I really wanted to make the title to this story “Lindsay Shookus took Ben Affleck and his brother to the same comedy event she took Jon Hamm,” maybe adding “last year” at the end, but we only have a couple lines for our titles and have to keep them short. That’s the gist of it though, Lindsay was working to scout new talent for Saturday Night Live, for which she’s a producer, so she took Ben Affleck and his brother, Casey (who just got served divorce papers), with her to a SNL comedy event. It’s curious to me that Jon Hamm was her date to this same thing last year, well after she first hooked up with Affleck (according to sources) and likely when they were on a break. I’m not saying there’s anything wrong at all with dating, as long as you’re at lesat separated and she was around this time last year, just that it’s interesting. I bet she wouldn’t have minded being seen on a date with Jon Hamm. (Hey Corey!) Who would you rather end up with, Jon Hamm or Ben Affleck? We know they both have issues, but did Hamm ever talk mild smack about working hard on his relationship with his longterm now ex girlfriend, Jennifer Westfeldt? Maybe Hamm and Affleck are two peas in a pod.
Anyway US Mag has some quotes about what a great time they had and how Lindsay was busy working and it wasn’t a romantic date night. That Lindsay, such a high powered cool chick just waiting for Affleck to leave his wife finally.
Talk about a family outing! Ben Affleck and his girlfriend, Lindsay Shookus, were joined by the actor’s brother, Casey Affleck, during a night out in Hollywood on Tuesday, August 1.
The trio enjoyed the annual Saturday Night Live character comedy showcase at iO West comedy club, where Shookus, 37, was the guest of honor. “She was more in a work role, being a talent scout for SNL, rather than having a romantic date night,” an eyewitness tells Us Weekly of the SNL producer, who attended the same event last year with Jon Hamm.
Casey, 41, arrived at the venue approximately 10 minutes after Ben, 44, and Shookus, and took a seat next to his older brother. “Casey and Lindsay said hello to each other and then Casey and Ben chatted for a while,” the onlooker tells Us.
During their outing, the couple appeared to be in good spirits, though they did not show any PDA. “Ben and Lindsay were very kind to all the staff there, talking with the host, manager and those sitting around them,” the eyewitness tells Us. “The comedians were definitely excited when they heard Ben was there, but Lindsay was the one they were trying to impress. Ben, Lindsay and Casey were laughing throughout a lot of the performances.”
The article goes on to say that after this Ben and Lindsay went to that pizza place for dinner, which is when most of these photos were taken. No wonder Ben looked half in the bag when he got there. US also included a quote we missed earlier, from another story, stating that Ben will “be spending time with Lindsay, out and about. They have stuff planned for the summer. He’s enjoying spending time with her.” More pap pics and more quotes about how incredible Lindsay is will follow. Until he gets sick of her a few months in and pulls away. She’s used to that though, she knows how to keep busy, she’s dealt with Ben for a couple of years. Hopefully she knows better than to hope he’s going to change his pattern once he makes her #1. Although given that she’s stuck around so long she must be hoping that things will be different this time.
Oh and Ben stepped out with his oldest child, Violet, 11, yesterday. Reportedly they went to the movies together. What did they see though? I always want to know this. I hope it was Spiderman: Homecoming, perhaps Wonderwoman a second time, or maybe Captain Underpants, that’s supposed to be decent, but not Emoji Movie.
This photo of Lindsay, below, was taken outside Ben’s office in Santa Monica yesterday. He took her with him there.
photos credit: Backgrid and Getty
Does this girl ever look good in pictures?
I was just thinking that. She and Ben match because they always look like crap in these photos.
He looks like crap. He looks really gross in the top photo, all bloated and old looking. It looks like he dropped some food on his shirt. I think she is cute/pretty. I like her casual look. The only thing is she always seems either high, drunk, or a combination of the two.
She is not well-groomed, let’s put it that way.
that’s kinda harsh. Not everybody photographs well. And she is not a model or actress, why would she need to impress with her looks.
I don’t photograph well at all and I don’t consider myself a beauty at all either (nor do I have a boyfriend as rich as Affleck willing to lavish diamonds on me), yet I do not look this messy in photos. Honestly, I don’t think I know anyone else who does either. This is an unusual level of messy looking in photographs, even for people who are not models or actresses.
I do think her character is written on her face somewhat, though. It happens with some people.
It’s summer and it’s hot. Not everyone runs around powdered and blotted to the nines. I just don’t relate to your critisim of her appearance. Her clothes might not be fancy but they look clean and comfortable. I’ll give you the character tell on the face though. She looks like she could be an unpleasant person.
+1 @perplexed. “her character is written on her face” and it isn’t pretty, IMO.
I have the same face expression. This is just physiology. If I don’t obviously smile and posing, I look very upset on pictures. This is lips down to blame.
I don’t think she looks unattractive in photos but she definitely always looks high/drunk/combination of the two.
This relationship is a car crash waiting to happen.
I don’t think she looks bad.
Right! And for Pete’s sake, Ben and Jen have been separated for 2 years!!!
Drunk sweat isn’t the best look. You would think they would at least make an effort to look clean. Baby wipes are a great go-to for “I partied too hard’ clean up.
they always look like 2 homeless people that just crawled into a green drop bin and put on whatever was on the top of the pile
These two look drunk and/or wasted in EVERY DAMN PHOTO #madeforeachother
The difference between ALL of the photos Affleck is in compared to the bottom photo!! The man is on a swift downward spiral.
