Blake & Baldoni Talk Settlement AGAIN, Tommaso Seen at Nancy's Guthrie's Home, & More

Well, Blake and Baldoni are back in settlement talks. Is it gonna work this time? Probably not. Tamaso was spotted at Nancy Guthrie's home as Savannah made her triumphant return to the Today Show. And we got a Mormon Wives update. And we got, just lots of tea we're gonna be spilling because it's a Tuesday and we got all the tea on a Tuesday, let's get it. This is No Filter with Zach Peter. Your go-to source for all the latest pop culture and reality TVT, surf rush all week long. Now let's dive in. And dive in, we shall. What's up everybody? In the clear, what's going on? Happy with today? Tuesday, I literally just said that. How am I? Already tripping, you got me tripping. Stumbling, gripping, fumbling. Clumsy, cause I'm falling in love, in, in love. So in love with you. My goodness, it has been a stressful week so far. So please send me all the L-O-V-E, all the nerve in the glurb, so that I don't rip somebody's head off because I am ready to rip some heads off. Just send me good juju and prayers today. That's all I need right now. Good juju, good prayers, just like all the goodness. Oh, I didn't put my ring on today. Okay, so much, well, I mean, I guess we're better off than Blake is, right? What should we, oh wait, I did wanna start with this cause I've been waiting for the Devil Wears 2, or sorry, the Devil Wears product two to come out and it's been like the longest pressed or ever and they're like doing heavy press right now and I'm just like, oh my God, they're having premieres, they're doing this, they're doing that. It doesn't come out for another month. We still have a whole month. May 1st is when it comes out, but since they are on this press tour to hype up and promote this movie, this came out today. It's the new cover of Vogue and I mean, this is a bit iconic. You have Anna Wintour and you have Meryl Streep and Meryl Streep's character Miranda Priestly is based on Anna Wintour and Vogue is in the movie and Devil Wears product two, or I guess the original Devil Wears product. So the movie is based off of the book, which is about Anna Wintour and instead of it being about Vogue, it's about runway. Runway is the name of the magazine in the movie and so Miranda Priestly runs runway and a Wintour in real life runs Vogue and so now we have Anna Wintour and Meryl Streep together on the cover of Vogue, baby. Vogue, Vogue, Vogue. So very, yeah, look at Elle says, yes, Queen, slay it, right? She looks so, like it just, and they're doing all sorts, yeah, the right outfit is amazing. They're doing all sorts of like skits together. They did a cute skit that was on the Vogue Instagram this morning, which shows them like running into each other and being like, where do I know you from? I don't know, where do I know you from? I don't know. And they're like, you know, giving that scolding look towards each other and then they get an elevator together and they're just like, you know, on the phone trying to like make business happen and then by the end of it, they look at each other and they're like, nice shoes. And she's like, I like your boots. And then they walk away from each other. It's great. I mean, and just the red, like red is such a power color and the way that it did, I was like, oh, Debbie says, I liked the Devil Wears Prada, but I didn't like her boyfriend. I think you're referring to Adrian, what's his name, Adrian Grenier? Is that how you pronounce it, Grenier? He played Anne Hathaway's boyfriend in the first movie. He played Andy, Andy's Anne Hathaway's character, Andrea, Andrea, Andrea, Andy's boyfriend. Yeah, Andrea's boyfriend is who he played. And he, I think he just came out and he was like, I'm so sad that like I'm not in the new movie. Like I can't believe they didn't put me in the new movie. And I was like, nobody liked him. So why would they put you in the new movie? Nobody wants to see you. Okay, sorry, nobody likes you. Emily Blunt, oh my God, Emily Blunt is so good. She's probably, okay. So from what we've seen from the trailer so far, I like OG Miranda. I like Miranda Priestly and Devil Wears Prada. I'm not loving the new, I'm not loving the new Miranda, if I'm being honest, TBH. I don't know, she just seems a little aloof, but apparently it looks like Runway's in Scandal. They need help, they need to be saved. They're also trying to just stay alive in the era of digital media. And then Anne Hathaway's character comes back and she's like, I'm here to help save your business. And she's just like, who are you? And Anne's like, I'm here to work for you again. And then Emily Blunt is, and Emily Blunt probably my favorite of the three of them. She just, you know, she's just, she's serving CUNT. She's serving CUNX Tuesday. She's just here to bring it and she brings it, baby. Bawrings it. I'm loving it. Zach in the house. Yes, Charlene, I is here. I never got the Adrian hate from the original. Well, cause he wasn't like a good supportive boyfriend. He was just like always annoyed with her and he wanted her to give up her dreams. Although to be fair, actually, you know what? Let's go down that rabbit hole. Why not, right? So I get it. He, nobody liked him because he was unsupportive of Andy doing Runway. But like, it's because he always wanted her to pursue her real endeavors, her journalistic integrity, not Runway, which is a fashion magazine. And she was getting so caught up in the clothes and having to work for Miranda. So was he really the bad guy? Cause like what, he wanted his girlfriend to be present. He wanted his girlfriend to not work for a monster. He wanted his girlfriend to stick to her journalistic integrity and not, not work at Runway. Maybe he wasn't the villain. That's actually a really good point. Who said that? That's actually, yes, but he was a jerk about it. Well, should he, like, she was a jerk about it too. When you think about it, Katie of Arc says Andy was terrible, was a terrible girlfriend at the same time. She completely changed her entire life and was ruining their relationship. Exactly. You know, exact, period. Andy, like they had a good relationship. They had a good rhythm. They had a good thing going. And the next thing you know, Adrian Grineer comes into the picture and he's just like, hey, you're ruining our relationship. You're dating your boss. Like he actually was not in the wrong when you think about it. Like maybe he was a jerk, but like that didn't mean she wasn't a jerk either. She kept blowing him off. She wasn't even gonna come for his birthday party, remember? AMC says Andy was kind of a villain, right? Like, when do we look back at that? And I get it because we're all coochie power, right? We're like, love to the women. And listen, not that I don't have any love to the women. I believe, you know, we need women. I'm not trying to eradicate women. I'm not trying to eradicate real women. But like, you know, it just, I think she actually was kind of the issue in that relationship. Andy was horrible. Thank you. She also flirted with the designer guy. That's right, Libby. And she cheated on