Blake Lively Enlists Lawyer Who Took On Epstein for Justin Baldoni Battle

Blake Lively has added some serious firepower to her legal team as the fight with her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni heads toward trial. On Friday, Lively hired Sigrid McCawley, a managing partner at Boies Schiller Flexner, who previously represented victims of the late convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The new hire comes just days ahead of a key hearing, where Baldoni is expected to seek dismissal of some or all of Lively’s claims. McCawley also represented Lively’s publicist, Leslie Sloane, after Baldoni named her in a countersuit accusing her of orchestrating a smear campaign. In a statement to The Cut, McCawley described the case as centering on allegations of a hostile work environment and retaliation after Lively raised concerns on set. Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024, alleging sexual harassment and inappropriate conduct during production, including claims Baldoni entered her trailer without consent. Baldoni has denied the allegations and previously accused Lively, Sloane, and Lively’s husband, Ryan Reynolds, of defamation and extortion. Those claims were dismissed last year.

Marjorie Taylor Greene is shaking up the ratings game. Just two days after retiring her role in Congress, Greene paid a visit to The View on Jan. 7. The episode pulled in 2.75 million viewers, giving the ABC daytime talk show its most-watched episode since April, according to Nielsen figures first reported by TheWrap. That’s a 7 percent bump over her previous appearance in November. While the conversation touched on her break with Trump and her decision to leave Congress, Greene largely avoided the combative tone that once defined her media appearances. Greene has become one of the show’s most reliable ratings draws, with each of her recent appearances delivering a measurable boost in viewership. MTG’s presence also lifted The View’s weekly average to 2.61 million viewers, a 59 percent jump from the previous week. Ratings climbed sharply across key demographics, including women aged 25-54 and 18-49. The View ranked No. 1 among daytime network talk shows that week, outperforming NBC’s Today Third Hour. The ABC program continues to lead broadcast daytime talk shows for a ninth consecutive season.

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Fans of the seemingly overnight sensation Heated Rivalry have begun making pilgrimages to shooting locations around Canada, including the Sleeman Centre in Guelph, Ontario, where the cast and crew shot every hockey sequence featured in the show in just 10 days. “We normally don’t book anything into April and May,” the arena’s manager, Ryan Giles, told Variety, before explaining that because Guelph Storm didn’t make the playoffs in 2025, the show was able to use the arena to film. Giles estimates that hundreds of fans have visited the arena since the show’s premiere to take photos or purchase merchandise, and he has also seen the evidence on TikTok.

“There’s a lot of them, of people that are just showing up and wanting to take pictures around the building‚” Giles explained. Fortunately for those fans, the rink’s team is happy to provide them with a quick tour, though Giles notes that diehard fans would easily be able to orient themselves based on what they’ve seen in the show. Heated Rivalry, which was created by Letterkenny’s Jacob Tierney for Canadian streamer Crave and picked up by HBO Max in the U.S., has already been renewed for a second season after becoming a surprise global hit following its debut in November.

The victim of a violent hit-and-run in New York City has been identified as a former Nickelodeon child star, police said. Authorities named Kianna Underwood, who appeared on Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy series All That in the early 2000s, as the victim in a fatal incident in Brooklyn. Investigators say a vehicle struck the 33-year-old just before 7 a.m. ET as she crossed the street at an intersection in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn. The vehicle then dragged her for nearly two blocks before the driver fled, according to TMZ. Emergency responders pronounced Underwood dead at the scene. As of Friday, police have made no arrests and say the driver remains at large. Investigators are urging anyone with information to come forward as they continue to review surveillance footage of the area. News of Underwood’s death prompted an outpouring online, with former viewers calling the incident shocking and senseless. She had stepped away from acting in recent years, but remained a familiar figure to fans of Nickelodeon’s early-2000s programming.

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Hollywood legend Gene Hackman’s lavish New Mexico compound is about to hit the market for the first time in three decades, almost a year after the bodies of the two-time Oscar winner, 95, and his pianist wife, 65, were discovered inside. The 13,000-square-foot Santa Fe estate, which is situated on 53 acres, features an artist’s studio, a putting green, and panoramic views of the surrounding hills. It is listed for $6.25 million. The French Connection actor and Betsy Arakawa, his wife of nearly 35 years, were found dead in their estate on Feb. 26, 2025. Authorities determined that they died roughly a week apart, with Arakawa dying from a rare disease known as hantavirus pulmonary syndrome, which is spread by rats, and Hackman succumbing to heart disease with Alzheimer’s complications. The couple bought the home in the 1990s and made extensive renovations over the years. Sotheby’s International Realty listing agents said all of their belongings have since been removed from the property in preparation for viewings. “There will be some buyers that are just averse to purchasing a property where a death has occurred,” Tara S. Earley of Sotheby’s told The Wall Street Journal. “There are other buyers for whom that doesn’t matter. We are selling the property on its virtues and all of the positives.”

