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Taylor Swift's "Big Fat Disney Wedding," Prince Harry's UK Plot, and Nancy Guthrie Ransom Note Debate, with Maureen Callahan | Ep. 1352

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Blake Lively's $8 Million Revenge and the Justin Baldoni Lawsuit

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Callahan notes that Blake and Ryan Reynolds live in Tribeca, making their exclusion from the MSG wedding a particularly brutal local humiliation. She observes that the wedding is conveniently overshadowing Taylor Swift's own role in the Baldoni campaign. Kelly then details the legal situation: Lively lost 10 of her 13 claims, Baldoni lost only his single defamation counterclaim, yet Lively is now invoking a California law to demand $8 million from a man Kelly doubts can pay it. Kelly argues this is a transparent attempt to spin defeat as victory and characterizes it as the same self-destructive pattern as Amber Heard. Callahan adds that no director will ever hire Lively again, pointing to her Instagram posts with Reynolds performing exaggerated happiness as evidence of a couple in denial.

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