Ben Affleck loved a dinner date along with his eldest daughter, Violet, on Saturday — and the Oscar-winning actor and filmmaker was noticed strolling by way of Los Angeles sans marriage ceremony ring.
Affleck, 51, was photographed heading to Tasty Noodle restaurant along with his 18-year-old daughter, rocking a black-and-white plaid overshirt, a white T-shirt, blue denims and sneakers.
Regardless of going out sans ring on Saturday, the Final Duel star was seen sporting his marriage ceremony band once more on Sunday when heading to his workplace.
Affleck shares Violet along with his ex-wife, Jennifer Garner — together with daughter Seraphina, 15, and Samuel, 12. Affleck and Garner, who tied the knot in 2005, introduced their separation in 2015 and filed for divorce in April 2018. Their divorce was finalized the following October.
Now, Affleck is rumored to be headed in the direction of one other divorce from spouse Jennifer Lopez.
A number of days earlier than Affleck’s weekend dinner date along with his daughter, pictures and movies obtained by TMZ final Wednesday confirmed the “Jenny From the Block” singer, 54, at a resort in Positano, Italy, the place she seemed to be vacationing solo.
The journey comes because the actress/singer has confronted months of reports that she and Affleck are on the outs. The pair — who tied the knot in a Las Vegas ceremony in July 2022 — have introduced a united entrance in latest weeks, at the same time as whispers have stated they’re headed for a break up.
On the finish of Might, one supply near the couple instructed ET that Affleck and Lopez had been all too conscious of their points and had been desperately trying to save their marriage.
“Ben and Jen do not need to get divorced,” the supply shared, including the pair “are saying they will not, however their relationship is just not working at this level. They are not achieved but and need to sort things as a result of they love one another, however they’re additionally each sad.”
Simply weeks later, one other supply instructed ET that whereas they’d not thrown within the towel on “the best love story by no means instructed” fairly but and that they had been desperate to “fix things,” they had been residing aside and working virtually fully independently.
Regardless of the rumors of marital bother, Affleck and Lopez have continued to be seen out and about together, typically carrying their marriage ceremony rings.
Affleck additionally addressed his marriage to Lopez during a recent episode of Kevin Hart’s discuss present collection on Peacock, Hart to Coronary heart.
Whereas he did not handle any of the speculation or reports of troubles in his marriage to Lopez, he did marvel at simply how a lot of an influence she has on her followers.
“She’s so well-known… [and] individuals love her, and he or she actually represents one thing necessary to individuals,” Affleck instructed Hart. “[With me,] persons are like, ‘Hey, I like your film.’ [But] then they’re like ‘AAAHHHH! J.Lo!,'” he exclaimed. “It is superb.”
Affleck recounted an expertise by which he and Lopez had been joined by all five of their kids — together with Violet, Seraphina and Samuel, in addition to Lopez’s 16-year-old twins Max and Emme, from her marriage to Marc Anthony. Your complete group was headed to a play in New York, and site visitors in Occasions Sq. was packed.
“We had been going to a play, and I used to be like, ‘F**ok it, babe, we’ll be late, we gotta stroll a block and a half.’ And he or she was like, ‘All proper.’ She did not say s**t,” he recalled.
Nonetheless, that specific plan did not have in mind the fervor that might be generated by Lopez strolling down the road together with her children in public.
“So we get out together with her, all the children, by way of Occasions Sq., and the s**t was like f**kin’ bananas. I used to be like, ‘Oh my god,'” Affleck continued. “There was a woman, she was smoking weed, in a full purple skintight go well with… and he or she begins working backwards filming, going ‘J.Lo!’ Like a herald.”
“That then will get everybody else, after which all of the vacationers are available in,” he continued. “So then we have got our 5 children, it is me and Jen and what seems like a whole lot of individuals, and so they’re all screaming!”
Amid their ongoing rumored rift of their marriage, ET realized earlier this month that the couple is quietly trying to sell the $60.8 million estate that they purchased collectively in Might 2023. The couple is working with The Company on the sale, and Lopez has been noticed taking a look at different properties in latest weeks.
Moreover, Lopez revealed in late Might that she would not be embarking on her previously announced 30+ city tour, This Is Me… Reside, in help of her new album, This Is Me… Now.
Lopez expressed her apologies in a message to her followers via her OntheJLO newsletter on Might 31.
“I’m fully heartsick and devastated about letting you down,” she wrote. “Please know that I would not do that if I did not really feel that it was completely essential. I promise I’ll make it as much as you and we are going to all be collectively once more. I really like you all a lot. Till subsequent time…”
A supply tells ET on the time that the singer canceled her tour as a result of “she desires to give attention to her household and the stress from it has been quite a bit for her.”
For extra on Lopez and Affleck’s relationship, try the hyperlinks under.
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