A one-time teen soap opera star, with perfect teeth and a year-round tan, until now nothing has seemed to rattle Ryan Reynolds. He's been named People magazine's Sexiest Man Alive, awarded the Officer of the Order of Canada for his philanthropy, and built up a $350 million fortune with investments in tech and booze. Throughout, he has traded on his wholesome image with a stream of off-colour wisecracks – acceptable only because everyone 'knew' that the man who was teasing his wife and co-stars so rudely was, deep down, a 'nice guy'.

But after a month filled with lawsuits and revelations, that image is under serious threat. All of Hollywood is agog over the Blake-versus-Baldoni affair which followed the filming of Justin Baldoni's adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel, It Ends With Us – Reynolds' wife, Blake Lively, took the lead role as florist Lily Bloom. Lively filed a legal complaint just before Christmas saying that she had been caused 'severe emotional distress' by Baldoni's behaviour during the making of the film, including unwanted contact which amounted to sexual harassment. She said that Baldoni had also ordered a PR team to undertake a global media campaign to ruin her image.

Ryan Reynolds' image as a 'nice guy' may be under threat following a month filled with lawsuits and revelations over the Blake-versus-Baldoni affair. Baldoni countered with a number of lawsuits, claiming defamation and asking for $400 million in damages from Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. He says that Lively, 37, aided by the industry clout of her supportive husband, kicked him off his own film and production company, and claims Reynolds then tried to ruin his career.

Reynolds, said Baldoni, had yelled at him for allegedly 'fat-shaming' Lively, had asked for his agents to drop Baldoni, and claimed that Reynolds' considerable power and influence had been used to threaten him. The matter is due to come to court on Monday for the first time for a case conference. Former Gossip Girl star Lively is trying to get the lawsuits against her and Ryan Reynolds thrown out and made a filing to that effect on Thursday.

But the Mail can reveal that a website containing a trove of information, emails, texts and WhatsApps between Baldoni and Lively was due to be released last night. That will give a full timeline of how events unfolded, and show the souring of the relationship between the co-stars 'in real time.'. No such website has ever been put online during a legal dispute and the move is likely to distress Lively and Reynolds, who have been pleading through lawyers for the other side to stop trying the case in the court of public opinion.

Meanwhile, it can also be revealed that Baldoni's lawyer, Bryan Freedman, is going to refile a lawsuit for libel against the New York Times, which published the original allegations that Baldoni had sexually harassed and tried to smear the reputation of Lively, after discovering new evidence questioning the timing of its exposé. Reynolds, 48, was spotted leaving his New York City apartment earlier this week looking somewhat pinched beneath his tan.

Justin Baldoni, who is suing, and being sued by, Blake Lively and Reynolds. Well-placed sources also claim the Baldoni team have an 'ace up their sleeve' which they say will suggest that Reynolds and Lively leaned on their agents at William Morris Endeavor to drop Baldoni. A claim the couple deny. No wonder Reynolds, 48, has been seen outside their New York penthouse looking somewhat pinched beneath his tan, carrying suitcases. It looks as if the family – they have four children – are planning to go away somewhere.

He might well look pinched, as he is front and centre to a number of points under contention. Indeed, on industry bible Variety's website, the comments are mostly not about Lively, but about what the affair seems to reveal about Reynolds – best known to many in the UK as the co-owner of Welsh football club Wrexham FC. One celebrity PR says: 'Beyond question this has hit him very hard. If he isn't panicking about it, then he definitely should be. But I do hear that he is. It makes people doubt the authenticity of that nice guy image, and he's been known for that for decades.'.

Baldoni has complained that Reynolds asked for him to be dropped by their common agents at William Morris Endeavor. And he was indeed dropped just after Lively filed her lawsuit last month, although the agency has denied it was at the behest of Reynolds. And then there's a matter of optics. We now know that when Ryan Reynolds was pictured smiling on Blake Lively's arm at the premiere of It Ends With Us in New York last August (and receiving a cheeky little bottom squeeze from her), the man who wrote and directed the film, Baldoni, claims he'd been banished to the basement on the orders of Lively, who didn't want him anywhere near her.