Blake Lively apologized on March 22, 2024, for a joke she had posted about the “Photoshop fails” discussion surrounding a Kensington Palace family photograph. Her apology came the same day Catherine, Princess of Wales, announced that she was receiving treatment for cancer. Lively’s original post had also promoted products from her beverage brands Betty Buzz and Betty Booze.
What was Blake Lively’s Photoshop post about?
Lively had joked about the public discussion of possible digital manipulation in a photograph of Catherine with her three children. The post paired that joke with promotion of four Betty Buzz and Betty Booze products, according to The Guardian. The reported context was the photo controversy; the available account does not establish what Lively knew about Catherine’s health when she posted.
Coverage later reported that the original post was deleted. The Guardian quoted Lively’s apology on Instagram Stories: “I made a silly post around the ‘Photoshop fails’ frenzy, and oh man, that post has me mortified today.”
How the photo controversy and apology unfolded
- March 10, 2024: Kensington Palace released a Mother’s Day photograph of Catherine and her three children. News agencies withdrew the image over concerns about digital manipulation, as reported by the Associated Press and The Guardian.
- March 11: Catherine apologized for the confusion caused by the photograph and said, as the Associated Press reported, “Like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing.”
- Before March 22: Lively posted her joke about the “Photoshop fails” frenzy alongside beverage-brand promotion.
- March 22: Catherine announced in a video address that she was receiving treatment for cancer. Lively apologized in an Instagram Story that day, describing her earlier post as mortifying.
What the two apologies addressed
The apologies concerned different things. Catherine’s March 11 statement addressed confusion over the edited family photograph. Lively’s March 22 statement addressed her own earlier joke about the online “Photoshop fails” discussion. Lively’s apology followed Catherine’s cancer announcement on the same date; that chronology does not establish either person’s private motives or what Lively knew before the announcement.
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