TRUTH IS COMING OUT !!
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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively are feeling the cold from Hollywood, and new photos of them with Taylor Swift and her co-star from Another Simple Favor, Andrew Reynolds, have caused a stir. Plus, Ryan Reynolds and his ex-wife are planning a move to Europe, and a major publicist has left his publicist.
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Hi and welcome to Flossom Talk. I'm Tashli Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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So let's look at how Blake and Ryan are now being iced out by Hollywood and these new photographs that are being shared online
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with Blake's former BFF Taylor Swift and her co-star from Another Simple Favor,
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And let's look at this, how Ryan Reynolds was trying to ridicule the other lawsuit going on
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that potentially could really take him down, the Van Zandt lawsuit.
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And he used all the biggest late night hosts to do it for him.
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It also looks like Blake Lively's publicist Leslie Sloan is losing grip over Hollywood.
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One of her major publicists just left her company.
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And let's talk about this ridiculous fluff piece in People magazine.
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I think this story shows the lowest of the low of how a magazine can sink.
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and I have some really interesting inside info from my insider who tells me what really went
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on behind the scene during these settlement meetings. Okay so let's get into it. This
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photograph popped up on my Instagram feed yesterday and I was like oh I wonder how Blake
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will feel when she sees this. So Lena Dunham had a 40th birthday party in New York in West Village
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in a restaurant, I think it was. And she invited all her friends and she took a selfie with her
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friends. And there you see Taylor Swift. And who is she sitting next to? Blake Lively's co-star
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from A Simple Favor and Another Simple Favor, Andrew Reynolds. He was with her during the
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promotion of Another Simple Favor last year. He was trying to stay away from all the drama because,
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of course all his co-stars were just asked about the Blake Lively lawsuit and he never and he never
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really responded to that but when you see him sitting next to Taylor Swift at this dinner party
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I'm wondering what did they talk about imagine being a fly on the wall there also a few people
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mentioned to me that Travis Kelsey Taylor Swift's fiance had Colin Just on his podcast the other day
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And as you know, Colleen Just is married to Scarlett Johansson, who is Ryan Reynolds' ex-wife.
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And it seems like Travis and Colleen was getting along really well.
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And we know that Ryan and Travis are not friends.
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Travis made very clear that the world knows where he stands when it comes to Ryan Reynolds,
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when he very publicly unfollowed him on Instagram last year.
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Yeah, I think at this point, Blake and Ryan is really starting to feel the cold from Hollywood
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talking about how they're planning to move to Europe
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I doubt that they would actually be able to stay away from the public eye
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because both of them need to have validation and attention constantly,
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She sent me this video of all the late night hosts.
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Jimmy Kimmel, Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Fallon, John Oliver, and Seth Meyers,
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they were having a conversation on their podcast, Strict Force 5,
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something that they, this podcast that they actually started during COVID.
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And they mention in this episode that the main sponsor of their podcast back during COVID was Mint Mobile.
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And Ryan Reynolds would always read the ads for them.
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And he was also a guest on the show, I think, a couple of times.
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And in the middle of this episode, Jimmy Kimmel takes up a note saying that, hey, we need to thank the sponsor, again, Mint Mobile, who's doing so much great work and they're doing charity work, blah, blah, blah.
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And then he says that Ryan didn't have time to read the ad this time.
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Ryan himself was too busy to record a commercial for this, but he did have time to send what in the podcast industry is called a live read ad script that he specifically requested be read by our man of the hour, Stephen Colbert.
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Yeah, Ryan was too busy to record a one minute commercial for them, but he wasn't too busy to write what he wanted them to say.
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And of course, as always, Ryan can't help himself.
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And this time, he wanted to make sure that everyone knows how ridiculous this whole lawsuit is that's still going on between the two publicists.
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I'll run the clip for you first so you understand what I'm talking about.
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Plus, you can keep your phone, unless your phone belongs to your television network.
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All you need to do is go to mintmobile.com slash strikeforce.
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Yes, you can keep your phone unless your phone belongs to a television network.
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And as you can see, there were some weird laughs around that.
