Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - March 13, 2026


Judge RULES Against Blake !! Zendaya FEUD !!

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Kjersti Flaa
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Blake Lively Justin Baldoni Ryan Reynolds Zendaya Ashley Avignon Taylor Swift Van Zandt Sidney Sweeney Tom Holland Stephanie Jones Jennifer Abel Leslie Sloan Jacob Elordi Justin Bologna Mike Gottlieb Colin Hoover Jamie Heath Wayfair Jane
LOSING IN HOLLYWOOD !! NYT Trashing Blake？ Taylor being Attacked !？ Judge had ENOUGH !! SLAMS Blake !! + Hollywood Face-Off ？!

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The judge has ruled in favor of the Wayfair parties and what it could mean for the future of Blake Lively's case before the trial starts. The internet is speculating like crazy. Let s look into Blake's deposition and how she really sold out Stephanie Jones, the person who gave her Jennifer Abel s phone with all those text messages that ended up in the New York Times, Colin Hoover s new movie Reminders of Him is being trashed by critics, and more people are feuding in Hollywood.

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00:00:00.000 The internet is speculating like crazy.
00:00:07.720 Hi and welcome to Flossome Talk, I'm Tashdi Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller
00:00:11.920 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:16.400 So the judge has ruled in favor of the Wayfair parties.
00:00:21.440 Let's look into his latest ruling and what it could actually mean for the future of Blake's case
00:00:27.300 before the trial starts.
00:00:30.000 The internet is speculating like crazy.
00:00:33.080 And Blake Lively posted on Instagram story,
00:00:36.680 she wants us to know that she still has friends.
00:00:40.560 And Ryan Reynolds also posted on his story,
00:00:43.080 a photo of himself and his beloved wife.
00:00:45.980 The photo is really old though.
00:00:48.680 So what does that really mean?
00:00:50.300 Let's also look at Blake's deposition
00:00:52.120 and how she really sold out Stephanie Jones, 0.97
00:00:56.100 the person who gave her Jennifer Abel's phone with all those text messages that ended up in
00:01:02.900 the New York Times this is really terrible and Colin Hoover's new movie Reminders of Him is being
00:01:09.580 trashed by critics and more people are feuding in Hollywood let's look into what's happening
00:01:15.540 with Zendaya and Sidney Sweeney and will people not show up for the Oscars on Sunday
00:01:23.380 Are they too afraid that something really terrible might happen?
00:01:27.680 Okay, so let's get into it.
00:01:29.120 So the judge just ruled on a letter that Baldoni's team sent him a couple of days ago.
00:01:34.540 I mentioned it yesterday.
00:01:36.100 So before the trial, both parties has to file pre-trial evidence and testimonies and everything
00:01:43.440 that they want to use at trial.
00:01:45.420 And Baldoni's team were asking the judge for a little favor.
00:01:48.540 They're saying, hey, you're going to rule on the summary judgment and on the motion for judgment on the pleadings, meaning that he might likely toss out a lot of Blake's claim before they go to trial.
00:02:02.340 So why would Baldoni's team spend all this time and energy preparing for all these claims when maybe half of them will be tossed out?
00:02:10.480 So they asked the judge, hey, can you give us a deadline so that we can wait until after you
00:02:15.960 ruled on all of that so we don't have to do all this extra work? And Blake's team was like, no,
00:02:20.960 we don't want them to have that. I don't know really the reason for that. Maybe they think
00:02:25.800 that the trial will be delayed or maybe they just don't want to cooperate. Anyways, the judge
00:02:30.820 responded and said, yes, but you're only going to get one more week. The deadline was supposed to be
00:02:37.340 on April 3rd and now it is on April 10th. And that means that he is probably about to rule
00:02:43.980 pretty soon on everything that Justin Bologna's team wants tossed out, which is basically
00:02:49.160 everything. A lot of people on Reddit are speculating if he is about to rule on this
00:02:55.060 today or maybe tomorrow. It's going to be really interesting to see what he allows her to keep for
00:03:03.240 this trial and as many people also pointed out so far is that the best thing that could happen
00:03:09.200 for Blake Lively is if he tosses out her entire case because then she can still move on and say
00:03:16.740 hey I was a victim it's the system everything is rigged and then also she doesn't have to show up
00:03:22.940 in court trying to convince a jury with her very very very weak claims and as I mentioned before 0.97
00:03:30.860 when she's sitting there in front of a jury having to testify about these things, the lawyers will 0.97
00:03:37.000 ask her extremely uncomfortable questions. And there is a risk that a lot of personal information
00:03:43.760 that she doesn't want to be out there will be out there. And I'm sure Ryan Reynolds is not very keen
00:03:50.380 on that happening either. So I agree with these people saying that the best thing that could
00:03:55.520 happen for Blake right now is if the judge just tosses her whole case out. I have no idea what's 0.64
00:04:01.480 going to happen. These are just speculations. Anyways, this reminded me of what Blake Lively
00:04:06.620 did back in June. Remember she abandoned her claims of infliction of emotional distress
00:04:13.780 against Baldoni? So she was claiming that she had all this emotional distress, obviously,
00:04:19.480 which is something that happens to you when you are traumatized by someone treating you so horribly.
