Viewers were surprised during Tuesday’s Dancing With The Stars, as The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives star Jennifer Affleck and husband Zac were spotted in the audience — and they weren’t the only reality TV personalities present in the crowd.
The most recent episode of Dancing With The Stars was the long-awaited “Disney Night,” and as the name suggests, contestants danced to songs associated with Disney classics; Disney is notoriously protective of its intellectual property (IP), but Disney also owns ABC.
In addition to Jen and Zac, Joan Vassos of The Golden Bachelorette attended, as did Kaitlyn Bristowe of The Bachelor and The Bachelorette.
Kaitlyn shared an Instagram post with Jen, and Kaitlyn said:
“We’re here at Dancing With the Stars. We are hanging out. It’s Disney Night and I’m triggered by Disney Night ’cause I was Cruella de Vil and I got my worst score and it was awful. It was an awful night!”
Jen’s appearance on-screen during DWTS initially confused fans, some of whom weren’t sure if it was really the Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives star.
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However, there was another reason Jen and Zac’s presence piqued fans’ interest.
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Jen Was With Zac After Implying They’d Split
Earlier this month, fans of The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives were confused – or, rather, confounded – about whether Jen and Zac had broken up.
Confounded, because Jen herself was the source of conflicting information, via a series of TikToks recorded with Mayci Neely and Mikayla Matthews of SLOMW.
In a recent feature about the husbands and partners on The Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives, we touched upon fan concerns about Zac’s treatment of Jen:
“As the series went on, viewers began to notice Zac’s controlling tendencies, and it only got worse when he sent his wife an alarming text threatening their marriage after she and the rest of the women attend a Chippendale’s show.”
On October 13, Jen, Mayci, and Mikayla each shared TikToks about Jen’s relationship, and fans didn’t know what to make of them.
One of the clips suggested they’d split, another depicted Jen wearing her ring, and the third made a reference to Jen being “in danger.”
Fan confusion quickly turned to consternation, and many opined that it looked like Jen, Mayci, and Mikayla were making light of domestic abuse:
“This is gross … leaving an abusive relationship isn’t something to make money off. “[I don’t care] what [your job is,] this just isn’t right. They’re so clueless.”
Jen and Zac’s DWTS date suggests that the Secret Lives Of Mormon Wives couple didn’t break up, and underscored viewer sentiment that the breakup TikToks were “clickbait.”
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