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I don't know if everyone caught that joke or if they're just trying to laugh about it
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because there was nothing really funny about that.
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This thing made the whole ad so cringe because Ryan Reynolds used this ad
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As you know, Stephanie Jones, the publicist that Justin Baldoni hired, is in a legal feud with Jennifer Abel, who used to work for her, who then left the company to start her own.
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And when she did that, Stephanie Jones said, I need to keep your phone.
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And she didn't just say, OK, give me your phone.
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And as you know, that phone was used against Justin Baldoni.
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So Stephanie Jones went into the phone and found text messages that could harm her ex-employee,
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Jennifer Abel, and really harm her clients, Wayfair Partizan, Justin Baldoni.
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But still, she decided to contact Blake Lively so that she would get access to this phone
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so that she could give it to the New York Times so that they could write that horrific
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story they did to take down Justin Baldoni and the Wayfair parties. And this lawsuit is still
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going on. And as you know, Blake and Ryan wanted to get hold of that phone legally. So they filed
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a sham lawsuit to send out a subpoena to Stephanie Jones so they could get hold of that phone. They
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did that through their company, Van Zand. And in this ad, it's so obvious that he's trying to put
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that message through. And it's so appalling that he's using all these big names to put that message
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through for him. And I'm sure if Stephen Colbert knew how he was being used in that moment, he would
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not agree to read that commercial. Yeah, I think this was a really stupid move from Ryan Reynolds.
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Why would you drag all these other people into this? Okay, so let's look at how Leslie Sloan,
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Blake Lively's publicist is now losing employees. So this is from The Hollywood Reporter saying that
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Jeffrey Chasson, veteran Hollywood publicist, launches Gingham PR. So he worked for many years
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for Leslie Sohn's company, Vision PR. She's the CEO and founder of that company. I wonder what
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it was like when he told her he's leaving her company. Did she say, hey, give me your phone,
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I'm going to give it to the New York Times and we can leak every conversation you had with our
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clients. I don't think so. But still, I don't think it was an easy move for him. So this guy
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is, according to the Hollywood Reporter, a veteran in the industry. And the reason for leaving,
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he's saying, is that I've always felt that I ran a bit of a different cadence from traditional
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personal PR, offering clients a broader spectrum of strategy and deliverables. I'm extremely excited
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to showcase my personal style now in full within my own framework. Launching Gingham PR allows me
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to fully realize that vision and deliver my approach in a more focused bespoke way for
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clients. It's not that he's criticizing directly here but he is kind of criticizing saying that he
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has a different approach to PR. As we know from Leslie Sloan's text messages that I've been reading
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up a few times here on my channel. She is very aggressive. She is a really aggressive and scary
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woman if you ask me. She sent really threatening and manipulating text messages to journalists
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and I've been really appalled by her behavior. Anyways, let's look at what my insider is saying
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about what happened during the settlement meetings and how Justin Baldoni's wife might have played a
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who I speak to very often and they're sending me things that are coming directly from some of the
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people involved here. They sent me this yesterday saying that what's starting to dawn on people is
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just how unprecedented the win for Justin is and it all comes down to not having Ryan silence him.
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I've spoken about this before how they were actually really worried about settling this
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because Justin and the other people involved here were terrified of what Ryan would do next. They
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don't trust him, they don't trust Blake, they don't trust their lawyers so they were terrified
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that even after a settlement they would go after them and guess what happened they did and they
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twisted that one sentence in the settlement to make them still look guilty as you know they
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agreed to say that Blake lively deserved to be heard and they weaponized that against them the
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person continues to say one of the main things Ryan and Blake wanted was an NDA from Justin
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a walk away with both sides agreeing to never discuss the matter in public again so Blake was
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really pushing for the NDA and to keep the facts hidden forever. That's what they wanted to do.
