Fights & Feuds

Blake Lively is receiving support from some of her oldest costars and friends ... America Ferrera, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel have issued a statement amid her "It Ends With Us" lawsuit.

The 3 actresses -- all of whom starred in the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants" film franchise with Blake in the '00s and have remained her good friends -- issued a joint statement on Instagram ... where they made it clear they were standing behind BL amid her legal battle.

They wrote ... "Throughout the filming of 'It Ends with Us,' we saw her summon the courage to ask for a safe workplace for herself and colleagues on set and we are appalled to read the evidence of a premeditated and vindictive effort that ensued to discredit her voice."

Blake Lively's lawsuit against Justin Baldoni also names several public relations professionals ... and, text messages included in the suit allegedly show the lengths to which they went to turn the public against her.

We broke the story ... Lively is suing Baldoni for sexual harassment and what she claims is a coordinated effort to destroy her reputation. In the lawsuit, Blake's attorneys include text messages they recovered via subpoena -- messages they say were sent between Melissa Nathan and Jennifer Abel, two PR pros.

The New York Times published photos of the messages Nathan and Abel allegedly sent to one another ... including one in which they're apparently gloating over their comprehensive takedown of Lively.

Dennis Rodman's bad dad apology to his soccer star daughter Trinity fell flat ... with the Olympic gold medalist calling the mea culpa a "joke," and declaring she's done trying to fix her relationship with her pops.

The drama came to a head earlier this week when the Washington Spirit forward appeared on the "Call Her Daddy" podcast and called out her absentee father, accusing him of only showing up for PR stunts.

"He's not a dad," Trinity said. "Maybe by blood, but nothing else."

Lil Baby stayed quiet behind the scenes throughout the entire 2024 Rap Wars where Kendrick Lamar and Drake battled it out ... turns out, he's not a fan of being one of K. Dot's "examples" on "Not Like Us!!!"

The Atlanta rap star broke his silence in a one-on-one sit-down with Charlamagne Tha God on Thursday ... Kendrick accused Drake of exploiting A-Town rappers Baby, Young Thug, Future, 2 Chainz, Quavo and his "Her Loss" collaborator 21 Savage.

Kendrick rapped, "Lil Baby helped you get your lingo up" on the heavily promoted record but Baby disapproved -- "If you and him [Drake] was arguing why the hell you gotta say me, you know?"

Dozens of hip hop pundits were in disbelief over the news of Drake suing UMG, Spotify, and iHeartRadio to probe the popularity of Kendrick Lamar's "Not Like Us" diss -- but not Wiz Khalifa.

The "See You Again" rapper calls the legal tactics par for Drake's course, as far as he knows!!!

Count Shannon Sharpe as one of those confused pundits -- remember, BET named his "Club Shay Shay" podcast as the year's "Best Hip Hop Platform" -- and he pushed hard for a reaction from Wiz on the subject.

Kendrick Lamar opened the door for California rapper Lefty Gunplay to make history -- a move Wack 100 is calling a historic FAIL!!!

While speaking on 'Back on Figg's podcast, Wack expressed his disgust for Lefty's feature on Kendrick's "TV Off" from his chart-topping "GNX" album.

Lefty closes the track with the adlibs, "S**t gets crazy, scary, spooky, hilarious" ... Wack calls it a laughable attempt at emceeing. Wack's trained studio ear tells him Kendrick's engineer simply looped one of Lefty's takes to make it sound clean.

Justin Trudeau's sure Kamala Harris would've made more progress for women than Donald Trump ... slamming the U.S. for not advancing feminism -- and branding himself as a feminist.

The Prime Minister of Canada spoke at an event for the Equal Voice Foundation -- an organization dedicated to improving gender representation in politics -- and, he took his close ally -- the United States -- to task ... saying the recent election of Donald Trump didn't progress women's rights.

