Did Ryan Reynolds make light of the legal battle at the SNL 50th anniversary special?<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-name” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_text_color=”#000000″ header_4_font=”|||on|||||” header_4_text_align=”center” text_orientation=”center” custom_margin=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]
Words by Nikki Peach<\/strong><\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/flatplan-plus-content.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2025\/02\/Screenshot-2025-02-18-at-11.44.13.png” alt=”Jennifer Aniston” title_text=”Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively” force_fullwidth=”on” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” hover_enabled=”0″ global_colors_info=”{}” sticky_enabled=”0″] The legal drama between Justin Baldoni and Blake Lively is becoming something akin to a soap opera. Despite the serious allegations at play, each side seems to deal a new blow when we least expect it.<\/p>\n Most recently, one from team Lively and Reynolds came in the form of an awkward joke at the SNL 50th anniversary special. In the now viral clip, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler asked, \u2018Ryan Reynolds! How\u2019s it going?\u2019 and Reynolds, who was sat next to Lively in the audience, said, \u2018Great! Why, what have you heard?\u2019 jokingly referring to their highly publicised legal situation.<\/p>\n The quip received a knowing laugh from the audience and a look of slight dismay from Lively herself, but it has been met with a mixed response elsewhere. A source told Page Six, \u2018It\u2019s very plausible that Justin\u2019s legal team will use this public outing to defend him. Justin is taking this lawsuit in all seriousness and isn\u2019t making a mockery out of it.\u2019<\/p>\n A second insider disagrees and claims Lively \u2018was initially hesitant to attend the anniversary show but, ultimately, she\u2019s glad she went and had a really nice time. Blake and Ryan have no regrets about making an appearance and they\u2019re glad they showed up because they have nothing to hide and no reason not to\u2019.<\/p>\n It was their first public appearance together since Lively\u2019s original lawsuit was filed in December. She is accusing her It Ends With Us<\/em> co-star of sexual harassment and of launching a smear campaign against her during the press run. In the lawsuit, which was first reported on by the New York Times, she has included messages that show Baldoni\u2019s PR team allegedly saying they could \u2018bury anyone\u2019.<\/p>\n The lawsuit understandably shifted the narrative, which was appeared to be tilted in Baldoni\u2019s favour up until that point. It also encouraged social media users to revisit the barrage of criticism and abuse Lively faced when It Ends With Us<\/em> came out in a new light. One particularly damning viral clip was from an interview Lively did with the Norwegian journalist Kjersti Flaa during the Caf\u00e9 Society<\/em> press run in 2016. In the clip, the not-pregnant Flaa said to pregnant Lively \u2018congratulations on your little bump\u2019 and Lively appeared to mockingly respond \u2018congrats on your<\/em> little bump\u2019.<\/p>\n The interview no doubt contributed to the discourse that Lively is a \u2018mean girl\u2019, and Flaa took its virality as an opportunity to discuss how it affected her on her YouTube channel in a video titled, \u2018The interview that made me want to quit my job.\u2019<\/p>\n \u2018It took me a while to actually get over it,\u2019 she said. \u2018It affected me for a while because it made me nervous when I was interviewing other people after that.\u2019 Calling the experience a \u2018nightmare interview\u2019, she added, \u2018I just felt like, \u201cYou know what? It\u2019s not okay to behave like that and I think it needs to be called out.\u2019 And so that\u2019s the reason why I did that now, so much later.\u2019<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”custom-quote” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font=”Libre Bodoni|||on|||||” header_2_text_align=”center” header_2_text_color=”#333333″ header_2_font_size=”40px” header_2_line_height=”1.2em” global_colors_info=”{}”] Following Lively\u2019s lawsuit, however, Flaa spoke up again to say that she had nothing to do with Baldoni\u2019s alleged smear campaign. \u2018Okay, so I have to say something because now I see that things are starting to snowball and people start thinking that I had anything to do with the smear campaign against Blake Lively that was orchestrated allegedly by Justin Baldoni and his team,\u2019 she said.<\/p>\n \u2018I also read the article in the New York Times this morning. I\u2019ve been reading through the lawsuit, and I see there\u2019s been so much dirty work going on behind-the-scenes. I just wanted to say I had nothing to do with it. When I read the text messages that was going back and forth between Justin Baldoni\u2019s PR team, I was shocked and appalled, like everybody else.\u2019<\/p>\n She concluded, \u2018I would never want to take part in anything like that. That\u2019s such an insult to me.\u2019<\/p>\n Given how instrumental the Flaa clip was in the criticism of Lively, the fact she says she was not involved in the alleged smear campaign makes things even more complicated.<\/p>\n As does the fact that Baldoni filed a counter lawsuit the same day Lively filed hers. He is seeking at least $400 million for damages, including lost future income, and is suing Lively and Reynolds for civil extortion, false light invasion of privacy and defamation. He has also filed a lawsuit against the New York Times for publishing an allegedly one-sided account of what happened.<\/p>\n Baldoni\u2019s lawyers have since made his entire lawsuit publicly available to read online \u2013 a move that Lively\u2019s team claim could potentially influence the jury. The whole saga is messy and complicated and difficult to follow and, as things currently stand, neither side is coming off particularly well.<\/p>\n Lively and Reynolds\u2019 SNL appearance was therefore a marked stance to say they have nothing to hide. It\u2019s also a possible response to the fact Lively was noticeably absent at the Super Bowl on 9 February. Last year, she was stood proudly by Taylor Swift\u2019s side as they watched Swift’s boyfriend Travis Kelce play for the Kansas City Chiefs, but this year Lively was nowhere to be seen.<\/p>\n Fans were quick to speculate about whether the pair had fallen out because of Swift’s supposed mention in Baldoni\u2019s lawsuit. He claims to have texts from Lively where she calls her \u2018mega-celebrity friend\u2019, widely thought to be Swift, one of \u2018her dragons\u2019. ‘For better or worse, but usually for better,’ she added. ‘Because my dragons also protect those I fight for.’ Others simply concluded that Lively might be keeping a low profile in light of everything that is going on.<\/p>\n Participating in a lawsuit gag in the SNL anniversary special, then, was a bold and potentially risky move \u2013 and one that feeds into the media circus surrounding the case. It\u2019s also one that reflects Reynolds and Lively\u2019s position clearly: they are not going down without a fight.<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text module_class=”fp-in-article-bold” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”Black Han Sans|||on|||||” text_font_size=”18px” global_colors_info=”{}”] Subhead<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_divider color=”#111111″ divider_position=”center” divider_weight=”2px” module_class=”custom-divider” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||0px||false|false” custom_padding=”0px||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_divider][et_pb_text module_class=”credit-texts” _builder_version=”4.20.4″ _module_preset=”default” text_font=”|||on|||||” text_orientation=”center” global_colors_info=”{}”] Photo: <\/b>Getty<\/p>[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Lots is happening here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7094,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-feature"],"acf":[],"modified_by":"guestgrazia","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7093"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7117,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7093\/revisions\/7117"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flatplanplus.io\/grazia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}‘Great! 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