A sighting of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds kicks off Week 50 of Saturday Night Live.
At the taping of Saturday Night Live 50: The Anniversary Special on February 16 in New York, the It Ends With Us star and the Deadpool actor had a date night without their children James, 10, Inez, 8, Betty, 5, and Olin, 2.
On the red carpet, Lively, who is 37 years old, and Reynolds, who is 48 years old, were both smiling as they walked hand in hand. Additionally, the former Gossip Girl star, who was dressed in a breathtaking silver gown, posed for a backstage photo with her friend Dakota Johnson. While this was going on, Lively’s husband of twelve years wore a traditional suit for the celebration of Saturday Night Live’s fifty-year anniversary, which was broadcast on NBC and Peacock. If you want to see more stars at SNL 50, click here.
This is the first time that the couple has seen together on the red carpet since their contentious legal battle with Lively’s It Ends With Us co-star Justin Baldoni. In December, she filed a complaint against Baldoni, accusing him of sexual harassment during the production of the Colleen Hoover adaption.
A countersuit was filed by Baldoni the following month, in which he asserted that his costar and Reynolds had hijacked his job as the director of the movie and launched a smear campaign against him in order to “deflect attention and blame.” Baldoni has rejected the accusation.
Baldoni’s legal team made a 10-minute behind-the-scenes video from the making of It Ends With Us available to the public at the end of January. The team’s intention was that the actor’s actions in the video would “refute Ms. Lively’s characterization” of him.
However, Lively’s attorneys believe that the footage “corroborates, to the letter” what she described in her lawsuit against Baldoni, alleging that the video’s release was an “unethical attempt to manipulate the public.”
Since that time, Lively and Reynolds have taken steps to request that a gag order be placed on the attorneys that Baldoni is representing.
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