BlindGossip – We’ve watched this acting couple raise a family over the years. What we didn’t know was that while he and his missus were in an earlier stage of their relationship, he had a brief fling that produced a child. The child’s name is similar to the father’s, but the last name is the mother’s, so it’s not obvious that they are related. The fling has been receiving money from the father for several years without any kind of legal agreement, and the amounts keep going up. Every time he balks at paying, the fling threatens to tell his wife. Play with fire and you’re going to get burned.
Michael Douglas & CZJ
Good guess. I like them for this b/c he was a known man-w* before he married her. She acts like she has him by the short hairs because she is soooo fabulous and he’d be afraid of her.
In reality she is still just Cathy Jones.
yes as i said on here many times he loves black women but dont be surprised if he has a child with one of them.
Will smith and Jada Pinkett Smith??
antonio banderous
Warren Beatty & Annette Bening
i like your idea because of cheating rumors by Beatty
but annete knows this as well because one of their kids isnt warren, so he had sex with a twenty something year old which results in a child. This is just to level the playing field.
PLEASE let this be Brad and “Saint” Angie. That man stealing ho w/out a corner has some bad kharma going her way.
they aren’t married….so can’t be them.
doesn’t minnie driver have a kid with a mystery dad?
Why can’t it be Angie and Brad? I don’t see anything that says the couple is married.
it says the fling will tell his wife.
Well, clearly the whole “burn” “fire” thing is a clue, but I don’t know what movie or show it’s in reference to. My only thought was Brad Pitt in Burn After Reading, but they’re not married, so… don’t know!!
yeah whats the fire about?!? its annoying that i can’t think of anything…
Wasn’t Marc Anthony in a movie called Man On Fire?
I guess Marc and Jennifer would be more of a singing couple though…
They have both done movies as well, though. Not convinced this is them, but they both certainly have been in movies (not going to call them “actors” though, lol!).
That was the tagline of the movie Pulp Fiction. So, maybe Travolta?
Duh. Ed Burns and Christy Turlington.
Do they even have kids? And I agree with the post below, this is not an acting couple.
Yes, they have a child.
They have two children, Grace (I think) and Finn.
Or Mr. Burns from The Simpsons.
High-larious!!
eeeexcellent guess.
I’m going with Ben Affleck. He strikes me as being someone who would be more afraid of Jen finding out than the money. Plus, with films like 200 Cigarettes, Armagedon, etc. the ‘fire’ clue would hold.
not to forget ‘Burn Baby Burn’
actually, ‘Gone Baby Gone’… never mind, I’m too tired
That was Casey, not Ben.
Ben directed it.
Yep – Ed Burns and Christy Turlington.
‘acting couple’ means both parties are actors. christy turlington is a model. doesn’t fit. even if she’s randomly done some acting, which i’m not sure she has, she is in no way considered an actor.
The picture is of Ben Franklin…so maybe it’s a Ben? He was in Smokin’ Aces, 200 Cigarettes (bartender?, Boiler Room, etc and…well..there were quite a few explosions in Pearl Harbor, Armageddon, Bounce, etc. I guess I would expect to see a movie with the word burn in it.
Good catch! I like this guess!
What about any actor who has played a fireman?
William Baldwin/Chyna Phillips
John Travolta/Kelly Preston
Kurt Russell/Goldie Hawn
Eddie Cibrian/whoever his soon to be divorced wife is
I’m sure there’s a bunch more…
John Travolta is gay. Just like me, Doogie
I like the Ben Affleck guess…
Surely Warren Beatty was enough of a man-ho back in the Studio 54 days that Annette wouldn’t be surprised by any kids popping out of the woodwork. I’m thinking this has got to be a couple without much scandal attached to their name, maybe even someone with a fairytale image that wouldn’t want any negativity attached to them. And you couldn’t necessarily rule out an actor whose kids produced in wedlock are 18+, because this is an informal agreement, not child support, so age wouldn’t limit the secret mama’s moneygrubbing ways.
Kevin Bacon and Kyra Sedgwick?
William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman?
Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith? (lots of explosions in the Bad Boy movies)
John Travolta and Kelly Preston?
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos?
will and jada has an open relationship, and they are both bearding for each other.
travolta is gay too
Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos?
