Ryan Reynolds responds to Blake Lively unfollowing him on Instagram — and it's as comical as you'd expect

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• Blake Lively recently deleted all of her Instagram posts and unfollowed everyone she had been following before.
• Included in the Instagram purge was her husband Ryan Reynolds.
• Although the act was probably a publicity stunt for Lively's new movie, Reynolds revealed that getting unfollowed "definitely stings."

Recently, Blake Lively struck fear into the hearts of 20.4 million Instagram followers when she abruptly deleted all of her posts and unfollowed everyone except 37 people with the name "Emily Nelson." Even her husband, Ryan Reynolds, got the boot from her feed.

Following the purge, Lively posted a trailer for her upcoming film, "A Simple Favor," which indicates that her Instagram play was little more than some savvy promo for the new movie. See the rest of the story at Business Insider

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