Justin Baldoni Noticed Those Nicepool Jokes Were About Him

Last week, the fam and I watched Deadpool & Wolverine on New Year’s Day. It’s fine the second time, but one thing that made me do a double take were some of the lines spouted by Nicepool. He makes a very pointed joke about his wife having a fourth baby and tightening things up, which sounded very familiar. I shrugged it off because I was convinced the timeline didn’t mesh with Blake Lively filming It Ends With Us, but apparently, a lot of the Nicepool scenes were reshoots. Long story short, Justin Baldoni definitely noticed he was being ripped to shreds in a Marvel movie as he rightly should have been. (Page Six)

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From Dustin: “The staff of The Root spent the beginning of 2025 mourning the death of a colleague, Stephanie Holland, ‘a gem, a wonderful collaborator and an all-around good person,’ as her colleague wrote after the writer died December 31. A few days later, the deputy editor of The Root invoked Holland’s death in an email imploring the remaining writers to produce more content on behalf of G/O media.” (Semafor)

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Lynn gets right to the important info in Janet Evanovich’s Now or Never: 31 on the Run - Stephanie is engaged to both Morelli and Ranger, and it’s not a poly situation. “Neither guy ponied up for a ring, though, which, c’mon, my dudes. I’m not surprised Ranger didn’t…but Morelli should have had, like, Grandma Bella’s cursed ring or something at the ready.” Which fictional character’s relationships are you invested in? (Cannonball Read 17)

My father would womanize, he would start land wars with Denmark. He would make outrageous claims like claiming ownership of Greenland. Sometimes he would refer to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America.

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— Dave Itzkoff (@ditzkoff.bsky.social) January 7, 2025 at 3:49 PM