It’s a strange thing, in this time of celebrity couch-jumping, wife-swapping, phone-throwing meltdown, when celebrities dare have the temerity to do things out of the public eye. So kudos to Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, who got married on Wednesday without anyone knowing. For a little while, at least.
Publicists confirmed that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are now married, after they ran off to the island of Parrot Cay in the West Indies for a low-key wedding in front of family and friends.
Ben (DVDs) and Jennifer (DVDs) first met on set of the movie Daredevil, where
Affleck was playing the second-rubbishest superhero in the history of
the universe after Nick Fury, and Garner played Electra, the worst
character in any film to ever get their own spin-off movie.
Love would have blossomed, but Garner was married to Scott Foley and
Ben was involved with lardy-arsed Cruella DeVille-alike Jennifer Lopez.
When both of these relationships dissolved, Affleck and Garner got
together, had a whirlwind romance, she got up the duff and now they’ve
got hitched.
It’s an increasingly rare thing for celebrities to keep their
private life private, as Ben and Jennifer are doing. Usually, any
courtships are laid bare for the public to tear apart – after all, it
might draw a bit more attention to their new movie if they describe
their love for their partner in forensic detail to anyone that’ll
listen.
Ben’s already been burnt by the glare of this before. He courted
publicity when he was with J-Lo by appearing in videos to her single,
having a song written about him on one of her albums, and starring in
two cack movies with her. The only thing real result of this media
frenzy was that everyone decided that both Affleck and Lopez were
idiots.
Now Ben Affleck has got his personal life back in order, he just has
to turn the tables on his career. Ben Affleck in a decent film? Now
that’s news.
[story by Stuart Heritage]