten pregnant, they never would’ve lasted. Each time he tried to leave, she got pregnant. All band aid babies.
I think this is Ben’s last stop.
(Don’t yell at me)
I don’t know about getting pregnant to “trap” him, I am highly resistant to that phrasing. You know, wrap it if you don’t want a pregnancy. However, I think he was out after the 2nd and the 3rd was a bandaid baby. And I do think he’s always loved Jlo, but Ben is very weak so I don’t know if this will last. I won’t be shocked if it does though.
Hahaha, a really funny and unrealistic scenario for an old rich man, a movie star. He just fell in love with another woman and left Jlo. He is not a romantic hero. Lets see what will happen after a few months. I believe he will chasing another new woman, another new high and Jlo will run away .
If he had gone through with the wedding to JLO, he also would have been utterly miserable. LOL Even if he had gone through with not going through with the wedding but four months later married JLO, instead of passive-aggressively forcing the end of their relationship like he did, he still would have been miserable.
Are you forgetting before the wedding he was with strippers, that he left JLO practically at the altar, and that let the relationship die a behind-the-scenes death so as not to humiliate Jennifer by not going through with it and by him not looking like a horrible person.
“Always loved” Jennifer Lopez? Their marriage would have been a flop. Ben truly would have been a flop in any marriage with his addictions and feeling smothered in a relationship. Maybe in his 50s, if he has stayed sober from now to then, he will be a solid mate. JLO has a huge career and travels a lot so does Ben, and Ben has kids to give a lot of his spare time to. The odds aren’t good of two huge career-driven famous people working out, especially one who gets into trouble when off on his own for months on set, or even in town. LOL Is he in love with Jennifer again? Probably. She’s a good influence on him and loving and maybe he’s rebounding from Ana. But love can’t conquer all unless Ben permanently gets his demons under control.
Are you forgetting why they broke up the first time? Ben was cheating with strippers just weeks before their wedding and Jennifer was humiliated (she always waits to leave a man until they embarrass her). He’ll always be unhappy, unless he’s drinking and gambling.
Jennifer garner is the only reason Ben is even still alive right now.
Jennifer garner is the only reason Ben is even still alive right now.
+1
JLO will be fine whatever happens but Ben, he has demons.
Don’t think it’s true to say he’s only happy when drinking. It was hard to watch his life unravel a few years ago and he looks so much better and happier now.
Fly Girl is a name for a private jet.
He is starting to look like Simon Cowell