I felt like crying with happiness when I saw this story: apparently, Ben Affleck was spotted browsing engagement rings at Tiffany’s!!! OMG! Ben’s mom has been in town recently, and Ben and J.Lo spent the whole weekend doing blending-family activities with their teen and tween kids, with Ben’s mom in tow. Everyone seemed to be getting along really well. Maybe there really will be a blended family in the very near future!!
The engagement so nice they’re doing it twice. Ben Affleck was snapped browsing engagement rings at the Century City, Calif. Tiffany’s in the company of his mom Sam and son Samuel Monday — presumably for his on-again love Jennifer Lopez.
You’ll remember that Affleck first popped the question to Lopez back in November 2002 during the Bennifer 1.0 days, using a 6.1-carat pink diamond by Harry Winston that reportedly cost $2.5 million.
While it looks like J.Lo and Ben kept a lot of sh-t from their Original Bennifer days, my guess is that the Harry Winston pink diamond ring really was sold back to Harry Winston or auctioned off privately or something like that. While I would love to know the extensive backstory on what happened to that ring, I wasn’t 100% sure that I wanted a reappearance of that particular ring in this 2021 gossip storyline. It might be bad mojo to reuse the ring like that. Page Six doesn’t say if Ben bought anything – I don’t think he did – but browsing is a good first step. See what’s out there, check things out. I wonder if he would go to Tiffany’s this time around, or if he’d go to a Beverly Hills jeweler. Hm.
Ben Affleck browses engagement rings at Tiffany's with his mom and son https://t.co/raVl7JOF2B pic.twitter.com/oh34iVmzeD
— Page Six (@PageSix) August 23, 2021
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
Oh no. Not this again.
While I’ve been enjoying the deja vu of reliving 2003 I’m definitely not jazzed about an engagement. Real or faux. These two need to chill and just enjoy each other for a while.
That was my reaction exactly.
They are each holding a printout list — maybe a scavenger hunt that includes Tiffany diamonds?
Maybe a list of all of JLo’s ring requirements
Maybe a list of descriptions of all her previous engagement rings.
Wow, impressive detective work!
You literally hit the nail on the head, apparently the page six article was updated(?) and his daughters were on the other side of the mall doing the same exact thing. So, it was a scavenger hunt lol… Good detective work @Aphra 🙂
Eh, I don’t know. The bit of me that loves all the drama of this WOULD love if they got engaged tomorrow, but with the amount of effort Ben has always put into her presents, I feel like if he was really, properly looking for engagement rings, I’m guessing he’d arrange a private, proper viewing. I’m not sure these pictures are that kind of “looking”. He could have been there to buy anything. They look more like him glancing down at the counters while he was waiting and “boom”- “Ben Affleck browses engagement ring” photos happened.
This was my exact thought, too. Unless he’s trying to troll everyone, there’s no reason he would ever have to look at engagement rings so publicly. Not to mention, I can’t imagine him taking his young kid to make a purchase like that.
definitely not. celebs do not do off the rack shopping at tiffanys for an engagement of this scale, if one is truly in the works.
For sure. As exciting as this would be, Ben would likely have one custom-made for JLo if he was thinking of proposing. He needs to make amends for what he did back then. Plus I doubt he would take his son along for something that serious.
Yeah, this reads like Page Six hyperbole.
This is definitely just about getting the story out there that he’s looking at engagement rings; when he is actually serious, he’ll do it in private. This just stirring up more tabloid speculation (on purpose, of course, lol.)
Yeah, the piece of paper is probably his PR To Do list for the week. Publicly look at engagement rings: Check!
They probably got paid by Tiffany’s for it
I could buy a castle with the amount of engagement rings Jennifer gets 🤔
Yeah, more like one castle per ring. You could have a whole empire.
Etiquette as well as legal precedent says if an engagement is broken you give back the engagement ring. So that just leaves her with three, although Marc’s ring alone was impressive. I heard the original was sold back to Harry Winston. Hope the writer doesn’t get too disappointed because I really doubt he’s going the engagement route. The papers and pens each were carrying was an interesting note. Maybe looking for gifts I would think.
She and Tom Brady could have a ring battle.
She’s like Thanos collecting Infinity Stones.
😂
No more phone calls. We have the winner. 😂
Best comment of the week!!
There’s no way she’ll be able to snap her fingers with all six of them on, so I think we’re in the clear even if there are a few people I wouldn’t mind never having to see again.
A few castles. I’m sure she has kept all her engagement rings.
