Blake Lively Vs. Hollywood

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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After a summer on the receiving end of the internet’s ire, Blake Lively is back in the news, as her relationship with her former director and co-star Justin Baldoni has taken a turn for the litigious. Guest: Heather Schwedel, staff writer at Slate. Want more What Next? Join Slate Plus to unlock full, ad-free access to What Next and all your other favorite Slate podcasts. You can subscribe directly from the What Next show page on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Or, visit slate.com/whatnextplus to get access wherever you listen. Podcast production by Elena Schwartz, Paige Osburn, Anna Phillips, Madeline Ducharme and Rob Gunther. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:02.5	Heather, tell me how you feel about Blake Lively.
1:08.1	Sure.
1:09.1	Blake Lively is someone who I feel like, you know, I've grown up with. She's my
1:16.5	contemporary. Are you guys the same age? Yes, we're the same age.
1:23.2	Heather Schwedell covers culture for Slate. And I wanted her to come into the studio and explain the Hollywood story that has been dominating my news feed.
1:33.8	But before we did that, we had to talk about the person at the center of it.
1:37.1	Blake Lively.
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