Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - April 02, 2026


Something BIG is HAPPENING - Blake Lively's lawsuit tossed !？!


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The judge might toss out the entire case today, but what exactly will that mean for Blake Lively and Taylor Swift's case? We'll find out in today's episode of FLOSSSPOTIFY!

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00:00:00.000 Well, here's the thing. The judge might toss out the entire case today.
00:00:09.300 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Sjastri Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
00:00:13.460 and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. Do I need a new tagline? I feel like
00:00:18.820 I've said that so many times. Let me know in the comment section if you have any ideas of a new
00:00:22.900 tagline for me. Anyways, there is a really important meeting going on today between the
00:00:28.080 two parties and the judge and people are still scratching their heads asking why the judge has
00:00:34.560 not come up with a ruling yet so we still don't know what's left of blake lively's case well
00:00:40.200 here's the thing the judge might toss out the entire case today and here is why also taylor
00:00:47.500 swift made sure that everyone knows about her wedding plans now it is so obvious that these
00:00:53.600 sources that have been speaking to the press want Blake and Ryan to know that they are not invited.
00:01:01.360 They are not involved in any of these plans and one of the reasons for that as well 0.99
00:01:05.820 is the date that they picked for the wedding. Also let's look a little deeper into this Taylor
00:01:11.680 Swift lawsuit. I missed a very important point the other day. Someone pointed it out for me. Thank
00:01:16.840 you so much. There might be something to this. Could Maren Wade, the original showgirl, actually 0.95
00:01:24.860 have a strong case against Taylor? It kind of looks like it. In the meantime, Blake Lively posts
00:01:32.080 a picture of her toilet on Instagram and the media picks it up. Okay, so let's look into what
00:01:39.320 not actually Golden said on TikTok. She's one of the attorneys that I follow and I really trust,
00:01:45.280 And so should you, by the way, if you're really interested in the legal side of this case,
00:01:49.060 which I'm not able to explain all the time because some of it is very complicated.
00:01:54.080 But she just dropped this video about what might happen in this meeting today
00:01:58.060 and why the judge has waited so long to actually come up with the ruling.
00:02:03.200 She is pointing to this actor loan out agreement.
00:02:07.820 That was the agreement that Blake Lively was supposed to sign with It Ends With Us, Movie LLC.
00:02:15.280 It was a basic contract between her and her employer.
00:02:20.720 The thing is, Blake Lively never signed this contract.
00:02:25.420 And because of that, Not Actually Golden believes that the judge might rule that that contract is not valid because it was never signed.
00:02:34.880 If he says that the contract is not valid because she didn't sign it, half of her claims just disappears.
00:02:41.420 Because if she never signed a contract that she's claiming that they breached, then all of those claims disappears.
00:02:48.440 So what's left then is the SH claims and the retaliation claims and also the defamation claim against Brian Friedman.
00:02:57.800 You know, Blake Lively also sued Justin Baldoni's attorney for talking about her in the press and defaming her in the press.
00:03:05.300 Most lawyers agree that that is going to be tossed out.
00:03:08.620 it is very unlikely that the judge is going to let that claim move forward so what's left then
00:03:13.680 is her sh claim and her retaliation claim and here's the thing most of Blake Lively's claims
00:03:20.180 of sh and retaliation are based on the fact that she was an employee of it ends with us movie LLC
00:03:29.600 and according to the law you cannot sue someone for sh and retaliation unless you are an employee
00:03:38.260 And as the Wayfair parties have pointed out so many times, Blake Lively did not act as
00:03:43.840 an employee and she didn't sign the contract as an employee. 0.60
00:03:47.480 As you know, she basically took over the movie and she got a producer credit, something
00:03:52.600 that was not agreed upon beforehand.
00:03:55.300 And because nothing points to the fact that she was an employee, she doesn't have the
00:04:00.180 right to sue for these things.
00:04:02.620 As a contractor, you have so much more freedom and you can also leave whenever you want to.
00:04:07.960 And that's also why you can't sue for S.H. and retaliation.
