Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - March 10, 2026


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17 minutes

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3,019

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237

Misogynist Sentences

15

Hate Speech Sentences

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Blake and Ryan did not have Justin on their minds while attending a soccer game in Great Britain on Saturday because they were too busy sucking face, right? Who writes these headlines? Justin Baldoni? Who writes them?

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00:00:00.000 Blake and Ryan did not have Justin on their minds while attending a soccer game in Great Britain on Saturday
00:00:05.660 because they were too busy sucking face.
00:00:14.160 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Kersti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller
00:00:18.280 and your voice of reason in a town built on the illusion.
00:00:22.660 So Blake and Ryan are desperately doing damage control as we speak.
00:00:28.220 This weekend they were everywhere. Blake flew all the way to Wales to support her husband during a soccer match
00:00:36.940 and it was real feelings on display there. They kissed and of course the media picked it up
00:00:43.380 and this was everywhere. It's been really entertaining to read the comment sections on these stories
00:00:49.340 and of course on social media as well. Yeah, no one is buying this.
00:00:54.340 And let's look at another interview that Colleen Hoover did for Reminders of Me
00:00:58.360 when she's sharing everything she learned from Blake Lively.
00:01:02.860 Yes, we are talking authorship.
00:01:05.440 And what's up with this interview with Colleen and Justin from May 2024?
00:01:11.820 She was clinging on to him like Blake was clinging on to Ryan during that soccer match.
00:01:17.020 This interview was done after the movie was done.
00:01:21.560 What really happened there?
00:01:23.280 And did she collude with Blake Lively the same day as this interview was dropped
00:01:29.080 on how to get Justin removed from the poster?
00:01:33.360 This is insane.
00:01:35.420 So let's look at this kiss that was on display this weekend.
00:01:39.320 All the media outlets picked it up.
00:01:41.400 And as you know, a lot of them have been pro-Blake Lively throughout this entire process of this legal war.
00:01:49.160 But at the same time, I suspect that a lot of these outlets are just doing these stories
00:01:54.960 because they know they will get a lot of clicks and they know that people are really engaged here.
00:02:00.260 So especially when they post things on social media, people will go crazy in the comment section
00:02:05.360 and that boosts that post up and that creates more traction to their websites and to their story.
00:02:11.960 The Daily Mail said that heartbroken Blake Lively cuts a downcast figure
00:02:16.900 and consoles Wrexham star after Ryan Reynolds' team were knocked out of FA Cup
00:02:21.580 following thrilling clash with Premier League side Chelsea.
00:02:25.500 It's interesting that she's so heartbroken that they lost.
00:02:28.820 And then she posted on social media, on her Instagram story,
00:02:32.700 she posted, what a game and a heart and her and Ryan on the soccer field.
00:02:39.660 And guess what? Ryan reposted it.
00:02:42.740 It's the first time in a very long time that they have posed in any photos together
00:02:47.800 or they showed any love for each other in public.
00:02:51.580 As you know, Ryan did not show up for Blake in court during that settlement meeting a couple of weeks ago.
00:02:57.400 But now she flew all the way to Wales to be there for her husband.
00:03:01.860 This is what we call damage control.
00:03:04.740 People have been speculating now for a long time if Ryan is not supporting his wife anymore.
00:03:10.520 So, of course, this is just a reminder to everyone that, yes, he does.
00:03:14.980 He's a really good husband.
00:03:16.680 It looks like from the photos that Blake is really bored during this game.
00:03:19.940 It's not like she's really engaged in who wins or whatever.
00:03:22.900 And she's holding on to him so hard, like the Daily Mail is explaining here,
00:03:27.840 saying that Reynolds could be seen giving Lively a kiss while she wrapped her arms around his waist
00:03:33.580 as they watched from a private box with Wrexham taking the lead twice to give the underdogs hope.
00:03:39.820 They also mentioned that Ryan's partner, Mac Robb, flew in private for the events,
00:03:45.280 which I find kind of amusing since, as you know, Ryan went to the UN.
00:03:50.960 I think that was last year.
00:03:52.040 In March 2025, he went to the UN and he signed UN football for the Goals Initiative,
00:03:59.580 meaning that he is committed to promote sustainability.
00:04:02.960 Just four days before he signed that at the UN, the Wrexham sharded a 37-minute flight,
