Will Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds Be at the Golden Globes?
Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni’s movie “It Ends With Us” received zero nominations. But their legal battle is all anyone at the awards show will be talking about.
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As Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds contend with the fallout of Lively’s lawsuit against her It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni, it’s looking unlikely the pair will make an appearance at this year’s Golden Globes.
Neither has attended the awards ceremony since 2017—and since It Ends With Us was snubbed and Reynolds himself is only nominated as a producer for Deadpool vs. Wolverine in the Cinematic and Box Office category (as opposed to Best Actor in a Comedy/Musical nomination as some prognosticators expected), there doesn’t seem to be much reason for them to break their eight-year tradition of not attending.
The Daily Beast reached out to representatives for Lively and Reynolds and did not receive responses before publication.
The last time Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds attended the Golden Globes was in 2017. Here they are arriving at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 8, 2017.
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Baldoni filed a lawsuit this week against the New York Times for amplifying Lively’s claims against him in her lawsuit from earlier this month, offering several key defenses for several of her claims and implicating Reynolds for “berating” him during the It Ends With Us production. A source told TMZ Friday that though Reynolds was “passionate,” he didn’t berate Baldoni, though he’d been told by Lively that Baldoni “fat shamed” her.
Even before Baldoni’s own retaliatory accusations emerged in the Times lawsuit this week, Reynolds hinted that the ordeal had soured his mood, when he posted to social media about going through “a time I didn’t really feel like” donning his Deadpool suit for charity.
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Baldoni isn’t likely in the mood to strap on a tux and attend an awards show either, as the backlash from Lively’s suit rocks his own career, resulting in being dropped from his agency, the loss of his self-created brand as an advocate for women, and the industry’s reactions to his depiction as a sexual harasser in the lawsuit.
Blake Lively, actor Jake Gyllenhaal, and actor Ryan Reynolds at the 74th Annual Golden Globe Awards, held at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Jan. 8, 2017.
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If any of them did show up, however, they wouldn’t have to be concerned about jokes referencing their feud. Comedian Nikki Glaser, who’s hosting the Globes this year, told Yahoo! Entertainment that the lawsuits’ allegations are off-limits.
“I think the Blake Lively–Justin Baldoni thing is such a hot-button thing right now that even a mere mention of it will seem like I could be on the wrong side of things, even though I would never be,” Glaser said Friday. “I also don’t want to give his name any—I’m mad I even know his name, to be honest with you, so I don’t need to say it anymore.”
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