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| | Blake Lively wants a judge to issue a gag order on Justin Baldoni's legal team | | Added 8 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On Tuesday, Justin Baldoni?s team released ?raw footage? from It Ends With Us, a ten-minute clip of Baldoni and Blake Lively shooting a ?slow dancing? scene at a crowded bar. The scene was supposed to be used in a montage about their characters falling in love. Blake cited the filming of that particular scene in her sexual harassment complaint and her lawsuit against Baldoni. Baldoni added context for what actually happened within his lawsuit, then he released the footage to prove his point. There were obviously a lot of interpretations about what the video actually showed, but that didn?t stop Blake?s team from claiming that her visible discomfort (within the 10-minute video) proved that this was one instance of Baldoni sexually harassing her. Team Lively must have been unsettled by the fact that so many people actually watched the video and debated what it really showed about her dynamic with Baldoni though, because it looks like Team Lively is trying to make sure that Baldoni isn?t allowed to provide any more context or evidence of Lively?s misrepresentations or exaggerations.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds want a judge to gag Justin Baldonis lawyer claiming hes making false statements about the case.
The megastars filed a letter in court Tuesday and, in it, they ask the court to issue a protective order to stop Baldonis lawyers led by Bryan Freedman from engaging in improper conduct including going on an alleged harassing and retaliatory media campaign against Blake and Ryan.
They say hes violating court rules that stop a lawyer from making statements to the press that are irrelevant to a case and might prejudice the jury. In it, Blake and Ryan specifically mention the release of unedited footage from It Ends With Us filming which Blakes team claims corroborates, to the letter, what Ms. Lively described in her initial complaint back in December.
Remember, Lively accused Baldoni of sexual harassment and engaging in a coordinated effort to destroy her reputation. Baldoni has since filed his own $400 million lawsuit against Lively accusing her of defamation, civil extortion and other allegations.
Baldonis team released the behind-the-scenes footage from the movie to prove he never made harassing comments while Blakes team pushed back and said Baldoni never discussed or choreographed the intimacy here and, it made her uncomfortable.
Sources connected to JB tell TMZ they believe its grossly unfair to impose a gag order after Justin has been defamed by the New York Times in an article that they say has cost him three jobs and hundreds of millions of dollars. All Justin wants to do, the source says, is release videos and text messages to prove the allegations are false.
The source adds, it is unbelievable that Blake Lively would go on a takedown campaign against Justin and then immediately turn around and say she wants a gag order so that Justin cant defend himself.
[From TMZ]
I actually understand Team Lively?s point Baldoni and his legal team are absolutely waging a trial in the court of public opinion, and given the multiple lawsuits involved, I?m sure gag orders will eventually be issued (hopefully to all sides). That being said, Team Lively is mad that they?re losing in the court of public opinion, let?s be clear. Blake, Ryan and their team have been waging their own campaign to win over the public, establish their narrative and rebrand Blake. They?re the ones who went to the New York Times, they?re the ones who immediately ran to People Mag for a sugary, sympathetic cover story about poor Blake, they?re the ones who have loudly screamed ?DARVO? every time Baldoni pointed out an inconsistency or provided receipts to dispute Blake?s story. All of their efforts have been hampered by Baldoni refusing to just roll over. I?ve been asking this for weeks, but it?s still so striking to me did Blake honestly think that Baldoni wasn?t going to fight back? Did she really think that he would not defend himself?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images, cover courtesy of People.
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| | Blake Lively's lawyer: This is not a he said/she said situation or a feud | | Added 24 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On December 20th, Blake Lively filed her bombshell complaint with the California Civil Rights Department, accusing Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and waging a ?social manipulation? campaign to destroy her. Her team provided emails and texts to the NYT, communications between Baldoni?s publicist and crisis manager, to authenticate Blake?s claims. Baldoni was also dropped by WME and his publicist. On New Year?s Eve, Baldoni and his team responded by suing the New York Times for $250 million. They?ve also promised to countersue Blake and release all of the texts & communications between Blake and Baldoni, but that hasn?t happened yet. Alongside all of these legal issues, there?s been a large-scale PR war happening across the trade papers, news outlets and beyond as regular gossip-watchers try to follow the ins and outs of the situation. Both Blake and Justin have fully engaged in the PR war. But according to a new statement from Blake?s legal team, Justin?s side needs to stop?
