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Jennifer Lopez reacts to Off Campus featuring her iconic Versace 'jungle dress'

Jennifer Lopez in her iconic 'jungle dress'

Jennifer Lopez is big fan of her Versace jungle dress appearing in Off Campus.

The steamy new Amazon Prime Video series hit the streamer last week, and viewers loved one moment which saw main character Allie Hayes (Mika Abdalla) wearing J-Lo's iconic plunging gown from the 2000 Grammy Awards.

In the scene, Allie crosses paths with hockey player Dean Di Laurentis (Stephen Kalyn) at a Halloween party, and she has dressed up as the legendary pop star.

Sharing a clip from the episode on X, J-Lo herself wrote: "Love this shooooww (sic)".

Lopez, 56, first wore the gown herself at the 2000 Grammys, before sporting a reimagined version in 2019.

Mika previously opened up on the work that went into creating her own version, and the technicalities of actually wearing the revealing number.

In a TikTok clip shared by Betches UK, she said: "It was unreal. [The dress] was built from scratch.

"My first fitting was like, put on this nude leotard and we're going to cut it up and pin all this s*** to you.

"It was five fittings. It was insane, I was so taped in. I was ready to dance the night away."

The scene in question appears in the TV adaptation of the hit romance series of books, but isn't actually included in Elle Kennedy's novels themselves.

However, Mika was immediately convinced it would be a hit with viewers.

She told PEOPLE magazine: "I had a feeling, especially because it happened so early on...

"When we were getting close to the dress being finished and I saw what it was going to [look like], when we were shooting it, I was like, 'huh, I think people are going to like this.' "

On The Floor hitmaker Lopez previously opened up on her own concerns about wardrobe malfunctions while wearing the iconic gown, which her stylist

Andrea Lieberman originally discouraged her from wearing because Donatella Versace had already worn it to the 1999 Met Gala.

However, the singer's longtime friend and manager Benny Medina was "adamant" that it was the one.

J-Lo recalled on the Moments of Fashion YouTube series in 2019: "I put on the green dress and come out and Benny goes, 'That's it. That's it. Don't even talk about it. That's the dress!' And of course my stylist is mortified.

"She's like, 'No! It's been worn before!' But the guys were so adamant that it was an amazing dress, and we said 'Ok'.

"The only concern was whether or not my boobs were gonna pop out onstage because it was so low-cut, we literally laid double stick down and we stuck the dress to it and went out.

"There was never any danger of that. I was so securely stuck into that thing that there was gonna be no mishaps."

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