Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - September 16, 2026


Salma's Message to Blake !!

Topics
Sidney Sweeney ad controversy
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Kjersti Flaa
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Blake Lively Justin Baldoni Taylor Swift Salma Hayek Sidney Sweeney Ryan Reynolds Gina Rodriguez Dakota Johnson Nicole Kidman Karlie Kloss Botox Jamie Lee Curtis Julianne Moore Anderson Parks Wayfarer Studio Flossom Talk Selena Gomez Blake Limey Gossip Girl Halle Berry and 7 more
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00:00:00.000 Well, now it's pretty clear that Salma Hayek is not Team Blake anymore.
00:00:10.140 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Jashti Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
00:00:18.900 Well, we got some great news. Justin Baldone is doing a movie with his ex-co-star from Jane the Virgin, Gina Rodriguez.
00:00:29.640 and he shared the best hug I've seen in a really really long time between the two of them on his
00:00:36.620 Instagram. And let's talk about Salma Hayek's big blow to Blake Lively. Remember how Blake used
00:00:44.300 Salma very strategically in the middle of this legal feud with Justin Baldoni just a week or so
00:00:51.220 after it became public that she had a feud with Taylor Swift. Well now it's pretty clear that
00:00:57.100 Samo Hayek is not Team Blake anymore.
00:01:00.500 Also, there is a very interesting extra layer to that Sydney Sweeney ad that no one's talking about.
00:01:06.680 Let's look at our boyfriend Scooter Braun's secret political message in Sydney's ad.
00:01:12.700 And it was the Emmys yesterday.
00:01:15.040 I haven't watched the show, but I've seen what people look like on the red carpet.
00:01:19.840 But I have to say, look more like an exhibit at Madame Tussauds than actual real people
00:01:25.880 posing at an award show.
00:01:27.980 There's so much to talk about.
00:01:29.300 But before we get into any of that, I wanted to promote my documentary.
00:01:32.880 I have a documentary on Amazon that is available to rent and to buy.
00:01:39.300 It's called Social Media Killed the Movie Star.
00:01:42.780 And it's based on my years as a journalist, my interactions with celebrities talking about
00:01:49.360 social media and how it has affected their careers and how it has affected Hollywood in general. It's
00:01:55.960 a very light documentary. It's only 50 minutes long so if you have the time I would really appreciate
00:02:02.220 it. It's available in all these countries and hopefully even more soon. This film is basically
00:02:09.100 about the double-edged sword of social media and how actors were forced to become active on social
00:02:15.000 media to share personal stuff and at the same time how that stripped away all that mystery
00:02:20.400 and magic that made the movie stars to begin with. I will share the trailer of the film at the end of
00:02:26.780 this episode and I will also leave a link below so you can go and watch it on Amazon and if you
00:02:31.820 want to leave a review afterwards that would just be incredibly amazing. Anyways let's jump into all
00:02:40.000 the other news here. So as I said, Justin Baldoni just announced that he's doing a movie with Gina
00:02:46.060 Rodriguez. Deadline did an exclusive on this. How interesting. Deadline is the outlet that's been
00:02:53.300 really supportive or really biased, we could say, towards Blake Lively throughout this whole legal
00:02:59.400 thing. It is obviously a different journalist who wrote this story where we learn that Gina
00:03:05.120 Rodriguez is directing this is her directorial debut and Justin Baldoni is producing the film
00:03:12.200 it's called House of Guerrero and it is a movie about a boxer I guess that's all we know so far
00:03:18.860 Wafer Studios is co-perusing this film with Rodriguez's own production company I can and I
00:03:26.300 will and the two of them share the most beautiful hug that Justin shared on his Instagram it's funny
00:03:33.860 when you follow the legal feud because as you might then remember, Blake Limey was extremely
00:03:39.000 critical of the hugging going on on the sets. She testified that there was a culture of hugging and
00:03:47.400 so did her makeup artist, by the way, which was so funny, a little side note there because she said
00:03:52.740 in her deposition that, yeah, she witnessed this culture of hugging and then Justin Baldoni was