My mind went to the same place.
These two only serve trailer park realness.
Ok I take back my comment about her wearing flattering clothing. She is sack dressing all the way.
Hamm? i dunno, that what my hormones say, but the rest of me says no to both.
Lindsay wearing her $10 Old Navy style dresses at a work event…..
Oh dear God, please don’t let her be pregant! She can wear whatever she wants and it doesn’t have to mean anything but it’s where my mind went when I read your comment.
She has a type that’s for sure.
Losers?
HA!!
Given how messy her divorce was and that she was cheating on her ex-husband, I’d say the shookus and batfleck (and casey) are all peas from the same pod who deserve one another. This is a trainwreck waiting to happen. Their poor children.
That’s my thing. Do whatever the hell you want…unless you’ve got kids!!! But of course, there’s no sacrificing personal happiness for these types. Gag.
Yeah, I think John Hamm did talk about how he was greatfull for his long term suffering girlfrlfriend Jennifer and how he knew he was a douche. I think John is a cool guy I’m from St. Louis his hometown and he has a cool backstory losing his prents early on and still making his way Everyone here says he’s a genuine guy. But…he’s a guy who has struggled with drinking and Jennifer stood by him from rags to riches for more than 10 years and …no ring. Just a goodbye. So, in that repsect Ben may be the actualy better catch. At least he committed at some point.
Well, off topic, but you might question Jon Hamm being a really cool guy if you read the stories about his involvement in a college hazing incident of another student, which was downright disgusting … deplorable even. I guess you can argue that it was a long time ago, but still hard to overlook once you’ve seen the details.
20 is not the same as 50, and particularly for men before 25 and after 25 presents a very different animal. Hamm has not continued with the bad behavior so good luck to him. He seems to be serious about sobriety and probably quickly realized that whatever else was on offer, this party girl was not the one for him.
I’ve read that stuff and will never like Hamm because of it. That behavior separates him from Affleck, IMO. So if I had to choose, I would def choose Affleck because Hamm hurt someone.
(Hamm’s rep tells The Post that Shookus and the “Mad Men” star know each other from “SNL” but “have not dated. They are not friends; they are acquaintances.” Noth’s rep didn’t respond to requests for comment.)
But did Ben really commit if he was cheating most of the time?
I know Jon used to be close to Ben before Jon went to rehab, but I wonder if Jon had that Jenny Slate shit come out earlier bce he know Ben and Lindsay were gonna go public
Her clothes look so cheaply made. People thought Jen had no style. Lindsey puts her to shame in the no style department. The white dress looks like a beach cover-up or something for around the house.
That red-checkered dress going to his office looks like she bought it at Ross Dress for Less in the teen section for $5 on sale.
YES! I don’t think she could look any worse if she tried. Rumpled, crumpled clothing that is straight out of the cheap juniors section, dirty Nikes, unkempt hair – looks like she touched up her color but just lets it air dry (which works for some people, but not her).
I said the same above! You’d think working for SNL she’d want to be up on the latest styles but she dresses like she shops at the Gap or Old Navy, and not even the nice dresses there.
Do you even know what SNL staffers look like and dress? Most people who work for late night tv are casual dressers. It’s not Anna Wintour’s office at Vogue FFS.
She seriously dresses like I did in high school in 2003. They are still gross together. Ugh. Train wreck.
Listen. I’m not gonna give her grief for her (bad) looks or cheap looking clothes: I think is a positive thing, in some twisted sort of way, the fact that she gives a crap about dressing up now that’s she’s on the public eye. I still think she looks terrible, but if that’s the way she always dressed and doesn’t care to change it now that she’s dating a rich guy and has the paps and the public attention 24/7, then I’m not going to hate her for that. And as much as I think Affleck is an asshole, most of anything for the missing “sensibility chip” by going so public and so soon with the alleged mistress, he also gets points from me, somehow, because he’s dating a “normal” looking woman. Not a Ratakowski, not a Sienna Miller, not a 20 something bombshell. That’s what everybody was expecting from him. He’s dating the mistress who stood up and endured among who knows how many others. It wont last, we all know that. But if there’s something I’ll giver her grief for is the terrible image she’s projecting as a woman who cares zero about going public with the guy she cheated with, and caring nothing for the feelings of both scorned exes and the children. As for Affleck he’s so disgusting in his behavior, looks and everything else that if think its been said all about him.
You’d think by now Affleck would have sprung for a hot oil treatment for Lindsay.
Hahaah! Funny
And yeah she does always look like a mess. You gotta hand it to Chrissy O….she gave it a good effort in the pap walk style dept. at least better than this one. Sheesh
@Neelyo LOL!! Ohhhh the shade. I love it.
This is the couple of terrible jackets & it’s still summer. We are in for it come winter.
Certain drugs, like cocaine, will leave you feeling cold all the time… jus’ saying…. 🤔
Really? I did not know that. Thank you, that would explain Ben’s jackets in 109 degree weather
That woman is unfortunate looking in pics but Ben looks gross AF so perfect couple. Imagine they are as appealing as cigarette breath.
