California mums want their kids to resemble Ben Affleck, Greg Grunberg

October 10th, 2009 Genealogy experts have discovered movie pals BEN AFFLECK and MATT DAMON are 10th cousins. The actors are childhood friends from the suburbs of Boston, Massachusetts and found fame together starring alongside each other in a number of movies, and winning an Oscar each for their 1997 screenplay Good Will Hunting.

October 10th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Matt Damon and Ben Affleck have more in common than their childhood friendship, the Hollywood stars are also distant cousins, it has been claimed. The New England Genealogical Society have found evidence that the actors are tenth cousins, once removed.

October 9th, 2009 Buddies Damon, Affleck are also distant relativesBOSTON — It seems Matt Damon and Ben Affleck are more than childhood pals and Hollywood collaborators. According to the New England Genealogical Society, they're also cousins.

September 30th, 2009 BEN AFFLECK and JENNIFER GARNER are making plans for their first movie collaboration in six years. The couple first met on the set of 2001 movie Pearl Harbor but didn't start dating until they were reunited for 2003 film Daredevil.

September 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Jennifer Garner, who gave birth to her second daughter with husband Ben Affleck, is an old-fashioned mom, says a friend of the actress. Lynda Obst, producer of her latest comedy 'The Invention of Lying', says that the 37-year-old star finds different ways to encourage her kids to think creatively "Most of the time that I did spend with her when it was off-set, Violet was cooking with her, or reading Jane Austen, or doing one of these remarkable things that Violet tends to do," People quoted Obst as saying.

September 23rd, 2009 JENNIFER GARNER's three-year-old daughter is putting mum to work - the actress is "scrubbing the toilets" at the tot's preschool. Little Violet is in her second year at the same Boston, Massachusetts co-operative preschool her father Ben Affleck once attended - and parents are expected to help maintain facilities and volunteer for field trips.

September 10th, 2009 BEN AFFLECK and HEROES star GREG GRUNBERG are California's top 'sperminators', according to a new survey. California Cryobank officials asked wannabe mums to pick the perfect famous father from a group of lookalikes, who had donated sperm - and most went for Affleck and Grunberg.

September 8th, 2009 WELLINGTON - Architectures in New Zealand capital Wellington are all set to build a toilet block that will clearly resemble the shape of Madonna's infamous pointy bra to jazz up its waterfront. Although the 400,000-dollar designer toilets were meant to resemble a crayfish, locals claim that they look more like a pair of pointy breasts or fallopian tubes.

September 2nd, 2009 JENNIFER GARNER discovered she's not the favourite actress of parents at her daughter's school the hard way - a DVD she signed for a fundraiser wasn't a hit. The actress' eldest child Violet attends a co-operative school in Los Angeles and teachers are always looking for ways to make money for field trips and equipment.

September 2nd, 2009 JENNIFER GARNER discovered she's not the favourite actress of parents at her daughter's school the hard way - a DVD she signed for a fundraiser wasn't a hit. The actress' eldest child Violet attends a co-operative school in Los Angeles and teachers are always looking for ways to make money for field trips and equipment.

July 24th, 2009 LONDON - American actress Jennifer Garner is finding it difficult to accept the closeness between her husband Ben Affleck and his former girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Affleck and Paltrow dated in 1998 before splitting the following year and starting their own separate families with new partners.

July 23rd, 2009 WASHINGTON - Jennifer Garner is apparently not too happy with the close bond shared by husband Ben Affleck with his ex-girlfriend Gwyneth Paltrow. Paltrow reportedly sends gifts and letters to him on various occasions.

June 19th, 2009 NEW YORK - Director Kevin Smith has revealed that he was once threatened by Jennifer Garner for making fun of her husband/actor Ben Affleck. Smith, who is a long-time friend of Affleck, said that Garner got annoyed with him while he was just kidding about his good pal.

May 14th, 2009 WASHINGTON - Former US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin and wildchild Lindsay Lohan's mother have been named worst potential mother-in-laws in the world in a new poll. Although neither of the celebrities have kids who have wed, they still have managed to top the list of nightmare mums.

May 8th, 2009 WASHINGTON - TV chat show host Ellen DeGeneres and her Australian actress partner Portia de Rossi have topped a new poll that asked American mums which celebrities they would feel most comfortable leaving their kids with. DeGeneres and de Rossi - who married in August and have no children - took 31 per cent of votes, reports Usmagazine.com.