00:03:58.320 asked about it in his deposition and he was like, funny that she said that because she was usually
00:04:03.700 the one that initiated the hugs on me. I mean, yeah. All the toxic positivity as well as you
00:04:10.940 might remember she accused him of. It was so positive that it became really toxic. So that's
00:04:16.200 why I found it extra rewarding that they shared this really, really long hug. Anyways, let's look
00:04:23.220 at Salma Hayek and how she blew off Blake Lively from this huge event in New York City a couple of 1.00
00:04:29.180 days ago thank you shy stuff for sending me this by the way so sama hayek and her husband organized
00:04:36.720 a huge charity event as you might know her husband francois henry pinot i don't know if i said that
00:04:45.260 right he is a billionaire and he owns a lot of luxury brands so this event was on behalf of his
00:04:53.680 company Keering who owns amongst other luxury brands Balenciaga which is kind of ironic
00:04:59.380 because this event was in support to end violence against women and children so if you follow that
00:05:10.080 controversy surrounding Balenciaga a few years ago and their ad campaign featuring children which
00:05:16.720 was extremely disturbing you probably understand why this was a bit ironic but anyways that happened
00:05:24.600 in 2022 and that's also when they started doing these events and at this event sama hayek invited
00:05:32.520 a lot of her hollywood friends amongst them were paris hilton pamela anderson benicio del toro
00:05:39.840 Dakota Johnson, Rita Ora, Coleman Domingo, Karlie Kloss, and Julianne Moore.
00:05:46.340 And Salma even posted a photo with Dakota Johnson.
00:05:49.460 As you know, Dakota Johnson is a very close friend of Taylor Swift.
00:05:54.760 And Karlie Kloss used to be a close friend.
00:05:57.880 And then they had a follow-up.
00:05:59.260 But then she was invited to Taylor Swift's wedding.
00:06:02.520 And you might remember that last year,
00:06:06.380 Sama Hayek did attend a dinner with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.
00:06:12.600 Blake made sure that the paparazzi picked this up,
00:06:15.880 and there was a photo of her, Sama, and her sister in People magazine.
00:06:21.420 And they could also confirm that Ryan Reynolds was present.
00:06:24.380 And this dinner happened just a week or so
00:06:26.860 after Taylor Swift and Blake Lively's feud became public.
00:06:31.780 So this was obviously a power play by Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds to show Taylor Swift like, hey, I have A-list friends, I don't need you.
00:06:42.880 And also a dig at Justin Baldoni, hey, look who I'm with here, Salma Hayek.
00:06:48.300 So it's pretty obvious what Blake Lively was doing.
00:06:50.760 Just after this, Salma Hayek gave some quotes here.
00:06:54.900 According to Ola Magazine, in May of 2025, they said Sama Hayek keeps it cool in New York City after gushing about her bond with Blake Lively.
00:07:04.160 Sama kept things low-key in New York City on Friday, just days after opening up about her tight-knit friendship with Blake Lively.
00:07:12.080 Right in the middle of the actress' rumored fallout with longtime bestie Taylor Swift.
00:07:17.580 Earlier in the week, Sama was spotted grabbing dinner with the Gossip Girl alum.
00:07:21.100 On Tuesday, their catch-up came at a particular dramatic moment.
00:07:26.200 The very public unraveling of Lively's decade-long friendship with Swift.
00:07:31.880 The drama unfolded last week when the Grammy-winning singer was subpoenaed
00:07:35.800 in connection with Lively's legal battle involving it ends with us co-star director Justin Baldoni.
00:07:41.300 So yeah, this was obviously a very strategic moment to go out to dinner with Salma Hayek.
00:07:47.120 So if Salma Hayek is still a friend of Blake Lively, why would she not invite her to this event?
00:07:54.080 Especially considering how Blake was criticized for not supporting DV victims during the premiere of It Ends With Us.
00:08:03.200 And this event is especially for that.
00:08:07.180 And this event was also in New York City where Blake Lively lives.
00:08:10.900 Yeah, so why wasn't Blake there?
00:08:13.140 Salma's also gushed about her friendship with Ryan Reynolds.
00:08:16.040 They were in two movies together, the hitman's bodyguard and the hitman's bodyguard wife.
00:08:22.000 And Blake was in Savages with Sama Hayek.
