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TAKE THAT, TROLLS!

AS AN actress she’s used to criticism – it goes with the territory and she tries not to take it personally.

But this time it’s been extra hard: the cameras hadn’t even started rolling on her latest movie before the trolls started having a go at her.

She was too old, some said. She wasn’t talented enough, others said.

“This is quite possibly the worst casting ever,” yet another declared.

Blake Lively had expected things might be tough – she’d landed the part of Lily Bloom in the eagerly awaited movie adaptation of Colleen Hoover’s bestseller, It Ends with Us, and knew there would be some kind of reaction from fans. But this was next level.

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