Blake Lively- Jason Baldoni and NYT - False Light claims

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Anonymous wrote:Just wait for a classic Tswift pap walk with Blake and the entire narrative will shift.


I don't know if this will happen, but I do wonder about all the people who are simply quiet now who are or were BL friends or supporters -- TS, Jenny Slate, Brendan Sklenar, Isabela Ferrera, Liz Plank, people at Sony, etc.

As someone upthread said, all of these people have lawyers who are surely telling them to be quiet right now. There is nothing to gain for them to make public declarations of support, for either side.

But many of these people will be fact witnesses. I think many watchers assume their silence means they've turned on Blake. And some of them may have! But in reality they HAVE to be silent now.

I am curious what happens when these folks are deposed or testify or issue affidavits, if they back Blake's story. This is what I think would amount to a "smoking gun" that sways public opinion. Like if other cast members come out and back Blake's story, say they witnessed or experienced unacceptable behavior on set, that Blake's actions with the 17 point list were necessary for creating a better environment post hiatus, and that their choice to refuse to promote the film with Baldoni was not forced on them by Blake but their own choice based on their own experiences with him.

What if Sony people, including Alex Saks, come out and say Blake and others were reaching out to them from early on reporting problems, that Sony kept pushing it back to Wayfarer as the producing studio, but that Wayfarer kept saying it was handled and it wasn't?

What happens if Liz Plank, who worked with Baldoni and Heath for years but is friendly with Lively, testifies in support of Lively's narrative?

I'm not saying this will all happen -- it's also possible all these people have abandoned Blake and she's out on her own. But people are assuming everyone's silence means a lack of support, when the silence is likely legally enforced. The truth is we don't know.


Of course the cast who might be deposed is staying quiet. But the rest of Hollywood does not need to stay quiet and Taylor can absolutely support her friend and still be deposed or give up documents. There is absolutely no reason at some point in the past few months since this has dropped that she couldn’t have been seen with Blake said I support my friend. And there is absolutely no reason she had to kick Blake while she was down in the statement she did put out. She directly contradicted her and she didn’t have to reveal that she couldn’t be bothered to see the movie until weeks after. (I doubt she even has ever seen the movie, she probably just didn’t want to piss off the fans since she had the licensed the song.)

Same with Gigi her, her other supposed bestie. Same with the sisterhood of the traveling pants who have not said a thing since Justin’s side of the story dropped, and if Hollywood was supporting her, she’d have projects lined up. She was going to direct and produce, and no one asking her to do those things.

Frankly, a lot of people you mentioned have lost all credibility. I don’t think anyone is going to believe Liz plank, who made a deal with Ryan to start a production company a month before the lawsuit dropped.

I also frankly think people look really crappy if they all of a sudden in March 2026 had the story to tell about Justin and Jamey and didn’t mention word one to support Blake. I understand that their lawyers have told them not to talk about it, but they could easily be showing her other subtle signs of support and they have chosen not to. Their PR people would not want them totally leaving her out in the cold if they’re going to get up there and say yes it was a terrible set. We all felt sexually harassed. They’re going to look like opportunistic losers if that happens.


Taylor is in the same boat as any other potential witness -- if she makes public statements or obvious shows of support, it opens her up to certain questions in a depo that her lawyers no doubt want to shut down.

I do think if the cast and Plank testified against Baldoni, this would be very damning for him. Like if Isabella testified that he pressured her to show her character climaxing on camera as Blake alleges? That would be very damaging. I am sure Freedman would ask about pressure from Blake on cross examination, question her motives, but if she held up and was convincing? That would be big. Same if Slate gives supportive testimony. And Brandon Sklenar was on set a lot in scenes with Blake with Baldoni directing -- how he describes that dynamic could be critical.

The idea that none of this will matter or that none of these people will be believed is crazy.



Again, this is nonsense. They would be horrible witnesses for Blake at trial if they can’t answer the simple question “why did you support Blake’s accusations” in a factual manner.

Planlk won’t be a witness, she was not on set, and would not have direct knowledge of anything relevant.


Blake mentions a text message to a "mutual friend" during the early filming of the movie where she says she was going to invite that friend to set but that things are so awful that she doesn't want to. In this message Blake allegedly references the video Heath tried to show her and some of the other allegations.

Some people have speculated that this message was to Liz Plank. Plank knew BL and RR before Blake's casting in the movie -- she'd met them through charitable work they both did and RR had commented on Plank's book back in 2019 online. There are indications that Plank is the one who suggested Blake for the movie, or even introduced Blake and Wayfarer, because of some comments on Colleen Hoover's announcement of Blake's casting.

Plank also interacted with Heath and Baldoni during the filming, hiatus break, editing, and marketing of the movie. Especially Heath -- Plank and Heath hosted a bunch of episodes of their podcast on their own without Baldoni during that time because Baldoni was working on the movie. But also Baldoni came and did several episodes as well, including one where he appears to reference his experience on the movie and even talks about not behaving well and struggling with being true to his whole "man enough" ethos.

