As prepared to watch the World Cup final in person, her husband was talking shop at the Fanatics Fest in .
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Ryan Reynolds Ditches World Cup for Fan Event
As Blake Lively prepared to watch the World Cup final in person, her husband Ryan Reynolds was talking shop at the Fanatics Fest in New York City. Reynolds, 49,...
Reynolds, 49, was making a scheduled appearance at the festival several hours before the big game actually began, taking part in a discussion about his iconic Marvel character before returning to the stage for a World Cup watch party.
Unclear if his wife Lively, 38, was in attendance - she ended up
The Daily Mail has contacted representatives for the couple for comment but has not yet heard back.
The events seem to mark the couple's first major public appearances since they were snubbed from and 's Madison Square Garden wedding - a slight no doubt connected to Lively's legal battle with .
But Reynolds was focused on his passions as he attended the Fanatics Fest, where the Wrexham co-owner discussed a fourth Deadpool and talked Argentinian soccer sensation .
Ryan Reynolds talked shop during a scheduled appearance at the Fanatics Fest in New York City on Sunday - while his wife Blake Lively headed to the World Cup
Lively watched Spain defeated Argentina in person with her girlfriends
'There's eventually, you know, remotely, another Deadpool film,' he said during a panel entitled The Art of Deadpool with Ryan Reynolds..
He also weighed in on the new Deadpool trading cards - revealing he bought an autographed Hugh Jackman card that he was unable to read as it was written 'in Australian.'
'I did some bartering. I was looking for... autographed Deadpool Chrome cards. I got them. I didn't get the double pack. That was like $50,000 or something, but I did get the one Hugh Jackman,' he said.
'It's going in the personal collection,' he continued when asked what type he got. 'I don't know which one it was, it was the chrome, which is beautiful, autographed... I can't totally read the inscription that he wrote, he wrote it in Australian, so I don't know what he's talking about,' he joked. 'But lovely though.'
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The World Cup marked Blake and Ryan's first major public appearance since they were snubbed from Taylor Swift's wedding to Travis Kelce; Lively and Swift seen in 2023
Reynolds appeared at a panel called 'The Art of Deadpool with Ryan Reynolds'
At the event, he discussed Deadpool's new chrome trading cards by Topps
'Lionel Messi's running off Aura right now,' he said. 'These are these guys that find this kind of extra gear. I remember seeing a short kind of video story about Lionel Messi working out on his birthday at the gym on his birthday.
'People are kind of like, well he has no life. And I was like, no he doesn't have a life. He's Lionel f**king Messi.'
'The guy's a born competitor and he rises to the occasion. This is his sandbox right now.'
Given the Fanatics Fest was being held 16 miles away from where the World Cup was held, it seems unlikely that Reynolds was able to make the game in time.
But his wife, 38, was able to appear at the game, which she attended with her own 'squad' of friends -Libby Glazer, Kendall Arin Glazer, and Emma Gray.
She posted a smiling selfie to her Instagram which showed her posing by the field with her friends.
Once BFFs, Lively's absence from Swift's wedding illustrated the painful toll her legal battle with Justin Baldoni took on her friendship with the Love Story singer.
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Reynolds cracked a joke about his friend and Deadpool co-star Hugh Jackman
Reynolds said he bought a card autographed by Jackman, but 'he wrote it in Australian, so I don't know what he's talking about'
Reynolds seemed to make multiple appearances at the event
The goddaughter to Lively's three daughters, Swift reportedly fell out with the actress after she was dragged into her legal battle with Justin Baldoni.
A source has since informed the Daily Mail of Lively's fury over her rejection, which has set a match to any chance she and Swift might mend fences in the future.
Lively is 'sad and a little bit p***ed. No, a lot p***ed,' said the insider. 'That friendship was over before but if there was hope, it's gone. They'll never be friends again.'
The Gossip Girl star 'wanted to go,' the source noted. 'It feels bad to be excluded like that. She had sort of hoped that despite everything, their history was enough that they'd be included, but that's not the way it went.'
In the days after the wedding , Lively and Reynolds were seen enjoying an off-duty day in his native Canada.
Lively had previously sued Baldoni and his Wayfarer Studios production company in December 2024 for alleged defamation and sexual harassment on the set of It Ends With Us, which they starred in together, with Baldoni also directing.
Baldoni retaliated the following month with a $400 million defamation lawsuit against Lively, Reynolds and the New York Times, which had first published her claims.
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All of the parties in the lawsuits denied the allegations against them.
Reynolds attended a World Cup game in person this year and also owns the soccer club Wrexham
Lively, 38, and Reynolds, 49, were snubbed from Taylor Swift's, 36, lavish wedding celebrations in New York City this week; The couple seen in 2025
The couple were noticeably absent from Swift and Kelce's wedding extravaganza; Swift and Kelce seen in 2026
In October 2025, a judge dismissed Baldoni’s case, and in May of this year, after a judge dismissed most of Lively’s claims, she agreed to settle the case.
Lively was not paid any money in the settlement, but Judge Lewis Liman, who presided over the case at a New York court, did allow her to seek legal fees solely related to Baldoni’s failed case against her.
Swift's reported fallout with the actress happened after she was subpoenaed in the her lawsuit against Baldoni, before the subpoena was later withdrawn.
Swift, whose hit song My Tears Ricochet was featured on the soundtrack of Baldoni's 2024 film It Ends With Us - where he starred alongside Lively - was pulled into the rollercoaster saga last year when Baldoni filed a $400 million countersuit accusing Lively and her husband of defamation. The suit was later thrown out.
Explosives text messages from Baldoni's complaint revealed Lively had referred to the superstar singer and her husband as 'my dragons' in a bid to intimidate him over the ill-fated flick.
In January, a source told DailyMail.com: 'Her friends also think that Blake's "I’m Khaleesi, and like her, I happen to have dragons" text to Justin was uncool and unnecessary because she was essentially used as an intimidation tactic. She was referred to as some kind of pet or possession.'
Since then, Swift has reportedly been trying to distance herself from the scandal as well as her friendship with Lively.
Those efforts have included icing Lively out of her inner circle while Kelce unfollowed Reynolds on Instagram.
Swift and Lively have been friends for a decade, with the pair celebrating milestones together and the singer even name dropping Lively’s children in her music.