Blake Lively?s legal team is condemning what they call more attacks from Justin Baldoni. On Dec. 20, Lively, 37, who starred in Baldoni?s film It Ends with Us, filed a complaint against Baldoni and others, including his producing partners and publicists, alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign to tarnish her reputation. Baldoni?s lawyer Bryan Freedman called the claims ?false, outrageous and intentionally salacious, and on Dec. 31, the actor-director also filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times over the newspapers Dec. 21 article about Livelys complaint, alleging it was the actress who engaged in a calculated smear campaign.
On Monday, Jan. 6, Lively?s legal team told PEOPLE in a statement that her ?serious claims of sexual harassment and retaliation? are ?backed by concrete facts.?
?This is not a ?feud? arising from ?creative differences? or a ?he said/she said? situation,? her lawyers statement read. ?As alleged in Ms. Lively?s complaint, and as we will prove in litigation, Wayfarer [Studios] and its associates engaged in unlawful, retaliatory astroturfing against Ms. Lively for simply trying to protect herself and others on a film set. And their response to the lawsuit has been to launch more attacks against Ms. Lively since her filing.?
The statement continued: ?Sexual harassment and retaliation are illegal in every workplace and in every industry. A classic tactic to distract from allegations of this type of misconduct is to ?blame the victim? by suggesting that they invited the conduct, brought it on themselves, misunderstood the intentions, or even lied. Another classic tactic is to reverse the victim and offender, and suggest that the offender is actually the victim. These concepts normalize and trivialize allegations of serious misconduct.
?Most importantly, media statements are not a defense to Ms. Lively?s legal claims, Lively?s legal team wrote. We will continue to prosecute her claims in federal court, where the rule of law determines who prevails, not hyperbole and threats.
[From People]
It?s true that Baldoni?s lawyer issuing briefings and threats is not a countersuit. It?s true that Baldoni?s team is trying to muddy the waters and cast doubt on certain aspects of Blake?s claims. But it?s also true that Justin Baldoni has every right to fight back and sue and wage a battle in the court of public opinion, just as Blake is doing. Did Blake think Baldoni was just going to roll over? Did she think that he would have no power to fight back? From what I?ve seen, there are absolutely issues that need to be dealt with in court, with both sides providing evidence and receipts.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment & 'social manipulation' | | Added 40 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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A few days ago, I finally watched It Ends With Us, and it is quite easily one of the worst movies I?ve ever seen in my life. A nonsensical plot, one-dimensional characters, actors who are incapable of acting their way out of a paper bag it was like a Lifetime movie with a bigger budget. The worst part was the ending, in which a victim of domestic violence uses logic to try to convince her abuser to leave her and their daughter alone and ? it works?? Yeah, that would totally happen in real life. All I can say is that this abhorrent film does not deserve the months of drama swirling around it. Everyone involved in IEWU should be deeply ashamed and they all should have made a pact to never speak of it again. Instead, we got months of drama over the summer, and now Blake Lively is suing Justin Baldoni, who directed IEWU and starred as Ryle Kincaid. Blake is suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and waging a PR campaign against her during and after the films promotion.
Blake Lively is suing her It Ends with Us costar Justin Baldoni for sexual harassment. Months after rumors of behind-the-scenes discord on the set of the adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel, the actress, 37, said in the lawsuit, obtained by TMZ, that Baldonis alleged behavior caused her severe emotional distress. (Baldoni, 40, also served as It Ends with Us director.)
Per the outlet, the lawsuit states there was a meeting held to address Livelys claims and her demands for working on the film. It was attended by various figures, including Livelys husband, Ryan Reynolds.
Some of the demands that were addressed, according to the lawsuit cited by TMZ, included no more showing nude videos or images of women to Blake, no more mention of Baldonis alleged previous pornography addiction, no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Blake and others, no further mentions of cast and crews genitalia, no more inquiries about Blakes weight, and no further mention of Blakes dead father.