Ok, I didn’t want to “appearance shame” her and upset people on here but I’m glad someone else said it first. They always look like sh*t. I mean, are they so busy that she doesn’t have time to wash her face and run a comb through her hair? Gross. And the 1980 keds and a sundress thing is just..no. Sorry.
Dirty keds at that!
She is dating a millionare movie actor, you think she would at least have clean shoes?!
Also, her hair is so frizzy. Cant even run a curling iron/wand through it and a flat iron? Girlfriend’s beauty game weak! You can be low maintenance and still look put together- she does not. They definitely look like they are non stop partying on the road.
you hit it on the head – they are drunk and/or high AF.
I’ll hop aboard the appearance-shame train. She’s a good example of why bleaching your hair never turns out well. As a fair-skinned dirty-blonde myself, I imagined most of us had learned this lesson by college, but I guess not. I’ve seen older pictures of her where she’s just done a highlight and her hair is much less damaged and it looks better with her skin tone. It also looks like she never brushes it.
This whole thing is just hugely messy.
They’re both too preoccupied with their everyday hangovers and late night ragers to give AF about clean clothes, showers, brushing hairs, etc. The red faces = drunk. The hazy eyes = high. They both look like they smell and don’t care. Blech. Depressing to watch.
They both look permanently hungover and smelling like cigarettes as well.
Well done to them both.
I’m thinking Jen is pretty happy seeing these pics, and I’m also gaining some new admiration for her for putting up with him for so long.
All these people look like they smell
One thing that caught my attention was that Ben took Lindsay to his office and she took him to her work place. That is not such a romantic place to take a date but they seem to share and enjoy the same interests in their line of work. IMO, it seems that is what drew Ben to Lindsay. They are definitely very comfortable in this relationship so to say they just started dating in April may be a bit of a stretch!
That’s what I was thinking! When you’ve only been dating a few months, you’re usually not taking people to your work place and stuff. I totally believe they’ve been on and off for years and that the break up is going to be messy. Someone said it above but they seriously look constantly hungover and greasy.
Totally agree! I also think it’s really co-dependent of both of them which is never a good look, especially when you have as many issues as Ben and assuming that Lindsay does as well, given their sad similarities. I also find it profoundly immature that Ben/Lindsay and Jen keep playing this out publicly. It’s like one sees the other then retaliates the next day with the paps in tow and the cycle spirals on. Down the drain they go. They are all batshit.
These two are definitely “Days of Wine and Roses” Playbook.
That is one homely homewrecker
Right! I bet their whole relationship is based on cocaine booze and sex. They are definitely drug buddies!
Doesn’t matter if she’s homely or not–and I don’t think she is. He still prefers her to perky JG.
@minx It is ice cold in this shade. Dang girl
It looks like she is secure enough that she doesn’t feel the need to glam up and prove a point. This may be on purpose.
I won’t defend the woman but I think she’s not as bad looking as some like to say. She just looks like someone who isn’t camera ready as I’m someone that would probably look hideous in the glare of paparazzi I’m not going to judge. Clearly they are boozing it up but he was doing the same thing while he was with Jen so it’s not anyone’s fault but his own.
I can’t for the life of me figure out why she dresses like she does. She is fit and has nice long legs but I guess she doesn’t care.
Still, that checked monstrosity thing she has on looks like a 10 year old pajama shirt.
I don’t think she looks bad here either. I actually like her dress, it looks comfortable, and the jacket’s cute. Meh.
Part of the reason I think she looks bad is because she looks kind of….mean?
I agree. She looks rough around the edges. Not approachable.
There’s a video of Ben and Violet – it says he took her to the Apple store. In it, there is a woman who walks a few feet in front of them, and at one point stops and talks with them. I don’t think he was alone with Violet, and that’s probably good.
Violet’s glasses are adorable and she looks like her Mom facially. She has those gangly legs and big feet I had too. Hold strong Vi it will all come together eventually.
She has always adored him so I hope for her he can find his way back to health.
I doubt he is allowed with those kids unsupervised. I think thats why he keeps showing up with Jen. She is there to watch his interractions with them.
That woman has headphones on and isn’t even paying attention to them. If she were some kind of minder I don’t think she would be wandering ahead of them, headphones on and looking at something on her phone.
Are both of their driver’s licenses suspended? Why can’t she drive?
She lives in NYC, that is probably why she doesn’t drive.
I caught the last part of E last night. I thought they said Jennifer Garner was going to be on tonight to talk about her vacation? Wasn’t sure if they meant the previous vacation or another vacation? Is she promoting another movie? Did anyone else hear that? Maybe I heard wrong? If she is that might explain why Ben’s mom is staying with the kids.
to Minx – yes, one Homely homewrecker – And I’m sure Jen prefers he’s with Lindsay than her as well. To perplexed: She does have a resting bitch face – but so does Ben. He ALWAYS looks miserable. Can’t blame it on Jen anymore folks. The two look alike in the face. And nothing short of a pixie cut will help that damaged hair. Robin Wright did it because of damaged hair and she has strong facial features as well. Go for it Snookus!
I know I sound like a cutthroat corporate girl but if I were Lindsay I’d use this speck of water in the frying pan time to raise my profile professionally. I’d brush my hair, put on a cute outfit and smile at the cameras. Ben may be done with her in a hot minute but she’s still got a seemingly great career that can only benefit from positive exposure. In this era of IG social media etc when everyone is a star why not join em.
