Ben Affleck poses in the press room at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards. Photo / AP
Ben Affleck poses in the press room at the 71st annual Golden Globe Awards. Photo / AP
If you were holding out hope for Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck to somehow rekindle the flame after their longwinded divorce, the actor seems to have ended any hopes of reconciliation by re-entering the dating pool.
According to E! News, less than three months after he and Garner officially filedfor divorce, the 44-year-old actor has found a new lady - Saturday Night Live producer Lindsay Shookus.
A source told the publication the two are still "in the early stages" of their relationship but recently headed out in London to watch the Sam Mendes play Ferryman.
While E! News claims the fling is brand new, multiple sources have told PEOPLE the pair had "a full-on affair" and were together as early as 2013 - two years before Affleck and Garner announced their separation.
"They would fly back and forth, but he would mostly visit her in New York. They didn't hide ... They would use the Mandarin Oriental [hotel]. They were regulars."
Affleck has hosted Saturday Night Live five times - the last time was May, 2013. A month after the actor's hosting gig, multiple sources told PEOPLEthey spotted the pair acting flirty at an afterparty for The Heat.
Shookus was named in Billboard'sTop 50 Most Powerful Woman Music Executives in 2015.
The article celebrating the women revealed 37-year-old Shookus has worked with the show since 2010 and was instrumental in booking Miley Cyrus for the show's 2014 premiere.
The producer was also one of 200 women invited to Marie Claire's inaugural Power Trip conference last year.
Lindsay Shookus. Photo / Getty Images
Actresses Drew Barrymore, Gwyneth Paltrow and Tracee Ellis Ross also attended.
Jennifer Garner filed for divorce from Ben Affleck in April more than two years after they announced their separation.
Garner and Affleck started dating in 2004, a few months after his and Jennifer Lopez's engagement ended.
Sparks flew on the set of Pearl Harbor but it wasn't until Affleck and Garner starred in the 2003 movie Daredevil that they started dating.
They were married in June 2005 in a private Caribbean ceremony.
The couple have three children together. Violet, 11, Seraphina, eight, and Samuel, five. After more than 10 years together, they announced they were separating in June 2015 with a heartbreaking statement.
"After much thought and careful consideration, we have made the difficult decision to divorce," they told Page Six in a statement at the time. "We go forward with love and friendship for one another and a commitment to co-parenting our children, whose privacy we ask to be respected during this difficult time."
