She’s been spotted all over town with a ‘hunky’ new guy, but the rumours aren’t quite right…<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/11\/J-Lo-scaled.jpg” alt=”J Lo” title_text=”Los Angeles premiere of Atlas at The Egyptian Theatre Hollywood Featuring: Jennifer Lopez Where: Los Angeles, California” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}” content__hover_enabled=”off|desktop”] Jennifer Lopez is single. It\u2019s something that was speculated about for the best part of a year before the news broke that she had filed for divorce from her husband-of-two-years, Ben Affleck.<\/p>\n As a new divorc\u00e9e in the public eye this means any man Lopez is seen with is likely to become a rumoured romance. Case in point, last week she stepped out in London with a tall, handsome stranger on her arm and reports immediately followed that she had a \u2018new man\u2019. There was even Google searches, yes really, for ‘J Lo new man’ and ‘J Lo new boyfriend.’<\/p>\n The actress and singer was in town for the premiere of her new film, Unstoppable, which was incidentally produced by her ex-husband. You can see, then, why her frolicking around the city with a \u2018new man\u2019 might seem like a good story \u2013 but alas, we hate to break it to you, he was just a bodyguard.<\/p>\n According to the Daily Mail, said \u2018hunky bodyguard\u2019 has been working with Lopez in a security capacity for about a year and accompanies her for Amazon projects. A source added, \u2018He is a new addition to her security team, but he is not the only one. She has several security guards around her whenever she goes out, they are just hard to see.\u2019<\/p>\n An A-list celebrity having a team of security guards is hardly breaking news. All this chatter about Lopez\u2019s relationship status speaks to the heightened and often frenzied press attention afforded to A-list stars when they are newly single. Even though the \u2018new man\u2019 is not really a \u2018new man\u2019 at all, there is no doubt Lopez will be linked to someone else soon.<\/p>\n Only two weeks after her divorce from Affleck was announced, Lopez was pictured holding hands and having a deep chat with Matt Damon at the afterparty of the Unstoppable premiere in Toronto. Damon is, of course, a long-term friend and colleague of Affleck\u2019s and it\u2019s more than likely they were discussing the breakup, but still came whispers of their \u2018intimate conversation\u2019 which reportedly lasted \u2018more than 20 minutes\u2019.<\/p>\n <\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] Affleck is not immune either. He spent a noticeable amount of time at his ex-wife Jennifer Garner\u2019s house towards the end of his relationship with Lopez. Before the divorce had been publicly confirmed, various pictures of Garner and Affleck talking on the street sparked rumours that they might be getting back together. Despite the fact that they were almost always seen with at least one of their three children, or the fact they have remained close friends and co-parents since they split in 2015.<\/p>\n In August, it was also falsely reported that Affleck was dating American socialite, Kick Kennedy. Apparently, the pair had been ‘spending time together’ after being spotted at the Polo Lounge in the Beverly Hills Hotel, as well as ‘other locations’, and were therefore a couple. The story got so out of hand that Affleck’s representative released a statement to say ‘the rumours are not true’.<\/p>\n False starts and baseless rumours aside, Affleck and Lopez seem to be making a conscious effort to deescalate speculation around their divorce wherever possible. Affleck recently sung his ex-wife\u2019s praises while discussing her performance in Unstoppable. He told Entertainment Tonight, \u2018We really believe in the power of storytelling when the people involved in it are deeply connected to the story. Jennifer is spectacular. We believed in the right people.\u2019<\/p>\n While last month in her first sit down interview since the divorce, Lopez touched on how difficult the past year has been and how it nearly \u2018took it out of [her] for good\u2019, but she did not go into any detail about the breakdown of their relationship. She also posted about Affleck being a \u2018hero\u2019 on Father\u2019s Day in June, despite citing 26 April as the official date of their separation.<\/p>\n They are clearly trying to forge a cautious and considerate path when it comes to speaking about each other in public. If not for their own sense of peace, for the sake of their children who reportedly grew close during the course of their relationship. When Lopez and Affleck eventually move on with other people, we can expect them to do the same.<\/p>\n Saying that, there are no real signs to suggest either party is keen to jump into a new relationship any time soon. That\u2019s if a year of having their every move dissected by strangers on the internet and their relationship flaunted on the front page of every tabloid wasn\u2019t enough to put them off for life.<\/p>\n After all, it was only a month ago that Lopez hailed the benefits of being single. \u2018Being in a relationship doesn\u2019t define me,\u2019 she told Interview magazine. \u2018I am capable of joy and happiness all by myself.\u2019<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>IMAGO<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" She’s been spotted all over town with a ‘hunky’ new guy…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":4722,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4718"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4728,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4718\/revisions\/4728"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4722"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}lOPEZ IS ROUTINELY SUBJECT TO FRENZIED PRESS ATTENTION ABOUT HER DATING LIFE<\/h2>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”]