I wonder if that isn’t the point of this so-called relationship now? So they’ve been dating the last few months (or on-off the past few years or more, depending on who anyone believes). And now, Lindsay wants something promised to her. No, not a baby (bump), but a big career one. I just don’t see anything romantic in these photos.
But she doesn’t have a job that dating someone high profile helps – in fact I think the fact that her job of working with the hosts of the show and then dating a couple of them (Hamm and Affleck) actually makes her look LESS professional. Having him tag along to her work place in NY and on scouting trips – I have to agree with LA Elle – it isn’t a good look professionally. And it makes Affleck look clingy or something. We know you can’t be alone but man-up and take that time to be with your kids.
Yeah, I have to agree w/you here, Lisa, but does Lindsay know this?
Even though her SNL position involves “hobnobbing”, and as successful/powerful as she *supposedly* is, maybe she’s been sheltered at SNL. Because as far as we know, it’s the only real job she’s had since starting there soon after college.
To reiterate your points, she strikes me as being naive and not very image-savvy.
I’m with you Elle: Given her position, dating talent isn’t a great look.
This is different, but I’ve known a couple of women who worked in high-profile fundraising positions. The two in question were personable, sweet, smart, and – perhaps most important for this story – attractive. One of them told me once that one of the best pieces of advice she got when she started out was to never, under any circumstances, date a donor. Fair or not, dating donors was not good optics for her and would hurt her long-term career prospects.
She does have a great career but I don’t think she is used to dressing up all of the time. Behind the scenes fashion isn’t important. I still find this curious though.
I just want to blot her face
Ugh. Can’t believe I’m going to say this but:
LA is having an unusual spell of heat and humidity this week. Everyone has that sweaty sheen right now. I would hate for anyone to get a picture of me when I’m out because I would look awful.
So that could be why they look like that.
That said, don’t think having your high-profile movie star boyfriend join you for a work event is professional. It draws attention and part of me feels bad for the comedians who performed because the event likely turned into ‘omg Affleck is here!’ Instead of focusing on up and coming comics.
To the other elle, slightly off-topic: I was missing the dry summer heat and sun there until you and others said it’s really humid??? So I checked my TWC app, and it actually says 58% humidity (only 10% less than here on the east coast)…unbelievable!
It’s humid and HOT. Even in Santa Monica. There is no way you need a jacket, in the morning OR the evening.
Being leaving in even more humide and hot climate, i would say it’s always chilly everywhere inside, whether it’s a car, an office or a mall. So having jacket on shoulders when you have to sreps from a car to an office makes some sense to me.
Casey obviously knew Lindsay as well from hosting SNL so this probably wasn’t her first introduction to him!!!
Casey had said publicly that he has been sober for 3 yrs., so hopefully this was an alcohol-free night!!!
the fact that both women dress like crap -sometimes thousand dollar crap in Jen’s case, makes me think this is what Ben prefers, in his mind good down to earth girl next door type to have ltr with. Both women are calculating as hell, he just doesn’t know it yet.
People is now asking if Ben is helping Lindsay scout for talent for SNL? The article went on to say he was reserved while see did most of the talking. They did order a bottle of wine and Lindsay was proud to introduce Ben as her boyfriend.
I wonder how long it will take his publicist to get the reference to wine removed.
In 3-2-1…
I was surprised they included that.
SHOCKED that his PR let them reference a bottle of wine being ordered.
In light of the articles People posted exposing the affair in the first place, I don’t think they are completely willing to play along with Ben’s PR and cover that stuff up any longer. They see what the people want to comment on, and what those comments look like.
People mag has been posting every fluff piece on Lindsay that his team sends them. They and every other rag breathlessly report on every date or outing they take, like it’s real groundbreaking news.
Oh, no doubt. My point is that they will add the little extras like they ordered wine, which they wouldn’t do if they were 100% bowing to PR reps. There is at least a little bit of independence.
Ha. That picture of Jon Hamm at the end looks like he really doesn’t want to get dragged into this mess.
LOL read my mind. The minute his name came up in the article I thought “oh, you know his PR team is like F***!”
Meanwhile, back at Warner Brothers… would you love to be in on those meetings!
He’s out as Batman, probably has been for months. They are just waiting until JL is out and over with. He knows it.
It’s one of the only explanations why he doesn’t give a s*** about showing off his unkempt former sidepiece and ruining his career and reputation.
Will ray fisher give him some shade like he did to Zack Snyder at sdcc during JL promotion?
Wb should have given him a film to avoid so to avoid this kind of actes manqués.
In one of the photos Lainey posted of Ben and Violet, he is looking down at her and smiling. Yeah, I know. But his face in that shot is very very like his mother. I’ll leave it there.
I adore Lainey because she just says it like it is referencing how “badly produced” his outing was yesterday but the outing with Violet was where he “tries to produce.” Hysterical because it’s so on point.
PS – it looks to me like he’s wearing makeup and bronzer in the pics with Violet. Kudos on the clean shirt, Ben. >eye roll<
PS – It looks to me like his bad sunburn from Maine turned into tan.
In the pic where he is arriving at the comedy club Tuesday it is light and his skin is normal not red or dark tanned
His skin is exactly the same color in both sets of pics.
the pictures of her this week are giving me LIFE 😀
He looks great in the pics of him with Violet at the movies.
