Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - Internet Is Boiling !!

00:00:00.000 so this makes him look a bit worse because now someone from his side actually came out and

00:00:05.780 commented on this. Hi and welcome to Flossome Talk, I'm Cherti Flore, journalist, Hollywood

00:00:15.140 truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. Guess who's going to Abu Dhabi,

00:00:23.000 the true feminist that likes to call out other faux feminists for monetizing on feminism. Now 1.00

00:00:29.760 Ryan himself is going to Abu Dhabi to help the government there clean their image and reputation.

00:00:36.780 And guess what? Entertainment Weekly picked up that story about Ryan Reynolds and the mayor of

00:00:44.640 Budapest. And they digged even deeper into it. And this headline says it all. Also, talking about

00:00:52.640 crisis PR, which is something that Ryan should definitely consider at this point,

00:00:57.640 this whole scenario that happened on the red carpet for Mobland this weekend just blew my mind

00:01:06.660 I mean I spoke about this controversy when it happened there were rumors everywhere

00:01:11.020 that Tom Hardy had been fired from the tv show and then everyone came out and denied it and there

00:01:18.780 were so many different sources saying different things and now it's full crisis pr mode you won't

00:01:24.940 believe what these celebrities said on the red carpet this weekend. Also, Sydney Sweeney is at

00:01:30.660 it again and this time people really had enough. She just got nude again to sell a sports betting

00:01:39.340 app and people are fuming. Her response is priceless. Okay, so as I said, I was really

00:01:45.940 surprised to see that Entertainment Weekly picked up this story about Ryan Reynolds and the mayor

00:01:50.400 of budapest and what surprised me about it was that it was entertainment weekly that picked this

00:01:55.460 up not the daily mail not page six but actually a big respected entertainment news outlet and the

00:02:02.140 headline did not disappoint saying budapest mayor denies negotiating film shoot with ryan reynolds

00:02:08.860 says he's more of a kenneth brana man i mean and then they said mayor garigley carasone is a great

00:02:18.240 admirer of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare adaptations, a statement from the Hungarian

00:02:23.240 politician's office says. So they're repeating everything I spoke about on Friday. If you missed

00:02:29.380 that story, in a nutshell, it was that Ryan Reynolds was bragging to The Hollywood Reporter

00:02:33.780 that everyone picks up the phone when he calls them. And he basically saved one of the major

00:02:39.420 scenes in the movie Mayday. And the story originated from the directors of the movie.

00:02:45.320 so obviously Ryan told them this and then the mayor came out and said I never spoke to them

00:02:51.620 I never was in contact with any of them my office was in contact with the production company

00:02:57.040 and there were never any conflicts there so anyways it made Ryan Reynolds look like a big

00:03:02.700 liar and now Entertainment Weekly started digging around a little bit more here it says here that a

00:03:09.760 source close to the production clarified the situation to Entertainment Weekly, explaining

00:03:15.880 that a producer for the film negotiated the shoot with the mayor's chief of staff and Reynolds was

00:03:22.480 present for part of the meeting via FaceTime as the parties discussed permits. At the end of the

00:03:30.040 day, everything worked out and we were thrilled to have the opportunity to shoot the film in Budapest,

00:03:35.300 the source says it is a very different story than what Ryan Reynolds did so this makes him look even

00:03:43.420 worse because now someone from his side actually came out and commented on this and they said that

00:03:50.000 he was on FaceTime for parts of the meeting he did not call they did not pick up the phone

00:03:56.700 he was invited in on FaceTime for parts of the meeting how embarrassing is this I think they're

00:04:04.400 trying here to cover it up to say that he was on some kind of phone call here although everything

00:04:10.780 else surrounding this story is not true but it is true that he was on FaceTime in a meeting

00:04:17.000 and the thing is the mayor was not at that meeting so it's still a big fat lie and this makes it

00:04:23.640 looks even worse. It also says here that Entertainment Weekly has reached out to representatives for

00:04:30.060 Reynolds, Daly and Goldstein, the two directors, for comments. And Entertainment Weekly has also

00:04:37.780 reached out to representatives for the studio behind Mayday, Apple and Skydance. They have not

00:04:43.980 heard back from anyone yet. Like they needed more controversies around this movie than just having

00:04:49.960 Ryan Reynolds promoted, now they have to deal with Ryan Reynolds lying, pretending that he's a bigger

00:04:55.580 deal than he actually is. For the record the mayor of Budapest didn't even know who Ryan Reynolds is.

