Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - WAIT, WHAT'S HAPPENING ？!？

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00:00:44.200 Yeah, it seems like the damage control is in full gear

00:00:50.140 Yeah, we floss some talk

00:00:52.100 Hi and welcome to Philosoph Talk. I'm Chashti Floor, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and

00:00:59.680 your voice of reason in a town built on delusion. Okay, something is off here. Remember TJ Miller,

00:01:07.460 one of Ryan Reynolds co-stars from Deadpool, who less than three years ago called him out,

00:01:15.600 saying that Ryan was horrifically mean and he never wanted to work with him again.

00:01:21.960 But now the tone has shifted just when Justin Baldoni's attorney, Brian Friedman,

00:01:28.460 came out and said that they intend to peel the case against Ryan.

00:01:33.340 Yeah, it seems like the damage control is in full gear.

00:01:37.620 Still, the press is after Ryan this week.

00:01:40.500 This is quite interesting.

00:01:41.940 Of course, other outlets also picked up what I spoke about yesterday

00:01:44.940 when the woman from Astronomer came out on Oprah and said that she has beef with Ryan Reynolds

00:01:51.380 and what he did to her was really cruel.

00:01:55.040 So even People magazine picked that up and I'm betting you that Leslie Sloan is fuming right now. 1.00

00:02:02.760 Also, there's another story about Ryan Reynolds in Daily Mail calling him tone deaf

00:02:07.920 for his commentary on Sky Sports.

00:02:12.040 And we have to talk a little bit more about Colleen Hoover and what she's up to now

00:02:16.980 and how she's using Blake Lively's playbook for all it's worth.

00:02:22.080 And we have a very interesting story about Katy Perry here.

00:02:26.460 So as you know, both Blake Lively and Taylor Swift recently sued someone for using their name.

00:02:33.640 Blake Lively sued someone for using Beauty by Blake

00:02:36.660 and Taylor Swift sued someone for using Swift Home.

00:02:41.300 And it turns out a woman in Australia called Katy Perry was sued by the pop star Katy Perry 17 years ago.

00:02:52.220 And now an appeals court has ruled on this case and it's pretty amazing.

00:02:58.860 And before I continue, a big thank you to everyone supporting the Flawsome Talk Finish Kit that I spoke about in my episode yesterday.

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00:03:16.440 Okay, let's get into it.

00:03:18.420 So TJ Miller, this guy who was in Deadpool with Ryan Reynolds, he went on a podcast three years ago

00:03:26.200 and he basically said that Ryan Reynolds is a horrific human being and he never wants to work with him again.

00:03:33.340 well now just a week ago he did an interview with another podcast and all of a sudden

00:03:39.800 they're really good friends he calls him a loyal friend let's just refresh our memories of what he

00:03:47.620 said three years ago first as the character he was like horrifically mean to me so he was like you

00:03:53.660 know what's great about you weasel you're not the star and then i got a stage and i walked over and

00:03:57.920 the whole crew was acting weird and then i went up to kate and i was like that was weird right and

00:04:03.340 Weird. It was insane. Would I work with him again? No. You know, I think he's kind of an insecure

00:04:09.240 dude. Okay, so TJ Miller described Ryan as horrifically mean and a very insecure person,

00:04:19.340 and he said that he never wants to work with him again. So what happened in between then

00:04:25.500 and now? Well, let's put it this way. TJ Miller was kind of cancelled for his own behavior as

00:04:33.300 well. So he hasn't really had a lot of offers thrown at him for the last couple of years.

00:04:38.280 And guess what? There's a lot of controversy around Ryan Reynolds right now as well. And on

00:04:43.440 top of this, we know that Justin Baldoni's lawyer came out and said that they are intending to

00:04:48.720 appeal the lawsuit against Ryan Reynolds, where he defames Justin Baldoni and called him horrific

00:04:55.600 things to people in Hollywood and to the media. And he mocked him in his latest Deadpool movie

00:05:02.020 as nice pool. So now I'm guessing Ryan wants to make amends with the people that have come out

00:05:07.860 and criticized him. And it seems like T.J. Miller was willing to play along. So in this latest

00:05:14.480 interview, he describes Ryan like this. I was on the phone with Ryan Reynolds a couple days ago

00:05:20.560 because we're buddies. He really may be the funniest guy that I've worked with. And he's

00:05:24.780 come to be a real friend and he's kind of had our back and I've tried to have his because it's

00:05:32.020 I mean, the internet is just such an evil, cruel place.

