Some people – not all, but some – wonder if Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have a significant tonal problem with the way they’ve handled their accusations against Justin Baldoni. Before Blake sued Baldoni for sexual harassment and “social manipulation,” Ryan mocked Baldoni in Deadpool 3, creating a character called “Nicepool.” Nicepool made comments about women’s bodies and then said sh-t like “I can say that because I’m a feminist.” Baldoni is currently roping Marvel and Disney into the legal situation because of that.
Well, the latest is that Blake and Ryan made an appearance at the SNL50 celebration over the weekend. They didn’t just attend the show – they did a bit where Amy Poehler and Tina Fey asked Ryan how he was doing and Ryan replied, “Great, what have you heard?” as Blake looked up at him, stone-faced. I’ve seen some comments from people who just think… maybe Blake and Ryan should have just sat this one out. Page Six ran a story about it too:
Hollywood insiders feel Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds’ attendance at the “Saturday Night Live” 50th anniversary special “was not a good look.” An insider exclusively tells Page Six they believe the couple “should have sat this one out.”
On Sunday, Lively and Reynolds made their first red carpet appearance since the “Gossip Girl” alum filed her sexual harassment lawsuit against her “It Ends With Us” co-star and director Justin Baldoni. The “Deadpool” star, 48, also made a joke about his wife’s legal battle with Baldoni.
Our source tells Page Six, “It’s very plausible that Justin’s legal team will use this public outing to defend Baldoni. Justin is taking this lawsuit in all seriousness and isn’t making a public mockery out of it.”
A second insider says Lively “was initially hesitant to attend the anniversary show but ultimately she’s glad she went and had a really nice time.”
“Blake and Ryan have no regrets about making an appearance and they’re glad they showed up because they have nothing to hide and no reason not to. Blake and Ryan were two of the last people to leave Studio 8H where ‘SNL’ is filmed,” the source reveals. “They walked out with Paul McCartney and his wife, and a bunch of crew members asked to take pictures with Ryan which he happily did.”
I actually understand the image/PR calculation from Ryan and Blake – they’re flaunting their A-list status, showing everyone that they are still part of this upper echelon and they can’t be touched by Baldoni or his lawyers. But yeah… it does feel like Blake and Ryan are perhaps doing too much? People Magazine even had yet another exclusive from Team Lively about how she was glad she came out.
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- New York, NY – Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds step out for “SNL 50” in New York City, marking their first major red carpet appearance together amid Lively’s legal battle with Justin Baldoni. The couple joins a star-studded lineup celebrating the show’s milestone anniversary. Pictured: Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds BACKGRID USA 16 FEBRUARY 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: JosiahW / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds step out for “SNL 50” in New York City, marking their first major red carpet appearance together amid Lively’s legal battle with Justin Baldoni. The couple joins a star-studded lineup celebrating the show’s milestone anniversary. Pictured: Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds BACKGRID USA 16 FEBRUARY 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: JosiahW / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- New York, NY – Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds step out for “SNL 50” in New York City, marking their first major red carpet appearance together amid Lively’s legal battle with Justin Baldoni. The couple joins a star-studded lineup celebrating the show’s milestone anniversary. Pictured: Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds BACKGRID USA 16 FEBRUARY 2025 BYLINE MUST READ: JosiahW / BACKGRID USA: +1 310 798 9111 / usasales@backgrid.com UK: +44 208 344 2007 / uksales@backgrid.com *UK Clients – Pictures Containing Children Please Pixelate Face Prior To Publication*
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- Red carpet for the SNL50: The Anniversary Show of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Featuring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively Where: New York, New York, United States When: 16 Feb 2025 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
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- Red carpet for the SNL50: The Anniversary Show of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Featuring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively Where: New York, New York, United States When: 16 Feb 2025 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
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- Red carpet for the SNL50: The Anniversary Show of ‘Saturday Night Live’ Featuring: Blake Lively Where: New York, New York, United States When: 16 Feb 2025 Credit: Janet Mayer/INSTARimages.com
I’m glad they were there. They shouldn’t be in hiding. Good for them. If JB can do his pap strolls with the kiddos, Blake can go hang out. Nothing wrong with it.
I agree. I don’t understand the line of thinking that Blake should be in hiding. She didn’t sexually harass anyone, and she’s not the one releasing footage and creating a website to smear her colleague. She has been doing things legally, and is allowed to be in public and allowed to have fun, and yes, even joke about the obvious smear campaign because she isn’t the one behind it.
