Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart came out for the Billboard Music Awards. She performed with Pitbull they did their new song, which… have you heard it? It sucks. Much like Gwyneth Paltrow and Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer is totally stuck at the height of her fame circa 2000-01. That’s how she dresses too – check out this Zuhair Murad Couture gown. I only saw the top part and I was like, “Oh, this is going to be surprisingly good.” But it’s not. The sheer skirt is terrible. I give her some credit for tailoring though – the top part fits her like a glove. J.Lo is usually good about getting her gowns tailored for her body. Also bad: her makeup! That eyeshadow deserves to be specifically called out.

Jennifer looked like a Muppet for her performance too, and she had a costume malfunction with those terrible boots.

I don’t have the designer ID on Nicki Minaj’s dress. It’s okay – the bodice is too tight, but I guess she liked it because it squished her boobs together. This is maybe the most uneventful she’s ever been on a carpet.

Here’s Kesha in Givenchy Spring 2013. Was she even wearing drawers? I don’t know and I don’t care. The funniest part is that she paired this revealing Givenchy with… cheap little wedges. Poor Kesha. Props to her for losing weight though – her body looks the best it’s ever looked.

Here’s Stana Katic in Nicholas Oakwell Spring 2013 Couture. There were several jumpsuits on the carpet, and Stana’s was hardly the worse. I feel like the big hair turned her onesie into a costume though. She looks very Studio 54.

Kelly Rowland in Rami Al Ali Spring 2013 Couture. I don’t hate this at all, but with those bangs, I think she’s morphing into Gayle King (Oprah’s BFF).

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I’ll admit that the Jennifer Lopez and Casper Smart has amused me for over 18 months since the two were revealed to be enjoying some sort of relationship (i.e., “banging”) since November 2011. Don’t get me wrong — this is not without some degree of envy that I giggle. When I’m JLo’s age (43), I would be flattered as hell to be considered sexy enough to attract a much younger dude. Mind you, Casper Smart is not exactly my type of young, 20-something dude. However, there’s something about him that keeps JLo coming back for over the past year-and-a-half. How does he do it — special moves in the sack? Never mind, I just grossed myself out.

At any rate, Kaiser mentioned a few months ago how weird it is that Jennifer and Casper are still not engaged, which really is odd because she usually moves so fast. Instead, JLo’s been taking it slow even though she admitted late last year that she’s into the fairy tale aspect of romance. Now JLo revealed to ET Online that she’s open to marriage with Casper and that it will “probably” happen. Uh-oh:

These days, Jennifer Lopez and her beau Casper Smart are rarely seen without the other, and in a sit down interview with ET, the 43-year-old performer dished on what makes her relationship with the dancer/choreographer, 25, work, and why she’s open to tying the knot again.

Our Rob Marciano caught up with J.Lo on the set of her new music video for Live it Up, where talk quickly turned to her boyfriend, who just so happened to be choreographing her sexy video set on the warm sand beaches of Fort Lauderdale, Florida .

First seen as a background dancer in Lopez’s Papi video in 2011, Smart has become an integral part of the musician’s team.

“He’s a creative partner to me. He knows what I want to accomplish,” said Lopez. “He helps me and I help him, and it kind of works that way.”

As for the romantic connection between the two, J.Lo can’t help but sing her praises for Smart.

“It’s a sweet relationship,” gushes Lopez. “It’s kind, it’s healthy.”

Whether they’ll take a walk down the aisle together remains to be seen, but J.Lo admits she’ll “probably” take the plunge again in the future.

“I like [being married],” she said.

[From ET Online]

Ha. Poor Jennifer is so taken with this little dude that she’s not only decided that he’s her “creative partner” as stated in the above interview, she also allowed him to negotiate her way out of an “Idol” contract renewal. Then Casper unironically sat down to hold his own autograph sessions at JLo’s concerts because he is so important. I wonder if Casper “advised” JLo to purchase her new $10 million Hampton’s home? He probably had some say in that transaction.

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet, WENN, and Casper Smart’s Facebook

It feels like it’s been forever since I’ve covered any new photos of Jennifer Lopez, but in reality it’s just been about a month I think. I think it feels like forever because although I like J.Lo (in that I think she’s fun and I enjoy write-ranting about her), she’s exhausting and every time I write about her these days, I feel like “Ugh, this is the LAST time for a while.”

