Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce from Ben Affleck one month ago exactly. Following that divorce filing, she spent one full week getting her side out there, with “sources” telling People Magazine what actually happened behind the scenes in the past year. There were stories about Ben’s mood swings, and how Ben basically ghosted her in April and began moving his sh-t out of their house while she was working in New York. Ben was also the one behind their documentary, The Greatest Love Story Never Told, and on and on. Basically, Jennifer was washing her hands of Ben and ensuring that she didn’t get the blame for everything that went down. I also believe Jen was behind the Kick Kennedy rumors too – Ben was seeing or is seeing Kick Kennedy, which likely started over the summer.
Anyway, all of that worked. Jennifer has, from where I sit, positioned herself pretty well. She’s hurt and sad, but she’s also making her peace with the fact that Ben sucks. Then there was a disruption in this “onwards” energy last weekend, when Ben and J.Lo pap-strolled at the Beverly Hills Hotel with their kids. Reportedly, Ben was handsy with her and they were kissing and being affectionate. Ben gets turned on when a woman publicly puts him on blast, apparently. Well, Bennifer reunited once again this week:
Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are doing their best when it comes to their kids … TMZ has learned they walked into a school together despite their divorce in full swing.
Sources with direct knowledge tell TMZ … the exes were seen making their way to the back-to-school night Tuesday at an L.A. area school where they each have kids that attend. Our sources tell us the exes were totally cool with each other and very cordial.
But don’t get it twisted — our sources are adamant they’re not rekindling anything — they’re still getting divorced.
We’re told they’re a couple who still care for each other … they’re wrapped up in a years-long love affair.
But their kids are the real focus. Just last week, the two, along with their respective children, were spotted at The Beverly Hills Hotel, where witnesses saw them kissing and holding hands during the lunch.
As I said in the hotel photos from last weekend – Ben’s kids seem to get along really well with Jennifer, and Jennifer’s kids were giving Ben the “he ain’t sh-t” stinkeye. I don’t think Max and Emme want any part of this, but Ben’s kids are so disappointed that their dad f–ked up another marriage. Anyway, I absolutely hope that Jennifer has given up on Ben and that none of these outings lead to reconciliation. That being said, I feel like J.Lo is exactly the kind of woman who will keep making this same mistake, over and over.
One nice thing – J.Lo appeared at Kamala Harris’s Michigan town hall, hosted by Oprah. Jennifer appeared virtually! She’s a big Dem and she hates Trump.
Jennifer Lopez endorses Kamala Harris for President at the Unite for America event hosted by Oprah Winfrey. pic.twitter.com/SRWEqDUhag
— Jennifer Lopez Updates (@JLopezUpdate) September 20, 2024
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- Beverly Hills, CA – Reunited! Divorced superstars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez seem to be on good terms as they meet at the Beverly Hills Hotel to enjoy a Saturday lunch with their children. Pictured: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck BACKGRID USA 14 SEPTEMBER 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: BlueLoveImages /LAGOSSIPTV / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Beverly Hills, CA – Reunited! Divorced superstars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez seem to be on good terms as they meet at the Beverly Hills Hotel to enjoy a Saturday lunch with their children. Pictured: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck BACKGRID USA 14 SEPTEMBER 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: BlueLoveImages /LAGOSSIPTV / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Beverly Hills, CA – Reunited! Divorced superstars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are spotted in the middle of an intense conversation outside of the Beverly Hills Hotel during a lunch outing with their children. Pictured: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck BACKGRID USA 14 SEPTEMBER 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: BlueLoveImages /LAGOSSIPTV / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Beverly Hills, CA – Reunited! Divorced superstars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are spotted in the middle of an intense conversation outside of the Beverly Hills Hotel during a lunch outing with their children. Pictured: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck BACKGRID USA 14 SEPTEMBER 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: BlueLoveImages /LAGOSSIPTV / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Beverly Hills, CA – Reunited! Divorced superstars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are spotted in the middle of an intense conversation outside of the Beverly Hills Hotel during a lunch outing with their children. Pictured: Jennifer Lopez, Ben Affleck BACKGRID USA 14 SEPTEMBER 2024 BYLINE MUST READ: BlueLoveImages /LAGOSSIPTV / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Beverly Hills, CA – Reunited! Divorced superstars Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez seem to be on good terms as they meet at the Beverly Hills Hotel to enjoy a Saturday lunch with their children. Jennifer could be seen sharing a long hug with Ben’s son Samuel after the family outing! Pictured: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez BACKGRID USA 14 SEPTEMBER 2024 USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are seen going out to lunch together amid divorce news. Featuring: Jennifer Lopez Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 14 Sep 2024 Credit: BauerGriffin/INSTARimages
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- Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are seen going out to lunch together amid divorce news. Featuring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 14 Sep 2024 Credit: BauerGriffin/INSTARimages
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- Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are seen going out to lunch together amid divorce news. Featuring: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Lopez Where: Los Angeles, California, United States When: 14 Sep 2024 Credit: BauerGriffin/INSTARimages
Lunch date with the kids, back-to-school night, kissing, laughing, flirting with each other. I think Jen and Ben are trolling us, paps, media. And I’m here for it. Maybe their relationship works when they’re not married?
They are def getting back together but she needs to be seen in control of what it looks like now. If he wants anything he has to do it her way and I’m for it. I still hope they make it work but yes divorce and don’t go into business but get together.
