Ben Affleck Apparently Didn't Tell His Dad He Proposed to Jennifer Lopez
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- 15 Apr 2022
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While those who subscribe to Jennifer Lopez's newsletter, On the JLo, found out about Ben Affleck's proposal straight from the source, the Good Will Hunting star's father got the news secondhand.
In a new interview with The U.S. Sun, Timothy Affleck said hasn't talked to his son “in ages.” Despite their lack of contact, Timothy is happy for the recently engaged couple. “If everything one reads on the internet is true, they're having a good time together,” he told The Sun. “He's quite busy with all of his new found activities. He's been working a lot, which no one seems to care about. They care about romance."
He continued, “I haven’t been in touch recently, but we write periodically so it’s OK. I saw my grandkids a few months back." Affleck has three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner: Violet, Seraphina, and Samuel.
Ben Affleck recently proposed to JLo while the Marry Me star was taking a bubble bath. “Saturday night while at my favorite place on earth (in the bubble bath), my beautiful love got on one knee and proposed," she wrote in the latest edition of her newsletter. "I was taken totally off guard and just looked in his eyes smiling and crying at the same time trying hard to get my head around the fact that after 20 years this was happening all over again, I was quite literally speechless and he said, ‘is that a yes?’ I said YES of course that’s a YES.”
Based on the rest of the interview, it seems Timothy hasn't reconnected with Lopez since she was first engaged to Ben back in the early 2000s. “I did meet Jennifer [Lopez] when they first dated," he said. “There's a lot I admire about her, she's quite a special woman.”
He continued, “What I like most about her is that she did it all herself, she brought herself up on so many different levels, she’s obviously very talented. She’s one of the people who really worked at it and hustled. There was no nepotism ... ‘who do you know’ bullshit. She’s a hard worker and I admire that. I think she deserves everything she gets.”
Clearly, Timothy approves. “I’m happy about it," he said of Jennifer becoming his daughter-in-law. “I don't know anything about wedding plans or anything like that. But I don't imagine there will be a repeat of the last wedding arrangements [when it got called off]."
He continued, “The last time the media went berserk, they just went crazy and I’m sure that had an effect, it would have an effect on anyone really. But I imagine they can handle it more now, I hope so, Ben’s getting up there, he’s pushing 50."
In February 2020, Ben Affleck opened up about how his father's struggles with alcoholism influenced his own sobriety during his children's “formative years.” Read More...