00:04:25.020 But then when she had to prove that she had this distress by sharing her medical records, she refused to do that.
00:04:34.300 So instead of letting them see her medical records, when she talked to a psychiatrist or a therapist about everything that happened to her on this set, which probably didn't happen, she said, no, no, no, I'd rather just drop those claims.
00:04:49.640 For me, from my logical point of view, I feel like it's really weird to continue having claims of S.H. when you at the same time say that it didn't cause you any emotional distress.
00:05:04.000 What are we going to trial for then? I don't get it.
00:05:07.140 Variety covered this back in June where they said Blake Lively is attempting to withdraw her claims against Justin of infection of emotional distress and negligent infliction of emotional distress.
00:05:19.240 The move comes after Baldoni's legal team sought discovery that included her medical records in their efforts to defend the Danswitha's director against her claims that she suffered several emotional distress and pain, humiliation, embarrassment, belittlement, frustration, and mental anguish.
00:05:37.300 And then the Wayfair party said, okay, if you want to withdraw these claims, they need to be with prejudice, meaning that you cannot bring them up again later.
00:05:44.660 And of course, Lively's team were arguing against that.
00:05:49.240 And Mike Gottlieb, her attorney, came out to Variety and called this whole thing a press stunt from Baldoni's team.
00:05:57.140 Have we heard that a few times already?
00:05:59.040 It says here in the article that it's standard procedure in cases alleging physical or emotional injury for the defense to access the plaintiff's medical records that will shine a light on the root and scope of alleged distress.
00:06:13.120 I mean, otherwise, how is she going to have any evidence that she felt distressed about the situation?
00:06:18.260 and we know her husband Ryan isn't even a witness here.
00:06:22.780 So how is she going to prove any of this?
00:06:25.360 They said here that what is unusual is for a plaintiff to abandon the claims midstream
00:06:30.900 given that it's well known heading into such a lawsuit
00:06:34.440 that medical records will be an unpleasant but inevitable part of the discovery process.
00:06:40.020 So I keep thinking what on earth was Blake Lively thinking when she filed this lawsuit
00:06:44.780 when she didn't want to show any evidence
00:06:47.340 And we know that she wanted to keep everything sealed from you guys
00:06:51.340 and from me and from the public in general
00:06:53.660 when she filed all the evidence that we've now seen.
00:06:57.460 And of course, now that we've seen her evidence,
00:07:00.120 we understand why she didn't want this to be public.
00:07:03.200 What's there only puts her in a bad light.
00:07:06.340 And it makes it really hard for anyone to believe
00:07:08.440 that she is the actual victim in this story.
00:07:11.560 Anyways, as I just said, she posted an Instagram story yesterday.
00:07:15.940 She hasn't done that in a while, apart from when she went to the soccer match with her
00:07:20.820 husband and they shared a passionate kiss in front of all these people.
00:07:26.340 And of course, it ended up in all the media outlets.
00:07:29.020 Anyways, now that she has convinced us that her and Ryan are going strong, she posted
00:07:35.060 this photo of a guy.
00:07:37.340 I think he owns a chocolaterie or something like that.
00:07:40.620 And they're really good friends.