00:05:03.640 So the fact is if there would have been any kind of conflict here that would have made it more

00:05:09.720 challenging for them to shoot at this square in Budapest it would have been much smarter for them

00:05:15.620 to have Kenneth Branagh call the mayor's office than Ryan Reynolds. So yeah there's that too.

00:05:21.960 Of course, The Hollywood Reporter has not come out with a correction about this yet,

00:05:27.480 but I'm sure there's been some phone calls back and forth here,

00:05:30.820 and this is getting pretty embarrassing.

00:05:32.700 And I'm guessing now that Entertainment Weekly has jumped on this,

00:05:36.700 other outlets will follow.

00:05:38.660 So stay tuned for more about this.

00:05:41.640 Anyways, as I mentioned in the beginning here, Ryan Reynolds is going to Abu Dhabi.

00:05:45.960 Thanks, Kili, for sending me this Instagram post.

00:05:48.540 So according to LiveX Global on Instagram, and I looked at their website as well, they have a big event, a big exhibition at the end of this month, actually, on September 29th to October 1st.

00:06:03.600 And Ryan Reynolds is announced to be one of the speakers there.

00:06:07.680 They're saying behind the humor is one of today's most unconventional business minds,

00:06:12.860 bringing creativity, storytelling and entrepreneurial thinking together to turn bold ideas into powerful grants.

00:06:20.980 Talk about hypocrisy.

00:06:23.200 I know that Abu Dhabi and the United Arab Emirates are trying to clean up their image to attract Hollywood and investments from Hollywood.

00:06:31.720 and they have been able to attract a lot of talents there.

00:06:35.640 As you know, when it comes to principles in Hollywood,

00:06:38.260 if there's money involved, they go out the window.

00:06:41.940 So I've been shocked before to see how many progressive celebrities, 0.98

00:06:47.360 women especially, going to Abu Dhabi to help the government there clean up their image.

00:06:53.260 As you might know, it's still illegal to be gay in UAE.

00:06:57.520 And although they have improved a lot when it comes to women's rights,

00:07:01.380 it's still not criminal if you are in a marriage to a man and if the man does that r-word to you

00:07:08.780 that's not considered illegal in this country where ryan reynolds is going to cash out a big

00:07:14.500 check so he's gladly lending his image to abu dhabi's soft power campaign and he's not doing it

00:07:21.460 to talk about women's rights or talk about gays right he's doing it to promote himself and to

00:07:27.940 make more money. Just reminds me of what he said in some of his text messages or emails

00:07:33.620 that came out in this lawsuit where he called Baldoni a sociopathic faux feminist with almost 0.65

00:07:40.960 no sense of boundaries or shame. Yeah, no boundaries and shame. Anyways, let's get into 1.00

00:07:46.660 this other crazy story. Talking about crisis PR, by the way. So this weekend, there was a premiere

00:07:52.640 for season two of Mobland this very successful tv show and if you might and you might remember

00:08:00.280 that back in May this year there was a big controversy going on where rumors had it that

00:08:07.820 Tom Hardy allegedly was fired from the tv show and the reason for that was because he was late

00:08:16.500 on set and he remained in his trailer for hours. He kept changing up the script and this story that

00:08:23.940 Variety reported on backfired big time on Helen Mirren who is one of his co-stars in the tv show

00:08:30.840 and the reason why people blamed Helen Mirren for him being fired is because of her and Tom Hardy's

00:08:38.660 different stance on Israel and Palestine. It's much more complicated than that obviously and

00:08:45.820 the things that she has said publicly and things he had said publicly but anyways that was what