him. Didn't she sleep with the designer guy? Yeah, she totally slept with the designer guy. She didn't just flirt with him. I thought they slept together. Cause remember there's the scene of them in the hotel and she wakes up in the hotel and he comes out of the bathroom and his towel, Andy abandoned all of her friends too, right? Reprimand has says we got bitch blinders on. Exactly. You know, I'm rethinking the plot. I cannot wait to see Emily Blunt. Yeah, Emily Blunt was a monster and she'd like maintained her character of a monster in that movie. And I respect it, right? Like she's like, I'm a monster. She's not like Andy. Cause Andy's like, oh, I'm so innocent. I'm just a good girl. And it's like, no, you're not. Andrea, you're not just a good girl. You're actually not very nice to your friends, to your boyfriend. I thought he was hot. Which one? Adrian, yeah, he was hot. The boyfriend? Yeah. Miss Quishey says, I think she was over his stuff, you know? What stuff? Emily played the long game with that job. Good for her, right? And then, hold on, but not only that, but then Andy goes, blows up her relationship, blows up her friendships, you know, gives up her entire life only to not even stay at runway. Cause then she leaves, cause suddenly she's like, you know what, I don't need this. And then she throws her phone into the water. And then she got rid of all the clothes. She didn't even keep the clothes. You know what, Andy's the real villain. My mind is now convinced that like, we're Anne Hathaway's character, Andy the villain, you know? Oh, Andy came in and took Emily's dream job when she didn't want it and mocked it. Exactly. Now we're pulling up all of Andy's receipts. All Andrea's receipts. We're putting them all on the table. But then gives Emily her clothes. Okay, we'll fine. So there was a little moment of redemption, but like at least keep the clothes. She was a funny monster. Andy was too serious. I agree. Yes, Andy is so the real villain. You guys were like, rethinking everything. Lori, the story ambassador of fun says, I'm now viewing this movie in a completely different light. Exactly. Missy, Missy, Missy, Missy says, hi mods, keeping the digital violence to a minimum. Please keep the digital violence to a minimum. I mean, that's what. So I was on Juicy Scoop this week in case you guys want to tune into that. I was on Billy Bush yesterday and I was on a taped Juicy Scoop yesterday, but it came out today. So if you want to watch and go check that, I thought it was a fun one. Me and Heather get into Nancy Guthrie. Me and Heather get into Blake Lively. We get into housewives. We get everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, everything, so Juicy Scoop was so great, wasn't it? It was like, it was juicy. We had, we were given some hot takes. I liked her boyfriend in that movie. Okay, well, that's a hot take. I don't know if I would say we like the boyfriend. I'm just saying maybe the boyfriend had a point, but I'm not saying we like him, right? She doesn't want to film, right? She wants to see the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. Have you seen that TikTok where there's the scene from the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives and Jordan? He's talking about Demi and how she went to Nancy with the stars. He's like, she doesn't want to film, right? But then she goes to Nancy with the stars and sits with the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives, but she just want to film with her dress on. Like it was, it's so camp, the way he like delivers it, like such a queen you go, Jordan, like what, what a diva. Delivered those lines. And so now everyone's reenacting it on TikTok if you haven't seen it, but you might also not have, have been, you might not have also been in the loop. Janet says, your TikTok was fabulous yesterday with the intrusive thoughts. Oh yeah. Yeah, should we play my intrusive thoughts? That was, that was a fun time. And then we'll get into Nancy and then we'll get into Blake. But I just, we had to have a moment of silence for, or not a moment of silence, a moment of appreciation for the Devil Wears Prada and this new reflection that we have. Okay, here I'll play you the video from yesterday because it was actually, what a time. And the intrusive thoughts won and I've been thinking about it, right? Because Sheriff Nanness is telling us that Nancy Guthrie is still alive out there. And Savannah wants, Savannah Guthrie wants us to believe that her mother, that the old lady snatcher is gonna, you know, come to his bearings and suddenly like have a change of heart. And he's gonna realize like what he's doing is wrong and he's gonna return Nancy. So we're assuming that Nancy's alive. So that's assuming that she's in a bunker somewhere. She's in a basement. She's sitting there. Could you imagine Nancy Guthrie right now sitting in a bunker in a basement and then she's watching, one, this investigation, but two, then she's also watching Savannah come back to the Today Show with a full on parade. It's basically a parade, right? They're cheering, they have signs. So like, yeah, ooh, we love Nancy. We love Savannah. Whatever, like, could you imagine Nancy sitting in the basement of the old lady snatcher and she's waiting to be rescued. They're not paying any of the ransom note. Like TMZ keeps getting ransom notes. To this day, TMZ keeps getting ransom notes and that none of them are getting paid. And Nancy's just sitting in the basement being like, none of these damn letters are being paid. And then now Savannah's out here and she's doing a parade coming back to the Today Show. Like, how would you feel if you were Nancy right now? Like just, you know, let's have some empathy. And let's think about like what Nancy is feeling in the basement right now watching Savannah get this full on parade coming back to the Today Show. Because again, that's the narrative that Nanos and Savannah want us to go with. I, poor Nancy, somebody go save Nancy from the basement right now. Like if I'm ready to go get Nancy out of the basement and put her out of the misery of having to see her daughter relish in the glory of her return to the Today Show 64 days after she went missing. See? I mean, I thought that was an excellent point. Poor Nancy, she's sitting in the damn basement being like, you put my ass in the Ross Clearance bin at the back of the store. And this dude, like he's lowered his asking price down to half a Bitcoin. What was it? It was like six million. And now we've dropped it all the way down to 20,000. They still don't want to pay it. It's like, they don't want to find the lady. I'm just like, I don't even understand. But instead we're going to be doing, baby you're a fire in your word. Like they were throwing panties up there as Savannah was coming out. They were fireworks. It was like, you know, it was crazy. It was crazy in the world of darkness. There be Zach need your sense of humor. Thank you. Thank you. You know, savings. Crazy, crazy, crazy, crazy. They lowered it to continue to submit three requests to TMZ. Am I missing something? Yeah, they lowered it and