Anyone follow Behind the Blinds podcast? Blake and Ryan episode blew me away

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Anonymous wrote:I think she’s a great actress

Really? I think she does well in the parts that fit her (Gossip Girl, etc.) but I think she has a narrow lane. That's fine, lots of actors do.

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The term “pap walk” is my least favorite thing in celebrity snark culture.

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lol well it's no wonder he doesn't want her acting since she has such a history of hooking up with her costars and cheating

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting about Harrison Ford- there are increasing blinds about him hooking up with Reese Witherspoon!! What a pair...

Ewww, at what ages?

I think Blake Lively is reasonably talented. It's Ryan that I can never remember or recognize.

oh please. the only thing she is famous for these days is being friends with Taylor Swift.

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Anonymous wrote:I just discovered this podcast. It's funny and highly entertaining if you love celeb gossip.

They basically do a deep dive into all the blind items on a person or a topic (like celeb PR contract couples, etc.). The Blake Lively one was fascinating.

I've always been a fan but lately I've been surprised that the "notoriously private" couple have been doing blatant pap walks through NYC and showed up in the box with Taylor (which obviously was going to be a PR blitz). The pap walks have gotten so obvious.

The blind items I found most interesting:

- Blake came from a showbiz family but not like showbiz royalty so she got her foot in the door, is obviously gorgeous (she has had a great nose job and has had a boob job) and is truly a fashion girl - styling herself really well and making a name for herself for her style. But her acting is meh and she is really fame hungry - apparently she was a Harvey girl and it's well known she's slept with directors and producers for parts in her early days.

- She had an affair with Ben Affleck on the 2010 movie The Town (filmed in 2009) that he starred and directed in and she had a small role in. Jennifer Garner would come in and try to babysit him on the set but it didn't stop them.

- She and Ryan hooked up during the 2011 movie Green Lantern (filmed in 2010 while he was married to Scarlett J.). The story they tell about becoming friends on set and then "reconnecting" after his divorce on a double date with other people is utter BS.

- He is very controlling and doesn't like her acting. The plan was for her to have a Goop type lifestyle brand - she tried it with her website "preserve" which had a ton of images of plantations and southern culture but it was a flop. She also wanted to be on the show The Chew (?!?!?) but that didn't work out (what a weird choice for her).

-Harrison Ford on the set of Age of Adaline berated her and was angry that a "sitcom actress" was on the film - I feel bad for her here because he was a huge dick and Blake was working with acting coaches and trying really hard on the film. This tracks with Harrison's reputation but I have to roll my eyes at him, this was a good role for Blake as it didn't require huge acting chops and she basically played a reserved beautiful woman from the past and I thought she did fine.

- She has her favorite paps and calls them often. She's not really a girls girl and has had a lot of feuds on set. Though the hosts did say this was overblown and that she and Leighton Meester got along as coworkers, just didn't want to be friends, and that should be fine. But that set was apparently a mess with a lot of drama and backstabbing involving other cast members like Taylor Momsen, Michelle Trachenberg, etc.

Thoughts?

OP again - I can’t believe I forgot this one but their PR teams are definitely in charge of their social media banter back and forth. Not surprising they each have a big social team that coordinates and comes up with that.

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I enjoyed her in Savages.

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Thanks, I love juicy gossip

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I’ve always thought she was a completely mediocre actress and, while blonde and attractive, not stunningly or uniquely good enough looks to set her apart from the thousand other tall blondes in Hollywood. The Harvey links make much more sense.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just discovered this podcast. It's funny and highly entertaining if you love celeb gossip.

They basically do a deep dive into all the blind items on a person or a topic (like celeb PR contract couples, etc.). The Blake Lively one was fascinating.

I've always been a fan but lately I've been surprised that the "notoriously private" couple have been doing blatant pap walks through NYC and showed up in the box with Taylor (which obviously was going to be a PR blitz). The pap walks have gotten so obvious.

