Is the honeymoon officially over?
LOS ANGELES - Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez have been married for just six months, but it seems the honeymoon is already over for the couple.
The A-listers raised some eyebrows on Sunday evening after they were captured sharing an awkward moment at the 2023 Grammy Awards.
Footage of the couple shows Ben (50), whispering something in his wife’s ear right before JLo (53), jerks away and appears to snap at him.
According to a lip reader commissioned by DailyMail.com, the singer tells him: ‘‘Stop, look more friendly. look motivated.’’
To which Ben appears to respond: ‘‘I might.’’ The actor frowns and straightens his vest before it dawns on them that their tense exchange was caught on camera during the live broadcast. The footage soon made its way onto
TikTok, where viewers flooded the comments section with their observations.
The next day, Jennifer gushed about Ben while posting highlights from their Grammy night, including footage of them sharing a sweet kiss as they posed for pictures together.
‘‘Always the best time with my love, my husband,’’ she captioned the post.
As fans continue to speculate about Bennifer’s apparent spat, FEMAIL takes a look at their epic love story, from their meeting on the set of Gigli to their Las Vegas wedding 21 years later.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez first met on the set of their film ‘Gigli’ in late 2001.
The movie, upon its eventual release two years later, won seven Razzies and was branded ‘unwatchable’ by some critics. It garnered US$7.2 million in the box office against a reported
US$55 million budget.
Yet all was not lost, as the film brought Bennifer closer together.
Ben and Jen had yet to be burned by their looming box office failure when they reunited in 2002 to film Jersey Girl, which was released two years later.
He played a widower in the 2004 rom-com, while she had a supporting role as his character’s late wife.
The movie marked the start of the A-list couple’s tumultuous romance.
In May 2021, amid rumors that they had rekindled their love, Jersey Girl director Kevin Smith revealed on Twitter that he was first to dub the duo ‘Bennifer’.
‘‘Bennifer’ is trending. It’s a name I first gave the children during Jersey Girl pre-production, before the world found out they were dating,’’ he tweeted.