00:04:10.640 meaning they could have just gotten a car to drive somewhere, but they flew instead,
00:04:15.160 which, you know, is the worst thing for the environment, especially a private jet.
00:04:19.740 And I'm guessing that if Robb Mack flew private, I'm sure that Blake Lively also flew private.
00:04:26.460 Anyways, a little side note there.
00:04:28.040 Let's see what TMZ said about this.
00:04:29.860 Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds pack on the PDA during soccer match.
00:04:34.620 Dot, dot, dot.
00:04:36.020 Justin Baldoni who?
00:04:38.160 Like, oh, we don't think about him at all.
00:04:40.400 We're just so in love watching soccer.
00:04:43.240 What headline is that?
00:04:44.720 Justin Baldoni who?
00:04:46.320 Who writes these headlines?
00:04:47.960 Anyway, it says here,
00:04:48.720 Blake and Ryan did not have Justin on their minds while attending a soccer game in Great Britain on Saturday
00:04:54.320 because they were too busy sucking face.
00:04:57.740 I'm sorry, sucking face?
00:05:00.440 Did they ask for permission for doing that by the people around them?
00:05:04.220 Some people might be offended by others sucking face in public.
00:05:08.840 And I do think that Justin Baldoni is on their minds 24-7.
00:05:14.780 They have so much on the line now.
00:05:16.600 There's only two months left for this trial to go to court.
00:05:19.700 TMZ continues to say one photo shows Blake and Ryan locking lips in a very warm embrace.
00:05:26.680 Another captured Blake hugging Ryan from behind with her arms wrapped tightly around his waist.
00:05:32.660 And he says there that even though they lost, it didn't ruin the mood.
00:05:36.720 After the game, Blake and Ryan posed for a photo on the field
00:05:40.020 and Blake later uploaded the image to her Instagram stories with a caption that read,
00:05:45.400 What a game.
00:05:46.440 Maybe she didn't even know that they lost.
00:05:48.340 It's interesting to see their PR strategy right now.
00:05:52.200 Ryan is solidly posting about soccer on his social media.
00:05:56.720 He does put up stories almost every day, but they're all about soccer or about his aviation gin
00:06:03.540 or some other like branding project that he's doing.
00:06:07.180 But it's never about movies.
00:06:08.880 It's never about acting.
00:06:10.140 And it's never about his wife until now.
00:06:13.120 Blake has gone radio silence the last couple of months.
00:06:16.900 She didn't post anything.
00:06:18.460 I think she's probably been told to just tone it down on social media because it fuels people even more.
00:06:25.520 And it gives people like me and other content creators something to talk about.
00:06:29.340 So then when they do share something, it's about family values and caring about each other
00:06:34.540 and being a good husband and a good wife.
00:06:37.200 I mean, this whole case has taught us so much about Hollywood, I think.
00:06:41.160 I mean, I thought I knew a little bit about what goes on behind closed doors.
00:06:45.440 But after we've seen these texts and emails, all the communication between these people,
00:06:51.660 I feel like I'm getting more and more cynical and I don't believe anything that I see or read anymore.
00:06:57.100 Anyways, let's talk about another interview that Colleen Hoover just did.
00:07:02.080 She's out promoting her next movie, Reminders of Him, that is coming out on March 13.
00:07:09.040 She's not working with Sony this time.
00:07:11.280 This time it's Universal.
00:07:12.840 That's the distributor.
00:07:14.340 And as I shared, I think it was on Friday, I shared another interview she did
00:07:18.020 where she talked about how great the actor and the director was
00:07:22.780 and also how much she's mentally struggled and had to take a step back from social media.
00:07:28.100 In this interview, I noticed something in the beginning here.
00:07:31.780 When this guy that is interviewing her and the two stars of the movie
00:07:36.160 is asking her about the role she had in making this film.
00:07:39.900 Colleen, not only is this the first time you've co-written a script for an adaptation of one of your books,
00:07:44.280 you also produced it.
00:07:45.220 And this apparently is also the first time you've been a little involved with the casting as well, right?
00:07:49.340 Yeah, yeah.
00:07:50.060 Colleen Hoover is taking authorship over everything.
00:07:54.620 She's the producer of the movie, which on It Ends With Us, she was just an executive producer
00:08:00.920 and we know what that means.
00:08:02.600 That is just like a vanity credit.
00:08:04.440 That doesn't really mean anything.
00:08:05.800 You don't have to do anything to get that credit.
00:08:08.500 A lot of actors get that when they sign up to a movie just as part of a deal, whatever.
00:08:13.120 But this time, she's a real producer, which means that she's probably getting a PGA producer credit.
00:08:20.300 Maybe Blake Lively could help her write a letter to Producers Guilt of America.
