What’s the best message a husband could receive when away from home? A declaration of love? A raunchy snap? Anything but a picture of a herd of 120 goats that have been hired to landscape his property, right?
But Jennifer Garner thinks otherwise. On an American talk show last night, the actress confessed that instead of hiring an exterminator or something silly like that, she rented a herd of goats to get rid of the overgrown ivy around her house. And then sent her husband, Ben Affleck – who was away filming Batman at the time – a sweet little picture of what she’d done.
Jen explained how the ivy growing on the hill next to her LA property had been harbouring rats. In what she described as a “Genius wife manouvre”, she rented 120 animals to eat the ivy and thereby chew the roofs of the rats’ heads.
It being Hollywood and all that, Jen threw a “Running Of The Goats” party to celebrate herding the goats with a bunch of unspecified children, presumably also rented from the nearby area.
Perhaps concerned that some of the audience don’t know what a goat sounds like, Jen charitably went on to impersonate their bleat.
But it seems the 13 Going On 30 star didn’t quite think the plan through. The goats are still on her property, soon to be re-joined by the rats who will presumably be making a re-appearance because the ivy, like any normal plant, has grown back.
In another surprising turn of events, the crazy fun thing also admitted to being “the leader of the streakers” when she was in college.
She said that at the time, she was in a “naked frame of mind”.
We’ve been wondering what frame of mind she’s in now.