The INSIDER Summary:
- Blake Lively and Leonardo DiCaprio used to date when she was on Gossip Girl.
- In a new profile for the show's 10th anniversary, the executive producer revealed that Lively used to send photos of a doll to DiCaprio on set.
- Does anyone else think that's a little odd and could use some more context?
It may seem like Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively have been a power couple forever, but you may be forgetting that she once dated another high-profile actor — Leonardo DiCaprio.
Lively dated the actor during her time on "Gossip Girl," and in honor of the 10th anniversary of the show, executive producer Joshua Safran shared a bizarre anecdote with Vanity Fair about Lively and DiCaprio's means of communication while she was on set.
"When I think about shooting the LA episodes, Blake was dating [DiCaprio] at the time, and she had this thing where she had a doll that she took photos of that she sent to Leo," he told Vanity Fair.
I'm sorry, what? Safran and the writer behind the anniversary piece neglected to give any context about this doll or act like this was anything less than completely normal. Now despite the rest of the piece being very good, all I can think about is what the heck was going on with this doll.
Thankfully, Jezebel unearthed what doll he was talking about. During this time, Lively was also starring in "Green Lantern" with her future husband Reynolds and her character — Hal Jordan — was made into a Barbie doll, which Lively was super psyched about at the time. So that's probably the doll she was snapping.
"We went to WonderCon to show our first ten minutes of footage and I saw a Barbie sitting there with my face and with my mole!" Lively told On The Red Carpet at the time. "I could not believe it, it was the craziest thing ever. It was not just an action figure — Barbie! That was a huge, huge deal for me. I never thought I would be an actor, much less have my own Barbie!"
Oh the strange things we do when we're in love.
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