November 4, 2025 • 4 mins
Our entertainment correspondent Cooper Lawrence joins Jonesy & Amanda with the latest on the Justin Baldoni/Blake Lively lawsuit.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Jersey and Amanda's gam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The bad news for Justin Baldoni after a US judge
ended his lawsuit against Blake Lively for missing a court deadline.
This lawsuit, as I'm sure you know, was in response
to Blake Lively's ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit against mister Baldoni.
It's been a very confusing situation. Let's get the latest
from our fountain of knowledge, New York based broadcaster Cooper
(00:24):
Lawrence Cooper High, Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Fountain of Knowledge. I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm going to put that out if I ever get
a business card, I'm gonna put it on there.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well, it's better than being a FORNT.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I thought this had been thrown out of court
from my scant reading because of the content, but actually
it's for missing a court deadline.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
What does this all mean? Well, they missed the court
deadline on purpose.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Because let's just take it back, and I apologize that
everybody's like burned out on this.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Here's the thing that's important to know.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Blake Lively filed this lawsuit from the very beginning, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And that should have been it.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
He should have waited for the court deep but instead
he came at her with all guns of blazing and
countersuit her for four hundred million dollars, which is a
number that lawyers say is really for a pr purpose.
He wanted to get our attention because there's really no
justification for four hundred million dollars. He is not worth
that at all. But it got our attention. And a
(01:18):
judge said, wait, you're countersuing her for what? Like, what
did she do? And he had no evidence. He tried
to subpoena Taylor Swift. She had nothing to say, so
the judge was like, Okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Just coming after her.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You have no reason to do this, So bye bye.
I'm saying goodbye to your lawsuit and that's the end
of it. And you have until this date to file
an appeal. And his lawyer said.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
File an appeal and go after them again. Let's take
all our resources and all of that money and wait
until March twenty twenty six, which is what we should
have done from the very beginning. That's when the lawsuit
is going to be and fight her in court, and
that's what they're going to do now.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So this is going to go on and on and
on WHOA.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, hopefully not on and on, hopefully just on.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So it'll be one court case March twenty twenty six.
She'll have her say in court, he'll have his say,
he'll say he's innocent, and then by the end of
that week, hopefully it'll be only a week, we'll find out,
we'll finally have a resolution to this and we'll never
have to hear those names again.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
And either of these parties that kind of ford this
kind of money? Can I this is like making a bit.
I'll bet you a billion dollars? Is that pretty much?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Ey?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, they can both afford it. That's that's not the problem.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's the reputation that's really being damaged, you know, because
people are either taking his side or her side, and
they both are going to keep making movies.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And you know who's going to go see the movies.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If you're if your team justin Baldoni, you're suddenly no
longer going to be interested in anything Ryan Reynolds is
doing or anything Blake Lively is doing.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So it does ruin the reputation.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
There's a lot at stake. There's no matter what the outcome,
the damage has already been done.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, pretty much, and the fact that people felt the
need to take sides. But you remember Justin Baldoni suit everybody,
the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The publicist.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
He tried to bring in Hugh Jackman, who was like,
what am I doing here? So the whole thing has
been just such a big boondoggle. So but it's a
way for us to say, you know what, what was
the original case here, because people don't remember that this
is all about sexual harassment and fun fact, I was
on the set of It ends with Us because I
(03:23):
was doing stand in work and I got home that
day and I thought it was very odd. I didn't
know what was going on. I wasn't privy to anything.
But at the end of the shoot, Blake Lively said,
am I done?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Can I go? And just stormed off the set.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And I have never seen that in all the years
I've been doing like stand in work and background work.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Not that I'm some big actor.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I know nothing about theater, I mean a film, but
I have been on enoughsets and usually they just go, okay,
you're you're wrapped, and you just go home and have lunch.
It was a very hostile leaving. She left in a
very hostile way. And I remember thinking that's odd, and
then sure enough, about a month later, all of this
came down and now here we are a year later.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You are our mole on the scene.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Been called a mole in Australia is a different thing.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No, it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Okay, Yeah, you're not coming over here anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Now, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
No, you are great. We love having you stateside. Thank
you for joining US, Cooper.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Lawrence, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
We'll catch up with you next time.
Jersey and Amanda's gam Nation.
Speaker 2 (00:03):
The bad news for Justin Baldoni after a US judge
ended his lawsuit against Blake Lively for missing a court deadline.
This lawsuit, as I'm sure you know, was in response
to Blake Lively's ongoing sexual harassment lawsuit against mister Baldoni.
