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| | Justin Baldoni's lawyer: We?ll sue Blake Lively 'soon' & release all of their texts | | Added 45 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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The fact that Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni?s drama has all come to a head over the course of the holidays is pretty bonkers. There were entertainment reporters, legal experts and NYT journalists pulling double-shifts over Christmas and New Year?s because of the way everything was timed. Many have said that Blake Lively?s timing had a purpose she filed her complaint with the California Civil Rights department on the Friday before Christmas, and her team organized the Times exclusive for the weekend before Christmas. Meaning, the intention was for Blake?s version of events to sit out there, relatively unchallenged for the two-week holiday period. I?m not sure if Blake?s team knew that Justin Baldoni, his publicists and his lawyers would be so proactive so quickly. On New Year?s Eve, Baldoni & nine other plaintiffs sued the Times over their story. Blake responded by suing Baldoni and his team, plus Wayfarer (Baldoni?s production company). We heard that Baldoni would sue Blake in the new year. So when will it happen?? According to Baldoni?s lawyer, ?soon.?
Almost a week after Blake Lively accused her It Ends with Us costar Justin Baldoni of sexual harassment and lauching a retaliatory public smear campaign against her, Baldonis lawyer says the actor/director plans to fire back with his own countersuit.
When asked by NBC News in an interview that aired Thursday, Jan. 2, if his client plans to sue Lively, attorney Bryan Freedman replied, Absolutely yes.
We plan to release every single text messages between the two of them, Freedman told NBC News. We want the truth to be out there. We want the documents to be out there. We want people to make their determination based on receipts.
PEOPLE has exclusively learned that the plaintiffs will include Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios (his production company behind It End with Us), his publicist Jennifer Abel and crisis publicist Melissa Nathan. They plan to name Lively, her publicist Leslie Sloane and Baldonis former publicist Stephanie Jones in the suit. (Jones sued Baldoni, Wayfarer, Abel and Nathan on Dec. 24.)
Freedman did not provide a timetable in terms of when Baldonis countersuit will be filed, but a source with knowledge of the lawsuit said it will be filed soon.
[From People]
As I said, I?m taking a wait-and-see approach to a lot of elements within this case or these cases. Initially, it sounded like Blake had an open-and-shut case when it came to sexual harassment (but maybe not so much with ?social manipulation?). That?s also why I?m curious about Baldoni?s receipts and all of the text messages and communications, not just with Blake, but with his publicist and his team. I want to know what Wayfarer people were saying to each other about Blake, and whether there was an awareness, in real time as they shot the film, that Blake was so uncomfortable around Baldoni and that he was allegedly behaving inappropriately with her. Were there conversations within the production (with other producers) about anything
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| | Jennifer Aniston 'isn't looking to talk about Brad and Angelina's divorce publicly' | | Added 46 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When Angelina Jolie filed for divorce from Brad Pitt in 2016, there was an odd surge of schadenfreude from Jennifer Aniston?s fans and supporters. For years, they wanted Pitt and Aniston to get back together or still deal with each other in same way. All of which to say, Brad Pitt and Angelina?s divorce has just been finalized, eight years later, on what is the 20th anniversary of Brad and Jennifer?s separation and eventual divorce. Brad and Jennifer announced their separation in January 2005 just a few months later, he was photographed with Angelina in Africa. Twenty years later, I genuinely hope and believe that Aniston doesn?t give a sh-t and Brad isn?t on her radar in any way. But ?sources? insist that Aniston was paying attention to Brad and Angelina?s divorce drama.
Jennifer Aniston has no plans to offer any congratulations to her ex Brad Pitt following the finalization of his divorce from Angelina Jolie, according to sources who revealed that the Friends star would love Brad to be happy as he moves forward. After a bitter eight-year battle, Pitt and Jolie officially reached a settlement in their divorce with the Tomb Raider actress finally signing her papers on Christmas Day.
Pitt famously ended his marriage to Aniston in 2005 after meeting Jolie on the set of Mr. & Mrs. Smith. The Troy actor and Jolie were then together for 11 years before their marriage came to its own explosive end in 2016. Despite the very public love triangle and the many headlines it spawned over the years, Aniston and Pitt have managed to remain friendly since his split from Jolie notably sharing a warm hug together at the 2020 SAG Awards.
However, a source exclusively revealed to DailyMail.com that Aniston has no interest in speaking about her ex-husbands new divorce update both in public or in private.
