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Blake Lively Nixed ‘SNL’ Season 50 Premiere Hosting Gig Due To ‘It Ends With Us’ Smear Campaign
Blake Lively said among the fallout over misconduct during 'It Ends With Us' filming was a canceled appearance as the 'SNL' Season 50 premiere host.
In the sprawling lawsuit filed by Blake Lively over the weekend alleging It Ends With Us co-star and director Justin Baldoni sexually harassed her and coordinated a sweeping retaliatory smear campaign against her, the Gossip Girl alumna said among the fallout over the workplace misconduct was a canceled appearance as the Saturday Night Live Season 50 premiere host. The complaint details an all-hands meeting that kicked off the resuming of filming on the movie adaptation of the popular Colleen Hoover novel (about a relationship colored by domestic violence) following the guild strikes, in which Lively, husband and actor Ryan Reynolds and Baldoni were present to discuss the lattermost’s “disturbing behavior,” which included, but was not limited to, his addition of improvised kissing and sex scenes, discussion of his porn addiction, claim that he could communicate with Lively’s late father and joking that he “missed the HR meeting” after Lively rebuffed comments that made her “feel ogled and exposed” and “deeply uncomfortable.” In response to the suit and subsequent allegations, Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman stated in part: “It is shameful that Ms. Lively and her representatives would make such serious and categorically false accusations against Mr. Baldoni, Wayfarer Studios and its representatives, as yet another desperate attempt to ‘fix’ her negative reputation which was garnered from her own remarks and actions during the campaign for the film; interviews and press activities that were observed publicly, in real time and unedited, which allowed for the internet to generate their own views and opinions.”
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