The Town is Laughing !!？
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Jashti Flohr was at the Critics' Choice Awards, and she's here to talk about it. She talks about the Golden Globes, and her thoughts on Amy Schumer's performance, and why she was snubbed.
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I was there yesterday at table 60. I was hanging out with everyone watching all the talents or
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celebrities arrive. Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Jashti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood
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truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. I was at the Critics' Choice
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Awards yesterday. I was on table 60. I'll tell you all about that. Also was Michaela Marone,
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Blake's new BFF, a part of this whole plan with the New York Times before it even happened.
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My source on the inside is telling me that directors in this town are talking amongst them now,
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trying to figure out why on earth Ryan Reynolds would invite Justin Baldoni to their penthouse
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to yell at him before the shoot even had started. This is quite telling. Also someone sent me a
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video how Amy Schumer shaded Blake lively and made fun of her on Comedy Central. Yes, as always we
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have a lot to talk about. Anyways, let's get into Critics' Choice because as I said, I was there
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yesterday at table 60. I was hanging out with everyone watching all the talents or celebrities
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arrive and I was all dressed up with Magnus and we had a really good time. Anyways, I was hoping for
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some scandals to happen, that someone would say something ridiculous or inappropriate on stage,
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but it didn't happen. I felt that Chelsea Handler could have done a better job at poking fun at people
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and being a little more edgy. I felt she played it too safe. I have to say though, my favorite moment
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was when she was joking about Leonardo DiCaprio being delayed because he was stuck on St. Barts.
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Leo's here. Thank God. Leo almost didn't make it tonight because he was trapped on a boat in St.
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It was just like the Titanic, but worse because Jeff Bezos was there.
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Yeah, I love that Leo always laughs when people are making jokes about him. He is a sport when it
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comes to these things and I do actually like Leo. I also think that Leo was snubbed yesterday.
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Timothee Chalamet won Best Actor for Marty Supreme. I think that should have been Leo for one battle
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after another. But anyways, Timothee Chalamet came up on stage and he was humble for once, which I liked
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because I feel like he's been a little too cocky.
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What's your talented, hard work grouping, hard working group of artists? Damn, I'm more nervous than I thought I'd be.
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And Kylie, his girlfriend, was there. She was sitting in the other end of the room
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and he was saying from stage, I love you. And she said, I love you back. So that was kind of a sweet moment
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between the two of them. But apart from that, not many surprises. I didn't see that many drunk people.
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There are always a few of those. It reminds me of a circus. Some people just behave outrageous just to
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have two seconds to talk to a celebrity. I find it very entertaining to watch these things happening.
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And that was one of my favorite things to see yesterday as well. I also had a few people come
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up to me and tell me that they watched this show and that they were super excited about it. So that made
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me very, very happy. And no one really said anything political yesterday except Jimmy Kimmel. He
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mentioned Trump. But apart from that, no one went there. But I was really hoping that some of the
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speeches at least would be a little bit fun. I remember I watched an interview with Ricky Gervais
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the other day who hosted the Golden Globes. I think it was five times. And he said, I am not there to
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entertain the 200 people in the room. I'm there to entertain the 60 million or 20 million people at home
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watching the show. And he said, I'm that fat guy at home in the sofa eating potato chips. That's who I
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am. And I think, of course, these winners want to thank all the people that got them there. But they
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can do that in private. I feel like the reason to televise something is because you want to entertain
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the people watching it. Well, those are my thoughts anyways. Next weekend is going to be the Golden
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Globes. And everyone knows my feelings about the crooked and corrupt Golden Globes. And I received this
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email a couple of days ago, and it really made me think how absurd all of this really is. Because someone
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invited me to go and do a story as a journalist on the gift suite that is offered to all the people
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that are nominated for a Golden Globe. So they can go in there, these celebrities, who get free stuff
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thrown at them every day. They can go into this place and collect all the free stuff that they want, as long
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as they just take a picture with the product or they take a picture from their vacation at Bora Bora
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or things like that. And I'm thinking, you know, it's good PR for all these brands. But why on earth would
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regular people be interested to read about all the free stuff that these already super privileged people
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are getting? Like, why? So we could be even more like, oh, good for them. Yes, they deserve that. Like, no,
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especially now, when so many people are struggling, I feel it's just so tone deaf to put any focus on
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what these people are getting for free. Anyways, let's get back to Blake Lively. I did read this
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comment that someone posted on my YouTube, and I was like, wow, so I had to look into this. So Nairi
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commented this on my YouTube saying that Mikael, Mikhele is the right pronunciation, is wearing the same
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sweater in this video and the same hairstyle that he had on the photo shoot for the announcement of
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him being casted as Enzo. This commenter is referring to the video I published with Mikhele,
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who was Blake Lively's co-star in Another Simple Favor. He's one of the people who's publicly
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supported Blake Lively the most. And I shared this video last week where he was talking about
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how much, you know, she was hurting and she was in pain and she's his friend. And this commenter here
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pointed out that he is wearing the same outfit in that video as he was wearing on December 17th.
