Roger Friedman of FoxNews.com and Tom O'Neil of In Touch magazine were on 'At Large with Geraldo Rivera' on Saturday night to discuss the breakup of Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck. Read on for a rough transcript.
Geraldo: So what happened?
Roger Friedman: it's not exactly the case of her doing the dumping.
I think possibly it's a case of ben also being tired of this relationship
and tired of the publicity sort of the inhair rent problems of being a
celebrity couple. It was sort of ruining his career. So I think it's less
about her dumping and really there's a couple twists about how the story
came out.
Geraldo: Tell us.
Roger: Who issues a press release saying they have broken up with someone
they are dating. It's ridiculous. It's funny how she ran to do this so
quickly. A lot of it has to do with the fact she has her old manager back
benny madina somebody affleck truly hated. It was true for both sides.
We are seeing here jennifer wants to get her career back he wants to get
his career back. There was too much damage to both sides. I think that's
where things stand at the moment.
Geraldo: Roger mentions the impact on the star's careers on affleck's
career. What about the producers who invested all of this money?
Tom O'Neil: I know. I know. I think it's going to payoff beautifully
for j-lo because next december she has a movie that opens up called "an
unfinished life" in which she could be oscar nominated while ben publicly
blames j-lo for the collapse of his career the boy toy of a scheming women.
She tapped into this and will do better the latter half of this year.
Geraldo: The whole mocking feeling toward ben affleck persist after
the breakup?
Tom: I don't know. He lost his last big movie deal. He was supposed
to film the film called "ghost of old girlfriends" suddenly vanished. I
think he's mad and blames j-lo. He blames the whole relationship. Geraldo,
what's wrong here is this was never about love. J-lo embodies the average
women of america. She is jenny from the block she is our sindz cinderella.
She cast ben in her wedding. Ben sensed something wrong and walked away
from it and walked back up to it a few times but the old magic was gone.
Geraldo: Finally on this topic what about that big rock the $4 million
engagement ring.
Roger: I hope he gets it back and hope he can take it back to harry
winston with a receipt.
Geraldo: Wonder if they give discounts.
Roger: We don't track reman tick tories on foxnews.Com. The interesting
thing is the return of the manager he's worked and worked and worked to
get this back. Interesting, because under -- during the time ben affleck
was with jen you have lopez. There was a lawsuit and settlement. It's very
much like the michael jackson story in that you have a few people sort
of vying to be in control of a star and the star's money.