they keep sending the request to TMZ. Like none of it makes any sense. None of it makes any sense to a T-shirt. Can it? Pew. And not even with Nancy's face on the T-shirts. It's Savannah's face. Joy cometh in the morning. Buy one, get one, free rack. I know. They're like, listen, we'll give you somebody else's mama too. Like can you come get your mother? At this point, the old lady snatcher's like, all right, just like come get her. Like come get her right now. Like I've had enough. I saw her tweets on Facebook and like I've had enough. We're almost back to a stimulus check. At this point, I think he'll settle for a stimulus check. Like he's, and remember when he was writing the emails to Sheriff Harvey and he's just like, you're not taking me seriously. Oh my God, what a time. Oh, but so here's the latest update with Nancy Bene Ramsey. Tommaso has decided he's gonna check out the, he's gonna check out, I don't know, his future home. I don't know if he's getting ready to move in, but Mark the shark on X went and he showed us, look at Tommaso. Look, he looks angry. Damn it, how are we gonna keep this body hidden? He looks very angry. Obviously that's a joke. I'm not trying to incriminate anybody or defame anybody. Not my intention, obviously. But oh, sorry, this came from JLR Investigates, but Mark the shark shared it on X. We see Tommaso, okay. He walks like Donna Kelsey. Oh, someone put Tommy's video to music today. Step by step. Oh man. So I don't know what he's doing there, but then I was talking with Heather McDonald about it and I was like, oh, because everybody's like, well, they can't get her money. They can't get, you know, like the motive, if she's missing, then they can't take anything from her estate until they find her. But then I was thinking about it and I was like, oh, but if Annie and Tommy, because that's what we're rebranding them to Tommy, if Annie and Tommy move into Nancy's house, then Annie and Tommy can sell their house, liquidate those assets, and then they have a house to move into that I'm assuming is already paid off, so it's not like they have a mortgage or anything. Then they can take the money, live off the money from the sale of the house. Like there are motivations here, right? So there would be potential motive, right? So the fact that we're still looking at this as a kidnapping and not even a potential homicide, it's just, it's kind of crazy, right? It's a little crazy. Wouldn't it be crazy if Tomaso found Nancy? I mean, that would be, that would definitely, he found her alive, could you imagine? Nancy just like, hi guys, what's up everybody? And then they have like a, what is it, Jennifer Hudson? Is that, is she the one, that's the talk show, right? Where they're walking down the hall and then everybody's cheering and singing, and then they're like dancing in the hall going out to the show. Which by the way, when you think about it, there are never any clips of the actual show, it's just people dancing in the hallway, which tells you how great that talk show is if we never see viral clips of the actual show, we just see them dancing. Because you imagine if Nancy comes out and the Jennifer Hudson show, and she's like, hey, hey, hey, hey, and then everyone's clapping and cheering and dancing, and letting her come out for her big return, just like Savannah did. And then Savannah's seating in the corner, she's like, oh my comeback wasn't this good. Oh, Jennifer Hudson's show got canceled? Didn't even hear about it. If in order to get the life insurance money, you would need a body, it would not be crazy that she gets found real quick. Possibly, but we don't know. Yeah, she comes back, I'm back from the cruise. Remember, she's like, I was on a digital detox, you guys. Could you imagine if this whole time she was like, I just need a 90 day spa retreat, I need to do eat, pray, love, digital detox, so she doesn't even know that she's missing. Like she's just living her life. Zach Savanna and Harvey used to work together at Court TV. She was there before going on to the Today Show. She also worked with Nancy Grace. I know she worked with Nancy Grace, but I didn't realize she worked with Harvey Levin as well. Harvey needs to just pay the damn $20,000 to the old lady snatcher and find the body at this point. And then Harvey, then he can be like, found the body and then he can collect the one million. Nancy for dancing with the stars. But Savanna told the hoda that on a good day she can walk to the mailbox on a good day. That's a good day, but yet she's over here ubering by herself everywhere and nobody has to walk her into the house after dinner at 10 o'clock at night. Like, okay, maybe Nancy is playing the kidnapped game. Oh yeah, from date night. And she is just really competitive from that night. Maybe she's like, you're never gonna find me now. Digital detox. Yeah, it's good for your mental health. You need a digital deen to clear. Because of all the digital violence. Nancy's like, I'm on a digital detox because Blake Lively warned me about digital warfare. And I just need to cleanse my chakras. So I'm not gonna look at any of the digital warfare online. I'm not gonna be a victim of digital violence. Can't they just pay the ransom and see where it leads? And if nowhere then make an arrest? You would think Copper Mountain. Like that sounds like a really great idea. It sounds like a logical idea, right? If they've lowered the price down to 20,000 at this point, what is it worth losing $20,000? And if the lead checks out, great, the lead checked out. And if it doesn't check out, well, then we only, it was just, you know, 20,000. 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Janice says I ordered my drip drop and now it's all over my algorithm. Well, there you go. Now you're always gonna be hydrated. Did you use your promo code Janice? Cause if you didn't use the promo code then I'm really disappointed in you. Okay. Let's talk. So Blake Lively and Justin Beldoni went back into settlement negotiations and guess what? They didn't reach anything. But there was a new report that I found kind of funny. It's in Star magazine. So take it with a grain of salt. But it says that Blake Lively's loved ones are reportedly begging her to settle this lawsuit before trial because it's taking a toll. I mean, I think it would actually make sense. So I guess they have, it says in Monday, April 6th's edition of shooters, Rob Shooter, he, I guess he has a sub-stat called Naughty But Nice. And he's claiming that a source in his Naughty But Nice sub-stat, am I Naughty But Nice or am I just Naughty Rawr? So he's claiming to have a source that says that people around Blake are begging her to settle, especially after Judge Lyman threw out 10 of her 13 claims. They think that enough damage has already been done. You think? This will affect everything, their image, their careers, their relationships. It's not contained anymore, the source explains. The longer this drags on, the worse it gets reputation-wise professionally. It's taking a toll. That it is. And so she's refusing to settle with Beldoni. I believe it was yesterday that