Ben looks awful and not at all sober. I bet Lindsay is wearing those sack dresses to try and start pregnancy rumors.
Just was reading some People articles about Ben & Lindsay.
Found this quote from one of his “sources” interesting!
“Since his last round of rehab, he has learned what works for him in terms of living a happy and healthy life.”
Her and Jen are in the same boat lookswise the only pretty women he dated was jlo
You can’t be serious saying Jennifer G. isn’t pretty. Lindsay is average-looking. Not unattractive at all, just average. But more than anything, it’s probably her clothes and damaged hair that don’t help. I do commend Ben for not dating a 20-something.
Jennifer is naturally very pretty, nice features, great skin, and shiny hair. Not J-LO stunning, I agree, but a very pretty woman, who can look great with zero makeup. She’s eight years older than Lindsay, but doesn’t look it. I’m not saying he should have stayed with Jen. That marriage has been over for years. I’m just addressing your remark that Jen isn’t pretty.
Example – Jennifer Garner last year when she was 44 years old promoting an indie movie.
http://photos.laineygossip.com/articles/garner-cranston-tiff-14sept16-13.jpg
My god, calm yourself, people have different opinions on beauty — it’s totally okay.
@Brianna, LOL. Okay. I may have had too much coffee this afternoon.
@Jayna I love that picture of JG! I have heard that she is prettier in person.
Jennifer also has had (subtle) work done like every other actress on the planet and knows about angles and light. She curates a look (even though it’s very catered to her fan base of MVM) . This is why I feel bad for her despite what probably was some dishonest and unhealthy behavior on her part . She’s outmatched by someone who knows how to make normals feel like she’s one of them.
I agree with you Jayna, Jennifer Garner is a natural beauty. Pictures of her from the Oscars etc always show her looking stunning.
I don’t know. I have to admit, most of the fun for me gossip-wise was watching and waiting to see when Jen was finally going to give it up and leave Ben, or when he was going to grow some and leave her. It was the slowest moving trainwreck I’ve ever seen.
Now that they’re really done, I don’t find this current “saga” all that interesting. I mean, there’s nothing shocking about it. Rumors about Ben’s addictions and infidelities while he was with Jen have been around for at least 10 years, if not more. So … nothing really new or surprising here.
I think it’s fascinating that people are so appalled. I mean – what’s so surprising? That what we already knew about Ben is now official and public?
Let’s pretend, hypothetically, that in the next year or so, Ben gets completely healthy and sober, looks great, starts dating someone that everyone here deems “acceptable” and gets papped constantly out and about with his kids. Will that actually be enough for everyone? Or will it still not make the cut since he’s no longer part of the Jen brigade.
Had Ben come forward with some new woman who hadn’t been his secret mistress for years, when Sam was still a baby, then he probably would not have met with anything close to this level of resistance. It’s WHO and HOW he came forward with someone, JoJo; not that he came forward with someone at ALL!
You don’t have to like or respect Jennifer to not be offended on behalf of all of the women this has happened to over the years. I’ve known a couple of situations where friends put their husbands through college and law school, supporting them all the way, only to have them move on to fresh meat once they started practicing and meeting new women. They are left to pick up the pieces and struggle with kids in some cases, when they thought they were part of the team building a future together all along. That’s the kind of man-world we have lived in for a very long time. When we see it happening so publicly, yeah, we react from long-held frustrations of similar behaviors in other men. Ben is getting the brunt of many, many frustrations in this. He deserves it, IMO. He has cheated on every long-term relationship he’s been in. He clearly has no respect for women, also IMO.
It’s THAT thing that is stirring up the nest – not really the addictions. Though seeing those play out is bittersweet because of the kids who deserve better.
JoJo, I think if he really looked healthy/sober and happy in-love w/a new woman, people would be happy for him…
It would represent to everyone that he’s finally moving on, but instead this messy relationship PR rollout w/Lindsay just looks sad, not good for him, and like more of the same.
@jojo For all the ugly, nasty comments about Ben in this post and others, if he cleaned up they’d still want him back with Jen. They’d cream themselves over the possibility. So no, I don’t think any girlfriend or wife will ever be accepted, regardless of circumstance.
JoJo, Brianna, I agree with Learning the System. Remember when this “new relationship” was first posted about, everyone thought it was so boring the first 40 or so comments were first ignoring her but talking about how puffy and botox filled Ben was looking and then the second 50 or so comments were how surprising it was that this new woman was “only” 8 years younger and how normal looking she was, and that it was time he moved on. Everyone was accepting it fine until Ben’s duplicitousness was revealed. He was called the unlovable celebrity by a TIME writer once, and I think it’s always been true. You forget stuff and think you like him then of course he does something that reminds you why you didn’t. He went through a (now it seems brief) period around 2005-2010 where he kept his head down, wasn’t in the tabloids and was only seen as working hard at his career and being with his family in private. People started to forget what a train wreck he was in the early 2000s and started to kinda like and respect him again. Then he seems to have started spiraling down faster after Argo with drinking, gambling, woman rumors etc and now it seems he’s kinda thrown it away again. People are just pissed he is so stupid.
I would hope anyone with good self esteem would yell No Jen No. I don’t think she’d ever take him back anyway.
