On Wednesday, Britney took to Instagram to share a throwback image of herself, Ben, and Diane Warren — revealing within the caption that she and Ben apparently “made out” the night time it was taken.
“Cool pic of me and Ben Affleck and Diane Warren years ago!!!” she wrote beneath the grainy black and white photograph. “He’s such an amazing actor.”
“Did I fail to mention I made out with Ben that night … I honestly forgot,” she added, earlier than teasing that she wished she may share “the story that happened before that.”
“Oh dear, I’m just being a gossip girl,” she concluded, leaving followers guessing.
It’s not totally clear precisely when the image was taken, nevertheless Ben’s facial hair signifies that it was maybe round Summer 1999, when he was 26 turning 27, and Britney was quickly to be 18.
Around this time, Ben was a rising star in Hollywood recent off the again of his first Oscar win for Good Will Hunting in 1998, which was the identical yr that Britney’s hit music “…Baby One More Time” shot her to super-stardom.
So, when you’re a little bit confused by this new revelation, it’s value mentioning that that is the primary time we’re listening to about an alleged romance between Britney and Ben.
Interestingly, Britney has since deleted the image, and Ben has not addressed the popstar’s new declare. BuzzFeed has contacted Ben’s consultant for remark.
Of course, this wouldn’t be the primary time Britney has dropped a bombshell about one among her previous relationships. In her bestselling memoir, The Woman In Me, Britney spilled on her “passionate” fling with Colin Farrell in 2003.
In the e-book — which was launched in October 2023 — Britney described their transient relationship as “a two-week brawl,” recounting that they “were all over each other, grappling so passionately it was like [they] were in a street fight.”
The pair really took their relationship public on the time, making a giggly look on the premiere for Colin’s film The Recruit — the place he even denied that they have been a pair when quizzed by crimson carpet reporters.
However, Britney confessed within the memoir that she was nonetheless hung up over her 2002 break up from Justin Timberlake across the time that she and Colin began seeing one another, so she tried to keep away from getting “too attached” to the actor.
“As I had before when I’d felt too attached to a man, I tried to convince myself in every way that it was not a big deal, that we were just having fun, that in this case I was vulnerable because I wasn’t over Justin yet,” she wrote.
To add one other layer to all this, Britney and Colin’s fling befell in the identical yr that Colin and Ben labored collectively on the film Daredevil — together with Jennifer Garner, who Ben would marry solely two years later.
In a resurfaced TV clip from across the time Ben and Colin have been selling the film, Ben really teased Britney about her relationship along with his costar, asking her through video message: “Did you call my boy Colin back, or what?”
A flustered Britney then replied: “Well, I think girls shouldn’t call guys, I think guys should call girls. But don’t worry, Ben, he’s called, so it’s all good.”
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