they were, they had a conversation to settle, but it doesn't think, I don't think he's gonna settle with her. And I just, I think she can't settle. Like she has to go to trial it because that's the only way she has any sense of vindication, validation. I think she looks stupid if she settles. Like her whole raw, raw, I'm fighting for the children of the world. And then suddenly what the children of the world don't matter now that you're good. But they tried. They updated their settlement options, didn't go well according to deadline. And deadline's been very pro-blake. And they, for some reason, keep reporting that Blake Lively's defamation claim is moving forward to trial, which is not true. Sure, you can say that retaliation could have potentially damaged her reputation. If you consider that defamation, okay, fine. But that's more, that's not a legal claim. That's more of a definition that you're putting on the claim of retaliation. But the defamation claim was tossed out by the judge. So let's be clear about that. So it's just weird that deadline keeps saying that in all of their reports. So really the only publication that continues to maintain that defamation is still part of her lawsuit. Which yes, technically in the retaliation claim, it says that her reputation was damaged. So yes, you can consider that defamation, but it's not illegal grounds for suing somebody for defamation, because again, that claim was dismissed. Go to people if you wanna see live coverage about Taylor Franke-Paul's court case. I will, we'll get to Taylor Franke-Paul in a bit. I know that there was a court hearing today, so I wanted to save that for the end. Blake Lively's internet friends are as do Lulu as she is truly. You cannot rename something to sound better. That's my opinion on it. That's my position on it. It's like you can't just be like, oh, well we wanna call it defamation because that sounds better when it's like, but no, she actually had a claim where she was accusing them of defamation that claim got tossed out. So, have I watched the new Unwell reality show? No, I haven't yet. I know it's on YouTube. I believe it's four episodes and they're releasing daily. I saw that it came out yesterday, but I have not watched it yet, no. So I did also wanna play this clip because you know, you know, I love when people wanna come for my neck and I said that I was gonna play it on the show yesterday and I didn't and then I said I would play it on the show today. So I'm gonna play it on the show for you today. But there was this YouTube channel that wanted to talk some semac about me. Oh, by the way, did you guys know that yesterday was asexual awareness day? So if you're asexual, you had a day of awareness, which, you know, I just, I love that all the asexual people have representation because we don't want to erase them, right? We need visibility. I think it was asexual visibility day or something like that. I was like, oh, what a time. Okay, here I'm gonna play it here. I'm gonna pull up this clip. That way we can watch it together and we can respond live because I'm probably gonna get a little zactivated. I'm just warning you right now. So if you want me to get zactivated, hit the like button right now, okay? Hit that like button. Okay, so they're playing, it looks like my TikTok video, which was minutes after news had broke that Blake Lively's case had been gutted by the judge. Okay, so let's see what they have to say about me. So let's see how he responds to this, right? Blake Lively just lost. This is not a drill. This just happened. Judge Lyman just ruled and he completely throughout her sexual harassment claims, he gutted her case ahead of next month's trial. There's a hearing that's happening today as well. Right before the hearing, Lyman placed this on the docket. He has gutted all of her claims except for three. But most importantly, he is completely thrown out the sexual harassment claims. And he says that there's basically no, her claims don't meet the evidence for. That's just, that's an outright lie. That part is a complete lie. And this is how I had a feeling. And what I suspect, because I don't want to necessarily accuse a... Why was wrong with these people? Why would you lie to them? Because unfortunately that's like social media. Like this guy doesn't necessarily know the law. That's what I was... No, no, no, no. He did, I agree with you. No, if you read the judge's opinion. He probably didn't read the whole thing. Well, that's right. Yeah. The point, fuckface, is if you read the agreement, Judge Lyman does go through each of her claims and gives his professional opinion. Okay. So he actually does show that each of the individual claims does not... See, I'm gonna... Okay, let's try to breathe. Because he's trying... He went through... We went through this and I showed, I pulled direct quotes because he wrote a 152 page response. And also I will give them some brownie points by saying this, my video was published within minutes of that news breaking. So at that point, I had not read the full 152 page breakdown from Judge Lyman, okay? To be fair. So, maybe I misspoke on a thing or two, but I don't think there's anything that I said that was a flat out lie. And I'm not doing this just in defense of Justin Baldoni or just to trash Blake Lively. I've covered this case extensively for 18 months. I've read through more court documents that I'm sure any of these bozos combined, okay? I've been on the phone with attorneys. I've talked to media professionals. I've talked to entertainment HR professionals. I've covered this since day one, okay? And after that video was published, there were other videos that were published that gave more details and more context to the actual ruling. But I understand how the words that I said may have given you the impression that there wasn't enough evidence to move forward with her sexual harassment claims, but that's not a flat out lie either because if there was evidence that sexual harassment took place, here's the difference between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni's dismissals. Justin Baldoni's dismissal happened before there was any discovery. So, before any of the evidence was formally brought before the court, Justin Baldoni's case was tossed out. So, it was tossed out, in my opinion, prematurely, but it was, the judge did define that she had these legal protections. She had the litigation privilege. She had the Me Too protections in California and the New York Times had their press privileges. So, there were reasons as to why Justin Baldoni's case got tossed out just on the technicality, but there's validity to people that say that the evidence could have supported that maybe she wasn't being honest with her claims against him. Now, that still has to be brought forth and you really have to, when it comes to defamation, you have to then prove malice as well. But when it comes to Blake Lively, her evidence was presented. The judge did see it and it was used to support the motion for summary judgment. It was used to support his motion to have her case dismissed. And shockingly, he