ALISON BOSHOFF: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Lopez share £51m house sale as divorce proceedings continue

The saying suggests that you 'marry successful haste and repent astatine leisure'. But J-Lo and Ben Affleck are proving that maxim incorrect by untying the knot rapidly and quietly.

Sources accidental that the A-list pair, who separated successful April, are moving done everything they request to. So acold determination are nary large issues oregon sticking points. It's thought that some are leaving the matrimony with what they had going into it, and they person agreed to merchantability their $68 cardinal (£51 million) location and divided the wealth successful a mode that they consciousness is fair.

There's nary question of either enactment asking for oregon receiving attraction (she is worthy $400 cardinal and helium is worthy $150 million). And nor – from what I perceive – are either of them utilizing costly matrimonial ­lawyers. J-Lo self-filed for divorcement and seems to beryllium steering wide ­of them altogether this clip around.

Perhaps that civilised concern explains their relaxed demeanour astatine luncheon astatine the Polo Lounge astatine the Beverly Hills Hotel past weekend.

Sam West tries to onshore his begetter an acting role

Sam West says he's not optimistic astir his chances of landing his histrion begetter Timothy a impermanent relation connected All Creatures Great & Small, the hugely fashionable Channel 5 bid based connected the novels by vet Alf Wight (James Herriot).

'There are not, rather frankly, that galore parts for 89-year-old actors,' said Sam, who plays vet Siegfried. 

'There was a portion successful past year's bid helium mightiness person played – but it was taken by James Bolam, who performed it beautifully.

'The different occupation is that we look progressively similar 1 another. We person these tiny small eyes that vanish erstwhile we smile. And unless we played radical who were really related, I deliberation it would beryllium rather confusing.'

Hemsworth's kids unimpressed with their transformer father 

Chris Hemsworth plays the Transformer who becomes Optimus Prime successful the caller movie, Transformers One, retired this week, but says that his kids were unimpressed. 

One told him: 'Bumblebee [a tiny achromatic and yellowish robot] is my favourite.' 

Hemsworth said: 'Yeah, thanks. It benignant of humbles you, right?'

Florence goes the other mile for her caller film

If it's Tuesday, this indispensable beryllium Belgium — good that's however the 1969 movie went. Florence Pugh indispensable beryllium feeling a spot similar that astatine the moment. She was successful New York astatine the commencement of the month, earlier heading up to Toronto, and past jetting to London. Next week she's disconnected to San Sebastian successful Spain.

It's each successful the work of the weepie indie movie We Live In Time, which is attracting Oscars speech for her (and to a somewhat lesser grade for co-star Andrew Garfield).

The brace play a mates who unrecorded successful London, and there's a country wherever she gives commencement successful a work presumption that volition instrumentality successful the mind.

As Pugh said: 'It was amazing. I mean, you saw similar 7 minutes of it. We did 15-minute births EIGHT times. It was insane. The lone ­problem was, I didn't person a baby,' Pugh said. 'So I was conscionable truthful exhausted and sweaty and tired, and I got nary endorphins oregon anything.'

The different occupation was with snack manufacturers. Pugh revealed that Jaffa Cakes, Twix and Ginsters were each blessed to beryllium featured — but ­Snickers refused to let their marque to beryllium featured.

The movie volition beryllium released successful the US connected October 11 and successful the UK successful January.

Broadway calls for Operation Mincemeat... 

Operation Mincemeat, the deed West End amusement which started beingness arsenic a fringe production, is connected its mode to Broadway.

I perceive that the show, which claims to beryllium the champion reviewed successful West End ­history, is to unfastened successful New York adjacent twelvemonth — perchance with the archetypal cast.

Sources uncover that negotiations with a theatre successful the Big Apple are nearing the end; and an ­announcement is imminent.

The philharmonic is simply a comic retelling of the real-life Second World War crippled to fool the Nazis into believing that the Allies were astir to invade Greece and Sardinia – erstwhile their existent ­objective was Sicily.

Fake plans and maps were planted connected the assemblage of a dormant tramp, who was past dressed arsenic a worker and released by submarine adjacent to the seashore of Spain. Originally slated for an eight-week run, the drama has conscionable received its tenth hold and volition present play successful the West End until March adjacent year.

In the spring, Mincemeat won large astatine the Olivier Awards. It took the prize for champion caller musical, and 1 of its cast, Jak Malone, was voted champion histrion successful a supporting role. The anticipation is that it volition travel successful the footsteps of the philharmonic Six, which besides originated connected the British fringe and went connected to beryllium a large deed connected Broadway, winning aggregate Tony awards.

The amusement has galore devoted fans, known arsenic Mincefluencers, 1 of whom has been to spot it much than 140 times.

Geri and Christian's institution is successful the red 

Geri Halliwell-Horner and hubby Christian aren't having overmuch luck with their spot lettings company, Estelle Ward.

The firm, of which some are directors, conscionable filed its 2nd twelvemonth of accounts, which amusement it's successful the reddish by £53,000.

Luckily, it's pouch alteration for the mates who are worthy £33 cardinal (Geri) and £41 cardinal (Christian), from popular euphony and centrifugal racing.

Oh, and their horse-racing steadfast OMBI Ltd, is going large guns.

Do you privation much proof? Sex sells!

Gillian Anderson's publication compiling anonymous pistillate enactment fantasies, Want, is blistery worldly — selling astir 13,000 copies successful its archetypal week of publication.

It seems to person generated alternatively much excitement than Anderson's erstwhile tome We: A Manifesto For Women Everywhere, which sold conscionable nether 3,000 successful its archetypal week connected merchantability successful 2017.

More celebrated faces connected the West End? 

Is determination thing Hollywood stars emotion much than a splashy stint astatine the theatre?

Actress Brie Larson is the latest to motion up to look successful the West End – she volition play Elektra astatine the Duke of York's from January.

Sigourney Weaver takes connected the relation of Prospero successful Shakespeare's The Tempest astatine the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, successful December.

And Cate Blanchett volition prima arsenic ­Arkadina successful Chekhov's The Seagull astatine the Barbican successful February.

Meanwhile, Robert Downey Jr is already successful a play connected Broadway, and George Clooney is preparing to prima successful a ­production of Good Night, And Good Luck besides connected Broadway successful the spring.

Rob Beckett hacks the commute

Rob Beckett thinks helium has the reply to a tricky modern portion of etiquette.

The stand-up comedian, whose nickname is The Mouth Of The South, said: 'I had a enactment workfellow – who I utilized to get connected with – and I bumped into her connected the commute. 

'But precise aboriginal connected successful the commute, similar inactive 50 minutes to enactment connected the Tube. She had her headphones connected and she said, "Sorry, I don't speech earlier work."

'I respected that. We conscionable carried connected with our ain headphones.'

The begetter of dragons is not happy

Not enjoying the 2nd bid of House Of The Dragon? You are not alone.

Writer George R.R. Martin, connected whose books it is based, isn't a instrumentality of the HBO amusement which goes retired connected Sky either.

He wrote successful a since-deleted blog station that helium was soon going to stock 'everything that's gone wrong' with the adaptation.

Meanwhile, J.D. Payne, who is the showrunner connected Prime Video's not-that-well-received megabucks The Rings Of Power, said of the critics: 'It wouldn't beryllium a travel done ­Middle-earth without immoderate trolls on the way.'