Jen isnt looking to talk about Brad and Angelinas divorce publicly, nor is she looking to reach out to Brad and offer any congratulations, the insider began.
Opening up about how Aniston plans to approach her ex when they next bump into each other at industry events, the insider explained: The next time they see each other, theyll be cordial with each other, they have been in the recent past and that wont change. They will talk about life and mostly anything else, but they arent going to dive into his feelings about the divorce or anything like that. Angelina is not a talking point between them and that will remain the same forever, the insider revealed.
However, noting that the pair have built up an amicable relationship in recent years, the source said: Jen is good with Brad and is friendly with him. Over the years they both have settled their issues with each other and will never stop being respectful with each other. Jen would love Brad to be happy first and foremost, and believes he is happy.
[From The Daily Mail]
I think the biggest shift here is that Aniston stopped reminding everyone that she?s Brad?s ex-wife and that she was part of the uncool Bermuda Triangle too. At some point, she moved on and so did the tabloids. Plus, Brad has a girlfriend now (Ines de Ramon), so it would be difficult for anyone to push a Pitt-Aniston agenda currently. All that being said, I?ve always wondered if Aniston had a sudden realization several years ago that Brad is a gigantic loser and she wasted years of her life thinking he was so cool and such a catch.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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| | How did Duchess Meghan get her mononymous Instagram handle? | | Added 46 hours ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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When I checked the @Meghan Instagram account Thursday morning, the Duchess of Sussex had over 700K followers after she made her first post on New Year?s Day. About seven hours later, Meghan had more than a million followers. It?s the SussexRoyal IG all over again once people know for sure that Meghan is on the ?gram, they flock to her account. In case you?re wondering, Prince William and Kate?s Instagram account has 16.8 million followers. How many of those followers are bots paid for with Duchy of Cornwall money though?
Meanwhile, the Daily Mail is obviously still obsessed with every single thing about Meghan?s IG account, including how she got a coveted mononymous account. All of the biggest accounts Kim Kardashian, Taylor Swift, Kylie Jenner, Selena Gomez have IG handles with their first and last names. So how did Meghan manage to pull off @Meghan?
Meghan Markle has made a sensational return to Instagram after teasing a new project with an elusive video of herself a the beach. The wife of Prince Harry, 42, is making her comeback on the photo-sharing app, having stepped away in 2020, and is appearing to forego her Duchess of Sussex title by simply using the handle @meghan. She first made her cautious reappearance last summer, after teasing her return for months. News that the @meghan handle was hers created a frenzy of followers despite the account lying empty without a single post until Wedensday, and following no other accounts.
But how did the Duchess get her hands on the single-moniker handle? Speaking to FEMAIL, branding expert Emily M Austen revealed its likely the account which has now been verified with a blue tick was owned by someone else before, as its not a unique name.
Most likely, Meghan (or her team), will have used a website to negotiate through a third party, the handle, and will likely have had to pay for ownership, she explained. It is possible to change your Instagram handle whenever you want, within certain limits, but this looks like a totally new account, so it?s most likely a purchase. Meghan likely used a third party which would mean her identity would remain hidden. Most sellers start with a guide price, which can go from $200 to $20,000 depending on the desirability of the handle.
Another expert, talent rep Raymani Zaloumis, also said that while its very difficult to predict the exact amount Meghan Markle would have paid for the handle, its likely the sum would have been significant.
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| | Carey Mulligan & Stephen Fry were recognized on King Charles's New Year Honors list | | Added 2 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Every New Year?s Eve, the ?New Year Honors? list is revealed by Buckingham Palace. While the monarch passes out honors throughout the year to mark achievements or certain events, the New Year Honors are considered very special in the UK. This year, David Beckham was once again snubbed. It?s especially hilarious because Beckham has been doing the MOST to suck up to the Windsors for several years now. So who was honored? Carey Mulligan, Stephen Fry and the king?s apothecary. A real job!
Carey Mulligan, Stephen Fry, Sarah Lancashire and others have made the cut for King Charles? 2025 New Year Honors list. Honors are typically given out at the new year and at the monarch?s official birthday, celebrated each June, and celebrate contributions of well-known personalities, government officials and even everyday people who have served their respective communities in an extraordinary way.
Among those recognized on this year?s New Year Honors list are two doctors believed to have been a part of the King?s medical team as he navigated cancer this year ? the type and stage of which remains unknown to the public. The King, 76, has given honors to Dr. Douglas Glass and Professor Richard Leach this year. Per Hello!, Dr. Glass is the King?s apothecary and also served as Queen Elizabeth?s apothecary as well ? and ?was the medical professional in attendance at Balmoral when she died,? the outlet reported.