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It was killing Blake that piece by piece, day by day, she was getting more and more humiliated with
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every new piece of evidence that was revealed. As you know, just before she settled, she was caught
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in lying in her deposition saying that she never asked Sony to delete the dailies while Sony said
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in another text message that they had just been asked by Blake Lively to delete the dailies and
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then they say it's been become clear to the public that everything she accused Justinus of was
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actually something Blake and Ryan had done. They were the aggressors, they were the bullies, they
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were the liars, they were the ones with the idea for the smear campaign. It was destroying both
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Blake and Ryan. They begged the wayfarer side to settle to just drop everything if they agreed to
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never speak of it again. So that's what they started pushing for and Justin said no. Some
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people suspect it was Emily who once again stood up to Ryan. Emily as you know is just involved
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on his wife and we know that she got involved when Ryan Reynolds wrote that statement. Remember
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that statement he wrote for them that he wanted them to sign and give to the media saying that
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it was all their fault that the PR for the for the movie It Ends With Us was so tone deaf and
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taking all the responsibility for all the backlash that Blake Lively and her co-star had received
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Emily stepped up and said no way we've seen that in text messages and that makes me believe that
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Emily has been a lot more involved in actually pushing back at Blake and Ryan and here is another
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example of that they say here that some people suspect it was Emily who once again stood up to
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Ryan because again the more that comes out the more it sounds like the case wasn't really about
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the interaction on sets between Blake and Justin things like that happen every day on sets and
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people move past them it was about power about Blake demanding power and Ryan getting involved
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with his insane rants and threats is really what escalated things and it took Emily's strength to
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finally say enough to the insanity. When Lively begged Wayfair to let her drop the remaining
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three claims, Friedman told Wayfair this could be the end. And Wayfair agreed to allow her to
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drop the claims, but only if the NDA was dropped. Justin did not want to be silenced about the hell
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he had been put through. No deal unless the NDA is gone. And Lively's side hated it, but was in
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but was in no position to resist this is why Justin was okay with the deserve to be heard
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language because from the point because from his point of view everyone deserves to be heard even
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if they're utterly wrong and the person says that now Justin walks away being able to tell the truth
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that's all he ever wanted and we've heard that from his attorney as well Brian Friedman said
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all he wants is the truth to come out and they say here he has faith in the truth some people
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think he's naive for this belief because mainstream media is captured by money. People
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Magazine and other barely even try to fact check stories. They print things clearly untrue. But
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here's the thing. If Justin does write a book about this, it's a guaranteed bestseller. It's
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going to be huge. I agree. It is going to be huge if he agrees to do it. Blake and Ryan already
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basically published their story. Yes. And they're saying it's the New York Times article that they
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tricked Megan Thewey into writing for them. That was their best seller. That was their fictionalized
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version of events. They got Megan to write their smear campaign against Justin for free. This is so
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terrible for Megan Thewey who had such an amazing reputation before this. She was the one behind the
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Harvey Weinstein story. She received a Pulitzer Prize and then she let herself be used by Blake
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Lively and Ryan Reynolds like this. It's really, really sad. And they continue. So Blake has had
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her big story published already. But Justin's book, if he decides to do it, will be absolutely
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titanic, especially if he enlists the help of content creators who were tracking this from
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the beginning. Because it's not just about him. It's about Hollywood power, about money, about
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manipulation and about manipulating the mainstream media and about how a small brand of truth seekers
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like you, me, thank you, Dave Neal, Cassidy O'Connell, Andy Signor, Lauren Nady, Dana Bolling,
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Not Actually Golden, Sack Peter, Lil Girl Attorney, Teresa Conception and many others became obsessed
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with figuring out what was actually happening and breaking down the legal mess that Blake created.
