Ben Affleck’s cousin has his personal declare to fame.
It’s most likely protected to say that Ben Affleck’s bizarre life isn’t going how he’d imagined it a couple of years in the past.
Apparently, this can be a household trait. And so, maybe, is marrying ladies named “Jen.”
Zac Affleck, Ben Affleck’s cousin, is making his actuality TV debut on Hulu’s The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives.
Ben Affleck’s cousin is now a Hulu star
Zac Affleck is Ben Affleck’s cousin — as soon as eliminated. “As soon as eliminated” is usually stated as a joke (and much more typically conflated with “second cousin”), but it surely signifies that Zac’s father is the primary cousin of Ben Affleck (and his extensively reviled brother, Casey Affleck).
28-year-old Zac will make his debut on The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives alongside his spouse, Jen Affleck.
Jen bears the doubtful honor of being “TikTok well-known.” She has over a million followers on the video app. And that social media notorious is, in fact, integral to the Hulu actuality sequence.
On Thursday, August 15, Folks shared a assertion from Jen Affleck.
She emphasised that she feels “excited to speak concerning the issues which have occurred” in her relationship. “It seems like we acquired ten years of marriage counseling on this one season of filming.”
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives premieres on September 6. On Hulu, in fact, because the streaming platform (like Netflix) continues to purpose for cheaper-to-produce actuality sequence because the streaming bubble wavers.
Who’s Ben Affleck’s cousin-in-law, Jen?
Jen Affleck is a “momfluencer,” which appears like a brand new idea however is arguably only a reinvention of the out-of-favor “mommy blogger” idea. Whereas Zac isn’t very lively on social media and hasn’t spoken publicly concerning the Hulu sequence, Jen give off a really completely different vibe.
On her TikTok web page, Ben Affleck’s cousin-in-law has even joked about eager to be the subsequent Jennifer Lopez. We suspect that the opposite Jen has not provided her any ideas for strolling in her footsteps.
(We’re having amusing at her expense, however tales have been cropping up about Lopez being congenial in direction of meals service staff and even leaving a gratuity. Maybe it’s a PR transfer after her disastrous films earlier this yr, but it surely’s hypothetically attainable that she’s engaged on changing into a greater particular person)
The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives follows a bunch of internet-famous younger Mormon influencers. The sequence follows them within the wake of a scandal involving intercourse and swinging.
In 2022, Taylor Frankie Paul introduced her divorce from husband Tate Paul. This was the tipping level — and the scandal spilled out into the open.
“The entire group was intimate with one another,” Taylor confessed in a TikTok video. “Tate has made out with a number of ladies and different issues, and I’ve made out with the entire husbands and vice versa.” And issues went a lot additional than kissing, at occasions crossing the established “soft-swinging” marital boundaries.
Who stars on ‘The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives’ on Hulu?
Taylor launched Dakota Mortenson to followers and followersin July of 2022. She had, she reported, “cheated with” him. It seems that she slept with him with out her husband’s approval, which unravels the belief in any relationship.
It’s Taylor’s hope that Hulu viewers will perceive her extra fully than anybody can just by following the drama on TikTok.
Moreover, the sequence will cope with different realities of those younger momfluencers’ lives, from alcohol use, an arrest, and extra.
The Secret Lives of Mormon Lives additionally stars Demi Engemann, Jessi Ngatikaura, Layla Taylor, Mayci Neeley, Mikayla Mathews, and Whitney Leavitt.
As with Ben Affleck’s cousin Zac, numerous different husbands and family seem on the sequence.
It’s unclear how a lot story these messy younger TikTok denizens have to supply. However we’re certain that the primary season goes to be stuffed with drama and a number of nonsense.