Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - This explains Ryan's fury !!

00:00:00.000 Why was Ryan Reynolds the only heterosexual man?

00:00:04.120 In Taylor Swift's music video, You Need to Calm Down.

00:00:12.200 Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk.

00:00:14.080 I'm Testi Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller,

00:00:16.800 and your voice of reason in a town built on the illusion.

00:00:21.220 I wonder why no media outlet picked up this interview with Steve Sarowitz.

00:00:26.460 I spoke about this yesterday.

00:00:27.820 Steve Zarowitz is the billionaire backer of the Wayfair parties and Justin Baldoni and he came out

00:00:34.540 of a podcast talking about how this experience has been for him personally and for the other

00:00:40.760 parties involved and no one wrote about it. In the meantime Blake Lively is radio silent while

00:00:47.300 Ryan Reynolds is obsessed with posting reels with himself and other male celebrities talking about

00:00:53.740 kissing them. Very interesting. And it begs the question, why was Ryan Reynolds the only

00:00:59.980 heterosexual man in Taylor Swift's music video? You need to calm down. Yeah, that's right. What

00:01:06.700 was Taylor Swift trying to tell us? Also, there is this very interesting article talking about

00:01:12.880 how Ryan Reynolds is the wife guy and how Blake Lively is his brand. After reading this, it makes

00:01:20.940 so much sense why Ryan Reynolds acted the way that he did. Why he was desperate to protect his

00:01:28.300 brand, meaning his wife Blake Lively. Let's also look at how this body expert explained Ryan's

00:01:36.020 body language when he's talking about his wife compared to when he was talking about soccer.

00:01:42.920 Have a wild guess what made him most excited. And the judge has ruled again. This time he ruled

00:01:49.320 on a motion from one of the insurance companies who's suing the Wayfair parties. There are actually

00:01:56.740 four active lawsuits involving the Wayfair parties and different insurance companies.

00:02:03.800 What a headache. Okay, so let's get into it. As I mentioned the other day, Ryan Reynolds

00:02:09.480 Gin Distillery in Portland just closed down. And guess what? Ryan decided to remove from his

00:02:18.880 Instagram profile that he's the owner of Aviation Gin. Someone on Reddit saved his profile and

00:02:26.640 compared his biography or whatever the little description section here from May 15 of this

00:02:35.780 year till now and points out that Ryan Reynolds removed that he's an owner of Aviation Gin and

00:02:44.580 mint mobile i wonder why he did that there's still a link to mint mobile but why did he remove that

00:02:52.580 he's an owner of aviation gin and mint mobile is that something that they suggested saying hey

00:02:59.400 you're not a good brand ambassador at the moment could you just remove that you're the owner of

00:03:04.680 the company if he still is i thought he sold both of those companies by the way but interesting that

00:03:10.260 these things are happening at the same time. The same user on Reddit also points out that he lost

00:03:16.160 300,000 followers in the space of two months. That's quite a lot, I would say. But let's look

00:03:22.900 at these reels that he keeps posting lately. As I mentioned so many times here, what Ryan is doing

00:03:28.240 now is reminding or trying to remind everyone that he is still a big A-list star and that he's

00:03:36.020 hanging out with a lot of other A-listers and that he has a great sense of humor and I find it a bit

00:03:41.640 interesting how he just like a week ago or maybe two weeks ago it is now that he posted this reel

00:03:48.820 with Andrew Garfield where they are interviewing each other it was an actor-on-actor interview

00:03:54.920 organized by Variety and Ryan wanted to go down the memory lane with Andrew Garfield and talk

00:04:01.700 about how they plan to kiss each other if one of them won the Golden Globes instead of kissing

00:04:07.580 their wives. I don't know if both were nominated here or the backstory there, but Ryan thought this

00:04:13.740 was so funny, so he posted or reposted that interview. They call your name and you win.

00:04:19.880 Don't kiss your wife, just kiss me. And of course, Gosling, who absolutely did not deserve it.

