Jennifer Lopez shut down rumors that she was relationship her “Workplace Romance” co-star Brett Goldstein in a clumsy dwell TV second.
Throughout Tuesday’s “Immediately” present, Savannah Guthrie requested her friends if hypothesis about their off-screen chemistry was true, a query that apparently stunned Lopez.
“There’s by no means a time I am seen with somebody or working with somebody with out them making an attempt to set me up with that particular person,” the “Hustlers” star responded.
Goldstein added: “I feel if you happen to stand close to her, that is what occurs.”
Guthrie then joked, “That is what you want would occur,” whereas the “Ted Lasso” star joked, “That is why I have been standing so shut all this time.”
Nonetheless, Guthrie wasn’t glad with the duo’s responses to her query, particularly telling Lopez that she had skirted across the problem.
“OK, however I will simply say that as a result of I am me and you understand me, that wasn’t a solution,” she stated.
“That wasn’t a solution? It was a solution!” Lopez responded to the reporter, noting that there have been beforehand unfounded rumors about her and Kevin Costner.
Lopez added: “It occurs on a regular basis. That does not make it true.”
Guthrie then identified that the “Let’s Get Loud” singer offers with all of the fixed romance rumors as a result of she’s “an attractive, eligible bachelorette.”
“Okay, so that you’re not relationship anybody in actual life?” Guthrie requested once more.
“I am not relationship anybody,” Lopez stated whereas Goldstein added, “That is appropriate.”
Later within the interview, Guthrie joked that she was “troubled” by misplacing her cue playing cards with one other query for Lopez.
“You tried to piss us off, and we pissed you off!” » Lopez stated with fun, whereas Guthrie responded: “And I acquired pissed. It is not honest!”
Lopez and Goldstein sparked relationship rumors whereas selling their new romantic comedy “Workplace Romance,” launched Friday on Netflix.
Within the movie, Lopez performs a CEO named Jacqueline Cruz, who falls in love along with her new worker, Daniel Blanchflower, performed by Goldstein.
On the movie’s purple carpet premiere in New York final month, Lopez gushed concerning the “nice chemistry” she has with Goldstein.
“It grew as we made the movie collectively,” she instructed Folks. “I used to be anticipating extra of a tricky man, however you get this type, light particular person but in addition very clever and so charming. It was a shock, I feel.”
In the meantime, Goldstein – who co-wrote “Workplace Romance” with Joe Kelly – stated he at all times had Lopez in thoughts to be his co-star.
“We began asking one another who the perfect rom-com star was, and with out hesitation, we each stated J.Lo,” he shared on the premiere, boasting that Lopez is “the perfect” within the rom-com enterprise.
Goldstein’s solely public relationship was with British comic Beth Rylance in 2021.
Lopez, in the meantime, has been married 4 occasions.
She filed for divorce from her newest husband, Ben Affleck, in August 2024, a couple of months earlier than filming started on “Workplace Romance.” She was beforehand married to Marc Anthony, Chris Judd and Ojani Noa.