Gotta love j-lo especially if she can get engaged twice during a pandemic 🤣.. being the same age and dateless for the last few years I am impressed and wish her happiness. Engagement or not I like them together, maybe second chances are worth a try.
Right? I was chatting with my ex again and that ended like our pretty much ended like our first go round. But let’s factor that one of the men she was engaged to was Alex Rodriguez so…ya know gross.
They seem more like a custom ring kind of couple not a mass marketed ring type.
Agreed. JLo does NOT do “off the rack” 🤣😂😄😅😆😉
I bet he had no idea he would get seen doing that! No idea!!
Hahahahaha what are those cameras!?!?
Lol – this. It’s all very entertaining.
It’s probably something for his daughters. It would be funny if he gave her a mass produced ring Tiffanys ring though.
Say what you will, but Jen appears to be good for him. I don’t know when Ben has looked better or more healthy. Something that is happening is real, at least. Maybe it’s just good sex.
Eh, one of my brothers is an alcoholic mess. Screwed up his marriage to an incredible woman, wrought havoc on his career, lost him respect from friends and family. He never looks better than when he has a new girlfriend who doesn’t have to deal with his daily messiness. Like, he only does well when he has status symbols around him and he can’t keep them for long bc he’s a messy person. It’s like they said of Don Draper on Mad Men, he likes new. Once things get a little more serious, they all bail bc, again, messy. Im guessing Ben is the same.
I feel like for JLo he would go private jeweler for rich people- probably with custom settings.
Tiffany’s seems more like a Violet’s 16th birthday starter diamond.
Of course he “browsed” publicly right in front of photographers for all to see instead of doing it privately which they absolutely would have let him do. So tired of these shameless attention hos.
Jennifer Garner just watches from afar,she knows Bens a saboteur and this will implode soon. I would like for them to work out but they are still enganging in the same media antics so not a lot of self awareness and growth.
This is very exciting, if it’s true.
Dear God, almost 20 years later, they are using the same playbook. Not an original thought or action between these two. Someone throw them in the Atlantic Ocean since they are so parched.
Right? This is so ridiculous and transparent!
https://www.vox.com/culture/22629442/bennifer-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-reunion-explained
Okay I read the whole thing and I think the writer sounds like someone who read up on Bennifer 1 and the whole era but was in grade school at the time. She thinks they are (very) self consciously repeating their act from before but now nobody still feels they are being obnoxious, tacky, embarrassing, or oversaturated. And she would be wrong.
All the Karens have their panties in a wad over the Return of Bennifer and it reeks of sad sack jealousy.
Tiffany’s is getting some good attention and PR these days, thanks to Bey and Jay and now this. . . Curious.
Curious indeed…I mentioned something similar down thread.
@ Yup Me
I think you are on to something…this would be great PR for them & Ben- win-win!
I doubt Ben would be looking at engagement rings in public & with his mom & son! If he is thinking about getting engaged ( God i hope not), i would think he would ask for a PRIVATE viewing, just he & the jeweler. I have to agree that he is probably buying something for his daughter(s). Both Ben & Jen are going down that same rabbit hole with the media as last time, but sadly this time there are children involved now! They keep trying to convince the public that ” they are in it for the long run”
Why do they need us, the public to believe them so badly?
Had that same thought!
Totally.
I mean, I’m loving this for the spectacle of all this. It’s so light and joyful from a gossip standpoint. It’s two people in love again after two decades, and I am pulling for them. That said, no way he’s shopping for an engagement ring that isn’t custom and that is in such obvious sight of paps. It’s probably a gift for one of his daughters. Maybe for when Violet passes her driver’s test or something, or a future birthday.
While their fauxmance or whatever is going on is fun, I really am annoyed they are dragging their kids into it publicly. I’m not convinced it’s real because of these kind of stunts, of Ben publicly looking at rings and jewelry. If they really wanted to avoid being the talk of gossip, they would definitely try to be less conspicuous. I’m convinced this is all fake and just a petty way to get back at A-Rod and Ana de Armas. I think A-Rod cares but Ana doesn’t.
Don’t be sour and project your personal feelings.
When Jennifer Garner is okay that her kids can mingle with JLo’s twins publicly, and especially Ben’s mum was also joining with them for the family outings, it is real, whether you like it or not.
Ben obviously loves her. You rarely see a man in his PR relationship shill out roughly 2 million dollars for his girlfriend of less than 3 months (the charter rate of the yacht, the scaled tips, and the jewelleries, etc).
