Who is Blake Lively’s personal trainer Don Saladino? The coach to stars like Ryan Reynolds, Anne Hathaway and Emily Blunt has found himself caught up in the legal row between Lively and Justin Baldoni

In a lawsuit filed in California by Blake Lively, the actress has alleged that her It Ends with Us co-star and director, Justin Baldoni, referred to her personal trainer as “a damn spy”.

According to Lively’s statement: “A few weeks before filming began and less than four months after Ms Lively had given birth to her fourth child, Ms Lively was humiliated to learn that Mr Baldoni secretly called her fitness trainer, without her knowledge or permission, and implied that he wanted her to lose weight in two weeks. Mr Baldoni told the trainer that he had asked because he was concerned about having to pick Ms Lively up [physically lift Lively] in a scene for the movie, but there was no such scene.”

She also alleges that the Jane the Virgin actor shared his grievances against her personal trainer with his production team through texts whereby “Mr Baldoni referred to Ms Lively’s trainer as ‘a damn spy’ and sought to plant stories to portray his concerns as being motivated by his lower back pain”.

In her filings, Lively has also accused Baldoni of sexually harassing and body shaming her during the filming of It Ends with Us.

While the personal trainer has not been named in the court documents, Lively has been working with celebrity trainer Don Saladino for over 13 years. He also trains her husband, Ryan Reynolds.

Saladino’s A-list clients also include Anne Hathaway, Emily Blunt, Sebastian Stan and David Harbour. He’s a doting father to two teens: Amelia, 17, and Donny, 16, and in July 2024 hosted a fitness retreat in Mexico called DonCon24. But what else do we know about him?