No more adding of sex scenes, oral sex or on camera climaxing by BL outside the scope of the script BL approved when signing onto the project, were other demands mentioned in the lawsuit, according to TMZ.
According to TMZ, the lawsuit states that Sony Pictures, who distributed the film, approved of Livelys requests. However, Lively claims in the lawsuit that Baldoni then took part in a social manipulation campaign to destroy her reputation soon after.
Bryan Freedman, Baldonis lawyer, tells PEOPLE in a statement that Livelys lawsuit was to fix her negative reputation. He also said that her allegations are false, outrageous and intentionally salacious with an intent to publicly hurt.
Freedman added that Lively caused problems on set of the film, which is currently streaming, threatening to not showing up to set, threatening to not promote the film, ultimately leading to its demise during release. Representatives for Lively, Baldoni and Sony did not immediately respond to PEOPLEs request for comment.
[From People]
Some of Lively?s accusations against Baldoni were previewed months ago, when well-informed sources insisted that everyone on set hated Baldoni (for unspecified reasons) and that Blake was hurt that Baldoni asked someone how much Blake weighed (Baldoni apparently has a bad back). We were also told that Blake thought Baldoni ?lingered too long? during a kissing scene. I?ll admit, back in August and September, it felt like Blake and Ryan Reynolds were the ones targeting Baldoni. But if Baldoni was doing even some of the sh-t she?s now accusing him of, he absolutely created a toxic work environment. His on-set behavior was absolutely inappropriate, if any of this is true. It also feels like this might answer the questions I had about why Sony was going above and beyond to make Blake happy and give her everything she wanted, including allowing her to bring in her own editor to create a ?Lively Cut? of the film.
As for the social manipulation part of Blakes legal action more information came out in the NY Times, which I will cover separately. All Ill say in this post is that it looks like Blake has a really good case against Baldoni and his production company.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Sony fully supports Blake Lively after she screened 'IEWU: The Lively Cut' in Texas | | Added 167 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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What does this Blake Lively stuff remind you of? For me, it?s sort of like the Hilaria Baldwin stuff in late 2020 and early 2021 suddenly, people were going back through all of Hilaria?s old interviews and doing deep dives on all of the Hilaria-was-never-Spanish lore. While Blake Lively never lied about being ?from Spain,? there is a similar deep-dive into the gossip history around Blake. Like? what was up with Blake and Leighton Meester on Gossip Girl? They apparently didn?t get along at all towards the latter part of the series, so much so they the would barely even speak to each other. The Mail is on the case go here to read.
Meanwhile, the current Blake situation is that we still don?t know exactly what went down between Blake, Justin Baldoni and the cast of It Ends With Us. Many people around the production maintain this idea that Baldoni and Lively?s larger falling out happened in postproduction, especially when Blake brought in her own editor to create IEWU: The Lively Cut. It was also clear (to me) that Team Blake had already started an increasingly loud whisper campaign about Baldoni, one which scared him enough to hire a crisis management team this week. Well, speaking of all of that, the Hollywood Reporter has an interesting piece about the studio giving a lot of full-throated support for Blake, especially after she screened IEWU: The Lively Cut to Colleen Hoover?s groupies in Texas in June.
In mid-June, star-producer Blake Lively traveled to Dallas to attend author Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza for a Q&A in the lead-up to the August release It Ends With Us. Lively surprised the 2,000-plus attendees when she announced they could screen a rough cut of the movie adaptation the following night. The screening of the movie ? the first of Hoover?s popular novels to hit the screen ? proved to be a stroke of marketing genius for Sony, which bought rights to release the movie from Wayfarer Studios, whose co-founder, Justin Baldoni, both directed and stars in the film.
?Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza and her fans sparked the fire that was the beginning of the cultural movement,? says Josh Greenstein, a veteran marketer and president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group.
Absent, however, from the Dallas gathering was Baldoni. The version shown that night was Lively?s preferred rough cut of the movie.
By the time the movie opened Aug. 9, an ugly war had erupted on TikTok and other social media platforms pitting Baldoni and Lively against each other. Many took aim at Lively, despite reports that some cast and crewmembers, including Lively, felt uncomfortable over Baldoni?s behavior on set.
