Jennifer Lopez gave her husband, Ben Affleck , a refined shout-out throughout her Saturday Night time Dwell stint as musical visitor.
“I really like you, Ben,” Lopez, 54, seemingly mouthed onstage on Saturday, February 3, as The Bear star Ayo Edebiri thanked the solid and crew throughout the closing credit. The singer added, “I really like you guys,” seemingly referring to her and Affleck’s blended household and blew them a kiss. (Lopez shares two youngsters with ex-husband Marc Anthony, whereas Affleck, 51, coparents three children with ex-wife Jennifer Garner.)
Whereas Edebiri, 28, made her internet hosting debut on Saturday, Lopez was the musical visitor. She carried out “This Is Me … Now” and “Can’t Get Sufficient,” the latter of which she was joined by rappers Latto and Redman.
Lopez has a prolonged historical past with Saturday Night time Dwell, having appeared on the collection for the primary time as a musical visitor in 2000. The next yr, she returned to tug double responsibility as host and musical visitor, and he or she performed each roles once more in 2010. Her most up-to-date go to was in 2019 when she hosted.
Affleck, in the meantime, is a member of the present’s famed 5-Timers Membership, having beforehand hosted in 2000, 2004 (on two separate events), 2008 and 2013.
Lopez is at present selling her ninth studio album, This Is Me … Now, in addition to This Is Me … Now: The Movie, which is able to each be launched on February 16. The album is a sequel to 2002’s This Is Me … Then, a document that she devoted to Affleck. The movie — which Affleck cowrote alongside Lopez and Matt Walton — was described in a press launch as a “narrative-driven, intimate, reflective, horny, humorous, fantastical and extremely visible musical reimagining of her publicly scrutinized love life.”
Thanks, Ayo Edebiri, @JLo, @Latto, @therealredman, and @NikkiHaley! Goodnight! pic.twitter.com/dNH3n0vQc1
— Saturday Night time Dwell – SNL (@nbcsnl) February 4, 2024
A supply completely advised Us Weekly in December 2023 that Lopez “wouldn’t have wished for anyone else” to collaborate along with her on the brand new undertaking, including, “No person is aware of her higher than Ben.”
Lopez “feels grateful” to have Affleck on her crew for the movie, in line with the insider, as “he helped her really feel protected to share components of her no person has ever recognized.”
Earlier that month, Lopez applauded Affleck as she mirrored on the method. “We collaborate very effectively collectively, and no person is aware of my story greater than he does,” she advised Leisure Tonight. “So we have been capable of sort of sit down and actually dig into it, in a manner that I don’t assume every other author may’ve carried out with me.”
The couple reconnected in 2021 after breaking off their engagement in 2004. They went on to tie the knot in Las Vegas in July 2022 and held a second wedding ceremony the next month. Their blended household contains Lopez’s 15-year-old twins, Max and Emme, whom she shares with ex-husband Anthony, and Affleck’s three youngsters — daughters Violet, 18, and Seraphina, 15, and son Samuel, 11 — with ex-wife Garner.
Saturday Night time Dwell airs on NBC Saturdays at 11:30 p.m. ET.