Updated 14/4/20: Move over Tom Holland, Jake Gyllenhaal and Ryan Reynolds because USA Gymnastics star Simone Biles is here to show you how to really do the handstand challenge with style.
By now, your Instagram feed has undoubtedly been inundated with endless videos of celebrities and friends taking part in the social media handstand challenge (which involves people taking off their T-shirt and then putting it back on, all while in a handstand against a wall).
However, Olympic champion Biles has taken the challenge one step further and completed it while taking off her tracksuit bottoms, in under a minute, and sharing the video on her Twitter page. Oh, and she didn't even need a wall to help her balance.
‘Simone I have to lay down and have someone else do it normally,’ Chrissy Teigen replied on Twitter.
Reynolds added: 'No.'
From TikTok dance challenges to press up competitions, social-distancing during the coronavirus pandemic has social media users ramping up their daily online activities with their friends.
One person who isn’t here for your physical challenges, however, is actor Ryan Reynolds.
On Thursday, Spider Man star Tom Holland participated in a new, viral challenge on Instagram that sees users attempt to do handstand against a wall, take their top off mid move and then put it back on again.
Holland challenged Reynolds as well as Jake Gyllenhaal and Harrison Osterfield to take on the impressive physical attempt.
However, while the other two actors successfully took on Holland’s request, Reynolds had a rather different, and more relatable reaction.
Reposting Holland’s video on his Instagram Stories, the father-of-three also shared a video of himself reacting to the clip.
Staring into the camera with a confused look on his face, the actor finished the video by saying: ‘No.’
After Gyllenhaal completed the challenge, sporting rather longer hair than normal, the actor nominated Hugh Jackman, 50 Cent and sister Maggie Gyllenhaal to take part.
Reynolds and his wife Blake Lively have regularly kept us up to date with their charitable donations and family life during the pandemic.
Speaking to chat show host Stephen Colbert via video call on Wednesday from their family home, the Deadpool actor revealed that he was quarantining with his wife, three daughters (James 5, Inez 3 and their 8 month old baby) and his mother-in-law Elaine Lively.
'I'm doing my part to wipe men off the earth,' the 43-year-old joked about being the only man in the house but added that he enjoys just being 'with the girls'.
'We're trying to make this an educational experience, but I'm mostly drinking,' he joked before saying that his wife had given him a haircut.
'It took two and a half hours and, at the end, it looked like she'd done the whole thing using only a lighter,' Reynolds joked. '... It would have been faster if she'd just rubbed my head until the hair disappeared.'
So far during the health crisis, Reynolds and Lively have made a $400,000 pledge to New York City hospitals and a $1 million donation to food bank charities in the US and Canada.
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