IT has come to my attention that I am possibly the only person in Scotland who hasn t yet gone camping this summer.
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez at the premiere of Maid in Manhattan in New York in 2002. Picture: PA NOT for a long time has a celebrity romance garnered so many column inches. Apparent confirmation in recent days that Hollywood stars Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck are dating again, some 17 years after the pair – nicknamed “Bennifer” back then – called off their engagement, is causing a stir.
First things first, why Bennifer? It is a portmanteau of Ben and Jennifer, a naming trend that first became popular in the late 1990s and early noughties. Other examples in this vein include Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, aka “Brangelina”, as well as Kim Kardashian and Kanye West, who were dubbed “Kimye”.