The Judge just SHOCKED everyone
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Jed Wallace's case against Blake Lively has been dismissed by the judge, and now Blake is asking for $650 million in damages. The judge said it's not a retaliation campaign, it's defamation in disguise. That makes Blake's narrative completely collapse.
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that makes Blake Lively's narrative completely collapse.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tashdi Flore, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,
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and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. This is getting so delusional,
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you guys. Welcome to the Delulu show. I mean, I have no words left for what's happening
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right now. As I said yesterday, Jed Wallace's case was dismissed by the judge. This is huge.
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Jed Wallace was or is the hired gun behind the smear campaign or the alleged smear campaign
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retaliation campaign against Blake Lively, and the judge is not having it. This is actually much
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more interesting than I realized yesterday when I just broke the news. We'll get into that.
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And, of course, we have to talk about the talk of the town right now, which is Blake Lively's ask
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for punitive damages. She is asking, hold your horses, for $650 million. And that's not including
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her attorney's fees. Anyways, there's some good headlines today about the dismissal of Jed Wallace
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lawsuit. This lawsuit doesn't look so good for Blake. And also Ryan Reynolds is getting a lot of backlash
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in Minnesota because they're offended by his new boxed wine. And Kim Kardashian's horrific new TV show
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that got 0% on Rotten Tomatoes is getting a boost. People went crazy to hate watch this new show.
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Also, Jennifer Lawrence is opening up about why she didn't need an intimacy coordinator for her latest
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movie. And Sydney Sweeney is caught kissing her boyfriend, Scooter Braun, in New York. I wonder which
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one of them called the paparazzi. This is so staged. Anyway, since I said yesterday, I didn't have time
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to actually look into the judge ruling when he dismissed Jed Wallace, the hired gun, the crisis
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PR expert that Blake Lively has accused of being the brain behind this retaliation campaign or this
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alleged smear campaign. So this is the second time the judge is dismissing his case. But this time,
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the judge said something very interesting that I didn't speak about yesterday. He said
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that this is not a retaliation campaign. He said this is about defamation. This is about
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reputation. And when he's saying this is not a retaliation campaign, that makes Blake Lively's
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narrative completely collapse. So Judge Lyman basically said that everything Blake accused
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wallows off isn't actually harassment or retaliation. It's just about her reputation. She is mad that
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people don't like her online. And the judge can totally see that. And according to New York law, if your
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entire complaint is about people hurt my image, you can't sue an outsider for that. The judge called her
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out and said, this is defamation in disguise. And then we have to ask the question, who defamed
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Blake Lively? Everyone knows the answer to that. And that is Blake Lively. All the bad press she received
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from this whole press tour was because of things that she said herself. It was about the wardrobe of
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It Ends With Us. That's how it started. And the reason why people didn't like the clothes, the wardrobe
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that Blake Lively chose herself for It Ends With Us was because the clothes were horrendous. Then, of course,
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she followed up with this terrible PR tour. And who was behind her PR tour? That was Ryan Reynolds'
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company Maximum Effort. And of course, they didn't want to take responsibility for promoting the movie
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as a romantic comedy kind of chick flick movie. So they wanted to blame that on Justin Baldoni,
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who had nothing to do with the PR of the movie because he wasn't even allowed to do interviews
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with them. Anyways, so we have to keep that in mind here. So in the second complaint, Blake Lively
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added some more factors. She was talking about astroturfing. She was talking about fake social media
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campaigns, secret websites, all of that. And the court just said, nope, we're not buying it, Blake.
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So not only did the judge dismiss her claims against Jed Wallace because there is no jurisdiction
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for Jed Wallace in New York because he is Texas-based. So basically, he said, if you want to go after Jed
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Wallace, go after him in Texas. But on top of that, he also said, you can't call this a retaliation
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campaign. And that is what's really, really important here. So if the judge doesn't see this
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as retaliation from the Jed Wallace perspective, how will he see it from Baldoni's perspective and
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the Wayfair Party's perspective? Will he say that this isn't a retaliation campaign? And then what
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happens to her major claim? Because now we know this is where she says she was mostly hurt.
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It's not from the alleged S-age that occurred on set that she has no evidence of. So the judge
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basically warned her with this, saying that if your whole case boils down to bad press,
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you're in the wrong courtroom. He's basically saying to Blake that your massive lawsuit may really be
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about damage control, not about justice. Anyways, Blake doesn't think it's weak. She has just
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asked for hold your horses, $650 million. This is so insane, you guys. So she's saying that she lost about
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$56 million in lost earnings, meaning like for movie roles and whatever, all these movies she's doing
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every year. And then $71 million in lost profits, $34 million in reputation harm, and $483 million
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in punitive damages. So it all adds up to around $650 million. Just to put that in perspective,
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Johnny Depp sued Amber Heard for $50 million. $50. And Amber Heard countersued him for $100 million.