So it's possible that Plank may have not only known about the conflict that was emerging on set, but have discussed it with both parties and gotten both their points of view, or even wound up as a go between at points. A lot of that could be hearsay but some of it might not be. She could wind up being a critical witness.

She just announced a new podcast with Katie Couric's production company, called "Boy Problems" and that sounds like basically what she did on Man Enough but much more from a female perspective.


All of that would either be irrelevant or hearsay.


All of celebrities that are showing support for him, a traditional tabloid, and more. I think you only wish Baldoni didn’t have such solid support from so many fans.

I know that you and your mean girl friends want to change the narrative, but it is what it is. Blake is toast—the charred burnt kind. Her own doing.
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Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


In fact, Daily Mail has enhanced standards. NYT relies on Fair Report, but Daily Mail won't even write about a letter posted on a court docket unless they've verified the information, which they can do in less than 5 minutes!
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Anonymous wrote:How did the NYT fumble this so badly? Embarrassing


This is the more interesting part of the story, not sure we will ever find out.



+1 this is totally the more interesting part of the story!! I know journalism has been in decline yada yada but for real, how did top NYT reporters end up deciding to swing hard - and miss! - on behalf of Blake freaking Lively. Of all the deserving and valid stories out there. Mortifying and I suspect career-altering for some of them.
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Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


Well let’s take inventory. The NYT ran the Baldoni hit piece with the sham subpoena as cover. The Daily Mail did actual investigative journalism exposing the sham subpoena. The NYT still hasn’t reported on the sham subpoena and probably won’t. The Daily Fail may be a tabloid, but even a broke clock is right twice a day.
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Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


Well let’s take inventory. The NYT ran the Baldoni hit piece with the sham subpoena as cover. The Daily Mail did actual investigative journalism exposing the sham subpoena. The NYT still hasn’t reported on the sham subpoena and probably won’t. The Daily Fail may be a tabloid, but even a broke clock is right twice a day.


DM was given a copy of the sham lawsuit subpoena and reported on it, same as Deadline and others. They didn't discover it.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


Well let’s take inventory. The NYT ran the Baldoni hit piece with the sham subpoena as cover. The Daily Mail did actual investigative journalism exposing the sham subpoena. The NYT still hasn’t reported on the sham subpoena and probably won’t. The Daily Fail may be a tabloid, but even a broke clock is right twice a day.


DM was given a copy of the sham lawsuit subpoena and reported on it, same as Deadline and others. They didn't discover it.


That’s not quite right. The DM journalist has done a few podcasts talking about this. They were given a copy of the subpoena by probably Jones and were told they couldn’t quote from it and all they could write was that they had seen the subpoena. They thought it was odd that the plaintiff was “Vanzan” and dug deeper from there, uncovering the lawsuit. There was about a week gap between them getting the subpoena and reporting on the lawsuit because they were doing due diligence.
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Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


In fact, Daily Mail has enhanced standards. NYT relies on Fair Report, but Daily Mail won't even write about a letter posted on a court docket unless they've verified the information, which they can do in less than 5 minutes!


lol fair and accurate roasting of Baldoni supporters 🔥 🔥 🔥
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


Well let’s take inventory. The NYT ran the Baldoni hit piece with the sham subpoena as cover. The Daily Mail did actual investigative journalism exposing the sham subpoena. The NYT still hasn’t reported on the sham subpoena and probably won’t. The Daily Fail may be a tabloid, but even a broke clock is right twice a day.


DM was given a copy of the sham lawsuit subpoena and reported on it, same as Deadline and others. They didn't discover it.


That’s not quite right. The DM journalist has done a few podcasts talking about this. They were given a copy of the subpoena by probably Jones and were told they couldn’t quote from it and all they could write was that they had seen the subpoena. They thought it was odd that the plaintiff was “Vanzan” and dug deeper from there, uncovering the lawsuit. There was about a week gap between them getting the subpoena and reporting on the lawsuit because they were doing due diligence.


PP - thanks - had not heard about podcasts. I thought it was the YouTuber "without a crystal ball" who claimed to have discovered it by looking up all the names of Blake and Ryan's companies on the NY courts and looking for ones around that date.
Anonymous
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


Well let’s take inventory. The NYT ran the Baldoni hit piece with the sham subpoena as cover. The Daily Mail did actual investigative journalism exposing the sham subpoena. The NYT still hasn’t reported on the sham subpoena and probably won’t. The Daily Fail may be a tabloid, but even a broke clock is right twice a day.


DM was given a copy of the sham lawsuit subpoena and reported on it, same as Deadline and others. They didn't discover it.


That’s not quite right. The DM journalist has done a few podcasts talking about this. They were given a copy of the subpoena by probably Jones and were told they couldn’t quote from it and all they could write was that they had seen the subpoena. They thought it was odd that the plaintiff was “Vanzan” and dug deeper from there, uncovering the lawsuit. There was about a week gap between them getting the subpoena and reporting on the lawsuit because they were doing due diligence.


