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of. it ends with us. justin baldoni alleging extortion and defamation. >> blake lively and ryan reynolds are a very powerful couple. people are going to do things for them and do things because of them. >> lively, denying accusations and maintaining she's the victim. the private texts allegedly between the two actors made public for the world to see, and what taylor swift allegedly has to do with it. plus. splitsville. new year, new splits. we're here. i can let my hair down with you. singer jessica simpson and fantastic four star jessica alba as the invisible woman, both announcing separations this week, sending fans into full grief mode. >> and that jessica simpson and her husband know why some experts call it divorce. >> january. could more couples be heading for heartbreak and tiktoking down? i hope you had

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been saved. >> good evening. thank you for joining us tonight. one of hollywood's biggest power couples, blake lively and ryan reynolds, hit with a lawsuit from lively's former director. and it ends with us costar justin baldoni. just weeks after she made shocking public allegations about him. here's abc's eva pilgrim. >> it actually gets worse. yeah. no way. >> this morning, the off screen war between it ends with us stars justin baldoni and blake lively is getting worse. and now lively's superstar husband ryan reynolds added to the legal drama. baldoni, who also directed the film, is suing the hollywood couple for $400 million for defamation, extortion and invasion of privacy. the suit coming less than a month after lively accused baldoni of sexual harassment and a retaliatory

smear campaign. >> i thought we were friends. we are friends. >> in a nearly 200 page filing, baldoni, alleging lively sought to destroy him with her accusations, writing lively could not tolerate her publicly tainted image for even a moment, and further could not accept that it was entirely of her own making. she needed a scapegoat. >> we're going to find that blake lively, ryan reynolds are a very powerful couple, and we're going to find that people are going to do things for them and do things because of them. >> the lawsuit, even mentioning the couple's a-list pal taylor swift, detailing a meeting at lively and reynolds penthouse to go over script differences, with swift present alleging reynolds and swift championed lively's version over his. afterwards, baldoni, claiming he felt obliged to text lively to say that he had liked her pages and hadn't needed reynolds and her mega celebrity friend to pressure him. a screenshot of

text messages between the two included in the suit. lively allegedly writing if you ever get around to watching game of thrones, you'll appreciate that i'm khaleesi and like her, i happen to have a few dragons, for better or worse, but usually for better, because my dragons also protect those i fight for. so really, we all benefit from those gorgeous monsters of mine. lively firing back, her attorney saying in a statement, this is an age old story. a woman speaks up with concrete evidence of sexual harassment and retaliation, and the abuser attempts to turn the tables on the victim. this is what experts call darvo deny attack, reverse victim offender. >> our thanks to eva, we turn now to celebrity splits. two well-known hollywood stars this week sharing their relationships are ending the announcement. shocking fans. they are the latest big breakups in the history of celebrity splits and fans are shook.

>> well, another celebrity breakup. >> not to be in your business, but not jessica simpson and her husband. no. >> oh my god. >> stars jessica alba and jessica simpson, both announcing separations from their longtime husbands jessica simpson and former nfl tight end eric johnson. married for ten years and parents to three children, alba and cash. warren married for 16 years, the couple also sharing three kids. >> january has always been one of the most prolific months. it's usually new year's resolutions. people say it's a new year. i don't want to be with this person anymore. >> jessica simpson telling people magazine earlier this week eric and i have been living separately, navigating a painful situation in our marriage. abc news reached out to simpson and johnson for comment, but did not hear back. simpson was a household name in the early 2000

as a singer who burst on the scene with powerful vocals in her debut ballad, i want to love you forever. i want to love you forever. >> she came at a time when pop music was really having a resurgence, and we were seeing women like britney spears and christina aguilera dominate the pop charts, and jessica simpson was right there with them. with you, i can let my hair down. >> i can say anything. >> her poppy earworm with you about life with her first husband, 98 degrees singer nick lachey. the couple publicly chronicling the early days of their short lived marriage in the popular mtv reality show newlyweds nick and jessica. >> is this chicken what i have or is this fish? i know it's tuna, but it says chicken by the sea. >> but the show also revealed strain in the young marriage. >> you take it so personal, nick. you're not. >> i mean, because you're about

it. you come in and you say little comments. >> the couple finalized their divorce in 2006. jessica and former san francisco 49 ers eric johnson met in 2010 and got engaged just six months later. >> jessica simpson and her first marriage. she did not have a prenuptial agreement. she was a believer. she just was living life and falling in love and wanting to just have a very romantic way. and then after she got divorced, jessica simpson then realized, this time, i'm going to learn, i'm going to have a prenuptial agreement so i don't have to go through all of the fighting. >> alba also posting to social media this week, i've been on a journey of self-realization and transformation. it's now time for us to embark on a new chapter of growth and evolution as individuals. abc news reached out to albion warren for comment, but did not receive a response. alba rose to fame in the early 2000 with her breakout role in the tv series dark

angel. sorry and sue storm, the invisible woman in the blockbuster film fantastic four. >> sue storm the invisible woman. if. listen, my kid loves me. >> it was on that set. she met cash warren, an assistant to the director. >> he was working behind the scenes. she obviously was cast in the film, and they connected. and they really had a relatively low profile relationship. >> warren a steady stay by his side at red carpets. and as she launched her bestselling multi-million dollar honest brand. >> if you figured it out and your relationship, let me know. >> alba opening up about the struggles in her marriage on katherine schwarzenegger's bda baby podcast last april. >> it's all rosy for two and a half years, but then after that you become roommates. you're

just going through the motions. >> losing a spark is something that isn't just overnight. it's really not a celebrity life. it's everybody's life. apparently, they grew apart. >> simpson and alba, now the latest in a lineup of major celebrity splits in recent years, gisele and tom, gin and ben, hugh jackman and deborah lee, rapper cardi b and husband offset. some can get ugly. >> nasty divorces go way back. kim basinger and alec baldwin were probably the first of the really nasty divorces. angelina jolie and brad pitt, they take the cake. their divorce went on for almost eight years. >> gwyneth paltrow's divorce from coldplay lead singer chris martin, seen by many as the gold standard for the modern celebrity breakup. >> conscious uncoupling really just means we've made a decision. don't question us. so that takes place of the bitter