00:04:13.040 So when Blake Lively is pointing to her actor loan out agreement as basis for her claims and the judge ruled that that contract is invalid, everything collapses.
00:04:25.820 So he could say, based on the fact that this agreement was never signed and they were still negotiating it after filming was over, every single claim is now gone.
00:04:40.020 He could possibly do that.
00:04:42.120 Yes, very interesting.
00:04:44.280 Let's see what happens today.
00:04:46.060 As you know, you can call in yourself and see what happens.
00:04:49.920 You can call this number and use this code to actually be a part of that hearing and listen in.
00:04:56.580 Okay, so let's get to Taylor Swift here because Us Weekly just did a big story with all the details about her wedding.
00:05:03.540 She is the cover story of Us Weekly and there are two sources in this story explaining to us what's gonna happen
00:05:12.100 when Taylor Swift gets married to Travis Kelsey.
00:05:15.360 The date of the wedding was already announced in December, I think, and it is June 13th.
00:05:23.440 That is exactly less than four weeks after Blake Lively's trial starts,
00:05:30.080 meaning that it might be still going on at that time,
00:05:34.140 unless the judge rules today that everything is tossed out.
00:05:37.780 But the fact that she picked that date specifically
00:05:40.100 also has to do with 13 being her lucky number,
00:05:44.180 and she's born on the 13th.
00:05:46.480 As Weekly says here that a source tells us
00:05:48.580 that the wedding festivities will likely be split
00:05:51.720 between the singer's $18 million Rhode Island mansion
00:05:55.420 and the Ocean House, a five-star seaside resort nearby.
00:05:59.860 And now it seems like it's only going to be 150 people.
00:06:03.480 It's not going to be a huge wedding after all.
00:06:06.460 But they're already pointing out the celebrities on this guest list
00:06:09.640 and it says it won't be a huge wedding,
00:06:11.920 but there will be many celebrities,
00:06:13.480 says this source. Swift famous friends include Selena Gomez, Gigi Hadid, Emma Stone, the Haim
00:06:20.620 sisters and Zoe Kravitz. Kelsey is tight with his longtime teammate Patrick Mahomes, actor Miles
00:06:27.600 Teller and of course his big brother Jason Kelsey. No mention of Blake and Ryan obviously and it says
00:06:33.760 here they've been they've gone back and forth between inviting everyone and keeping it a small
00:06:38.320 and private events. As of now, they've scaled it down. It says here, the first source adds that
00:06:45.400 the couple has steered away from mailing hard copy invitations and aren't even sure they will.
00:06:50.880 However, their closest friends and family know the venue and dates as the source, even if nothing
00:06:55.880 formal has been sent out yet. And it says here that her dad will walk her down the aisle, blah,
00:07:01.180 blah, blah. And then it says the first source says that Swift won't have formal bridesmaids,
00:07:06.120 but will get ready with her closest girlfriends who are also planning a bachelorette getaway. 1.00
00:07:13.080 She has already asked her close girlfriends like Selena and Gigi
00:07:17.080 to sleep over at her Rhode Island home the night before the wedding.
00:07:22.260 So I'm guessing Blake is devastated about this.
00:07:26.600 Especially Gigi Hadid is going to be there.
00:07:29.640 You know, Blake has Gigi on her list of potential witnesses.
00:07:33.860 I'm sure Gigi is not excited about that.
00:07:36.440 And of course, she's going to bring her hubby Bradley Cooper to the wedding as well.
00:07:41.600 One of Blake Lively's close BFFs who helped her out so much during the edit when she stole the movie from Justin Baldoni.
00:07:50.400 And as I can guess, Bradley Cooper is not excited about being dragged into this lawsuit either.
00:07:56.580 Especially knowing now that Blake definitely used Bradley Cooper as one of her dragons as well.
00:08:02.100 Also, a source adds here that they've been going out to dinner with friends and doing normal things and have been spending more time on the West Coast.
