{"id":34982,"date":"2025-07-30T18:41:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:41:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34982\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T18:41:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:41:09","slug":"what-to-know-after-their-split","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/34982\/","title":{"rendered":"What To Know After Their Split"},"content":{"rendered":"

Although Ben saw Jessica as “the most beautiful girl he had ever seen,” they did not strike up a romance<\/a> until they reconnected in 2007.<\/p>\n

At the time, Ben took a break from filming Canadian Idol in Montreal and asked Jessica to go on a date. After grabbing sushi, they went to karaoke, where the Canadian host reportedly sang “New York, New York,” catching Jessica’s attention.<\/p>\n

“I knew about halfway through the date that we would eventually get married<\/a>,” Ben told PostCity<\/a> in 2020.<\/p>\n

After nine months of a long-distance relationship, Ben proposed to Jessica at Chez Nick’s Diner in Montreal.<\/p>\n

“When I would visit Jessica, while we were dating, we’d always stop in so that I could have a bacon cheeseburger, fries and gravy and a black cherry cola (the only thing I have ever eaten at Nick’s),” Ben detailed. “I mentioned how I hoped that, when we had kids, they would have a chance to make memories at Nick’s, too. At which point, I got on one knee, whipped out a ring and popped the question.”<\/p>\n

On October 30, 2008, Ben and Jessica tied the knot in front of their 60 guests during a private ceremony at St. Patrick’s Basilica.<\/p>\n

“The moment I saw Jess walk down the aisle. It was the first time in my life that my breath actually left my body and I could not catch it,” Ben told Today’s Bride<\/a> following the ceremony.<\/p>\n

Their three-day wedding celebrations included a “Hallowedding” costume party.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Although Ben saw Jessica as “the most beautiful girl he had ever seen,” they did not strike up…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34983,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49,48,75,44,882,17125],"class_list":["post-34982","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-entertainment","tag-news","tag-photos","tag-top-slots"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34982"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34982\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}