Sometimes with awards shows the nominees (and at times the actual winners) can’t make it on the night, which might explain why Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds weren’t at the Golden Globes.

Reynolds had his film Deadpool & Wolverine nominated for the Cinematic and Box Office Achievement award, but lost out to Wicked in that category, so he wouldn’t have been expected to get up on stage anyway.

Since Reynolds wasn’t attending the ceremony his wife, who also appeared in Deadpool & Wolverine, was also not really going to attend.Her recent film It Ends With Us was not nominated in any category by the Golden Globes, so unless she’d been booked for a hosting role or to present an award she wouldn’t be going.

According to Deadline, the decision from Reynolds and Lively not to attend the Golden Globes was made well ahead of the growing situation between Blake Lively It Ends With Us director and actor Justin Baldoni.

Deadpool & Wolverine star Hugh Jackman was also not planning to attend the Golden Globes either, so while they had a film nominated at the awards, they had simply decided ahead of time not to attend it.next page