The Saturday Night Live team has shut down claims that Ryan Reynolds swapped a scripted joke for a gag about his wife Blake Lively’s ongoing legal drama with Justin Baldoni during the show’s 50th anniversary extravaganza.
Rumours of a feud between Lively and Baldoni began to circulate last year when they appeared to keep their distance from one another while promoting It Ends With Us, an adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s novel, which Baldoni also directed.
A source close to Reynolds told the publication that the opening joke was pitched by SNL and did not change, whereas the follow-up joke, which included a reference to SNL’s recurring “Coneheads” sketch, was rewritten during rehearsal.
He then filed a $250 million lawsuit against the New York Times after it published an article detailing Lively’s claims, and later launched a $400 million countersuit against Lively and Reynolds.
Baldoni’s lawyer Bryan Freedman has publicly criticised the SNL50 joke, telling Hot Mics With Billy Bush: “I’m unaware of anybody, frankly, whose wife has been sexually harassed and has made jokes about that type of situation.
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