I see Blake Lively’s back in the news again. You know, Blake Lively? If you don’t remember her classic Noughties New York-set series Gossip Girl or you’re not aware of her celebrity marriage to the Deadpool star Ryan Reynolds you’ll certainly know that, according to global media chatter over the summer, she’s like really, really annoying. Yes, during the fraught press tour for her wildly successful melodrama It Ends with Us (£280 million returns at the box office), we heard that Lively was “difficult” to work with, rude to journalists, tone-deaf on important issues and just generally such a nasty piece of work that the Daily Mail, by mid-August, was forced to ask in a roaring headline, “Is Blake Lively set to be CANCELLED?”
Ah,