LOL Not me @Brianna. Ideally I’d like to see Jen move on to a happy relationship with a man that will be good to her and her kids. If Ben was suddenly “healthy and happy” with a new woman? I’d probably make a snarky remark wondering how long it’ll take him to sabotage his new relationship but not because I want him back with Jen. I think he’s an ungrateful, entitled, jerk and she can do better. Having said all that, I would be happy to see him cleaned up for his children’s sake though. He’s brought 3 kids into the world, they deserve a good, present, CLEAN father.
+1 @Lisa 100% Sooooo irritated by how duplicitous, stupid, foolish and selfish he is. I never liked Jen. I do not like Shookus. I would LOVE to see him choose HEALTH for once. Not holding my breath.
I hope this doesn’t turn into a Brange triangle thing. That was insane and made gossip less fun and tiresome with the over the top fans. No JoJo they won’t be happy. See how the stans talk about Brad? Now he is suddenly the worst in the world.
I do like finding out what he is doing only to see if JG will stop.
3 years and going ben and roboric smilie divorcing and now this one added …lol
Anyways,I think he and brad don’t have the same problems or same exes. Men Sure want to have ben afleck exes than brads i guess including the non stop smile one they just can’t stop being for his world it seems…lols
On a lighter note and a little off topic….Alex Rodriguez was asked what is favorite Jlo song?
His answer was Jenny From The Block ( the one with Ben in that infamous video with Jlo when they were dating!) Of all her songs since then, he picks that one!
Haha! Shade, maybe? Or is ARod not that sharp…
As a sack of hammers
Or baseball bats.
I doubt he even knows any of her songs. That title just sticks in your mind, so that popped out from him.
Wow, the comments on here are so angry for the most part. I actually like them together and i think she is pretty. I have no issues with her styling, I get the casual look. Isn’t going after a woman’s looks kind of dated?
I sure hope it’s worth it for Lindsay Shookus to keep hearing different versions of the whole “you’re not like the other girls, you’re a COOL girl” from Ben Affleck. I know some women who are into that. I do wonder if it isn’t somewhat of an ego boost for her, to hear from Ben Affleck that he considers her his intellectual equal or w/e, as opposed to Jennifer Garner who was supposedly more homely and less smart. It would explain why she was into Jon Hamm, who gives off the same awful condescending intellectual vibe that Ben Affleck and Matt Damon and their whole crew give off. The whole, “I’m so much MORE enlightened and aware than you,” thing etc. etc.
Well said, A.
Jennifer Garner is very smart. She can run around Affleck and he will not know it. I read that somewhere, btw.
Per Lainey, Jen took college courses just so she could keep up with Ben’s intellect.
jen is very smart she has b a from Denison university why do they always look so dirty ?
@maya That revelation from Lainey was both hilarious and sad and spoke volumes about how much Jen actually grovelled for years.
Jen is clearly intelligent, and she did finish @ Denison Univ. I think Ben is intelligent too, but I’ve always thought he and Jen seemed completely different in terms of their personalities and humor. I’ve always found Jen to have sort of a sanctimony and snobbery about her at times – very much like her character in Butter – and this sometimes comes out in her humor. Prime example – her interview with Conan O’Brien where she primly corrects his grammar (yet turns out to be wrong.)
@kat I am dying laughing at the thought of anyone thinking they have to go above and beyond to maintain a conversation with a sputtering chump like Ben Affleck.
I would imagine a good conversation for him would simply require a question…so Ben, what do you think about….
Ben is a pretentious guy! Not intelligent. Remember his guest stint on Bill Maher. Yes, he had a point but he didn’t know how to go about. He wan’t thoughtful enough to present his side. I wonder if he was like that to JG. Yelling and cursing all over the house!
@Ana, I’m sure she is! I’m sure she’s quite a bit more intelligent, that’s clear from the way she deals with the media and the way she’s creating her narrative for the media. It’s not just emotional intelligence, it’s an ability to understand a lot of things on a deeper level.
Whereas Ben, for all of his posturing, has never ever come off as anywhere near an intellectual, just as someone who keeps claiming that for the sake of the idea without actually being very smart. You can see that in the movies he directs. They’re good movies, but they’re hardly the sort of intellectual fare that makes people think on a deeper level about anything. He sure tries, bless his heart, but he’s nowhere near at that level, ever.
No one with a modicum of intelligence would breed (three times) with someone like Ben Affleck, clean up his messes while he humiliated her again and again, and continue to cling to him for 10+ years. I think she’s a f-cking imbecile.
PS. Winning the day in US Weekly is something to be proud of? She’s still a twice-divorced, middle-aged mother with no career to speak of, who has to resort to tabloid games for attention.
It’s just pathetic that tabloid maneuvering is considered some sort of accomplishment. Is that how low the bar is? As far as I can tell, her life hasn’t actually improved one iota as a result of her PR games. Her marriage still failed, the so-called love of her life still picked his mistress and his booze over her, and her career is still nonexistent. So some old ladies on the internet in flyover states think she’s the craftiest thing ever — and? What does that even really get her? She still goes to bed alone at night.
Damn @Vi and @ZZ! Y’all are harsh. I think Jennifer Garner is the most benign person alive and she seems reasonably smart. Plus being a mom is hard enough but when you have a selfish asshole husband? That shit’s way hard. You guys need to chill with that hate. There are many different forms of intelligence. Ben has come across like a total dumbass in some interviews. Smart people don’t go around telling everyone how smart they are and in my opinion, Ben has spent a lot of his career doing that. Plus he’s the one that tattooed a giant colorful freaking bird from his ass to his ear on his back and has had this mid life crisis or whatever. Not attractive. Doesn’t suggest intelligent decision making of lots of higher reasoning at work here.