Professor Leach is a consultant physician at the private King Edward VIII?s Hospital in London, ?where members of the royal family have been treated for decades,? according to the outlet. ?It?s not uncommon for doctors of the royal family to receive personal recognition,? the outlet continued, citing the late Queen?s decision to knight her Head of the Medical Household, Sir Huw Thomas, in 2021.
Mulligan and Lancashire have both been named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), and Lancashire called the recognition an ?unexpected delight,? according to Hello!. For his part, Fry said he felt ?startled and enchanted? after receiving a knighthood for his services to mental health awareness and the environment.
Other notable names given honors this iteration include Gareth Southgate, former manager of England?s national football team, and London mayor Sadiq Khan, who were both knighted in the New Year Honors. Sadiq ? who has served as London?s mayor since 2016 ? said he was ?truly humbled? to receive the honor.
[From People]
I?ve never thought of Carey Mulligan as any kind of royalist, and she?s avoided almost all royal events and royal-adjacent events. It?s possible that her CBE is more about her actual career and her talent. She?s one of Britain?s best actresses, so I wouldn?t be surprised. I also find it odd that Charles has now repeatedly gone out of his way to recognize and publicly thank his doctors, all while there?s still so much mystery around the Princess of Wales?s health issues and treatment. Kate has never thanked any member of her medical team by name.
Also, the Mail had this very interesting story about how many people have rejected honors. Apparently, since Charles became king, ?more than 120 people have turned down a knighthood, damehood, MBE, OBE or other awards in recognition of their achievements in public life.? Not only that, but ?2024 marked the second-highest number of rejections in 15 years.? LMAO. Some of this is not even Charles?s fault as Boris Johnson was exiting 10 Downing Street, he gave honors to every unhinged Tory of his acquaintance. Johnson cheapened the honors system just as much as Charles did. Plus, people just don?t give a sh-t about honors anymore. Except for David Beckham.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red.
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| | Duchess Meghan's Netflix show is called 'With Love, Meghan' & it comes out on the 15th | | Added 2 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Well, well. I was legitimately starting to panic a little bit about the Duchess of Sussex?s cooking/entertaining series, which was filmed in the spring last year in Montecito. We didn?t hear anything about the show from Archewell or Netflix at the end of the year, and I worried that the release date was being quietly pushed back even further. But it turns out, all of the editing was done and the whole thing is a glossy product, ready to go. The eight-episode series is called With Love, Meghan, and Netflix dropped a trailer on Thursday:
Such strong Barefoot Contessa vibes, only instead of Ina Garten cooking for her gay friends in the Hamptons, we?ve got Meghan cooking for her girlfriends in Montecito. If I?m being honest, the food is the most interesting part to me. While I enjoy watching rich women play with flowers and wander around a private garden in flowy pants, the real ?money shot? is always going to be Meghan cooking or baking. I really hope that a cookbook is coming too!! But for now, we?re getting this series. The whole eight-episode series will be released on January 15th (two days before Severance Season 2 begins!!). According to Netflix, Meghan has new and old friends in each episode, and some of those friends include: Mindy Kaling, Roy Choi, Alice Waters, Daniel Martin, Delfina Blaquier, Tracy Robbins, Abigail Spencer and Kelly McKee Zajfen.
Meghan posted the trailer on her Instagram too! She wrote this message: ?I have been so excited to share this with you! I hope you love the show as much as I loved making it. Wishing you all a fantastic new year! Thanks to our amazing crew and the team @netflix. Beyond grateful for the support and fun! As ever, Meghan.?
Photos & poster courtesy of Netflix.
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| | TMZ: Ryan Reynolds insists he did not 'berate' Justin Baldoni a year ago | | Added 2 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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On New Year?s Eve, Justin Baldoni and nine other plaintiffs sued the New York Times for $250 million, all because of the Times? bombshell exclusive about Blake Lively?s California Civil Rights complaint. The Times story was heavy on Blake?s narrative of ?social manipulation,? using texts and messages between Justin Baldoni?s publicist and crisis manager, painting a picture of Baldoni as a sexual predator who publicly smeared his victim. In Baldoni?s suit against the Times, he provided some receipts of texts and emails, enough to show that there is more nuance to some of Blake?s claims. In one interesting section of Baldoni?s lawsuit, there?s talk of a January 2024 meeting at Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds? Tribeca apartment. From Variety:
But according to [Baldoni?s] lawsuit, it was Lively who embarked on a ?strategic and manipulative? smear campaign of her own and used false ?sexual harassment allegations to assert unilateral control over every aspect of the production.? And according to the suit, Lively?s husband, actor Ryan Reynolds, allegedly berated Baldoni in an aggressive manner during a heated meeting at their Tribeca penthouse in New York, ?accusing him of ?fat shaming?? his wife. The suit claims that the A-list actor also pressured Baldoni?s agency, WME, to drop the director during the ?Deadpool and Wolverine? premiere in July, well before Baldoni enlisted crisis PR.
