The Donut Shop Where Blake Lively Served Customers Is Now Under Investigation By The Health Department
Blake Lively served customers with her hair down, and now the donut shop is under investigation. People say she ruins everything she touches.
The It Ends with Us star played pastry chef at a small-town donut shop, and it backfired.
Lively, 37, spent her Sunday morning at Rise Doughnuts in Wilton, Connecticut, documenting the experience on Instagram like a starry-eyed food blogger. "Never in my life have I tasted anything quite like @risedoughnut," she gushed, calling herself a "donut stan account" and raving about a bourbon rhubarb cream cheese concoction she helped create. She even joked about the perfect glaze on a Boston Cream donut: "I must know what this donut’s skincare routine is."
However, Lively completely forgot to tie her hair back (or maybe she didn't). In her Instagram clips, she’s seen working the kitchen, filling donuts, and handling food without a hair net or even a ponytail. People online took one look at her loose blonde waves swinging near the dough and immediately transformed into citizen health inspectors. Some went as far as reporting the shop to the Wilton Health Department. TMZ later confirmed that local officials had, indeed, opened an investigation after receiving complaints about Lively’s lack of food safety attire.
Rise Doughnuts’ Yelp page also became collateral damage, with a flood of negative reviews from people who were seemingly more interested in punishing Lively than rating the actual donuts. The backlash got so intense that Yelp had to step in and temporarily freeze comments. Unfortunately, someone's privately owned business is now being negatively affected by Lively's actions.
A source close to Lively wasn’t having it, telling TMZ, “The so-called complaints are from people who have never been there and who don’t even live in Connecticut. Targeting a lovely, small, family-owned business is a new low in the retaliation campaign.”
TikToker @coolmomjamie summed up the general vibe in her viral breakdown of the situation. “Talk about something blowing up in your face,” she said. “Can she hire a publicist that she’s actually going to listen to already?”
“She literally ruins everything she touches omg!” one person wrote. Another chimed in with, “Her hair always looks SO awful! Frizzy. Unbrushed. So bad.”
Of course, some people saw right through the outrage and predicted Lively’s response: “She’s gonna say this is retaliation or part of the smear campaign.”
Speaking of That Lawsuit…
This week, Justin Baldoni’s team filed new court documents opposing Ryan Reynolds’ request to be removed from the case. According to Us Weekly, Baldoni’s lawyers argued that Reynolds “pretends that the Wayfarer Parties’ First Amended Complaint (the ‘FAC’) fails to set forth any basis for his liability and that he merely acted as a supportive spouse. Not so.”
Reynolds’ reps fired back, claiming Baldoni’s case is legally flimsy, saying, “The entirety of Mr. Baldoni’s case appears to be based on Mr. Reynolds allegedly privately calling Mr. Baldoni a ‘predator,’ but here is the problem, that is not defamation unless they can show that Mr. Reynolds did not believe that statement to be true.”
As for Rise Doughnuts, they’re still caught in the crossfire. Whether or not the health department finds them in violation, the damage has already been done.
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