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| | Sony fully supports Blake Lively after she screened 'IEWU: The Lively Cut' in Texas | | Added 65 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 66 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 73 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 75 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 77 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 405 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 452 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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| | Blake Lively's sad 'mocktail' business is now offering alcoholic beverages | | Added 473 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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In December 2021, Blake Lively launched her latest side-hustle, a line of mocktails and mixers called Betty Buzz. The idea behind it was that Blake doesn?t drink, but she still likes to party and she wanted some non-alcoholic ?mocktail? choices. Basically, she thought she could find a niche market of wealthy non-drinkers just itching to spend money on juice. Well, it looks like she could not find that niche market, because Betty Buzz is now doing a line of alcoholic ?spritzers? and Blake?s fans are not happy about it.
Drinking might not be Blake Livelys thing, but the Betty Buzz founder is expanding her lineup of non-alcoholic mixers to include spiked seltzer too. Only, not everyone is thrilled with the launch. On Thursday, Lively took to Instagram with the news of her latest venture, telling fans, Drinking isnt my thing. But for f* sake, flavor is. Homemade recipe. Real fruit. Real ingredients. Quality booze. No crap. Also a real time saver. Which is why I really did it.
The Simple Favor star has long been an advocate for sober living?despite her own husband Ryan Reynolds half a billion dollar gin business. However, Betty Buzz has long been branded as a mixer, be it for non-alcoholic mocktails or Aviation Gin cocktails.
When it comes to quality, were absolutely uncompromising. Whether its Buzz or Booze, everything we make is real and delicious, Co-Founder and Chairman of Betty B Holdings Andrew T. Chrisomalis said in a press release. The early success of Betty Buzz proved people expect more from what they drink. And were going to be the beverage company to serve it to them.
Fans were quick to call out Lively for her foray into the liquor aisle.
How can you market/create a product you don?t openly consume yourself? come the f on now.. one user wrote. Another chimed in, writing, If drinking really isnt your thing (which youre very vocal about) how about some NA options? Otherwise youre just in it for the money.
A third Instagrammer said, What a confusing way to promote your alcohol, by saying drinking isn?t your thing?
[From Delish]
I just? this whole thing seems so inauthentic to me, but that?s probably because I find Blake to be pretty inauthentic. She?s not a drinker, okay, but she does think that she?s some kind of businesswoman and she was desperate to cash in on some kind of non-alcoholic beverage market. When that market did not embrace her, she then turned to booze? which is probably what she should have been doing the whole time. THAT is the market, which her husband knows. People will spend money to drink a nice cocktail or spritzer, but they won?t spend the money to just drink a fancy juice. Her marketing is a disaster too this was probably meant as a side-hustle she could just promote herself and base on her own public persona, but obviously? that wasn?t successful. I don?t know, I don?t drink anymore but I was not tempted in any way to try Blake?s fancy juices. Other people were unimpressed as well, which is why she had to change the fundamental strategy. It?s the ?Allure of Antebellum? all over again.
Photos courtesy of Instagram, Avalon Red, Backgrid.
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| | Blake Lively quietly welcomed her fourth child at some point & didn't announce it | | Added 616 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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| | Blake Lively is pregnant, she & Ryan Reynolds are expecting their fourth child | | Added 766 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I?ve never really been into Blake Lively as a person and the ?Allure of Antebellum? mess was probably the end of any warmth I had for her. I actually thought about the ?Allure of Antebellum? debacle recently, because the Duchess of Sussex has a similar obsession with alliteration when it comes to naming her Archetypes podcasts. I?ve joked on Twitter that if Blake ever turns up on Archetypes, Meghan should for-real name the episode Allure of Antebellum and they can sit there and deconstruct the ?archetype? of the Confederacy-loving, Old-South-glorifying, plantation-wedding-having clueless white racist woman trope. Blake would never.
The one thing Blake WILL do is have babies. Blake and Ryan Reynolds already have three children: James, 7, Inez, 5, and Betty, 2. Blake is pregnant again with their fourth. She?s got a nice-sized bump and we saw Blake and her bump for the first time in months. She attended the 10th Annual Forbes Power Women?s Summit on Thursday, and she wore a shimmery mod-style gold dress. I imagine Blake draping that white ribbon loosely across her neck and whispering ?I?ve never had a stylist, you know.? Congrats to them they spend most of their time in upstate New York, raising their children and trying not to remind people of their plantation wedding.
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