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He ended up getting $15 million, and that was later reduced to $10.3 million. While Blake here
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believes that her career and her brands are worth $650 million. It's also funny how she's been
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promoting everything online, saying that she's so successful with everything, while then she's now
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admitting that she's not. And can you imagine who will actually hire her after they know they could
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be sued for $650 million if she does bad press? Because that's obviously not her fault, what she
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says and what she does. So if we break down what she's asking for, it's about 15 times of her entire
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lifetime career earnings. She's asking 15 times more than she's ever made. Because for her, a movie,
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we know that she was paid $1.75 million for It Ends With Us. And she's claiming $56.2 million in lost
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earnings. So to actually get to that amount, she would have to do 32 lead roles in movies. And that would
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be about 16 years of nonstop work doing two movies every single year. She's also claiming that she
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lost $71 million in lost profits to her companies, Blake Brown Beauty and Betty B. So industry trackers
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are estimating the entire worth of Betty Bells or Betty Boos to be about $60 million in total. And she
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owns only a portion of that. And she's asking for $71 million from Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair
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parties. For the SH claims, though, which is quite interesting, she only think those claims and the
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damage she got from that is worth $250,000 to $400,000. So that's really at the bottom here. That's
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not the important thing. And that also says that she doesn't really see that as something that really
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harmed her. She just looks like a greedy, opportunistic person with a completely blown
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up ego who has lost all touch with reality. Not ever in Hollywood history has an actress
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asked for this amount of money. I'm guessing that Ryan Reynolds has helped her figure out how much she
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is worth. But the fact is, when she's asking for this amount, she needs to back it up. So she needs
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to get some experts on board here to say that she's actually worth this amount of money. And the
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thing is, it's pretty easy for Baldoni's team to, you know, say that this is ridiculous. How can she
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be worth this amount when she makes this amount for a movie? Another thing that's really funny here
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is, thank you, Erica, for reminding me of this. I've talked about it before. And I thought that they
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probably had corrected this, but they haven't. So on the website where you can book Blake Lively as a
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speaker, which is something she mentions here that she lost speaking opportunities for like a
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few million dollars, I think. And if you go to this website, you can book her. I think it's $200,000
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for an event. Insane. But anyways, what's really funny here is when you go to AAE Speaker's booking page,
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you can see Blake Lively's bio. And then also there are two videos attached to her profile. And one of
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them is my viral video with my nightmare interview with Blake Lively. So they have that on her page to
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promote her. I mean, who would book someone like that? It's like this company doesn't really want
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anyone to book her. Why would you keep a video like that up there to promote one of your speakers?
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Anyway, so Blake got some bad headlines from this Jed Wallace dismissal. Daily Mail said that Blake
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Lively suffers courtroom blow in Justin Baldoni feud as judge tosses claims against social media guru.
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And the Independent said judge tosses Blake Lively's claim against social media guru after Justin
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Baldoni lawsuit ends. Variety. Judge again tosses Blake Lively's claims against social media operative
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Jed Wallace. People Magazine. Blake Lively's claims against social media expert Jed Wallace again
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dismissed by the judge due to jurisdiction. I love that they say that it's dismissed again,
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meaning again that people are reminded that she has no evidence for her claims. Anyway,
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let's get into something else. This story caught my attention. As I said before, I like Jennifer Lawrence
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a lot. I think she's so cool. She's so relaxed. She says the most, the funniest things and it's coming
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straight from the heart. She doesn't have a filter. And I love that as a journalist, that is just amazing.
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I just love people that are just like not filtered, honest. You don't have to agree with everything she
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says, but at least she's honest. So I really applaud that. And in this article, she explains why she
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didn't need an intimacy coordinator with her co-star, Robert Pattinson, who I also adore. He is the sweetest
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guy. I only met him once. I interviewed him, but he was so sweet, so shy. And just like this guy,
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you just want to hug him. I really, really love Robert Pattinson. Also so down to earth. Anyway,
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so Lauren said here in an interview that we didn't have an intimacy coordinator, or maybe we did,
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but we didn't really. I really felt safe with Rob. He's not the pervy and very in love with his
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partner. The actress said the pair shared an easy trust on set, adding that they spent most of their
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time talking about our kids and relationships. She said that there were never any weird, like,
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does he think I like him? If there was a little bit of that, I would probably have an intimacy
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coordinator. A lot of male actors get offended if you don't want to F them. And then the punishment
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starts. He was not like that. This is what Blake Lively is accusing Paldoni of, that he wanted to F
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her on the set of It Ends With Us, that he was so attracted to her that he had to bite her lip.
