Blake Lively is reportedly aware that “everyone will notice” when she’s not at Taylor Swift‘s wedding and has no plans to hide it.
The actress and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, allegedly plan to send a clear message by looking unbothered while Swift and Travis Kelce tie the knot. “The strategy is simple: be seen,” a source tells Rob Shuter’s Naughty But Nice Substack on June 11. “They don’t want anyone saying they’re hiding at home or avoiding the spotlight. They plan to be out, smiling, and carrying on with their lives.”
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After staying out of the spotlight amid their legal battle with It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni, Reynolds and Lively have been seen on a series of public dates in recent weeks, including an outing to get frozen yogurt on June 5 and a PDA-filled date on June 10.
“They want to project confidence,” claimed an insider. “The message is: life goes on. They’re not going to sit behind closed doors while the world talks about Taylor’s wedding.”
This is allegedly all a warm-up for Swift’s wedding as they plan to “hold their heads high” when it becomes clear that they weren’t invited to the high-profile nuptials.
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“They’re not looking to compete with the wedding, but they also don’t want to be portrayed as the couple that got left out and disappeared,” a source said.
Swift and Lively were once best friends, but things soured when Swift was subpoenaed as a witness in Baldoni and Lively’s legal feud with Baldoni’s team claiming Swift was used to pressure him to accept Lively’s changes to his script. The subpoena was eventually withdrawn by Baldoni’s legal team.
This allegedly caused a falling out between Swift and Lively, meaning the latter won’t be invited to see her friend tie the knot.
“Everyone will notice who’s missing,” said a source. “Blake knows that. That’s why she wants people to see she’s doing just fine. The last thing she wants is to look wounded or in hiding.”
In March, it was reported that Lively “is unlikely to receive an invite,” with a source telling the Daily Mail that they’re “still not as close as they once were.” However, the following month, insiders claimed Lively was still holding out hope for an invite.
“Blake is totally optimistic. She’s acting like the invite is already in the mail,” an insider told Naughty But Nice. “She keeps going back to the beginning. She was around when Taylor and Travis first got together. She feels like part of their story.”
Only time will tell if Lively and Reynolds make the cut!
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