Brooks Nader is setting the record straight about her rumored romance with Ben Affleck.
After a report surfaced online that claimed the model, 28, and the actor, 53, are “hooking up,” Nader commented on an Instagram post about the speculation.
“Haven’t met him in my life,” she replied on Saturday, January 24.
Nader previously made headlines for her on-off relationship with her Dancing With the Stars season 33 partner, Gleb Savchenko. She revealed that she was first “intimate” with Savchenko, 42, on the day they met in 2024.
“I was newly divorced and I told them, ‘Give me the hottest, douchiest guy,’ and they gave me Gleb,” she recalled during a December 2025 appearance on Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen. “I felt as though there was so much sexual tension on the first day we met, that it would just get worse and worse.”
Nader—who separated from Billy Haire in 2024 after four years of marriage—continued, “I just wanted to … let’s see what we’re working with! I was like, ‘Let’s just get that over with.’”
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Despite the duo’s early connection, Nader described her relationship with Savchenko as “bad,” adding, “It was a disaster.”
Nader and Savchenko ultimately called it quits for good in April 2025.
Since their split, Nader has been linked to pro athletes Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner and Shaun White as well as Secret Lives of Mormon Lives star Dakota Mortensen. She has denied all of the romance rumors that have surfaced thus far.
Affleck, for his part, has kept his love life under wraps since his divorce from Jennifer Lopez, seemingly choosing to remain single. The two tied the knot in July 2022 before separating in April 2024. Lopez, 56, filed for divorce that August, and the proceedings were finalized in February 2025.
Affleck was also previously married to Jennifer Garner from 2005 to 2018. The exes share three children: Violet, 20, Seraphina, 17, and Samuel, 13.
Earlier this month, Affleck offered rare insight into his family dynamic with Garner, 53, and their kids.
“You put something on your children when you have a public life, and that’s complicated,” he told E! News. “And I think Jen and I, and I know Matt [Damon] and his wife, we really want to give them room to figure out what they want to do.”
Of the prospect of his children following in his acting footsteps, Affleck insisted he “wouldn’t push them into that.”
“They’re all—Matt’s kids, my kids—they’re all brilliant and lovely and wonderful, and we love them, and we’re proud of them,” he continued. “And hope that they don’t waste their life acting.”
This story was originally published by Parade on Jan 24, 2026, where it first appeared in the News section. Add Parade as a Preferred Source by clicking here.