# 179: Duchess Meghan & Prince Harry visit Colombia, Blake Lively & Justin Baldoni feud

Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/gossip-with-celebitchy-630946/179-duchess-meghan-prince-harry-visit-colombia-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-feud
Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/gossip-with-celebitchy-630946/179-duchess-meghan-prince-harry-visit-colombia-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-feud.md
Podcast: [Gossip With Celebitchy](https://stenobird.com/podcast/gossip-with-celebitchy-630946)
Published: 2024-08-17T12:06:00+00:00
Episode link: https://celebitchy.libsyn.com/179-duchess-meghan-prince-harry-visit-colombia-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-feud
Audio file: https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/traffic.libsyn.com/secure/celebitchy/August172024.mp3?dest-id=999080
Processing state: not_requested
JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gossip-with-celebitchy-630946/episodes/179-duchess-meghan-prince-harry-visit-colombia-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-feud
Duration seconds: 2246

## Resource

Introduction: Minutes 0 to 7:15 We recorded on Friday this week instead of Thursday as usual. We both loved the Olympics and talk about our favorite events and athletes. Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni: Minutes 7:15 to 18:45 Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni are costarring in the film This Ends with Us. The book is by Colleen Hoover and it's been criticized as romanticizing domestic abuse. I've read that the movie does the same thing. Justin Baldoni is directing the film, he bought the rights and hired a screenwriter. People noticed that he skipped the London premiere and that he hasn't posed with Blake Lively or done press with her. They also noticed that Blake and the author Colleen Hoove unfollowed Justin on Instagram. The Hollywood Reporter said that Lively and Baldoni's feud started in post-production, when Blake commissioned a separate edit of the film. Chandra thinks that Justin's edit is likely the one that made it to theaters. Blake's husband Ryan Reynolds also rewrote a key scene. THR next reported that Blake screened her own edit of the film at a book event for Colleen Hoover in June. It looks like she tried to take creative control of the film. At first we got vague stories that Baldoni created a difficult work environment. The stories about why people hate him were suspicious to me. He also is said to have made Blake feel bad about her postpartum body. Baldoni has hired the same PR crisis management firm that Johnny D-pp and Brad Pitt use. TMZ then reported that Blake felt uncomfortable around Justin because he kissed her too long in a scene and because he asked her trainer how much she weighed since he had to pick her up and has a bad back. An older interview from 2016 recently came out where Blake and Parker Posey were meangirling a Norwegian interviewer,…

## Actions

- request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/gossip-with-celebitchy-630946/episodes/179-duchess-meghan-prince-harry-visit-colombia-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-feud/transcription-requests` — Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode.
- read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/gossip-with-celebitchy-630946/179-duchess-meghan-prince-harry-visit-colombia-blake-lively-justin-baldoni-feud.md` — Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource.

A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed.

## Transcript

Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.