00:07:42.260 and she says I love you at Cedric Grolet but oh I may love your new chocolate even more
00:07:49.480 if even possible my fellow my fellow Virgo detailed perfectionist magical wonka friend
00:07:56.580 also please a shop in New York begging yes Blake Lively wants us to believe that she has a lot of
00:08:04.380 friends although none of her real friends are really there to support her anymore but she has
00:08:10.620 people like this that runs businesses that she takes photos with she's done that a lot actually 0.99
00:08:15.400 her husband on the other hand posted this photo on his instagram story like how old is this photo
00:08:23.360 they look so much younger he probably didn't have a new photo of the two of them together so he just
00:08:29.640 found an old one because maybe his pr management team told him like hey you need to let the world
00:08:35.740 know that you and Blake are going strong so you kissed last week at the soccer match then keep
00:08:40.920 posting a few more stories about how much you love your wife and he's like okay I just have this photo
00:08:45.760 and he just posted this but it's clear that this photo is really old so does that mean that Ryan
00:08:51.000 doesn't have any new pictures with his wife do they spend any time together at all I mean all
00:08:56.400 the photos that he's posting are from the UK mainly so now he's trying to convince everyone
00:09:01.220 that he really cares about his wife even though he wasn't there for her at the most important time
00:09:06.240 so far in this case when they had that settlement meeting in court a couple of weeks ago. As you
00:09:12.920 know Blake arrived solo while the others Jamie Heath and Justin Baldoni came with their wives.
00:09:20.200 Anyways I wanted to read a short thing from Blake Lively's deposition. As you know so far
00:09:24.580 It was a huge scandal in this case when it became public knowledge that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds used a sham lawsuit to send a subpoena to Stephanie Jones to get hold of Jennifer Abel's phone, her ex-employee, so that Blake could get that phone, get those text messages and give it to the New York Times.
00:09:46.360 Here's something interesting. Blake was asked about this in her deposition.
00:09:50.320 Baldoni's team is asking her, did Leslie Sloan call you and tell you that she received information
00:09:55.900 from Stephanie Jones about a smear campaign or something similar to that?
00:10:01.000 She did not, Blake says. Did you learn from Leslie Sloan that there were text messages
00:10:05.860 in Jen Abel's phone? No. Who did you learn that from?
00:10:11.160 from Ashley Avignon. Ashley Avignon is a stylist, a friend of Taylor Swift. I spoke about that the
00:10:19.680 other day. So Taylor Swift was the go-between here who put Ashley in touch with Blake. Here,
00:10:26.980 Blake is claiming that they are friends because he's asking, who is that? And she says,
00:10:32.520 she's a friend of mine. I guess they became friends after this. There's a lot of photos
00:10:37.460 of Ashley together with Taylor Swift online so they've been friends for a long time I don't know
00:10:44.580 if Blake knew her very well beforehand or not and but the attorney here is continuing asking
00:10:50.000 and what did she tell you she said that a woman that she knows named Stephanie Jones was trying 0.98
00:10:57.140 to get in touch with me she gave me more details when did she tell you that late August of 2024
00:11:05.240 and did she tell you that in writing or on the phone on the phone and what else did she tell you
00:11:13.540 she told me that she works with a woman and then it cuts off unfortunately I wanted to see what she 1.00
00:11:19.440 could see and say more about this but what's interesting here is Blake said that this phone
00:11:23.920 call happened in late August and this stylist called her to tell her we have this phone and
00:11:31.300 there are text messages on this phone that you should probably see unless they're trying to get
00:11:37.780 away with an explanation saying that we have this phone we don't know what's on it yet but it maybe
00:11:44.520 it could help you to me this just says one thing and that is that stephanie jones went into her 0.99
00:11:51.380 ex-employee's phone without permission found these text messages and alerted ashley her friend
00:11:59.700 who alerted Taylor Swift who alerted Blake Lively that Ashley wanted to talk to her and then they
00:12:06.060 started talking the subpoena that was sent from Blake Lively's company Van Zand was not sent to
00:12:14.300 Stephanie Jones until September 27th that means that there was one month in between there and if
00:12:23.940 you're trying to tell me that Blake Lively did not look at the content of that phone before she
00:12:31.620 sent that subpoena out I believe that Blake was already in touch with the New York Times at this
00:12:38.260 point and that they're the ones who told her we can't use these text messages unless you get them
00:12:45.180 to us legally and that's when Blake went to her legal team at Manat Phelps and Phillips one of
00:12:51.780 the law firms that she's using in this case as well, and asked them to file a lawsuit against 1.00
00:12:59.460 10 unnamed people. And in this lawsuit, she's claiming on behalf of Van Zandt, this company
00:13:08.120 that she owns with Reynolds that has nothing to do with it, ends with us. She's claiming that
00:13:15.100 these does Jane and Joe does have harmed Van Zand's business and reputation but she did not specify
00:13:24.520 what they did wrong so she filed a lawsuit on behalf of Van Zand claiming that Van Zand was
00:13:32.240 the one being harmed and that is one of the reasons why a lot of lawyers reacted to this
00:13:38.080 and called it a sham lawsuit.
