Relationship Assumption Ben & Lindsay (officially) approach a year Ben Affleck and Lindsay Shookus were first confirmed to be dating last July. At the time, we were told that they were in the “early stages” of a relationship. Like they tried to make it look like they’d only hooked up recently. And then, of course, it was subsequently By Lainey • May 28, 2018 04:13 pm
Ben Affleck Lindsay Shookus gets profiled Lindsay Shookus is famous by association. She’s fame-adjacent. I don’t think that’s up for debate. A new feature on Lindsay in ELLE opens with the following line… Lindsay Shookus isn’t famous. Or is she? … and continues with an anecdote about diners at 30 Rockefeller Plaza trying By Kathleen • May 16, 2018 02:10 pm
BFFs Inseparable Matt & Chris Chris Hemsworth was in the US last week doing a final push for Avengers: Infinity War. God I love Thor so much now. And… I never, ever thought I would say that. But this is the work of Taika Waititi. If you haven’t seen it yet, skip to the By Lainey • Apr 30, 2018 11:55 am
BFFs Matt’s BFF Chris For as long as he’s been famous, if you asked anyone to name Matt Damon’s best friend, the answer would have been – and probably still is, at least from a casual gossip’s perspective – Ben Affleck. A more serious gossip (the best kind of gossip, obvs) would tell By Lainey • Apr 03, 2018 04:49 pm
Top Reads Ben Affleck acknowledges his sad tattoo Everyone has been passing around Naomi Fry’s essay at The New Yorker this week, The Great Sadness of Ben Affleck, inspired by those shots of him in Hawaii. Or, rather, those shots of his rising phoenix back tattoo in Hawaii. You know the ones. But, just in case you By Lainey • Mar 29, 2018 03:46 pm
BFFs Matt on Ben’s back Ben Affleck’s phoenix rising back tattoo was born the summer of 2015. It’s almost three years old. And, as I posted earlier this week, we are still talking about it. Because he gave it an extended life story by lying about whether or not it was real. Sure By Lainey • Mar 23, 2018 09:54 am
Baby and Bump Obsession About Ben’s back It was the summer of 2015. Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner had just announced their separation. Nanny Chrissy O was part of the conversation. And so was Ben Affleck’s new back tattoo, an enormous, colourful phoenix rising from the ashes. Which Jennifer referenced in her now infamous interview with By Lainey • Mar 19, 2018 01:08 pm
Business of Hollywood Matt and Ben join the inclusion club I guess better late than never. The first person to publicly respond to Frances McDormand’s call for the inclusion rider was Michael B. Jordan. Next to the party are Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, through their Pearl Street production shingle. Okay. Fine. If they want to be productive allies By Sarah • Mar 13, 2018 03:14 pm
Business of Hollywood Intro for February 27, 2018 Dear Gossips, Last year’s Oscar envelope f-ckup – do you care about it anymore? It was amazing the night of. But then, after all that’s happened this year, I don’t know that I still care all that much about what went down and who messed up and why. By Lainey • Feb 27, 2018 09:28 am
Ben Affleck The Other Unsinkable Jennifer Pop quiz: Do you remember the original unsinkable Jennifer? Lainey revisited that headline 12 years later, a moment in gossip history. But the role Jennifer Aniston occupied then – the nice girl abandoned by the handsome movie star – has most recently been occupied by Jennifer Garner. There are a few key By Maria • Feb 15, 2018 10:07 am
Top Reads Rose McGowan, Ben Affleck, and Harvey Weinstein Rose McGowan’s book, Brave, came out yesterday. She’s also promoting her E! docuseries Citizen Rose. As you know, Rose alleges that Harvey Weinstein raped her in 1997 at Sundance and she was one of the first women to challenge Harvey, both publicly and behind the scenes, one of By Lainey • Jan 31, 2018 09:41 am
Jennifer Garner Hey, You Guys Like Batman? There’s a short, kind of nothing story that showed up on E! about Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner coming together for their daughter Seraphina’s birthday party last weekend. This isn’t exactly newsworthy as the two spent Thanksgiving and Christmas together as a family. Jennifer has been steadfast By Maria • Jan 11, 2018 10:04 am
Ben Affleck JRod’s first Christmas and New Year’s Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez spent Christmas together, with their families, in Miami. It’s their first holiday season together. And there was some speculation leading up to Christmas that an engagement would happen. Well, it didn’t happen at Christmas, but there’s always New Year’s. JLO and By Lainey • Dec 29, 2017 10:38 am
Ben Affleck Ben Affleck’s post-Christmas with Lindsay Shookus PEOPLE reported yesterday that Ben Affleck spent Christmas with Jennifer Garner and their children in LA. Birdie, the dog, was probably there too. It’s important that we know that because the following day, Boxing Day, yesterday, Ben was seen in Malibu, after having dinner with Lindsay Shookus at Nobu. By Lainey • Dec 27, 2017 10:53 am
Movie Reviews and Previews The DC holiday shuffle It was inevitable, and like clockwork, it arrived just before the holidays, when Warner Brothers likes to do their firing: an executive shuffle at DC Films. Jon Berg, who was co-president of production and oversaw DC, is exiting his executive role to become an on-the-lot producer. Apparently, he started talking By Sarah • Dec 08, 2017 10:03 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Jennifer Garner is “pretty scary” Jennifer Garner is promoting The Tribes Of Palos Verdes. At some point she did an interview with www.news.com.au, an outlet out of Australia. Is the name of the outlet the same as their website url? If you are Australian and you have some insight on this, please By Lainey • Nov 21, 2017 12:17 pm
