Confirmed: Despite all the hype, Verity still couldn’t outperform IEWU at the box office. Justin Baldoni really got the last laugh!

And yes, people, I know some of you will be quick to point out that Verity is looking successful so far, and yes the numbers are looking reall good so far. The movie will be in cinemas until November, so it’s still too early to predict its actual box office performance. However, current box office estimates put Verity somewhere between $110–170 million. That’s not bad at all, but it’s still not on the same level as It Ends with Us, and that’s worth mentioning, especially since Verity and It Ends with Us are two of Colleen Hoover’s most popular and iconic books. Keep in mind that box office for IEWU was $351.4 million.

>It Ends With Us" was a massive box office monster, clearing over $80 million worldwide in just its opening weekend and passing $100 million in less than a week, whereas "Verity" still hasn't crossed $100 million after a full week.

That’s why I’m saying Justin Baldoni is getting the last laugh. Colleen and Blake did everything in their power to sabotage the movie and him, and they still failed! What Colleen did to Justin Baldoni will follow her like a permanent stain.

I posted this https://www.reddit.com/r/ItEndsWithLawsuits/comments/1w2jbde/even_if_verity_turns_out_to_be_a_success_it_will/ one month ago and i stand by it 100 %.

edit: That’s why Blake and Ryan were losing their minds over not being able to get Baldoni to give them the rights to It Ends with Us.

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u/the_smart_girl — 5 days ago

Influencer that posts their kids while they are in the bathroom are so disturbing!

This influencer isn't a big name, but it's not the first time I've seen influencers filming their kids in the bathroom like this.

Poor kids can't even have privacy in the bathroom.

ediT: I did add the red blur myself on the picture because I didn't want to post it with the child's face visible.

u/the_smart_girl — 19 days ago

Remember when Blake Lively was giving Liz Plank career advice? 😂

Someone posted this screenshot in another one of my posts, and I thought we all needed a good laugh. Liz decide to take career advice from Blake Lively, and we can all see how that ended up working out for her. 😂 Now she’s out here selling subscriptions for $2 and getting dumped by Katie Couric Media. Blake really did set her up. 😂

The whole conversation between Blake and Liz is so nauseating and bizarre.

Source: Sorry, I don’t have the link to this document.

u/the_smart_girl — 25 days ago

Colleen Hoover is so pathetic when she tags Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson on Instagram, while they completely ignore her and don’t even follow her. What a loser. 😂

Yes, they are in the movie based on her book Variety that will air in October, but they don’t even follow her or tag her while she is so desperate for their attention 😂

I just know they roll their eyes every time she tags them hahaha

u/the_smart_girl — 25 days ago

Confirmed: Liz Plank’s podcast Boy Problems has been dropped by Katie Couric Media. LOL

When Liz launched Boy Problems, she was using boyproblems@katiecouric as the contact email, which fits with the podcast being launched under Katie Couric Media. But just a couple of months later, the contact email was changed to an address connected to Liz’s own production company, partnerships@lizplankproductions

When the podcast first launched, it was presented as a Katie Couric Media podcast, with Katie Couric saying that KCM was producing the show. Since then, the podcast has shifted to being presented simply as Boy Problems with Liz Plank, with the trademark now owned by Liz Plank Productions LLC. Current podcast listings also list it under Liz Plank without mentioning a network. That’s quite different from the beginning, when Katie Couric Media’s involvement was much more visible.

Sorry, people, but I’m laughing my ass off because this might be the biggest self-sabotage I’ve seen from Liz Plank. She was so busy digging a grave for Justin and Jamey that she forgot to notice she was digging one for herself. 😭

In the end, she’s one of the biggest losers in all of this with Blake,Ryan and Colleen. She damaged her own name and reputation and for what?

u/the_smart_girl — 25 days ago
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Abby is a good example of why you should never marry a man who doesn’t love you as much as you love him.

Every time I see them, sorry, but she seems pathetic because she appears so desperate for his approval and attention, while he isn’t even hiding that he couldn’t care less about her.

u/Similar_Comment_2676 — 27 days ago

Let’s never forget that Blake Lively the racist went to Wayfarer Studios’ Black CEO Jamey Heath and actually asked him for more toilet paper.

I’m still surprised to this day that this hasn’t received the attention it deserves because this has to be some of her clearest racist behavior. This is a privileged woman with at least three assistants, yet she sat there and basically said to the CEO, “Hey, I need more toilet paper.”

Source; This was from Jamey Heath’s deposition, the one that was confidential and leaked by Blake Lively’s lawyers with his address visible. I’m not sure if it’s still available online.