00:08:09.480 They were spotted at Beyonce and Jaycee's exclusive Oscar after party at the Chateau Marmont in L.A. on March 15.
00:08:16.460 They've been having fun, says the source.
00:08:19.000 Well, it's good that she's having fun.
00:08:20.760 You know, Blake is also having fun going to the Nickelodeon theme park, as we saw yesterday.
00:08:26.620 Anyways, it's interesting that this wedding is going to be so close up to Blake's trial.
00:08:32.960 I am sure that this trial is going to go on for at least four weeks.
00:08:37.000 It seems like it with the list of witnesses that Blake has put forward so far.
00:08:42.780 So the fact that Taylor Swift might be getting married in the middle of this lawsuit, that
00:08:47.040 is kind of funny to me.
00:08:48.660 And you know now, if you invite Blake or Ryan to anything, all the focus is going to be
00:08:54.000 on them and it's going to be negative focus.
00:08:56.280 So why would you want that negativity around your special day?
00:09:00.220 It makes no sense.
00:09:01.880 And as you know, I spoke about last week that Travis Kelsey also has unfollowed Blake Lively on Instagram.
00:09:08.940 And it was a huge thing when he unfollowed Ryan Reynolds a while back.
00:09:12.780 Yeah, so I guess June 14th is not a date that Blake Lively looked forward to.
00:09:17.280 Anyways, let's talk more about this Taylor Swift case.
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00:11:05.180 lawsuit against Taylor Swift from Maren Wade. I mentioned it the other day and I have to admit
00:11:12.440 I didn't know all the details back then but because I read in one of the comments here
00:11:17.700 that there is more to this story I looked into it a bit closer and here according to the Hollywood
00:11:24.500 Reporter it seems like Maren Wade actually has a case. So it says here in the Hollywood Reporter
00:11:32.260 when Swift applied to register the life of a showgirl
00:11:36.140 at the patent and trademark office,
00:11:39.220 she was declined because it was confusingly similar
00:11:43.940 to Wade's mark, according to the lawsuit.
00:11:46.700 It noted that the names share a key phrase of a showgirl
00:11:50.600 and stressed that they're both utilized in connection
00:11:53.620 with entertainment involving musical
00:11:55.560 and theatrical performances,
00:11:57.440 which would likely lead consumers to believe
00:11:59.940 there's a connection between the two sides.
00:12:02.260 So yes, Taylor actually applied for this trademark and she was turned down.
00:12:09.740 In the lawsuit, Wade accuses Swift of ignoring her trademark. 0.69
00:12:13.640 She says her brand has been undermined with consumers believing that she copied the singer.
00:12:18.980 The continued erosion of that mark threatens the entirety of Wade's brand, the complaint states.
00:12:26.740 So yes, I mean, most people would obviously assume that Wade was the one copying Taylor and not the other way around.
00:12:35.520 Interestingly enough, Taylor Swift has gone after so many people for trademark reasons.
00:12:42.480 I reported on one of them just a couple of weeks ago, Swift Home, someone using their last name Swift and trying to sell some home products, I guess.
00:12:52.100 And Taylor Swift went after them. 0.96
00:12:53.680 She's gone after so many people, and it says here, Swift, who declined to comment, has among the most extensive trademark portfolios in the entertainment industry, with more than 170 active or pending registrations, spanning names, phrases, and commercial designations.
00:13:11.040 Her global merchandising operation includes TIS Rights Management, which controls Swift's trademarks across goods and services, and Bravado, which manufacture products under the artist's brain.
00:13:25.940 Taylor Swift chose to ignore that this trademark was not available for her, and she named her album Life of a Showgirl anyway.
