The year was 2003. Lance Armstrong won his fifth Tour De France before the doping investigations began, Arnie was promoted to Governator and every chat show host and film critic in the world was shredding Gigli.
It's beautifully ironic that the lead stars from the romcom one critic called "every bit as atrocious as you may have heard" have sustained a romantic connection nearly two decades after this disaster of a movie nearly flattened them both.
That's right, it looks like 'Bennifer' is back on, as Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck shared a week at the beach recently, and he's been seen wearing the watch she bought him when they dated between 2001 and 2003.
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