00:04:26.960 um uh and i love that we were just sitting there we're just like yeah let's just do it

00:04:31.940 and now a couple of days ago again he reposted an interview with himself and also hugh jackman

00:04:39.860 they were appearing on chicken shop dates this is weirdly the best date i've ever had yeah i was

00:04:46.140 thinking that too did he try and kiss you no he didn't he tried to kiss me as i was walking

00:04:49.760 Are you kidding me?

00:04:50.880 It was...

00:04:51.360 And Ryan decided to also repost that recently.

00:04:55.440 It's like he wants us to see him kissing or wanting to kiss other men.

00:05:00.300 He also reposted that he got kisses from dog pool as well.

00:05:05.080 Out here we got offshoots.

00:05:07.500 Yeah, I don't know if that was a coincidence.

00:05:09.180 But I do find it interesting why he keeps reposting this video

00:05:13.060 where he talks about kissing other men.

00:05:15.160 And then Tanya, thank you so much for sending me this video.

00:05:18.480 I don't remember seeing Ryan Reynolds in this Taylor Swift video.

00:05:23.520 This is from 2019.

00:05:25.420 It's the song You Need to Calm Down.

00:05:27.720 And in this music video, Taylor basically only had iconic gay figures, 0.72

00:05:34.440 transgenders and drag queens dressed up as celebrities.

00:05:39.400 There are no other heterosexual men in this music video.

00:05:43.100 and all of a sudden you see Ryan Reynolds sitting there painting from the background and he peeks

00:05:50.300 out and he looks at the crowd or whatever he's doing. So as Tanya was pointing out here, why is

00:05:56.180 Ryan the only hetero man in this music video? And I have the same question. Did Ryan know that all

00:06:04.140 the others in this music video would be gay or transgender or drag queens dressed up as celebrities

00:06:10.760 and he would be the only hetero man or did Taylor just not tell him that but anyways I do think that

00:06:17.420 it is a bit strange that Ryan keeps just posting photos of himself and Hugh Jackman and Rob Mack

00:06:26.280 and never pictures of Blake Lively anymore it's only him and the lads hanging out and now he

00:06:32.420 started posting reels and posts talking about kissing these men as well I don't know let me

00:06:37.760 know what you think about this while talking about that uh thank you Vesna for sending me this video 0.99

00:06:42.920 this was quite interesting so this is Sadie the prime minister of behavior she calls herself here

00:06:48.840 and she went through that interview that Ryan Reynolds did a couple of months ago when he was

00:06:55.420 on stage in front of a live audience and he was asked shortly about how he feels about this whole

00:07:02.060 legal feud and drama and about Blake and how they basically have been handling this situation

00:07:07.280 together as a family. And Sadie here looked very closely at Ryan Reynolds' body language and his

00:07:14.540 tone of voice when he was talking about his wife and compared it to when he was talking about

00:07:20.620 soccer or football. I want you to take a look at how his face is when he says how proud he is

00:07:26.940 of his wife. I want to compare this with when he's talking about his football and the joy that that

00:07:33.600 brings him it's been one of the love great loves of my life truly rex was just one of these things

00:07:39.200 the warmth in his face when he's talking about his sports team versus the look on his face when

00:07:44.900 he's talking about his wife i think that this is extremely revealing and it's just very

00:07:51.900 interesting to me to see his body language is betraying everything that he's saying in this

00:07:58.460 moment he also has a side eye look at the interviewer and if I was the interviewer I would

00:08:05.240 actually probably feel very uncomfortable in this moment just because of how he's looking at him

00:08:11.400 yeah isn't that quite interesting how his voice got higher he got so much more engaged

00:08:18.160 when he talked about soccer than when he talked about Blake she also mentioned how he was

00:08:24.060 distancing himself from his wife by never mentioning her name. He would just say my wife

00:08:30.820 or he would just call her a person. I've never been more proud of a person who has all this

00:08:36.740 integrity, whatever. And then he's just sitting there waiting for the public to applaud him when

00:08:44.380 he is putting her on this pedestal and saying that he's never been more proud of her and he's

