Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez hold hands in New York

Jennifer Lopez and Alex Rodriguez hold hands in New York



Jennifer Lopez and her boyfriend Alex Rodriguez were dripping with chic when they were photographed strolling hand in hand in New York City on Monday.

She'd slid into a cleavage-baring knee-length Roland Mouret cocktail dress in pale blue, flinging on a matching coat and contrasting it with a nude purse and shoes.

Meanwhile, he'd worn a grey pinstriped suit over a pink dress shirt with its top button undone, popping on black sunglasses and brown-to-black dress shoes.



J-Lo recently swung by The Ellen DeGeneres Show and spilled the details about how she'd first kicked off her current romance with the baseball star.

She'd spotted A-Rod while having lunch out - a Cobb salad and tortilla soup - and 'for some reason, I just felt like tapping him on the shoulder and saying: "Hi."'

A dinner date followed soon after, but that appears to have been the extent of it that evening, as J-Lo vamped to Ellen: 'Mama don't sleep over on the first date!'



The 47-year-old had arrived on Ellen's stage wearing a snakeskin-patterned miniskirt that allowed her to showcase her chiseled dancer's legs.

She recalled that during their first conversation after she tapped A-Rod's shoulder, 'I was like: "What are you doing in LA?" He said: "I’m – I live out here now." And he goes: "What about you?" I go: "I’ve always lived out here, you know, for the past -"'.

Turning to Ellen's studio audience, J-Lo said of all this minutiae: 'This is so - you really wanna year this?' but both the hostess and the crowd were quite emphatic they did.



More gossip emerged when she explained:  that 'he was like: “We should hang out.” And I was like: "Okay." I said: "Well, you know, you can find me. You have my number." And he was like: “Yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay."'

Ellen seized on the fact: 'He had your number already?' and when J-Lo replied: 'From years ago, yeah,' the talk-show hostess said: 'Oh. I see. Let's back up to then.'

The Jenny From The Block singer assured Ellen, however, that giving A-Rod her number then 'wasn't like that,' and that 'it was a referral for something else.'



Yet once A-Rod and J-Lo were chatting other up after her salad and soup, 'he texted me. He said: "Let’s go out to dinner." I said: "Okay."'

When Ellen mischievously asked what they'd had - 'Salad, again?' - a good-humored J-Lo said: 'I don't remember what we had for dinner, but we had a nice dinner.'

After J-Lo had swatted off Ellen's speculation about a possible 'sleepover,' the Metairie native quizzed the pop diva: 'So, maybe you two will have children.'



'Oh, my God!' the Selena star cried out. 'We're just having a nice time right now - ' just before a man dressed as A-Rod in uniform as a New York Yankee burst from a wooden chest between the two women, prompting J-Lo to shriek and laugh.

'This a**hole’s been in there the whole time?' she yelped to Ellen, who was beside herself giggling. 'The whole time? Are you kidding me? In a Yankee’s uniform?'

J-Lo and A-Rod have been dating since at least last month, and they've been seen getting cozy in L.A., New York, the Bahamas, the Dominican Republic and Miami.