Ryan Reynolds Is Still Pulling Pranks While Blake Lively Fights a $160 Million Lawsuit

Ryan Reynolds Stands by Blake Lively as Legal Battle Heads to Trial

Blake Lively's kids tried to prank her on April Fool's Day — plastic wrap over the toilet bowl. She suspects she knows who taught them to read a calendar. While the Reynolds household keeps the chaos light, the legal battle Lively is waging is anything but. Her remaining three claims — breach of contract, retaliation, and aiding and abetting in retaliation — survived a judge's ruling that dismissed 10 of her original 13 counts against It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni. Trial begins May 18.

Reynolds has been unambiguous about where he stands. "I've never in my life been more proud of my wife," he told Today's Sunday Sitdown Live on April 19. His rep was equally direct after private messages between Reynolds and Lively surfaced in unsealed court documents: "If anything, Ryan feels like he wasn't angry enough." Baldoni's $400 million countersuit alleging defamation against both Lively and Reynolds was dismissed last June. Baldoni has denied wrongdoing.

Lively has framed the case herself: "I brought this case because of the pervasive RETALIATION I faced," she wrote on Instagram after the partial dismissal. Reynolds and Lively have continued appearing together publicly — red carpets, Wrexham matches — hand in hand throughout.

Gobble's Take: When your husband says he "wasn't angry enough" on your behalf and your kids are booby-trapping the bathroom, you've clearly built an unshakeable team.

Source: E! News

Jimmy Barnes and INXS Lead the Tributes for James Valentine, Saxophonist and Voice of Australian Broadcasting

On April 22, 2026, Australia lost one of its most quietly essential cultural figures: James Valentine, saxophonist and broadcaster, died at 64 using voluntary assisted dying at home, two years after a cancer diagnosis. Jimmy Barnes, Iva Davies of Icehouse, and the surviving members of INXS were among those paying tribute. Valentine was best known musically for his work with Models — he performed on their album Out of Mind, Out of Sight, which peaked at No. 84 on the Billboard 200 and produced a Hot 100 single in 1986. He later became a member of Absent Friends alongside Garry from INXS.

After music, Valentine built a second career as one of ABC Radio's most beloved voices. He hosted programs for more than three decades, including a long-running tenure on 702 ABC Sydney's Afternoons. He also worked in television, wrote books, and was recently appointed a Member of the Order of Australia — confirmed by Governor-General Sam Mostyn — in recognition of his service to both music and media.

Barnes put it simply: "I will miss hearing his gentle voice on ABC radio every afternoon." Davies called him "a great musician" with "a renowned sense of skill and joy." INXS remembered him as "always smiling, always positive." Valentine is survived by his wife and two children.

Gobble's Take: The fact that most of us outside Australia are only learning his name now is exactly the kind of loss that stings the most.

Source: Billboard

Idris Elba's Luther Has Been Sitting on Hulu This Whole Time and People Are Finally Losing Their Minds Over It

Idris Elba playing a brilliant, morally unhinged London detective who is genuinely more dangerous than some of the killers he chases — and somehow this show is only now going viral. Luther, which originally ran five seasons between 2010 and 2019 on BBC One, has climbed to the top of the late-night streaming charts on Hulu and AMC+, introducing an entirely new audience to DCI John Luther: a man whose personal chaos is spectacular enough to overshadow the crimes he's solving.

Elba's Emmy-nominated performance anchors a show that doesn't waste time on procedural comfort. The cases are genuinely disturbing, the pacing is relentless, and the relationship between Luther and Ruth Wilson's chilling villain-turned-reluctant-ally Alice Morgan remains one of the most electric dynamics in prestige TV history. For anyone who's already burned through the five-season run, a second film sequel was announced in November 2025 — the first, Luther: The Fallen Sun, landed on Netflix in 2023.

Five seasons, one long weekend, zero excuses.

Gobble's Take: Idris Elba has been sitting right there for fifteen years and we've been over here rewatching The Office — this is on us.

Source: Collider

Tom Cruise's Most Underrated Performance Leaves Prime Video on April 29 — Don't Sleep on It

You have until April 29 to catch Valkyrie on Prime Video before it disappears, and if you've never seen Tom Cruise play a real-life German officer trying to assassinate Adolf Hitler in 1944, that sentence alone should be enough. Directed by Bryan Singer, the 2008 thriller follows Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg — the actual historical figure who came closer than almost anyone to pulling it off — and Cruise plays him with a controlled intensity that got badly underrated when the film first released. Kenneth Branagh, Bill Nighy, and Tom Wilkinson round out the cast, and the result is less dusty history lesson, more pressure-cooker procedural.

The mixed critical reception at the time had more to do with audience discomfort watching Cruise in a German uniform than with the actual filmmaking — the pacing is tight, the stakes are real (we know how it ends, and the film makes you forget that anyway), and Cruise commits completely. Nearly 18 years later, it holds up as one of his more serious dramatic swings.

It's not Mission: Impossible — it's better, and it's gone in days.

Gobble's Take: The man did a dead-man stunt on the outside of a flying plane — the least we can do is watch him do a German accent before April 29.

Source: Collider

Quick Hits

• Vince Gilligan's post-apocalyptic sci-fi Pluribus is officially Apple TV+'s most-watched series ever: The nine-episode show starring Rhea Seehorn — about a novelist who refuses to be absorbed into an alien-induced peaceful hive mind — has a 98% Rotten Tomatoes score and has already outpaced Severance and Ted Lasso in viewership, with a second season in development. Collider
• Xaviersobased announces his debut Australia tour: The rising artist will play a Vivid LIVE date as part of his first-ever Australian run, with tickets now on sale. Billboard

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