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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Katie Rosseinsky

The one question we should be asking about the Blake Lively row

Backlash: Blake Lively was heavily criticised on social media over the summer - (Getty)

Cast your mind back to the summer, and you might recall how one famous woman seemed suddenly to emerge as public enemy No 1. That woman? Actor Blake Lively.  

If you spent any time scrolling through social media, you might have seen TikTok stars enumerating every mistake that Lively, 37, had ever made in public. You’ll have spotted Twitter/X threads claiming that her upbeat promotional tactics for her movie It Ends With Us, a film that deals with an abusive relationship, didn’t appropriately chime with the solemnity of its message.

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