Jennifer Garner premiered her new boyfriend on the cover of US Magazine this week, along with some details about their relationship. The two of them reportedly met through friends, have been dating for six months and according to US he’s met her kids already. Remember when Jen didn’t want Lindsay Shookus to meet her kids with Ben despite the fact that Lindsay had officially been with Ben for over a year? Jen makes her own rules, but she she also knows Ben. People Magazine says that John hasn’t met Jen’s kids and that they’re only “casually dating” which seems like a strategic move to play both sides. Or maybe People’s source is Ben’s PR team. US Magazine and almost every other outlet have “things to know about” articles about John, who has an impressive CV as CEO of a restaurant technology company. He’s only separated, not divorced yet, just like Jen, but it sounds like it’s been in the works for a while. He also has two kids, aged 12 and 10. People also reports that John has his law degree from Stanford and has written books on nanotechnology and intellectual property. Remember when The Enquirer reported in March that Jen was dating a lawyer? That means she’s been seeing this guy over six months, unless she was dating a different lawyer. There were photos of her out with a “mystery guy” in February, but that wasn’t John and could have been a friend. Here’s more about Jen’s new boyfriend, from US:
A source tells Us that the Alias alum, 46, introduced Miller to her daughters, Violet, 12, and Seraphina, 9, and her son, Samuel, 6. He has a 12-year-old son and a 9-year-old daughter with his estranged wife, Caroline Campbell.
Miller and concert violinist Campbell split in 2014 after nine years of marriage, but they have yet to finalize their divorce. A source tells Us that the estranged couple are waiting for a judge to sign off on the paperwork. Garner likely understands as her divorce from Affleck, 46, was not finalized until earlier this month, more than three years after they called it quits.
Many people date before they’re officially divorced because it can take a while to agree on terms and finalize the details. As long as everyone is open about it I don’t see the problem. No shade on John, but I do wonder if he’s ready to be in this fishbowl with Jen. He may think it’s no big deal and may even welcome the publicity until he realizes how suffocating it can be. He’s playing a role in Jen’s PR narrative. While he may be understandably smitten with her now, how long is that going to last once he gets hounded by paparazzi? His face is out there now. Six months with someone isn’t really that long.
Meanwhile ET has more about Jen and John’s relationship. A source claims he doesn’t want to be “in the entertainment industry”
“They went for romantic dinners far out of town or at his home,” the source says. “He is warm, fun and incredibly smart. He is a real success in the business world and has no interest in being in the entertainment industry.”
“Her friends know how much pain Jen has been through in the last several years and have wanted this for her for a very long time,” the source says. “They are thrilled to see her happy. She literally has been smiling ear to ear. Right now, Jen’s dating life is going so well and Ben has finally started taking his sobriety seriously, that she is over the moon — and she deserves it.”
“Jen’s marriage to Ben has been over for a very long time and, while her first priority has always been her kids, she knew she needed to rebuild her life without Ben,” the source adds. “It wasn’t easy at first and she even had to push herself to date. When she finally did step into that world, she kept that part of her life very private.”
“Her closest friends are in full support of Jen moving on and finding someone special to spend her life with,” the source said. “She truly deserves the very best. After everything Jen’s been through, her friends and family are rooting for her to move on and live her life without Ben, and finally she seems 100 percent on board.”
OK so we know Jen can keep her personal life private if she wants to. Just putting that out there. This whole rollout must have been in the works for a while.
Jen’s ex, Ben Affleck, is currently working on a film where he’s playing a former basketball player “who’s battling addiction while taking a high school coaching gig at his alma mater.” There are quotes from Ben in US about how he supports Jen’s decisions and wants the best for her. Remember how we heard a few weeks ago that their divorce was finalized? It’s not yet.
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I want her jumper!
Agreed, it’s perfect.
Sweater is too cute
https://m.shopbop.com/bebe-sweater-madeline-thompson/vp/v=1/1507817134.htm
May I ask….what is a jumper?
British speak for sweater.
Is this case, it’s referring to her sweater with the rainbow print in the middle pic, but jumper can also refer to dress/pants type outfit with suspender straps, usually made of denim or corduroy. The latter is usually a children’s outfit.
English-people for sweater. It’s like cookies and biscuits, ugh.
The latter is dungarees in English speak. Best illustrated by Dexy’s Midnight Runners.
Also; I want her jumper.
Hah, interesting! I always associated dungarees more with the pants version. When I think of jumper, I think of the dress form you usually see on little girls. English semantics are always interesting.
Yeah,
US Sweater = UK Jumper UK
US Jumper = UK Dungarees
Is it our business? Especially when to comes to her children?
Maybe she didn’t want her children to meet Lindsey because her and Ben were both drinking? That’s a completely different dynamic than her relationship with her new man. Her making her own rules is more than appropriate regarding the children and significant others.
He doesnt seem to be opposed to invasion of privacy when you think about his face scanner restaurant chain…
He even may totally deserve to have his privacy thoroughly invaded when you think about it.
