Yahoo Movies Here's Why Alex Rodriguez Is Hanging Out With Ben Affleck's Ex
Whatever could Alex Rodriguez and Lindsay Shookus have to talk about …
The former MLB player and the Saturday Night Live producer were spotted together at the latter's birthday party this past Saturday and we're about to … get loud?
Page Six reports that a since-expired Instagram Stories video showed the unlikely pair sitting beside one another at the Hamptons event while "Foodie Magician" Josh Beckerman put on a magic show.
But before you turn this seemingly Bennifer-inspired crossover event into a screenplay, Rodriguez's team wants you to know "there is absolutely zero there." The athlete's rep told Page Six that he and Ben Affleck's iced coffee-guzzling ex have "been friends for 15 years."
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While Rodriguez and Jennifer Lopez called off their engagement this past April, Affleck and Shookus's breakup is much less fresh — they bid adieu in 2019 after dating on-and-off for two years.
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Rodriguez, for his part, has reportedly "come to terms with the fact that it's over" with Lopez. So maybe his weekend conversations with Shookus really did stay neutral — you know, a discussion on the merits of Coldplay's "Fix You" and iced beverages?
