An interesting new boyfriend for Ana de Armas
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Picture, if you can, the time before Bennifer reunited in 2021 (only to divorce three years later). J.Lo was in a doomed relationship with Alex Rodriguez, and Ben Affleck was pap-strolling up and down his street in the Pacific Palisades every day with Ana de Armas. He was often smoking, wearing a t-shirt with a cheeky Spanish phrase that he picked up on a trip to de Armas’ native Cuba, or both.
Now, Affleck and J.Lo are single, and de Armas has a new boyfriend: the stepson of the current Cuban president Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermúdez. His name is Manuel Anido Cuesta, and he was photographed making out with de Armas in Madrid yesterday. The Daily Mail says he’s 26, and she’s 36. Ok, whatever!
The situation in Cuba is pretty dire right now, so this match is predictably causing some backlash. De Armas has not commented on her new relationship, but she did lock the comments on her Instagram account. Interestingly, de Armas’ brother Javier Caso, an New York-based photographer, was questioned by Cuban police back in 2020 for speaking out against Decree 349, a law signed by Diaz-Canel that controls when and how Cuban artists can perform and share their work. De Armas herself has never commented on the Cuban regime (she has Spanish citizenship through her maternal grandparents and moved to Spain to pursue her acting career when she was 18).
De Armas is currently gearing up to promote From the World of John Wick: Ballerina, which she is headlining alongside Keanu Reeves. Will she bring her new BF onto the red carpet? I’m going to guess no.
Personally, I was hoping that this photo taken at the opening of the new Louis Vuitton store on 57th street in New York this week was evidence that de Armas was ready to get into another relationship with a pap-friendly A-lister:
But of course, Bradley Cooper is deeply in love with Gigi Hadid, and he’s going to propose any day now. Ah well.
One person who is not getting engaged: Gisele Bündchen. She’s on the cover of Us Weekly this week, and sources connected to her have revealed that she does not plan to get married to her jiu-jitsu trainer boyfriend Joachim Valente just because she’s pregnant with this child. Respect.
“They’re deeply committed to each other, but there are currently no plans for marriage,” a source told the tabloid.
“They’re in love and happy, but right now, marriage is not on top of their to-do list,” another source reiterated in slightly different language.
Finally, a third source insisted, “They aren’t talking about marriage right now.”
Not even talking about it! And why should they? My guess is that Bündchen did pretty well in her divorce from Tom Brady, and she only stands to lose if she gets married again and things don’t work out with Valente.
Brady, meanwhile, has officially turned into a middle-aged Midwestern mom on Instagram in the wake of his ex-wife’s apparent happiness. Here are some stories he posted yesterday from his compound in Miami:
God bless.
STUFF BY HILARY DUFF: Hilary Duff got papped this week at The Grove carrying her new baby Townes in a custom Artipoppe carrier. Livin’ the life!!!
Finally, I will leave you with this video of Leo DiCaprio pretending to take a phone call as he slinks out of a resort in Fiji:
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I hope you all get some R&R this weekend.
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Midwestern mom!!!! Lololol
Bahaha at the midwestern mom. I am one and I nodded cheerfully as I read it. That IS the kind of bs I'd post on my personal IG.