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Even the Rich
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4.4 • 11.6K Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2021
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Description: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez’s relationship is the stuff of Hollywood legend. Now that they’ve revived their love, we’re hoping they can overcome the media narrative that doomed them the first time around and stick with each other for the long haul. This week we talk to culture writer Anne Helen Petersen about how social media changes the game for Bennifer, why the paparazzi hated Jennifer Lopez but loved Jennifer Garner, and what’s at the root of that Sad Affleck meme.
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| 0:00.0 | Wundery Plus subscribers can binge the newest season of even the rich before anyone else. |
| 0:04.4 | Join Wondery Plus in the Wondery app or on Apple Podcasts. From Wundery, I'm Ereia Skidmore Williams, and I'm Brooke Sifrin. |
| 0:18.7 | And this is Even the Rich. |
| 0:21.5 | Over the last two episodes, we followed Ben Affleck as he found the love of his life in J-lo, lost her, and then made his way back to her all over again. |
| 0:29.6 | From his early peak with Goodwill hunting to his tragic back tattoo, Ben Affleck has been |
| 0:35.2 | through it, but the entire time he's just been trying to keep his demons at bay. |
| 0:39.3 | And now Benifer is back, and that means true love finally found away. Ben Affleck and that means true love finally found away. Ben Affleck and |
| 0:44.9 | Jennifer Lopez's brief love affair was so legendary that their reunion this year |
| 0:49.5 | was front-page news. Talk about a Phoenix rising from the ashes. |
| 0:56.7 | And don't sleep on J-lo either. |
| 0:58.3 | With her signature tabloid savvy, she turned a potentially embarrassing breakup with former MLB pro Alex Rodriguez |
| 1:04.9 | into the biggest celebrity news story of the year. |
| 1:08.0 | In our series, we talked about Ben Affleck's personal and professional journey, |
| 1:12.1 | but we didn't talk very much about his or Jennifer's celebrity image. |
| 1:16.0 | Both Ben and Jen have had shifting relationships with the paparazzi and their own fame, |
| 1:21.0 | and we want to dive deeper into how things have changed since 2002. |
| 1:24.8 | So today we're talking to Anne Helen Peterson about the sad afflict meme, why we still care |
| 1:30.1 | about that |
| 1:33.0 | Bruck Grab on the yacht, and why Bennefer 3.0 might actually have a fighting chance. |
| 1:36.0 | Ann Helen Peterson is a writer, journalist, and certified expert in gossip. |
| 1:40.0 | She's well known for her work writing about the construction of celebrity images for |
| 1:44.5 | BuzzFeed. |
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