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Gwyneth Paltrow seems talkative a month after emerging victorious from the ski court. In a new episode of Call Her Daddy, she opened up about her string of famous exes and shared a destabilizing look back at Ben Affleck’s sexual prowess.
After describing her relationship with Brad Pitt and her decision to call off their engagement, Paltrow reached out to another former flame: Ben Affleck of J.Lo and Iced Coffee. (Acting, too.) According to People, Paltrow and Affleck were “on and off” between 1997 and 2000 — after Paltrow dated Pitt but before Bennifer’s first run. Perhaps because it was sandwiched between two aggressively publicized relationships (or because there’s no good portmanteau for their names), Paltrow and Affleck’s couple relationship is one we don’t talk about enough, and I’m glad host Alex Cooper addressed it .
In a short game of Ben vs. Brad, directed by Cooper, Paltrow claimed Pitt had better style, was more romantic, and was also a better actor, while Affleck was more likely to make her laugh. She was stumped on one metric: Cooper asked her which of these famous men was better in bed. As he mused, Paltrow described having sex with Pitt as “one of the great chemistry loves of your life,” but claimed Affleck was “technically excellent.”
Technically excellent you say? The guy who kissed his wife through two face masks? Despite Paltrow’s dubious relationship to scientific truth, I’m inclined to believe her here. Why would she lie about something so specific, so unique, so unnecessarily flattering? Suddenly, these disheveled photos from Bennifer’s reunion make a lot more sense.
Paltrow also vowed that she never made out with Leonardo DiCaprio, although he was, in her words, “lax on the goods.” However, she had sex with a non-famous guy on a plane to Paris. At the end of the episode, Cooper rewarded her for being so accommodating with a “NEPO BABY” t-shirt, which Paltrow said she plans to “wear loud and proud.” Maybe it inspires her to design a “TECHNICALLY EXCELLENT” t-shirt for this year’s Goop gift guide and send Affleck a free one? God knows he deserves it.
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