{"id":395179,"date":"2026-01-08T12:57:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:57:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395179\/"},"modified":"2026-01-08T12:57:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-08T12:57:09","slug":"ben-affleck-on-samuel-affleck-asking-for-sports-betting-money","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/395179\/","title":{"rendered":"Ben Affleck on Samuel Affleck Asking for Sports Betting Money"},"content":{"rendered":"

Samuel Affleck was hoping to capitalize on Ben Affleck<\/a>‘s goodwill.<\/p>\n

But when the 13-year-old asked for some money to gamble, the Oscar winner was quick to shut down his son’s shocking request.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

“My son asked me like a month ago, was like, ‘Hey, um, can I get like 100 bucks to bet on sports?'” Ben shared on the Jan. 5 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live<\/a>. “It’s like, what?”<\/p>\n

He recalled his and ex-wife Jennifer Garner<\/a>‘s youngest telling him, “‘My friends get $100, but if they lose it, then that’s it.'”<\/p>\n

Ben\u2014also dad to kids Violet, 20, and Seraphina, 17, with the 13 Going On 30 actress\u2014was taken aback by their son’s ask.<\/p>\n

“I’m like, ‘Oh, that’s a real standard, what discipline! Like, so that you don’t come twitching back going,'” he emphasized, “‘I know that Green Bay is going to cover the over in the second half.'”<\/p>\n

The Good Will Hunting star pointed to his own father Timothy Affleck\u2014who was formerly a bookie\u2014adding, “There’s a reason your grandfather’s broke!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Samuel Affleck was hoping to capitalize on Ben Affleck‘s goodwill. But when the 13-year-old asked for some money…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":395180,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-395179","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395179","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=395179"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/395179\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/395180"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=395179"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=395179"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=395179"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}