00:08:25.460 Also, he mentioned that she had co-written the script this time.
00:08:30.540 So she wanted to be more involved in the script writing.
00:08:34.780 And he said that for the first time, you also were involved in casting.
00:08:37.940 I think she was definitely involved in casting on It Ends With Us.
00:08:42.300 And now they're trying to make it look like she wasn't for some reason.
00:08:47.020 She was so happy when they found Blake.
00:08:49.980 And she was also the one suggesting to Justin that he should play Ryle.
00:08:54.940 Later in this interview, the interviewer asks her what she has learned from her ups and downs in life.
00:09:01.100 And she says this.
00:09:02.940 I learned just to kind of play devil's advocate a lot and maybe not prejudge situations and, you know, try to see it from every angle.
00:09:11.520 Yeah, she's learned how to play devil's advocate and not prejudge situations and see it from every angle.
00:09:20.180 So that's what she's claiming she did with It Ends With Us, that she didn't prejudge Justin after Blake Lively told her to go against him.
00:09:31.800 Because it seemed like Colleen Hoover didn't really have a problem with Justin until Blake told her to have a problem with Justin.
00:09:39.700 So on May 19th of 2024, Justin and Colleen did an interview together with the same reporter, it seems, for Entertainment Tonight.
00:09:52.020 And what really caught my attention first from this interview is Colleen Hoover's body language.
00:09:58.020 She is just grabbing his arm so hard.
00:10:01.700 And this, you have to remember, is after they had finished the movie.
00:10:05.320 So for her to come out like she did in her deposition, to say that she felt like she wasn't heard enough, trying to make it look like she also had an issue with Justin, it wasn't just because Blake Lively told her to have an issue with him.
00:10:21.220 And then she does this in an interview.
00:10:23.280 No one forced her to hold his arms like this and grab onto him like this.
00:10:28.260 As I said, this was posted on May 19th, so I'm sure it was done the same day.
00:10:32.800 And it's interesting because both of them here are defending Blake.
00:10:37.780 A lot of people had a lot to say about her wardrobe in particular.
00:10:40.700 The photos show one moment from one part of Lively's life.
00:10:44.200 And we're not always thinking about why her clothes look that way in that area.
00:10:47.920 And also, once you see the movie, like, it all makes sense.
00:10:51.560 When Justin here is defending Blake Lively's wardrobe, he knew that she went $430,000 over budget.
00:11:00.200 And people hated her outfits.
00:11:02.960 It was a huge scandal.
00:11:04.460 Everyone on TikTok was talking about this.
00:11:07.040 So the backlash, as you know, against Blake Lively started long before the premiere of the movie.
00:11:13.400 Also, there was a lot of backlash about her age, that she was much older in the movie than she was in the book.
00:11:20.540 And Colleen even defended that in this interview.
00:11:23.080 Here is what really made it interesting to me.
00:11:25.260 Because they talked about the chemistry here with Blake.
00:11:28.120 And, I mean, just listen to this.
00:11:29.600 And their chemistry together is insane.
00:11:32.760 Blake Lively could have chemistry with a rock.
00:11:35.260 No, she's that talented.
00:11:36.700 Colleen says the chemistry between Blake and Justin is insane.
00:11:42.400 And Justin says Blake could have chemistry with a rock.
00:11:48.100 Looking back at that now, he was trying to make it sound like anyone could.
00:11:52.640 But I think Blake could only have chemistry with a rock.
00:11:57.080 But anyways, what I really noticed about this is how they are trying to make it seem like everything was going great on this set.
00:12:06.520 That it was such a good experience for everyone.
00:12:08.800 They're supporting Blake.
00:12:10.840 Justin is really supporting Blake.
00:12:13.140 At this point, he must have hated her.
00:12:16.220 Really, really hated her.
00:12:17.980 At this point, Ryan Reynolds had already unfollowed Justin on social media.
00:12:24.520 And he was terrified that Blake was going to do the same thing to create a lot of speculations amongst the public.
00:12:31.180 And at the same time, Blake was working really hard behind the scenes to put out little Easter eggs so people would start speculating what really happened on this set.
00:12:41.340 For her to ask, of course, the rest of the cast to unfollow Justin the same day.
00:12:46.300 The only reason for her to do that was because she wanted the public to notice.
00:12:49.780 And also the fact that she didn't want him on the red carpet.
00:12:53.380 She didn't want him to be involved in any of the publicity of the movie.
00:12:58.080 So she got a lot of other people that were involved in the movie to publish or post things on social media.
00:13:04.620 Reels and everything from the premiere and excluding Justin.