00:08:51.320 people believed in May when this happened and the backlash towards Helen Mirren was really brutal

00:08:58.500 then there were follow-up stories saying like oh he wasn't really fired oh no he's a misunderstanding

00:09:04.220 and everyone was like what's really happening here then Helen Mirren came out on Instagram

00:09:09.120 with a supporting post about Tom Hardy that she really loves him and everyone's like

00:09:15.000 what's really going on here and now i'm wondering who planted those rumors to begin with because now

00:09:22.460 the red carpet everyone just loved each other so much there were group hugs they were just praising

00:09:30.320 each other and i'm like okay we've seen this before this is crisis pr this is what they're

00:09:38.520 supposed to do to make us forget about all the controversies and all the rumors because what i

00:09:45.260 believe happened here is that the show maybe have underestimated the popularity of tom hardy

00:09:51.000 and when he got fired or when he was reprimanded or whatever they did not foresee that people

00:09:59.880 would get so upset about it and then they were like oh we need to save this show and tom hardy

00:10:06.060 is this show this show will not survive with Helen Mirren and Pierce Brosnan although they're big names

00:10:12.620 but people watch this show but people watch this show mainly because of Tom Hardy so we need to

00:10:18.940 bring him back and then we have to pretend like nothing happened and that's exactly what they did

00:10:24.380 on this red carpet there was no firing there was no walking away and there was no arguments

00:10:31.460 in that aspect so it's just a little bit i could just get my head down and wait to carry on talking

00:10:36.640 to the grown-ups well you know my reaction to that we're professionals we get on with it we

00:10:42.100 love each other we support each other we love the show we want the show to to be its very best and

00:10:48.120 we want everything um you know we want everything that will make it be the very best oh i love the

00:10:54.020 man i love the man i mean honestly god i really i've watched this fellow work forever and it's

00:10:59.620 just so captivating spellbinding sharp as a knife lethal uh it was a bit of a storm in a teacup

00:11:06.500 yes it was just a storm in a teacup according to pierce brosnan and yeah they all love each other

00:11:13.380 so much it really reminded me of the stranger things red carpet remember that we had just

00:11:20.360 learned that Billy Bobby Brown had filed a complaint against David Harbour, her co-star

00:11:29.320 in Stranger Things. And she accused him of serious things like bullying and harassment.

00:11:35.400 And we also learned that it triggered an internal investigation. And this news just leaked right

00:11:42.880 before the final season premiere of the show. And everyone was like, what's going to happen now?

00:11:48.620 who's gonna be there how are they gonna react and no one was really commenting on any of this

00:11:54.140 and then the big day was there and guess who showed up laughing together hugging and being

00:12:01.380 best friends millie bobby brown and david harbour yeah as i said this is a hollywood crisis pr

00:12:09.400 in the works we've seen how they work behind the scenes now so we know exactly what's going on here

00:12:16.180 These are examples of what Blake Lively should have done on It Ends With Us.

00:12:20.640 She should have just showed up, smiled at the red carpet next to Justin Baldoni,

00:12:26.520 and then the public story would have been like,

00:12:28.440 oh, there were some creative differences on the set,

00:12:31.300 but we're all good friends and we're all ready to move forward now. 0.82

00:12:35.680 But instead, she filed this lawsuit and ruined her own career,

00:12:40.140 her husband's career, Justin Baldoni's career, Jamie Heath's career,

00:12:43.720 and put a lot of other people in a terrible, terrible spot.

00:12:47.140 So I'm guessing she's like the horror story in Hollywood now.

00:12:50.300 Like, do you want to get blaked or do you want to listen to Crisis PR?

00:12:55.540 And I'm guessing most people would say,

00:12:57.620 yeah, I want to listen to what Crisis PR tells me to do

00:13:01.460 so I don't end up like Blake Lively or Ryan Reynolds.

00:13:04.600 Yeah, they all understand that there is no actual winner ever in these type of conflicts.

00:13:11.240 Everybody gets dirty.

