Jennifer Lopez and fiance Alex Rodriguez are putting up a united front after rumours began to spread that the couple have called off their engagement. The pop star and former baseball player, who got engaged in 2019, released a statement saying they were “working through some things”.
“All the reports are inaccurate,” the couple, popularly known as J-Rod, said.
On Friday, celebrity news websites including TMZ and New York Post's Page Six reported that Lopez, 51, and Rodriguez, 45, had split.
"This has been a long time coming," one source was quoted by People magazine as saying. "They are tied in their business worlds, so it's not a cut and dry break up. It's taken a while for them to even think about untangling it all."
The couple were last seen together on March 1 in the Dominican Republic, where Lopez is filming Shotgun Wedding, a comedy-action film also starring Josh Duhamel.
After the couple, who began dating in 2017, released the statement denying a break up on Saturday, a source told People magazine the pair did talk about splitting, but that they have decided to work it out.
"They hit a rough patch," the source said, adding that rumours linking [Rodriguez] with a TV reality show star "had no bearing on the rough patch at all.”
"She's working in the Dominican Republic and he's in Miami, so it's tough seeing each other especially with quarantining and Covid," the source told People.
Lopez, who performed at US President Joe Biden's inauguration in January, said late last year the couple had postponed their wedding twice because of the pandemic.
"We had planned what we really, really wanted to do, [but] I don't know if we'll be able to recreate that," Lopez told Elle magazine in January. "We cancelled it, and since then we haven't really talked about it. There's no rush. We want to do it right when we can do it."
With additional reporting by Reuters
The Facility’s Versatility
Between the start of the 2020 IPL on September 20, and the end of the Pakistan Super League this coming Thursday, the Zayed Cricket Stadium has had an unprecedented amount of traffic.
Never before has a ground in this country – or perhaps anywhere in the world – had such a volume of major-match cricket.
And yet scoring has remained high, and Abu Dhabi has seen some classic encounters in every format of the game.
October 18, IPL, Kolkata Knight Riders tied with Sunrisers Hyderabad
The two playoff-chasing sides put on 163 apiece, before Kolkata went on to win the Super Over
January 8, ODI, UAE beat Ireland by six wickets
A century by CP Rizwan underpinned one of UAE’s greatest ever wins, as they chased 270 to win with an over to spare
February 6, T10, Northern Warriors beat Delhi Bulls by eight wickets
The final of the T10 was chiefly memorable for a ferocious over of fast bowling from Fidel Edwards to Nicholas Pooran
March 14, Test, Afghanistan beat Zimbabwe by six wickets
Eleven wickets for Rashid Khan, 1,305 runs scored in five days, and a last session finish
June 17, PSL, Islamabad United beat Peshawar Zalmi by 15 runs
Usman Khawaja scored a hundred as Islamabad posted the highest score ever by a Pakistan team in T20 cricket
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Starring: Abdullah Boushehri, Laila Abdallah, Lulwa Almulla
Rating: 3/5
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