Sony is fully in sync with Lively. ?Blake, Colleen and so many women put so much effort into this remarkable movie, working selflessly from the start to ensure that such an important subject matter was handled with care. Audiences love the movie. Blake?s passion and commitment to advancing the conversation around domestic violence is commendable,? Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair-CEO Tony Vinciquerra told The Hollywood Reporter. ?We love working with Blake, and we want to do 12 more movies with her.?
Sony?s marketing campaign ? in staying true to Hoover?s book ? conveyed that It Ends With Us isn?t a story of victimhood, but a story of redemption. It traverses falling in love, becoming an entrepreneur, friendship and family, alongside pain and trauma. ?Lily is a survivor and a victim, but that doesn?t define her, as she is in charge of her identity and her story. These themes were important to the campaign,? says one source connected to the film?s rollout.
Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively in the postproduction stage, wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged. Lively commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reid, who was an editor on Deadpool & Wolverine, according to multiple sources.
[From THR]
This reads to me like why Baldoni hired crisis managers in the first place, because he was afraid he was going to get squished by the studio taking Blake?s side and throwing him under the bus. Sony is obviously doing the most to stay on Blake?s good side, and not only that, Sony is seemingly doing a lot (here and behind-the-scenes) to keep the arguments from devolving into petty, personal attacks. It suits everyone involved if the story is ?Blake and Justin disagreed about which edit to use, that?s the big problem? rather than ?Justin fat-shamed Blake and gave her a lingering kiss? or ?Blake is a mean-girl bully.?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Sony full supports Blake Lively after she screened 'IEWU: The Lively Cut' in Texas | | Added 168 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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What does this Blake Lively stuff remind you of? For me, it?s sort of like the Hilaria Baldwin stuff in late 2020 and early 2021 suddenly, people were going back through all of Hilaria?s old interviews and doing deep dives on all of the Hilaria-was-never-Spanish lore. While Blake Lively never lied about being ?from Spain,? there is a similar deep-dive into the gossip history around Blake. Like? what was up with Blake and Leighton Meester on Gossip Girl? They apparently didn?t get along at all towards the latter part of the series, so much so they the would barely even speak to each other. The Mail is on the case go here to read.
Meanwhile, the current Blake situation is that we still don?t know exactly what went down between Blake, Justin Baldoni and the cast of It Ends With Us. Many people around the production maintain this idea that Baldoni and Lively?s larger falling out happened in postproduction, especially when Blake brought in her own editor to create IEWU: The Lively Cut. It was also clear (to me) that Team Blake had already started an increasingly loud whisper campaign about Baldoni, one which scared him enough to hire a crisis management team this week. Well, speaking of all of that, the Hollywood Reporter has an interesting piece about the studio giving a lot of full-throated support for Blake, especially after she screened IEWU: The Lively Cut to Colleen Hoover?s groupies in Texas in June.
In mid-June, star-producer Blake Lively traveled to Dallas to attend author Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza for a Q&A in the lead-up to the August release It Ends With Us. Lively surprised the 2,000-plus attendees when she announced they could screen a rough cut of the movie adaptation the following night. The screening of the movie ? the first of Hoover?s popular novels to hit the screen ? proved to be a stroke of marketing genius for Sony, which bought rights to release the movie from Wayfarer Studios, whose co-founder, Justin Baldoni, both directed and stars in the film.
?Colleen Hoover?s Book Bonanza and her fans sparked the fire that was the beginning of the cultural movement,? says Josh Greenstein, a veteran marketer and president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Motion Picture Group.
Absent, however, from the Dallas gathering was Baldoni. The version shown that night was Lively?s preferred rough cut of the movie.
By the time the movie opened Aug. 9, an ugly war had erupted on TikTok and other social media platforms pitting Baldoni and Lively against each other. Many took aim at Lively, despite reports that some cast and crewmembers, including Lively, felt uncomfortable over Baldoni?s behavior on set.
Sony is fully in sync with Lively. ?Blake, Colleen and so many women put so much effort into this remarkable movie, working selflessly from the start to ensure that such an important subject matter was handled with care. Audiences love the movie. Blake?s passion and commitment to advancing the conversation around domestic violence is commendable,? Sony Pictures Entertainment Chair-CEO Tony Vinciquerra told The Hollywood Reporter. ?We love working with Blake, and we want to do 12 more movies with her.?
