Chelsea Handler Goes There with Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni Jokes at 2025 Critics Choice Awards

Chelsea Handlercracked jokes aboutBlake LivelyandJustin Baldoni’songoingIt Ends With Uslegal battleat the 2025 Critics Choice Awards. While hosting the ceremony on Friday, Feb. 7, the comedian, 49,made remarks in her monologueabout the legal back-and-forth between Lively, 37, and Baldoni, 41, dominating headlines. “I want to acknowledge that we’ve been through a lot lately, not just here in Los Angeles, but our entire country,” Handler said, “waking up every day not knowing what news we’re going to hear that will disappoint or horrify us.

Chelsea Handler Leads an Emotional and Starry Standing Ovation for L.A. Firefighters in Critics Choice Awards 2025 Opening

chelsea handler critics choice 2025.Photo:E! E! Chelsea Handlerkicked off theCritics Choice Awards2025 with more important matter than awards. Thetwice-delayed, Friday, Feb. 7, Los Angeles ceremony, honoring the Critics Choice Association’s top film and television picks of 2024, began with Handler, 49, and the event’s attendees offering a standing ovation to Los Angeles firefighters who were invited to attend. “My hope for tonight is to take our time here together, and use it to remind each other and everyone watching of the resilience and determination that is within all of us when we come together as a community, with a huge debt of gratitude to our honored guests tonight, the firefighters, Red Cross and Habitat for Humanity volunteers,” Handler added.

Chelsea Handler Once Bombed a Life-Changing Set — Here's What Happened Next (Exclusive)

Photo:John Russo; Penguin Random House John Russo; Penguin Random House Comedian, television host, six-timeNew York Timesbestselling author and advocate Chelsea Handler is putting out her seventh book — and it’s coming out just in time to be a birthday present to herself. I’ll Have What She’s Havingdrops this February on Handler’s 50th and much likethe iconicWhen Harry Met Sallyscenethat inspired its title, the book promises to balance the vulnerability and edgy humor Handler’s fans have know and love.

Chelsea Handler Reveals Why Her Friends 'Loved' Her Relationship with 50 Cent — Even If It Was Short-Lived

From left: Chelsea Handler and 50 Cent.Photo: Rachel Murray/Getty Images; Arturo Holmes/ABC via Getty Images Chelsea Handleris looking back on her short-lived relationship with50 Cent. During an appearance on the latest episode of theCall Her Daddypodcast, the comedian, 49, praised the rapper, who she briefly dated after he appeared on her E! talk show,Chelsea Lately, in 2010. “He was beautiful, he was a sweetheart, he was so sweet,” she said of 50 Cent, 49.

Chelsea Handler Says She's 'More Confident' as She Approaches 50: 'There's a Sexual Awakening That Happens'

Chelsea Handler attends ‘Dead Funny: An All-Star Tribute to Joan Rivers’ at the Victoria Theater on Nov. 7, 2024.Photo:Jamie McCarthy/Getty Jamie McCarthy/Getty Chelsea Handleris ready to celebrate what 50 has to offer!In a new interview withParadepublished on Friday, Jan. 3, the 49-year-old comic — who celebrates her next milestone birthday in on Feb. 25 — revealed that she is “pretty into myself right now” as she prepares to mark her next trip around the sun.