I guess I can see the Kevin Bacon reference. Bacon is certainly something that sizzles and burns. And everyone has played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon…
At first, my thoughts were we don’t see much of Kevin and Kyra and the family. But, there was a recent Good Housekeeping article and her daughter played her niece for four episodes on The Closer, which Kevin directed. So, we are watching the family…
he has been married for over 20 years so why the hell would he still be making child support payments if he had fathered a kid in the early period of his relationship.
No, no, no.
matthew broderick and sarah jessica parker
Don’t think men can make other men pregnant.
yea.lol
AHAHAHAHAHAHA TOUCHE
Someone from ‘Burn After Reading’? Since Pitt and Jolie aren’t married… perhaps William H. Macy? Frances McDormand was a star in that movie, and she’s the sister of the Coen brothers, so that could fit.
Frances McDormand is MARRIED to Joel Coen.
omg frances mcdormand married her brother?!? 0_______0
j/k btw (;
drink, meet monitor.
McDormand also starred in Mississippi BURNING.
She’s married to William H Macy, hence the guess.
oops, she is married to coen whoops!
Macy is married to Felicity Huffman.
My guess is Will Smith and Jada Pinkett. Since he has that clause in his contract for his summer blockbusters to come out on/near 4th of July, I’m connecting the “play with fire” clue to fireworks…
Burning $100=Flaming Ben=Benjamin Affleck
(Who f’ed Jimmy Kimmel)
if this is ben prepare for the scandal of the year beecause they have been known to have an unhappy marriage.
Burning Benjamin Franklin… Made me think of Ben affleck and Jen garner….
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner. Pity, cause they made a cute couple. Well, she made half of a cute couple…
Tom Hanks…bonfire of the vanities
joe vs. the volcano
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor? They both act and “fling that produced a child” made me think of him as being a producer maybe too? But I can’t connect fire.
YEah, this was my guess, but I can’t connect the “fire” clues either. Closest thing is I think he had a tiny cameo in Orange County (the film with Colin Hanks) where he played a firefighter.
tropic thunder was full of explosions and fire bombs!
Denzel Washington and Marc Anthony were both in “Man on Fire”
At first I thought the fire/burn thing could be a play on a name, and hoped it wasn’t the lovely Gabriel Byrne. But he’s not married so I’m going to plump for one of the two above.
Okay, these two guesses are getting closer, but aren’t quite there yet. I don’t think Denzel’s wife is seen as an actress, more a stay-at-home-mom. M. Anthony, even though he’s done some acting, definitely more of a recognized singer. And, given J. Lo’s predisposition for unfaithfulness, I don’t think Marc’s turning up with a “love child” would be that big of a deal for her. Remember, she was seeing him the entire time he was married to Dayanara & she dating/married to everybody else.
Since most of these H’wood unions are either shams, beards or PR stunts, then it has to be a marriage deemed “serious/legit” by the industry, and presumably, the parties involved. This is a hard one, because most of the folks mentioned thus far know the drill. I don’t think any one of them would abdicate the status that comes with one of their marriages because of a “little indiscretion”. Pppfffhhhppffhhh, especially not Jen Garner!
Denzel has a kid with Sanaa Lathan. he also has lots of dough and a wife who could bury him.
jon and kate plus eight
Hmmmm, John Travolta was in Ladder 49 and is part of an acting couple.
I do think this is probably Affleck, though. Poor Jen.
The only person keeping baby secrets in the Ben/Jen marriage is Jen. Ben should request a dna test on his oldest daughter.
AGREE! that kid is a spitting image of victor garber. GARBER/GARNER. HELLO!
Yes ITA! And they are always with victor
isn’t victor gay?
VIctor = VIolet! Ding, ding, ding! However, it seems to be a role reversal.
My first thought was Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck xx
What about that tv show, Burn Notice? The blind doesn’t say he is a movie actor.
I don’t think that Jeffrey Donovan is married.
Maybe the fling is the woman actress in Burn Notice. She has three kids.
Also, I think the fling must be known, because the blind mentions that the child has the mother’s last name and, thus, is not recognizable as the husband’s illegitimate child. That implies that the child’s name (and, thus, the mother’s) is known to us. The fling is probably a less famous but working actress.
