Blake Lively to Use Baldonis Admission at Trial

 plans to embarrass  by using an interview where he admits he may have sexually harassed  in their upcoming trial.

The actress wants to show the jury a clip from 2017 during which Baldoni how he went up to Britney and gave her a hug, even though they didn’t know each other.

Britney was filming an episode of Jane the Virgin, the show in which Baldoni starred, and recoiled from him in surprise when hugged.

In the clip, Baldoni admitted that he asked himself: 'Did I just harass Britney Spears?'

Lively plans to use the video to draw a parallel with Baldoni’s conduct on the set of It Ends With Us, the 2024 movie they both starred in and he directed.

In the lawsuit, she claims that Baldoni sexually harassed her and then launched an when she stood up for herself.

The judge in the case, at Federal court in Manhattan, has already dismissed all of Lively’s against Baldoni. But released documents suggest those claims will still be part of her case.

Britney appeared on Jane the Virgin in 2015, where she acted out an argument with Rogelio, played by Jaime Camil.

The show was Baldoni’s breakout role, portraying sleazy playboy Rafael Solano from 2014 to 2019.

The video interview with him was mentioned in an updated exhibit list that Lively filed to the court.

Baldoni told Fuse TV: ‘The guest I was most excited to work with was Britney Spears. And then, it turned out, I didn't get to work with her. There were zero scenes with Rafael and Britney Spears, probably at her request, because I had tweeted her, I was gonna bring (to the set) a poster from her Live in Las Vegas tour.'

Baldoni said he didn’t bring the poster because he didn’t actually have one and was joking, but Britney apparently ‘thought it was serious’.

‘I was a huge Britney Spears fan in high school,’ Baldoni said.

‘What adolescent boy wasn't?’

According to Baldoni, he and a few others went to see Britney film her scenes on set.

Squirming as he recounted the episode, Baldoni said: ‘Because I had tweeted her, and she had tweeted me back, and I'd gone up to her, and so, in my mind, we were friends.

‘We weren't. And I went (up to her) I was like: "Hey! Hey!" and I just gave her a big hug, and I think I scared her because she was like "Hi".'

Leaning back in his chair to show how Britney recoiled, Baldoni said: ‘And then I just kind of had this awkward moment of: ‘Did I just harass Britney Spears?’

As Baldoni told it, his co-stars thought it was hilarious, and he looked over to see them ‘on the floor, laughing.'

Other exhibits that Lively mentioned on her list - which runs to more than 800 items - include videos and photos apparently intended to expose Baldoni as a hypocrite.

Before making It Ends With Us, Baldoni cast himself as a feminist man and wrote a book called ‘Man Enough: Undefining My Masculinity’ to show how ‘woke’ he was.

Emails already made public show that Colleen Hoover, who wrote the book on which the film was based, agreed to let him adapt it because of his commitment to the female point of view.

Lively appears set to argue that it was a sham and seeks to show the jury photos of him wearing a ‘feminist T-shirt’.

She also wants to show the jury a video of Baldoni’s TED Talk, which is titled: ‘Why I’m done trying to be ‘Man Enough’.