Blake Lively’s inclusion in Time100 list sparks backlash

“Blake lively being on this list is an insult to the rest of the recipients who actually deserve it,” declared a second netizen.

“Blake Lively is not ‘influential’ – she’s a manipulative, conniving bully,” commented a third opposer.

“Only in Hollywood can being a liar land you on a ‘Most Influential’ list,” wrote another user.

Page Six has reached out to a rep for Lively for comment but did not immediately hear back.

In a statement to the magazine, civil rights lawyer Sherrilyn Ifill praised the “A Simple Favor” star, 37, for being a “philanthropist and a student of our country’s most intractable problems.”

GOOD.

Seriously, WTAF?? You can tell that her inclusion was a purchase by her twee-as-fuck husband to help her image during this ASSinine lawsuit she's hopefully regretting she ever filed.

I can't wait to see this court case and her stupid marionette-lined, pursed-lip face while the facts show her up time and time again.

Hoping whoever that guy is on Tik-Tok who has done a bang-up job "portraying" her has a weekly wrap-up video of key moments in the trial where he pretends to be her. He's definitely a better actor than her, that's for sure.

How much did Ryan pay Time for this?

It’s exposing how fake mainstream media is.

Total payola. She’s despised by anyone paying even mild attention. This list is as meaningless as People’s “The Most Beautiful People” issue. In both cases, the entire list changes every year, which means everyone that was previously beautiful and influential is now ugly and meaningless 12 months later.

American media is toilet paper. 🧻

Wow, I love the backlash. Oopsie!

You know it’s over when you start to resemble a drag queen version of yourself.

They need to do a chromosome test on her, stat.

I'm near the end of S2 of Gossip Girl and her character has gotten so annoying. Free on Tubi for poor gays.

Most influential to women with split ends and ugly clothes.

She has a very witch-like profile. Plus those countless moles that no doubt require frequent electrolysis.

Unsexy and poorly bred.

An inspiration for hags everywhere.

Sad. Can every title and award be purchased?

[Quote]Can every title and award be purchased?

I simply wouldn't know.

[quote] The whitewashing behind Time Magazine naming Blake Lively as Time 100 ‘most influential’

Kudos to Blake Lively’s PR team.

People were shocked this week when Time magazine included the beleaguered actress in its’ TIME100 “most influential people in the world” list, which, according to the magazine, “recognizes the leaders shaping the world today and defining its future.”

But why was Lively included? She is embroiled in a lawsuit with “It Ends With Us” costar, director and producer Justin Baldoni, and in the past few months has been revealed as an actress who is not kind to her co-stars.

The magazine said it was because of a $1 million donation she made to the NAACP six years ago and included a statement from civil rights attorney Sherrilyn Ifill, who claimed the actress is a “philanthropist and a student of our country’s most intractable problems.”

“She and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, reached out in 2019 to make a contribution to the NAACP Legal Defense Fund,” Ifill said.

“I had been getting a few of these calls, as our work fighting against voter suppression and police brutality was receiving national attention. I’m always curious about the kind of research famous people do before they make that cold call to offer their support. The ones I have remained in relationship with are those who, like Blake, really did their homework.”

Which is all fine and well — except the donation was (again) six years ago. To (mis)quote Janet Jackson, “What have you done for (anyone) lately?”

I’ve been in this business a long time (30 years), and I’ve seen how these “awards” work. There is massive jockeying behind the scenes by PR, agents and lawyers to get their clients on a list that will whitewash a blemished reputation.

So good job, Leslie Sloan, WME and the lawyers — I applaud your jockeying. Forget the fact that many others gave much more six, five, four or even one year ago to other organizations. You somehow pulled the strings, and Time magazine answered. I await their “exclusive” with Lively in the next year with bated breath. Can’t wait to see what she wears at the awards.

Blake was recently named one of Time magazine’s most influential people of the year — and this week, she delivered a speech at the 2025 Time100 Gala.

Noting that it’s “a significant responsibility” to be described as “influential” by Time, Blake said during her speech: “How we use that matters. Who and what we stand up for, and what we stay silent about, what we monetize versus what we actually live, matters.”

“I have so much to say about the last two years of my life, but tonight is not the forum,” she said, seemingly referencing her legal battle. “What I will speak to separately is the feeling of being a woman who has a voice today.”