Anyway, Jennifer and Casper were out this weekend for “Muhammad Ali’s Celebrity Fight Night XIX” in Phoenix, Arizona. I barely recognized Jennifer because I was like “No, that can’t be her – who’s the dude?” It’s CASPER!! Casper has stopped shaving his head and he’s growing out his perfectly nice dark hair. He looks completely different, right? CB always hated when I called him “Facial Challenge” and now I’m really wondering – if Casper had hair this whole time, would I have found him so facially challenged? I don’t think so. I mean, he’s still not “pretty” which is fine because not every dude has to be a pretty boy. But the hair definitely improved his look. Now he looks like “the smarmy dude” on a 1990s soap opera. He looks like a guest star on Melrose Place circa 1995.

As for Jennifer, she wore this unfortunate Maria Lucia Hohan dress. Couldn’t you see Sarah Jessica Parker in this? Right? SJP loves tulle and she loves dresses that make her look like an aging ballerina. For J.Lo, it’s a weird choice. The style is meh – it could have been cute, maybe, if it was a different color. But I hate when Jennifer wears flesh tones. So fug.

Photos courtesy of Marmolejos/WENN.com.

There are a few Jennifer Lopez-Casper Smart stories today, which is interesting because I just realized that we’ve barely talked about them for weeks. J.Lo wasn’t at the Oscars, and she and Casper didn’t go to any of the Oscar parties! How did that happen?! Did Jennifer just decide that she and Casper were going to do the Grammys and nothing more for the awards season? Hunh. Anyway, here’s a little conspiracy theory via Star Magazine: Casper and Jennifer haven’t been around lately because they’ve been spending too much time together and Casper thinks he needs his own place?

According to Jennifer Lopez, “Love Don’t Cost a Thing” – but if you’re Casper Smart, it could cost you personal space. Sources close to her backup dancer, 25, say he has been quietly looking for a place of his own after worrying that J.Lo, 43, may be growing tired of him.

“He is with Jen and her kids so much,” spills the insider. “He wants to have a place he can go to in case this comes to a screeching halt.”

Jennifer, who is known for her history of failed relationships, recently hinted at the ticking clock on her current romance when she said, “We don’t know what’s going to happen.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

Of course it might be BS, but my radar still went up. I mean… is it possible that Jennifer and Casper are having relationship problems and they could possibly break up… and that’s it? Like, they don’t have to get engaged or married or make some huge production about it? That’s so un-J.Lo. Also, if Casper really does want his own “space” that means he wants to go all Travolta on some masseurs. Now you know, J.Lo.

TMZ also had this interesting little story about Jennifer trying to get her twins into some fancy kindergarten in LA:

Jennifer Lopez is experiencing the kind of stress that hundreds of rich L.A. mommies endure every year — getting their kids into exclusive, VERY EXPENSIVE private schools.

We’ve learned Jennifer has been making the rounds in L.A., interviewing schools for her 5-year-old twins, who will be starting kindergarten in the Fall.

We know she went with kids in tow Tuesday to the famous Buckley School in the San Fernando Valley … considered by many to be the best L.A. has to offer. By the way, it better be — tuition and other costs total $33,345 for the year — PER KID!

And when we say Jennifer was interviewing … she’s the one — like all the other parents — who had to put on some snazzy clothes to impress. Lots of very rich, very famous parents try getting their kids into Buckley.

Alums include Paris Hilton, Kim Kardashian, Nicole Richie, Matthew Perry and current student Paris Jackson.

We checked the roster for Buckley’s High School but couldn’t find Casper Smart on the list … kidding!