Edit: On set, she was always surrounded by her two assistants, who are sisters and related to her annoying trainer, and her sister was always there too. Someone said Robyn works as her assistant/helper.

u/the_smart_girl — 1 month ago

Confirmed: Evil backstabber Alex Saks is done as a film producer in Hollywood, with no new film projects currently in development or production.

I’m not surprised Hollywood is done with her. We know she took over her first production-company after the co-founder was accused of vague SH claims, and then the production company flopped. Then she was involved with IEWU and tried to take over the movie and benefit from those false SH claims against JB and JH.

Regardless of what you think, she is way too much of a liability even for Hollywood, and in their eyes, she is also “nobody.” She was never an A-list or even a B-list producer before IEWU. No wonder she is now trying to become some kind of “Lifestyle-influencer” on IG.

Alex Saks truly is evil because Justin Baldoni gave her a chance when most people wouldn’t have. In return, she tried to sabotage him and steal the movie/IP from him.

Edit: good and informative post about who she is and what she did to Baldoni, Heath, and the W-people. https://www.reddit.com/r/ItEndsWithLawsuits/comments/1p9810b/lets_talk_about_alex_saks/

u/the_smart_girl — 1 month ago

Blake Lively is now doing collabs with Bake Off’s Dame Prue Leith. Blake also reveals that she uses a hair dryer to defrost food because they don’t own a microwave in their home. WTF

This is so disgusting! I love that all the comments on the Bake Off Dame’s page are negative as well 😂

Why can I see her using the dryer while drying her hair and the food? But then again, as we know by now, she lies about everything. But still...

This is how far she has fallen. She went from Taylor Swift to this influencer (I have never even heard of her). I know she hates every minute of this, being forced to hang around with these nobodies!

u/the_smart_girl — 1 month ago
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Palantir CEO Alex Karp in a keffiyeh during college!

Money and power always corrupt you. How do you go from wearing a keffiyeh to now supporting Israel? 🤮

u/Tia-Star-998 — 1 month ago

Confirmed: Ryan Reynolds is done as an actor in Hollywood, with no new movie deals or films currently in production.

I’ve been saying for a while now that Ryan Reynolds is done as an actor in Hollywood, but this list of upcoming projects from his own IMDb really shows how true that is. Of the nine projects listed as upcoming, seven have been in development for years, and honestly, I don’t think they will ever happen.

Eloise: I put the “?” here because Netflix did confirm that Ryan plays the villain in the movie. But here’s the weird part: there have been dozens of paparazzi pictures showing the other actors in the movie, yet there hasn’t been a single picture of Ryan. So who knows if he’s still involved with the project? The fact that there are absolutely no pictures of him on set is very strange.

Animal Friends: A movie that was already completed in 2024–2025, so I don’t really count this as a new project.

As we can see from the evidence here, when it comes to acting jobs, he really has no new work at all. He really is done in Hollywood as an actor.

u/the_smart_girl — 1 month ago

Does anyone else get bad vibes from Valeria Lipovetsky and her husband?

Honestly, the first time I saw her, she instantly gave me bad vibes. Then I saw her husband, and I’m not even joking, they both give off such a sinister vibe.

An older man close to 40 pursuing someone who was barely 20 will always feel wrong and questionable to me, no matter how much she tries to turn it into some cute love story. And her obsession with people thinking she’s 16 is just weird.

Both she and her husband make me equally uncomfortable.

What do you guys think of this couple?

Edit: Just want to clarify that when they met, he was 38-40 and she was 20. They’ve been married for 15 years, so she’s now 35–36, while he’s 50-something.

u/the_smart_girl — 1 month ago

Honestly, I believe Emilie Kiser,’s career as a social media influencer is pretty much done, and she’s not getting those brand deals back.

I know this is a hot take, but I can’t see her ever getting her glory back. Yes, we all know most companies are trash and don’t really care, BUT in this case, they will because Emilie is still associated with her son’s drowning, and then her husband almost getting charged with negligence after their son’s death. Then she decided to stay with him and has been acting weird ever since. You really can’t come back from something like that. Most companies don’t want to be associated with a woman whose son drowned because of negligence.

Her brand as the “good, hands-on mother” is dead, especially after that scandal with her son not having a life vest. In a normal case, that probably would have blown over, but now consider that one of her children died due to negligence. Sorry, but there’s no coming back from that.

