It Ends with Us

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And no, she didn't work on the set of It Ends With Us.

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But because she is a nurse in a surgical center that performs colonoscopies all day, please welcome to the Tosh Show studio, all the way from the Hershey Highway in Texas, Nurse Gabby.

We specifically were into the, the Taylor and Ryan text messages.

But, um, over the weekend, now the media has decided to pick up on it, and we see that Ryan Reynolds was criticizing Justin Baldoni and pushing Sony to support Blake Lively during all of the It Ends With Us backlash because they were like, he was like, "Blake shouldn't have to clean up this mess.

This is Justin Baldoni's mess.

They're the creeps.

It just didn't go in the direction that she expected it to.

But it's because, hello, welcome to planet Earth, Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds.

Blake does not have a stellar reputation and did not have one prior to It Ends With Us.

Nobody had heard of Justin Baldoni, so nobody really knew what to expect of Justin Baldoni.

Yeah.

I couldn't remember what to look up because all the controversy, I-- part of me wonders if the reason that she kind of didn't do a whole lot with, like, the "This Ends With Us" was to wipe the slate, because I do think it was before that movie came out.

Maybe.

'Cause that was like, if you Google Colleen Hoover controversy, it was definitely before the movie came out.

We all lived through the summer of 2024.

We all saw the massive, very public legal saga, the icy press tours, and the endless TikTok timeline surrounding the feud between Blake Lively and director Justin Baldoni during the making of the It Ends With Us movie adaptation.

Oh, it was everywhere.

You couldn't escape it.

Look at the phenomenon of It Starts With Us in twenty twenty-two.

Oh, this was a seismic event in publishing.

This was the highly anticipated follow-up to her masterpiece, It Ends With Us.

It explores the story from Atlas' point of view, but crucially, it focuses intensely on Lily's healing process as she navigates co-parenting and recovering from her abuser, Ryle.

It's Colleen Hoover's book.

She also did, what's that one with Blake Lively? The Last of Us, The Best of Us-

Sure

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Now, that being said, um, I c- I don't blame her for trying because where she was going with Leslie was not going well.

But it says it provides her an opportunity to reset following a bruising legal battle with It Ends With Us director and costar Justin Baldoni.

She just met with Novak, this is the woman that she's working with, and she began the process to jump ship earlier this month.

Her pitch was to put the focus, like I said, back on her acting.

Yeah.

We are looking at the spectacular multi-million dollar explosion of the It Ends With Us franchise.

A total mess.

Oh, an absolute mess.

The, the cast of characters here is crucial.

So first you have Colleen Hoover.

She's forty-six, the novelist whose twenty sixteen book It Ends With Us and its sequel It Starts With Us became just a massive global publishing phenomenon.

I mean, we're talking unprecedented sales numbers.