NOT INVITED !! Every Door Closed !!
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Summary
Blake Lively was invited to the Louis Vuitton Cruise 2027 show, but guess who was not invited? Blake Lively. And now Fendi is paying the price for inviting her. Also, an interesting expose about Ryan Reynolds and how he hijacked the Me Too movement.
Transcript
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tashli Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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So yesterday was one of the big fashion events of the year in New York City.
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Louis Vuitton invited all the A-listers and fashionistas to enjoy the Louis Vuitton Cruise
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2027 show. But guess who was not invited? Blake Lively. Although all her besties were there,
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she was nowhere to be seen. But as you know, she went to the Fendi store the night before
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with all the Nipo babies, all the children of the A-listers who did not show up themselves.
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And now Fendi is paying the price for inviting Blake Lively.
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And there's more reports on how much money Blake Lively's brands actually lost.
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Now some of these investors are desperately trying to sell their part of the business,
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Also, a very interesting expose about Ryan Reynolds again and how he used Ezra Hudson,
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One of Blake Lively's main attorneys to hijack the Me Too movement.
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Yesterday, there was a big event, big fashion event in New York City,
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Everyone from Emma Stone, Cate Blanchett, Amy Adams, Alicia Vikander,
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Jennifer Connelly, Zendaya, Chloe Sevigny, and Anne Hathaway.
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Blake Lively's new friend from the Met Gala. Remember, she's the only celebrity who actually
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took a photo with Blake Lively at the Met Gala. And also Blake's dear friend, Emily Blunt, who was
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also on her witness list. On top of that, one of her main supporters, Anna Winter, was there. She
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was, of course, on the first row sitting next to Anne Hathaway. But Blake Lively was not there. She
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was obviously not invited. Smart move from Louis Vuitton, I have to say, after seeing what happened
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to Fendi yesterday, because they invited Blake Lively to their store in New York to celebrate
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the baguette bag or something like that. And Blake Lively showed up and took photos outside
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with fads or whatever. And some people noticed that Fendi only showed photos on their Instagram
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of other celebrities who were there, amongst them Olivia Wilde, or the only one, I would say,
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Olivia Wilde. Otherwise, as I said, there were only children of celebrities who actually showed
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up, or Nepo Baby, as some people call them. Blake Lively's photo was not there. And you can see in
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the comment section, people were like, smart choice to not put Blake Lively on your Instagram,
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but also such cowards. Why did you invite her in the first place? There was a lot of people
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in the comment section asking about this. So four hours later, Fendi created a new post
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with Blake Lively. Such a stupid move. And of course, that post is now flooded with negativity
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towards the brand. Why would anyone want to connect themselves to a toxic brand like Blake
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Lively right now? It really baffles me to understand. Are they that desperate to get
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attention around the baguette bag or around this store in New York that they would go to the level
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of inviting the most toxic person in Hollywood right now. Yeah, try to make sense of that. As I
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said, it totally backfired on Fendi and now people are like, why would I support a brand who is
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supporting bullies? Anyways, before I get into this expose about Ryan Reynolds here, I wanted to show
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this video that Chloe sent me thank you I'd not seen this interview with Ryan before he is asked
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by this reporter how his characters in movies and the characters that we got to know as Ryan Reynolds
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how they are different from who he is in real life or if it is actually the same person
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and he responds like this not at all because that sort of persona or whatever it is that you might
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be expressing right now is just a sort of a, an advanced and somewhat adaptive, uh, self, you
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know, uh, self-defense mechanism. Really. It's not, uh, it's not the real actual me. I mean,
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if my wife was sitting here, she would laugh because in real life, I'm much more shy and
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much more introverted. And, um, you know, I'm a bit of a hermit, you know, I'll stay in if,
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as long as I'll, they'll let me stay in. Um, so no, there, there's no confusion there at all.
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Yes, as you probably remember, Blake Lively also admitted at the Met Gala that she's really shy.
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And now Ryan Reynolds is also really shy and very introvert.
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I mean, those are the last words I would use to describe Ryan Reynolds.
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Yeah, I think him and Blake are just adding these traits to themselves to come off as more likable.
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I don't think Ryan Reynolds is shy for a second and neither is Blake Wively showing up at the
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Met Gala in my dress and then she's like I'm so shy that I had to carry this bag with me
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with my children's paintings on them because that helps me. That's so dumb. Anyways let's look into
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this expose who Eumonia Dyke, I don't know if that's her real name or not, I'm sorry if I
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mispronounced it, she did some really fascinating deep dives into Ryan Reynolds before and this
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This one, thank you, Erica, for sending it to me, is pretty revealing and so interesting.