dismissed most of her claims, okay? And the big key piece, because the Blake bots like to say two key things. One, that it was a jurisdiction issue and two, that it was because she wasn't an employee. She was determined to be an independent contractor. Let's also clarify. She was determined to be an independent contractor, not an employee, by her own doing. And her PGA letter was the biggest thing that came back to bite her in the butt, okay? So, and the judge did say that the claims that she brought forth did not meet the bar of sexual harassment, collectively, possibly, right? If you put them all together, you would have to put that before a jury and then a jury would have to make that determination or that decision. But based off of what was available, and even some of it, there were timing issues, right? Like when she accused him of describing his genitalia to her and the judges clear about that as well. That happened before she was even working on the film. That happened before production. That happened when Baldoni was not technically her boss. But even with him being her boss, her PGA letter, which is the producer's galed association because she wanted that PGA credit on the film to say that she was a majority producer on this film. That came back to bite her because an employee and even a meek independent contractor doesn't have that level of control when you're trying to paint this narrative that there's this persistent harassment that's taking place. Heather says, Zach, you did nothing wrong. You invested a lot of time into this. You know what you're saying and doing. You have no idea. They have no idea. Calm down. Thank you. Thank you, Heather. I've covered this case extensively. I've read more fucking court documents than I ever thought that I would. I've talked to many different experts, even people that disagree with me and I really wanted to understand their framework and I wanted to understand why they viewed this case differently and it really comes down to, they just see things very differently. Whereas to me, it seems like she doesn't have a strong case and it seems like these are weak allegations that she's trying to lump together and hoping that if we put all the pieces together, it'll be enough to serve a whole pie. But it's like, you have a bunch of loose ingredients but you don't have all of the ingredients and an efficient enough recipe to build this pie. Let's continue. That's where I'm going. Or if he did, again, what he is probably being shared around is that first part that I read. Right, which to be fair into their credit, that is true. I did not read the full 152 brief at the point that this video was posted. But since then, there's been a number of content and full podcast episodes where this has been dove into deeper. Which it was your reaction when you heard that first part, you were like, oh wow, this is not really bad for Blake. Yeah, yeah. It is really bad for Blake. She had a whole lawsuit with 13 claims, 10 of which got dismissed, regardless of why they were dismissed because that's where we're going to pick things apart and work into the game of semantics and say, oh, it's a jurisdiction issue. And it's like, well, but okay, fine. Even if you want to say the jurisdiction issue, it's a state thing more with MG. I was like, it was a state line that caused this issue. But it was a state line that Blake Lively was fighting for. Like her legal team set this all up to play out the way that it had played out. Because here's the other thing that I will say. I don't remember if I said this on Juicy Scoop or not. But people are saying that Blake Lively's attorneys are idiots and that they failed her. I actually disagree. I think they did the best that they could with the scraps that she gave them. They tried to turn that into an eight course meal based off of the leftover KFC bones with not a whole lot of meat left on them that she gave them to work with. And they did their best. They jumped through every legal loopholes. That's when people were like, why would they file this in California if it didn't? How did they not know that the California law might not apply in New Jersey and New York? But they tried, right? They were like, well, Wayfair is a California company. That's why we're trying to bring this over in California because there should be California protections in place. But obviously it was stupid of them to even do that. But they didn't have a lot to go off of. So they had to play all these little games. They got them a lot of little wins early on. But now we're seeing that all those little wins and loopholes that they were jumping through aren't really holding the whole, the foundation wasn't strong. So the house is starting to come crumbling down because all those little loopholes that they were trying to get their easy wins with early on and then go feed it to the press, allegedly that, you know, they were winning in court. Now we're all seeing that come to a head. She was fighting for California law. She wanted California law to apply. And in this case, it didn't work out in her favor. And her legal team knew that, but they did everything that they could to try and listen to their client, you know? So I don't think that they were bad. I think that they were actually very smart and did everything that they possibly could to help her get as far as she possibly could. Probably not thinking that she would even take it this far. But let's continue to see what these bozos have to say. Suspect, that's probably all he's seen. And then, all you need is to just be a little confident in yourself. I'm very confident in myself, ma'am. Very confident in myself. My name is Zach Peter. Mr. Zachary Peter, write it down. Z-A-C-H-A-R-Y-P-E-T-E-R. Flex that on period. It's a name you don't wanna forget. I'm very confident because I don't speak about things with confidence that I am not confident speaking on. And have good presence in front of the camera. I have great presence in front of the camera. People just listen to you. This is like a club. This guy's most, he has a financial interest in just continuing this dumb fucking. I have a financial interest. I can't wait for this fucking case to be over with, okay? I don't have a financial interest in this case specifically. Cause guess what? I've had a podcast for 11 years. I've kept it alive successfully for 11 years. That was before Blake Lively decided to embarrass herself in front of the entire world. Don't ever say that I make my money off of Blake Lively and that I have a financial interest in trying to just make money off of Blake Lively's coattails or off of the sweat off of her back. Thank you very much, okay? My name is Zach Peter. I am relevant. My show is a top show on the podcast charts. My socials are killing it and have been well beyond just the Blake Lively story. Thank you very much, sir, but please continue to use my content for your social engagement. Story they've won. There's basically no, her claims don't meet the evidence for sexual harassment, which is a huge win for Justin Baldoni. Now Blake- Nobody even said that. Like that's just, that's