00:13:40.420 So yes, the fact that Blake admitted in her deposition
00:13:45.600 that she was contacted a month before
00:13:49.220 this subpoena was filed to get these text messages legally,
00:13:54.220 I think is really terrible for Stephanie Jones.
00:13:58.200 Because that also means, of course, that she went into this phone
00:14:02.000 and she already found these text messages.
00:14:04.760 And that's why she wanted to get in bed with the enemy.
00:14:08.520 Because remember, Stephanie Jones was representing Justin Baldoni to begin with.
00:14:13.760 And then she decided to jump ship just to get revenge on her ex-employee who wanted to leave her and start her own company. 1.00
00:14:22.500 And as I said before, if it wasn't for Stephanie Jones, none of this would have happened.
00:14:27.020 Because then those text messages would never have been out there.
00:14:30.760 and blake lively and new york times would never have been able to have any evidence evidence
00:14:37.260 against justin baldoni okay so let's talk about colleen hoover's new movie reminders of him
00:14:43.580 it's not getting very good reviews deadline is saying reminders of him logic flies out the
00:14:50.060 window again in the latest ludicrous colleen hoover adaptation she's been promoting this
00:14:57.500 movie in a very different way she hasn't had really a big premiere they've been just traveling
00:15:02.460 around in different cities showing up at screenings and stuff like that I believe that she doesn't
00:15:08.240 really want to do a lot of interviews for this she just wants to appear at different places for her 1.00
00:15:13.240 fans because obviously she's also afraid that people are going to ask her more questions about
00:15:17.960 it ends with us they completely trash the plot and they say there's so many things that doesn't
00:15:22.160 make any sense in this movie and they end it with it all adds up to a lot of ridiculously
00:15:28.320 lovey-dovey hokum that might be endearing if it weren't so gloomy culmination in a perversely
00:15:35.300 chirpy ending that seems to ask hey who was the real victim of this perfectly avoidable
00:15:42.060 fatal drink drive incidents if there's one takeaway though it's never to listen to cold
00:15:48.400 play while driving around country roads after dark just be safe though maybe never listen to
00:15:54.520 cold play at any hour of the day for that matter even at all i don't know what that means about
00:15:59.960 the cold play reference here but anyways they do not like the movie a lot of people don't like this
00:16:05.280 movie i haven't seen it yet i don't think i will see it i didn't watch regretting you either which
00:16:10.780 got terrible reviews as well but i guess a lot of people like her books so maybe people will go to
00:16:17.120 watch it who knows okay as i mentioned a lot of people are scared of going to the oscars
00:16:22.380 on sunday because there have been some serious threats to california where i am also sitting
00:16:28.860 right now um it says in the daily mail that oscar bosses ramp up security uh with bomb sniffing dogs
00:16:37.400 and drones amid reports of iran retaliatory strikes i admit that i would be worried if i
00:16:44.420 was going to the oscars this year because there's a lot of people in one theater and a lot of
00:16:49.860 influential people and if someone were to hit something like that that would be really
00:16:55.900 catastrophic and would get a lot of attention it says here that security measures are being ramped
00:17:02.320 up and while officials stress they do not have direct information about a threat they are taking
00:17:08.100 precautions ahead of sunday's academy awards at the dolby theater in hollywood the lapd confirmed
00:17:15.200 around a thousand private security officers will be on duty yeah let's hope nothing happens at the
00:17:21.600 oscars that would just be terrible terrible for everyone anyways there is a story now that's kind
00:17:29.660 of getting more and more legs and that's the feud between sydney sweeney and zendaya daily mail did 0.99
00:17:37.600 another story on this saying Sidney Sweeney is left out of Euphoria group photo after Zendaya
00:17:43.800 refused to stand next to her and made bitter feuds. So what happened between these two actresses? 1.00
00:17:52.420 I'm not sure. It says here that it is political. We know that they have very different opinions in
00:17:58.980 that department, but I believe that there's something a little more personal behind it.
00:18:03.620 I think most of these people are used to being professional and, you know, you have to work
00:18:08.980 with someone for a really, really long time if you are on a TV show like Euphoria, when
00:18:14.940 there's new seasons coming out all the time.
00:18:17.380 Can you imagine if you really don't get along with someone that must that must be just terrible?
