We didn’t want to believe it.
We’re still erring on the side of not believing it.
But things are not looking good for Ben Affleck on the nanny front.
No idea what we’re talking about? Well, good, if you want to keep Ben – wonderful beardy, Argo-directing, doting dad, Gone Girl-starring, Matt Damon-bestie, working-class-man-done-good Ben – bathed in glowing light in your heart, it might be best to look away now.
Because ever since he and Jen Garner announced that they were divorcing, the American tabloids have been overflowing with rumours about why, and the same one keeps coming back – IT WAS THE NANNY.
We’ve been pushing them away – tabloids need stories, after all – but now, now…
Pictures of Ben meeting up with Christine Ouzounian (The Nanny), at night, to apparently exchange a bottle of champagne do not make it easy to keep our Ben fantasies intact.
Is there an innocent reason why a beaming man might might be meeting up with the former nanny, two weeks after she was fired, to get a bottle of fancy booze?
Maybe to give her a hand-written reference? Maybe to thank her for her service?
Perhaps they randomly bumped into each other and decided to exchange booze?
Maybe the Internet was down across LA and he couldn’t transfer her final payment?
Or maybe, just maybe to be screwed over in a staged paparazzi photo-op? Hmmm.
Persistent reports that Christine is staying at the very fancy Hotel Bel-Air – one of Ben’s regular haunts – and that he is footing the bill are also not helping.
While Ben’s reps were quick to deny the affair, they are silent on questions of who’s paying those hefty hotel bills.
Either way, we know it’s none of our business, and we know that Jennifer Garner’s pain is private, and we know there are real-life kids involved.
But, but… BEN. How very could you?
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Top Comments
You know it is entirely possible that this woman being their child care worker, that perhaps he was dropping off the kids to her? If Jennifer went to see the nanny would we assume that they were having a lesbian affair, or would we think, oh perhaps Jennifer has an appointment to go to and needs the nanny to look after the kids today.
Having said that it is Hollywood, so he's probably doing her!
She was fired 2 week previous to this. And it was late at night. It's not the nicest thing to jump to conclusions but it certainly doesn't look great.
Apparently she was fired a couple of weeks ago and she seems to be delivering champagne to him so I don't think it had anything to do with the kids.
But if they're divorced they might be using different nannies as their schedules would have changed. He might still be using her. Doesn't look great but doesn't look unexplainable either!
All men cheat.
um, no they don't.
I trust my husband, but I still would never get a young attractive nanny!
That says more about your own insecurities than anything else