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We are now less than six months out from the Blake Lively\u2013Wayfarer Studios trial<\/a>, and there are still no signs of a settlement. You\u2019d think that when It Ends With Us director\/star Justin Baldoni and his producing partner, Jamey Heath, chose not to amend their defamation case<\/a>, there was maybe a chance of a huge payout and no one ever speaking about it ever again. Wrong! Not only is this thing trudging along toward its March 2026 court date but there\u2019s another new player involved: Rainn Wilson. From The Office? He\u2019s not even in the movie. Well, apparently he is friends with Baldoni or at least friendly enough to have received a text about how annoying and mean Ryan Reynolds is.<\/p>\n In court documents obtained by People<\/a> on November 13, Baldoni wrote to Wilson after a heated confrontation with Reynolds and Lively in January 2024. \u201cRyan was talking to me like a five-year-old and scolding me,\u201d Baldoni wrote. \u201cThey essentially said that Jamey [Heath] and I are not who we claimed to be and that for us to have a podcast is unsafe because it makes people feel like we are safe.\u201d That\u2019s a new one. Per Reynolds (and possibly also Lively), it is \u201cunsafe\u201d for Baldoni to have a podcast because having a podcast on which he talks about masculinity<\/a> convinces people that he is a safe person to be around. It\u2019s funny to imagine a world where knowing a guy has a podcast makes anyone feel safe. Do you know someone with a podcast? They might talk about you on there!<\/p>\n Whether or not Wilson will get involved in the actual trial remains to be seen, but none of his responses were included in this new round of documents. For all we know, he may never have responded to Baldoni\u2019s stressed-out texts. If nothing else, this latest update goes to show the depths of stupidity in the ongoing case \u2014 there has got to be a better way to vet someone than whether or not they have a podcast.<\/p>\n Related<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now he\u2019s in it? Photo-Illustration: Vulture; Photos: Getty Images (Jemal Countess, Nathan Congleton\/NBC) We are now less than…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133495,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[3164,458,146,85,46,64534,83287,83286,3165,4675,397,43],"class_list":{"0":"post-133494","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-blake-lively","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-it-ends-with-us","14":"tag-it-never-ends","15":"tag-jamey-heath","16":"tag-justin-baldoni","17":"tag-lawsuits","18":"tag-movies","19":"tag-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}