Blake Lively

DO YOU RECOGNIZE THIS COUPLE?

If you saw this pair walking down the street in New York, would you give them a second glance? Probably not. They look quite average. But this happens to be power couple Ryan Reynolds and Blake lively, and they have figured out how NOT to attract attention and thus be able to enjoy the city without being bothered.They have a large house outside NYC in Pound Ridge, but have been staying in their city apartment with their kids more and more, lately. Ryan’s beard/glasses/hat combo is a great disguise and Blake’s no makeup w/ baggy sweats renders her equally inconspicuous. Just another nice looking couple…

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BLAKE LIVELY KNOWS HOW TO KNOCK ‘EM DEAD

Hold on – are we seeing things? Nope- that IS Blake Lively sauntering into Gigi Hadid’s 27th birthday party at Zero Bond – the private social club in New York. And she is dressed like a hot single girl on the prowl! You don’t often see Blake dolled up in a skintight hot pink mini dress with 6 inch heels! (Blake is 5’10” so these shoes boost her to 6’4”) Equally surprising is the fact that Blake walked into the club ALONE – Ryan Reynolds is nowhere to be seen! Is he home with their 3 daughters? Judging by her appearance, this is a Saturday night Blake will remember for a long time…

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BLAKE LIVELY AND RYAN REYNOLDS: MORE TO THEM THAN MEETS THE EYE

We are IMPRESSED with Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. They look particularly gorgeous in this photo taken at The Adam Project premier (starring Ryan) in New York, but that’s not even why we’re impressed. We didn’t realize how generous they are when it comes to charity – and they don’t go out of their way to brag about it. They just pledged to match donations up to a million dollars made to the United Nations Refugee Agency because millions of Ukrainian refugees are expected to need help. It turns out they have been giving away huge amounts of money for years – a few weeks ago they donated a million dollars to Feeding America and Food Bank Canada – after donating a million BEFORE Covid. And so on and so on… A great example for their kids…

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BLAKE LIVELY PROTECTS HER BABIES FROM “MENACING” PAPARAZZI

Blake Lively was very upset by paparazzi who took these photos of her and her kids on the street in New York. She said she tried to calmly approach one guy who would run away and jump out again for more photos on the next block. Blake has a hard time trying to convince paparazzi to leave her kids alone. She asked magazines to “stop paying grown men to hide and hunt children.” Some celebrities feel their children are unsafe if photos are taken – we never understood exactly why. (Can you name any celebrity kids damaged by paparazzi photos?) Blake wants to keep her children off social media until they “come of age.” But we predict her kids will be voluntarily ON social media the MINUTE they are old enough to find out what it is!

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BLAKE LIVELY: SHE’S GOT MORE THAN RHYTHM

At first we didn’t RECOGNIZE this Glamazon – she turned out to be Blake Lively! Blake’s new bombshell look is due to the fact that she only gave birth to her third daughter four months ago. (She and Ryan Reynolds are very secretive about their kids- no photos, no facts.) It’s nice that 5’10” Blake is embracing her voluptuous figure and she looks amazing. Ironically, she’s promoting her new action movie, The Rhythm Section, and her character in the film is very skinny.

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RYAN REYNOLDS WOULDN’T MIND HAVING A HOUSEFUL OF KIDS

So nice to see that Ryan Reynolds is really a hands-on dad to his cute little girl James, 4. He took her to the Everafter kids boutique in New York and let her pick out a fluffy new dress. James was SO excited about her new purple frock that she insisted on wearing it out of the store. Ryan says he absolutely LOVES being a father and wants a bigger family – he and Blake Lively have two daughters and she is currently expecting again. Ryan says they’re “hoping for” twins – is that a hint?

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A SIMPLE FAVOR IS ANYTHING BUT SIMPLE

What a delicious surprise! A Simple Favor is a movie written BY women ABOUT women and the male director didn’t louse it up – he got it just right! It has everything a woman wants in a movie – gorgeous fashion and style, beautiful architecture and design, smart conversation, sophisticated humor, compelling but hilarious characters, and a PLOT! Blake Lively rises to the occasion – her impossibly glamorous and darkly sarcastic character is SO on the mark – and Anna Kendrick is perfectly cast as a supposedly “innocent” mommy vlogger. Of course, what’s NOT to love about the astute and very decorative Henry Golding. Never a dull moment in this movie – don’t want to say more – just see it right away!

Afterthought: No WONDER Blake Lively has been wearing all those fabulous power suits…
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HOW MUCH FASHION PAYOLA ARE ACTRESSES GETTING TO WEAR GOWNS AT THE MET GALA?

The Met Gala is turning out to be a bigger fashion event that the Cannes Film Festival. We can’t even IMAGINE how much money is changing hands as major fashion houses, jewelry designers etc. BRIBE celebrities to wear their creations! Blake Lively is in big demand because she’s model height (5’10”) and makes the clothes look spectacular. Her Gala gown was gorgeous but obscenely expensive (it took over 600 hours to make!) Recently designers have ALSO been dressing celebrities for the after-parties! (Blake, above in her pricey after-party outfit) No WONDER so many celebrities wouldn’t think of missing the Met Gala – they’d be missing a huge pay check!

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BLAKE LIVELY: THE NEXT LIAM NEESON?

Blake Lively has one of those faces that can assume a whole new identity just by adding a wig. She’s been filming her own action thriller, The Rhythm Section, in New York and her character has a number of “disguises.” She’s playing a women whose family is killed in a plane crash – on a flight that she was supposed to be on. Her distraught character learns it was an act of terrorism being covered up by the government and she is determined to find the truth. Hence the disguise. (Oh, and franchise is not out of the question.) It sure sounds like something Liam Neeson would have done…

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BLAKE LIVELY: ALL I SEE ARE DOLLAR SIGNS

Blake Lively is dutifully promoting her new movie “All I See Is You” in all the right places in New York and it looks like she’s earning a bundle for each appearance. She’s been changing into one fabulous designer outfit after another – sometimes several in one day – while being handsomely paid by each designer to plug their creations. Not a bad deal – the 5’10” Blake is perfect for displaying expensive fashions. The movie is about a woman who was blinded in an accident years ago, and lives in Bangkok with her husband. A new surgery restores her sight in one eye and she goes through big changes – her husband is NOT happy.

(Above, Blake in a Brandon Maxwell two piece pants outfit)

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