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So she's pointing out here one thing that I wanted to go through because this article
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So for everyone who's more interested in this, you should really read the entire piece.
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So just so you know, but I'll leave a link below so you can find her easily.
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Anyways, what I found really interesting here, which I didn't really think about before,
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She's explaining here how Ryan Reynolds and his lawyer hijacked the Me Too movement to
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As you know, one of Blake Lively's main attorneys, Ezra Hudson, has been kind of quiet in the
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background, but we know that she is one of those two main lawyers.
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But Ezra Hudson has signed all the statements from Blake Lively.
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And as I spoke about the other day, there's a post on there.
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There was a post on their LinkedIn page celebrating Ezra Hudson's win or victory in this case.
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They said that she was a part of negotiating this victory for Blake Lively when she received zero money and withdrew all her last three claims.
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Anyway, so this is really interesting because as Eumonia here is saying, is that Ryan Reynolds
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got in touch with Ezra Hudson because he knew that she knew California housing and employment
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In this article, she explains how Ezra Hudson knew how to use section 47.1 strategically.
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47.1 is the law that all these lawyers keep talking about all the time which is basically
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the me too law. That is the law that prevents people from suing you back if you sue someone
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first for SH. So that law is made to protect victims so they can actually stand up for
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themselves and sue someone for a toxic work environment or for speaking up about SH in
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the workplace. As you know, Justin Baldoni's lawsuit against Blake, Ryan and Leslie Sloan was
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dismissed. And here this journalist is suggesting that Ryan Reynolds knew about this law, how it was
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in the works. Remember that 17-point list that Blake pushed the Wayfair parties to sign for her
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to return to work? Well, they sent that list of 17 points already in November of 2023. That was
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before this law was finalized. It was finalized in the beginning of January 2024. And this
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journalist is saying that Ezra Hudson recognized that problem, that they needed this 17 point list
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to be signed after that law was finalized in California. And that's why they had this extra
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meeting on January 4th in the penthouse. And that's why they waited even to get the Wayfair
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parties to sign this legally. And as you know, that 17-point list, that was made by Blake Lively's
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attorneys. Or Ezra Hudson, as I now believe, was the person also behind that list. Because they
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knew that whatever they did to Justin Baldoni, if they got them to sign this list, then they were
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safe, then they had this shield that he could never come after them. And she's saying here that
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this is exactly what Ryan Reynolds did, and that's why he used Ezra Hudson. She also claims here that
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Hudson encouraged amicus briefs and public advocacy framing Baldoni as another example of a powerful
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man retaliating against a woman who spoke out. Remember that Blake Lively received letters? I
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I think it was from 19 women's organizations, remember that?
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I think it's a year ago, about a year ago now, that they had reached out to 19 women's
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And of course, when Ezra Hudson called these women's groups saying, hey, I am representing
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And as you know, I am a big believer in the Me Too law.
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Can you sign these letters to tell the judge how important this case is for all other victims?
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Nineteen organizations signed letters and sent to the judge.
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And the LA Times did a story about it saying Blake Lively backed by advocacy groups in
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legal fight with Justin Baldoni over Me Too speech.
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And as I said yesterday, I recently spoke to a person
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I'm trying to get her on my hair on my channel.
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But she also told me how Ryan Reynolds was trying to take over the movie
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He kept pushing the director in other directions.
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He kept being so involved that all the other actors that was involved in the movie were
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starting to really lose their patience with him, saying, like, who's in charge here, really?
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And as you know, he took over the Deadpool movie, the director left, he didn't want to
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And this time, Ryan saw the opportunity to do the same for his wife.
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And when he started pushing for changes in the script,
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you know, he rewrote that rooftop scene really early on.
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And Justin Baldoni was like pushing back and saying like,
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I don't know, I'm not sure about these changes that you made.
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That's when Ryan's rage started growing, saying like,
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But let's pretend that these are Blake's ideas.
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Let's pretend that all of this is just Blake ideas.
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And I'll just be the puppeteer in the background, making all these people do what I want them to do.
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As you know, we've seen a lot of the text messages and emails from Ryan pushing people in the industry to do as he wants to pretend that they're also supporting his wife.
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So by using this law, Ryan Reynolds also protected himself from liability.
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He protected himself from Justin Baldoni because Blake Lively was also a part of that lawsuit.
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And as you know, she spoke up about a toxic work environment.
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So Ryan got Ezra Hudson to use these activist groups he himself pushed for the media narrative.