The blind items I found most interesting:

- Blake came from a showbiz family but not like showbiz royalty so she got her foot in the door, is obviously gorgeous (she has had a great nose job and has had a boob job) and is truly a fashion girl - styling herself really well and making a name for herself for her style. But her acting is meh and she is really fame hungry - apparently she was a Harvey girl and it's well known she's slept with directors and producers for parts in her early days.

- She had an affair with Ben Affleck on the 2010 movie The Town (filmed in 2009) that he starred and directed in and she had a small role in. Jennifer Garner would come in and try to babysit him on the set but it didn't stop them.

- She and Ryan hooked up during the 2011 movie Green Lantern (filmed in 2010 while he was married to Scarlett J.). The story they tell about becoming friends on set and then "reconnecting" after his divorce on a double date with other people is utter BS.

- He is very controlling and doesn't like her acting. The plan was for her to have a Goop type lifestyle brand - she tried it with her website "preserve" which had a ton of images of plantations and southern culture but it was a flop. She also wanted to be on the show The Chew (?!?!?) but that didn't work out (what a weird choice for her).

-Harrison Ford on the set of Age of Adaline berated her and was angry that a "sitcom actress" was on the film - I feel bad for her here because he was a huge dick and Blake was working with acting coaches and trying really hard on the film. This tracks with Harrison's reputation but I have to roll my eyes at him, this was a good role for Blake as it didn't require huge acting chops and she basically played a reserved beautiful woman from the past and I thought she did fine.

- She has her favorite paps and calls them often. She's not really a girls girl and has had a lot of feuds on set. Though the hosts did say this was overblown and that she and Leighton Meester got along as coworkers, just didn't want to be friends, and that should be fine. But that set was apparently a mess with a lot of drama and backstabbing involving other cast members like Taylor Momsen, Michelle Trachenberg, etc.

Thoughts?

OP again - I can’t believe I forgot this one but their PR teams are definitely in charge of their social media banter back and forth. Not surprising they each have a big social team that coordinates and comes up with that.

I know it's common but I hate when a "team" is behind a celebrity's posts.

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting about Harrison Ford- there are increasing blinds about him hooking up with Reese Witherspoon!! What a pair...

nope

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Anonymous wrote:Interesting about Harrison Ford- there are increasing blinds about him hooking up with Reese Witherspoon!! What a pair...

This is why you shouldn’t repeat gossip. Because you get it wrong.

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I lived her in the Adeleine movie. And she was great in the movie A Simple Favor.

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Anonymous wrote:

- She has her favorite paps and calls them often. She's not really a girls girl and has had a lot of feuds on set. Though the hosts did say this was overblown and that she and Leighton Meester got along as coworkers, just didn't want to be friends, and that should be fine. But that set was apparently a mess with a lot of drama and backstabbing involving other cast members like Taylor Momsen, Michelle Trachenberg, etc.

Leighton seems like a total B. Even her characters have a mean streak. So if she's not, she's totally pulling off the b-word role. I bet she has tiffs with many castmates.

I just watched her last night in a cheesy Christmas movie, Ex-mas. She and the other lead have zero chemistry, and she certainly didn't pull off the "I'm such a good almost daughter in law that his parents and siblings would want to keep me around".

Leighton is nothing like most of the characters she plays both in personality and background

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So I think that some of these are true, particularly the Harvey girls one and the fact that her and Ryan hooked up during his marriage. However, the one about the Town was basically debunked I thought. I think Lainey of Lainey Blinds said that Blake was not interested but the rumors covered the fact that Ben was having an affair with Olga Kurlyenko (his co star in “To the Wonder”)

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My sister has crossed paths with them + their kids multiple times over the years in NYC and said they've always seemed totally normal, down-to-earth, etc. No paps called for a family pancake breakfast at a diner, trip to a museum, etc. I'm sure they both have marketing/PR teams, but much like Eva Mendes and Ryan Gosling, it just seems like Blake is pursuing business ventures that let her spend most of her time with her kids.