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They were celebrating Ben and Jen’s 3rd wedding anniversary!

Ben Affleck says life at home is “pretty great.”

“We’re very happy. Things couldn’t be better. We’re kind of taking it easy and just kind of enjoying a little downtime at home,” Affleck told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush for The Billy Bush Show Friday.

Earlier this week, E!’s Ted Casablanca speculated Affleck and wife Jennifer Garner were close to splitting.

Garner’s rep denied the report, telling Usmagazine.com, “There is not one ounce of truth to it.”

This summer, the dad to two-year-old Violet plans on taking it easy.

“I’m at a point now where even… vacation sort of feels a little bit like work,” Affleck told Bush. “I’d rather just kind of chill and take it easy.”

Of course Affleck has been busy.

The actor traveled through the Congo filming as a guest correspondent for Nightline about the war torn country.

“It’s definitely changed me,” Affleck said of the experience. “It’s definitely been a part of… I guess a growing sense that I have a responsibility to do something with my life that’s other than just serving mileage in some way… You have a responsibility to your kid and also a responsibility to the world around you, so all that [is] part of the motivation for doing all this stuff.”

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Ben Affleck says life at home is “pretty great.”

“We’re very happy. Things couldn’t be better. We’re kind of taking it easy and just kind of enjoying a little downtime at home,” Affleck told Access Hollywood’s Billy Bush for The Billy Bush Show Friday.

Earlier this week, E!’s Ted Casablanca speculated Affleck and wife Jennifer Garner were close to splitting.

Garner’s rep denied the report, telling Usmagazine.com, “There is not one ounce of truth to it.”

This summer, the dad to two-year-old Violet plans on taking it easy.

“I’m at a point now where even… vacation sort of feels a little bit like work,” Affleck told Bush. “I’d rather just kind of chill and take it easy.”

Of course Affleck has been busy.

The actor traveled through the Congo filming as a guest correspondent for Nightline about the war torn country.

“It’s definitely changed me,” Affleck said of the experience. “It’s definitely been a part of… I guess a growing sense that I have a responsibility to do something with my life that’s other than just serving mileage in some way… You have a responsibility to your kid and also a responsibility to the world around you, so all that [is] part of the motivation for doing all this stuff.”

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Ben Affleck’s recent humanitarian mission in Africa’s Democratic Republic of Congo has left the movie star a changed man.

The actor has made three trips to Africa in the last eight months, but his most recent visit, which was filmed for a short documentary, was his most harrowing as he met with refugees who had been driven out of their homes by war lords in the region.

Affleck says, “They’re literally in a living hell and these are teachers, farmers, real, regular people like you and I. People came through shooting guns and kicking doors down and burning houses and raping women and they had to run for their lives.”

The growing turmoil in Africa’s Congo region has been called one of the world’s worst humanitarian crises this century. Conflicts in the area have caused the death of more than four million people - more than have died in any battle since World War II.

Affleck’s video-documented journey debuted on Thursday’s episode of Nightline.

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Ben Affleck is expanding his horizons–literally. The actor has signed up to join Nightline as a special correspondent reporting on the humanitarian crisis in the Congo.

Affleck,35, who’s first essay airs Thursday on ABC, took a Nightline crew into Africa with the goal of spreading the word on a story that gets relatively little notice in the U.S.

”It’s fairly clear that in the modern age that there is a currency to celebrity, or celebrity is a currency, really,” Affleck said on Wednesday. ”I’ve discovered that you can spend it in a lot of ways, or you can squander it. You can be taxed, as well. I really started thinking long and hard about how to use that currency as long as I had it.”

Affleck, who is married to Jennifer Garner and is father to the couple’s 2-year old daugther Violet, has been to the Congo three times in the past year. He said his motive was to learn about the war and hunger that have killed thousands of people per month in the past decade in hopes that the outside world would be moved to help, and his celebrity opened some doors.

His representatives approached Nightline with the idea of reporting on his journey. Affleck said he was impressed by Nightline stories in 2005 where Hotel Rwanda actor Don Cheadle visited that country.

In his first essay, Affleck says, ”I want to try to bring people along to learn and if they might not tune into this unless there was some celebrity involved in it, either because they’re interested in the celebrity or because they want to see the celebrity kind of make a fool of himself, then so be it.”

He doesn’t act as a reporter, Nightline executive producer James Goldston says, but rather presents the story as a personal journey, following Affleck as he met with survivors of the conflict, relief officials and even some warlords.

”I was quite persuaded by how candid he was about the cliche of it, or the potential cliche,” Goldston said

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A report by E!’s Ted Casablanca that Jennifer Garner and Ben Affleck are considering breaking up is “100% completely fabricated,” Garner’s rep tells Usmagazine.com.

The E! report speculated a potential split was “the reason Jen and Ben are always seen cooing over adorable daughter Violet separately.”

But Garner’s rep tells Us: “There is not one ounce of truth to it.”

Garner, 36, married Affleck, 35, in 2005. They have a two-year-old daughter, Violet.

“I don’t know what makes [the relationship] work. But it does,” Garner told Marie Claire last year. “One thing that makes it not not work is that we’re both pretty nice.”

“[Ben] is not someone who’s ever going to blow up on anyone,” she said. “What I mean is, if he’s ever angry with me, he doesn’t act out on it in a weird way or yell at me. And I am the same. So we can handle conflict in a very loving and adult way.”

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