{"id":290752,"date":"2026-01-18T11:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290752\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T11:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T11:04:09","slug":"ben-affleck-reacts-to-lisa-barlows-claim-that-she-knows-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/290752\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck Reacts to Lisa Barlow\u2019s Claim that She Knows Him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/aa9d1f6b71a5f92bff3d907673879f7aef-lisa-barlow-ben-affleck.rsquare.w330.jpg\" class=\"lede-image\" data-content-img=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"330\" style=\"width:100%;height:auto;\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/> <\/p>\n<p>\n                  Photo-Illustration: Illustration: Vulture, Images: Getty Images\n              <\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmkitsbzj000i0ifnvr5prpf5@published\" data-word-count=\"197\">If I had a nickel every time <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/ben-affleck-jennifer-cousin-secret-lives-of-mormon-wives.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a reality star living in Utah<\/a> claimed to know <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/mormon-wives-jen-ben-affleck-dunkin.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ben Affleck<\/a>, I\u2019d have two nickels, which isn\u2019t a lot, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/shorts\/UFEMswT413w\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">it\u2019s weird that it happened twice, right<\/a>? After <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/real-housewives-of-salt-lake-city-reunion-andy-cohen.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Barlow<\/a> bragged about hanging out with Affleck and Blake Lively at an event instead of going on a girls\u2019 trip, someone finally asked Affleck if he knows Barlow, and unfortunately, he doesn\u2019t remember the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City star. \u201cI don\u2019t want to get anybody in trouble. I don\u2019t know what this is,\u201d Affleck stuttered when Access Hollywood asked him about Barlow. \u201cLike, prove somebody right or wrong?\u201d It\u2019s fair for him not to remember meeting her, considering Affleck has probably met a ton of people in his lifetime and isn\u2019t a Housewives fan. The journalist then showed a photo of Barlow to Affleck, and it still wasn\u2019t ringing any bells. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t look familiar to me, and I don\u2019t remember anything,\u201d he added. \u201cI don\u2019t want to embarrass her because I say hi to a lot of people, I don\u2019t want to be the jerk who is like, I did meet you. You don\u2019t remember everyone you meet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"clay-paragraph\" data-editable=\"text\" data-uri=\"www.vulture.com\/_components\/clay-paragraph\/instances\/cmkiugxub00193b7af3uu5pnj@published\" data-word-count=\"93\">Affleck was at the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DG_hFilymjL\/?img_index=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SXSW premiere<\/a>\u00a0of\u00a0The Accountant 2\u00a0in Austin, Texas, where Barlow was also in attendance; she also went to the premiere of\u00a0Another Simple Favor,\u00a0where Blake Lively was also in attendance. Barlow showed her clips from the events in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@lisabarlow14\/video\/7596120690386881823?is_from_webapp=1&amp;sender_device=pc&amp;web_id=7564587384936367629\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">TikTok<\/a> captioned, \u201cBen and Blake \ud83e\udd0d\u201d and turned the comments off. But despite this evidence, it doesn\u2019t prove that Barlow knew Lively or Affleck. They might\u2019ve said hi in passing but again, the ultimate rule of the internet is: pics or it didn\u2019t happen. Maybe they just need a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vulture.com\/article\/mormon-wives-jen-ben-affleck-dunkin.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Dunkin\u2019 ad<\/a> to unite them.<\/p>\n<p>  Related<\/p>\n<p>    <script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><script async src=\"\/\/www.tiktok.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo-Illustration: Illustration: Vulture, Images: Getty Images If I had a nickel every time a reality star living in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290753,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[268],"tags":[25304,434,18,117,19,17,2064,5,145119,1045,57251,145118,128],"class_list":{"0":"post-290752","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ben-affleck","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-lisa-barlow","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-pics-or-it-didnt-happen","17":"tag-reality","18":"tag-rhoslc","19":"tag-the-real-housewives-of-salt-like-city","20":"tag-tv"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115915775347161429","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290752","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290752"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290752\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290752"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290752"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290752"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}