Reese Witherspoon Denies It Was Kate Winslet Who Unfriended Her

By Mike Redmond | Pajiba Love | February 2, 2025 |

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Boy, this story had some surprisingly long legs, didn’t it? On Thursday, Reese Witherspoon revealed that she was unfriended by an A-list friend after accidentally doing a roast at a classy awards show. The internet quickly got to work and deduced that the star who ghosted Witherspoon was most likely Kate Winslet. The evidence from the 2007 BAFTA/LA Cunard Britannia Awards looked pretty compelling, save for the fact that it made Kate Winslet seem uncharacteristically humorless. About that: Reese saw the Kate Winslet headlines and wants to set the record straight that it was not Winslet. In fact, she just got off the phone with her “very dear friend for years,” and they had a big old laugh about this “stupidity.” — So, it was totally Kate, right? Yeah, that’s what I thought, too. (Page Six)

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