@JUSTJJ + 1000 applause!
If and/ or when Ben directs another movie, I wonder if he will cast Jon Hamm in any of his movies? He does have several actors he uses repeatedly .(i.e. Titus Welliver, Chris Cooper ,etc.) An eyewitness said Lindsay brought Jon to that event last year…must have been when Lindsay & Ben were on/off and when there was all the gossip about Ben wanting to reconcile with Jen. Jon did try to deny he dated Lindsay.
Both of them look like a sweaty coke binge.
Did Lindsay go back to NYC?
If so, I wonder if there will be a pap stroll with her daughter?
I think her ex has put the stop to those. I don’t believe he knew that was what she was doing that last time they were together with the daughter.
It’s not actually possible to stop paps from taking pics if they are determined to do it. Otherwise why do we get daily, intrusive pics of the Affleck kids, hm? There were a lot of complaints when the pics of her ex and child were posted, people were saying to leave them alone. I think there isn’t much of an angle for posting pics of her ex and daughter.
I found it interesting that this article is about Ben’s brother Casey joining Ben and Lindsay while she was comic scouting, yet very few comments (me incliuded) about Casey joining them or maybe even Casey’s divorce. Ben is obviously the more famous brother!☺
Casey, if not because of the bad reputation of his sexual predatory ways, would be a total irrelevant and uninteresting person. Not even as an actor, I don’t think he’s a brilliant talent. He’s ok at playing the same character and has found himself at the right moment and the right time to win an Oscar. Of course he campaigned hard for it. Which is what it takes: Hollywood needs them to say it out loud: “yes, I’d sell my mother for an Oscar”. then they’ll give to them. And his bro’s connections did help him a lot, of course.
Lainey’s articles the last few days have been dead on. Remember when she used to hate Jen and called her taupe referencing how boring she was. She now admires her and considers her anything but boring. Jen is sharp. Something that she acquired as a by product of necessity during her marriage. Btw when Jen is at red carpet events she is absolutely stunning.
I don’t really get the constant jokes about her looks. I think she’s a lot like Jen in that she doesn’t bother to fix herself up much for daily life and dresses casually. I think when she tries, she is beautiful. She looked stunning when she won her Emmy. *shrug* Ben obviously thinks she’s hot and at the end of the day that’s all that actually matters…
Agreed! I see absolutely nothing wrong with her looks. In fact, she’s a beauty in my eyes. I don’t think the relationship will last, but I see what he sees in her.
Jennifer G., he’s available.
http://www.eonline.com/shows/the_arrangement/news/837596/listen-up-arrangement-fans-michael-vartan-s-on-tinder-i-m-like-the-creepy-old-grandfather
Celebrities…they’re just like us! (Except that I’d never myself go on Tinder, but that’s just me…)
Yeah, right. She’ll pine for Ben for the rest of her days.
Whatever she can do so much better than armpit Phoenix boozehound Old navy flip flop ball sweat. That was almost a haiku.
I’m wondering if either brother is actually totally sober. Ben was at a liquor store and doesn’t look sober. Casey looks sober but he stayed at a “wine hotel” while in Rome with the new GF.
No, totally sober…but, hey, wine’s okay, right? In fact, I’m opening a bottle of red right now…then I’ll be sober again tomorrow.
LOL
I’m really surprised nobody is talking about how Casey’s new GF is a Scientologist. Scientology is working hard on the DL to survive. People already know the scam they are. They don’t recruit young Hollywood naives anymore. So they’re working hard to recruit them via “pussy”, pardon my French.
I don’t like Ben Affleck. I’ve never been a fan of Jen Garner and her phony charade, either.
They both look rode hard and put away wet.
I don’t think it’s a bad thing the way she dresses, shows she’s confident/secure in herself and in this relationship. I used to dress to the nines while dating an ex, lots of insecurity really not worth it.
I wonder if she is opposed to styling her hair? Or washing It?
They both look ratchet. Affleck doesn’t even look like himself anymore. 5 miles of bad road, these two.
I saw a picture of JG in bathing suit on Twitter. It was posted tonight. Not sure if that is recent. If not, she is on vacation then. She looks good.
I think it is recent and (gasp) it looks like she is taking a frivolous trip away from the kids. I don’t think that her swimsuit is very flattering but then I hate one piece suits. I think they are so control-top matronly. I am a bit surprised that someone who works out as much as she does isn’t more toned on the legs but that’s just her age showing, I guess.
It actually looks like a family water park, possibly in LA even.
I still believe that he’s acting out so publicly not to piss Garner, but to piss someone else. We all agree to think that Lindsay wasn’t the only side piece he had in the past years. There was the nanny yes, but I think the nanny was just casual, easy sex in the middle of the storm of his marriage crumbling, and mostly I think he made a point of not being “exclusive” to any of his mistresses: he had many, saying he was on and off with one or many of them is completely pointless. we’re talking about a married man with mistresses. He just slept around, A lot. But I do think that he went public with Lindsay because he wanted to piss off someone else, one of the others, one that maybe had the clarity of mind to said no to going public with him and become what now Lindsay is to public opinion: the “MISTRESS”. Because that’s what Lindsay will be forever, no matter if it’s even true to not. For the public she’s the other woman. I think there were many others, and probably some of them or one of them, the one who Affleck was really interested in. I think he had some other woman, maybe someone famous, who refused to be the other woman publicly. So he picked up Lindsay, out of his collection of side pieces .
