How Blake Lively REALLY feels about Taylor Swift's Super Bowl 'snub' as insiders reveal her next steps

Blake Lively is content with laying low after pal Taylor Swift left her off her 2025 Super Bowl squad guest list ahead of Sunday's big game, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal. The pair's 10-year bond has come under scrutiny in recent weeks after Swift was dragged into Lively's ugly legal war with It Ends With Us co-star/director Justin Baldoni. Baldoni claimed in his bombshell $400 million defamation lawsuit that Lively leveraged Swift's name as a way to exert control over the 2024 film — even going as far as to refer to her powerful BFF as her 'dragon' in an alleged text exchange.

A source told DailyMail.com exclusively on Friday that Lively, 37, never intended on going to Super Bowl LIX because she doesn't want her drama to 'overshadow' Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce's 'big night.'. 'Taylor is not shading Blake or is she trying to teach her a lesson. It isn't like that. Even if Taylor did invite Blake, Blake would not come,' the insider dished. 'She would never want to make Taylor's big night – where she is going to see the love of her life play in another Super Bowl – about her. Blake would not want to overshadow Taylor ever.'.

Blake Lively is content with laying low after pal Taylor Swift left her off her 2025 Super Bowl squad guest list ahead of Sunday's big game, DailyMail.com can exclusively reveal; the pair seen at last year's Super Bowl. DailyMail.com has reached out representatives for Blake Lively and Taylor Swift for comment. As for Lively's next steps, the actress may soon be forced to return to the public eye to promote her new film Another Simple Favor, a source close to the production revealed to DailyMail.com exclusively on Friday.

The Amazon Prime Video film is a sequel to Lively's A Simple Favor (2018) and sees the return of her co-star Anna Kendrick and director Paul Feig. It's set to premiere in May 2025. 'Blake may have to do promotional work for another Simple Favor due to contractual obligations unless they decide that it is best for her not to,' the insider explained. Lively is currently hunkered down at her and husband Ryan Reynolds' NYC abode with their four children but knows she can't hide 'forever,' the production source claimed.

'Other than that, she is staying close to home because she doesn't want to deal with the added stress. She is focused on her family and her kids right now. 'She knows she cannot stay in hiding forever.'. The latest Lively update comes hours after DailyMail.com confirmed that the mother-of-four will not be accompanying Swift to watch Kelce face off against the Philadelphia Eagles at Sunday's Super Bowl.

A source told DailyMail.com exclusively: 'Blake is not attending the Super Bowl with her. Blake has not left the house since this started practically. Taylor wants nothing to do with this trial and court case.'. Last year, Lively was among Swift's crew that cheered on the Kansas City Chiefs from a jam-packed VIP suite at Allegiant Stadium. The elite group included Kelce's parents, Donna and Ed Kelce, his brother Jason Kelce, as well as her pals Ashley Avignone, Lana Del Rey, Ice Spice, Miles Teller, and Keleigh Teller.

A source told DailyMail.com exclusively on Friday that Lively, 37, never intended on going to Super Bowl LIX because she doesn't want her drama to 'overshadow' Swift and boyfriend Travis Kelce 's 'big night'; Lively seen in August 2024. 'Taylor is not shading Blake or is she trying to teach her a lesson. It isn't like that. Even if Taylor did invite Blake, Blake would not come,' the insider dished; Taylor and Blake seen in 2023.

Additionally, her mother and father, Andrea Swift and Scott Swift, and brother Austin were present as the Chiefs successfully defended their Super Bowl title for a second-straight season. Although Lively joined Swift for two other Chiefs games in the past, she did not tag along to any during the 2024-2025 season. Since going public with her romance with Kelce in late 2023, the So High School hitmaker has attended dozens of games and is set to fly out to New Orleans to see her man compete for an unprecedented third straight Super Bowl win.

The claim comes amid reports that the 14-time Grammy winner 'feels used' by the Gossip Girl star, 37, after becoming embroiled in the explosive legal feud between Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41. Baldoni has claimed Lively namedropped Swift to intimidate him at a meeting with her husband Ryan Reynolds about edits she had made to a rooftop scene in their film, It Ends with Us. In his $400 million lawsuit, filed last month, Baldoni alleged Swift showed up and made him feel like he 'needed to comply with Blake's direction for the script'.