like a total lie. Well, it's not a total lie because it hasn't actually been proven. So technically it's not a lie. It has not been, her claims of sexual harassment have not been proven and now never will be proven because it's no longer part of her case. So it's not a lie. I feel like if you just saw that first part that would be your conco- Right, when you just read us the first part, I thought it's like- Right, which is exactly what happened if you look at the timestamps. This was less, this was minutes after the news had broke. I tried to digest as much of it as I possibly could, put that out there and have since made several other pieces of content, further breaking this down. But also what I said, isn't technically inaccurate because we haven't actually seen that materialized. Oh, this is really bad for her. It is really bad. He did gut that one. I would say. Like he was like this- He gutted 10 of her 13 claims, not just that one, 10 of her 13 claims, including defamation, including toxic work environment, 10, okay? This one's silly. Well, actually not really though, because he was like, he's like, alone, that's what I would say. But in the context of everything else- Yeah, it was the very next- Yeah. That's- The context in everything else is not something that he would be able to make a determination on, okay? The context of everything else would be something a jury would have to decide. But individually, no, they don't rise to the level of sexual harassment. They just don't. Maybe that's my matter of opinion, but the judge kind of seems to agree with me and I trust his professional opinion. However, he wasn't able to make a clear determination because that was a decision that a jury would need to make. However, it can't move forward because of these other issues that are also part of what she filed in her lawsuit, like this jurisdiction issue, or like the PGA letter. After that, yeah. Only if you continue reading. Right. Okay. Hmm. We'll likely try to appeal this ahead of next month's trial, but this is a huge victory for Baldoni. Now, there are three claims that he is allowing Blake Lively to move forward with, and those are mostly in relation to the retaliation claims. Remember, she said that there was a smear campaign against her. She has yet to prove the smear campaign. That one, he seems dead to rights on, based on the released messages we've seen between Baldoni and his PR people. And I guess let's, because I, you know, I think people rightfully hear that and like, yeah, it's dirty, but that's just PR. That's not how that works. That shit was nasty. I would like you to actually read me all of the nasty text messages that Justin Baldoni and his team wrote. I would really like to know, because I can't name a single nasty message that they wrote about Blake Lively. Which one was so nasty? You know which one I think is nasty? The text messages between Blake Lively and Taylor Swift, where they're actually calling Justin Baldoni names, calling him a clown, calling him a doofus director, laughing about how Taylor Swift lied to him, Blake cackling to Ryan Reynolds, and then relaying that information back to Taylor Swift. That's fucking nasty. Okay, we have very different definitions of nasty, but please show me which nasty text messages Justin Baldoni's team put out there about Blake Lively. Are they cackling about some lawsuits? Sure, but you know what? We're more nasty messages about Blake Lively where the emails from the Sony executives, where they call her a fucking terrorist. Those are nasty, and those didn't even come from Baldoni or his team. They came from Sony. The people that were having to deal with her on the set of It Ends With Us, calling her, that's nasty, calling her a terrorist, saying that she did this to herself. Those are nasty, okay? Baldoni's team, sure they were annoyed with Blake Lively, and yes, they were sharing some of the headlines about her, but none of that was inaccurate, and that's what they're gonna have to prove in this retaliation is did they actually plant false stories? Cause that's the argument that Blake Lively's team is trying to make is that they planted negative or false stories, but yet where are the negative and false stories? So they wanna sit there and act like what Baldoni did was so terrible, but yet Blake Lively's own behavior, I guess what, she just gets an easy pass? Well, it can be nasty, but it isn't necessarily illegal. That too. And also, please define nasty, and please show me which of the messages you feel are so nasty, at least in comparison to Blake's own text messages and in comparison to the text messages of people that were not part of this retaliation, the Sony executives, that had nasty things to say about Blake Lively. Those are nasty to call her a terrorist. It's except for the fact that he signed a contract saying that he wouldn't do that. No. Well, he signed an agreement because she was holding production hostage, cause remember they're like, well, context, context, context, then let's add the context to this conversation. Again, I've been studying this case for 18 months, okay? I am Aaron Brockovich up in this bitch right now. So, what do you mean? No, that's, isn't that a, if somebody make... Oh, the contract is what he said. So the agreement, okay? Because remember, the claim that's moving forward is breach of implied covenant, okay? Implied covenant. And there is a breach of contract, yes, claim that is moving forward, okay? But this is in relation to the 17 point list of demands that she made. She stopped production, halted it, and listen, we've heard about her reputation before. She's been a diva. We know that she's pulled shit like this in the past. And so she said, I have a list of demands. This is what needs to be met before I go back on the set. They said, they, we read their text messages we're talking about the nasty text messages. Well, we read all of the text messages in response to that meeting. We saw that there were executives in that meeting that felt like Ryan Reynolds berating Justin Baldoni was highly inappropriate and regretted not stepping in. We've seen that, right? Cause we wanna go through all that nasty text messages. So that 17 point list, they did agree it. They do, they did agree to that, right? They said, okay, this behavior will not continue on set of it ends with us, okay? Then at the end of the production, she signed an agreement where she agreed that none of that behavior continued and that phase two of production was good. She claims that, right? Which also contradicts her entire story, right? Because none of the intimate scenes were filmed until phase two, but yet she already had acknowledged that phase two went smoothly. Her issues were with phase one and with this alleged fat shaming because all of a sudden big back, Blake Lively, you know, can't be lifted. And her trainer is like, oh, they're fat shaming you because you can't be lifted. Which by the way, that sounds like a trainer problem. But yeah, so that's this cold, hard contract that they're sticking with. But even then the retaliation happened after production. It