I think she knows this, and that’s why she’s spiraling nowadays.

u/the_smart_girl — 1 month ago
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Zach Lahn and his wife, Annie, have over $4.33M in mortgages on their two homes in Kansas and Iowa.

All information is from public records and his public FB-account.

1.The house in Iowa is a bit strange because the mortgage is $2.75 million, despite the farm’s estimated value being between $400,000 and $800,000.

  1. The house in Kansas has a $1.3 million mortgage, and the house is solely in Annie’s name. Claude estimates that, thanks to her ex-husband Chase Koch she probably has a net worth of $20M+.based on the mortgages. Because everyone knows that Zach did not have that kind of money before he met Annie.

Edit: One of the most commonly searched questions about Annie Koch Lahn is her net worth, so I don’t really understand the issue with Claude giving an estimate. Nobody is claiming that the $20 million figure is confirmed or factual. It’s simply an estimate based on publicly available information. Mortgages at this level do indicate significant financial resources, even if they don’t tell us someone’s exact net worth.

u/the_smart_girl — 1 month ago

Apparently, Whitney Rose had a full-on meltdown at the RHOSLC finale and even broke a production camera. 👀

u/Realitytvguru13 confirms this is true, and I’ve been following that account for a very long time. Their tea is often true, so I believe this.

u/the_smart_girl — 1 month ago

Colleen Hoover’s charity foundation paid more in salaries/compensation than it gave to charity from 2018–2021 !

So remember when Colleen claimed she was donating millions to charities? That’s not exactly true. She was literally paying more in salaries and compensation than she was giving away. Such shady woman !!

So from 2017 through 2024, Bookworm Box gave roughly $1.67 million in grants to outside charities, based on the Form 990 filings. For comparison, total compensation over the same period was about $1,143,833

source; Foundation: Bookworm Box Llc ( I use the site "propublica.org" )

edit; Even though all of this is legal, something just rubs me the wrong way about how she handles her charity.

u/the_smart_girl — 2 months ago

Even if Verity turns out to be a success, it will still not help Colleen Hoover or her reputation. She is already done in Hollywood.

I keep seeing a lot of people claiming that if Verity turns out to be a success, it will help Colleen Hoover, and honestly, it could. BUT I don’t believe it will help, and here’s why

  1. Her reputation is toxic, and she is forever tainted by the things she did to Justin Baldoni, as well as her behavior during the It Ends with Us drama. Every article that brings up Colleen always mentions It Ends with Us. For any company, that kind of stain is a disaster, and that is why she has not been able to get any more movie deals for her other books. There is a reason why she has disappeared from the public eye.
  2. Even if the movie is a success, Amazon owns the rights and will get the big money. Colleen ultimately won’t really benefit from the movie being successful. Yes, she may sell more books, but as we know, the big money is in movies. When the company making a movie based on your book barely even wants to be associated with you, that tells you everything you need to know.
  3. Colleen’s biggest mistake was selling away the rights to her most lucrative books, so she no longer owns any valuable IP of her own. There’s a reason why her production company isn’t working on her books but is now buying other IP instead.
  4. Colleen had three books made into movies, and only It Ends with Us was really successful. Her other two books didn’t lose money, but they didn’t really make much money either and those were her best-selling books.
  5. Colleen’s pivot to producing just confirms what I’ve said about her being really dumb. First of all, production is extremely risky. Colleen doesn’t have the money, the gift, or the business sense to succeed in that industry. She is now mostly “producing,” and those deals aren’t that lucrative. She gets a check and maybe a small bonus, but it also involves a lot of work for very little money.
  6. Colleen stopping writing books is her absolute biggest mistake ever. She is living in la-la land if she thinks she will be the next Steven Spielberg. If Colleen were smart, she would have written more sequels or continued some of her best-selling stories. Those books still have huge fan bases who would happily buy more. But as I’ve said by now, she’s really dumb.
  7. As Heidi Klum said, “One day you’re in, and the next day you’re out.” I think Colleen thought she would be untouchable in the book world, but as we can see in 2026, her work and reputation have been heavily diminished.

The reason I keep saying that she is done in Hollywood is because, notice how Amazon is barely using her to promote the movie. That tells me all I need to know. And Colleen is way too attention-seeking for that to be entirely her own choice.

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u/the_smart_girl — 2 months ago
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Not Ryan Reynolds showing off his $150,000+ watch. He's just as tacky as his wife, Blake Lively! 🥱

I feel like he's trying to convince us that he and Blake are still rich. All this showing off is bizarre.

He and Blake are two peas in a pod.

u/More_Midnight3634 — 2 months ago