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Jennifer GarnerJennifer Garner's diamond disasterJennifer Garner dropped a diamond ring given to her by husband Ben Affleck down a drain. The 'Catch and Release' star was given the expensive rock by her husband after she gave birth to their one-year-old daughter Violet, but almost lost it when it accidentally fell off. In an interview on US TV show 'Live With Regis and Kelly', Jennifer said: "He gave me this beautiful diamond ring and I was playing with it and it fell off. It fell under this ice maker in the house - Ben hasn't even heard of this yet - and it fell into the drain under this ice maker. "The plumber had to come and dismantle the thing from under the house. And he found it. Ben doesn't even know about this! I should have warned him." The 34-year-old actress got the ring back without her husband knowing how it was almost lost, as she was flashing the sparkler at the premiere of her new film 'Catch and Release' with Kevin Smith. Jennifer Garner's Shocking Secret She Kept From Ben!NEW YORK (January 24, 2007) -- Jennifer Garner revealed a secret Wednesday that she'd been keeping from Ben Affleck: She nearly lost a ring he had given her after the birth of their 1-year-old daughter, Violet. Garner, who stars in Columbia Pictures' "Catch and Release," said the mishap occurred while she was primping for the movie's premiere. "He gave me this beautiful diamond ring and I was playing with it and ... it fell off. And it fell under this ice maker in the house -- he (Affleck) hasn't even heard of this yet -- and ... it fell into the drain under this ice maker," the 34-year-old actress said on "Live With Regis and Kelly." SKIMPY CHARACTERS: Sam Jaeger, Kevin Smith and Jennifer GarnerIt’s not always easy to blend humour and pathos into that elusive genre we call “dramedy,” as Catch and Release proves. The directorial debut for screenwriter Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich, Charlotte ’s Web), this weird, wobbly flick wants to have it all: big laughs, big tears, big hugs. But it’s so awkward, so underwritten and so haphazardly directed, so full of some truly bizarre product placement, that it’s hard to take seriously—or hilariously, for that matter. Jennifer Garner plays Gray Wheeler (which sounds like the name for some sort of seniors’ car club), a young widow living in Boulder , Colorado . Wait—make that almost-widow, as she was just about to marry her fiancé when he died in some sort of boating accident. She’s soon hanging out, mourning and fishing with his friends: saucy L.A. dude Fritz (Timothy Olyphant), her husband’s business partner Dennis (Sam Jaeger, looking like some weird mutant Aaron Eckhart), and friendly dude Sam, played by Kevin Smith. Yes, that Kevin Smith, playing the light comic relief best-buddy role, and plastered with ads—t-shirts, mugs etc—for... are you ready for this? Celestial Seasonings Herbal Tea. There’s no other product placement in the movie, but there is a lot of play given to this tea company, where Smith’s character works finding inspirational quotes to put on their boxes. Garner and Olyphant eventually, against their instincts, begin to fall for each other, especially after she learns that her ex-hubby-to-be had secretly fathered a child with new agey massage therapist Juliette Lewis. But he’s not the only character with a mysterious past: for a movie where everyone basically stands around gabbing about each others’ lives for two hours, the characterizations are seriously skimpy. For most of the movie, I half-thought that Jaeger and Smith’s characters were meant to be gay lovers, and all we even really know about Garner is that she works in some sort of office (possibly also at Celestial Seasonings, considering the amount of branded junk we see on her desk). We don’t learn much more about anybody else, and it’s almost impossible to get emotionally involved with characters who aren’t much more than joke-cracking, huggable ciphers. With nothing to connect with, laugh at or enjoy, Catch and Release is definitely worth throwing back. Jennifer Garner Drops Diamond Ring Down the DrainJennifer Garner was mortified when a ring husband Ben Affleck gave her disappeared down a drain and ended up under their home. The star was preparing for the debut of her new film when she dropped the diamond ring on the floor and it rolled under a large ice machine. She explains "I was getting ready to go to the premiere of Catch And Release and the hair's going here and the make-up's going there and I was playing with this ring that Ben gave me for the birth of the child. "You get a ring now or something wonderful, he's very generous. So he gave me this beautiful diamond ring and I was playing with it and it fell onto the ground and it fell into the drain under the ice-maker. A plumber had to come while I'm getting ready to go and dismantle the thing from under the house - and he found it! A happy ending!" Jennifer Garner | Jennifer Garner 1 | Jennifer Garner 2 | Jennifer Garner 4 | Jennifer Garner 5
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