Maybe she paid for it? She’s probably richer than him with her perfume and now skin care line. This minute by minute chronicle of their relationship screams “PR stunt”. Sorry, not sorry.
We have no idea if Jennifer Garner is okay with it. She doesn’t have much of a choice about it since she shares custody with Ben. J. Lo may be a drama queen but she isn’t the devil. She’s not a bad influence on the kids, just a lot of extraness. The kids may not like the paparazzi but they are unfortunately used to it since they’ve been stalked since they were little. And just because Ben’s mom was there doesn’t make it more real to me. Also 2 mil is a drop in the bucket for an A-lister like Ben Affleck.
Sure we heard some updates about Jennifer Garner and her on/off again boyfriend but they were few and far between and they were hardly photographed together. Ben and J. Lo could be low-key if they wanted. They don’t want to be low-key. They want this romance in everyone’s faces and it’s almost not credible to me because they are so extra about it.
Talk about projecting your personal feelings and fantasies lol
I’m with you MsIam.
Of course this minute by minute relationship is a PR stunt lol. That’s what makes it fun (if a bit tiresome at this point) because JLo and Affleck have no chill. They just assume that everyone needs to know every minute of their rekindled love affair. If that wasn’t the case, we wouldn’t have had the public kiss at the end of his driveway the other day, the posing all over Capri, the public e-ring shopping (I mean that was just so obvious lol.)
Is it real? Maybe, but I kind of think there is a different definition of “real” than some of us may have. But PR-wise, everything is being carefully planned and orchestrated and leaked etc. There are no accidents with how this is playing out in the press, right down to the kids being seen together and big family outings to the theater etc.
We’ll just see how “real” it is when they both get back to work in September. It’ll be “real” until it’s not anymore.
@MsIam, well, in the case of who gifted whom the yacht experience, Kaiser actually reported it back in June 21st (https://www.celebitchy.com/720150/ben_affleck_should_absolutely_buy_a_yacht_to_celebrate_the_bennifer_reunion/). A month before JLo’s birthday, which is usually the case for such kind of chartering business. JLo may be richer, but Ben isn’t exactly poor. And it was very on brand for Ben when it comes to giving gifts to JLo. It has always been their schtick. Remember the Bennifer 1.0 days, he gave a Rolls and rings, and other gifts totalling 1 million dollars for her birthday. And that was when he was young and his career just started to pick up the pace. It was only inevitable that he would have spent more for her this round. As the June 21st article reported, in Bennifer’s lexicon, bigger is always better. Besides, it would be weird for her to spend such kind of money on her birthday alone. I am not saying it is wrong or I am misogyny, but Ben was courting her, after all. And in the language of courtship, you expect your boyfriend or girlfriend to spend money on your birthday, to spoil you. That is just dating etiquette. For ordinary people, that is a dinner in a fancy restaurant, or some other goodies; for rich folkers like Bennifer, the price tag would have been steeper. Oh, and when it comes to gifts to her, ARod was kinda cheap in comparison. Only a porsche. Bennifer 1.0’s Rolls alone was more expensive than that.
@AmelieOriginal, you really let your dislikeness to this couple bias your judgement. Jennifer G might have been powerless if Ben really wanted to use their kids for the stunting, but his mum is her own person. I am not saying she couldn’t have succumbed to such level, but it is obvious his mum is discreet and lowkey for these years, and not a showy person. Her characters speak for herself. 2 million dollar might not be huge for rich people like them. But it certainly isn’t small. And you forgot when it came to PR, it should be beneficial to both of them. If they wanted to change the narrative to their previous respective breakups and improve their profile, their reunion per se would have done the job already. But look at these comments by ordinary folks such as yours, it is very obvious they run the risk of overexposure. But they did it anyways. The relationship may have attracted attention to her merch business, but It isn’t exactly beneficial for him. He doesn’t have commercial rep contracts, and as a serious actor which he very obviously tries to be, by going out with her in such a way, isn’t exactly the narrative his people/management team would like to be. Just like what he said in Bennifer 1.0, he could sell magazines, but he couldn’t move tickets, and in his business, moving tickets is the end game. So just because they are extra and you don’t like it, don’t throw around terms like PR lightly. To me, they just don’t give a f*ck anymore about what other people think, at this stage of their lives. Ben knows Jennifer’s love language. She likes bling and big, so he indulges her. Then when it comes to his birthday, just what he wished for, she gave him a quiet and intimate night.
So predictable, of course he’s making a public spectacle of it… I can already see him cracking him under the pressure of it all, days before the wedding. Is gonna be epic.