wasn't part of production. So that's gonna be another issue for a jury to really have to pick a part and determine, you know? A complaint of such arrest in the workplace, you cannot retaliate against them. Correct, but there is no complaint of sexual harassment in the workplace. And if you have that, please show it to me because that's the smoking gun that we've all been waiting for. We have all been waiting for the formal HR complaint. You know what we have at best? Some text messages to Jenny Slate. That's not a formal HR complaint. That's not anybody raising that as a formal HR complaint or any sort of real legitimate complaint at all. Blake Lively has been in the business for decades. She knows how this works. She knows how to file an HR complaint because she's done it before. Not only that, the call sheets have your HR contact on them. And I may or may not have seen the call sheet from it ends with us. And there may or may not actually be contacts listed on there that she could have reached out to. But even so, right? Let's say, let's throw all of that out. She had a direct line of communication to the intimacy coordinator and she had a direct line of communication to the Sony executives. Neither of which she used to report any sort of sexual harassment on the set of it ends with us. Nothing. Nothing. Even her 17 point list isn't necessarily her complaining, formally complaining about sexual harassment because there were no allegations of sexual harassment that she had brought at that point. And they said that they were even confused by some of the wording in her agreement where she was like, no more of this, no more of that, no more of this. Which they were like, we don't know why she was saying no more of that because none of that behavior ever happened to begin with. Let's continue. But so yeah, that's the cold hard agreement is that 17 point list, that's the breach of contract which will have to be determined. Was that a legit contract? How long did those terms stand? Her agreeing that none of that behavior happened during the second phase of production, when she agreed to that, did that then complete that contract? All of these things that are factors to be considered. Even so, it is true, you cannot retaliate against somebody for bringing forward sexual harassment claims, but she never brought forth any sexual harassment claims. She had a number of things that she complained about but they were not sexual harassment. Sexual harassment didn't come until months after the movie had wrapped. And then suddenly this new narrative starts getting put together. Right, I'm sorry. You don't need a context. Right, right. I just mean in isolation, them seeding a story with influencers and running a quote smear campaign or whatever, like that's not against the law, it's nasty, but you can do that. It is, you're right. It is against the law though, if you're their employer, which he was to retaliate. Yeah. Right, but you have to determine what retaliate means. That will be up for a jury to decide. You sir have an opinion of what you think retaliation means and you sir seem to have an opinion of what you think those text messages were because you called them nasty. In that cadence. So that's something a jury's gonna have to decide is, is this retaliation or is this as they're claiming, because Blake says that this is retaliation, but they're claiming that this was just their own defense, right? And the judge says like boosting positive stories about your client, that's not bad. Even putting content or putting stories out there that shoots her credibility, that's not necessarily harassment either, but you're gonna have to put all these pieces together or sorry, retaliation either, but you're gonna have to put all these pieces together, package it before a jury, and then a jury's gonna have to determine three things in order for her case to stick. One, that there were formal complaints of HR that were made. They like will have to prove that. Angie Gianetti has already said that there were no formal HR complaints that were brought to her. There were grievances that her and like Jenny Slate had to air, but like what were the grievances? Oh, that Jenny Slate was bothered that Justin Baldoni would interact with fans while they were filming outside on the streets of New York or Jersey or wherever they were filming and fans would come by because they liked the book and they wanted to actually engage with the actors and Jenny Slate's like, oh, I was so uncomfortable about that because like I don't want, I hope there's not a pressure for me to have to interact with them too because I'm a private person. Like those were their grievances and we're holding that to the same weight as sexual harassment, okay. It's super scummy. I hate him. Yeah, I mean, once I gotta give you your, we don't care. We don't care. Might explain a lot. Yeah, we didn't. Not now. Not now. Not now. Thanks. You, I do have to give you your props too. Once again, I saw somebody mention in the chat, there was DJ. DJ mentioned you. Yeah, that Ethan clocked this dude from the very first time we ever talked about him. So much heat from the balls. For people, for him saying he seemed like a scumbag. I just don't understand why anyone. Where is he a scumbag? Where is the evidence to Justin Baldoni? First of all, scumbag is a matter of opinion. That's a subjective term. Number one, but number two, where is the evidence that he is a scumbag? What has he done that is so scummy? And still likes this guy. He's like. Cause even if you want to talk about the retaliation, we have the messages where Baldoni and Heath, we know that they didn't want Melissa and Ethan and tag PR and Jed Wallace to activate the contingency plan. Cause that's what they're circulating is there was a contingency plan, which again, the contingency plan wasn't a smear campaign. It was a let's redirect the narrative campaign that they presented to the Wayfair parties. But there's no evidence that the Wayfair parties activated any of those three options in the contingency plan. There's no evidence that they did that, that they actually conducted them to move forward with one of those three options. And then if there's an alternative option, where is the evidence that that alternative option actually happened where they deliberately tried to smear Blake Lively? Especially if they didn't believe that her words were legit. If they were concerned that she was going to lodge false allegations or if, you know, they were getting, I mean, and based off of her behavior and then putting them in the basement. Yeah, you're, you're afraid of what Blake Lively might do. You have Ryan Reynolds who's threatening to go nuclear on them. Like such a douche. So he thinks that, he thinks that Bell Doney is just such a douche and he clocked it from day one. When again, we still, we still don't know. Still have any evidence of him being a douche. The term predator, yeah, the term predator that Ryan and Blake were throwing around like Confetti is so disproportionate to anything they have said Justin did it's while. Yeah. Where's the harassment