Exactly this. They are getting back together, jlo is controlling the narrative and Ben is letting her do it. I don’t think she was washing her hands off him, she talked to Matt at that party for a reason and it looks like he called Ben on his bullshit and now they are reconciling. I dont think Jlo’s kids hate Ben or she wouldn’t be imposing that to them, Emme and Ben were close and she was seen multiples times at his rental with Fin
This couple has exhausted all interest and good will for a happy ending.
Nope, I hope they come back together and Ben lightens the eff up.
Asking either one of them to change is why this marriage didn’t work. He’s not going to lighten up and she’s not going to tone it down.
The fact that Jennifer Lopez did not move back to wherever and kept her kids in same school speaks volumes.
I think Ben’s kids expressed their disappointment to their to father. They are at the age when estrangement because of bad parenting or bad parent behavior, can happen and I think Jennifer, (the first wife ) layed it all out to Ben, that their kids are hurt that he’s destroying another family.
I don’t think his kids expressed him their disappointment and it made him change his mind all of a sudden. They’ve been separated since April, jlo was chasing him, going to his kids parties, spending a few days with Violet etc and he couldn’t care less.
But what do these “volumes” say? At this point, she has teenagers, who have built their own comfort zones and their own friendships. I’m sure she’s taking their needs into account with whatever decisions she makes, and all this says to me is that it’s likely that Max and Emme don’t want to be uprooted from their High School lives — whatever else might be going on. Good on the Jennifers for supporting the well-being of the kids.
That azz tho!
@Blithe exactly. She didn’t think of her kids when moving them to LA and now she is. Once kids start High school you don’t move them around. Eighth grade was bad enough and I’m sure max and emme let her know about that.
Can I hope that Jen is making some new friends while supporting the campaign? I feel like Big Gretch would be an amazing get-a-grip friend.
I feel like Oprah herself would give Jen good advice to ditch Ben, but let’s remember JLo listens to her heart always. I love and hate that for her.
I hope for her mental, emotional, and spiritual wellbeing she doesn’t allow that man back in. That’s all.
I’m going to say the same thing about them that I said about Will and Jada: Can ya’ll take us out the group chat or let us unsubscribe? Please and thank you.
!!!!!! All of this. Please. Leave us alone 😫
He loves the chase. But she should just keep running.
Jen is in fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice shame on me territory. What happens at fool me three times?
I doubt they’re getting back together. This is purely for the kids which is actually a good thing to make sure they still feel connected and supported by everyone. The last lunch outing was likely to get all the kids together and explain the divorce to them. It was the first time they were all seen together after Ben ghosted Jlo. There was only ever one report that mentioned physical affection between them and that was Page Six playing up the will-they-won’t-they angle to start rumours. Nobody else and none of the pap photos have ever shown them displaying that kind of body language.
They are done. This was an outing for the kids. Because Jen is decent and wants to stay in his kids’ lives. Unlike Ben who clearly doesn’t give a f*ck. There’s no photos to prove they were kissing and handsy. I think that part’s made up. What I see in these photos are two people who’d rather not be in each other’s presence, but they’re doing it for the kids.
I know Jlo’s sister Lynda & Leah Remini (all her family & friends) are TIRED!
Just no, let that man go on his dysfunctional way.
The 5 minutes to vent rule needs to be instituted (knowing she’ll probably go over it) for their own sanity.
I mean, date if you want. Live separately and see each other when you feel like it. If something happened to my husband, I would not be super interested in living with a new partner when I could have my own space. And I don’t have anywhere close to their money.
I’m glad JLo kids are still at their LA school and she didn’t uproot them because of a man (again). She did look happier in the Hamptons despite knowing her happy in the Hamptons era being pretty scripted. Looks like Ben is taking his PR from his Jennifer garner divorce play book manual. Look like a good dad thinking about the kids welfare first despite being a bad husband who has been generally impossible and with the nanny (insert kick Kennedy’s name here now). It will probably work again especially if JLo goes along with it which she doesn’t have to but seems to want the blended family ideal still even with a divorce.
Let’s be honest: Violet must be enthralled with her new life at Harvard, and the remaining kids are at an age when all adults fall into the outsider category, unless it’s time for swipe a card or prepare refreshments. Of course all of them have their opinions and most likely it’s not nice toward Ben. But I don’t think they need these outings to keep in touch, or that their friendship is a life-or-death matter for them. Truth is, only Finn and Emme seems to be genuinely close. This is mostly PR.
I guess that, in the context of divorce negotiations, JLo pointed at damages done to her savvy sexy diva image rightly so, after Ben left her looking like a 50-something id1ot who should have known better than uprooting her whole life to get back with him.
Her whole brand revolves about how succesfully she hustles, and his decision messed up with pretty much all work she had in schedule for what remained of the year. She can hardly make a cent of a costly vanity project that focused on how madly in love they were. He owes to her showing a much deserved respect to her in public and there’s no bigger way than to keep her close to his kids.
@AURORA
I agree! That vanity project needs to disappear & quickly! With both JL & Ben being seen with their blended children together, it boosts BOTH of their images!
It is a win- win for BOTH of then!
I don’t think they are reconciling, though…
Am I the only one who thinks this is all an effort to keep the Diddy/J-Lo connection out of everyone’s mouths?