Jennifer Lopez stopped by Jimmy Kimmel Reside! on Wednesday night time (Jan. 18) to plug her new rom-com, Shotgun Marriage ceremony. And whereas the film starring Lopez and Josh Duhamel alongside Golden Globe winner Jennifer Coolidge, rocker Lenny Kravitz and Callie Hernandez appears to be like very cute, let’s be trustworthy, the true wedding ceremony Jimmy needed to speak about was Bennifer’s take two.
Kimmel congratulated the singer/actress/dancer on the six month anniversary of her Las Vegas wedding ceremony to actor Ben Affleck as JLo unfolded the tangled story of how she and Affleck lastly made it to the aisle after months of angst and agita. “We have been planning to get married in August in Savannah [Georgia],” she stated of the correct nuptials the couple have been arranging for family and friends on the actor’s southern property.
“And it was so traumatic,” she stated. “And a month earlier than… and I don’t know in case you guys know this, however 20 years in the past we have been imagined to get married and all of it sort of fell aside again then and this time we, I completely had a bit of PTSD.” Although they have been each completely happy that their decades-long love affair was lastly going to be official, Lopez stated the planning was so nerve-wracking that sooner or later Affleck stated, “‘f–okay it, let’ simply go to Vegas and get married tonight.’”
So, after all, they did… however solely after Lopez completed her rehearsals that day and Affleck took care of all the main points. “It was superb, it was the most effective night time of our lives,” she stated of the Sin Metropolis wedding ceremony that featured two of their 5 shared youngsters from earlier marriages as witnesses and which discovered the A-listers ready in line on the county clerk’s workplace with some normies simply earlier than midnight ready their flip for the correct paperwork. Most significantly, after twenty years, Lopez confirmed that not solely was there a brand new wedding ceremony ring, however Affleck needed to ask her to marry him another time to make it official.
Kimmel additionally puzzled if Lopez was okay with the celeb portmanteau Bennifer and JLo stated she’s realized to embrace it after initially being meh on it. “Really it wasn’t a foul factor even years in the past however I believe it turned a factor the place individuals made enjoyable of it,” she stated, noting that different {couples} have been topic to the identical therapy within the years after as mixing celeb couple names turned a factor.
Fortunately for them, the famed Little White Marriage ceremony Chapel agreed to remain open late for them and even provided to have their Elvis impersonator officiant do the deed, which the couple politely declined. And regardless that Kimmel griped that he was not invited to any of the couple’s weddings, he nonetheless obtained them a really applicable reward, a pair of sterling silver bride and groom Dunkin’ Donuts cups in step with Affleck’s love of the chain.
Along with speaking concerning the “Pricey Ben Pt. 2” tune on her upcoming This Is Me… Now album, the singer was additionally shocked when Kravitz dropped in unexpectedly (by way of a pretend helicopter touchdown on the roof bit) to ask your entire studio viewers to that night time’s Shotgun Marriage ceremony premiere.
Watch Lopez on Kimmel under.
