Blake Lively Asks Justin Baldoni for $8 MILLION!? Dave Portnoy Calls Out Alex Cooper & More!

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🗓️ 30 June 2026

⏱️ 58 minutes

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Blake Lively Asks Justin Baldoni for $8 MILLION!? Dave Portnoy Calls Out Alex Cooper & More! Big day in Hollywood drama! We're breaking down everything happening right now in celebrity news 👀 🔥 Blake Lively is seeking over $8 million in attorneys' fees and legal costs from Justin Baldoni and Wayfarer Studios after his $400 million defamation suit against her was dismissed — find out how the numbers break down and what comes next in this never-ending legal saga. 🔥 Dave Portnoy is dropping bombshells in his new memoir, alleging Alex Cooper once told him she and Sofia Franklyn planned to fabricate sexual harassment claims to get out of their Barstool contract — and it's landing right as Cooper's Unwell Network faces its own workplace scrutiny. Plus more of today's biggest entertainment headlines you need to know! 🔔 Subscribe and turn on notifications so you never miss the latest in celebrity news, drama, and pop culture! Chapters 00:00 Introduction 02:39 Health Insights 05:16 Celebrity Legal Battles: Blake Lively's Case 11:12 Media and Public Perception: The Today Show Dynamics 27:58 The Today Show's Behind-the-Scenes Drama 29:56 Dave Portnoy: Controversial Figure and His New Book 40:25 The Tragic Story of Daveigh Chase 42:57 Casting Scams in Hollywood 50:52 Cara Delevingne and Amber Heard's Relationship

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0:00.0	It's your daily dose of Donna. Welcome to the show. Today is Tuesday, June 30th. We are crawling
0:06.6	through the holiday week. Hope you guys are doing phenomenal today. Do you ever think about
0:13.8	when you were a kid and your parents, if you were lucky, said to you, dear, you can do anything you want in your life. You can be
0:23.7	whoever you want. You can do whatever you want. You can become whoever you want to be.
0:30.4	You can ask for whatever you want and the universe will give it to you. Well, Blake lively got
0:35.1	that speech and she took it seriously because Blake
0:38.3	lively is asking for an exorbitant amount of money from Justin Baldoni for legal fees.
0:44.0	We're going to talk about that. We're going to talk about Dave Portnoy. I'm going to talk about
0:49.0	all kinds of things. I was just on Kinsey Schofield show this morning, just recorded a show
0:53.8	with her to talk about Megan, our favorite Megan.
0:58.6	Oh, you guys, lots to get into.
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1:25.9	Can you imagine? Joseph Donna. Welcome to the show. Welcome to the show. I hope you guys are doing phenomenal today. I just found out LeBron James has quit the Lakers for all you sports fans out there. I know this is a sports show. I know you guys are obsessed with sports. Just obsessed. Yep, that's it. He's out. He's out from the Lakers. I don't care. I mean, truthfully, I really just, I'm just not a big basketball person. But I just thought I'd give you guys the updates. I am a Cubs fan. And last night was an amazing Cubs win. Okay. We had a walk-off situation by
2:19.5	Suzuki. Look at that. Sports fan 101 over here. You know, I just started working with this new
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