It's been a very confusing situation. Let's get the latest
from our fountain of knowledge, New York based broadcaster Cooper
(00:24):
Lawrence Cooper High, Hi.
Speaker 1 (00:27):
Fountain of Knowledge. I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I'm going to put that out if I ever get
a business card, I'm gonna put it on there.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Well, it's better than being a FORNT.
Speaker 1 (00:33):
That's true. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
So I thought this had been thrown out of court
from my scant reading because of the content, but actually
it's for missing a court deadline.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
What does this all mean? Well, they missed the court
deadline on purpose.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
Because let's just take it back, and I apologize that
everybody's like burned out on this.
Speaker 1 (00:50):
Here's the thing that's important to know.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
Blake Lively filed this lawsuit from the very beginning, excuse me.
Speaker 1 (00:55):
And that should have been it.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
He should have waited for the court deep but instead
he came at her with all guns of blazing and
countersuit her for four hundred million dollars, which is a
number that lawyers say is really for a pr purpose.
He wanted to get our attention because there's really no
justification for four hundred million dollars. He is not worth
that at all. But it got our attention. And a
(01:18):
judge said, wait, you're countersuing her for what? Like, what
did she do? And he had no evidence. He tried
to subpoena Taylor Swift. She had nothing to say, so
the judge was like, Okay, you're.
Speaker 1 (01:28):
Just coming after her.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
You have no reason to do this, So bye bye.
I'm saying goodbye to your lawsuit and that's the end
of it. And you have until this date to file
an appeal. And his lawyer said.
Speaker 1 (01:40):
What are we going to do?
Speaker 3 (01:40):
File an appeal and go after them again. Let's take
all our resources and all of that money and wait
until March twenty twenty six, which is what we should
have done from the very beginning. That's when the lawsuit
is going to be and fight her in court, and
that's what they're going to do now.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
So this is going to go on and on and
on WHOA.
Speaker 1 (01:58):
Well, hopefully not on and on, hopefully just on.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
So it'll be one court case March twenty twenty six.
She'll have her say in court, he'll have his say,
he'll say he's innocent, and then by the end of
that week, hopefully it'll be only a week, we'll find out,
we'll finally have a resolution to this and we'll never
have to hear those names again.
Speaker 4 (02:17):
And either of these parties that kind of ford this
kind of money? Can I this is like making a bit.
I'll bet you a billion dollars? Is that pretty much?
Speaker 1 (02:24):
Ey?
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Right?
Speaker 1 (02:25):
Well, they can both afford it. That's that's not the problem.
Speaker 3 (02:28):
It's the reputation that's really being damaged, you know, because
people are either taking his side or her side, and
they both are going to keep making movies.
Speaker 1 (02:36):
And you know who's going to go see the movies.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
If you're if your team justin Baldoni, you're suddenly no
longer going to be interested in anything Ryan Reynolds is
doing or anything Blake Lively is doing.
Speaker 1 (02:46):
So it does ruin the reputation.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
There's a lot at stake. There's no matter what the outcome,
the damage has already been done.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
Yeah, pretty much, and the fact that people felt the
need to take sides. But you remember Justin Baldoni suit everybody,
the New York Times.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
The publicist.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
He tried to bring in Hugh Jackman, who was like,
what am I doing here? So the whole thing has
been just such a big boondoggle. So but it's a
way for us to say, you know what, what was
the original case here, because people don't remember that this
is all about sexual harassment and fun fact, I was
on the set of It ends with Us because I
(03:23):
was doing stand in work and I got home that
day and I thought it was very odd. I didn't
know what was going on. I wasn't privy to anything.
But at the end of the shoot, Blake Lively said,
am I done?
Speaker 1 (03:34):
Can I go? And just stormed off the set.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
And I have never seen that in all the years
I've been doing like stand in work and background work.
Speaker 1 (03:40):
Not that I'm some big actor.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I know nothing about theater, I mean a film, but
I have been on enoughsets and usually they just go, okay,
you're you're wrapped, and you just go home and have lunch.
It was a very hostile leaving. She left in a
very hostile way. And I remember thinking that's odd, and
then sure enough, about a month later, all of this
came down and now here we are a year later.
Speaker 4 (04:02):
You are our mole on the scene.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
Been called a mole in Australia is a different thing.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
No, it's a good thing.
Speaker 2 (04:09):
It's good.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Okay, Yeah, you're not coming over here anytime soon.
Speaker 1 (04:17):
Now, I'm not.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
No, you are great. We love having you stateside. Thank
you for joining US, Cooper.
Speaker 1 (04:22):
Lawrence, thanks for having me.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
We'll catch up with you next time.
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