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00:00:30.000Wow! Daily Mail is really going there.
00:00:39.660Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk. I'm Sjastri Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:49.020Okay, Daily Mail is going all in. This article about Blake Lively is mind-blowing.
00:00:57.500they are not holding back on how they feel about Blake Lively and I found another interview with
00:01:05.140TJ Miller who I spoke about yesterday who used to hate Ryan Reynolds and now is one of his new BFFs
00:01:11.920and here he actually addresses the hate Ryan is receiving online and this makes him look even
00:01:18.520worse. Okay and we have to talk about Rebel Wilson's case that is now being connected
00:01:23.500to Blake Lively's case. And as you know, Blake Lively has desperately tried to use evidence
00:01:29.900from Rebel Wilson's case in her case. Now Rebel Wilson is making the record straight and sharing
00:01:36.320some really interesting evidence. Oh, and I was laughing so hard watching this interview with
00:01:41.700Viola Davis on Amy Poehler yesterday, talking about intimate scenes, maybe a lesson for Blake
00:01:48.300Lively to learn here and I wanted to share something Nicole Kidman said about kissing scenes
00:01:53.900and why she had to tell off Alexander Skarsgård. Okay so let's jump right into the story from the
00:02:00.540Daily Mail. I started reading this and I was like oh okay they're just reporting on what Paul Feig
00:02:06.380said on the red carpet at the Oscars. I say another simple favor and a simple favor director Paul Feig
00:02:11.920has been supporting Blake Lively throughout this entire legal feud and he keeps doing it and I
00:02:18.880reported on it a couple of days ago because he was interviewed on the red carpet at the Oscar and he
00:02:23.340said you know Blake is doing great and she's soldiering on and her marriage is great and her
00:02:29.060kids are great whatever. Anyways that's just the beginning of this story and then Daily Mail keeps
00:02:35.820going on about all the controversies in Blake Lively's case and all the things that she has
00:02:43.020done and said. And it makes her look horrific. As I said, it starts off with some comments from
00:02:50.440Paul Feig. And then they continue saying, Lively, brackets, born brown, accused Baldoni of retaliating
00:02:57.880against her with an online smear campaign after she alleged he S-aged her, including unscripted
00:03:03.440kissing on the set of their 2024 DV drama. However, Feig had no problem with the LA-born
00:03:12.320mother of four improvising, squeezing her on-screen husband Henry Golding's crotch
00:03:18.580while filming A Simple Favor in 2017 and eagerly encouraged her to grab his nuts harder.
00:03:27.380They also included the photo when this happened and it says that's always awkward like,
00:03:32.280hey, nice to meet you. Can I grab your nuts really hard? Not because I want to, but because I feel
00:03:37.380like she would, lively explains on the DVD commentary. And then the story continues. In
00:03:44.840a legal filing last November, Baldoni released footage of the secrets of the penguins narrator.
00:03:52.300It's funny that they're making her the secret of the penguin narrator. She did narrate a movie
00:03:57.280or a documentary about penguins improvising an unscripted kiss on himself in a deleted
00:04:05.620hospital scene, which she had not agreed to. And they added the photo of that as well. And as you
00:04:12.600know, Blake Lively and her team has not come out and commented on this yet. They have not said that,
00:04:19.260oh, that didn't happen. So obviously it's true. Then they say this, Lively had never even worked
00:04:25.980with an intimacy coordinator before it ends with us. She only worked 16 days on set and yet
00:04:32.600successfully scored the coveted PGA credit after masterminding a hostile takeover of the entire
00:04:41.620production. Wow! Daily Mail is really going there. If you have any friends or colleagues who are
00:04:51.240wondering what this case is really about, you should forward this story to them and say,
00:04:55.720hey, this is why I am on Justin Baldoni's side here.
00:04:59.600Then they continue, the ex-BFF of Taylor Swift.
00:05:04.780I love how they're giving her all these names
00:05:06.960who requires authorships on all her films
00:05:12.460took over directing, script, wardrobe, score
00:05:17.980and editing departments by threatening
00:06:47.260And they also mentioned this, the Gossip Girl alum who also issued 107 subpoenas to ordinary content creators would not have had any case without the Van Zandt subpoena.
00:07:00.920As you know, she subpoenaed me and 106 other people.
00:07:05.580One of the content creators Blake Lively subpoenaed had one follower on YouTube.
00:07:10.120and again a lot of outlets did not touch upon this story so kudos to Daily Mail for actually
00:07:17.880mentioning this as well which really shows a lot about the strategy from her legal team of just
00:07:24.920intimidating all critical voices. Then they end this with Lively set to face off against the 42
00:07:31.460year old filmmaker and his PR team in Manhattan U.S. District Court starting May 18 but the general
00:07:38.000public have already sided with Baldoni. Wow, Leslie Sloan must be fuming. I wonder how many emails
00:07:48.320and phone calls have been happening between Daily Mail and Leslie Sloan since this was published.
