Strike up the band! Ben Affleck, the star of such superflicks as Gigli, Paycheck, Dogma, and Armageddon, is engaged to Alias’ star Jennifer Garner. Affleck and Garner worked together on the movie blockbuster Daredevil, in which Garner played a role she recently reprised in one of the few movies I’ve ever seen get an “F” rating by a number of reviewers, Elektra. Garner’s other quality flicks include Dude, Where’s My Car?, Catch Me If You Can — in which she plays an expensive call girl — and 13 Going On 30. It’s a match made in Heaven.
People and Star magazines are reporting the upcoming nuptials based an anonymous “close friend” of Affleck’s. Affleck made big news with his 2002 engagement to Jennifer Lopez. (The couple was satired in what was recently voted the greatest South Park episode of all-time.) That couple split, however, in January 2004. Affleck and Garner have tried to keep their relationship out of the papers, and have only made one public appearance together. The 33 year-old cradle-robbing (Affleck is 32) Garner was divorced in March 2004 from actor Scott Foley. The Scotsman has a scoop:
Affleck is said to have popped the question at Garner’s 33rd birthday party in California last weekend. He went down on bended knee with a £260,000 (500,000 dollar), 4.5 carat Harry Winston ring, Star magazine reports.
Slowplay will be all over this big story, that’s a promise.
Nathan Novak at 12:23 pm
I heard last night on E! News Daily that the ring is smaller than the one he got for J-Lo.
Comment by E — April 21, 2005 @ 1:07 pm
that’s not true at all you skank E, Ben loves Jenny and they will be happy 4ever!!!!!
Comment by GarnerFan2005 — April 21, 2005 @ 3:02 pm