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>> welcome back. as the time shorter and shorter. tick tock. tonight, pointing the finger at the biden administration tonight issuing a statement saying in part, quote, unless the white house makes a definitive statement assuring non enforcement of the ban, unfortunately tiktok will be forced to go dark. the possible end of the wildly popular app in the u.s, now less than 24 hours away, causing anger and sadness among many. here's nightline's ashton singh. >> final pleas. and this. this doesn't have to end. we can keep doing this on the other platforms. >> jokes about leaving the country. >> hello! >> a mix of emotions. >> very sad and going through all the emotions. >> the supreme court paving the way for the potential end of tiktok in the u.s, upholding the ban on the social media app, which is set to go into effect on sunday. >> the tiktok era comes to an

end. good night. >> there are a lot of unknowns about what exactly the ban will look like. one possibility is that tiktok decides to proactively shut down the app altogether. >> if tiktok doesn't decide to shut down the app. we're more likely to see the app erode over time. >> this comes nearly one year after a bipartisan bill turned law that requires chinese parent company bytedance to sell tiktok or shut down in the u.s. more than a billion videos are viewed on tiktok every single day. buzzy, buzzy from your daily dose of dancing and lip syncing. move over denzel often featuring music's most popular songs to the viral fashion trends driving the market. >> what is coastal grandmother, you ask? it's a term that i coined for this esthetic in the united states, between 150 and 170 million people are active on tiktok. >> about half our country's total population, and 80% of

them are under the age of 34. the app has also helped launch the newestf hollywood stars, including reigning queen charli d'amelio. >> i think the ability to turn someone who's obscure into an overnight famous person is, i don't think there's any other platform like that. >> heidi and marc d'amelio still find it hard to believe how fast their family shot to fame. wait wait wait wait. charli d'amelio quickly rose to the top of tiktok. the then 15 year old joined the app in 2019, posting dancing and lip sync videos. what a time to be alive. >> i think it was the right place, right time. what was really interesting about tiktok is it showed early on real life. >> less than a year after joining the app, charli became the most followed person on tiktok worldwide, and hollywood came knocking for the d'amelios.

could you have ever imagined that tiktok or social media platform could have leveraged this much success for you and your family? >> no, because nothing in the past, unless you had a war chest of cash, could leverage what tiktok has leveraged for free. >> if tiktok does cease to exist, who loses? >> i think everyone loses. i think small business loses. i think the politicians lose also. >> hey guys, a sunday approaches markway collins, better known as markway the goat, has a message for his nearly 7 million followers. >> all changed my life to a whole different level. i still have faith in tiktok, but i'm not going anywhere. i've built all my platforms up in case this happens. yes, sir. >> he first met markway last year, when a world without tiktok still seemed so far away. >> try korean fried chicken, i bet. go to frieda's bar and

grill i bet. go to thump bar, i bet. >> how many followers do you have and how much are you able to actually rake in from tiktok alone? >> so i'm at about 6.6 million. so just from tiktok alone, it should be like around 100 k. >> 100 k. yeah. that's crazy. >> yeah, that's my main source of income. >> so what's behind the ban and why is congress so upset with an app that has changed lives and is believed to be worth $50 billion? last spring, i got a chance to take that question to washington. >> all set. >> unfortunately, based on the information that we have, this is a very big national security threat. >> we don't allow foreign entities to own our radio stations, our television stations that in some way can negatively affect the united states and our people. and so this is just one other area where we're trying to protect the american people from

governments that may be our adversaries and have nefarious intent. >> there are other social platforms with foreign ownership, like onlyfans, which is operated by a uk company. but lawmakers say there's a key difference. but is it not a slippery slope? especially saying that foreign companies, especially in the tech related sectors, can own platforms like this? >> no foreign adversaries. we're only applying it to foreign adversaries, not to everybody. >> but now some of the very lawmakers that voted in favor of the ban are looking for an 11th hour solution. despite the pressure from fellow democrats, the biden administration says it won't grant an extension, but signaled it also won't enforce the ban on the president's final day in the white house. so now it could all be up to president elect trump when he is sworn in on monday. trump once strongly pushed the ban, but in recent weeks has backed off. he himself has 14 million followers on the app. >> now he's saying he wants to

save the app, and he does admit that tiktok helped him get elected. he's met with tiktok's biggest investor. he's invited the tiktok ceo to sit in the front row during his inauguration, and we know from sources familiar with the trump team's discussions that they are talking about a potential executive order to try to keep tiktok available. >> but many, like markey, have been preparing for this outcome. >> right now, i'm primarily focusing on youtube, facebook and snapchat. >> do you think one or the other has more promise? >> facebook and snapchat. snapchat. they've made a way to where you can post your content like it's kind of like tiktok, and then you still have like, stories. so there's multiple ways to try and monetize yourself. >> many content creators are moving to tiktok. alternative apps like chinese owned red note became the most popular app in the apple app store this week. >> i'm on red now. i'm learning chinese right now.

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