00:08:50.640 never met anyone with more integrity in everything that she does in life. I mean this interview was

00:08:55.700 so cringe and also of course we remember that priceless quote that he had here saying that

00:09:01.520 no one really knows what's going on here. People have no idea what's really going on. He's really

00:09:07.600 trying to drive home the idea that nobody knows what's going on in reality. That does a few things

00:09:12.980 at once. It dismisses any outside analysis or criticism because the assumption becomes you

00:09:18.460 don't have the full picture it also implies that there are some hidden layer or truth that would

00:09:23.240 change everything without ever having to explain what that is so now you can't really challenge

00:09:29.480 him because he's positioned everyone else as being on the outside looking in i've obviously spoken

00:09:35.340 about this interview before here on my channel but i thought it was interesting to mention it again

00:09:39.400 now that i saw this body language expert talk about it yeah if you remember a while back i had

00:09:45.680 two insiders on my show and they were completely convinced that Blake and Ryan's marriage was just

00:09:52.760 arranged. It was just a facade and they don't even live together. But I don't know, it's all alleged

00:10:00.040 and we just have to guess or keep on guessing. Let's talk about how Ryan is the ultimate wife

00:10:07.860 guy. This is a very fascinating article and it makes everything that he did and said make total

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00:12:02.440 back into it i think someone sent me this article and now i don't remember who it was so i'm sorry

00:12:07.960 if i'm not giving you credit here i read this article again this morning i read it last week

00:12:12.940 too and i was like this is really really spot on it explains so many things so why ryan reynolds

00:12:19.260 behaved the way that he did during and after and before this lawsuit so here it says the problem

00:12:26.500 with famous men becoming wife guys ryan reynolds reaction to blake lively at the met so they're

00:12:33.580 talking about the met gala here made for much internet gushing but there's something disingenuous

00:12:39.560 about the overall trends so i'm guessing at this point there was a viral moment where ryan was

00:12:46.320 looking at blake admiring her in her whatever dress she was wearing at the met gala and people

00:12:52.260 were like oh my gosh look at him he's so proud of his wife what a great husband he is so this

00:12:59.240 article explains what a wife guy is i've never heard that expression before it says a wife guy

00:13:04.620 wants everyone to know that they are comfortable stepping aside to let the limelight shine on their

00:13:10.520 stunningly beautiful wives and it says here that as a self-appointed hype man they're maintaining

00:13:17.260 a stoic and sturdy presence beside their wives on the red carpet. The wife guy's identity is often

00:13:25.200 not just a personal choice, but a professional gambit. It began as an internet phenomenon

00:13:32.040 referring to men who turned their wives into their own personal brands. Sounds familiar.

00:13:38.360 Thereby advancing their own careers in the process. But it had its roots in famous men

00:13:44.380 igniting the wife guy olympic torch who continued to prowl the zeitgeist whilst carrying it high

00:13:52.040 above their heads they're also mentioning tom cruise in this article how he was jumping on

00:13:58.040 oprah winfrey's couch when he got married to katie holmes because he was so in love with her and that

00:14:04.740 is kind of when this trend started according to this article here but mainly they're talking about

00:14:09.920 Ryan Reynolds here and it says Reynolds has built an image of himself as a wife guy pro. Anytime he's

00:14:15.720 in the news or in a meme it is because of his irreverent humor at his wife's expense meant to 0.74

00:14:23.220 convey that his wife brings out his best and wittiest side and slowly wife guys in the public

00:14:30.000 eye melt into one with their wives unable to detach their personality from that of someone

00:14:37.920 married to goddesses on earth this while we know nothing about their wives in question at all why

00:14:45.920 the men continue boosting their own celebrity and feminist credentials to boots this article i have

00:14:53.360 to say is from 2022 but i think it's so spot on explaining who ryan reynolds is here they continue

00:15:00.660 here to say but the thing about wife guys is that they call attention to their wives almost as if

00:15:06.040 they're displaying her. The key aspect of a wife guy's branding is that it is his girl.