I sort of took this to mean that the last name would be recognizable if it were the same as the dad’s, not so much that the mom’s name is recognizable. If a working actress was sneaking around with another celeb, surely there would have been rumors galore — especially if 9 months later she gave birth to a kid who’s father remained unnamed, but the kid shared a first name with someone she’s been seen with?
However, any woman in Hollywood sporting a kid with the last name “Affleck” would get questions!
No one’s guessed Tori and Dean? I know it’s a stretch to call them actors, but we have watched them raise their family on reality tv. And given how scandalously their relationship began…
When would he have had time? He was cheating on his wife WITH Tori. If he was cheating on her as well, the boy’s got some serious stamina, lol!
My guess as well and I agree with the actor part but it does seem to fit lolz.
“acting couple” = Tom & Kate? They sure do “act” like their relationship is real….
Katie is bearding for him, so it’s not them, same w/ Preston and Travolta
Tom’s not gay, just an *hole.
Minnie Driver has a baby named Henry that no one knows who the father is…
?????
Ben and Henry ?
Minnie & Ben were both in Good Will Hunting… so they DO know each other!
But her child is just an infant, which doesn’t fit with the demands growing over time.
I agree with Ben Affleck, he had a gambling problem and could have easily said the money he sent to the child he lost at poker
Thinking of actors with “known” last names and apparently legit marriages, what about David Arquette for the father? Very well know last name, and he and CCA were/are?? legit as a couple. Plus, I get the feeling if CCA knew about any cheating, she would dump him in a heartbeat. Any takers on who the fling could be? That she has been getting money for “several years” suggests the child is at least three, perhaps older, but probably not a teen.
But this has to be THREE famous people! Who is the other woman. If we are to know that the child’s name sounds similar to the father, than this woman must be an actress.
tom cruise/victoria beckham and cruz beckham?
So if the guess is Ben, what actress had a fling with Ben when he broke up with J Lopez and delivered a baby between Sept and Nov 2004. If Bennifer ended in 1/2004.
Its Jennifer Garner (affleck) and victor garber. She has a baby name Violet Affleck.
Get it Victor…….Violet
Violet….Victor
tim robbins did a movie called “Catch a Fire” a couple years ago he was also in “City of Ember”- and ember burns? The way the blind is written leads me to believe this couple has been together for a long time. Robbins and Susan Sarandon have been married forever. Also, the BI says this guy “produced a child” Robbins owns a production company. I don’t know what the clue is with the repeated use of “fling”
I would love it to be the Brangelinas but Brad jumped to Angie right after he dumped Jen, so this is not them.
All clues point straight to Ben. So the question is, who did Ben dated right after he broke up with JLo? Then, check and see if she has a son with a name similar to either Ben or Affleck as the clue says.
Another thing, the clue refers to the wife as missus, which means either wife or mistress. Was Jen Garner Ben’s mistress before being his wife? I know she dumped her husband for Michael Vartan and then dumped him for Ben Affleck.
And to top it all, I agree with Candi and Jane Doe, Violet resembles too much to Victor Garber for him not to be her father, unless Victor is Ben’s missing father. @__@
I liked Michael Vartan much more than Ben Affleck.
Her name is Enza Sambataro, she has a son by the name of Michael with her first husband that she married after dating Ben. Now divorced and engaged to some Red Sox player. All this in the last 4 years since dating Ben. The girl works faster than a hollywood harlet! It’s scary the things you can find on the internet about a person. Anyways, Benjamin Affleck/ Michael, I don’t see a connection. I think Ben and Jen were the subject of a previous blind item where the actress is afraid of her husband actor finding out that their first child is the product of a fling she had with a previous costar. If they aren’t, they should be because Violet is a dead ringer for Victor Garber.
http://www.bittenandbound.com/2007/08/03/sidney-and-jack-bristow-reunite/
Think that Violet really might be his?
Oh, and it can’t be his. Because they are talking that the FATHER had the fling, not the mom. “What we didn’t know was that while he and his missus were in an earlier stage of their relationship, he had a brief fling that produced a child.”
Right, and I do not see Jen Garner asking anyone for child support payments. She doesn’t need the $$.