Ryan Reynolds Did not Pitch ‘SNL 50’ Joke Amid Justin Baldoni Drama: Supply

Chatter round Ryan Reynolds’ SNL 50: The Anniversary Particular joke amid his authorized drama with Justin Baldoni continues.

“He had a distinct line in rehearsal and he pitched that to interchange it,” Wally Feresten, higher often called Cue Card Wally, alleged on the Tuesday, February 18, episode of Australian breakfast radio present Fifi, Fev & Nick.

“That was his concept to do it,” Feresten continued.

Feresten went on to say, “We wouldn’t wish to do something too controversial except they had been in on it. So yeah, that was his line. That was his concept to do it.”

A supply near Reynolds denied Feresten’s claims to Us Weekly. Representatives for SNL added that Feresten’s claims are “not true.”

Through the Sunday, February 16, SNL particular, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler took the stage and known as on celebrities within the viewers for a Q&A session. When Reynolds, 48, raised his hand, Fey and Poehler requested how he was doing.

“[I’m doing] nice. Why, what have you ever heard?” he replied. Reynolds’ spouse, Blake Vigorous, 37, saved her face void of emotion whereas sitting subsequent to her husband in the course of the second.

Vigorous has been embroiled in a authorized battle with It Ends With Us director and costar Baldoni since December 2024. On the time, she filed a criticism towards the actor’s Wayfarer Studios manufacturing firm, accusing him of sexual harassment and making a hostile work surroundings. (Vigorous has since filed a lawsuit towards Baldoni that features comparable accusations. Baldoni continues to disclaim all allegations towards him.)

In January, Baldoni filed his personal lawsuit towards Vigorous, Reynolds and publicist Leslie Sloane for $400 million, accusing them of extortion, defamation and false mild invasion of privateness, amongst different claims. Vigorous’s authorized group known as Baldoni’s technique “determined” in a press release to Us final month. The authorized battle is about to go to trial subsequent yr.

Baldoni’s lawyer, Bryan Freedman, criticized Reynolds’ SNL 50 joke on the Monday, February 17, episode of the “Scorching Mics With Billy Bush” podcast.

“I’m unaware of anyone, frankly, whose spouse has been sexually harassed and has made jokes about that sort of state of affairs. I can’t consider anybody who’s executed something like that,” Freedman mentioned. “So it shocked me.”

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Nonetheless, former Actual Housewives of New York Metropolis star Bethenny Frankel praised the Deadpool & Wolverine star for not shying away from the latest authorized drama.

“Completely good of SNL to ask and embrace Ryan Reynolds and Blake Vigorous to lean into the humor. They’re the epicenter of popular culture. It’s the zeitgeist. Bullseye,” Frankel, 54, mentioned in a TikTok video posted Sunday. “For Ryan and Blake to take part is nothing wanting genius as a result of the one solution to climate a storm is to go straight via it.”

She continued, “As I hold saying, nobody is aware of what really occurred. So, all the hypothesis is difficult and dangerous enterprise, however that was very sensible. Bravo.”

On Tuesday, Vigorous filed an amended lawsuit towards Baldoni, 41, accusing him of creating different girls “uncomfortable” on the set of It Ends With Us. “Our purchasers have been clear in offering receipts, real-time paperwork and video displaying a very totally different story than what has been manipulated and cherry-picked to the media,” Baldoni’s lawyer, Freedman, mentioned in a press release to Us on Wednesday, February 19. “Our purchasers have taken this matter and these points very critically however the jokes made publicly by the plaintiff and her husband.”