PP - thanks - had not heard about podcasts. I thought it was the YouTuber "without a crystal ball" who claimed to have discovered it by looking up all the names of Blake and Ryan's companies on the NY courts and looking for ones around that date.


DM had the story first. They reached out to a few lawyers for comment at least 24 hrs before WACB posted her story. It’s not clear how she got word of the story but several people have confirmed DM had already been working the story. Traditional journalists move slower than social influencers.
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


Well let’s take inventory. The NYT ran the Baldoni hit piece with the sham subpoena as cover. The Daily Mail did actual investigative journalism exposing the sham subpoena. The NYT still hasn’t reported on the sham subpoena and probably won’t. The Daily Fail may be a tabloid, but even a broke clock is right twice a day.


+1000
Anonymous
Wait, there's a Lively poster here who still thinks Taylor might do a pap walk with Blake? lmao. Her reps spoke through People. She doesn't want to touch Blake with a 10-foot pole.
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Anonymous wrote:Just to try to keep the 3 pro-Baldoni people posting their bs religiously here tethered to reality, I typed “Baldoni” into Bluesky and got dozens of posts from apparent Swifties saying they hated his schick, noting his ties to scooter Braun, and saying how weird it was that his PR reps kept blaming Lively for “dragging” Swift into this when he was really the one dragging her into it. I don’t post about Baldoni on Bluesky or like posts about the case etc so there is no algorithm giving me pro-Lively content. These are just the things people anre saying about him, and they’re not good.


The general public is not following or searching on Bluesky. Blake dragged Taylor in the moment she had Baldoni come to her home while Taylor Swift is there. Baldoni did not ask her to bring Swift to their meeting. Ons takeaway from this case is that Blake and Ryan are unrelenting a-holes who overestimated any interest in their movies, cell phones, soccer team, and secret jokes with Hugh Jackman.

If this case results in less Ryan and Blake social media vomit, it is a service to America.
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Anonymous wrote:Just to try to keep the 3 pro-Baldoni people posting their bs religiously here tethered to reality, I typed “Baldoni” into Bluesky and got dozens of posts from apparent Swifties saying they hated his schick, noting his ties to scooter Braun, and saying how weird it was that his PR reps kept blaming Lively for “dragging” Swift into this when he was really the one dragging her into it. I don’t post about Baldoni on Bluesky or like posts about the case etc so there is no algorithm giving me pro-Lively content. These are just the things people anre saying about him, and they’re not good.


Are you the same wackjob who became unhinged because you noticed someone copied and pasted a random post from reddit into DCUM? If yes, not only are stalking DCUM all day, and various sub-reddits all day, and Bluesky (whatever that is?), and presumably other forums and social media?

And please don't pretend you casually noticed a random post made on reddit also made here. Only a person reading EVERYTHING all day is going to notice such a thing.

Do you not realize how insane this is? This is not healthy.

I can only speak for myself, I only casually read this thread. That's it. I check in maybe once every 10 to 20 pages.
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Anonymous wrote:Just to review: the NYT is trash, not to be trusted. But Perez Hilton and the Daily Mail are infallible.

Go JB! xoxo


Well let’s take inventory. The NYT ran the Baldoni hit piece with the sham subpoena as cover. The Daily Mail did actual investigative journalism exposing the sham subpoena. The NYT still hasn’t reported on the sham subpoena and probably won’t. The Daily Fail may be a tabloid, but even a broke clock is right twice a day.


And to prove how fake this was from the get-go and how it's standard operating procedure at The Times, that hack Megan Twohey is not only not fired, she'll be promoted and/or rewarded with a windfall from Hollywood for being a good foot soldier.

It's also worth noting Twohey is from Washington and is a GU alum. It's not out of the question she is on her personally spinning.
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Anonymous wrote:Just to try to keep the 3 pro-Baldoni people posting their bs religiously here tethered to reality, I typed “Baldoni” into Bluesky and got dozens of posts from apparent Swifties saying they hated his schick, noting his ties to scooter Braun, and saying how weird it was that his PR reps kept blaming Lively for “dragging” Swift into this when he was really the one dragging her into it. I don’t post about Baldoni on Bluesky or like posts about the case etc so there is no algorithm giving me pro-Lively content. These are just the things people anre saying about him, and they’re not good.


Are you the same wackjob who became unhinged because you noticed someone copied and pasted a random post from reddit into DCUM? If yes, not only are stalking DCUM all day, and various sub-reddits all day, and Bluesky (whatever that is?), and presumably other forums and social media?

And please don't pretend you casually noticed a random post made on reddit also made here. Only a person reading EVERYTHING all day is going to notice such a thing.

Do you not realize how insane this is? This is not healthy.

I can only speak for myself, I only casually read this thread. That's it. I check in maybe once every 10 to 20 pages.


Sure, Jan. You sound totally disengaged and normal.
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