{"id":392306,"date":"2026-01-27T02:14:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:14:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392306\/"},"modified":"2026-01-27T02:14:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-27T02:14:13","slug":"justin-baldoni-surfing-in-costa-rica-on-birthday-trip-amid-legal-mess-check-out-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/392306\/","title":{"rendered":"Justin Baldoni Surfing in Costa Rica on Birthday Trip Amid Legal Mess, Check out Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            Play video content<\/p>\n<p>                    <img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/3efda37269a04adab39dc56bfd40bd0b_md.jpg\" alt=\"012626_justin_baldoni_kal\" width=\"728\" height=\"410\" class=\"img-fluid\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                    BACKGRID<\/p>\n<p>Things are be popping off in a big way between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/blake-lively\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Blake Lively<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/justin-baldoni\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Justin Baldoni<\/a> in their ongoing legal drama &#8230; but JB is keeping his cool, cruising some waves and celebrating his birthday in Costa Rica.<\/p>\n<p>Check the pics &#8212; Justin stripped down to his swim trunks, flashing those washboard abs with a surfboard in hand &#8230; all while soaking up the sun and hitting the waves and making a splash for his 42nd birthday Sunday with the fam.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019d never guess Justin&#8217;s knee-deep in a serious legal mess &#8230; the guy looked totally carefree, soaking up the beach life and riding those killer waves like he doesn&#8217;t have a worry in the world.<\/p>\n<p><a id=\"continued\" class=\"continued-anchor\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Justin\u2019s always been known for his love of surfing &#8212; and he showed off some seriously solid skills &#8212; but as the clip makes clear, there were a few wipeouts too &#8230; a little symbolic of how the past two years have gone amid all that &#8220;It Ends With Us&#8221; legal drama.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, more and more has been unraveling lately &#8212; with court docs last week revealing a very damning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/20\/taylor-swift-text-messages-to-blake-lively-about-justin-baldoni\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/2026\/01\/20\/taylor-swift-text-messages-to-blake-lively-about-justin-baldoni\/\">text message<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/taylor-swift\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"https:\/\/www.tmz.com\/people\/taylor-swift\/\">Taylor Swift<\/a> sent Blake that straight-up called Baldoni a &#8220;bitch.&#8221; The Blake-Baldoni trial is set to kick off May 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Play video content BACKGRID Things are be popping off in a big way between Blake Lively and Justin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":392307,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-392306","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=392306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392306\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/392307"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=392306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=392306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=392306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}