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Vanity Fair US
|April 2025
Conservative media has feasted on the fight between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. If you're full of hate for Hollywood, what's not to love?
MEGYN KELLY ISN'T the most obvious candidate to land a scoop about a Hollywood feud. But in January the right-leaning firebrand was joined on her SiriusXM program by Justin Baldoni's lead attorney, Bryan Freedman. Kelly debuted a voice message from Baldoni to his "dream team" editing the movie in which he described being, in Kelly's sympathetic paraphrasing, "put in the basement on the premiere of his own movie" to meet the alleged demands of his It Ends With Us costar, Blake Lively. Freedman then made a comprehensive case for his client for just under 10 minutes. The YouTube clip alone passed 1 million views. Hollywood trades picked up the story. And Freedman continued on his aggressive media tour.
Baldoni's voice memo was part of the effort to soften his image. The director and star of
This story is from the April 2025 edition of Vanity Fair US.
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