I doubt he’d buy a ring from there. Do you remember the last one he bought her? Maybe he’s being paid by Tiffany’s the same way Bey and Jay are for promoting it. They have an ad campaign but maybe Ben just had to walk in the store and browse as his agreement.
This looks like a set up, rather than just “browsing”. Tiffany’s has been everywhere with the ads lately.
Gossip gods, I once again thank you for this gift.
First off, JL was wearing a ring on that finger in one the the pics from the night she and Ben took Emme to dinner. It’s visible in a couple of photos. Somehow no one picked up on it. A few people in comments on the DM article did.
Secondly, Ben would never be in public ring shopping. The last time him & JL were engaged, she basically had to call him and ask if it was ok that she speak about it. Anytime he’s been engaged, he’s never done it publicly. He has a diamond guy that comes to his house. That’s always been the way he is. If he’s at Tiffany’s, he’s buying a gift for someone, probably one of his daughters, but I doubt the gift was for JL.
Just my take.
I believe he still keeps the original pink diamond engagement ring. But if it come to proposal, I think he will buy a new ring of equal exoticism and fascination for her. I don’t think he will recycle the pink diamond ring. It’s kinda of insincere and the pink one is bad ju-ju.
However, if and once they get married though, expect her casually flash that pink ring in front of the world when they attend a red carpet event.
I wonder though, do you think he kept the pink diamond all these years? I’d think he would have sold it because he did get married to Jen Garner and it would have been weird for him to hold on to a past engagement ring…but who knows.
I’ve said this before. I remembering reading years ago she gave it back to him eventually and then he resold it to Harry Winston. No he wasn’t going to ever keep it. Oxox you’re projecting.
Well, he kept that watch she gave him. Banks have depository safety box service, you know. If he wanted to, he could have put those little memorabilia in a box.
I think it may be a poor PR attempt to draw away from the sour looks on the kids faces this past weekend and JLo giving Max the pointed finger of doom in front of everyone.
JLo was parenting. And the kids were not looking sour. Don’t project things.
You mean acting, it’s all for show!
Everyone was masked in the pictures I’ve seen of last weekend so how could we know what the kids expressions were?
Surprisingly there’s lot of expressions you can tell masked or not. I can tell when people are smiling, frowning In either disgruntlement or anger or when they’re surprised or sad. Eyes are actually what’s important in communication.
I think he’s trolling everyone. There’s no way he’d get her a ring at Tiffany’s. He’d do Harry Winston or something. He’s just being thirsty and likes the pap attention.
You felt like crying? Jesus. Get your shit together.
Who ordered the Black Cloud of Doom? Geez.
I think the writer was kidding (I hope). Don’t be Brangeloonying these two stunt puppets it will only end the same way. And lots of points to the person who said it looked like a scavenger hunt.
This is the best analysis I’ve read yet of this romantic reunion.
https://www.vox.com/culture/22629442/bennifer-jennifer-lopez-ben-affleck-reunion-explained
@cj That was such a good read thank you!
His people clarified it
https://www.eonline.com/amp/news/1299961/why-ben-affleck-was-really-spotted-at-tiffanys-amid-jennifer-lopez-romance?__twitter_impression=true
@APHRA You are the winner!!!
You were right….it was a scavenger hunt.
E News has an article of why Ben was really spotted at Tiffany’s…
In response to a variety of comments upthread.
1. They were in a store at a frickin’ mall. Ok, it’s Tiffany’s in an upscale mall but it’s a mall nonetheless. For those who mentioned that Tiffany’s might be too downscale for JLo, something from a mall would undoubtedly be worse.
2. Sam and his grandmother are holding the lists and they are at a mall so they’re probably shopping for back to school stuff.
But no explanation why he’s wearing that silly jacket?
I love that Vox article. Ben was very clear sighted and prescient back in 2003 when talking about how the relationship was discussed in terms of race.
Part of me is happy for them because idk I kinda like they’re both the same kind of thirsty. Good for them.
The other part of me loves the Bennifer return because it inexplicably makes Karens mad. Did Jenny from the block piss on your cereal? lol it’s just another thirsty celeb relationship and I don’t get the vitriol.
I totally agree with you. There are a lot of karens and beckys here. For example, a certain L*na or *melia*rigina*. To them, everything is PR and stunt, simply because they don’t like a white man such as Ben loves JLo’s brown @ss. They feel threatened by ethnic woman such as JLo unshamedly flaunting her sexiness and use that to lure white man such as Benny boy.