Media Manipulation Blake Lively makes TIME TIME released its list of 100 Most Influential People of 2025 today… and there was a surprise on the list, at least to me: Blake Lively. The last 8 or 9 months or so have been the lowest of Blake’s career. Since the It Ends With Us press tour By Lainey • Apr 16, 2025 11:47 am
Movie Reviews and Previews A Simple Little Murder Mystery If it was at all possible for me to be more seated for Another Simple Favor, I am. I liked the teaser, but the full trailer is here, and it looks like Paul Feig & Co are taking on the fun little murder mystery in the way the first movie By Sarah • Apr 15, 2025 11:14 am
Style Anna, Blake, and a Very Bad Dress Of all the premieres at SXSW this weekend, Another Simple Favor was the main event. Would it have been if not for all the drama with Blake Lively and her legal mess with Justin Baldoni? Of course not. But this is our current timeline and so it was inevitable that By Lainey • Mar 10, 2025 12:44 pm
Movie Reviews and Previews It’s just Another Simple Favor I love A Simple Favor. It’s a movie that totally surprised me on first watch and only got better with time. It’s a black comedy that excels at being both dark and funny, it’s a pitch-perfect satire of true crime and mass-market murder mystery publishing, it features By Sarah • Feb 27, 2025 02:47 pm
TV Updates A Roundup of Couples and Non-Couples Starting with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively whose appearance on Sunday night at the SNL50 was not announced ahead of time. Both have hosted before, but not since 2009, although you’ll recall, Blake was supposed to be the first host this season until she backed out when all the By Lainey • Feb 18, 2025 01:51 pm
Celebrity Social Media Celebrity Social Media, February 7, 2025 In 2020, Aviation Gin was sold to alcohol super conglomerate Diageo but Ryan Reynolds still holds ownership shares. He still actively promotes it. The official Aviation Gin has locked its account on Twitter (fair enough) and turned off comments on Instagram. Ryan’s other big investment, Mint Mobile, has also By Maria • Feb 07, 2025 01:59 pm
Top Reads Baiting Taylor Swift Both TMZ and Page Six claimed to have “exclusives” yesterday about Taylor Swift’s relationship with Blake Lively. And both of their “exclusives” say the same thing: that Blake's legal drama with Justin Baldoni has fractured her friendship with Taylor. And that Taylor is distancing herself from Blake By Lainey • Feb 07, 2025 10:29 am
Dumbass Another Simple Favor ends another dumb rumour I mean, the dumb rumour should have ended as soon as it was birthed but you know how the internet works now and how people are increasingly incapable of detecting bullsh-t. Sarah addressed this nonsense a few weeks ago when a totally unqualified random on Twitter claimed that Amazon had By Lainey • Feb 05, 2025 10:26 am
Legal issues Intro for January 31, 2025 Dear Gossips, Lainey emailed me last night that there are new photos of Ryan Reynolds in New York, attending an event at the Paley Center, and Lainey, who is on vacation, was basically like, hot potato. So here I am, holding the hot potato. On the one hand, there is By Sarah • Jan 31, 2025 09:25 am
Douchebags Blake v Justin: The Video Assumption move In my post last week, after Justin Baldoni formally filed his lawsuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds, I called it a “Lawsuit for Gossip” and here’s how I ended that article – sorry to quote myself: “… prior to the Depp-Heard trial, audio recordings were leaked online that were then By Lainey • Jan 22, 2025 11:35 am
Douchebags A Lawsuit for Gossip Justin Baldoni, his partners, and associates have filed a countersuit against Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds accusing them of civil extortion, defamation, and invasion of privacy. Justin and his cohort are seeking $400 million in damages; this is in addition to the $250 million they’re suing The New York By Lainey • Jan 17, 2025 12:07 pm
Faux Gossip Blake Lively isn’t to blame for everything Back in 2018, A Simple Favor did moderately well, and over the years—bolstered by streaming—it became a cult classic. This led to Amazon and Lionsgate greenlighting a sequel, which was filmed last year. Based on when it was filmed, I expected A Simple Favor 2 to be a By Sarah • Jan 13, 2025 01:26 pm
Business of Hollywood Blake Lively’s December Surprise Trigger warning for sexual harassment, bullying, and emotional abuse. This post was co-written by Lainey and Sarah One of the biggest stories in entertainment this year happened back in the summer around the release of the movie It Ends With Us, adapted from Colleen Hoover’s book of the same By Lainey • Dec 23, 2024 08:18 am
Style Ladies outside at LACMA The 13th annual LACMA Art + Film Gala was held in Los Angeles over the weekend. The turnout was good, but maybe not as starry as in recent years? It definitely doesn’t feel like there were as many A-listers this year. Still, the event, which was co-chaired by Leonardo DiCaprio By Sarah • Nov 04, 2024 10:02 am
Style Katie and Blake and Kylie at the CFDAs Once upon a time there was a network on regular television, before we watched everything on our phones, called The WB. And one of the most popular shows on The WB was Dawson’s Creek. The main female lead on Dawson’s Creek was Joey Potter, played by Katie Holmes. By Lainey • Oct 29, 2024 11:16 am
BFFs Blake and the Gaines I can’t remember watching a single episode of any home improvement show and if I did watch one it was for work. But I understand the impact of this genre of programming. December marks the 30th anniversary of HGTV and over the last three decades, the network has become By Lainey • Oct 23, 2024 10:16 am