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After all the horrible things she did to him to try to take over the movie, get him to sign all
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these, like, points, she said that he was so attracted to her that he harassed her. Anyways,
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and she also talks about being nude after she gave birth to her baby and when she was pregnant during
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her last movie. And she says that she didn't want them to retouch her body, even though they sent her
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some photos. And she said that I was pregnant for Die My Love. Like, what was I going to do? Not eat?
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I was working 15 hours a day. I was just tired. She laughed off offers to digitally retouch her body
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on screen. I remember, like, them sending over a close-up of cellulites and being like,
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do you want us to touch this up? And I was like, no, that's an ass. Yeah, I love that. I don't know
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if you noticed, if you watch a scene, a very intimate scene between two people, that there's
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no, like, wrinkly skin, there's no cellulite, nothing, which is very unnatural. And of course,
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this is the reason why, because they sit and do frame by frame and remove cellulites or anything
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that looks, you know, human. Anyways, I'm glad Jennifer Lawrence is back again and giving
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us some good quotes here. Also, we have to talk about Kim Kardashian's new TV show. It says here
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on Radar Online that after this TV show, All's Fair is what it's called, that I spoke about yesterday
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too, after it got zero percent on Rotten Tomatoes, people were so curious about it that they had to go
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and hate watch it. And so the numbers for the drama skyrocket yesterday, because everyone wanted to
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see how bad it was. I think this is just like a one-time thing that's going to happen that maybe
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people watch one episode and it's like, okay, it is that bad, but then they're not going to watch the
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entire show. So I'm not sure if it's going to help the show at all. I just feel bad for all these other
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amazing actresses like Sarah Paulson is in it, Glenn Close, Naomi Watts. I mean, these are great
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actresses and they probably trusted Ryan Murphy to do a successful show. And then Kim Kardashian came
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along. I'm not going to blame it on her, but they are saying that she's a terrible actress in it.
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So it's really unbearable to watch. I haven't seen it yet, but I do think I will watch one episode
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just to see what all the fuzz is about. Anyways, now the entire state of Minnesota is furious with Ryan
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Reynolds because he offended them with his boxed wine. It says here in Daily Mail that Ryan Reynolds
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has managed to upset an entire state after promoting his new boxed wine by implying Minnesotans
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would get it more than high bro East coasters. So he's basically saying that boxed wine is below
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East coasters, people in New York where he lives, but people in Minnesota, they can drink boxed wine.
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They don't care so much because they're not so sophisticated. Is that what he's trying to say
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here? So he was asked here by Star Tribune why he chose to launch his new low-cost boxed wine brand,
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Ugly Estates, that's what it's called, exclusively in Minnesota. But instead of charming locals,
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he sparked backlash with what many felt were condescending digs at the state and its residents.
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I don't think Martha's Vineyard is going to really embrace this the way Minnesota might.
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Despite his best efforts to womb in Midwesterners, locals didn't find the remarks cute or endearing.
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News flashed to Ryan, most people who drink wine here don't drink boxed wine. One Instagram user fumed
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online. Anyway, nothing new here with Ryan Reynolds doing tone-deaf promotions and underestimating
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people's intelligence. Anyways, these pictures just popped up of Sydney Sweeney and her new boyfriend
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Scooter Braun. And this just made me laugh because it's so staged. Look at the two of them sitting on
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the rock just casually in the middle of Central Park making out. I feel like these two guys are very
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busy. They don't have time, first of all, during the day to walk in Central Park and sit and kiss on a
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rock. And the way the pictures are framed with the leaves and everything. It's just like,
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this is so staged. They call this photographer to come there and take these photos of the two of
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them. I don't know if I believe their relationship either. I feel there's so many fake relationships
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out there. All of these stars just wants to get a lot of attention and they use relationships to get
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that attention. And as I spoke about with my guests, Lynette and Kevin, the other day, they were
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talking about all these staged relationships and how they're so normal in Hollywood. Like, you know,
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this summer, the one between Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson that everyone thought was so cute. And
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then we realized it was all a PR move to sell their movie. And I feel like this relationship here,
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I don't know. Let me know what you think. How long do you give Sydney Sweeney and Scooter Braun?
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I think about three months. Anyways, that's it for me, you guys. I really hope you enjoyed this
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