100% agree. If she had sat it out, some commenters would take it as a sign that she’s scared of Baldoni’s counterclaim. The more I read celebrity gossip or even politics the more I realize that the same story will be received positively and negativity by different people.
It seems to me that Blake and Ryan are also stomping all over Scarlett and Colin’s turf to show how much power they have. Ryan has only hosted Saturday Night Live once, on Oct. 3, 2009, yet he was given a prime seat and a bit.
It’s even more crazy since Baldoni’s production company is still set to produce Scarlett’s first movie as a director.
I doubt Blake and Ryan’s appearance had anything to do with Scarlett and Colin. They aren’t in middle school.
They’re acting like it though. Blake lively isn’t more mature than a teenage mean girl -she is best friends with taylor- so I’m not sure where you’re coming from with your comment
They can’t do anything without it being turned into a negative. I’ll say it again, if Trump loving, Nazi apologist Candace Owens is defending you then there is a problem. And she’s not defending Lively.
Yep.
The fact that these ‘insiders’ are talking exclusively to Pg Six, Daily fail & TMZ says it all.🙄🙄
I remember a guy complaining on reddit about his girlfriend and asking other people’s opinions. All the users who supported his side were incels or rightwing accounts. So, he decided, if those people think he is right, he must be wrong 😂😂😭 Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens are supporting Justin and his lawyer is giving interviews to rightwing outlets. If this doesn’t tell you who this so called feminist man is, I don’t know what to tell you.
Having Megyn Kelly on your side is the kiss of death. She is a foul mouthed nasty maga.
I still don’t understand why Baldoni is so dead set on telling everyone Nicepool is based on him. Like he’s not a flattering character, but it wasn’t a widely discussed thing from the movie until Baldoni was like NICE POOL IS CLEARLY ME AND THAT’S MEAN. I don’t think anyone thought he was anything more than an amalgamation of “nice guy” behavior before all the lawsuits.
…maybe Baldoni is angling for some Deadpool&Wolverine $$$?
Why should she stay home? This is like the victim-shaming that SA survivors have faced since biblical times, like someone else’s bad conduct was somehow their fault and thus they should just live in a gutter in sackcloth and ashes forever or something. Good for her getting out of the house and she looks stunning in that dress.
I agree, but maybe making jokes about it doesn’t look good for them?
I didn’t see their segment of SNL50 so I don’t know exactly what they said.
If Blake was sexually harassed to the point of filing a lawsuit you’d think she’d be uncomfortable laughing about it in a skit.
I’m not an actor though, so I’ve never made jokes about my sexual harassment I experienced 30 years ago. I might joke about it in a private setting but never will at a big party or something like that. It was an awful time in my life, for multiple reasons.
they didn’t joke about her being harassed. they asked how he was, he said, “great, why, what have you heard?” the crowd laughed, and they moved on.
OK, thanks for clarifying.
I was sort of appalled at the thought of jokes on the SNL stage about her lawsuit.
I was going to add that Harvey Weinstein’s victims have not made SNL type jokes about their sufferings.
I hope Blake is getting the support she needs from her husband. His quippy, attention getting style of performing mught discredit their charges. It shouldn’t, and believe me, I’ve been through the whole she’s-not-a-perfect-victim thing. This was 30 years ago, and I’m doing great in life. But everything involving my sexual harassment case has changed me permanently.
@Pixiebutt
Exactly
So he’s allowed to cherry pick stuff and splash it all over TMZ and social media, but they’re not allowed to attend an event and make a very mild joke about their situation?
Agree with the comments. I’m glad they went if they wanted to go. I find it interesting that it only seems to be Blake (and only by extension Ryan) who is being policed in this way.
I noticed it as well – and she’s not even the one who stood up and spoke during the bit.
The lawsuits will take years to resolve. After they supposed to hide in their house for the next decade?
I think it was a smartly timed indication that they aren’t letting him win, and they’re going to keep it moving while it plays out in court (where it belongs). I just wish Amber Heard had the same platform/support.
I don’t think the issue people have is her going out in general. I think the thing that bothers some people about this is her going out and *making jokes* about the situation. I don’t think that does her any favors either personally or professionally when a lot of people already don’t want to take her seriously.
Yeah, same, I don’t think the issue is whether they should go out or not. Of course they should. Blake looked good
In that silver dress. It was more a question of whether the prearranged joke was the best choice.
it was one joke that was about as vague as one could possibly get. it’s not like they did a sketch about it. Blake didn’t even speak!
Why shoukd they be in hiding?
I’m just surprised they attended THAT particular event.
