Okay, I had next month. I figured they’d be married for 30 days before it fell apart. Who had last week?
I had “it will never happen.” Unfortunately one of my friends had “they will break up just before the announced wedding date.”
Good guy that he is, he’s giving me a small cut of the winnings.
(Someone will be along shortly to shame us for our schadenfreude, failing to explain why they opened this thread themselves)
If they do, you can send them here – “asked and answered,” as TV lawyers say when objecting to some line of questioning.
From twickster’s link:
Wow. Must be tough living in such a sickening, classless Universe. :rolleyes:
You, sir, are a God among men.
Aw, shucks. :o
Could someone post a link to a news story in which it’s definitely confirmed that they have broken up? Not a “sources close to Lopez and Affleck report that . . .” story, but a news story in which Lopez and Affleck state that they have broken up. Also, it doesn’t count if they have merely postponed the wedding. That’s not the same thing. I’m on vacation, and I haven’t seen any news stories definitely confirming the break-up.
And if they never make such a statement, you’re prepared to believe it’s tru luv 4ever? Celebs rarely issue such self-critical remarks. They simply hole up and make bland self-serving statements until the furor dies down, than it becomes “Jen who?”
And isn’t it awful that the media has such power? I mean, first the wedding was postponed because that awful, mean intrusive media was making this nice happy couple crazy and then–what do you know?–turns out they don’t really want to get marrried to each other anyway. Who knew?
Aside from a few billion casual observers, that is.
That wasn’t my point. All I saw was news stories claiming that “sources close to” the couple were claiming that they had broken up. At some point, they are going to have to make a public announcement, and they are going to have to make it soon. They’re not going to go months (or even weeks) after breaking up before they make an official announcement. There is always an official announcement of the end of an engagement.
Why are you being so nasty, pseudotriton ruber ruber? I made a simple request for clarification. Why are you making fun of my question? And why are you using terminology like “tru luv 4ever” to parody me? Anybody who’s read my posts before would know that I’m the least likely person on earth to write like that.
“Always” is a mighty big word there, pod’ner.
They’re already on record as having “postponed” the wedding. All they have to do is not announce a new wedding date to the world in the next 3 months, and by then everyone will have forgotten that they were ever engaged.
In other words, J-lo will lay-lo.
Their new movie, “Jersey Girl” is scheduled for release in March. They have 6 months to come up with a story. (Kevin Smith’s gotta be kicking himself.)
Could this be a ruse in order to allow them to be married in peace?
If that’s the case, J-Lo isn’t going to say-Lo.
What is that, Lopez Latin?
I-lo don’t ive-glo a hit-slo about the uptual-nlos of a ouple-clo of ich-rlo itch-blo o-nlo alent-tlo ack-hlos, yet I eep-klo pening-olo these amned-dlo reads-thlo! What kind of diot-ilo am I?
J-Lo would tell you to throw that accent away-Lo.
tracer writes:
> . . . and by then everyone will have forgotten that they were
> ever engaged . . .
Right. It’s March, 2004, and the press are interviewing the cast of Jersey Girl about the film. They ask Jennifer Lopez, “So, did you get along well with your fellow actors? How about Ben Affleck, for instance? Or didn’t you know him very well?”
The press are not going to forget all about the engagement. You may hope that you will forget about Ben and Jen, but the press won’t.
Sorry, Wendell. I must be overstocked with “snide” or something. My impression is that celebs very rarely make clear, thorough public statements. I think Ben and Jen could give interviews from now through Armageddon saying things like “We’re still the bestest of friends, and I respect him/her more than anyone else I know, but we discovered…”
In regard to question you pose above, for example, Jen could simply answer “I always get along with my fellow cast members. I’d rather not go into specifics about Mr. Affleck” and what are you going to do? Beat her with a rubber hose until she confesses her real feelings? I’m afraid this one could remain in the mouths of their “close friends” for quite a while.
I know, from reading your posts, btw, that you’re hardly the kind of person who would use ‘tru luv 4ever.’ I was trying to parody what I saw as a little naivete on your part. Sorry I overstepped.
Are you deranged? No one - even the public - will “forget” they were engaged. This relationship has been hyped so much that most people who read the news are very much aware of it; they won’t just let it slip their minds if and when the wedding is called off officially.
And J.Lo laying low? Only if Low is the name of her new J-beau.
Oh, and I meant “deranged” in the absolute nicest way possible. 
You vastly underestimate just how ephemeral the public’s memory is.
(Of course, the press will probably “remind” the public of J-Lo’s former engagement to B-Fleck some months down the road from now. But if such a “jog” to its collective memory didn’t happen, the public would not remember.)