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Jennifer Lopez announces engagement to Ben Affleck 18 years after ending first relationship

  • It will be the fourth marriage for singer and actress Lopez, 52, and the second for actor and director Affleck, who is 49
  • Lopez posted video of herself appearing emotional and admiring a green ring and her representatives confirmed the engagement announcement to People magazine

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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy in September 2021. Photo: AFP

Singer and actress Jennifer Lopez has announced her engagement to Ben Affleck, 18 years after they ended their relationship for the first time.

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The 52-year-old posted video of herself appearing emotional and admiring a green ring in her newsletter, On The JLo. Her representatives then confirmed the engagement announcement to People magazine.

US media reported that the ring was an emerald-cut pale green diamond.

“Bennifer” – the couple’s nickname from their first highly publicised relationship – set the internet alight last year when photos of them together again began circulating.

The pair first met on the set of the widely panned film Gigli in 2002. They postponed their planned 2003 nuptials, then announced their relationship was over in early 2004.

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It will be the fourth marriage for Lopez and the second for actor and director Affleck, who is 49.

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