00:13:35.240 Now Wade is saying that she spent a decade building this brand and now people get confused
00:13:41.540 and think that she's the one who copied Taylor. That's something called reverse confusion and 1.00
00:13:47.060 it's the when the big fish drowns out the small ones. I mean of course Marion Wade is a small
00:13:51.920 fish. When you look at her Instagram she doesn't have a lot of followers there. I don't know much
00:13:55.900 more about her business but she's worked as a showgirl for a really long time. But even if she 0.96
00:14:01.480 has a case here legally, I have a feeling that this is going to be a long fight for her. Unless 1.00
00:14:07.740 Taylor wants to settle with her and give her some money to get rid of this case. If she doesn't,
00:14:14.600 she could fight her for years. And that is the big problem in these cases. If you ever go after
00:14:21.140 a celebrity, someone powerful, someone famous, they have the resources, they have the money,
00:14:27.240 They have all the attorneys in the world if they want to.
00:14:31.260 And the chances for a regular person to win over a pop star, a mogul, is very slim.
00:14:38.200 But it does happen.
00:14:39.700 I spoke about this the other day, how Katy Perry, an Australian designer who was born Katy Perry,
00:14:46.840 she spells her name a bit differently.
00:14:48.780 It's K-A-T-I-E instead of K-A-T-Y as the pop singer.
00:14:54.400 and she started a brand a designer brand her own fashion brand 17 years ago and then Katy Perry
00:15:01.700 sued her for using her name which wasn't even her birth name but anyways it took this woman 1.00
00:15:08.680 this Australian designer 17 years of fights in the legal system to win over Katy Perry. I don't know
00:15:18.240 how much money she spent on this but it must have been a fortune and she ended up winning. So there
00:15:24.260 are some happy endings here I'm curious to see what happens here if Maren Wade is going to continue
00:15:31.640 this fight against Taylor or if Taylor is going to settle with her maybe she just wants this to 0.66
00:15:38.100 be over with and she wants to focus on her wedding and she just gives her a million dollars or 1.00
00:15:42.500 whatever who knows I'll keep you posted if anything happens with that but now to the biggest news
00:15:47.900 Blake Lively posted a photo of her toilet on Instagram and People Magazine picked it up.
00:15:56.160 It says here, it says here, Blake Lively shares her kids' April Fool's Day prank.
00:16:01.900 She jokes she shouldn't have taught them how to read a calendar.
00:16:06.660 The Another Simple Favor actress shares her four children, three daughters and a son
00:16:10.940 with her husband, Ryan Reynolds.
00:16:13.240 Then the story continues.
00:16:15.240 Lively's post comes after a turbulent year for the star,
00:16:18.760 who is currently scheduled to head to court on May 18.
00:16:22.640 After starring in the film It Ends With Us,
00:16:24.760 which came out in August 2024,
00:16:26.680 Lively sued director-actor Justin Baldoni in December of 2024,
00:16:30.480 alleging S.H. in retaliation,
00:16:32.340 which he denies the legal battle has been playing out in court.
00:16:35.940 This story is so thin, you guys.
00:16:38.500 I can't believe they actually made a story out of this.
00:16:41.560 on saturday the actress shared a carousel of photos on her instagram including a rare shot
00:16:48.080 of one of her four kids they're still talking about that one shot that she shared with ryan
00:16:54.560 with one of their kids on his shoulders far from the back really blurry and they're calling it
00:17:01.820 a rare glimpse of one of blake lively's children it is a rare shot because it's so blurry oh they're
00:17:10.120 even explaining here what happened in that shot she shared. In the blurry photo, Lively captured
00:17:16.680 what happened to be the Deadpool actor 49 holding one of their kids on his shoulders. The two could
00:17:23.060 be seen walking in a garden while Lively snapped the picture from behind. She also included other
00:17:29.460 photos from her trip to England, such as visiting Soho Farmhouse and attending a Wrexham game.
00:17:35.040 Yes, looking at these articles, I'm like, does Leslie Sloan Blake Lively's publicist call People
00:17:40.860 Magazine? Like, hey, did you see she just posted a photo of her toilet with this glad pack thing on
00:17:48.580 top, which was a joke from her kids? Maybe you could do a story on that and then make the article
00:17:54.820 family oriented. You know, she's a good mom. She has four children and she also published a photo
00:18:00.440 of her child the other day make sure to mention that too like really anyways that's it for you
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