Bennifer
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Bennifer
- (slang) The couple consisting of celebrities Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez, together from 2002 to 2004 and again from 2021 to present.
- 2003 October 28, Gary Susman, “Jenny From the Block”, in Entertainment Weekly:
- Although her Gigli costar stood off to the side and said nothing, Bennifer observers noted that Lopez was once again wearing the $1.2 million pink diamond engagement ring Affleck gave her.
- 2004 March 27, Beth Jones, “'Jersey Girl' is so lame, you even miss J.Lo”, in Roanoke Times:
- Ben Affleck […] plays Ollie Trinkle. His wife is played by Jennifer Lopez, whose bit part was made even smaller when Smith scrapped a wedding scene with the couple after Bennifer became no more.
- 2005 December 5, Amy Cooper, “Love in a goldfish bowl”, in Sydney Morning Herald:
- The public couldn't get enough of Bennifer - possible wedding dates, the Harry Winston engagement rock, various tiffs and reunions.
- 2021 July 30, Hayley Quinn, quotee, “Bennifer is back, but don’t rush to contact your ex, say experts”, in The Guardian[1]:
- “Part of what makes the Bennifer [Jennifer and Ben][sic] story so enticing is that it fills a neat romantic narrative: two people who were in love but things came between them and they find each other again 20 years later,” said the dating coach Hayley Quinn.
- For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Bennifer.