You know, can’t a woman get a little action without it being broadcast all over the world? She probably hasn’t had sex in years, leave her alone!
hahahaha…you touched on what I was thinking.
maybe THIS is why she’s looked so damn good lately. lost 200 lbs of cheating jerk and is currently getting some from this handsome NON Hollywood guy.
I just don’t see the handsome in him..? He just looks slightly sleazy and too harsh..
I don’t find him attractive either. Jen’s hottest SOs were Vartan and Foley, imo.
Ha, Vartan. He will always be fondly remembered. This one right here doesn’t even begin to compare IMO. Same coloring, that’s it.
It’s not like the story just happened to leak. Her team is giving quotes to multiple publications. It wouldn’t be public knowledge if she didn’t want it to be, as evidenced by the fact that they dated for six months and no one knew.
I can see a little micheal vartan in his face
I LOVED him…. esp in “Never Been Kissed.” Oh yeah!!!
holy crap, you’re right. very interesting.
Wait, I thought her divorce finalized when Ben got out of inpatient rehab? Weren’t there articles about a private judge and the meeting (hearing?) at her house to finalize the divorce?
Her people have leaked details about this to every outlet that will listen. She is so desperate to control the narrative, it’s sad. Ben’s probably thrilled that she finally has someone else to obsess over and he’s off the hook for the first time in 15 years. (I still think she’d take him back no questions asked, if he’d have her.)
Why is it sad that she wants to control the narrative? It seems pretty understandable considering what she had to deal with lately.
Also it’s her own life – why shouldn’t she control the narrative?
This guy is a total loser who uses his kids as pawns in his divorce. Jen sure knows how to pick ’em.
I read that too.. forget where, but that he is controlling and sounds terrible.
Lainey has a write up about this on her site. The way his wife describes his behavior in the court filings definitely would make him a hard pass for me. Jen needs to learn to love herself and know she is worthy of something more.
4 yrs. is a long time to be finalizing a divorce.
The more money & assets, the longer it takes to wrap up a divorce. Caroline had been photographed publicly in March with her new boyfriend, who is also a businessman& John has obviously been dating Jen. So obviously, the only thing holding up their divorce was that they could not reach a final agreement. Reports are that as of Oct. 22nd, they have & are just waiting for a judge to sign off on the papers. This is probably why they decided to go public now…
Good for her. Finally we get to see her meeting and dating interesting people. He’s cute and successful. Similar stages in life. I like it.
In the boyfriend’s case, it sounds like the wife and he have been separated for years. There was just a lot of finances that had to be wrangled in the divorce process. Not quite the same as Jen, who is clearly over her marriage at this point, but recently separated.
I hope she’s over her marriage. I guess time will tell.
So… I think it’s kind of hilarious that US Weekly even got ahold of the court documents regarding his divorce…he seems controlling as the wife puts it. Don’t know how I feel about that. (DM has the full statement from the document) Hoping the codependency doesn’t come back to bite her with this guy.
All this stuff about his divorce and custody battles coming out and making him look like a jerk and a loser. Jen must be slipping in her PR game. Expect major backpedaling from her PR team now.
Michael Vartan vibes.
He might not be your cup of tea, but he’s not exactly a bridge troll, so I don’t get the commenters complaining about other people calling him handsome.
As for the divorce documents — yikes. Hope for Jen’s sake it’s sour grapes.
@ Celebitchy
“Jen makes her own rules…”
You mean she’s a hypocrite.
“Many people date before they’re officially divorced because it can take a while to agree on terms and finalize the details.”
Why didn’t you have that attitude when Ben was dating the nanny?
Ben’s nanny had a deeply personal relationship with all three of Ben’s children. (which he then destroyed)
@ Lady D
“Ben’s nanny had a deeply personal relationship with all three of Ben’s children. (which he then destroyed) ”
That wasn’t the reason Celebitchy gave at the time. At the time she was adamant that Ben was a cheater because he was dating the nanny while still married to Jen Garner (ignoring the fact that Jen herself started dating while still married to Scott Foley).
You can’t have one view when it comes to Garner and another when it comes to Ben, unless Celebitchy wants to admit to being a hypocrite.
Amen! Then there was Lindsay, everyone acted like Ben was doing something unforgivable and Jen had the gall to confront Lindsay over her relationship with Ben. Now Jen herself is being the ‘other woman’ while a divorce is going on and for some reason that is okay?
You know, Jen made herself look so pure and long suffering while Ben was painted as the worthless drunk, but now we know she’s messing with a still-married man who hasn’t finalized his divorce. Now it’s been going on for years (as we now know) and so she’s been technically an unfaithful wife. She is still married to Ben and so she’s determined to hold onto her marriage while messing around herself. She now has no business posturing as the long suffering chaste wife.
While legally separated, Ben dated around and everyone gave him huge flack for it. Now Jen is caught out and even introducing the kids and now she’s suddenly better?
She was never a Saint.’ She cheated on every partner to get a “more successful” partner in the business allegedly. Flirted with Ben when he was engaged to Jlo (there is a video on youtube) and she was married to Scott Foley at the time he played Dare devil and she played Electra.
Oh I know she was never a saint, I just mentioned that she played up that role as much as she could during that time period.