Blake Lively Opts Out of Attending 2025 Super Bowl After Splashy 2024 Appearance with Taylor Swift

Blake Lively sat out the 2025 Super Bowl after making a memorable appearance alongside pal Taylor Swift at last year's game.

The actress, 37, who is currently in the middle of a heated legal battle with her It Ends With Us costar and director Justin Baldoni, did not attend the football game on Sunday, Feb. 9.

Swift, 35, showed up to root for boyfriend Travis Kelce's Kansas City Chiefs alongside Ice Spice, who also sat with Lively and Swift last year. Though the Chiefs won in 2024, they lost to the Philadelphia Eagles on Sunday, 22 to 40, at Caesars Superdome in New Orleans.

After she attended the big game in February 2024, Lively documented the outing on Instagram, writing, "Last week I left my kids for the first time ever and wore pants that were shoes. I took pictures upside down and had no clue. I treated a friendship bracelet like a Flat Stanley for my husband like I didn’t realize it wasn’t ‘07. I borrowed more jewelry than the skeleton in the Pirates of the Caribbean ride. And I went clubbing."

The mom of four joked at the time, "Now I know what my episode of the Twilight Zone would look like."

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The ongoing legal battle between Lively and Baldoni, 41, began in December, when the actress sued Baldoni, alleging sexual harassment and a retaliatory smear campaign, which he denied.

On Jan. 6, the actress' legal team said in a statement that her “serious claims of sexual harassment and retaliation” are “backed by concrete facts." They added, "This is not a ‘feud’ arising from ‘creative differences’ or a ‘he said/she said’ situation."

Later, Baldoni filed a $400 million lawsuit against Lively, her husband Ryan Reynolds, 48, and their publicist Leslie Sloane, alleging extortion, defamation and more.

In January, Swift was mentioned in Baldoni's complaint, when Lively referred to the musician as one of her "dragons," using a Game of Thrones reference in an alleged text exchange with Baldoni. Swift, who has a song featured in It Ends With Us, has not spoken out about the legal battle.

Lawyers from both sides came face to face in court for the first time on Feb. 3, for a pre-trial conference, where the judge warned them to refrain from litigating the case in the public forum. Baldoni and Lively's trial is currently scheduled for March 2026.

Lively's next film, Another Simple Favor with Anna Kendrick, will open the 2025 South by Southwest film festival on March 7.