Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner were spotted having a family night out on Thursday, theater spies told Page Six — seeing “Hello, Dolly!” with their kids.
The former couple and co-parents have been in a good place lately after a tumultuous breakup.
Garner gave a candid interview to “CBS Sunday Morning” about press scrutiny over the stars’ relationship and its toll on her family: “Looking back on that, I really feel the stress of it. I really . . . I could cry talking about it.” She added: “What I think I’ve learned is that the scrutiny in your private life puts a pressure to make something happen. You feel a pressure to hurry up and get married, ’cause you think that’ll end the, ‘Are they engaged? Are they not?’ And that’s true in the reverse, as well. If you are . . . if there is any inkling of trouble, or if the tabloids decide there’s trouble, it can create trouble.”
But fans are still paying attention.
A theater spy told us on Friday: “Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner and their three kids were front and center at ‘Hello, Dolly!,’ looking close as they watched Bernadette Peters and Victor Garber,” who was Garner’s co-star on the hit TV series “Alias.”
Affleck and Garner were married for 10 years before they separated in 2015, amid reports about his alleged affair with their nanny. He’s since been dating “Saturday Night Live” producer Lindsay Shookus for the past year.
Garner even posted a heartwarming Father’s Day message to Affleck: “Our kids are lucky to have a dad who looks at them the way you look at them and loves them the way you love them.”
She told Vanity Fair back in 2016: “He’s the love of my life. What am I going to do about that? He’s the most brilliant person in any room, the most charismatic, the most generous. He’s just a complicated guy.”
Reps for the couple did not comment.
Garner’s making a return to television in the upcoming HBO half-hour comedy series “Camping,” from “Girls” creators Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner.