Bethenny Frankel praises Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds on ‘SNL 50’ anniversary appearance: ‘Nothing short of genius’

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showing up to the “SNL” 50th anniversary special on Sunday amid their ongoing legal fight with Lively’s “It Ends With Us” co-star and director, Justin Baldoni.In the first of two videos posted to her Instagram on Monday, the former “Real Housewives of New York” star, 54, also lauded “SNL” for including the stars in the special, adding that the couple’s decision to poke fun at their battle with Baldoni was “nothing short of genius.”“Absolutely brilliant of ‘SNL’ to invite and include Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively to lean into the humor,” Frankel began. “They are the epicenter of pop culture.

It is the zeitgeist. Bullseye.”She continued, “And for Ryan and Blake to participate is nothing short of genius, because the only way to weather a storm is to go straight through it.”“And as I keep saying, no one knows what actually happened,” the Skinny Girl founder added, referring to Lively and Baldoni’s contradictory claims about the drama that unfolded behind the scenes during the filming of “It Ends With Us.”“So all of this speculation is a tricky and risky business.