Interesting comment. It is pretty gross when you think of all the women he has been with. I think right now he is obsessed with his relationship with Lindsay – to the exclusion of everything else. Having said that I find their interactions around each other strange. There is an obvious familiarity between them (don’t buy for a minute this is a “new relationship”) but they don’t seem affectionate or loving at all. His PR saying that “he felt alone for a long time” struck me as telling. I have always thought he was a loner. He appears to live a highly compartmentalized life . His many vices are actually solitary pursuits. So often is mentioned that he is not engaged or present, but yet he can’t seem to be alone. Jennifer Garner was accurate when she said he was complicated. I had high hopes for him when he came out of rehab and announced the divorce. Now not so much.
Sure, he probably had affairs during the marriage. But he separated in April or so of 2015. Any women he began seeing off and on after that were not mistresses. He may have kept his private life private for the sake of his children adjusting to their parents separation and because of the whole stench of nannygate, but dating after filing for separation is not having mistresses.
Lindsay was a mistress if the rumors are true that they started up before the separation, which I believe.
Jen doesn’t want to be with he and he clearly doesn’t want to be with she anymore. Besides, what’s done is done. She’s moving on with her life. HE has another woman in his life. No one is a victim, no one is innocent, the real victims here are children…..He’s just his own worst enemy, He admitted that he was a narcissist, to suffer from alcoholism and impostor syndrome .In short, it’s a hot mess of harmfulness.
Of course, credit where credit’s due:
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/film/new-again-ben-affleck/#_
Per E, Ben’s insider said Ben “Ben felt very alone for a long time” and “having someone and a new relationship is exciting”. I can’t get how he could ever feel alone with Jen, the nanny and Shookus, as well as 3 kids, although the nanny was only from April at the earliest to mid-July 2015 I believe. Everyone figured he was seeing someone in NY so they went with the nanny but that was Shookus, nobody but insiders knew about her before therefore Ben thought he could lie his way into respectability with her. Yes, Jayna she was a mistress, now we can call her his former mistress, but not “new” girlfriend.
Anyway we are getting way too much information about this couple who is only one-half famous. I always thought we heard about Ben so much because he was always part of a famous couple, and we didn’t hear about Matt because he was married to a non-famous person. Well, we are getting as much information and pap attention as if she was famous and and its all on him for keeping her and himself in the tabloids. mean, taking selfies with fans in a liquor store? You know he knew it was going to get attention.
Because it was a loveless marriage, at least on his end. More evidence that his marriage was over for years and that he stayed around (too long) for the kids.
Oh yes, I see now, Carrie, it’s a quote that shines up the lie that he hasn’t been seeing Shookus for 3+ years.
There are always those naive people around who now will feel sorry for him . Poor baby hasn’t had a woman for the 2 years of separation and crumbling years of marriage- we should all feel happy for him for finding a new love. Ha!
I don’t condone cheating but if he fell out of love with his wife, then that’s that. There’s nothing to be done about it except to divorce, which they are doing.
Carrie, you get the divorce BEFORE you engage in new relationships. That’s the issue. He did it for YEARS and with small children in the home. That is just so so low and ugly.
Don’t be so childish and naive. Ben’s not the first guy to cheat on his SO and he won’t be the last. Jen was apparently fine with it for years as long as he still came home to her (as per Lainey). Their marriage, their business. I’m not going to rant and rage about it like some of you, who are way too invested at this point for it to be healthy.
Ben said he was glad this relationship was out in the open. If Jen hadn’t found out about Lindsay(however she did) do u think he would have went public with Lindsay? Oh that’s right, Lindsay probably made it known to Ben she was dating Jon Hamm and/or others and wasn’t waiting around for him to leave Jen I think if Jen hadn’t found out, he would have continued to live his double life…he doesn’t want to part with his assets. Jen could & obviously dealt with “his other flings” and if u believe “sources” , he would come to her and beg for forgiveness and probably even seem like he had changed. And i bet he did…for a while anyway! And then it would start all over again!
Lindsay WAS a challenge. Seeing each other every other week or whatever makes a relationship very exciting and you don’t get bored with that person. If Lindsay would move to LA, that would all change! BACK to life 5, and reality! Now there is a 4 ,5, 8, and 11 yr. Old involved!
Sorry for run ons…..trying to do while on treadmill lol
No no no y’all. What is this crazy appearance bashing, “fallen women” scorning, thinly veiled slut shaming, normative bullsh*t? With a dash of classism? (She should wear expensive clothes?! Why? Like really, why?) I get that people aren’t into the way their relationship began but holy Christ, you sound like Madonna/whore peddling weirdos who expect their ladies to look nice and be unsullied vessels or some nonsense. Like, sure, Ben’s probably a dick. But find a different way to talk about this, please.
Haha so in less than ten minutes, 3 “men” posted about finding Lindsey attractive. I’m not commenting on her looks, but (bwahahaha) to make them look authentic, you should at least spread out the posts over a longer period of time!