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Thank you for pointing that out. I also find this side of the story really, really fascinating,
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how the mainstream media has basically reported on the surface and copied and pasted each other
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without really digging into what's actually happening here. And also, I think a lot of them
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were afraid of actually reporting on the truth because A, Ryan Reynolds has a lot of power in
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the industry and b they didn't want to be on the wrong side of a me too story so they were afraid
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to call out blake lively now things have shifted as you may have noticed they're also pointing out
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here that katie at without a crystal ball actually helped track down crucial information about the
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sham lawsuit ryan and blake concocted to subpoena jen abel's phone that is true katie from without
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a crystal ball is the one who found out about the van zam sham lawsuit and that was a major
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discovery and really helped justin build on his team and they continue bigger platforms like
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megan kelly candace owens and billy bush even got involved and a major point is that voices from
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across the political spectrum all ended up siding with justin once they looked into the facts it
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actually brought together voices from from across politics even though justin is a progressive with
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deep interest in social issues conservatives ended up siding with liberals who were horrified
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at how he was being treated and then they're quoting Whitney Cummings who said that I did not
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think that Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds would be the people that united this country and it has
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happened the most liberal people I know are now obsessively following Candace Owens for her take
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on journalism on the situation thank you Ryan and Blake for having such a terrible personality
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that we are now united as a country and the person says so this is a huge story and it's not
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over. It's playing out right now and it reflects our current culture, the upheaval of mainstream
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media and how information is spread. Yes, I think this is another really, really fascinating and
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interesting part of this story for sure. And if Justin's not writing this side of the story,
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maybe I should. Yes, as a journalist, I really find that aspect of this story so fascinating.
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Okay, before I go, I need to mention this story from People Magazine.
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So as you know, Blake and Ryan are out there pitching stories about themselves daily now
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So this lawsuit didn't really harm them in any way.
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So People Magazine did this story saying, see photos of every time Blake and Ryan packed on the PDA.
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The Deadpool actor and Gossip Girl star married in 2012 and share four kids.
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And then they say, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds have been madly in love for almost 15 years.
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they have taken selfies together 16 times according to this article so they must be in love
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that is the proof really that's all you need to prove that you're in love taking a selfie and
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posting it on instagram i don't know and then they're saying that the actor who met on the
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actors who met on the set of 2011 green lantern began dating later that year and wed in september
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2012. Since then, they have welcomed four children, blah, blah, blah. James, Ines, Betty, and Olin.
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James, I was thinking about that yesterday when I saw that Ryan Reynolds wanted his firstborn to be
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named after his father, James. And I'm thinking being a girl and you have the name James,
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that's going to lead to a lot of confusion in your life. Like when you're applying for a job,
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everyone's gonna think you are a man for example or you're going to a new class and everyone's like
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who's james oh it's the girl i mean you're just complicating the life of your child if you ask me
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if you give a girl a boy's name i don't know i just feel like we should always avoid putting
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children in position that when things can get more complicated than it has to be anyway celebrities
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and their children's names is another story i'm coming from me who has a very complicated name
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that most people can't pronounce i probably shouldn't say anything and then of course they
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quote ryan reynolds from that appearance he had on this sponsored event where he said i've never
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been in my life been more proud of my wife and he said i've never been more proud of someone in my
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life with that level of integrity that they bring with them and everything they do yeah whatever we
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talked about that quote a few times already and then of course ryan reynolds is trying to sell
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you something through this article so it says as the Deadpool star releases season five of his
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documentary Welcome to Wrexham on May 14th 2026 which is oh it's today actually what a coincidence
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we look back at his most PDA filled pictures with his beloved wife and then they post 16 pictures
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of them uh packing on the PDA or whatever they call it and they mentioned the settlement here
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but they're mentioning it like this on mother's day 2026 a few days after lively and baldoni's
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production company wafer studios announced their settlement reynolds paid tribute to his
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fearless wife and he said i appreciate this mother beyond measure he wrote on instagram stories
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she's kind she's fearless she's the absolute love in my life of my life and to our four little kids
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she's the life of their love. How nice. Why didn't he post that on his Instagram grid? As I said
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before, if you really want to show the world that you love your wife, why do you just put her on
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story so she disappears after 24 hours? Why can't you just make a real post about it so people know
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that you're actually still married? Because all the photos that we've seen Ryan post in regards
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to his love for his wife are old photographs. We've seen them before. I think the one he posted
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on Mother's Day was from Niagara Falls or something like that of course they weren't there
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of course they weren't there the other day so he's just looking through his phone and finding
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old photos and pretending that he still cares I don't think he does anyway that's it for me today
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