celeb news UPDATE: Baldoni dropped by agency | Blake Lively sues Justin Baldoni

[Breathe On Moi]

ATRL still blaming women and bringing women down even with proof, shocking. 

[PoisonPill]

5 hours ago, Space Cowboy said:

Both parties engaged in smear campaigns against each other. Blake simply lost the pr battle, and now she's suing because her privileged self cannot accept not getting her way for once.

Yep, you accurately clocked the actual situation. That won't go over well with the crowd here who considers anything written in the pages of NYT or a lawsuit complaint to be 100% authenticated gospel.

[bjorn]

Baldoni is OVER

 

Good Riddance 

[Rep2000]

6 hours ago, Carry My Heart said:

'We Can Bury Anyone': Inside a Hollywood Smear Machine

 

Read the full article here. It only gets more damning as you keep reading 

Honey, you are asking ATRLers to read for themselves here (fun fact: they can't). They would rather wait for a 5 mins Tiktok to tell them what to think, judging by most the comments in here.

[Assassin]

45 minutes ago, By the Water said:

People being like "they're both terrible people. He's a predator and she's annoying" 

yep. people also saying "team no one" when you definitely should be team someone if you read the NYT article

[Cleanromantic]

6 minutes ago, Rep2000 said:

Honey, you are asking ATRLers to read for themselves here (fun fact: they can't). They would rather wait for a 5 mins Tiktok to tell them what to think, judging by most the comments in here.

They're more likely waiting for "viral" hate tweets from Elon Musk's X

[Rep2000]

16 minutes ago, PoisonPill said:

Yep, you accurately clocked the actual situation. That won't go over well with the crowd here who considers anything written in the pages of NYT or a lawsuit complaint to be 100% authenticated gospel.

Dear, the NYT article literally addresses why Blake lost the PR battle. 

The Harvey Weinstein old playbook of labelling an actress as "difficult" or annoying so people would look away from her abuser totally worked on y'all, I- 

[PoisonPill]

36 minutes ago, Nova_23 said:

No? They obtained a copy of the lawsuit and are merely publishing the details of it which contain texts from Baldoni and his team incriminating him of the things Blake states he did including trying to ruin her image 

Lol let's not be intentionally naive. Lively and her team collaborated with a friendly contact at the NYT to get them an advance copy of the lawsuit, have the entire piece written and ready to hit publish the moment they filed with the court. That's how this works, celebrities and the press have always had a symbiotic "scratch my back, I'll scratch yours" relationship. 

[YellowRibbon]

Uhmmm yeah I think some people don't deserve to live

 

 

[Feanor]

So one of his PR's strategies was to plant stories about Blake Lively's friend circle and to literally use her friendship with them against her to make Blake look worse…

 

 

 

And of course there's a certain major stakeholder of this PR firm…

 

 

 

So it now makes sense why he randomly posted about who Blake is spending her time with right when the controversy happened in August…

 

 

[Rep2000]

2 minutes ago, Feanor said:

 

 

Spiderboy once again proved he's incapable of not being obsessed with Taylor's personal life 

 

Also, not really that susprised Scooter is behind a smear campaign specialist PR firm, considering that he did that **** countless times to others, including his own former clients. 

[orange22]

The leaked PR doc in the suit was all planning for a response to "Blake attempting to bully her way into buying the rights for It Starts With Us"

 

 

tea?

[Saud]

Lawsuit, dropped by label and exposed in less than a day is crazy

But him hiring johnny's team really shows how much he knew he needed to do to damage control, so he scares her away

little did he know she took her time and came back with receipts 

good for her honesty, he's DONE

[mxoonlight]

Damn! They got him up out of there. This is going to be a mess.

[Holiest Dreams]

Not surprised at all to see some of the vile posts in here. There's a HUGE misogyny issue in our (LGBTQ+) community where many of you think you are absolved from being misogynistic because you're obsessed with gay pop divas. Women are only useful to many of you if they "serve" what you find interesting. If you don't like them, you don't sympathize with them. As someone else said: "he's an abuser and she's annoying; they're both bad!" is INSANE to say. You don't have to be a perfect victim to still be a victim, literally wtf?
 

And this is obviously an issue amongst men in general, but I think it's notable that it extends to a community that should understand this type of vile behavior against our people. 
 

Deplorable and disheartening.

[StayFrosty]

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The official promotion plan instructed the cast to focus more on the uplifting aspects of the movie than on abuse, and to embrace a floral theme (her character has a flower shop). In several appearances, she never made reference to domestic violence at all. And she faced criticism when her Betty Booze beverage company was promoting the film, given the role alcohol can play in abusive relationships.

Seeing that blowback, the text messages show, Mr. Baldoni and his P.R. team decided instead to highlight survivors of domestic violence in his interviews and social media.

-So they DID NOT actually plan this angle of attack and it was more of a reactive approach after people were ALREADY attacking her.

 

- if the cast "was instructed" to highlight the positive aspects, then how was Justin able to talk  about DV so freely?

 

That being said, those texts are pretty damning and his behavior is dispicable (if true).

[StayFrosty]

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This to me sounds like a rich person's gun fight. One side pulled out their gun first and the other one pulled out their gun too late.

Did he aim and fire first? Yes, and succeeded. She's mad that she didn't fire first.

Jfkkakd the accuracy. Throw them both in hell.

[Assassin]

4 minutes ago, StayFrosty said:

 

- if the cast "was instructed" to highlight the positive aspects, then how was Justin able to talk  about DV so freely?

 

he switched once the cast shunned him.

 

[Cleanromantic]

This part made my skin crawl 

 

"He doesn't realise how
lucky he is right now[.] [W] e need to press on him just how ******* lucky[.] The whispering in the ear[,]
the sexual connotations like Jesus ******* Christ[.] Other members feeling uncomfortable watching
it[]I mean there is just so much."

 

Edited 16 hours ago by Cleanromantic

[lillavend3r]

Now he can go into obscurity with Gina Rodriguez 

[dumbsparce]

Why did they have the impression that Blake would make the story public and why would they run a smear campaign against her as if both of these scenarios wouldn't ruin the movie's performance? Sth's not clicking.

[Beyonnaise]

Dying at the r/fauxmoi meltdowns. They really think they're such feminists and free thinkers and fell for this astroturfed PR smear campaign by Scooter Braun. F**king clowns

[Michael196]

Hope these kind of quick responses from companies and firms become more common

[Rep2000]

17 minutes ago, dumbsparce said:

Why did they have the impression that Blake would make the story public and why would they run a smear campaign against her as if both of these scenarios wouldn't ruin the movie's performance? Sth's not clicking.

Probably because of this:
 

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When Lively filmed the birth scene mostly nude with her legs on stirrup and only a small piece of fabric to cover her genitalia, Baldoni allowed Wayfarer Studios' co-chairman and billionaire backer Steve Sarowitz to visit the set without Lively's prior consent, essentially exposing Lively to this person. She was not provided anything to cover herself between takes until after multiple requests. Sarowitz later allegedly said he was prepared to spend up to $100M to destroy the lives of Lively and her family.

Justin managed to get someone bigger than him involved with the abuses, so she would not only have to fight Justin alone, but also his billionaire backer. Oh this piece of **** is insidious!

Edited 15 hours ago by Rep2000

[orange22]

Have Swifties not realized they are Blake's PR tactic yet?