Saturday Night Live poked fun at the legal battle between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni, two weeks after the actress appeared on the show herself alongside her husband Ryan Reynolds.
On the long-running NBC sketch series’ most recent episode, which aired Saturday, March 1, “Weekend Update” co-anchor Colin Jost — who, notably, is married to Reynolds’ ex-wife Scarlett Johansson — made a crack about the It Ends with Us drama while discussing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s recent disastrous White House visit.
“Zelenskyy was asked to leave the White House,” said Jost, 42, of the meeting the previous day. “Then he appeared on Fox News and said he thinks he can still salvage his relationship with President Trump, which is like Justin Baldoni saying, ‘I’d love to work with Blake again.’ ”
Jost was, of course, referring to the ongoing legal battle between It Ends with Us costars Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41, the latter of whom also directed the 2024 romantic drama led by Lively.
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Lively and Reynolds, 48, recently appeared on SNL themselves briefly, as part of the show’s SNL50: The Anniversary Special on Feb. 16.
Reynolds popped up during a bit that former cast members Tina Fey and Amy Poehler did in the first hour of the show that saw them taking questions from famous faces in the audience at Studio 8H.
When the Free Guy actor stood up to ask a question while sitting in the audience next to his wife, Fey, 54, simply asked him, “How’s it going?”
Reynolds pretended to appear jittery as Lively looked up at him, and jokingly responded, “Great, why? What have you heard?”
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Reynolds’ quip came after Lively sued Baldoni in December 2024 alleging sexual harassment and retaliation, both of which the actor and filmmaker has denied.
Baldoni then filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds, their publicist Leslie Sloane and Sloane’s PR firm Vision PR, Inc. on claims of civil extortion, defamation and more.
He also sued The New York Times for $250 million over a December 2024 article claiming he and his team conducted a smear campaign against Lively.
In a Feb. 13 letter filed in New York federal court, attorneys for both Lively and Baldoni opted out of “inappropriate” and “premature” mediation, indicating that both cases in Lively v. Wayfarer Studios et al. will go to trial in a March 2026 court date.
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