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And of course, as you know, they used the New York Times to launch all of this publicly.
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But what Ryan had never experienced before is that someone actually stood up against him.
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Because as you could see from all the texts and emails, people were afraid of Ryan Reynolds.
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Most people just bowed to him and did whatever he asked them to do.
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And that is where Ryan Reynolds miscalculated everything.
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Yes, so that's the part of this article that I really wanted to mention to you guys.
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And as I said, you should go and read it yourself.
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This also put Ezra Hudson in another category, I think.
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And if you remember, if you watched my interview with my attorney, John Genga, he also spoke about her, that he was so disappointed in her and that she could come out and claim victory after all of this that had happened.
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But now, after reading all of this, it makes so much sense to me.
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And I think Ezra Hudson is a horrible, horrible attorney.
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And unfortunately, this all makes a lot of sense to me.
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And now, as you know, Ryan is trying to just distance himself from all of this and he made
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sure that the rumors are out there that he was the one who pressured Blake Lively to
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settle because now he's pretending that he wasn't the person behind all of this.
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And to be honest with you, from what I've seen of Blake Lively, I don't think she's
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They need someone more schemey, someone like Ryan Reynolds, who's done the same thing so
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many times before. And that's also why he thought he could get away with it this time. Okay, before
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I go, I wanted also to mention this article, which is really interesting from Puck, the Hollywood
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newsletter that I've spoken about here a few times before. They always do really solid reporting.
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They call it Live and Let Lively or Let Lively. And they're talking about her brands and what a
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disaster this entire lawsuit and of course what happened with it ends with us and the promotion
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of it ends with us that was so tone deaf how it harmed these brands it is much worse than we
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actually thought so they mentioned at first how she came back to the Met Gala trying to repair
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her reputation or trying to make everyone forget what she actually did and she's like hey I'm here
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in a beautiful dress and I was actually invited by Anna Winter don't believe the rumors that I paid
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$100,000 to get access to this event because I was her guest. Anyways, as this reporter is pointing
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out that the damage was already done has been done to Blake and her brands and it really won't help
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her if she shows up at the Met Gala with beautiful hair because Blake Brown has taken a huge hit and
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might never come back from this. It says here that just two years ago, Blake Brown was the biggest
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hair care launch in Target's history, with close to $20 million in sales in its first three months.
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At the time, the retailer projected it would become $100 million or so business in its first
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year. And now they've spoken to someone here that's familiar with Blake Brown, and they're
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saying that right now the brand is doing about $90,000 per week at Target, a figure that has
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steadily declined. This puts it toward the bottom of the list of Target haircare brands,
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this person said, adding, I can't imagine Blake Brown will last long and I don't think anyone
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else will take them. And they're saying here, so yes, the Target honeymoon was short-lived. While
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most brands planned for a 20-30% dip within six or so weeks post-launch, sales of Blake Brown were
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down by close to 90%. Earlier this month, I noticed, but was unable to verify, reports online
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about people finding Blake Brown at TJ Maxx. And they're saying here that the beauty manufacturer
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and incubator behind Blake Brown, they're called Give Back Beauty, wants out of the brand. According
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to a source with first-hand knowledge of the situation, Give Back Beauty has been trying to
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get out of the deal since last year if the brand continue on its current trajectory a target wine
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and target winds up dropping lately lively's line it would have to rely on a tiny direct to customer
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business which would further complicate the challenge of finding a buyer so then i guess
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she'll just start selling the hair care line online so you have to go to the website to order
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it and here they're saying so where does all of this leave lively an actress who most reliable
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ascent in recent years was her marriage to likable i would say likable like this actor
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husband ryan reynolds yes they say here reynolds reputation has also suffered as baldone gate has
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played out but at least his aviation gin had a 610 million exit and he's still a co-owner of the
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wales-based rexham association and they say and they end this saying for now her acting career
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seems to be shaky recall that sony's executive candace assessments yes we do remember what the
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people said and her future as a celebrity celebrity entrepreneur entrepreneur seems to be heading in
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the same direction who can forget when the sony execs called her epic level stupid and a terrorist
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Anyways, her non-alcoholic beverage brand Betty Bus quietly shuddered last year.
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And according to court documents, her ready-to-drink cocktail line Betty Booze tanked in the second half of 2024
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when it generated only one-third of the revenue it earned in the preceding four months.
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Recent reports suggest that Lively and Reynolds were considering moving to the UK to start over.
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Who's going to tell them that Europe still has access to the internet?
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And that's also how I'm going to end this episode.
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Thank you again so much for watching, you guys.
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