00:18:22.440 I think everyone's been in a situation where they can't stand one of their co-workers.
00:18:26.700 And I feel for both of them that if that is the case here and they just have to continue
00:18:32.700 to work together and also continue to do promotion for this tv show but now apparently
00:18:40.060 sydney sweeney was not invited to this group photo with zendaya daily mail said that we also reported
00:18:47.020 that the reason why they were refusing to stand near each other at events was because of their
00:18:52.400 political views and now in the teaser of the third season of euphoria sydney is missing from the group
00:18:57.740 shot at the start. While fans are undoubtedly overjoyed to see the return of the controversial
00:19:03.680 series, some viewers have been left outraged to see the character of Cassie, played by Sydney
00:19:09.940 Sweeney, now working as an OnlyFans model. Okay, so there's more things to be upset about here.
00:19:16.180 Some people are complaining about over-sexualizing the female characters of the show. There's a
00:19:23.140 source here saying that they all need to grow up and put aside their petty differences they're not
00:19:29.220 there right now and it's really hard to see how they're and it's really hard to see how they're
00:19:34.340 going to get there the source also shared that the challenger star doesn't care if she has a 0.83
00:19:40.040 working relationship with jacob alordi or sydney sweeney she's ready to wash her hands of both of
00:19:46.520 them completely the source included the source concluded so zendaya is not a fan of jacob
00:19:52.700 or lordy either apparently and here is another story about that from reality t i don't know how
00:19:58.920 trustworthy that source is but anyways it says here that source claims that zendaya sydney sweeney
00:20:04.220 and jacob or lordy can't stand each other so maybe sydney sweeney can't stand jacob or lordy either 1.00
00:20:09.860 i don't know i thought there were rumors that they had a thing once i don't know according to
00:20:15.120 the star magazines and daya has been feuding with her co-star sydney and jacob and insider
00:20:21.160 claimed season three of euphoria kept its lead as siloed into themselves as humanly possible
00:20:28.040 they further added that the dune star storyline doesn't cross over substantially with her co-star
00:20:34.380 with her co-actors however the trio are going to have to find some kind of peace
00:20:39.560 even a temporary one so this is from December last year this quote here of this source talking
00:20:46.180 about it and the source said then that um because promoting this series is going to be so much more
00:20:51.940 powerful if they're able to do the magazine covers and television appearances as a group
00:20:56.880 apparently they are not able to do that it says here for one thing these are three of the most
00:21:01.680 heavily scheduled actors in Hollywood uh they mentioned how Zendaya needs to plan her wedding 0.94
00:21:06.760 to Tom Holland while managing her back-to-back movie project. I think it was last week that
00:21:12.060 Zendaya, I think it was her stylist or makeup artist, slipped to a reporter on the red carpet 0.51
00:21:18.020 that her and Tom Holland actually married already. They just had a small ceremony. I don't know if
00:21:24.320 that's true or not, but I do know that I have a good feeling about Zendaya. I don't know what it
00:21:30.140 is about her. I just feel like she has this energy that I really like. I just met her once in an
00:21:34.900 event, but I just feel like she carries herself really well and she's well-spoken and she seems
00:21:40.200 like a reflective person. I've never met Sydney Sweeney, but I think some of her choices hasn't
00:21:45.800 probably been the best so far in her career. Jacob Olurdi, I haven't interviewed him. I met him
00:21:52.460 on a few parties earlier this season and he's very tall, so he stands out. But I have to say,
00:21:58.620 I don't get it with him why people think he's so hot. I just don't find him very attractive,
00:22:04.000 but maybe it's me I'm too old for him anyways but who knows what happens between these three people
00:22:08.540 I do know though that I really like Tom Holland I've interviewed him a few times and he is just
00:22:13.720 such a sweet guy and I feel like he's so down to earth and he has real values and he's not out
00:22:19.780 there to get attention and neither is Zendaya they're just doing their job and then they keep
00:22:24.540 low profile while these other two are maybe more out there I'm not going to speculate anymore I
00:22:30.320 don't know these people personally and i have no idea what happened here but obviously something
00:22:34.560 is off and maybe we'll find out more i will keep you posted if i learn anything more about this
00:22:40.300 situation and if there's anything more behind this than sydney sweeney's political views
00:22:46.020 clashing with zendaya's political views but where does a lord is done in all of this
00:22:51.620 anyways that's it for me guys thank you so much for watching i really really appreciate all your
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