[From TMZ]

Not to get all judgy-childfree, but is it weird that Jennifer doesn’t already have some kind of education plan for her kids? I’m not saying that every mother of 5-year-olds needs to have it all figured out, but Jennifer is rich and she has access to lots of stuff that most mothers could only dream of. It feels like she’s doing this too late. It also feels like she didn’t have Max and Emme enrolled in any kind of pre-K program. JUDGMENT!!! Just kidding, I don’t care. Spend $34,000 a year on your child’s kindergarten. I won’t blink.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

I just can’t with Jennifer Lopez at this point. WHY is she doing this to me?! She could be so much fun. But I feel like she’s taking herself too seriously. After the Grammys producers sent out a dress-code notice, everybody is talking about how Jennifer totally did her own thing with this dress. But is it weird that I don’t even think this Anthony Vaccarello dress is sexy at all? It’s not sexy at all. It’s a bad design, it’s unflattering, and the fabric bulges in a weird way around her crotch. Gross. Also gross? Casper Smart. I can’t.

God, you know I love Adele. I think she’s magic. I think she’s a goddess. I think she’s incredibly cool. And while I love that she tried something different from her stand-by sleeved black gown, I’m not sure that I’m in love with this Valentino dress. The fabric is too much like upholstery. But Adele won last night (for “Set Fire to the Rain”) and she IS a goddess. I felt like Adele was making a wave of girl-power happen last night.

And here’s poor Kat Dennings in Vivienne Westwood. She wears a lot of Westwood, and usually I like Westwood, but this sucks. It just looks really cheap.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

Last week we heard the news that Marc Anthony had split with his girlfriend of just over a year, model Shannon de Lima. Let’s do a quick timeline for context. Marc and J.Lo broke up around July of 2011. After that, they’re said to have hooked up in November, 2011 in romantic Puerto Rico. (Love it there!) Then Lopez got with opportunistic baby doucheface, which angered Anthony. Anthony was still in love with Lopez and allegedly wanted to reconcile, but she was all hung up on her kept man, Casper, and rejected him. So Anthony got this younger piece too, but it didn’t last.

Given Lopez and Anthony’s history, I’m raising my eyebrows at this report that they were both seen sneaking out of the same hotel – right after his breakup. I’m thinking there was more going on than just talking. Actually I hope that’s the case. Here’s more:

Latino power couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony have been divorced since July 2011. But it looks like the pair are still close as JLo was seen visiting his hotel last week.

The singers sparked rumours of a romance being secretly reignited when the pop stars were spotted sneaking out of the Mark hotel separately.

Marc has recently split from his model girlfriend Shannon de Lima. After a year of dating a rep recently told People magazine, “The truth is they have been having a great time together, but it no longer worked.

However, despite the gossip, a source for New York Daily News is adamant there has been no rekindling of old flames. Jennifer was at the hotel, “to wish him luck on the road.”

The pair also share four-year-old twins, Max and Emme and Lopez was apparently bringing them to see their father before he jets off on tour. Despite the age difference, JLo is still going strong with boyfriend, Casper Smart.

Although she did speak to People magazine last week about the insecurities she feels, dating a man 18 years her junior.

“I ask him, ‘Why don’t you go find a young girlfriend and get out of here? What do you want with me?’”

[From Entertainment Wise]

It may have had to do with their kids visiting their dad, and Lopez is still friendly with him so she came along too. Still, I would kind of love it if Lopez and Anthony got back together. She always needs a man in her life, and it seems like Anthony was good for her. He was certainly more on her level that this dude she’s paying to accompany her everywhere, who seems shady and has gotten way too big for his britches.

Update: I just realized that this happened last week but we haven’t talked about it yet. So that makes the timing even more suspect, considering Anthony had just announced his split with de Lima. Also, the original report in the NY Post claims that Lopez was alone and that they spent two and a half hours together.

Marc Anthony and Shannon de Lima are shown on 12-11-12. Credit: WENN.com. Jennifer Lopez is shown on 1-24, 1-25 and 1-13-13. Credit: FameFlynet and WENN.com

Ooooh, here’s a really good explanation for why Casper Smart was not around this week while Jennifer Lopez promoted Parker in New York City. This might also explain the major discrepancy between how Jennifer looked at the Golden Globes versus how she looked at the post-Globes parties. The theory – posited by Star Magazine – is that when Jennifer Lopez sat in the audience of the Globes and watched her ex-fiancé Ben Affleck win Best Director, it triggered a major crisis in J.Lo’s delicate psyche. In one crashing, awful moment, she realized that Ben was married to a lovely, successful woman and he was happy and the industry loves him and Jennifer also realized that she’s dating a gross-looking backup dancer whose last gig was probably as some kind of gay gigolo. BOOM!

