Turns out, it doesn’t end with them on a good note!
Blake Lively and
Justin Baldoni are on their way to the courtroom as their legal battle is moving toward a trial, with the court setting a date for March 9, 2026, according to Variety.
It all started in December 2024 when ‘It Ends With Us’ star Blake Lively filed a lawsuit, accusing Justin Baldoni, the director and Lively’s co-star in the film, of sexual harassment and inappropriate behavior during the making of their film. Lively further claimed that he retaliated against her by working with a PR team to damage her reputation.
Numerous celebrities in the last couple of months have offered their support to Lively after she accused Baldoni of causing “severe emotional distress”. While Lively’s husband and the ‘Deadpool’ star
Ryan Reynolds has stayed by his wife throughout the ‘battle’, let’s take a look at the men Lively dated in the past.
Kelly Blatz (2004 – 2007)
Lively dated Kelly Blatz, an American actor, director, writer, producer, editor, and musician for three years, according to E! News. This was arguably Lively’s most low-key relationship of the four significant ones before she crossed paths with her current husband Ryan Reynolds.
Blatz's résumé is brief, but he is recognized for portraying Brandon Luke in "Fear the Walking Dead" or Aidan Coulter in "The Good Doctor", a potential love interest for Allegra Aoki (Tamlyn Tomita).
Penn Badgley (2007 – 2010)
From 2007 to 2010, Lively was in a relationship with her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley, the American actor and producer who is now wildly popular for portraying Joe Goldberg in the Netflix psychological thriller series You. Gossip Girl fans everywhere rejoiced when Dan Humphrey and Serena Van Der Woodsen took their romance from television to real life. However, their real-life romance was short-lived as the duo parted ways in 2010.
According to Teen Vogue, the two kept their relationship uber-private before breaking it off in 2010. However, they remained friends and continued to work together on Gossip Girl for another two years.
Ryan Gosling (October 2010)
In 2010 Lively bumped into Ryan. But hold up, this wasn’t Reynolds, but Gosling!
Truth be told, Reynolds isn't the first Ryan that Lively has been linked to. Although Lively and Gosling’s ‘brief’ fling was never confirmed, it was rumored that they were seeing each other after they were spotted together at Disneyland in October of 2010, according to E!. However, nothing official ever became of it, except for the time when Lively expertly trolled her now-husband Reynolds with his Hollywood twin.
Leonardo DiCaprio (May 2011 – September 2011)
Believe it or not, Lively boarded the Titanic with Jack Dawson as well!
Although Hollywood’s eternal heartthrob Leonardo DiCaprio does have a penchant for models and supermodels when it comes to dating, the summer of 2011 spoke for a whirlwind romance between him and Lively. In 2011, Leo spent trekking across Europe with Lively and their relationship was the textbook definition of a summer fling. Their split was confirmed in September just in time for fall, concluding their ‘summer love’.
Ryan Reynolds (2011-Present)
Just a month after splitting from Leo, Lively and Reynolds were all over each other!
Reynolds and Lively first met on the set of Green Lantern, in 2010, but the pair reportedly didn’t start dating until 2011. And even when they did, it wasn’t anything short of awkward as they were, after all, on a blind date.
Reynolds told Entertainment Weekly, “That was the most awkward date for their perspective probably because we were just like fireworks coming across. It was weird at first, but we were buddies for a long time. I think it’s the best way to have a relationship is to start as friends.”
After dating for about a year, the two married in September 2012 at Boone Hall Plantation in Mount Pleasant, South Carolina. A source told People about the wedding, “When Ryan first saw her, his face broke into a huge smile that crinkled his eyes. They just stared at each other with absolute love. Their faces were lit up with the candlelight, and it looked like something out of a romance movie.”
The couple has four children together, three girls and one boy.
Lively and Reynolds are close friends with singer-songwriter
Taylor Swift, who named the characters in her song "Betty" after their daughters. In November 2024, it was announced that Swift is the godmother to Lively's three daughters.
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