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So this person is saying, you're telling me that a Dolce & Gabbana model wears the same sweater
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several times with the same hairstyle. And this happened within 10 days. So there's only one
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conclusion here. This was a very well thought out smear campaign on her part, talking about Blake.
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It was recorded before the article went online. I went in to check this and that video that
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he recorded supporting Blake Lively is not on his Instagram anymore. I don't know. It could have
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been that he just posted that on his story. But the point is he published this video on December 21st
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or 22nd after the New York Times article was published because he was telling people to go
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and read the article. So we know it was published after December 21st or 22nd. I don't remember exactly
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when that article came out. So that's why I want to link right here an article, the New York Times,
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just to make you understand before commenting what happened. But as this person is pointing out,
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he published a Instagram reel wearing that same sweater 10 days earlier, where he's announcing that
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he got a part in Paul Feig's next movie, The Housemaid. As you know, Paul Feig is also really
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close friends with Blake Lively and has been one of her other major supporters publicly. So we could
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take a guess here that these two videos was shot the same day as he's wearing the same outfit. He's
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wearing the same sweater. And if he shot that video on December 17th as well, it says so much about how
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everything around that article was planned and that he was a part of pushing that narrative for Blake
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and for the New York Times. And like this person is saying, he was a part of the smear campaign
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against Justin Baldoni. Very interesting observation. As I said, we don't know this 100%, but to me,
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it looks very likely that he recorded these two videos the same day. Okay, as I said, I've been speaking
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to my inside source again. The person contacted me again. This person knows Justin Baldoni and his
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wife and the person knows Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. So this is a real insider, you guys.
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And I've spoken to this person before about this incident because they said, I'm going to say they,
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I'm not going to say if it's a he or she. So they said that a lot of people now in Hollywood,
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especially directors, are talking about this meeting in Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's penthouse
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in New York when they invited Justin Baldoni over to yell at him for the fat shaming in front of Taylor
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Swift and Hugh Jackman. And this person here is saying that everyone that works on a movie knows
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that to have success with the film, you have to have a close and good working relationship between
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the director and the main actor. And why on earth would Ryan Reynolds go out before the shoot even
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started to ruin that relationship? Because that's what he did here. And that's what this person is
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saying. No one understands what the motivation is there. They also said that no one in Hollywood
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could even dream of putting together a meeting like this just to yell at someone. When you call
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for a meeting, you want to solve a problem. You want to make things better moving forward. You don't
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want to just yell at someone to make them feel uncomfortable and intimidating. So this person is asking
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why it why would Ryan Reynolds jeopardize this entire movie? They say here that one of the reasons could be
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that Ryan was offended that he didn't like his ideas for that rooftop scene because Justin at first wasn't
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too excited about that. But that seems very unlikely. And they also add or whatever perceived insult to his
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manhood that he simply could not control himself and literally had some sort of psychotic breakdown in
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front of everyone. Behaving like a child having a tantrum. That's what it seems like. That's what
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actually happened. Then they add that it's possible that Ryan was completely aware of what he was doing
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and was making a power play from the start to take over the film. That they already started to plant this
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false narrative that there was an issue here so that they could go back to that and build a case or build
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this narrative that they now have created to make this impression that there was a problem from the
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start. They're saying that Ryan might wanted to provoke even a fight. You wanted something to happen
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and to come from this and was maybe just provoking Justin. The person is saying all of this is just
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disgusting and embarrassing for Ryan. But Brian Friedman would be wise to drill down on this and lay out
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that no matter what the reason it makes Ryan look like the villain. So true. I have to say here
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looking at all of this, trying to make sense of it, trying to look at this from a psychological
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perspective here. I feel like when a person acts and reacts like Ryan did in this situation, he's acting
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and reacting out from feelings. To me, this is a way a person acts if they feel threatened. If you
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have to belittle someone in front of other people, your main goal is to show everyone that, hey, I'm in
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control here. And I find it hard to believe that they would plan this whole takeover already at this
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point. I think this started out with pure jealousy. He was threatened by Justin Baldoni's masculinity.
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And what's clear here is that Ryan would never ever do this to any other director who's more
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established. Can you imagine that he would invite Oliver Stone to his penthouse to yell at him for
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asking how much Blake Lively weighed? Or Steven Spielberg? Or Martin Scorsese? Do you think that
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he would do that to any of those people? Uh, no. And that tells me everything that this wasn't coming
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from a genuine place of just protecting his wife. This is how Ryan tried to protect himself
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against his own jealousy. Do you think it was jealousy driven this meeting? Or do you think
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that they already planned this from when this meeting happened? This, as I said, happened months
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before they even started shooting. Someone sent me a comment the other day as well saying that,
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look at Ryan Reynolds, he doesn't wear his wedding ring anymore. I haven't seen that. I don't know if
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you guys have noticed that. But anyways, I was scrolling through his Instagram today. And I noticed that
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he's only really publishing things about his football team, Rexham these days, or his soccer
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team. And there are no photos of him and Blake Lively on his front page on Instagram. You can scroll
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on and on and on and on and there's no photos of him and his wife. I find that interesting.