00:13:12.900 anyways talking about dirty let's get into this sydney sweeney campaign when it showed up on my 1.00

00:13:18.620 instagram feed i was like okay another ad with sydney sweeney getting her clothes off but this

00:13:23.160 time people are less forgiving than ever i mean sydney is no stranger to controversies yeah you

00:13:30.340 might remember her jeans commercial last year for american eagle sydney sweeney has great jeans

00:13:37.000 yeah it did not land well with a lot of people and she received a lot of criticism for it then 0.99

00:13:43.720 she was selling her bath water she apparently puts part of her dirty bath water into soaps 0.99

00:13:52.380 and she sold it as men's natural soap so men could clean themselves with her dirty soap water from 1.00

00:14:00.000 the bathtub and then she launched her own lingerie siren where she's obviously also just wearing

00:14:08.000 underwear saying that you wear this for you it's not for anyone else and here I am in the kitchen

00:14:15.380 being the perfect trad wife just waiting for my husband to come home and I'm just here for his

00:14:21.900 pleasure anyways that's how I read it you might read it differently some people or some women 0.99

00:14:27.100 even would call it empowering I don't but anyways I don't know how much underwear she's selling to

00:14:32.260 women because when you read the comments on all those ads that she's doing it's only men commenting 1.00

00:14:37.380 on them and they're just like applauding it because they find her very sexy but if she's 0.99

00:14:41.600 selling a lot of underwear to women or if that's even her goal here maybe she wants to sell 1.00

00:14:45.540 underwear to men who can give it as gifts to their wives or I don't know we don't know how 1.00

00:14:52.300 much she actually sold. Her company said they sold out instantly, but it's a private company. So none

00:14:57.680 of this information is actually public. But anyways, her news campaign is what really made people 0.99

00:15:04.100 furious. So if you missed this, she dressed down to absolutely nothing and covered up her body 1.00

00:15:12.680 with different sport equipments, mostly balls and a racket. But anyways, it's not about her being 1.00

00:15:19.580 nude here it's about what she's trying to sell us she is getting nude because she wants to sell 0.98

00:15:25.920 us a sports betting app and that's what people really have a problem with and now she's responded 0.98

00:15:33.900 to this backlash and this made me laugh so hard it is just so dumb i don't know it says in the 0.81

00:15:42.900 daily mail that sydney sweeney responds to backlash over nude sports betting ad by sharing photos 0.92

00:15:48.380 of naked athletes so they've interviewed the ceo of novig which is the name of this sports betting

00:15:57.420 app here and he said to the daily mail that it was sweeney's own idea to get nude for the campaign

00:16:05.120 for a very surprising reason let's hear what that surprising reason is here we go sweeney was

00:16:12.540 allegedly drawn to the platform because it's focused strictly on sports predictions whereas

00:16:18.960 other platforms allow users to make predictions on almost anything and here is a quote from Sydney

00:16:26.860 herself saying I'm uncomfortable with other platforms that have markets on what color

00:16:32.220 underwear I'm going to wear there's something clean about sports everything about that quote

00:16:41.260 makes me laugh first of all i mean she's out there in her underwear her all entire instagram is just 0.92

00:16:48.460 her in her underwear basically so i don't understand why people would bet on what she's

00:16:53.840 wearing and how they would find out but she's trying to say that she feels that that is invasive

00:16:59.260 or something and then she says there's something clean about sports uh she's not selling sports

00:17:07.980 here she's selling a betting app she's advertising gambling she's trying to lure men let's face it

00:17:16.020 men onto this gambling app to spend money on gambling so what is clean about that sports

00:17:25.280 represents discipline teamwork achievements sports betting represents a company making money

00:17:32.580 on people gambling away their money and even a sports event itself is not always clean let's

00:17:40.180 face it there's so much corruption going on in sports these days so to say that sports is so

00:17:46.940 clean and then try to get people to get into gambling I mean I'm sorry and we also have to

00:17:52.800 mention that Sydney Sweeney has an equity stake in Novig as well so it's not like she's just doing

00:17:59.220 this ad for them she's an investor in this company as well so she will make money on the people who

00:18:05.920 actually use this gambling app and loses their money because let's face it they only make money 0.97

00:18:10.560 when people lose money so sydney is trying to trick people into losing money so that she can

00:18:15.800 make some more money and then we get to this which i also find very interesting about the sydney

00:18:20.500 sweeney brand or the sydney sweeney product of it all as you know she's dating scooter brawn now

00:18:27.300 and apparently he's come out and said he wants to marry her

00:18:32.240 and he sees her as the modern Marilyn Monroe.

