Break Ups Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner: how to spin a divorce Since Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner confirmed that they’re divorcing on Tuesday, after all the magazines went to print, and when everyone was slowing down for the upcoming Independence Day weekend, all entertainment outlets have been rushing out their versions of why their marriage fell apart. Most of the By Lainey • Jul 02, 2015 10:36 am
Break Ups Ben Affleck & Jennifer Garner: it’s done Every Friday for the last few weeks, we’ve been bracing for it, haven’t we? The Friday bury. Since it’s Canada Day tomorrow, and most of us in Canada are currently wrapping up for the day off, it does feel, for us here anyway, like a Friday bury. By Lainey • Jun 30, 2015 05:24 pm
Douchebags Thanks, Ben Affleck PBS has decided to suspend the third season of Finding Your Roots as the result of an internal investigation… Whatever. Basically PBS has suspended the third season of Finding Your Roots because of Ben Affleck. You’ll recall, once he learned that some of his ancestors were slave owners, Ben By Lainey • Jun 25, 2015 11:03 am
Media Manipulation The Afflecks are renovating There were moving trucks seen outside Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner's home. As you know, for weeks now there have been rumours about an imminent split. Naturally that was the first assumption. Then PEOPLE reported that the Afflecks are simply renovating. And Jennifer was seen yesterday at LAX, By Lainey • Jun 22, 2015 11:51 am
Break Ups Ben Affleck’s “many vices” While PEOPLE Magazine is banking on Big G on the cover to sell this week’s issue, US Weekly’s going with Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner “in crisis”. Lower level tabloids have been reporting on this since April. And for the last 3 weeks, Ben and Jen have stepped By Lainey • Jun 17, 2015 03:46 pm
Media Manipulation Three weeks in a row Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were at the Brentwood Farmer’s Market yesterday buying fresh fruit and vegetables to feed their healthy, thriving family in their happy home. With a big smile on her face, Jen smelled the flowers and sampled the berries. Obviously they don’t know that the By Lainey • Jun 15, 2015 01:50 pm
Baby and Bump Obsession Crisis averted? Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were out on the weekend, all happy happy family. Two weeks in a row now that we've seen them put on a show of togetherness after several weeks of divorce speculation. The message of course is that the magazines lied. And that they& By Lainey • Jun 09, 2015 10:53 am
Break Ups Ben Affleck on duty Caitlyn Jenner’s reveal this week helped a lot of people. Ben Affleck might be one of them. Because he was feeling the heat last week amid all the divorce speculation, even after he and Jennifer Garner were conveniently photographed taking their children out – click here for a refresher. Jennifer By Lainey • Jun 03, 2015 10:08 am
Break Ups The Afflecks send a message For a couple of weeks now, several tabloids have been reporting on the alleged imminent demise of the Jennifer Garner-Ben Affleck marriage. And yesterday the New York Daily News published a story about how the two are “leading separate lives” citing several sources who claim that they hardly spend any By Lainey • May 29, 2015 10:11 am
Ben Affleck Leading Men at The Fight If you have social media, you’ve used it to show off. Come on. How do you resist the temptation? Are you on holiday somewhere awesome? Are you posing on the beach? Are you at that concert that everyone wants to go to? Did you get into a super exclusive By Lainey • May 04, 2015 11:32 am
Movie Reviews and Previews Batfleck & Suicide Squad Ben Affleck was photographed in Toronto yesterday on the set of Suicide Squad. Nerd Assumption then is that Batman will be making at least a cameo in the movie. Is Ben Affleck Batman to Suicide Squad what RDJ Iron Man is to the Avengers? I’m too much of a By Lainey • Apr 29, 2015 10:24 am
Dumbass Ben Affleck explains Ben Affleck was featured in Finding Your Roots last year on PBS. During the research process, it was discovered that he had ancestors who were slave owners. He asked Henry Louis Gates Jr (Skip) to not include that part in the episode. Click here for a refresher if you missed By Lainey • Apr 22, 2015 12:52 pm
Media Manipulation The history of Ben Affleck The Daily Mail was on this story first after going through the Sony archive through Wikileaks. What an incredible trove of gossip this hack has been. So Ben Affleck was profiled on PBS’s Finding Your Roots last year, hosted by Henry Louis Gates Jr. During the research process, they By Lainey • Apr 20, 2015 12:34 pm
Media Manipulation Intro for April 14, 2015 Dear Gossips, It was reported yesterday that Ben Affleck’s name appears before Henry Cavill’s name in the credit listing for Batman vs Superman. This is usually negotiated in the contract. And some people are like, OMG, why? Please. This makes sense to everyone except for Henry Cavill fans. By Lainey • Apr 14, 2015 08:37 am
Baby and Bump Obsession The Afflecks at the Senate This is really cute. And also really interesting. Ben Affleck was in DC today, along with Bill Gates, to address the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on State and Foreign Operations. There was a Batman mention, obviously. I think he’s going to ride closer to the RDJ approach to being a By Lainey • Mar 26, 2015 04:08 pm
Relationship Assumption The Bennifer Oscar tease Not even the Associated Press could resist this one. Because they're the ones giving us a gossip tease from the Oscars. According to the AP, during one of the commercial breaks on Sunday at the Oscars, Ben Affleck approached JLO and whispered in her ear. Whatever he said By Lainey • Feb 25, 2015 03:56 pm
