{"id":195309,"date":"2025-12-16T20:53:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:53:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195309\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T20:53:08","slug":"blake-lively-slammed-for-being-out-of-touch-after-promoting-400-holiday-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/195309\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Slammed For Being \u2018Out of Touch\u2019 After Promoting $400 Holiday Gift"},"content":{"rendered":"

Even Blake Lively\u2018s game nights are controversial!<\/p>\n

\u201cI have been teaching friends how to play Mahjong, though I need to say I\u2019m not a certified teacher,\u201d the Gossip Girl alum, 38, explained in a new interview with Vogue<\/a>. \u201cBut I know enough to teach my friends how to play with me, and in the end, I always end up gifting them my own set because they are obsessed and want to practice.\u201d<\/p>\n

She prefers the ones from Oh My Mahjong<\/a>, where a set of tiles starts at $400, while starter kits, including mats and pouches, run upwards of $640.<\/p>\n

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ZUMAPRESS.com \/ MEGA; Steven Bergman\/AFF-USA.COM \/ MEGA<\/p>\n

Critics<\/a> were quick to slam the actress, who is approaching the one-year anniversary of her widely publicized $161 million sexual harassment lawsuit<\/a> against her It Ends With Us costar and director, Justin Baldoni.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think her list will be very very short this year\u2026\u201d scoffed one Daily Mail<\/a> commenter, while others suggested she was trying to \u201cbuy friendships.\u201d<\/p>\n

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MEGA<\/p>\n

Others called her \u201cout of touch\u201d and shaded her for \u201cbragging about expensive gifts,\u201d noting that similar tiles can be bought for a fraction of that price online.<\/p>\n

\u201cEven if she had donated that money to a good cause,\u201d scoffed one commenter, \u201cit still wouldn\u2019t change public opinion of her.\u201d<\/p>\n

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