Jennifer Lopez is putting on a brave face while promoting her movie, Parker, telling the world that she has “no regrets” about her love and career choices, but close pals say that after watching Ben Affleck accept a Golden Globe for directing Argo on January 13, Jennifer suddenly found herself in the middle of a midlife meltdown.

“Ben winning that award really hit her in a weird way,” confides a friend. “She used to brag that she’d win an Oscar by the time she was 45, and that doesn’t seem likely. Plus, her music career isn’t what it used to be.”

Nor is her love life. Jen, who has been dating 25-year-old backup dancer Casper Smart since 2011, couldn’t help but feel pangs of envy as Ben glowingly thanked wife Jennifer Garner and their three children during his speech.

“Ben’s wife is very successful and respected in the industry and J.Lo can tell that she and Ben are very happily married,” the source explains. “Then she looked at her own relationships: she’s dating a backup dancer who’s nearly half her age and riding her coattails.”

Casper may be youthful, but seeing her ex so fulfilled was a wakeup call for Jenny from the block.

“Jennifer acted happy for Ben that night – but the truth is, she became very embarrassed about her own life… her loved ones are worried and constantly tell her she should give herself more credit, but Jennifer is really in the dumps.”

[From Star Magazine, print edition]

If it makes Jennifer Lopez feel better, Jennifer Garner barely works these days, and while Garner’s well-liked within the industry, I get the feeling that there are some people who are really tired of her daily pap-walks and the Affleck-Garner Oscar Campaign. And if it makes Lopez feel better, someone should definitely tell her about Ben and Blake Lively (allegedly!). Of course, that’s still no excuse to stay with Casper. But I just don’t buy that J.Lo is THIS self-aware. I mean, this is the woman who exhaustively praises her own “elegance” because she packs her own bags and combs her kids’ hair. FOR REAL. This is not a woman who has a crisis of conscience when she sees an ex-lover succeed.

Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.

I have such mixed emotions about these Jennifer Lopez photos from the Las Vegas premiere of Parker. Like, in some of the pics I actually felt a genuine thrill because J.Lo used to be so much fun to watch on a red carpet, and I miss her ability to really work the hell out of a carpet, and these photos prove that she still can. But then I got to some photos where it’s just like… ugh, Casper Smart is still there. And Jennifer doesn’t get that he kills her sexiness completely. Also: I don’t get why her hair is looking so bad lately. Is she fighting with her hair people?

Anyway, Jennifer’s dress is Kaufman Franco. I’m not crazy about the way it’s cut on her chest, but I don’t mind the rest of the dress – it’s old-school J.Lo, figure-hugging and butt-emphasizing. It reminds me of some of the Versace gowns she used to wear all the time. As for Casper… lord, he’s short! I don’t I’ve ever realized how tiny he is. I think Casper had to stay at home in LA while Jennifer promoted Parker in NYC, but he got permission to come to Vegas. You know what though? I bet it didn’t even go down like that. As much as I hate to admit it, Jennifer isn’t giving him permission for anything. He does what he wants, and she’s grateful for him, because she has no self-awareness.

Last thing: is she getting lip injections? I really can’t tell at this point. She’s always had full lips, but they’re looking really “extra” here.

Photos courtesy of WENN.

For some reason, Jennifer Lopez is on the cover of People Magazine this week. She must be promoting her new action movie Parker, co-starring Jason Statham, which is out next Friday, January 25. (Here’s a link to the trailer, which looks like a lot of other Jason Statham action movies.) In terms of the cover photo, I’m struck by what an awkward pose she’s making and how fried and shaggy her hair looks. They could have put some product in it to smooth some of those flyaways.

It seems funny that Lopez is on the cover of People the same week that her old show, American Idol, premieres with a brand new panel of judges. We just had The Globes too, they could have been front and center instead of on a side panel. It just speaks to Lopez’s vast capacity for self promotion and reinvention, which I grudgingly give her credit for. In a video interview posted on People’s website, Lopez frames her decision to leave Idol as an artistic career choice, not a money decision, which runs counter to stories that she wanted a whopping $17 million to return for a third season and was turned down.