00:05:36.320 Yeah, it's just, it doesn't make, it's so, so despicable.

00:05:41.120 Yes, he said that we're buddies, we're really good friends.

00:05:44.760 I've never worked with anyone so funny.

00:05:47.140 He's loyal, he supports people and he helps other people succeed.

00:05:52.180 And he says, I have his back.

00:05:54.780 I can't share the entire clip with you guys,

00:05:57.000 but basically he's not just praising Ryan.

00:05:59.800 he's also aligning with him and he's blaming it on the internet. So yes, I don't know if he's

00:06:07.960 trying to blame his own words that he said in that interview three years ago on the internet,

00:06:15.160 that the internet is evil because they actually spread that around. Or if Ryan got to him with

00:06:23.260 the Blake Lively smear campaign and Ryan said, do you know what the internet did to Blake? It was

00:06:29.040 horrible. And same thing has happened to you. And we're on the same team now because we're all

00:06:35.520 victims of the evil internet. He also said in this interview that, you know, people grow and

00:06:42.400 people make mistakes and everyone deserves a second chance. So now he's open to being in the

00:06:48.680 next Deadpool movie. He asked, to me, this just proves how manipulative Ryan Reynolds is because

00:06:54.260 tj miller really hated him i wonder if ryan even prepped him for this interview of all the things

00:07:01.100 that he wanted him to say about him now that we've seen ryan reynolds text messages to other people

00:07:07.340 in the industry we can imagine what happened before tj miller came out and said these things

00:07:13.780 about his new bff also i'm sure that leslie sloan blake lively's publicist is not too happy about

00:07:21.200 this story so I spoke about this yesterday that the astronomer kiss cam cold play incident woman

00:07:29.640 was on Oprah and she spoke about how this whole thing has affected her and she specifically

00:07:36.060 pointed out how much Ryan Reynolds ad campaign where he used Gwyneth Paltrow had hurt her a lot

00:07:44.700 They're saying in this article, Oprah apologizes to Coldplay Kiss Cam HR executive, who is calling out Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds for poking fun at scandal.

00:07:57.400 And it says here that Kristen Cabot was not happy that Ryan Reynolds and Gwyneth Paltrow decided to make a tongue in cheek ad weighing in on the Coldplay Kiss Cam controversy that derailed Cabot's life.

00:08:11.560 she said in this interview with Oprah how much this ad campaign had hurt her and her children

00:08:19.400 and she went on it says hearing people I don't want to let Ryan Reynolds off the hook either

00:08:24.640 he produced the ad he created it and his wife Blake Lively had just gone through something 0.99

00:08:29.620 really similar over the last year and it says here that reps for Ryan Reynolds and

00:08:34.460 Gwyneth Paltrow didn't respond to people's requests for comments for this story this is

00:08:40.880 terrible for Blake that her husband is accused by this woman of monetizing on her pain. And

00:08:49.640 Entertainment Weekly also picked it up. They're saying woman caught on Coldplay kiss camp blasts

00:08:55.660 Gwyneth Paltrow and Ryan Reynolds for mocking scandal. So my guess is if Justin Baldoni wins an

00:09:01.740 appeal on the Ryan Reynolds when he's suing Ryan, Blake, and Leslie Sloan and the New York Times,

00:09:07.400 things like this could really be brought up because this shows a pattern of behavior or how

00:09:13.260 he monetizes on mocking people in public and kicking people when they're down. So yeah not a

00:09:20.380 great look for Ryan and this is not a good look for Ryan either. So Daily Mail did a story on the

00:09:26.520 Sky Sports commentary which I also spoke about a few days ago when someone sent me this little clip

00:09:32.240 from Ryan's commentary with Rob Mack

00:09:35.400 when they're supposed to talk about soccer,

00:09:37.820 but instead he basically threw shade at Justin Baldoni

00:09:41.420 with a comment about how some people want a film by credit

00:09:45.840 and it's a vanity credit.