Sony?s marketing campaign ? in staying true to Hoover?s book ? conveyed that It Ends With Us isn?t a story of victimhood, but a story of redemption. It traverses falling in love, becoming an entrepreneur, friendship and family, alongside pain and trauma. ?Lily is a survivor and a victim, but that doesn?t define her, as she is in charge of her identity and her story. These themes were important to the campaign,? says one source connected to the film?s rollout.
Sources have told THR that there was a fracture between Baldoni and Lively in the postproduction stage, wherein two different cuts of the movie emerged. Lively commissioned a cut of the movie from editor Shane Reid, who was an editor on Deadpool & Wolverine, according to multiple sources.
[From THR]
This reads to me like why Baldoni hired crisis managers in the first place, because he was afraid he was going to get squished by the studio taking Blake?s side and throwing him under the bus. Sony is obviously doing the most to stay on Blake?s good side, and not only that, Sony is seemingly doing a lot (here and behind-the-scenes) to keep the arguments from devolving into petty, personal attacks. It suits everyone involved if the story is ?Blake and Justin disagreed about which edit to use, that?s the big problem? rather than ?Justin fat-shamed Blake and gave her a lingering kiss? or ?Blake is a mean-girl bully.?
Photos courtesy of Backgrid, Cover Images.
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| | Blake Lively wore Tamara Ralph in London & she's beefing with Justin Baldoni' | | Added 175 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos of Blake Lively and Isabela Ferrer at the photocall and premiere for It Ends With Us in London on Thursday. Blake?s white suit at the photocall was Stella McCartney? which makes sense (awful sense). For the premiere, Blake wore Tamara Ralph Couture, and Isabela wore Burberry. I think it?s interesting that Blake chose Tamara Ralph (formerly of Ralph & Russo) Blake doesn?t have one go-to designer for every carpet, but usually she goes for bigger name labels or designers. That being said, the dress is blandly pretty, so much so that I thought this was Elie Saab or Monique Lhuillier. The furry coat/cape.stole is interesting but not with this dress. At least Blake?s hair looks good?
Meanwhile, it appears that Justin Baldoni did not make the trip to London to promote the movie. That?s weird he was in New York and he attended the NYC premiere a few days ago. He didn?t pose with anyone from the film though. In case you?re wondering, Baldoni plays the domestic-abuser husband in the film AND Baldoni also directed this mess, with Blake and Colleen Hoover stepping in as co-executive producers. Since IEWU?s promotion ramped up, people have been noticing that Blake and Justin are not interacting on the promo tour at all, not even to pose together on a red carpet.
Social media users are convinced that It Ends With Us costars Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have become embroiled in a fierce feud after they noticed some suspicious behavior between the two cast members. The highly-anticipated movie, based off Colleen Hoovers novel of the same name, is set to hit theaters on Friday, August 9. But some fans believe Blake, 36, has beef with Justin, 40 who on top of acting in the film, also directed it after claiming they spotted some tension between the stars at the New York City premiere earlier this week.
Blake and Justin didnt pose for any pictures together at the event, despite playing the two main characters and love interests in the flick. She happily took photos with her other costars like Jenny Slate and Brandon Sklenar, but not Justin. Two days later, Blake attended a photo call in London for the film with some of the other stars but Justin was mysteriously absent.
In addition, the two havent done any press together in the weeks leading up to the films release. Instead, Blake sat down for an interview with her costar, Brandon, last month; she and Brandon also participated in a promotional video with It Ends With Us stars Alex Neustaedter and Isabela Ferrer, but Justin had no part in it.
Eagle-eyed social media users also noticed that both Blake and author Colleen unfollowed Justin on Instagram recently. Between their lack of interactions and the social media move, many people on the web are wondering if there was drama between Blake and Justin on set.
