When news emerged last weekend that the superstar couple Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck got married in a surprise ceremony in Las Vegas, you could be forgiven for wondering if you had accidentally traveled back in time a couple of decades to the golden age of “Bennifer.”
“Bennifer,” as anyone who lived through the early aughts surely recalls, was the blend of “Ben” and “Jennifer” that the tabloids bestowed on the couple in countless headlines. The initial era of “Bennifer” lasted from 2002 to 2004, when the pair broke up, but reverberations were felt for years to come in the entertainment world, as similarly high-powered couples were given their own name-blends.
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