is Ben Affleck still talking about his relationship with J.Lo?


Entertainmentwise is reporting what could be a new quote from Ben Affleck. He’s bitching about how his career tanked after he made the stupid decision to make a terrible movie with J. Lo, have an affair with her (and let’s face, she was married for a few weeks at that point) and show up at multiple events and premieres by her side. You would think he would avoid reminding us about that well publicized period in his life, but he says that showing up in J.Lo’s “Jenny from the Block” video was career-ending for him. Entertainment wise presents this quote from Ben as if it’s something he just said, but it’s probably from an older interview and they’re rehashing it:

He says, “If I have a big regret, it was doing the music video. But that happened years ago. I’ve moved on.”

But Affleck insists he isn’t blaming Lopez for his career nosedive: “It not only makes me look like a petulant fool (to blame Lopez), but it surely qualifies as ungentlemanly? For the record, did she hurt my career? No.”

[From Entertainmentwise]

Affleck appeared in a tank top in the video, with it’s catchy but annoyingly repetitive refrain assuring us that J.Lo is just like us despite the fact that she’s so rich and famous she can get guards to bring her cuticle cream in jail. He rubbed Lopez’s bikini-clad booty and seemed transfixed by it, which helped us understand how he got into that PR mess in the first place.

Ben talked about the effect of his relationship with Lopez on his career back in October when he was doing press for Gone Baby Gone. I hope for his sake that this quote is re-hashed reworded version of stuff he already said in order to promote his movie. He meant well and was just trying to be open about it. He should have released that, like his relationship with Lopez, things never quite end in the media and keep getting recycled and repeated ad naseum. At least he learned from his mistakes and ended up with a woman who made him sell his Bentley and doesn’t ignore her children.

Here’s a link to the video which features Ben and J.Lo generally laying around looking rich.

And here’s J.Lo making sure her twins are well cared for and not promoting the needless killing of animals at the Christian Dior show in NY yesterday, thanks to PRPhotos.

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  1. Christine says:

    Here’s what I don’t understand…why isn’t there any gossip of a Ben & Jennifer Gardiner breaking up? They are hardly seen together anymore, and when spotted he always seems to have a sour face. I would have thought some gossip rag would have noticed this by now.

    Just wondering!

  2. Canadian cutie says:

    Benny still so LOVES Jenny!! Jen G. is looking like a horsey with dimples! Ben is bored, and wishes he was still rubbing Jenny from the Block’s booty, instead of humping a grumpy horsey-face.

  3. Celebitchy says:

    There were 4 comments from the same person on this post talking to themselves using different names. All of the comments from that ip have been deleted.

  4. jennifer says:

    ^ 😀 😀
    i dont like ben,he is a crap actor and jennifer shouldnt be blame for that

  5. sammie says:

    Celebitchy,
    I am sure he doesn’t bring it up in interviews. He’s usually responding to whatever asinine question the “journalist” comes up with!!

  6. JennGush says:

    Is she wearing real fur? I’m sure she is…someone should kick that bitch in her teeth. TRASH!

  7. Sasha says:

    😕 Don’t know why anyone gives two sh*ts about a former Flygirl.

  8. PJ says:

    Without a doubt, Affleck’s career hit a low point while he was with JLo. Maybe he just made some bad choices and the timing was a coincidence. Or, it could be that she talked him into projects like Gigli, we don’t know.

    Afflect and Garner seem much more compatible as a couple (she even likes the Red Sox!), and JLo and Marc also seem to have a lot in common.

  9. Devilgirl says:

    If he has moved on, why is HE the one bringing it up? I had forgotten all about the Jenny block video, until HE made mention of it. As for his career tanking, maybe it is due to his poor acting abilities and unappealing character that is the problem and not his affiliation with Lopez. 😈

  10. Enonymouse says:

    Devilgirl, I agree. I am a fan of movies but to be honest I never really knew who Ben Afflect was until he got together with J.LO and I do not think I was the only one, so he should really thank J.LO for at least making him more well known.

  11. Devilgirl says:

    Enonymouse(cute name by the way), you are right, he should thank JLo. He enjoyed the notoriety he got because of their relationship. He was the one running around flaunting it and then when it didn’t suit him he bailed. He seems to think that his fame from Goodwill Hunting was supposed to follow him indefinitely, Matt Damon’s career has soared bcuz he is a good actor, Ben’s has floundered bcuz he is not.

  12. Is it not ironic his wife”s name is Jenifer.I think he still loves her and P diddy too:twisted:

  13. dLO says:

    to be so much in love with his wife ,, he certainly never has that lovin look on his face ,,, he never wanted to marry Jennifer Gardner,, she purcued him , untill he finally thought it was the thing to do ,,, she had that face up in his face constantly Grinning ,, laughing ,, and he was as sober as a judge ,, and J en doesnt look all that happy for a long time ,,, lets face it ,, Ben would rather be Gamblin, and having a frw little drinkies!!