00:07:55.640Yeah, this is really, really bad for Blake. Okay, so let's dig into this new video of TJ Miller.
00:08:03.240But before we get into that, I wanted to thank the sponsor of this video, Raycon Essential Open Air Buds.
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00:10:50.020Ryan Reynolds, who's a great guy and a very good friend of mine, he sort of is going through this thing where people are really hating on him over Twitter, just online.
00:11:02.880No, they think that he's actually a mean person and not a great guy.
00:11:07.220And, you know, his whole brand is being a great guy.
00:11:09.860But I think he's brilliant, first of all.
00:11:12.620What's scary is if you're an actor and that's kind of all you are, if Hollywood turns their back on you, what do you do?
00:11:19.120The speed at which Hollywood and the industry will discard you is just, you can't even believe it.
00:11:27.080Yeah. People are hating on him on Twitter. And the reason for that, I don't really know,
00:11:33.940but I think it is because they believe that he's not a good person anymore.
00:11:38.580They believe he's a bad person and they thought he was a nice person.
00:11:42.400Well, one of the reasons for that, T.J. Miller, is because you told everyone that he was horrifically mean.
00:11:50.480And now T.J. Miller is saying that he's surprised by this backlash towards Ryan.
00:11:56.860Of course, it's not only because he said that he was horrifically mean, but because people have actually seen how horrifically mean Ryan Reynolds can be,
00:12:05.720especially after all these text messages were released to the public in the lawsuit with Blake
00:12:11.680Lively but we've also been told through a lot of other evidence from Blake Lively what Ryan Reynolds
00:12:16.880have been up to and now all of a sudden he's like oh yeah well I said he was a bad person but I
00:12:21.980really meant that he was a nice person and he's come out afterwards also and said the whole thing
00:12:26.300was kind of a misunderstanding as I said yesterday in my episode I wonder what happened here how Ryan
00:12:33.340got to him. But another layer of this, which I find really interesting, is that now Ryan Reynolds
00:12:39.000has teamed up with TJ again. And he also said in the interview I showed yesterday that he's open
00:12:44.640to being in the next Deadpool movie. No one knows when that's going to happen, but he is in touch
00:12:50.780with Ryan all the time. And when you look at the things that TJ has been accused of, and Ryan is
00:12:58.760choosing to be friends with him and support him and consider having him in his movie and a lot of
00:13:05.460the information a lot of the accusations against tj became public in 2017 and still ryan had him
00:13:15.280in deadpool 2 in 2018 keep that in mind when you think about how ryan has attacked justin poltoni
00:13:24.640OK, it says here in an article from The List when the S.A. allegations, we're not talking S.H., we're talking S.A. here, against Miller surfaced.
00:13:35.300They were just the last straw in a laundry list of problems that made him a person whom other actors didn't want to be around.
00:13:43.440It's not that uncommon for certain actors to believe they've outgrown the show that launched them and start behaving like divas on set.
00:13:51.220according to Miller's co-workers that's exactly what happened to him as the years went on as the
00:13:57.280years went by on the Silicon Valley production. So apparently he showed up at work under the
00:14:03.680influence several times and also People Magazine did this story in 2018 where they made an entire
00:14:12.420list of all the things that T.J. Miller had been up to and that included being arrested
00:14:19.500and being violent towards a woman and SA allegations.
00:14:25.340It was said that he choked and punched
00:14:27.960and then did something with a bare bottle on her.
00:14:33.120And this happened when he was a student at the George Washington University.
00:14:38.040I don't know if there's any truth to that or not
00:14:40.500because it was never confirmed and it was never reported to the police,
00:14:44.380but the woman reported it to the university.
00:14:46.940Just hours after these allegations were made public, Comedy Central announced that Miller's The Gorberger Show had been cancelled after just one season.
00:14:58.020Though a source from Comedy Central said the decision was made much earlier in the year.
00:15:02.180So we don't know if it was connected to those allegations.
00:15:05.500But again, I don't believe anything all of these statements are saying.
00:15:08.740We know they're just full of BS trying to protect themselves, trying to protect themselves from lawsuits.
00:15:14.240But what I find so interesting here is that Ryan wants to team up with this guy now, and he's calling him.
00:15:21.120Maybe he's the only person, except for maybe Hugh Jackman, who wants to be his friend.
00:15:27.180But it's very suspicious to me that TJ is now coming out defending Ryan Reynolds.
00:15:32.940He also said in this podcast to the host that it's lucky for us because we are stand-up comedians,
00:15:38.300and as a stand-up comedian, and as a stand-up, you can run your own show.
00:15:42.620you don't need to work for anyone. So if you cancelled over and over again, you still have a
00:15:47.260job, you have something to fall back on. So I guess for Ryan Reynolds, maybe that is a solution down
00:15:52.480the road for him as well. He can always just do his own stand-up on Instagram, for example.