00:09:47.700 And it was so clear that he was pointing at Justin.

00:09:50.260 But anyways, the Daily Mail is pointing out

00:09:52.100 how tone deaf this whole commentary actually was.

00:09:55.020 And they did a story about it saying

00:09:57.000 Sky Sports allowed Wrexham,

00:09:58.900 a party political broad broadcast on Friday Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhinney his name is Rob

00:10:05.900 Mac now anyway commentary was self-indulgent boastful and tedious and no other club club would

00:10:12.820 get the same privilege so basically they were there just talking about their own club when

00:10:19.200 there was supposed to be a balanced reporting on this match this story basically says that Ryan

00:10:24.240 reynolds turned a live football match into his own branded content have you seen that before

00:10:29.520 it says here that instead of impartial coverage the broadcast became self-indulgent promotional

00:10:34.860 and borderline propaganda with reynolds and mccallany controlling the narrative celebrating

00:10:40.700 themselves and barely acknowledging the actual game or opponent but the underlying criticism

00:10:47.820 is bigger. Reynolds isn't just owning a club. He's reshaping it into a media product where

00:10:53.880 storytelling and personal branding take priority over sports. Yes, we know how much Ryan Reynolds

00:11:00.440 loves storytelling. He is a storyteller. The person here writes that what we saw on Friday

00:11:06.560 night was offensive to football. Sky Sports, even more fawning towards Wrexham, afforded the club

00:11:14.200 an evening of self-indulgent boastful and tedious promotion they keep repeating they keep repeating

00:11:21.740 this the broadcasters totally abdicated their responsibility to be balanced that's on them

00:11:28.080 not Wrexham any club would jump on the offer yeah it's not been Ryan Reynolds week for sure

00:11:33.660 and there are some stories about Colleen Hoover as well it really seems like she's learned from

00:11:39.360 Blake Lively's playbook and how to take ownership over everything. So she also started her own

00:11:45.200 production company just like Brandon's Glenard did that I spoke about a few days ago. Brandon's

00:11:50.620 company is called Vista Lane Pictures. Anyways it says here in Variety that Colin Hoover on taking

00:11:56.360 ownership of her movie adaptions and whether it ends with a sequel will ever be made. She says

00:12:02.880 my career was a different level back then. I had a sense of someone wants to buy this, take it,

00:12:08.820 do something well with it, says Hoover, who has been writing novels, 26 of them to date since 2012.

00:12:15.340 It was just exciting to get an offer. Now Colleen Hoover wants more creative control over the 1.00

00:12:21.560 adaptions of her books. That's why she and her producing partner Lauren Levine launched the

00:12:29.100 company Heartbones Entertainment. After serving as an executive producer on It Ends With Us and

00:12:35.780 regretting you she's stepping into a larger role as a co-producer for her next project Reminders

00:12:42.080 of Him and he says here ahead of the release of Reminders of Him Hoover and Levine talked to

00:12:47.420 Variety about why Hollywood underestimates the book world and if it starts with us the sequel

00:12:52.640 novel to her smash hit It Ends With Us will ever be filmed so Variety is asking Hoover here about

00:12:58.480 It Starts With Us do you want to see the It Ends With Us sequel novel It Starts With Us on the big

00:13:03.940 screen. She says, I wrote that book as a thank you to readers. I don't know that there's enough

00:13:10.520 story to make a film. It Ends With Us was so impactful and it was so well wrapped up in the

00:13:15.900 first film. Of course, if they all came together and wanted to do it, I'm not going to talk

00:13:21.440 anyone out of it. But when I wrote that one, it was never an intention to see it on film. I just

00:13:27.620 wanted to see Atlas and Lily happy. It's very interesting that she's saying, if they all come

00:13:33.820 together and wanted to do it meaning Blake and Justin because as you know Justin Baldoni owns

00:13:39.600 the right to it starts with us as well and so if he comes together with Blake to make it starts

00:13:46.420 with us Colin Hoover is on board she's not going to talk anyone out of it so interesting so okay

00:13:54.020 that is not going to happen and as you know Justin has the right so it's up to him what to do with

00:13:59.420 that movie. And I'm guessing most people do not want to see Blake Lively play Lily Bloom one more

