Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively will skip Golden Globes amid Justin Baldoni harassment lawsuit

Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively will skip the Golden Globes, despite his nomination for "Deadpool & Wolverine."


Pop Culture & Art January 05, 2025
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Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively will not attend the Golden Globes on Sunday, despite Reynolds’ nomination for “Deadpool & Wolverine,” Page Six has confirmed.

The Marvel Studios blockbuster, which earned $1.33 billion globally, is nominated in the cinematic and box office achievement category.

Hugh Jackman, Reynold’s co-star, will also be absent from the awards ceremony in Los Angeles, as reported by Deadline.

A source told Page Six on Saturday that Reynolds and Lively had decided well in advance to skip the Globes, unrelated to their legal dispute with Justin Baldoni.

The insider noted that Lively’s film, “It Ends With Us,” is not nominated, and she was not scheduled to be a presenter.

The couple’s absence follows two weeks after Lively accused her “It Ends With Us” co-star, Justin Baldoni, of sexual harassment and filed a lawsuit against him for emotional distress.

The 37-year-old “Gossip Girl” star claimed in her legal filings that Baldoni, 40, was warned during an “all-hands” meeting — which Reynolds, 48, also attended — to stop making sexual remarks, discussing his “porn addiction,” or showing “nude videos or images of women.”

Lively further alleged that Baldoni hired a crisis manager to lead a defamatory social media campaign against her to harm her reputation. She included text messages in which the crisis manager allegedly told Baldoni’s publicist, “You know we can bury anyone.”

Baldoni has strongly denied the accusations through his attorney, Bryan Freedman, who previously told Page Six that the allegations were “intentionally salacious” and aimed at “publicly hurt[ing] and rehash[ing] a narrative.”

Freedman added that Lively’s claims were “another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation, which stemmed from her own comments and actions during the film’s promotional campaign; interviews and press appearances that were publicly observed and unedited, allowing the internet to form its own opinions.”

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