Gwyneth Paltrow and Ben Affleck have history, with them having dated for three years between 1997 and 2000. But Nikki Glaser seemed to have forgotten that.
Glaser, who hosted the 2025 Golden Globes, recently appeared on Paltrow's goop podcast to discuss her performance at the recent awards ceremony, but also revealed how she has somewhat of a thing for Paltrow's ex, Ben Affleck.
The actress was in an on-off relationship with Affleck from 1997 to 2000, before she met Coldplay frontman Chris Martin, who she went on to marry and have two children with. They divorced in 2016 though, and Paltrow has been married to Brad Falchuk since 2018.
Advert
Anyway, back to Affleck.
Glaser spoke about the time she came across Affleck on the celebrity dating app Raya on the podcast, saying: “When I used to be on Raya and he would come across, [I would give him a] very concentrated check mark ‘yes’ and, like, never [got] it back."
Then, while speaking about her Golden Globes monologue, she said of Wicked stars Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo: "I thought that they might be too cool, same way I thought about J-Lo [Jennifer Lopez], like I'm not doing that joke in a special because she's going to come after me.
Advert
"I think that sometimes I underestimate people who I put on a pedestal of being like taking themselves too seriously."
For those (somehow) not in the know, Lopez recently filed for divorce from Affleck just two years after tying the knot.
Paltrow then cuts in and pokes fun at Glaser out for the comments she made about J-Lo's now ex-husband (and her ex boyfriend), saying: "Even though you wanted to f**k her husband on Raya?"
After revealing that Andrew Garfield said 'nope' to her on the celeb dating app, Glaser then spoke in more detail about her Golden Globes performance, and how she chooses which celebrities to poke fun at.
Advert
"At the Golden Globes, like I thought, 'you know Ariana and Cynthia would have no sense of humor about Wicked'," Glaser explained.
"It is Wicked, it is a it's about marginalized people being the... you know like this is a triumphant story of overcoming discrimination and 'we are not to joke about Wicked because it is musical theater, it is gay.
"It is everything that society is kind of already, they're already, struggling enough, why poke fun at this thing? Their interview cycle was just so sincere [...] but man did I want to mock it right.
Advert
"Also like so many jokes written about that kind of mocking Wicked, and I was just like, 'I don't think this is it guys'."
Warning: The following video contains explicit language:
She continued: "In my writer room saying, you know like we all kind of collectively agreed if we're going to go after celebrities, maybe not Cynthia and Ariana.
"Because the worst thing to do at an award show is to cut to a celebrity that you make fun of and they're like [rolls eyes]. No matter
Advert
how funny you are you've bombed because that person just rolled their eyes at you.
"No matter what because the reaction is everything, like it's so important - the cutaway is so important."
Topics: Gwyneth Paltrow, Ben Affleck, Golden Globes
Joe Yates