The lawsuit also pushes back on a major component of Lively?s CRD complaint and the Times? reliance on it for its story. It?s a list of 30 items that were allegedly agreed upon during a January meeting that included Baldoni, Heath, Lively and Reynolds and a Sony executive. But today?s lawsuit claims that ?no such document was ever presented to Baldoni, the Wayfarer team, or, to their knowledge, anyone else ? whether during that meeting or at any other time ? and therefore, could not have been agreed to.? The suit adds: ?In reality, many of these items were encountered for the first time in the CRD Complaint itself and include references to highly disturbing events that never occurred. The repeated use of the phrase ?no more? before each demand falsely suggests that these alleged incidents had previously taken place and needed to cease. This implication is not only misleading but entirely untrue.?
As for the meeting at Lively and Reynolds? penthouse apartment in Tribeca, everyone was ?in shock? by Reynolds? outburst, the lawsuit claims. According to the lawsuit, one of the film?s producers who was present said that ?in his 40-year career he had never seen anyone speak to someone like that in a meeting, [while] the Sony representative mentioned that she would often think of that meeting and her one regret is that she didn?t stop Reynolds? berating of Baldoni.?
Back in August, when coverage of a mysterious feud between Lively and Baldoni began to spiral on social media and in the press, Variety inquired of Sony whether any HR complaints had been filed against Baldoni during production and was told ?no.?
[From Variety]
So in just one week, we?ve gone from Blake?s narrative that ?there was a January production meeting in which Ryan acted as her representative and the studio acquiesced to all of her demands in writing to protect her from a predatory director? to ?actually, this was a meeting at Ryan and Blake?s home and Ryan berated Baldoni in front of multiple witnesses, including reps from Sony, and nothing was put in writing and given to Baldoni.? So now Team Lively-Reynolds is backtracking a bit yes, the meeting was at their Tribeca home, but no, Ryan didn?t ?berate? Justin.
Justin Baldonis accusation Ryan Reynolds berated and screamed at him in a house full of stars in an ambush meeting is way overblown this according to a source who was in the meeting. Baldoni made several accusations against Blake Lively and husband RR in a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times claiming the Deadpool star was aggressive toward JB at a meeting that took place in the couples NYC home, as celeb pals came and went.
Our source tells TMZ the meeting did go down last January, as It Ends With Us was to resume production after it was stalled by industry strikes and everyone in attendance knew Baldonis alleged behavior would be addressed so, there was zero blindsiding.
The source says RR was not screaming and berating JB, although the source concedes he was angry and stern, adding Reynolds spoke in an impassioned way but it did not rise to the level of screaming or berating.
Baldoni said in his lawsuit the encounter he had with Reynolds was traumatic and he had never been spoken to like that in his life.
The source also took issue with the way the meeting was characterized in the lawsuit in particular the mention of the penthouse where other stars were randomly milling around. The meeting was at the home of Reynolds and Lively, but our source says other celebs were not coming and going.
Baldoni isnt alone in suing the Times he is one of 10 plaintiffs, including publicists Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel, who were mentioned at length in Livelys initial complaint and in the papers story. Lively has filed a lawsuit making a formal demand for money, suing Baldoni and others including the publicists for mental pain and anguish, severe emotional distress, and lost wages.
[From TMZ]
I said this week that the story of what Ryan said to Justin and how Ryan said it seemed like a crucial element to the larger story of what the hell happened between all involved. Blake?s side will say that Ryan is a loving, protective husband who was standing up for his wife. Justin?s side will say that the husband of an actress-producer completely overstepped and raged out during what was supposed to be a professional production meeting. Also, Variety?s coverage of Baldoni?s suit didn?t say that celebrities were milling around. Everyone agrees on the fact that this was supposed to be a production meeting, and yet no one can agree on what was actually said.
Photos courtesy of Avalon Red, Cover Images.
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