00:15:15.000 He, most importantly, has her. In trying to subvert norms around heterosexual coupledom, 0.60

00:15:22.880 wife guys end up upholding the oldest trope of them all, the trophy wife. They tweet about it, 0.92

00:15:30.000 they post about it, they post with it, and do all the things that it's seemingly to draw attention

00:15:35.540 to her, drawing attention only to themselves. Basically saying, look what I married. And they're

00:15:43.900 saying here that there can, after all, be no bigger feminist than a guy who worships the ground his 1.00

00:15:49.940 wife walks on. Moreover, it is now in these men's power to define which wives are worth wife-guying

00:15:57.100 over. God forbid their wives deviate from controversial beauty norms in some way. You will 0.96

00:16:03.440 see their husbands award themselves husband of the year for loving them not despite but because of

00:16:10.680 it so yeah that also makes sense why Ryan Reynolds got so furious over the fat shaming coming from

00:16:19.480 Justin Baldoni because he took it as an offense to himself that Justin didn't think his wife

00:16:28.100 was perfect that her body wasn't perfect enough of course we all know that that is not really

00:16:34.180 what happened but that's what happened in brian reynolds mind and they're ending it here by saying

00:16:38.880 it also makes sense that we don't know much about what wife guys do beside love their wives

00:16:44.440 excessively do wife guys do the dishes at home do they fold their clothes and in the mega rich

00:16:51.320 celeb version do they manage the people who do these chores do they manage the managers

00:16:56.340 from the perspective of mere mortals it's unclear what super famous couples domestic life entails

00:17:02.560 and how much of it wife guys participate in so basically the wife becomes the stage

00:17:08.260 and the wife guy becomes the star and this is exactly what ryan reynolds has done he has built

00:17:15.920 his public identity around how he worships his wife so what happens if someone challenges the

00:17:23.220 image that he has created about his wife meaning the image that he has created about himself well

00:17:29.680 he has to come out and defend that he's built this million dollar brand out of Blake Lively as his

00:17:35.740 wife so of course he has to do anything in his power to protect that and of course because Blake

00:17:41.660 became so unpopular Ryan was terrified that it was going to rub off on him and it did but not

00:17:49.320 because Blake herself was so unpopular but basically because Ryan Reynolds entered the

00:17:54.880 stage himself and got himself involved in all the drama so as this article mentioned when Blake

00:18:00.840 Lively was walking the red carpet at the Met Gala and the headlines were about how Ryan Reynolds was

00:18:06.080 worshipping her and the way he looked at her the headlines weren't anymore about Blake Lively

00:18:11.740 looking beautiful at the Met Gala, it was all about Ryan watching her, admiring her. So while

00:18:20.240 Blake was getting a lot of attention, Ryan got the admiration, he got the validation, and he got the

00:18:27.080 reputation in Hollywood as the perfect husband. I did a little research on this because I find

00:18:32.480 the psychology around this really fascinating. So in psychology, this is called identity protection.

00:18:38.740 so you're protecting the image that made millions of people basically love you through you loving

00:18:45.540 your wife and i think we've seen this so clearly on what was important for ryan when he was trying

00:18:51.760 to protect his wife he was going after everyone in the industry as you might remember he sent

00:18:57.580 really threatening texts to wme to sony saying hey why aren't you out there protecting my wife

00:19:04.920 from all this slander online it was never about protecting her from feeling unsafe on the set

00:19:12.120 it was only about protecting her public image because that was also a threat to himself and

00:19:18.620 i think this is also why ryan was attacking justin baldoning for being a feminist because

00:19:23.380 the way he sees it he is the ultimate feminist himself because he worships his wife and to him

00:19:30.180 Justin is just a fake feminist because he doesn't worship women the way he does he only respects

00:19:35.940 them and he only listens to them and for Ryan that's not a real feminist and of course that's 0.66

00:19:41.760 also why he had to mock Justin Baldoni and create a character around him attacking him

00:19:47.120 for being a feminist in the Deadpool movie yeah it makes so hard sense to me that Blake is Ryan's

