Jennifer Garner Still Dating John Miller, Not Getting Back With Ex Ben Affleck | TMZ Live
Jennifer Garner is NOT getting back with her ex-husband Ben Affleck in the wake of his divorce ... she's happily in a relationship with her boyfriend John Miller, despite reports to the contrary.
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00:00Big shakeup in presidential politics today.
00:03We are going to get to that a little bit later,
00:04including, obviously, Kamala Harris's big speech at the DNC
00:08and who showed up and didn't show up.
00:11We'll get to all that.
00:12But first, Jen Garner has been a big topic of conversation
00:17ever since Jennifer Lopez, the story we broke earlier
00:20this week that Jennifer Lopez filed for divorce.
00:22And a lot of people have been wondering,
00:24does this mean that Ben Affleck and Jen Garner
00:28are getting back together?
00:30I've heard so many people say that, Charles.
00:32Speculate it's going to happen.
00:33Well, and part of the reason we should,
00:35I think I know where the speculation came from,
00:37the smile on Ben Affleck's face
00:40when he came back from a trip back east.
00:42He and Jen Garner were on that private jet,
00:44along with some of, I think, one of their kids.
00:47But they had gone back to Yale to drop off Violet,
00:51who was starting her freshman year.
00:52But everyone was like, why is he smiling so much?
00:55He usually has this unhappy look on his face.
00:59And yeah, you don't see him like that.
01:00He's resting Ben Fix.
01:01Right.
01:02Well, that's why people thought that maybe they're
01:05getting back together.
01:06What they keep forgetting is about a guy named John Miller,
01:09who is Jen Garner's boyfriend, has been for a long time,
01:13and what we're told, still is.
01:15Yes, you guys.
01:16So we're told that she is still with John Miller.
01:19And they are still very happy, very much in love.
01:23She has no plans on rekindling anything romantic
01:26with Ben Affleck.
01:28And we're also told that John is a very confident guy.
01:31He totally understands and gets the co-parenting situation
01:35that Jen has with Ben.
01:37He is not worried at all, and all is good.
01:40But kind of like you guys said,
01:42I think people thought, look,
01:44crazier things have happened in Ben Affleck's life.
01:46I don't think anyone suspected he was gonna get back
01:48with J-Lo after two decades, but he did.
01:52And, you know, it wouldn't be out of the norm
01:55for him to rekindle things with the mother of his children.
01:59He did buy a house in Brentwood,
02:01very close to where Jen Garner and their kids live.
02:04And like you said, Charles,
02:05they have been spending a lot of time together.
02:07He looks the happiest he's looked in a long time,
02:10at least in what we were seeing in photos.
02:12Don't you think?
02:13I mean, there's being-
02:14That's more about just the kids and family than a romantic.
02:16Right, I'm sure, right.
02:17Big moment for one of his kids.
02:19There's being confident, Charles,
02:21and then, you know, there's, this guy's Ben Affleck.
02:24He's rich, he's handsome, he's famous.
02:26They have history together.
02:27They have family.
02:28I mean, I would probably,
02:31despite not wanting to admit it, if I'm John Miller,
02:34I'd probably be a little bit, a little worried.
02:36I wouldn't love to see Ben getting off the plane smiling.
02:39The only thing I would say is that
02:40as long as John Miller and Jen Garner have been together,
02:42Ben Affleck has always been co-parenting with Jen Garner.
02:46So that's why I think John is probably used to it.
02:48He just happens to be single right now.
02:51Also, look, here's the thing too.
02:53I think fans think, look,
02:55Ben would probably get back with Jen,
02:57but I don't think Jen would get back with Ben.
03:00I think Jen is like crushing it in her life right now.
03:05She's in a really good place.
03:07And I think Jen's the kind of person where she's like,
03:09look, I tried, I did my best,
03:11it didn't work, and I'm moving on.
03:14And we're better as co-parents than we were as a couple.
03:18By the way, speaking of Ben Affleck's ex estranged,
03:21I guess they're not technically exes yet,
03:24Jennifer Lopez, in her divorce filing,
03:27there was something she did request.
03:29We told you, no spousal support,
03:31and doesn't want Ben to get spousal support either.
03:33She's not asking for it.
03:34But what she does want to leave with is her name.
03:37Because in the documents,
03:39she writes out very clearly that she wants,
03:42and remember, she filed this without an attorney,
03:45she wants to take back her married name.
03:47I didn't even know that she had changed her name
03:49when they got married in 2022.
03:49She never changed it professionally, obviously.
03:51She still went by Jennifer Lopez,
03:53but she had legally taken the name Affleck.
03:55And I think had even probably at one point
03:58like posted something about that.
04:00But no, Ben, you can have the name.
04:03What this shows you is Jen's had four marriages, right?
04:08A lot of them, we didn't hear anything
04:09about her changing the last name.
04:11The fact that she did with Ben Affleck
04:13just really shows you how much they believed
04:16this was the forever marriage.
04:18And remember on the ring,
04:19Ben even engraved on her engagement ring
04:21saying not going anywhere.
04:23Like they thought this was it.
04:24As you guys know, there's no prenup.
04:26So they did not see any ending to this relationship.
04:31And it's kind of sad,
04:32but with J-Lo now asking to drop that Affleck name,
04:36go back to Jennifer Lynn Lopez,
04:39it just shows you also how ready she is to move on.
04:43Hi, I'm Karina from Las Vegas.
04:46Speaking on Jen, she could definitely take her last name.
04:48He doesn't want to be associated with that.
04:50I think he's moved on.
04:51She should have known this is not her first rodeo.
04:53She's done this plenty of times.
04:56I don't think it's a shock to anybody.
04:58We all knew it was coming.
04:59He looked quite frankly miserable the entire time.
05:01Unfortunately, it's sad to say.
05:03I think she was looking for that fairytale wedding
05:05and that fairytale marriage,
05:07and it just didn't fit for whatever reason.
05:09I don't know.
05:11And I think she's making the right choice.
05:13Go back to her old name.
05:14We don't care.
05:15Move on.
05:16Go on to the next.
05:17Maybe she's a janitor at this point.
05:19She's dated every single type of man you could think of.
05:22A producer, a singer, a rapper, an athlete.
05:26Yeah, maybe it's time to get out of the entertainment business.
05:28It's a regular guy.
05:29Yeah, you know, like a regular guy, like a producer.
05:31Like a TMZ host or something?
05:33Something like that.