Have they ever hosted SNL and if they did, were their skits noteworthy? I’ve never seen a single clip of a skit they’ve acted in. I thought the attendees of SNL50 were noteworthy former hosts and musical guests as well as former cast members.
They’re not known for their acting skills at all. Just their Twitter banter. Their A-list status comes from connections and wealth.
Both of them have hosted previously.
Kevin Costner never hosted, so by that metric he should have been barred from the building.
Public opinion is strongly against Blake and Ryan – the complaints and texts so far indicate that they bullied, ejected, and harassed others on the set. That’s why there is this online backlash against them and Blake is just an unlikeable mean girl. I don’t know how Hollywood insiders feel about them though. If they only showed up, that would have been one thing, but Ryan’s skit trying to be funny/sarcastic about the whole thing rings hollow. It just seems like, if you really had these charges against Baldoni, you might not make light of it? His remark was like something you’d say after being found a bit guilty of something.
Agree with you 100%, Nina.
all drama aside Blake looks stunning. Fabulous dress, hair, and weight (and i know mentioning one’s weight is impolite but compared to the rail thin celebrities her weight is refreshing).
Agree, and it’s going to irritate people to talk about her body at all but most female celebs seem to be shrinking currently, the GLP-1 meds are probably behind it so it’s nice to see someone still obviously slim but not emaciated in the public eye
She looks really gorgeous! But she’d be furious to read a comment about her body.
I thought Ryan’s “Why, what have you heard?” bit was really funny. Why should they hide?
The argument that JB is suddenly, now, going to take this lawsuit EVEN MORE seriously and maybe defend himself even harder (?) is ludicrously stupid. What, he’s going to set up another website? Release more text messages and voicemails? Keep trying to depose Taylor Swift? He’s already doing those things, so what does it matter if Ryan and Blake are photographed having a night out?
Ryan Reynolds comes across as an ass making that joke. As an ass to his wife, to be specific.
Agreed, the way Blake Lively sat there rather open-mouthed makes me wonder if she didn’t know what RR was going to say in advance, which is also effed up.
While I’m Team Nobody in the BL/JB suits, and I don’t think she or her husband should have stayed home, I think the joke wasn’t classy if she truly is a victim of harassment.
This is such a ridiculous non story. Ooh, some people want other people to live life based on their OWN terms, oh no. Let the Mr. & Mrs. Grundy’s of the world to fly their own darn kites, and you fly yours.
I’ve read that Ryan has only hosted once and has declined future hosting to avoid any awkwardness with Colin Jost, who’s married to Ryan’s ex. Who knows, but they have both been featured on the show in the past, so why not be there? And I thought the bit was funny.
Despite the current 🍊 💩 show, most people hate rich people who abuse their influence/power to pick on people weaker/less powerful. JB has fully tapped into this energy whether or not he is being truthful. This mess needs settled as quickly and quietly as possible. No one is coming out of this unscathed, but the longer it drags out the worse it is going to be for BL and RR because of the wingnut media bias that exists against women, especially in any situation in which women are pitted against white men.
My husband would never make a joke at my expense concerning SH. Very poor taste.
This actually made me laugh out loud:
‘Blake and Ryan were two of the last people to leave Studio 8H where ‘SNL’ is filmed,” the source reveals. “They walked out with Paul McCartney and his wife, and a bunch of crew members asked to take pictures with Ryan which he happily did.”
We’re so popular guys! Lol sad-
I’m probably in the minority here, but I can’t stand either one of them.
Of course, they should go wherever they choose. But I will never believe BL. What I do remember quite clearly is her plantation wedding. Told me everything I ever want to know about her and her man.
I think they should have skipped it. Too soon and public opinion was not kind. I read the comments on People mag (which should be their lane) and it was brutal.
Of course they shouldn’t hide but they’re playing into that other guys’ narrative of having rich powerful friends and it wasn’t helping their case in the forum of public opinion
My husband would never joke about my sexual harassment lawsuit. Part of me thinks the fact that they find it worthy of humor casts doubt on the thoughtfulness of her claims.
If you were supposedly harassed by a boss, would you be making lighthearted jokes about it in public? Maybe she felt this joke was Ryan acting as her “dragon” lol. Idk. Bizarre overall.
I don’t think they have to hide away in their mansion. They can attend any event they choose to. But to have Ryan called out by Amy and Tina during such a major event was a choice, one Ryan would have had to agree to in advance. I would assume Blake would have known as well. So to make light of their lawsuit in such a public forum is a bold choice and definitely sends a message to Justin Baldoni. I’m wondering if his lawyer will try to use that in a way?