Ben Affleck has denied matching with Selling Sunset star Emma Hernan on celebrity dating app Raya.
The Gone Girl actor is said to have been on the exclusive app “right before” rekindling his romance with Jennifer Lopez in April 2021.
But the 49-year-old shut down the rumours, with a rep telling PEOPLE magazine: “Raya has confirmed that he has not been an active member for several years.”
Emma made the claims during the new series of Selling Sunset, which dropped on Netflix on Friday.
In a clip with co-star Chrishell Stause, the real estate agent alleged Ben slipped into her DMs more than once.
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Discussing the latest updates on her love life, the 31-year-old revealed she was on the Raya app.
This prompted Chrishell – who admitted she has never been on it – to say: “Remember when Ben Affleck went viral because he sent some girl....”
“He may or may not have been texting me,” Emma tells a shocked Chrishell.
She continued: “He may or may not have asked to grab a coffee a few times... I didn’t go.”
Chrishell jokes: “You could’ve foiled Bennifer. He was on the hunt!” to which Emma claims: “Right? It was right before that, so maybe that wouldn’t have happened.”
“We have the Boston connection, so that was his opening pick up line,” she added.
Last year a video of Ben went viral after he was allegedly turned down by a woman on the celebrity dating app – after she thought he was a catfish.
The woman, named Nivine Jay, unmatched the Hollywood actor thinking it was a fake account.
So she was surprised to get a selfie video from him speaking directly to the camera confirming it was actually him.
Sharing the video on TikTok, Nivine said: ‘Thinking of the time I matched with Ben Affleck on Raya and thought it was fake so I unmatched him and he sent me a video on Instagram.”
The clip then panned to the video of the dad-of-three sent her in which he says: “Nivine, why did you unmatch me? It’s me!”
Nivine later spoke out to defend Ben after he was branded a “creep” by fans for sending the video.
She told E! News : "I'm seeing a lot of comments calling him a creep and l don't think that's fair. l wasn't making fun of him in the video. l was making fun of myself for thinking he was a catfish and it was just supposed to be funny."
Ben, who was previously married to actress Jennifer Garner who he shares three kids with, has since moved on with Jennifer Lopez.
The pair – dubbed Bennifer in the Noughties – first dated from 2002 to 2004 and were engaged to be married.
But the couple called it quits just days before the wedding, blaming constant criticism from the media.
Almost 20 years after their first split, Bennifer are engaged again – and Jennifer says they are older, wiser and stronger.
"It's funny because Ben and I were together, and we were so in love. It was one of the happiest times of my life,” she told Rolling Stone.
“But also, there was this other thing happening where we were being criticised, and it really destroyed our relationship from the inside out, because we were just too young to understand at that time what were really the most important things in life."
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