00:15:57.800Anyways, we have to get into this Rebel Wilson stuff. This is so dirty and gritty. As you know,
00:16:03.480there was an audio leak a couple of days ago. It came from the Rebel Wilson lawsuit. She is being
00:16:10.940sued by Amanda Ghost the producer of her film The Deb for defamation which amongst other things
00:16:18.480painted Amanda Ghost as a madam and some other serious allegations and also things that it seems
00:16:26.420like now has shown up in those e-files. There are so many words and names I can't say on YouTube
00:16:32.920because they will demonetize so that's why I have to be really careful of how I'm wording this story
00:16:39.320just so you know that. So after that recording came out, which involved Jed Wallace, the so-called
00:16:46.320hired gun, or that's what Blake Lively's team has been calling him, because he was also working for
00:16:53.420the Wayfair parties during the crisis around It Ends With Us. So that's obviously why Blake Lively
00:16:59.620also wants to use this evidence in her case, saying, hey, look what happened over there.
00:17:04.220Of course it happened to me too. Listening to the voice memo from Jed Wallace it became clear
00:17:10.340that they were talking about making a smear website but the big question is was it true
00:17:16.980what they were accusing Amanda ghost of or did they make it up? If they made it up that would
00:17:23.380that would be terrible for Jed Wallace but if they didn't I don't know if it's actually illegal
00:17:29.840to create a website where you state some facts about a person.
00:18:04.060And Rebel claimed that the story no one is writing
00:18:07.460is that the Deb and the producers she has complained about,
00:18:11.580like Amanda Ghost, Gregor Cameron, and Vince Holden,
00:18:15.800are all funded by billionaire USSR-born oligarch, Sir Len Blavatnik.
00:18:21.640She then shared an email reportedly sent from her production company Camp Sugar to Blavatnik asking him to stop the producer's alleged behavior and either remove them from the project or let her buy out the film.
00:18:35.760She then goes on to say that Blavatnik was mentioned in the e-files and she included screenshots that appeared to include his name, such as an alleged email from E to someone named Peggy Segal asking her to please ask Blavatnik to find a job for a friend of his in Russia, in addition to other documents.
00:18:58.000As I said, these are all alleged things.
00:19:00.820These are all documents that Rebel Wilson shared on her Instagram story.
00:19:07.020But I'm assuming that she shared all of this because of that Hollywood Reporter article.
00:19:10.920And we also know how Brian Friedman has been dragged into it.
00:19:14.060He is no longer representing Rebel Wilson, but he was at this point.
00:19:19.240Also an important thing here is that this alleged smear website was published after Rebel Wilson was sued by Amanda Ghost.
00:19:29.900So if you don't know the backstory here, Rebel Wilson is claiming that one of her actresses called McInnes came to her and said that Amanda Ghost, the producer, had done inappropriate things to her.
00:19:43.240then Rebel Wilson took action and then the producer denied that that happened and also
00:19:50.460the actress said that she never said that to Rebel Wilson so it's a bit of a mess now Rebel
00:19:57.380is also claiming that McInnes this young girl is working with Amanda Ghost and basically saying
00:20:04.980that Amanda Ghost has groomed her she also added a photo of Charlotte McInnes in her Instagram
00:20:11.480story saying that here she is at a Warner Music pre-Grammy party last month that was naturally
00:20:19.160attended by Len Blavatnik, who owns Warner Music. Amanda Ghost paraded McInnes around and they have
00:20:27.040now started releasing her music. So Charlotte's latest single, Struck, was released by Atlantic
00:20:34.060Records, a subsidiary of Warner Music. Rebel said that, to my knowledge, McInnes only has a few
00:20:40.860thousand fans so it's odd that she's a recipient of such a deal and lives a luxe international
00:20:46.280lifestyle as seen on her social media and then she ends it with watch now for the fun fun crisis
00:20:54.200PR articles that are coming down the track to try and discredit me this is what these people do
00:21:00.120I'm not scared and I won't be silenced I still haven't made up my mind where the truth lays
00:21:07.520in this story. I think there are so many contradictions here. And after watching the
00:21:12.380interview with Rebel Wilson on 60 Minutes, I was like, something's not right here. But looking at
00:21:19.540this evidence and these emails and these documents that she shared, I mean, there might be some truth
00:21:26.000to what she's alleging about Amanda Ghost. Who knows? But I think this is really dangerous
00:21:32.240territory and as I said this is definitely something that Blake Lively is planning to use
00:21:38.200in her legal fight against Justin Baldoni to say hey listen to this recording they were planning a
00:21:44.200smear website against Amanda Ghost and of course they were smearing me because you know that's how
00:21:50.320they are. Anyways I wanted to end this episode with a couple of videos that I found so amusing