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| | Ben Affleck & Jennifer Lopez are engaged, he gave her a ring with a green stone | | Added 951 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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OMG it?s happening, J.Lovers! Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez really are engaged. Re-engaged. A second engagement! Let?s hope Ben doesn?t mess it up for us/her. As I said last week, this is pretty much the one-year anniversary of Ben and J.Lo getting back together. It makes sense to me that they would consciously wait one year to get engaged. Of course, I also think Ben proposed a while ago, maybe a few weeks ago? I wonder why she waited to announce it. But announce it she did.
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez are ready to get married! The pair ? who rekindled their romance last year ? is engaged, a rep for Lopez confirms to PEOPLE. Lopez shared the news in her On the JLo newsletter days after she was photographed wearing what appeared to be an engagement ring earlier this week.
She revealed the exciting update in a Friday evening email to her inner circle. The message to fans included a clip of Lopez admiring a huge, green stone on a silver band on her ring finger, an image of which was also shared by her sister Lynda on social media.
The If You Had My Love singer once raved about green being her favorite color in a previous newsletter. Ive realized there are many moments in my life where amazing things happened when I was wearing green, she shared. Maybe you can remember a certain green dress.
Lopez teased the major announcement with a video on Twitter that same night. So I have a really exciting and special story to share Lopez told her followers. She also added a diamond ring emoji to her Twitter handle.
[From People]
Yeah she was so thrilled to be able to announce it. I can?t believe she announced it to her OnTheJLo site for true-blue J.Lovers. She?s such a cheeseball. Anyway, this time, Ben got her a green stone. Jen is apparently all about the color green these days and she only recently realized that the color green brings her good luck (for me it?s blue and red) and whenever she wears green, good things happen to her. As for the stone? green diamonds exist, of course, and many of them have that pale green color seen on her ring. But I?m kind of wondering if this is a different kind of stone. Perhaps a peridot? Her birth month is August, and peridot is the birthstone for August. No one is quite sure, but if it is a green diamond, then Ben spent A LOT on it. (note: I actually am starting to suspect it IS a green diamond.)
Major announcement!!!! https://t.co/G5oGxtX0z5 pic.twitter.com/HTIqbHMJ2M
jlo (@JLo) April 9, 2022
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| | The Academy banned Will Smith from the Oscars for 10 years as punishment for the Slap | | Added 951 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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You know what I wonder? If Will Smith had simply apologized and not preemptively resigned from the Academy, I wonder if his punishment would have been a lot lighter. It just felt like the Academy felt like they had to issue some big punishment, and Will probably should have left the Academy membership on the table, you know? The Academy higher-ups moved up their meeting to determine Will?s punishment, and the meeting took place Friday morning in LA, although the mess was conducted over video-conference. Every step the Academy took ahead of the meeting telegraphed the fact that they would grossly overreact to Will Smith slapping Chris Rock. And that?s exactly what they did. They decided that Will is banned from the Oscars and all Academy events for the next ten years. These aholes are telling on themselves.
Twelve days after Will Smith slapped and screamed profanities at Chris Rock during the 94th Academy Awards ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has ruled that Smith ? who was presented with the best actor Oscar later that same evening ? has been banned from returning to the Oscars or attending any other Academy events for the next 10 years. Smith will retain the Oscar that he won and remains eligible for future Oscar nominations and wins.
The Academy?s 54-person board of governors held a special meeting on Friday morning to determine what action to take against Smith. Until one week ago, when Smith announced that he was resigning as a member of the organization, he was expected to face suspension or expulsion, having violated the standards of conduct that the Academy implemented after the outbreak of the #MeToo movement.
Many members of the industry have expressed outrage over Smith?s behavior, which he himself called ?shocking, painful and inexcusable.? Some even called for him to lose the Oscar statuette that he was awarded and/or his eligibility for future Oscars. But the Academy appears to have doubled down on its long-held position that there is a line between onscreen work and offscreen conduct. (Harvey Weinstein and Roman Polanski have been expelled from the organization, but each still has the Oscar statuette awarded to them prior to that.)
In a letter to members sent after Friday morning?s meeting, Hudson and Rubin acknowledged that they ?did not adequately address the situation in the room? and apologized that they ?fell short ? unprepared for the unprecedented.? They also expressed ?deep gratitude to Mr. Rock for maintaining his composure under extraordinary circumstances? and thanked the evening?s ?hosts, nominees, presenters and winners for their poise and grace during our telecast.?
Shortly afterward, Smith, through a spokesperson, issued a brief statement of his own: ?I accept and respect the Academy?s decision.?
[From THR]
You can read the open letter to Academy members at THR. As I said, a total overreaction. Even just the trade-paper comparison between Will?s actions to Roman Polanski and Harvey Weinstein. Polanski raped a child. Weinstein raped and sexually abused dozens, if not hundreds, of women. Will Smith slapped a man. A man who had been talking sh-t about Will?s wife for decades. And what kills me is that the Slap made the Oscars into a huge event and one of the biggest cultural moments of the year, and the incident will be referenced in every awards show (including the Oscars) from now on. They?ll find ways to profit from it, monetize it and laugh about it, all while keeping Will marginalized and banned. The Academy looks so out of touch here. At least they didn?t ?take? his Oscar, I guess. You know they wanted to.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Instar.
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