In People’s preview of the interview, Lopez talks about her romance with 25 year-old Casper Smart, and credits him with helping her recover from a tough divorce. She also says that she’s surprised he stays with her and doesn’t get a younger girlfriend. Here’s more, from People:

When Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony split in 2011 after seven years of marriage and two children together, the singer says it felt like “her whole world fell apart.”

But Lopez, 43, credits her boyfriend, choreographer and dancer Casper Smart, 25, with helping her heal after divorce.

“I just got out of a big, heavy, devastating thing, and he’s helped me heal,” she says in this week’s issue of PEOPLE. “He’s been there for me.”

But the singer is well aware that the 18-year age difference between the two draws speculation.

“I ask him, ‘Why don’t you go find a young girlfriend and get out of here? What do you want with me?’ And you think, ‘How long is this gone be?’ You think, ‘Okay, in 10 years I’m going to be like this and you’re going to be like that’ and … men at that age are … I think all different things. The truth is we don’t know what’s going to happen. We’re loving this moment right now. We make each other happy.”

Even after several larger-than-life romances that played out in the public eye, Lopez regrets nothing.

“I don’t regret those things – that’s who I am,” she says. “But at least now I’m at a point where I have to recognize that these choices and things that happen are partly because of me and my decisions and I have to be more careful. So I am being more careful.”

[From People]

I love how Lopez has a 25 year-old boyfriend whom she employs and bankrolls and then wonders why he doesn’t get a younger girlfriend. She also says she’s “being more careful” about her romances, even though she’s dating this kid who is so clearly beneath her. Oh well, he helped her heal and she’s making artistic, not money decisions when she asks for $2 million more a year, gets turned down, and then decides to do something else. I get the sense that Lopez believes her own hype, though, and that she’s not fibbing to the public so much as breathing her own rarefied air.

There’s another new interview with Lopez, on Access Hollywood. She was asked about the recent career success of her ex, Ben Affleck, who just took home Best Director and Best Picture at The Globes for Argo. She had nice things to say about him, which hasn’t always been reciprocated when it comes to Affleck talking about Lopez. She said “I’m always rooting for him” and “We went through a rough time at a certain point and it was like we couldn’t get a break and now to see him be successful and getting what he deserves for what he did made me feel really good.” Note how she said we “went through a rough time,” not he. She seems like she still has feelings for him. Just my take! Also, Lainey pointed out how many of Lopez’s exes were at the Globes. There was Affleck, Diddy, and Bradley Cooper. (I almost forgot that she “dated” him.)

Lopez and Smart at shown at the Globes on 1-13-12, credit: FameFlynet and at The Weinstein Company’s after party, credit: Fayesvision/WENN.com

Just know: I was going to include more people into this post, but then I saw that Jennifer Lopez did a costume change in between the actual Golden Globes ceremony and the after-parties, and that made me stop and say: “Okay, let’s give her what she wants – the spotlight!” So here you go, a post devoted solely to Jennifer Lopez and her poor boy-toy, Casper Smart.

Casper is officially making it through his second awards season! Remember, he was J.Lo’s Oscar date last year, and God knows, she’ll probably be invited to present this year and Casper were be on the Oscar red carpet, rubbing elbows with Jessica Chastain and George Clooney. You’d think that he would have realized the situation by now: he better propose to her fast!! I can’t believe it hasn’t happened yet.

But what’s worse than seeing Casper on the red carpet of the Golden Globes is seeing Jennifer Lopez’s try-hard. Sure, she had a few good moments – like her little bit with Tina Fey, which was super-cute. But mostly it felt like… “Ugh, Jennifer Lopez is trying to get attention.” Maybe it was about Ben Affleck, her ex- lover? I honestly forgot about the Bennifer 1.0 Drama because there should have been more cutaways to J.Lo whenever Ben was mentioned. Then again, I don’t think Jennifer harbors any ill-will towards Ben –he’s the one ashamed of HER, not vice-versa.

Anyway, about the fashion… Jennifer’s wife gown is Zuhair Murad, a label which is increasingly taking cues from Marchesa in The Fug Department. I absolutely hated this gown. I did like the black gown she wore at the after-party, although she looks sort of like a zombie – super-tired, right?

Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.