00:14:07.060 time. Forbes magazine also did a story on Colleen Hoover on how she's taking back control. It says 0.59

00:14:13.500 here instead of selling the rights to any more of our novels and risking another Blake Lively

00:14:18.120 Justin Baldoni scandal, the best-selling author of It Ends With Us and Reminders of Him is taking

00:14:23.240 back control of our Hollywood adaptions. I know how much these books means to readers and I just

00:14:29.160 want to be involved in a way that I hopefully can help make it a movie that sticks more to the book

00:14:34.380 than most adaptations and they're explaining here how these deals are usually done it says

00:14:39.840 traditionally movie producers would pay a premium to keep authors away from the film adaption process

00:14:45.560 and that's totally understandable because when you have the rights to make a movie you want to

00:14:51.000 make it your movie and of course that could turn into a headache if the author has too many opinions

00:14:57.560 and we've seen that happen a lot of times how authors have come out afterwards and been really

00:15:02.560 disappointed about the movie and sometimes what's written in a book doesn't really work on a big

00:15:07.680 screen. Yes of course it's a big headache for a studio or for a distributor or for a production

00:15:13.200 company working on an adaptation if the author gets too involved and have creative differences

00:15:20.140 from the other people that works on this movie. As you know she had a lot of opinion on It Ends

00:15:26.420 with us. I think she sent a note of like 57 points or something to the Wayfair parties to tell them

00:15:33.340 how she wanted this movie to be shot. So yes let's see how all this works out for Colin Hoover in the

00:15:40.100 end if people are still going to show up and watch her movies. Anyways I wanted to end this episode

00:15:45.140 on something positive. So as you know both Blake Lively and Taylor Swift recently sued someone for

00:15:53.420 using their names. So this summer there were stories out there that Blake Lively had sued

00:15:59.620 a woman, an entrepreneur who created the brand Makeup by Blake and also recently Taylor Swift

00:16:07.320 sued someone for using her name Swift in their products called Swift Home. Well now there's an

00:16:15.700 interesting story in Australia. There is a woman called Katy Perry. She does, she spells Katy with

00:16:22.700 k-a-t-i-e and not k-a-t-y as katy perry the pop star and she created a brand a clothing brand

00:16:32.740 over 17 years ago in australia and just as she had launched this brand katy perry the pop star

00:16:41.320 came after her and now they've been fighting over this for 17 years and finally katy perry

00:16:50.840 the Australian, not the pop star, won. An appeals court decided that she has the right to use her

00:16:59.000 own name in her branding. Look, it's been a long, long journey, you know, nearly 17 years.

00:17:05.380 It all started, yeah, in 2009. So I started my label in 2007, like many other fashion designers,

00:17:13.260 used my own name, the name I was born with, which was Katy Perry. Yes, can you believe it? She

00:17:18.700 started this fight in 2009 she'd never even heard of Katy Perry the pop star and I think it's crazy

00:17:24.780 that Katy Perry would spend 17 years going after this female entrepreneur who also has the name 0.92

00:17:34.440 Katy Perry and the fact is Katy Perry the pop star her real name is Catherine Elizabeth Hudson

00:17:42.400 So she wasn't even born Katy Perry as this woman in Australia.

00:17:47.900 And still she's like, that's my name and you're not allowed to use it.

00:17:53.460 The case was lost on appeal.

00:17:55.620 The court ruling it was the designer who had caused confusion,

00:17:59.180 saying her trademark should be cancelled.

00:18:01.840 Today, the High Court overturned that,

00:18:04.640 saying the Katy Perry clothing designs were unlikely to cause confusion

00:18:09.240 about the reputation of Katy Perry, the singer in Australia.

00:18:13.780 The court has also awarded costs in the designer's favor.

00:18:18.140 I'm so happy that the court decided to side with this poor woman 0.95

00:18:22.040 who spent so much time and money fighting for her right to use her own name.

00:18:28.360 These celebrities have so much money.

00:18:32.080 They make tons of money.

00:18:33.920 and still they won't allow regular people to try to make a living by using their own name.

00:18:42.100 All right that's it for me you guys thank you so much for watching and thank you for all your

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Flaawsome Talk with Kjersti Flaa - March 19, 2026

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