Jennifer Lopez reportedly has a “crush” on one of the stars of Yellowstone but his friendship with her ex-husband Ben Affleck makes things a little awkward.
Lopez is a longtime Yellowstone fan, a fact we actually learned from Affleck, and her love for the show even helped fuel dating rumors with Kevin Costner back in January. But now, Lopez reportedly has her sight set on another star of the show.
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“Jennifer wants to be in love again,” a source told Daily Mail on March 21. “She had a crush on Rip Wheeler from Yellowstone and wants a guy like that, someone who can have her back and make sure she is OK. She wants to be put first and made to feel special.”
“Her life is a lot, she needs a man who can handle all that and still love her unconditionally like the way Rip loves Beth Dutton.”
Cole Hauser, the actor who plays Rip Wheeler on the show, is a longtime friend of Affleck. The pair co-starred in 1992 movie School Ties and Affleck later cast Hauser in his Oscar-winning 1997 film Good Will Hunting.
That said, Lopez’s crush on Hauser is not news to Affleck who joked about his then-wife’s interest in Yellowstone back in 2023. During an appearance on The Bill Simmons Podcast, Affleck said that Lopez is “drawn to the romance between” Hauser’s character and Kelly Reilly’s Beth Dutton.
“Jen showed me a clip off of Instagram of a monologue [Reilly] has in the car with the kid about the ways to become rich,” said Affleck at the time. “And then [Jen] was like, ‘I love this story of these two.’”
“I was like, ‘Wait a minute — with Cole Hauser? What do you love about it?’” Affleck teased. “I’m kind of disturbed by the fact that my wife really likes Yellowstone.”
Lopez filed for divorce from Affleck in August 2024. She was briefly linked to Costner in January, who played John Dutton on the show, when they were spotted together in Aspen, Colorado celebrating the new year. However, she appears to still be single.
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