Bennifer tops list of worst celeb couples of a decade
Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez were voted the decade’s worst celebrity couple in an online dating poll.
The former couple, aka “Bennifer”, dated for several years and almost married before Affleck called it off in 2004.
The Web sites Date.com, Matchmaker.com and Amor.com polled thousands of single, male and female online daters and Twitter followers in the United States.
About half of the voters named Bennifer the worst celebrity couple. They were followed by newly divorced reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin, with 11.5 percent of the vote, and by Britney Spears and ex-husband Kevin Federline with 10 percent.
Other celebs to rate a mention were Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, Angelina Jolie and Billy Bob Thornton, Charlie Sheen and Denise Richards, Guy Ritchie and Madonna, Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson, Paris Hilton and Rick Salomon, and Flavor Flav and Brigitte Nielsen.
Forty-two percent voted US President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama the best celebrity couple of the decade.
Film stars and parents of six, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie got 15 percent of the vote, while producer Ashton Kutcher and actress Demi Moore earned 11.5 percent.
Other winning couples were David and Victoria Beckham, Jay-Z and Beyonce Knowles, Ellen DeGeneres and Portia de Rossi, Heidi Klum and Seal, Chris Martin and Gwyneth Paltrow, and Howard Stern and Beth Ostrowsky.
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