Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez hold hands in New York after singer revealed she made the first move (but didn’t sleep with him on first date)
Jennifer Lopez and her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez were dripping with chic when they were photographed strolling hand in hand in New York City on Monday.
She’d slid into a cleavage-baring knee-length Roland Mouret cocktail dress in pale blue, flinging on a matching coat and contrasting it with a nude purse and shoes.
Meanwhile, he’d worn a grey pinstriped suit over a pink dress shirt with its top button undone, popping on black sunglasses and brown-to-black dress shoes.
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Dripping with chic: Jennifer Lopez and her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez were photographed strolling hand in hand in New York City on Monday
J-Lo recently swung by The Ellen DeGeneres Show and spilled the details about how she’d first kicked off her current romance with the baseball star.
She’d spotted A-Rod while having lunch out – a Cobb salad and tortilla soup – and ‘for some reason, I just felt like tapping him on the shoulder and saying: “Hi.”‘
A dinner date followed soon after, but that appears to have been the extent of it that evening, as J-Lo vamped to Ellen: ‘Mama don’t sleep over on the first date!’
Hello, gorgeous: She’d slid into a cleavage-baring knee-length Roland Mouret cocktail dress in pale blue, flinging on a matching coat and contrasting it with a nude purse and nude stilettos
Dapper Dan: Meanwhile, he’d worn a grey pinstriped suit over a pink dress shirt with its top button undone, popping on black sunglasses and brown-to-black dress shoes
Well-traveled duo: J-Lo and A-Rod have been dating since at least last month, and they’ve been seen getting cozy in L.A., New York, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Miami
The 47-year-old had arrived on Ellen’s stage wearing a snakeskin-patterned miniskirt that allowed her to showcase her chiseled dancer’s legs.
She recalled that during their first conversation after she tapped A-Rod’s shoulder, ‘I was like: “What are you doing in LA?” He said: “I’m – I live out here now.” And he goes: “What about you?” I go: “I’ve always lived out here, you know, for the past -“‘.
Turning to Ellen’s studio audience, J-Lo said of all this minutiae: ‘This is so – you really wanna year this?’ but both the hostess and the crowd were quite emphatic they did.
Heading out: They both seemed in high spirits emerging from The Sea Grill
Holding forth: She’s swung by The Ellen DeGeneres Show and spilled the details about how she’d kicked off her current relationship with the baseball star
Pictured this past Saturday: J-Lo had spotted A-Rod while lunching out on a Cobb salad and tortilla soup, and ‘for some reason, I just felt like tapping him on the shoulder and saying: “Hi”‘
More gossip emerged when she explained: that ‘he was like: “We should hang out.” And I was like: “Okay.” I said: “Well, you know, you can find me. You have my number.” And he was like: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay.”‘
Ellen seized on the fact: ‘He had your number already?’ and when J-Lo replied: ‘From years ago, yeah,’ the talk-show hostess said: ‘Oh. I see. Let’s back up to then.’
The Jenny From The Block singer assured Ellen, however, that giving A-Rod her number then ‘wasn’t like that,’ and that ‘it was a referral for something else.’
No ‘sleepover’ that evening: A dinner date followed soon after – but that seems to have been the extent of it, as J-Lo vamped to Ellen: ‘Mama don’t sleep over on the first date!’
Yet once A-Rod and J-Lo were chatting other up after her salad and soup, ‘he texted me. He said: “Let’s go out to dinner.” I said: “Okay.”‘
When Ellen mischievously asked what they’d had – ‘Salad, again?’ – a good-humored J-Lo said: ‘I don’t remember what we had for dinner, but we had a nice dinner.’
After J-Lo had swatted off Ellen’s speculation about a possible ‘sleepover,’ the Metairie native quizzed the pop diva: ‘So, maybe you two will have children.’
Mid-conversation: Suddenly, a man dressed as A-Rod in uniform as a New York Yankee burst from a wooden chest between the two women, prompting J-Lo to shriek and laugh
‘Oh, my God!’ the Selena star cried out. ‘We’re just having a nice time right now – ‘ just before a man dressed as A-Rod in uniform as a New York Yankee burst from a wooden chest between the two women, prompting J-Lo to shriek and laugh.
‘This a**hole’s been in there the whole time?’ she yelped to Ellen, who was beside herself giggling. ‘The whole time? Are you kidding me? In a Yankee’s uniform?’
J-Lo and A-Rod have been dating since at least last month, and they’ve been seen getting cozy in L.A., New York, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Miami.
‘Are you kidding me?’: ‘This a**hole’s been in there the whole time?’ she yelped to Ellen, who was beside herself giggling
A-Rod was previously married to Cynthia Scurtis from 2002 to 2008, and they’ve got two daughters: 12-year-old Natasha and 8-year-old Ella.
His ex had alleged ‘infidelity’ during the divorce, and at the time there were rumors the baseball player was having an affair with Madonna.
Meanwhile, Jennifer’s had three husbands, Ojani Noa from 1997 until 1998, Cris Judd from 2001 to 2003 and Marc Anthony from 2004 until 2014.
Her babies: Jennifer’s decade-long marriage to Marc Anthony produced nine-year-old fraternal twins: a son called Maximilian and a daughter called Emme
Only the latest marriage resulted in children, producing nine-year-old fraternal twins: a son called Maximilian and a daughter called Emme.
Max and Emme – whom J-Lo calls ‘Lulu’ – joined her onstage during her most recent Ellen appearance, on which J-Lo joked that Emme was her ‘mini-me.’
Ellen noted to Emme that ‘You’re dressed very similarly to your mom, today,’ before joking to Max: ‘And we dressed kind of similarly.’
Smile and wave: Max and Emme – whom J-Lo calls ‘Lulu’ – joined her onstage during her most recent Ellen appearance, on which J-Lo joked that Emme was her ‘mini-me’
