Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez Were Actually Fine at the Grammys, According to an Eyewitness
glamour.com—at the Grammys (). At least, according to an unexpected eyewitness: the seat filler who sat next to them.Big awards shows like the Grammys and Oscars employ seat fillers—camera-ready people in formalwear—to sit in the empty seats left by stars who have gotten up to use the restroom or talk to someone, so that if the camera pans across the audience, there isn’t an empty seat.
At the Grammys, Affleck and Lopez were seated prominently near the stage and shared their table with The Rock and his wife, Lauren Hashian.
When Johnson and Hashian were away from the table, a young woman named Anna and her new friend Jake, seat fillers, took their spots.
And Anna, on her TikTok, addressed the fact that Affleck’s unamused expression became a meme…in front of his very eyes.“J.Lo showed Ben Affleck the phone and was like, ‘Oh, my god, honey, look at this meme circulating about you,’ and he was like, ‘Oh, God, this again,’” she said.
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