from Justin? Like that's what I would like them to break down for me too. Where is the actual sexual harassment based off? Not, okay, let's, let's just, based off of her allegations alone, where's, where, where's the, where are the allegations exactly? Like what, what, he, he was dancing with her in the montage and, and then they were making out and she, what she said, he improvised an extra kiss when we've seen her do that in the same exact filming for the movie? Like it's crazy. It's so crazy. Everything about this is crazy. The judge even said it's not, if he did improvise kissing or he moved his hand down her back while they were filming together. First of all, we've seen how much power she's had on set. We've seen that she's halted production. So you're gonna tell me what she just, she just took it that day. Oh, that day she just, she didn't wanna utilize her power. When she utilized her power for every other little fucking thing on the set of this film, but oh, he moved his hand down her back and that's suddenly where she no longer has power. And we've seen the footage, but not only that, the judge himself in his professional opinion has already determined, he's like, it's not, like there needs to be creative room. There needs to be creative space, just like a comedy writers room, right? There needs to be creative space where there aren't going to be harassment allegations that are gonna come forward as a result of this. You have the space to creatively explore. One of those being when you're two characters, and he even said, these are two actors that were in character. This wasn't Blake and Baldoni together. They are two actors that were in character at the time that these things were happening. Okay, I'm exhausted. Let's move on to Taylor Franky Park. So apparently there are new allegations against her. She's filed a restraining order against Dakota. Oh, sorry, protective order against Dakota. Okay, so let's see. Taylor Franky Paul files for protective order against ex-boyfriend Dakota Mortensen. Mortensen previously filed a protective order against the Secret Lives of Mormon Wives star on March 19. Taylor Franky Paul files a protective order against her ex-boyfriend Paul. Okay, is that, that's the update. According to an April 7th court filing obtained by People, the reality personality is seeking a protective order against Dakota, alleging that he has gotten, that he has had a pattern of abusive conduct and coercive control in their relationship. Oh, this is where I don't get this strong and independent woman argument, right? Cause you're just like, I'm powerful and I'm strong and I'm an independent woman, but then now suddenly he has coercive control over you cause you're no longer an adult that makes your own decisions. You've known he's a douchebag. The world, your family, they've all told you he's a douchebag, stop going back to him. And you kept going back to him. And now what you no longer had free will because he has coercive control and they say abusive conduct. What is the abusive conduct? That's what I wanna know. He previously filed a temporary protective order against her. It was granted and he got temporary custody of their son ever, yep. Oh, that's right. After today's hearing is I believe when she's supposed to be allowed to see her baby again. Okay, so it says in Paul's April 7th filing, she detailed several alleged incidences during which he acted violently towards her. Okay, this is strong. The filing also includes screenshots of text messages and photos of bruises, which she claims were the results of altercations with Dakota. Interesting, okay. This is now starting and I said, we have to wait for the other shoot to drop. We have to wait for the other side to come out because if there's evidence, if she has actual evidence of him abusing her, that is strong and compelling. And now if we have photos and text messages and we see bruises, then that is evidence of harm that was done on Dakota's end. During one incident on February 23rd, Paul claims that the request that Mortison assaulted her by slapping her head against the dashboard of his truck and striking her knee and elbow after driving Paul away from her home against her will where her three children were sleeping inside, the filing also requested that ever be covered under the protective order. Oh, so she's now trying to get custody. Well, here's what's gonna happen. If they continued to battle this out and they're filing for custody over the kids, I would assume the child would then have to be put in a third party, right, until this gets resolved because if both parents are unfit and unstable, the courts will have to determine where the kid will have to be safely, right? Paul previously was previously arrested for alleged domestic violence in 2023, following an argument with Mortison. Paul was given misdemeanor charges for assault, criminal mischief, yeah. She pleaded guilty in obeying to aggravated assault, meaning that she complies with the condition of the plea. Her charge will be lessened and potentially dismissed. The other charges were dismissed. They were dismissed because of her plea agreement, not because there was no evidence. Okay, it says that that's the most that they have. Allegations have been made on both sides. Well, this now makes sense as to why they decided to edit Dakota out of Secret Lives, or sorry, out of Vanderpub Villa, which now makes sense right now that we have what seems like stronger evidence against Dakota, that he was also engaged in this behavior, that to me. I mean, now it kind of just seems like he said, she said, and it seems like they were abusive towards each other, but she does have a pattern of physical abuse in the past. That's what's the toughest is there is this pattern of abuse from her end in the past. Yeah, okay. So we'll see. I don't know if today's hearing has happened yet, or if these are just the filings ahead of the hearing. Let me do a refresh and see if anything new has come out. Aside from her filing for protective order against him and saying that he also assaulted her, it feels like that's messy, and we're gonna have to see where this goes, and who ends up getting out of this. Okay, Resza Farhan, he did in his new book, Memoirs of a Gay Shaw. Maybe we'll get into the hookup a bit more tomorrow to keep you coming back for more, because I know we're already after the one hour mark, and Donna Bowling's gonna go live, so be sure to go and check out and listen to Donna Bowling, Daily Dos Adana, but Resza talks about hooking up with Bob Harper, and Bob Harper's dead ex, which is crazy. Lots to get into, which I guess we can break into tomorrow. Debbie says throw that. Zactivated screen up. We do, yeah, we do have to throw. Yes, we did indeed get a little zactivated today. All right, guys, thank you for tuning in. Thank you for being here. Thank you for supporting. Hit the like button, hit the subscribe button. Do all the things, all the things, all the things, all the things I love you. I appreciate you, and I hope you have a great rest of your day. I'll talk to you tomorrow. Ciao for now. Bye, guys.