[From The Daily Mail]
Two things make me believe the beef is real: not posing together on the red carpet in NYC AND Lively and Hoover unfollowing him. Even when costars hate each other, producers will convince them to pose together (however briefly) at the premiere, even if it?s part of a larger group. There was none of that at the NYC premiere, and obviously, he didn?t even come to the London leg of the promotion. Something absolutely went down. Ive seen some people theorizing that Baldoni didnt appreciate Blake trying to whitewash the domestic violence storyline? There are rumors about Ryan Reynolds getting too involved in the production too.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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| | Blake Lively wore Britney Spears' 2002 Versace to the 'It Ends With Us' premiere | | Added 177 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from last night?s New York premiere of It Ends With Us. I?m also including some of Blake?s flower-intensive promotional looks from this week too. As we discussed, Blake?s IEWU character is named Lily Bloom. She works as a florist. Blake is Captain Obvious. Blake chose a very special ?floral? look for the premiere a vintage Versace dress once worn by Britney Spears in 2002. Blake told People Mag at the premiere that it was actually the same dress Britney wore. The fact that Blake can fit into that dress after four kids? Kind of amazing. Sidenote: this early-2000s Versace era was so good, Donatella had taken over from her late brother and she was really going lighter and brighter.
As always, Ryan Reynolds joined Blake at her premiere. Hugh Jackman came out as well, because I guess Hugh is part of the Lively-Reynolds family now (lucky him). I don?t begrudge Blake the support she?s the executive producer on this film, the source material for which (arguably) romanticizes domestic violence and she?s really trying to hype it.
I?m not looking up the fashion IDs on all of Blake?s floral looks but the ensemble with the chaps is insane. All of these looks are pretty tragic, actually.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid and Cover Images.
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| | Blake Lively is obviously wearing a lot of florals to promote 'It Ends With Us' | | Added 179 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I know there are a lot of big Blake Lively fans out there, so I?ll try to be as nice as possible, even though Blake and her allure of antebellum pluck my last nerve. Blake?s promotion for It Ends With Us began last week, and she?s using the movie promotion to also launch her haircare line, Blake Brown. Blake stepped into an executive producer role for It Ends With Us, and she?s actually co-EP with author Colleen Hoover. Meaning, Hoover had a big say in how her book was adapted for the screen. This should make fans of the book happy. Months/years after BookTok made IEWU into a massive hit, I was basically the last one to figure out that the core story is actually about domestic violence. Like, it?s not a straight romance it?s a story about abuse.
Blake?s character in IEWU is named Lily Bloom. Guess what Lily Bloom does for a living? She co-owns some kind of florist?s shop. If you need to be bashed over the head with this, Blake?s promotional fashion tour features a lot of florals and flowery designs and prints. Last week and over the weekend, Blake did a promo blitz which included some cute dresses and one completely wacky ensemble which involved clashing prints. Awful.
Here?s a Dauphinette look this is one of her few looks we have access to, photo-wise. You can see the Mail?s fashion coverage here. I wonder if Blake thought she was doing a really big fashion tour which would dominate the celebrity/fashion media, but not enough paparazzi turned up? Because that?s what it feels like.
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| | Blake Lively glowed in a bellbottom jumpsuit at the NYFW Michael Kors show | | Added 507 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Even with the SAG-AFTRA and WGA strikes still ongoing, it feels like so much is happening the Venice Film Festival closed this past weekend, the Toronto Film Festival started several days ago, and New York Fashion Week is super-star-studded. The Michael Kors show is always a popular ticket during NYFW, and the star of the Kors show is inevitably Blake Lively. Blake is all about Kors and she almost always comes out for his runway shows.
He usually gives her something from his new collection too, which explains why Blake wore this Michael Kors bellbottom jumpsuit. Thoughts? I don?t hate it, although I wonder if the jumpsuit would be better with a simple flared leg rather than full bellbottom. The golden shade complements Blake?s coloring and I love her curly hair and the overall ?70s vibe. While I think Blake generally has a Mall Girl aesthetic, she actually pulls off some generational vintage-style fashion.
Here?s Jenna Dewan at the Kors show? I only love the coat here. I would wear the hell out of that coat.
Kelsea Ballerini loathe the sunglasses, dislike the ?high fashion fanny pack? energy.
Olivia Wilde god help me, but I love this outfit. Great coat, great boots, amazing knits. I don?t even mind the fringed purse.