  14. memnoch666 says:

    First, you never see Ben and Jennifer Garner together as they made a consious and publicized decision to try to always walk the red carpet separately when promoting films as people/the paps would only concentrate on them together and not the project in need of promoting. Second, why does no one who replies on this site know how to spell these celebrities names? If you’re so into celebrities that you’d be reading this column, then you’d think you could spell Affleck (Enonymouse) and Garner (dLO). Just wondering.

  15. Lili says:

    oh Lorda!
    Girl’s not looking pretty these days…she looks like a Gin & Tonic Housewife straight out of the 1950’s…with a bad accent…I’m latina and simply despise JLO for inmortalizing the LAtino stereotype.
    Oh well, it’s over anyway. She’s become a mami and it hasn’t settled well with her. She looks shiteous.
    🙂

  16. Sylvia says:

    First of Ben A. is a lousy actor. Let’s all face it the only reason he is with Jennifer Gardner is because she got pregnant. Doubt that he loved her and doubt that he ever loved anyone but himself. If he was happy in his marriage why is it that he is never around with his family.

    Also he needs to stop talking about the movies he made with JLo and what a mistake it was this and that. He sounds like a wimp blaming someone else for his career moves that he made badly.

  17. Enonymouse says:

    memnoch666, you actually sound a little rude to me, I am not that into celebrities and I did not know that it was SOOOO important to you that I and others have to and should write a not particularly important celebrities’s name in full and in perfect spelling. Get over it and move on, I hate when random people start criticizing other bloggers for the most stupid little things and miss the whole point.

  18. I choose me says:

    “He sounds like a wimp blaming someone else for his career moves that he made badly.”

    Um Sylvia did you even read the article. He said he ‘didn’t’ blame her for hurting his career only that he regretted doing the video.

    It’s easy to see how and why so many stars comments get taken out of context when people rush to comment without either a)reading the article in its entirety, b)taking the bloggers’ slant and or possible bias on the article into consideration or c) the fact that they were probably asked a specific question to which they are giving an answer.

    I do my share of ragging on celebs esp. the ones I don’t like but I’m not gonna sit here and act like I know these people personally or post shit like *everybody knows that so and so is a slut. So and so are clearly miserable because you never see them smiling in pictures. this or that couple are never photographed together so they are definitely not together.* I mean speculation is fine people but do stop acting as if your wishes and opinions are facts.
    /rant over

  19. kate says:

    the only place he should talk about j-lo is to his shrink.

  20. Blanche says:

    “I mean speculation is fine people but do stop acting as if your wishes and opinions are facts.”

    Yeah, what he said!

  21. Trashaddict says:

    J. Lo pics: 1) Does she ever look at Marc?
    2) What’s with the retro eyeshadow?
    3) Woman is starting to look more and more like
    Joan Crawford (for those of you old enough to remember that scary bitch).

  22. Kevin says:

    Is Jimmy Kimmel still fucking Ben Affleck?

  23. fee says:

    She seems like such a diva bitch – i feel sorry for any man who’d put up with her….and those poor babies living in a plastic bubble with their army of nannies…..and Bens a douche too.

  24. paris herpes says:

    Damn who cares about this crap anyway? Ben shouldn’t even be talking about this crap with the heifer that is J. Lo., who sucks so much more than he does right now. At least he directed a good film and is getting his own recognition for it. I don’t like him as an actor at all, but he’s a solid director and producer.

  25. Kat says:

    One Music Video Killed His Acting Career????
    What a DORK !!!! Get off your stupid butt, and work at your craft. You do have to keep fighting for good acting roles, even if you do have an Oscar.

  26. Pamela Perrault says:

    So, in my humble opinion, Ben is a robot and can’t act to save his life… His crash was inevitable and is not JLos fault in any way.

  27. silly says:

    Ben and horsey face make a very bland couple, that is why the media keeps bringing Jlo up. Ben cannot act and that is why his career went down the drain. That s#it movie he made Gone Baby Gone is such crap, his brother cannot act nor speak…he always seems like he has marbles in his mouth…look like a lifetime channel kind of movie. People need to stop praising this couple they are crap and she is a west virginia….hillybilly racist mofo.

  28. Este says:

    His biggest regret should have been implying that anything or anyone other than himself “wrecked” his career. He regrets the video but not Gigli or Daredevil or all the other crap movies he did to get rich. I doubt he still carries a flame for JLo but I wonder if he doesn’t like using her to get press for himself. Either way, pretty sad to keep responding to this old news. When asked to comment on Ben, JLo shows some class in saying she’s a married woman & it’s not appropriate for her to comment on her prior relationships. Additionally she never blames anyone for her career highs or lows. Too bad Ben can’t do the same regardless of how he tries to spin it to the press. Whatever.

  29. mimosa says:

    😆 He just misses that big booty. I’m sure it’s hard for him having the girl next door with no tits or booty. So he’s a little upset that the glory days are gone. No bently, no flashing lights, no big booty to rub.