Watch the video for yourself ... basically, Trudeau says Kamala would've been better for women than Trump -- saying the rights of women were supposed to be on a steady, if difficult, incline.

Flavor Flav's all about fighting the power, standing up to NBC security ... but, it seems they were just doing their jobs -- 'cause we're told he wasn't expected at the tree-lighting, and security booted him.

Here's the deal ... Flav took to X to air some grievances about NBC kicking him out of the Backstreet Boys dressing room at the the Rockefeller Center tree lighting ceremony Wednesday night -- despite all his work with them during the Olympics.

However, sources tell TMZ security had a very good reason to kick him out of the event ... 'cause he wasn't on the list of expected attendees.

All Mariah Carey wanted for Christmas was a peaceful holiday concert ... but fans had something else in store for the pop star when they started throwing punches during her show.

Check it out ... a brawl broke out during one of MiMi's recent Christmas concerts after a verbal spat and a thrown drink escalated things amid the singer's performance of "All I Want for Christmas Is You."

As you can see in the video, the drama started between 2 women ... where the one with curly hair pushed the other from behind. The shoved concertgoer then responded by tossing her drink onto the other lady -- sparking chaos.

Things are getting quite spicy in Formula One ... with Mercedes driver George Russell claiming four-time champion Max Verstappen threatened him at the Qatar Grand Prix.

The beef between the two drivers reached new heights last weekend ... after the Red Bull superstar received a one-place grid penalty for interfering with Russell in qualifying.

27-year-old Verstappen said he lost respect for Russell over the whole ordeal ... accusing the 26-year-old of being fake for lobbying for the punishment in a meeting with the stewards, but acting all buddy-buddy with him in public.

Joey Lawrence and his estranged wife are working through their differences -- they are rekindling their relationship months after she filed for divorce ... TMZ has learned.

Sources directly connected to the couple tell TMZ ... Joey and his wife of 2 years, Samantha Cope, are back together, and they plan on calling off their divorce.

While it's unclear right now why or when they reconciled ... our sources say it was recent and it's clear they've definitely rebuilt their relationship.

The NFL just threw the book at Texans star Azeez Al-Shaair for his Sunday hit on Trevor Lawrence ... suspending him without pay for THREE GAMES.

The league made its ruling official on Tuesday morning ... saying his past offenses for "personal fouls and sportsmanship-related rules violations" factored into the decision.

NFL Vice President of Football Operations Jon Runyan scolded the Houston linebacker in a strongly-worded letter when announcing the ban for lowering his shoulder and hitting Lawrence in the head as the Jaguars QB was sliding during their weekend tilt in Jacksonville.

Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair is issuing a mea culpa to Trevor Lawrence over his controversial hit on Sunday ... saying he never intended to hurt the Jaguars quarterback -- and calling out "racist" and "Islamophobic" fans in the process.

The 27-year-old released the statement on X ... claiming while he always plays with intensity, he doesn't purposely try to take anyone out of competition.

"My goal is to hit you as hard as I can then I pray you're still able to get up and play the next play," he said. "And when the game is over go home to your family unharmed because it's not personal it's just competition!"

A woman in Canada turned into a real-life Grinch when she slugged a fellow spectator during a Christmas-themed parade — and all for getting in her line of sight, according to police.

The unladylike behavior took place in Ontario, Canada on November 23 when the woman was trying to watch the parade with her family in the Canadian province — but the other onlooker allegedly got in their way.

Of course, the woman got pissed off so naturally she took matters into her own hands — or, rather, her fists, police said.

Jean Smart says one thing should be off the table at Thanksgiving meals this year ... election talk.

We got the "Hacks" actress at the L.A. Mission on Wednesday, where she was passing out turkey dinners to the homeless, and our photog asked her if folks should bring up politics at their holiday gatherings.

There's been a lot of talk about families uninviting their relatives based on who they voted for a couple weeks ago ... and Jean says everyone will be a lot better off if they just play nice and put on a united front.