When Jennifer Lopez, 56, and Brett Goldstein, 45, appeared on NBC’s morning show on June 2, 2026, co-host Savannah Guthrie, 54, wasted no time addressing the elephant in the room: rumors that had been swirling since mid-May about whether the two stars were romantically involved off-screen.
The answer? A firm no. But Guthrie had to work for it.
Not Buying the Deflection
The pair arrived on the “Today” show couch to promote their Netflix rom-com “Office Romance,” in which Lopez plays Jackie Cruz, an airline CEO who falls for Daniel Blanchflower — a lawyer and new employee played by Goldstein. But Guthrie steered the conversation directly toward the dating speculation. “You know what everyone’s saying: That it might be real,” she noted.
Lopez brushed off the chatter as routine. “There’s never a time where I’m seen with somebody or working with somebody where they don’t try to put me with the person,” she replied, characterizing the rumor mill as a constant in her life.
The “Ted Lasso” star played along with the joke, suggesting that rumors fly whenever anyone gets near Lopez — and admitting he’d been standing as close as possible during their press tour. Guthrie quipped that was probably what he wished would happen, and Goldstein cheerfully agreed.
But Guthrie wasn’t satisfied with the lighthearted evasion. “Okay, but I’ll just say, because I’m me and you know me. That was not an answer,” she told Lopez and Goldstein.
Lopez insisted it absolutely was an answer, then rattled off a quick history of past rumored pairings to make her case. “There’s never a time where I’m seen with somebody or working with somebody where they don’t try to put me with the person. It happens all the time. Doesn’t make it true,” she said.
After complimenting Lopez as a hot, eligible single person — a comment that seemed designed to ease the growing tension — Guthrie asked one final time, point-blank, if the two were dating.
“Not dating,” Lopez said firmly. Goldstein chimed in with a single word: “Correct.”
Tables Turned
Later in the segment, Guthrie attempted to start a trivia game but fumbled her cue cards and lost her pages mid-introduction. Lopez seized the opening, teasing that the host had gotten flustered. Guthrie owned it: “I did, I got flustered. It’s you, Jennifer!”
Lopez couldn’t resist a victory lap. “You tried to fluster us, and we flustered you!” she laughed.
Where Lopez Really Stands
Lopez has been single since her divorce from Ben Affleck was finalized in February 2025, and she shot down the possibility of joining “The Bachelorette” in May 2026 when the question came up.
In an earlier conversation on “Good Morning America,” Lopez described her current chapter in glowing terms. “I’m in my happy era. I feel like, for the first time in my life, I’m free. I’m on my own. And it feels really good. I didn’t really know what that felt like since I was in my early 20s and even before that, I’ve always had a boyfriend. There was always someone in my life and so many other things that I felt were out of my control,” she shared.
That mindset helps explain her firm denial of the Goldstein rumors. Some of the speculation has been driven by Goldstein’s obvious admiration for Lopez and the fact that he co-wrote “Office Romance” specifically for her. It’s a charming backstory for a movie — just not, it seems, a real-life love story.
The on-screen pairing has generated very visible off-screen chemistry during the press tour, and fans have been busy reading into every glance and giggle. Viewers can judge that spark for themselves since “Office Romance” began streaming on Netflix on June 5, 2026 — and they have, in massive numbers. The film debuted at No. 1 on Netflix’s global English-language chart, pulling in 20.9 million views and 40.1 million hours watched in its opening week. As for the off-camera version, Lopez and Goldstein have made their answer clear. Whether the internet chooses to believe them is, as always, another story.