00:13:08.480 The only reason for that was so people would start speculating so that all this information would become public.
00:13:14.560 At the same time, as I just said, Justin and Colleen were trying to just tone everything down and to say everything is okay.
00:13:23.500 They both wanted what was best for this movie.
00:13:27.300 Blake did not.
00:13:28.780 Blake only wanted what was best for her to make her look like a victim in public.
00:13:34.880 Just two days before this interview, Justin wrote to Jennifer Abel, his publicist, saying we should have a plan for if she does the same when movie comes out.
00:13:44.260 Just want you guys to have a plan.
00:13:46.660 Plans make me feel more at ease.
00:13:49.520 So he's talking about how Ryan had already unfollowed him and blocked him.
00:13:54.840 And he wanted to make sure that they had a plan if that happened with Blake as well.
00:14:01.780 The same day as this interview was aired on Entertainment Tonight, Blake and Colleen were colluding behind the scenes.
00:14:10.980 Yes, this is the same day as she was grabbing and holding on to Justin's arm.
00:14:16.540 So Blake and Colleen are talking about Blake's cut of the movie first and Colleen loves everything that Blake does.
00:14:22.660 Everything.
00:14:23.580 She is like a fan of everything and Blake is so humbled and so grateful that Colleen loves her version of the movie so much more.
00:14:31.620 She doesn't love anything that Justin actually did.
00:14:34.180 And then Blake starts talking about the poster of the movie and she said his name three times plus his picture.
00:14:43.000 He doesn't want just the Lily poster and he's insisting on film by as well as directed by.
00:14:49.980 Film by is a controversial credit created by auteur filmmakers when they are the sole vision of the film in every facet.
00:14:58.900 And then she's sending the poster to Colleen, which is this one where you have Blake Lively's name and Justin Baldoni's name.
00:15:07.640 And his name is mentioned underneath the title as well.
00:15:10.780 And Colleen says, honestly, it should just be you on the poster.
00:15:15.220 And then she says, when me and Taryn co-wrote a book, our foreign publishers insisted on making my name bigger than hers.
00:15:22.240 And I wouldn't sign the contract until they made them the same size.
00:15:26.660 She is so nice, Colleen Hoover.
00:15:28.160 And Colleen continues, things like this make me so angry, especially when it's men.
00:15:34.460 They are such men haters, these women.
00:15:36.820 It's incredible.
00:15:37.860 Blake says, wow, that's really cool that you did that.
00:15:40.720 Yeah, it's pretty upsetting.
00:15:42.580 I never care about a poster or billing credits.
00:15:46.120 But in this scenario, it actually hurts.
00:15:49.640 Blake never cares about credits.
00:15:52.580 I mean, the thing, the fact that she actually said this to Colleen, when all she cares about is credit.
00:16:00.220 Yeah, and then Colleen loves that it's pretty upsetting and I never care about a poster or billing credits.
00:16:06.920 But in this scenario, it actually hurts.
00:16:09.220 Oh my God, the fakeness.
00:16:10.680 I can't deal with it.
00:16:11.740 You know, you're in one second, you're on Justin's arm and then the next second, you are colluding behind his back like this.
00:16:18.940 I just don't understand how these people can sleep at night.
00:16:21.900 Anyway, thank you, Matteo, for sending me this video.
00:16:24.100 I wanted to end this episode with this because I thought it was so hilarious.
00:16:27.920 So he sent me an interview that Bette Davis did and she was asked by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show who she hated working with.
00:16:37.920 And she was so honest about it.
00:16:40.100 This is really, really funny.
00:16:42.080 For who's one of the worst people you know in Hollywood?
00:16:44.820 That I worked with?
00:16:45.900 Or that you wouldn't want to work with again?
00:16:47.320 If you don't, you don't have to comment on that.
00:16:48.180 One million dollars pay Dunaway.
00:16:52.820 Everybody you can put into this chair will tell you exactly the same thing.
00:16:57.920 What is it about Miss Dunaway that makes your...
00:17:01.420 Well, she's just totally impossible.
00:17:04.040 Really?
00:17:04.500 Yes.
00:17:04.940 I don't think we have the time to go into all the reasons.
00:17:10.460 She just, let's put it, she is just uncooperative.
00:17:13.920 She's not...
00:17:14.440 Totally.
00:17:15.220 Miss Dunaway is for Miss Dunaway.
00:17:17.140 Truly.
00:17:17.780 All seriousness.
00:17:18.460 She's really...
00:17:19.160 She's very unprofessional.
00:17:21.040 I see.
00:17:21.480 Difficult woman.
00:17:22.800 Yeah, Bette Davis definitely didn't like Faye Dunaway.
00:17:26.920 So, this is not a new thing that people are difficult on sets in Hollywood.
00:17:31.720 Anyways, I hope you enjoyed this episode.
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