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I actually saw this is a bit ridiculous and I don't believe in these things. I'm not very into astrology,
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although I do find it entertaining sometimes. And the mirror in the UK had a astrologer look at
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the charts for Blake and Ryan next year. And I thought it was a little bit funny. And this person
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here is saying that there will be subtle tensions in Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively's relationship next
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year. The team, I don't know, they talked to a whole team of astrologers here. The team said that
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Venus and Venus and Saturn are highlighting lessons in long-term alignment and unspoken expectations.
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They say, this may bring attention to how personal ambitions intersect with family life.
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They added, even seemingly perfect couples can encounter stress if underlying dynamics are left
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unspoken. I wonder if Blake and Ryan have been completely honest with each other here.
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And we're about to find that out too, because as you know, this week and moving forward in January,
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a lot of evidence is going to be unsealed. And we are going to get a closer look at what really went on
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here. And if any of the stories Blake Lively has been telling us so far can really hold up. As we learned
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so far, there is no evidence proving any SH on that set. And there is no proof of any smear campaign.
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The expert continues here to say that this year asks Ryan and Blake to tune into the quieter aspects
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of their bond. Small misalignments may surface and the key will be honest dialogue. Okay, there we got
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it. If they take time to understand each other's evolving needs and honor those shifts, their
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relationship can deepen rather than fracture. So let's wait and see what happens. My prediction is
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that I think that this relationship is not going to last. But what do I know? I'm just guessing here.
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Anyways, talking about trials, I did mention that there's a lot of other lawsuits going on in Hollywood
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right now. And it seems like some people have learned stuff from Blake Lively, watching how she has
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successfully brought a case this far without having any evidence. I'm not saying that these people don't
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have any evidence. But what I've learned from this messy lawsuit is that I always want to get
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all the evidence out there before I make up my mind of who I believe or where the truth lays.
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And I found out something interesting when I was watching one of those legal channels that had
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this attorney on. His name is Jonathan J. Del Shad or Del Shad. And he's representing a lot of these
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victims. One of them being Brian King Joseph, who I spoke about last week, who's suing Will Smith for
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S.H. and wrongful termination and retaliation. Sound a bit familiar. I feel like I need to know a little
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bit more of his story before I make up my mind here. But I think there's some missing parts here that I
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You know, again, we haven't done discovery. We don't know what the facts are going to bear out.
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But again, the allegations here so far, I think the main allegations in our complaints are that
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some type of retaliation for reporting harassment.
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He's also suing Will Smith's studio management company as well. And the same lawyer is representing
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Mario Rodriguez, who recently filed a $77 million lawsuit alleging S.H. and emotional distress
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against Tyler Perry. Same lawyer is also representing Derek Dixon, another accuser who previously filed
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a lawsuit accusing Perry of S.H. and assaults. So I don't know what's up here, why this attorney
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has now three of these cases against celebrities. Two are against Taylor Perry and one against
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Will Smith. But I feel like when regular people go after celebrities, they think it's going
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to be a big paycheck there because they know that they have so much money. I don't know what
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you think here. I will keep following these cases to see how they develop and what more
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information comes out. Now that there are two people coming out against Tyler Perry, I think
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there might be something there. I feel like the more accusers come out, the more truth there is
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to this story. As Will Smith, I don't know. I find that there's some shadiness going on in that story,
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as I said before, but who knows? There might be a lot of stuff we don't know yet. Anyways, thank you
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Sidal for sending me this video. I wanted to end this episode with a little clip from Amy Schumer making
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fun of Blake Lively back in the day. This is from Comedy Central when she was doing a parody on
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Blake Lively and what she's like on talk shows. Please welcome, ladies and gentlemen, Amy Lake
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Lively. I'm so excited to be here. Oh, really? Yeah, you look excited. Does she look excited?
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You look excited? No, this is my favorite TV show. Oh, really? My absolute favorite TV show. I've been
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watching this since I was like 16. So like two years ago? Stop it. Stop it. The sketch went viral
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when it aired in May, comparing the faux celebrity interview to Lively's 2010 appearance on The Late
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Show with David Letterman. And then she went on Watch What Happens Live and talked about it.
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You're not going to believe this, but we're not close friends. I know. I have not heard anything.
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Yeah, we're not close or anything like that, Amy Schumer said. As you know, she was one of the few
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people who actually came out when Blake Lively filed her lawsuit and said, I believe Blake on
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Instagram. That's all we heard about that. And there was a video of her and Blake backstage at the
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SNL 50 when she gave Blake a hug and some lip reader said that everything's going to be okay,
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whatever. I feel like if you know someone, you would always say that and you would always hug
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someone if you already know them. It would be weird if she didn't do that. I wonder where she
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stands today, though. As you know, she has deleted her entire Instagram from before she lost all the
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weight. And she's saying it's not about losing the weight, but I don't know. I feel like Amy Schumer
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has lost it a little bit. She keeps posting all these weird things and a lot of focus on her body,
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on her weight loss. And now she's also getting a divorce. I do hope she figures everything out and
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finds new happiness in her life, wherever that takes her. Anyways, that's it for me, you guys. I
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