00:18:36.880 And the fact that he compared her to Marilyn Monroe tells me a lot.

00:18:42.080 How many powerful men in Hollywood profited from selling the image of Marilyn Monroe?

00:18:48.500 She was used and abused by that system and she did not like it. 1.00

00:18:54.820 But Marilyn finally found her power, and that is when she walked away from that system. 0.91

00:19:00.280 That is when she created Marilyn Monroe Productions. 0.99

00:19:04.420 So her power was when she got rebellious towards that system. 1.00

00:19:09.120 Marilyn Monroe's empowerment was not to get undressed. 1.00

00:19:13.560 It was fighting the men who believed that getting undressed was all she was worth.

00:19:18.740 So for Scooter Braun to say that Sidney Sweeney is the modern version of Marilyn Monroe,

00:19:23.260 while he is trying to control her career behind the scenes.

00:19:28.920 Because according to sources, Scooter Braun was pulling some strings here

00:19:33.560 for Sidney Sweeney to get another agent at CAA.

00:19:38.600 So according to Puck News, he set up a meeting

00:19:41.980 between Sidney Sweeney and Kevin Huvane at CAA.

00:19:46.560 He's a very, very powerful mogul over there.

00:19:50.180 And she left her old PR company that she worked with, I think, for over a decade.

00:19:57.080 Imprint PR that she used to be with.

00:20:00.100 They did a few attempts to change her image. 0.74

00:20:04.580 They wanted her to move away from what she's representing right now.

00:20:09.020 So it says here that they sent her to the Variety Women in Power luncheon last year,

00:20:15.420 trying to, like, empower her image as being a powerful woman.

00:20:18.800 and she showed up in a see-through dress 0.99

00:20:21.440 and she was posing next to all these other women

00:20:23.740 who were there really elegantly dressed

00:20:25.660 and it looked really off.

00:20:26.920 So now it looks like Scooter Braun has stepped in here 0.94

00:20:29.280 to make sure that she can keep on doing 1.00

00:20:31.260 what she's doing right now.

00:20:32.840 So yeah, it looks like Scooter Braun

00:20:34.200 knows what he's doing here,

00:20:36.000 getting full control over his girlfriend's career.

00:20:39.280 Anyways, getting back to Sydney Sweeney's response 0.89

00:20:42.540 to the criticism of these ads.

00:20:46.100 If you go to our Instagram,

00:20:47.660 You can read the comment section there.

00:20:49.520 People are really, really furious about this.

00:20:51.660 And she responded by posting nude photos of athletes, amongst them Serena Williams, Megan Rapinoe, and other athletes from ESPN's Body Issue.

00:21:03.140 And by doing that, she obviously completely misses the points of why people are criticizing her.

00:21:10.260 These athletes showed off their bodies to celebrate the achievements and what their bodies actually could do. 0.50

00:21:17.160 these strong bodies that achieve extraordinary things their bodies where they're focused well 0.98

00:21:23.560 sydney is using her body to bait people into gambling yeah terrible terrible response from 1.00

00:21:29.940 sydney sweeney there and also a lot of women in sports are furious about this saying that the

00:21:34.460 campaign is regressive and disrespectful and they and that they fought for decades to be taken

00:21:40.000 seriously in sports and here sydney sweeney pretends that this has anything to do with sports

00:21:45.980 whatsoever and it doesn't anyways that's it for me today you guys i hope you enjoyed this episode

00:22:05.860 thank you so much for watching and thanks for all your support and thanks for all your tips

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - September 15, 2026

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