00:08:26.640 And Sama gave her this amazing speech at a women's luncheon organized by Variety.
00:08:33.740 So I don't think we need a bigger sign than this from Sama Hayek
00:08:38.580 that her friendship with Blake Lively is over.
00:08:42.200 I bet you Blake's PR team is working really hard trying to get her invited to things that
00:08:49.620 will make her look good, but it's not happening.
00:08:52.900 Anyways, let's look more into the Sydney Sweeney ad.
00:08:55.920 I spoke about this yesterday and I didn't know about this detail then.
00:08:59.820 I spoke about the backlash from other female athletes and while Sydney Sweeney is talking 1.00
00:09:04.740 about sports, while she's basically just selling a gambling app. 0.83
00:09:08.680 But anyways, there's a lot of controversies about that.
00:09:11.820 But I didn't notice this. If you listen carefully at the end of the ad, you can hear the song by
00:09:19.740 Anderson Parks called Come Down. That song is based on the national anthem of Israel, Hatikva.
00:09:31.760 So why would Sydney Sweeney pick that song for her ad about gambling while being nude?
00:09:41.100 Also interesting that she's saying in the ad, no politics, no mention market, no betting on wars or deaths, and no politics.
00:09:50.620 She's specifically saying no politics.
00:09:53.560 And then her commercial ends with one of the most politically charged national melodies imaginable at this particular moment in time. 0.98
00:10:02.780 We all know that Sydney Sweeney doesn't want to discuss her political views in public.
00:10:08.840 So that's why I found it so interesting that she would pick this song for this ad.
00:10:17.380 So that brings me again, as I also spoke about a little bit yesterday,
00:10:22.180 her boyfriend, Scooter Braun, who is publicly very supportive of Israel and he's Jewish.
00:10:30.520 And there's been report lately that he's been bringing Sydney to the synagogue.
00:10:35.020 So that kind of made me wonder, did Scooter Braun play a part in this ad?
00:10:40.880 Because there's no way that it's an accident that they're using this music.
00:10:45.560 This music is from 2016.
00:10:48.000 It's 10 years old.
00:10:49.180 It's not like they picked a song right now that's popular or that's viral.
00:10:54.960 It is a very specific choice.
00:10:57.840 And that, again, brings me to the people defending Sydney Sweeney's choice, 1.00
00:11:03.000 saying hey she can do whatever she wants with her body if she wants to take her clothes off she can
00:11:08.300 do that and i think people that are saying that are completely missing the point here by the way 0.78
00:11:12.500 she can do that as much as she wants it's her body the problem for me is that she's trying to
00:11:17.920 make it look like she owns this this is her choice and the ceo of the company that she's doing this
00:11:26.540 ad for came out and said that it was Sydney's choice to do this nude so it comes off like
00:11:33.120 she's making all these decisions she's a woman in control of her own image this is what she wants
00:11:39.620 to do and you shouldn't criticize her for that but to me she's just not selling anything that's
00:11:45.700 empowering because I find it very hard to believe that it was her choice to put that song in there
00:11:52.180 She's quietly being used to promote her boyfriend's political views.
00:11:57.980 And that makes her just a pawn in a powerful man's game.
00:12:02.160 Yeah, I don't buy it.
00:12:03.500 Just a reminder here.
00:12:05.000 Page Six said in a recent article that back in September of 2025,
00:12:11.440 a source told them that Braun was likely to merge romance and business,
00:12:16.580 saying it's just a matter of time.
00:12:19.160 And that source also said any restraint in the relationship probably won't last long when it comes down to his urge to market everything.
00:12:28.940 And the source added, he'll start posting about her.
00:12:32.800 He'll probably get more involved in her career.
00:12:35.940 The source told us it was just part of Braun's personality and what makes him an excellent businessman.
00:12:42.600 So, yeah, it's all in the details.
00:12:44.420 So my big question is, would Sydney Sweeney have added that song if she wasn't dating Scooter Braun?
00:12:51.800 Let me know what you think. 1.00
00:12:53.180 Okay, let's jump to the Emmys last night.
00:12:56.720 As I said, I wasn't watching the show.
00:12:59.040 I've been watching little snippets here and there.