00:19:53.040 brand it's all about branding it's all about monetizing his brand and he wanted Blake to be

00:19:58.440 a successful brand to have her own brands which never succeeded as you know because Blake's

00:20:04.440 businesses kept failing that of course really bothered Ryan and now one of his major brands

00:20:10.680 has failed his wife Blake is no longer valuable in Hollywood she's not longer valuable for brands

00:20:18.400 so what is he going to do about this let me know what you think don't you think this makes a lot

00:20:23.940 of sense. Anyways, let's look at these other lawsuits here. I'll go quickly through them to

00:20:29.200 just give you an overview of what's going on here because there's so many lawsuits and I didn't know

00:20:34.780 until this morning that there were actually four lawsuits from four different insurance companies

00:20:41.380 trying to deny the wayfair parties to get their attorney's fees and costs covered. So one of them

00:20:50.280 is actually suing the Wayfair parties.

00:20:53.300 The three others, the Wayfair parties are suing them.

00:20:56.400 So a few days ago, Judge Lyman actually ruled on one of these,

00:21:01.140 a motion to dismiss from Harko National Insurance in New York.

00:21:06.460 And the judge said that that lawsuit can move forward.

00:21:09.780 And they're basically claiming that because the Wayfair parties had a policy with them

00:21:16.500 starting July 15 of 2023 to July 15 of 2024.

00:21:22.420 And then they renewed it for the second period

00:21:25.500 from July 15, 2024 to July 15, 2025.

00:21:31.600 And they're claiming that the Wayfair parties knew

00:21:35.380 at that point when they renewed this contract with them

00:21:39.240 that there was a risk for a lawsuit.

00:21:43.440 And they said that they didn't inform them of that.

00:21:45.820 and because of that they refuse to pay their legal fees other insurance companies are in

00:21:52.460 california one is called new york marine for some reason still in california though the wayfair

00:21:58.240 parties are suing them because they denied them insurance coverage they're also suing qbe insurance

00:22:04.060 and lloyd underwriters so four companies are refusing to give them any money and the three

00:22:13.860 other companies here are using the fact that justin baldoni and jamie heath were accused of

00:22:20.500 sh so the new york marine and qbe are arguing both of them arguing the same thing saying the

00:22:27.140 lawsuit alleges workplace sh retaliation and related employment claims and our policies

00:22:33.740 exclude claims erasing out of employment related misconduct therefore we don't have to provide

00:22:40.640 coverage so they're basically saying here that they're not covering any employment related

00:22:45.800 sh harassment or retaliation claims very important though this does not mean that they believe anyone

00:22:52.140 is guilty here i'm sure blake lively supporters are trying to going to try to spin it in that

00:22:57.480 direction but that has nothing to do with it as you know if you had experiences with insurance

00:23:03.640 companies they never want to pay they always make it really really difficult so let's see what

00:23:10.500 happens here thankfully as i mentioned yesterday justin baldoni and the wayfair parties have a lot

00:23:17.000 of support from steve sarowicz who is a billionaire who has backed them throughout this i'm sure they

00:23:23.500 already paid a lot of these bills but i hope for their sakes that the insurance companies have to

00:23:28.200 pay this because if they get away with this then it's going to be even harder in the future to get

00:23:34.500 any coverage from insurance companies if you get sued for sh and i think again hollywood is going

00:23:41.420 to try and protect themselves from these kind of scenarios in the future and if they know that

00:23:48.020 someone like blake libel could come along and start suing people in the movie or the director

00:23:53.880 of the movie for sh and their insurance wouldn't cover that what are they going to do in the future

00:24:00.440 this is going to be really interesting to see how hollywood is going to navigate all of this

00:24:05.700 knowing what could happen because this is obviously worst case scenario here if you meet

00:24:11.620 someone with like blake who has almost unlimited resources trying to destroy another person or

00:24:18.380 several people yeah that's not ideal anyways that's it for me today you guys thank you so

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - July 18, 2026

This explains Ryan's fury !!

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