Blake Lively’s Publicist: People Magazine Lied About Being “Inside” The Wedding

September 17, 2012 by Hollywoodite

It was pretty obvious to the casual observer that neither People Magazine nor Us Weekly (both of which used red carpet photos and generic headlines about the wedding of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds) had immediate access to the ceremony nor guests.

Instead, Lively and Reynolds gave exclusive access to Martha Stewart Weddings for its December issue; skipping the tabloids altogether. The newlyweds never even released a statement confirming the wedding to the tabloids. All People and Us got left with was hearsay, the press release from Martha Stewart Weddings, and the press releases from the designers who contributed to the day.

The tabloid covers were obfuscated, generic, filler. And misleading? Sure, a little. Enough to anger Lively’s publicist to action against one of the most powerful and well-circulated weeklies, People Magazine.

A Page Six source is complaining about the nebulous headline: “People Was There.” People Magazine did not win the exclusive, nor were its journalists/ photographers/ spies inside the wedding. People Magazine basically lied on its cover. The source tells Page Six: “No, People was not there, unless you count an uninvited photographer sitting on a boat sneaking shots.”

Moreover, Lively is “concerned that the cover line gave the impression that she had sold her wedding pictures to the weekly, which has recently officially featured the wedding of Drew Barrymore and also Matthew McConaughey.”

Lively’s rep also called People liars for the cover headline: “People was not there, no pictures were sold.”