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

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

Blake Lively recently revealed her kids tried to prank her at home — and it doesn't take a detective to figure out who's been coaching them. While Reynolds plays house jokester, Lively is waging a very serious legal war: she's suing It Ends With Us director Justin Baldoni and his production company Wayfarer Studios for sexual harassment and retaliation, seeking $160 million in damages total. A federal judge dismissed most of the harassment claims, but three retaliation counts survived and are headed to trial on May 18.

The financial stakes are staggering. Lively's legal team told a New York court that the coordinated reputational attack she alleges Baldoni orchestrated cost her more than $40 million in lost work. Baldoni had countersued both Lively and Reynolds for defamation, but those claims were tossed in June 2025. Meanwhile, the film at the center of it all — It Ends With Us — quietly crossed $350 million at the global box office, making the behind-the-scenes fallout even more surreal. E! News reports Reynolds has shown up to court proceedings, handled school pickups solo during hearing days, and kept the mood at home light enough that their kids are apparently now in on the bit.

The pranks aren't denial — they're a power move: the most chaotic household in Hollywood refuses to let a lawsuit set the tone.

Gobble's Take: Suing for $160 million by day and dodging whoopee cushions by night is genuinely the most Blake Lively thing Blake Lively has ever done.

Source: E! News

Jimmy Barnes and INXS Lead the Tributes for James Valentine, the Saxophone Voice of Australian Music

On April 22, 2026, Australia lost one of its most quietly essential cultural figures: James Valentine, saxophonist, broadcaster, and national treasure, died at 64. Rock legend Jimmy Barnes and the surviving members of INXS were among the first to pay tribute, and the outpouring hasn't stopped since. Valentine played saxophone with some of Australia's defining bands of the '80s — Jo Jo Zep, Models, and Absent Friends — before pivoting to become the warm, unflappable afternoon voice on ABC Radio Sydney for over two decades.

He also hosted children's TV, presented arts programming, wrote books, and just weeks before his death was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia. The breadth of that resume is the point: Valentine didn't just occupy one lane of Australian cultural life, he quietly threaded through all of them. A generation of Australians grew up with his saxophone on the radio, his face on their television, and his voice keeping them company on long afternoon drives.

The Order of Australia came barely in time — the country got to say thank you before it had to say goodbye.

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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