Alex Rodriguez had some positive words for fiancée Jennifer Lopez when she felt she’d botched dance steps at a show in Las Vegas.
“It was the best show I’ve seen so far,” Rodriguez, 43, told Lopez, 49, in a video diary of her “It’s My Party” tour. “It was Saturday night in Vegas and you guys killed it! And you showed that you’re a champion, baby. [You were] down and you still came back up and had the best show so far… Every time I see the show, they keep getting better and better and better.”
Also in the video, Lopez said she has performed despite being sick. “I still don’t feel like I have my upper chest voice, but we’ll see when I warm up. At times my voice will go in and out. The other day, that was the only annoying thing that I didn’t have control over.”
According to the New York Post, “Her sweet exchanged with A-Rod comes days after an insider claimed there was “tension” between the sports superstar and the master entertainer. “Friends have seen them argue frequently. There’s a lot of passion in their relationship, which helps and hurts the pair – especially when their personalities clash because you just know a blowup is about to ensue,” a source close to the power couple previously told Fox News. “As much as their friends love seeing Alex and J.Lo together as royalty, there is great fear that the tension between them may prevent them from ever making it down the aisle.”
The attention paid to the couple of understandable given their high profile lives. Rodriguez, nicknamed “A-Rod”, is a former professional baseball shortstop and third baseman. He played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball for the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers, and New York Yankees. He is considered to be one of the greatest baseball players of all time, amassing a .295 batting average, over 600 home runs (696), over 2,000 runs batted in (RBI), over 2,000 runs scored, over 3,000 hits, and over 300 stolen bases, the only player in MLB history to achieve all of those feats. He was also a 14-time All-Star, winning three American League (AL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) Awards, ten Silver Slugger Awards, and two Gold Glove Awards.
Lopez is an actress, singer, dancer, and producer. In 1991, she began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color, where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993. For her first leading role in the 1997 Selena biopic of the same name, Lopez received a Golden Globe nomination and became the first Latin actress to earn over $1 million for a film. She went on to star in Anaconda (1997) and Out of Sight (1998), later establishing herself as the highest-paid Latin actress in Hollywood.