“And since I could speak, because of the pain, caution, and fight of the many women who have paved the way, and the men who stood beside them,” she said as she turned towards her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

“My life was influenced most by my mother, who is sitting here tonight — Willie Elaine McAlpin,” Blake said. Noting that her mother was a “survivor of the worst crime someone can commit against a woman,” Blake continued, “I’ve watched her conceal her raw and undeserved shame my entire life, so as her daughter, being asked to share this today is monumental…If we name it, we change it. Just as our fellow Time100 honoree, the incredible Gisèle Pelicot, put it to every woman who understood: It’s not for us to have shame. It’s for them.”

Blake later added, “We don't let our daughters know, but one day we break their hearts by letting them in on the secret that we kept from them as they pranced around in princess dresses that they are not and will likely never be safe at work, at home, in a parking lot in a medical office, online — in any space they inhabit physically, emotionally, professionally.”

“Never underestimate a woman's ability to endure pain,” she added, describing the “superpower of female triumph” as a “basic human right.”

Just when you thought this rotten cunt couldn't get any worse.

That speech at R14 is disgusting.

SHE is disgusting.

[quote]Noting that her mother was a “survivor of the worst crime someone can commit against a woman,”

Murder?

She needs a messaging coach like a recovering addict needs a sober coach, basically at her side 24/7. What a tasteless speech.

Unbelievable and downright, fucking disgusting.

They are keeping PEOPLE magazine on their payroll, every day there are multiple positive articles about Blake & Ryan

Megyn Kelly shared a red carpet at the Time 100 Gala with Blake Lively, whom the former Fox News host has sharply criticized for her public feud with “It Ends With Us” director Justin Baldoni – and while the two apparently didn’t speak or cross paths, the podcaster had plenty to say about the actress afterwards.

Kelly wasn’t even sure she belonged at the Thursday night celebration of what Time deems the 100 most influential people, with invitees including Demi Moore, Serena Williams, Simone Biles and Snoop Dogg. She said the “Time people” were lovely to her – even if they’re not great at picking influencers.

“I was debating whether or not to go because I don’t totally believe in these big red carpet things, and I have been to very many of them over the years,” Kelly said. “As I said on the red carpet last night, with all due respect to Time, I don’t think they really pick the most influential people.”

“Time did nothing other than make me feel welcome and were super kind, and I appreciate that,” Kelly said. “But the nature of the gathering is just off-putting to me, whereas, when I first went in 2014 I was a little bit more starry-eyed.”

Not this time.

Kelly said it was “embarrassing to be walking around with people pretending this really is the 100 most influential people and somehow they have moved up on some imaginary power grid … Then you had people like Blake Lively, who was there with her husband Ryan Reynolds and her mother Elaine Lively. She has been in some movies and successful TV shows, but in no world is this person one of the most influential people in America.”

Kelly has repeatedly scorched Lively for her complex entanglement with Baldoni, which started out as creative differences on “It Ends With Us,” became allegations of sexual harassment and has since spiraled into a fusillade of finger-pointing over alleged smear campaigns. The feuding pair’s dueling lawsuits were consolidated and are headed to court next year.

“I knew if I went and I gave interviews on the red carpet, I was going to be honest in response to the questions,” Kelly said. “I was asked by the Daily Mail about Blake Lively, and here’s how that went … It’s very rare to have a red carpet comment along those lines. Correct? I don’t mean to be impolite, but I got it. I’m not going to lie – like I’m very outspoken about my opinion on this person on this show. Millions of people have already heard it, and in no world was I gonna stand there and try to pretend like I didn’t feel that. It just would have been a farce.”

Kelly says there was a silver lining to being confronted on her opinion of Lively, who was right there in the room:

“But I had to say it’s pretty cathartic to say how you really feel,” she said. “I don’t think what she’s doing to Justin Baldoni is in any way fair, gracious, nice or just, and so I couldn’t help looking at her the whole night like some sort of twisted, mean girl, like there’s something wrong with this person, because all the allegations that she’s launched against him have fallen apart, virtually every single one of them.”

Kelly called Lively’s ongoing feud a desperate attempt to repair her public image.

“She’s really taken a serious hit,” Kelly said. “She thought she was going to file this MeToo claim against him and get the New York Times to write about it, and she was going to be elevated as a MeToo heroine. And instead, he lawyered up, and he got a great one, Bryan Freedman, and started fighting her back on each and every claim.”

Frankly, “influential” has lost all its traditional meaning.