Travis Kelce has reportedly unfollowed Ryan Reynolds on Instagram, as the actor continues to be embroiled in the messy legal drama swirling his wife, Blake Lively.
According to Page Six, The NFL superstar and boo of Taylor Swift is said to have made the social media move to distance himself from Reynolds amid the negative publicity he’s endured as a result of his lawsuit with Justin Baldoni, stemming from the 2024 film, It Ends With Us.
In December, Lively filed a lawsuit against Baldoni for sexual harassment on the set of drama, which co-starred and was directed by Baldoni.
Lively also alleged that Baldoni orchestrated a smear campaign against her in anticipation of her claims coming to light, but Baldoni hit back the following month by suing Lively and Reynolds for $400 million USD ($643 million AUD) and claiming the couple defamed him.
It’s not known whether Kelce — who has been regularly spotted on double dates with him, Lively and Swift — unfollowed the actor simply to remove himself from the drama, or whether he’s called it quits on the friendship altogether.
Whatever the case, Kelce’s unfollowing of Reynolds adds to previous reports that Swift was also putting her friendship with the Hollywood couple on ice.
Those reports emerged when Swift was named in Baldoni’s lawsuit with the claim that Lively had weaponised her friendship with the pop star to assert creative control over It Ends With Us.
Being roped into the mess apparently led Swift to take some “space” from Lively in February, with an insider claiming the singer felt like a “pawn” in her friend’s legal battle.
Adding fuel to the speculative fire, rumours of a Swift rift again swirled in February, when Lively and Reynolds were notably absent from the Super Bowl, which they had attended last year to support Kelce’s Kansas City Chiefs team
Those icy relations came to a head last week, when it was reported that Swift was awaiting a subpoena, alongside Hugh Jackman, for her involvement in the Lively/Baldoni feud and ahead of their trial scheduled for March of next year.
Both Lively and Bladoni have denied the respective allegations against them, and since It Ends With Us has proven to be a cesspool of controversy, this won’t be the last we hear of the drama ahead of their day in court.
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