Did Legally Blonde Have an Alternate Ending?
On July 8, 2021, Decider, a website that reports on shows and movies offered through streaming services, posted a tweet that characterized a rumor about the 2001 film Legally Blonde as a fact  namely that the movie originally ended with the main character Elle Woods becoming romantically involved with her rival. The source for the rumor above was a story published by the New York Times on the same date as the Decider story. The Times story commemorated the 20th anniversary of the release of the popular fish-out-of-water comedy that follows Elle, a Southern California sorority girl, on her journey to Harvard Law School. In the film she tries to wi her ex-boyfriend back but discovers he is dating Vivian, played by Selma Blair. But the Times story acknowledges that although two of the films actors, Jessica Cauffiel and Alanna Ubach, recalled an ending to the film showing Elle and Vivian becoming involved, the movies screenwriters said its not true:  CAUFFIEL The first ending was Elle and Vivian in Hawaii in beach chairs, drinking margaritas and holding hands. The insinuation was either they were best friends or they had gotten together romantically. [Ubach remembers this as well but the screenwriters say they never wrote that ending.] The movies screenwriter Karen McCullah even took to Twitter to respond to Deciders tweet. This is not true. We note that the two actors who remembered it were not the actors who would have been in the scene (that would have been Reese Witherspoon and Selma Blair). Whatever the case may be, it was never the work of the person who wrote the movie.