Couple Watch: Are Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner Splitting Up?

Ever notice that you never see them together anymore? There are lots of pictures of Ben out with Violet, and Jen out with Violet, but there hasn't been a happy family picture for a long time. Is there more to this than a Martin-Paltrow kind of refusal to be photographed together?

There's a tiny buzz building in the gossip world. It's very tiny, though, so you have to listen really closely to hear it, but it's there. The buzz is that a certain successful actor who had passed up on a high profile union to settle down with an ordinary girl is, well, bored. And he's definitely looking for action. The problem is that there is a child involved, and a divorce would be disastrous to his public image, so they just live on different sides of the country now.

Were they talking about Bennifer 2? I can't remember the last time they were seen together, and certainly not in the lovey-dovey way they used to be. They both shower Violet with tons of affection, but there's been no PDA in that marriage for a long time.

Can Jen and Ben work it out? It would be a shame to see such a nice couple fall apart, not to mention what it would do to Violet. To hell with Ben's image. Any guy who would do a film like Gigli must have questionable judgment.

Published 1/21/08 by


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