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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Lifestyle
Claudia Cockerell

Ben Affleck's turbulent year: Divorce, becoming a meme & Thanksgiving with ex Jennifer Garner

Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez - (Getty)

Ben Affleck‘s turbulent love life has seen him become the subject of serious internet sleuthing this year. Social media has lost its mind over Affleck looking sullen in seemingly every photo taken of him in 2024.

Yet that downcast expression was nowhere to be seen this week, when Affleck was spotted with his ex-wife Jennifer Garner. The pair were volunteering at a charity’s annual Thanksgiving lunch for homeless people in Los Angeles and looked to be in good spirits, laughing together and whispering in each other's ears. Affleck and Garner were married for 13 years and share three children, but they split up in 2018.

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