We cannot imagine two people who complement each other quite like Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds do, but it took them a series of heartbreaks before finding each other. Now hailed as Hollywood royalty, the couple's relationship was once mired in controversies. Blake and Ryan met on the set of Green Lantern in 2010 and began dating in 2011. The problem, you ask? Overlapping timelines of their romance with Reynold's marriage to Scarlett Johansson. Scroll ahead for more details.
Ryan and Scarlett, who married in 2008, finalised their divorce in July 2011, months after he co-starred Lively. The same year, he opened up about the heartbreak to Details magazine and declared he did not want to get married again. But Blake Lively soon changed his mind, and just months after his divorce, rumours of the Green Lantern pair's relationship had gossip mills working overtime.
Notably, the Deadpool actor was not the only one who broke up with his significant other while filming the movie; Lively, who was then dating her Gossip Girl co-star Penn Badgley, also ended her three-year-long romance around the same time. Many people, for obvious reasons, found it suspicious that both ended their long-term relationships while filming with each other and before they knew it, they were very much a couple in public.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds first sparked relationship rumours in August 2011, just two months after the Deadpool & Wolverine star finalised his divorce, fuelling cheating allegations. However, both have reiterated time and again that they did not get together for a year after breaking up with their respective partners.
Ryan cleared the air in an interview with People, saying, "We were buddies for a long time, which I think is the best way to have a relationship, to start as friends. About a year after?Green Lantern had come and gone and we were both single, we went on a double date ¡ª she was on a date with another guy, and I was on a date with another girl ¡ª and it was like the most awkward date for the respective parties because we were just like fireworks coming across."
After a year of dating, Blake and Ryan wed on September 9, 2012, in a private ceremony at Boone Hall Plantation in South Carolina. The couple share four children:?James, Inez, Betty, and Olin.
Scarlett Johansson, meanwhile, married Romain Dauriac in 2014 but the couple got divorced in 2017. She tied the knot with Colin Jost in 2020, and the couple welcomed their first child together in 2021.
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