How Blake Lively TRICKED Ex Penn Badgley Into Believing Steven Tyler Was His Dad E- News

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00:00 I am Steven Tyler's son?

00:03 Penn Badgley is sharing the greatest prank ever pulled on him.

00:07 During the May 23rd episode of his podcast, Pod Crushed, the 37-year-old reveals the

00:12 epic prank pulled on him by his fellow Gossip Girl star and then-girlfriend, Blake Lively.

00:18 Somebody thinks or maybe they've convinced, Steven Tyler like thinks he's your dad.

00:24 From Aerosmith?

00:25 Whatever.

00:26 Yes.

00:27 Oh my god.

00:28 And I mean, I don't remember the phrasing, but I remember being like, well, you know,

00:33 didn't even think about it for a moment because who would in their right mind think that that's

00:39 true?

00:40 The actor goes on to detail how his publicist kept him informed over the next few days,

00:45 until she expressed that the Aerosmith frontman himself seemed to believe the rumor.

00:50 So like, he's adamant now.

00:53 And I'm like, and at this point, I of course don't think it's true, but I'm just like,

00:56 how could Steven Tyler believe this?

00:59 Like there's no way.

01:00 You have to be kidding.

01:01 Steven Tyler of Aerosmith thinks that I'm his like.

01:05 Penn, whose parents, Duff and Lynn Badgley, divorced when he was 12, then called his mom

01:11 a Blake suggestion to confront her about the paternity rumors.

01:15 And my mom is so not an actress, so not a prankster either.

01:20 And and she's upset.

01:23 And I'm like, Mom, why are you upset?

01:25 And then she takes a pause that is like, you know, the pause that sold me.

01:32 And she goes, why do you think we moved out of Maryland?

01:40 And I'm telling you, for something like five to seven seconds, which is a long time.

01:47 For something like five to seven seconds, I was speechless and my world was rearranging.

01:53 And I was like, I'm like, I am I am Steven Tyler's son.

02:00 And a fortune.

02:01 However, Blake soon broke her poker face and the jig was up.

02:05 You know, she was a prankster, Blake.

02:07 And so I think I and then I I looked at her and she probably at that point couldn't keep

02:12 it straight.

02:13 Oh, my God.

02:14 Fools.

02:15 And then she just, you know, I feel like there might have been one other person there.

02:17 I don't know who it would have been, but I hear people kind of like laughing and clapping.

02:21 And I guess my mom, too.

02:22 And I was and you know, I was impressed.

02:24 I was like, wow.

02:25 Yeah, you really put in a lot of work.

02:28 Yeah.

02:29 And it worked.

02:30 Blake and Penn dated between 2007 and 2010 at the height of Gossip Girl's early popularity.

02:36 But their offscreen romance was short lived.

02:38 And they both since moved on to new partners with Blake sharing four kids with husband

02:43 Ryan Reynolds and Penn sharing a son and stepson with wife Domino Kirk.

02:48 However, Penn credits their time together with helping him navigate his early days of

02:52 fame, telling Variety in a February 2023 interview.

02:56 To be honest, I never struggled with substance.

02:59 Blake didn't drink.

03:00 And I think our relationship in some ways saved me from forcing myself to go down that

03:04 road.

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