Grammy-winning 80s rocker John Mellencamp gave an update on the Joe Rogan Experience podcast about his daughter’s cancer diagnosis. The “Hurts So Good” singer, 74, told the podcaster this week that Teddi Mellencamp, 44, has been “really sick” and that the experience has not been “f---ing fun.” Teddi was first diagnosed with skin cancer in 2022. The disease had accelerated by early 2025, spreading to both her lungs and brain. By the end of 2025, the reality star said that her tumors were no longer detectable. Teddi is best known for her three-season stint on Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and for her podcast, Two Ts in a Pod, which she hosts with The Real Housewives of Orange County star Tamra Judge. Teddi and her father have been incredibly close during the illness’s progression. Teddi told her podcast listeners that when her cancer had initially metastasized to different parts of her body, she would receive constant calls from her father to plan the location for her burial. John Mellencamp spoke to NBC’s Today Show on Friday, stating that he is trying to convince her to come back to the family’s home base in Indiana to complete her path to remission.

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol, often dubbed “South Korea’s Trump,” was sentenced to five years in prison on obstruction charges tied to his 2025 arrest, according to Reuters. The 65-year-old former leader barricaded himself inside his residence in January last year and ordered his security detail to block investigators from executing an arrest warrant. After a prolonged standoff involving more than 3,000 police officers, Yoon was taken into custody, becoming the first sitting South Korean president ever arrested. The court found Yoon guilty of obstructing official duties, fabricating government documents, and unlawfully declaring martial law without following the legally required process, which includes convening a formal cabinet meeting. Prosecutors have also requested that he face the death penalty in a separate case, accusing him of masterminding an insurrection. Yoon’s attorney, Yoo Jung-hwa, said the defense plans to appeal the ruling, calling the verdict one that was “made in a politicized manner,” Reuters reported.

An Uber Eats delivery robot met an untimely, and extremely final, end Thursday night after wandering onto Miami train tracks and getting absolutely flattened by an oncoming train. Video captured by Guillermo Dapelo shows the autonomous courier sitting helplessly on the tracks before being struck at full speed, instantly turning the robot into scrap metal. Dapelo told Storyful he first spotted the robot around 8 p.m. while walking his dogs and noticed it appeared completely stuck, lingering on the tracks for roughly 15 minutes. The outlet reports that a Uber Eats delivery driver reached out to the company that manages the delivery robot to flag the issue. Unfortunately, the warning came too late. Moments later, the train barreled through—and that was the end of the robot’s delivery route. No people were injured in the incident, though officials have noted foreign objects on train tracks can pose serious risks, including derailments or damage to rail equipment.

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An Alabama public library has lost state funding after refusing to move several books, including The Handmaid’s Tale, out of its teen section. The Republican-run Alabama Public Library Service Board voted to withhold roughly $22,000 in state funding from the Fairhope Public Library, citing the library’s failure to comply with the board’s rules requiring books deemed “sexually explicit” be relocated to the adult section. Titles flagged by the board include The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas, The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, and Beyond Magenta by Susan Kuklin. Fairhope Library Board Chair Randal Wright argued that parents—not the state—should decide what their children read, saying it is “not your job to make that decision.” Board member Jay Snider added that it is unrealistic to suggest teenagers have not already been exposed to the language in question. Since the dispute began in late 2024, the library has raised more than $100,000 in community donations. The Handmaid’s Tale has been a particular focus of anger from supporters of President Donald Trump, partly because the Hulu adaptation.

Novelist Stephen King is facing MAGA backlash after he called into question the Trump administration’s version of events in the killing of unarmed mother Renee Nicole Good, 37, by ICE officer Jonathan Ross, 43. On Friday, the horror writer told his followers on X that “the visual evidence shows no indication that the agent who fired the shots, Jonathan Ross, had been run over.” King received immediate backlash from MAGA influencers on the platform for his statement. One of the top comments on King’s post was from Gunther Eagleman, a MAGA influencer with 1.6 million followers, who said, “Renee Good tried to run over and MURDER the ICE agent…” Another influencer, Vince Langman, clashed with King as well: “Don’t believe your lying eyes, America! Imagine being this stupid.” The responses echoed the Trump Administration’s statements, which characterized Good as a “domestic terrorist.” Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said earlier this week that Ross was “absolutely justified in using self-defense against a lunatic.” Videos taken of the incident show Good’s wheels turning away from Ross before the shooting took place, as well as an ICE agent calling the mother a “f---ing b---h,” after shots were fired.