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What do you think of Blake Lively?

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NameChangeChic · 05/02/2025 13:13

From what I’ve heard with the current drama surrounding her I’m shocked. Did anyone’s opinions of her change?

ps this isn’t a bashing thread

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BrownSatchel · 05/02/2025 13:40

This whole BL and JB saga is quite trivial, I can't believe it has got so much traction even in the broadsheets. They both look bad and seem very fake with big egos and not much sense. Neither the fat shaming or sexual harassment was particularly horrendous, not ideal but scarcely scandalous, why didn't they just keep it private?

Bornnotbourne · 05/02/2025 13:39

I don’t know but it end with us was the biggest pile of bollocks I’ve ever encountered and massively detrimental to lives of women worldwide. It’s

orangecocoa · 05/02/2025 13:36

An old friend works for her and her family. She has nothing but nice things to say about them.

RainyDayApplePop · 05/02/2025 13:32

ColinOfficeTrolley · 05/02/2025 13:31

I don't and have never really thought anything of her. Used to like Gossip Girl back in the day, but beyond that, nothing.

I do believe some of the facts though

  1. Upon returning to filming after the writers strike, Justin Baldoni and his production company, signed a document that basically said there would be no MORE sexual harassment, acknowledging that there had been unacceptable behaviour in the past.
  1. JB hired the same company that Johnny Depp hired to trash amber herd, to start a smear campaign against her.
  1. JB has hired a lawyer who got a minor to settle out of court after being involved in a gang rape when he was a frat boy.

Those are not facts at all.

ColinOfficeTrolley · 05/02/2025 13:31

I don't and have never really thought anything of her. Used to like Gossip Girl back in the day, but beyond that, nothing.

I do believe some of the facts though

  1. Upon returning to filming after the writers strike, Justin Baldoni and his production company, signed a document that basically said there would be no MORE sexual harassment, acknowledging that there had been unacceptable behaviour in the past.
  1. JB hired the same company that Johnny Depp hired to trash amber herd, to start a smear campaign against her.
  1. JB has hired a lawyer who got a minor to settle out of court after being involved in a gang rape when he was a frat boy.
Strawberryfruitcorner · 05/02/2025 13:24

I don’t form opinions on celebrities based on media headlines (from rag newspapers) and social media bullshit stories.

Cosycover · 05/02/2025 13:23

Can't really say as of course I don't know her. But she has always came across badly in interviews, her coworkers have never really had anything nice to say and I think she is a shockingly bad actress.

boulevardofbrokendreamss · 05/02/2025 13:22

Nothing to be honest,

YeGodsandLittleFishies · 05/02/2025 13:21

I think nothing at all about a person I’ve never met.

Actors are, by the nature of their job very good at presenting any kind of persona they choose, so you can’t assume what you see on chat shows is real.

At the same time the internet makes it increasingly easy to smear someone’s reputation.

Judge the woman on her job performance, you don’t have any reliable data to do otherwise.

Purpleandgreenyarn · 05/02/2025 13:18

I’m not a fan of hers, but it’s irrelevant isn’t it- you can be the biggest dick and not deserve sexual harassment in the work place.

I have no idea if the chap is guilty, of course, but no idea if he is innocent either.

It’s why I really believe these cases should not be played out in the media, the courts should deal with it silently. There must be a way to ensure that happens. It’s the same in the UK. It’s really not in the public interest to know until it’s been through the legal system.

LadyKenya · 05/02/2025 13:18

Nothing really, what I have seen of her in interviews, I would not want to get to know her, even if that was a possibility, tbh.

IncaDove · 05/02/2025 13:15

Well I, and I assume you, do not know her so how can we possibly say?