Ellen Pompeo kind of got the worst Kors outfit.
Photos courtesy of Backgrid.
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| | Blake Lively crossed a barrier to fix the display of her gown at Kensington Palace | | Added 554 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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While I find most of Blake Livelys red carpet looks goofy, she usually does a good job at the Met Gala. To me, the Met Gala isnt a costume ball, to borrow from red carpet bloggers Tom and Lorenzo. The theme should influence how people look but it shouldnt always be super literal (except the one year when the theme was camp). You know, when Jared Leto showed up this year wearing a whole ass cat mascot costume, dressed as a six foot tall Choupette, I rolled my eyes so hard I almost gave myself an ocular migraine. I like that Blakes looks reference the themes and are still dramatic without being completely costume-y. Her preferred aesthetic is also a bit trophy wife but if I looked like that I too would show off my hotness. Her 2022 look, which referenced the Statue of Liberty, featured a dramatic reveal on the stairs where the skirt got changed around. Now that gown is in an exhibit at Kensington Palace called Crown to Couture. Its supposedly about how contemporary red carpet looks reference the 18th century Georgian period, an era between 1714 roughly 1830. I dont know that much about Georgian fashion so Ill have to take their word for it, but it features dresses worn by everybody from Audrey Hepburn to Beyonce to Lizzo, so its probably worth seeing if youre in London. When Blake visited the exhibit, she apparently thought the curators had made a mistake with how they displayed the dress. So she jumped over the rope and adjusted it herself!
On Tuesday, the Gossip Girl alum posted an Instagram story of her jumping over the ropes at the Crown to Couture exhibit in Londons Kensington Palace to quickly alter the display of her famous gown.
?When you?re the clown who hops over the rope at the museum to fix the exhibit,? Lively, 35, captioned over her video. ?Happy almost Virgo season folx.?
?So that you see what the transformation was,? the actress added, while crouched down, before turning the inside of the dress to face outwards on its center part with some assistance from jewelry designer Lorraine Schwartz.
Livelys dress appears alongside 200 other pieces at the exhibit inside Princess Dianas former home, including Lizzo?s 2022 Met Gala Thom Browne look and Lady Gaga?s 2020 MTV Awards dress by Christopher John Rogers.
The exhibition also features a number of historic gowns as it tells the story of how rock and red carpet fashion has been influenced by the royals of the Georgian era in the 18th century.
The mom-of-four also took time to admire the crown Schwartz created for her to wear with the dress at the 2022 Met Gala.
?This was absolutely surreal. Seeing this crown that we made in Kensington Palace, Lively captioned a follow-up post of her smiling beside a display cabinet. I still feel like a kid playing dress up every time I get to wear a gown and borrowed jewels out. To see it memorialized like this? just. Wow. Something I?ll never forget.?
[From People]
There isnt context in the clip from Instagram and its not on her stories anymore so Im guessing she asked the exhibit staff for permission before she did this? The dress was custom-made for Blake and its not like she messed with one of the gowns from the 18th century. But still, it comes off a little bit rude to me. Im sure whoever dressed that mannequin did it with great care. People who work as museum curators or conservationists typically have the most incredible attention to detail. They probably looked at dozens of reference photos and arranged the dress in a certain way on purpose. Plus, the exhibit space is different from the Met Museum steps, so it wont look exactly like it did in that moment when the skirt changed around. I guess it is a Virgo-like thing to do. One of my friends is a Virgo and I lovingly refer to her as an Australian shepherd because she is always herding people and attempting to organize things according to her extremely high standards. But calling it almost Virgo season when its Leo season until the 23rd of August iswell, kind of something Id expect from a fire sign like myself. We cant stand not being in the spotlight.
As an aside, because this story involves Kensington Palace: I lived across the street from Kensington Palace when I studied abroad. We had a few sightings of the princes and Kate. One day my American classmate came home from the high street overjoyed because shed just seen Prince Harry with his protection officer in TK Maxx buying underwear and socks. That was over ten years ago, so when he talked about shopping at TK Maxx in his book, I knew he was telling the truth, however implausible it seemed! (He preferred boxers, in case anyone wondered.)
photos credit: Backgrid and Instar
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