00:13:01.360 But what I found so fascinating was when I was scrolling through the photos of what the stars looked like on the red carpet.
00:13:09.760 It reminded me of Madame Tussauds.
00:13:12.620 they all look like wax figures and I'm not saying this to shame any of these women because they
00:13:19.700 obviously look beautiful in their own way it's just like they don't look like humans anymore
00:13:26.100 it's so funny if Hollywood has been promoting diversity and representation they cannot represent 0.97
00:13:33.240 a woman's real age that is like the biggest no-no in Hollywood and the thing is no one really looks
00:13:39.940 younger than they are they just look like they've done a lot of stuff trying to look young i'm not 0.99
00:13:45.360 saying that no one should do botox or fillers i've been guilty of that myself i stopped doing it
00:13:51.100 because i thought i looked weird but now i think we've gotten to a place of blindness so now when
00:13:57.200 we see a woman who's actually aged naturally we're like what's wrong with her she looks really rough
00:14:04.400 she's got wrinkles and then we call it aging gracefully it's just called aging and I think 1.00
00:14:10.560 it's really really sad that all these women feel the need to look so weird because they do look 0.98
00:14:18.140 weird I was looking at a lot of the promos that Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman did for their 0.81
00:14:24.320 movie that's coming out or that's already come out Practical Magic 2 and their faces are just
00:14:31.240 off and I can't watch movies like that anymore. I can't invest in a story when it's told by a woman 1.00
00:14:40.400 or a person who has no story on her face. How am I going to believe what this person is trying to 1.00
00:14:48.120 show me with her emotions when I can't read her emotions because you can't tell on her face if
00:14:55.100 she's angry, if she's sad, if she's happy because it looks exactly the same and they're supposed to
00:15:01.460 represent art according to themselves and their faces are their canvas. So how does that make
00:15:10.240 any sense? I was watching a very interesting video. I think it was Halle Berry who actually
00:15:16.980 said that. She was describing that when people can tell that you're aging it is a sign of failure
00:15:24.260 and I think that is so spot on. We are told that we're failing, that we're not taking really good
00:15:31.160 care of ourselves if we look like we've aged and I mean of course everyone should do whatever makes
00:15:38.220 them feel good. I'm not criticizing anyone, please, I'm not criticizing anyone for doing
00:15:43.780 Botox or fillers or to try to look their best. I am criticizing this extreme who is putting the
00:15:50.800 pressure on these women to look like that? Is it us? Other women? Is it men? Is it the industry? 0.91
00:15:57.980 Why do they choose to do this? Or is it a choice actually to look like this? I was really sad when
00:16:05.180 I saw Selena Gomez on the red carpet. I don't know if she had too much Botox on one side because her 1.00
00:16:11.000 eye was droopy, but she's 34 years old. And now you can't tell her age. And I think when you start
00:16:17.820 erasing your real face, people start just morphing into one kind of look, one kind of face with the
00:16:25.020 same lips, with the same cheekbones. Everything just looks inauthentic. So when I see a face like
00:16:31.020 Jamie Lee Curtis, for example, who's very pro-aging, I don't know if I can really say that, she's very
00:16:36.540 pro-being natural. Her face has so much life. She is really funny too, which helps, but her face has
00:16:44.540 lived and we can see it and it's attractive. When I see someone like Nicole Kidman, that doesn't
00:16:50.760 look like a woman who's in control of her life. That looks like a woman who believes that she's 0.84
00:16:56.660 not good enough and she has to do all that stuff to be accepted. And I think that is really, really
00:17:02.320 sad. Anyways, that's my rant about aging. Obviously, I don't like aging myself. And when I look at
00:17:09.920 myself in the mirror I'm like oh my god my neck this that should I do something most women and
00:17:16.180 men have their own insecurities about aging and as I said before here on my channel one of my
00:17:21.500 friends in LA said to me you know there comes a time in a woman's life where she has to choose
00:17:26.860 if she wants to look old or if she wants to look weird let me know what you think anyways that's
00:17:33.300 it for me today you guys thank you so much for watching and thanks to Oscar my executive producer
00:17:38.880 who's done a great job today he is aging peacefully and gracefully over there as always
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