New Campaign Look?

Thanks to Taylor-Momsen.Net, here is a first look at the rumoured New Look Campaign that Taylor is doing:

Free Pretty Reckless Download

You can download a free copy of The Pretty Reckless “Make Me Wanna Die” here at interscope.com. You just need to enter the promo code gossip. You can also listen to it below:

Taylor Covers Seventeen

Jessica Covers Teen Vogue

Completing the line up of Gossip Girl stars to cover Teen Vogue, Jessica is taking to the Febuary cover. Thanks to TeenVogue.Com, I have added the fabulous shoot to the gallery, as well as some behind the scene pics. Below is also a video from the shoot. If you can’t wait till January 5th, when the issue hit stands, you can read the article online here.

Twenty Most Beautiful People of the Decade

CHACE CRAWFORD
In some ways, he’s a lot like Nate Archibald—a young, rich, extremely good-looking guy living in New York. And soon he’ll be tossing his flawless man-bangs about in the upcoming Footloose remake. The Texas-bred pretty boy is well on the path to American teen idolhood.
CHRISTOPHER BOLLEN: Dallas. Oh, man. Are you really close to your parents?
CHACE CRAWFORD: Yes, superclose. They were really young when they had me. You know, it’s a southern thing. They had me when they were like 21 or 22. My dad was going through med school while my mom was pregnant with my sister. So they’re still young now. I talk to my dad at least every other day. They’ve still got a little hipness left in them. I took my mom out last night. She said, “I want to know what all of the fuss is about.”
BOLLEN: Where did you take her?
CRAWFORD: Well, one of my buddies runs Butter, so he said, “Take her down here. Take her to a nice meal.” I hadn’t been there in ages, but she knew it because it’s been on our show. She was like, “Oh, show me one of those little Gossip Girl places!” I’m like, “All right, if we must.” I also took her out to some local bars that we normally go to.

New Ausiello Spoiler

Question: A little Gossip Girl scoop would make my Christmas wishes come true! –Kirstie
Ausiello: Shortly after the show returns in March, Dan + Vanessa + mojitos = Ay Caramba!

New Kristen Spoilers

Candy in Hawaii: Will Jenny get her knight in shining Armani? I?ve waited so long for Nate and Jenny to happen! Please, please tell me they will be a couple. I want them as my Christmas present!
Here?s what I can tell you. According to my source: ?Jenny definitely will try to steal Nate away? later this season, after Nate and Serena are more of a solidified couple. However, in what has been written so far, I?m told ?Nate is resisting.? That said, it certainly seems as though Jenny has fully embraced the dark side of her Machiavellian ways (will she be worse than Blair ever was?) because according to my mole, the whole Nate stealing is ?going to be pretty underhanded by Jenny. Serena won?t really suspect it for a bit.? So let me get this straight: Little J has screwed over her stepbrother/former BFF and now her stepsister too?! Talk about a character 180 from the first season! Do we have a new Big Bad on the Upper East Side? Are producers trying to make us not like her?

Marlene in Georgetown, Washington, D.C.: Some Gossip Girl news please! Anything big coming up? Deaths? Hookups? Marriages?
Dorota is getting married! Pretty sweet, no? And now that two people very close to Blair have gotten hitched lately (first mom, now Dorota), she has to be next right? OK, probably not. But a girl can dream.

Amanda in Miami: Anything on Jack Bass? Why is he back on Gossip Girl? Is he gonna mess up with Chuckles?
And how. From what I understand, Jack Bass will bring the news to Chuck that his mother is alive. But that may or may not be true. I personally hope it is and would love to meet the mother of Mother Chucker. You!? Who are we thinking could play her? Oooh, what if she turns out to be ?The Man,? aka Lena Olin? Please, Santie [Josh] Schwartz, father of Chrismukkah! Make it happen.

Exclusive: One Of These Five Lovely Ladies WILL Be Hal Jordan?s Girlfriend!

So what is going on with THE GREEN LANTERN movie?

Not much has been heard about the film since they cast Ryan Reynolds as Hal Jordan/Green Lantern and the production was pulled out of Australia.

Well, I did my usual snooping around and I was able to nail down who the five candidates are for the role of CAROL FERRIS ? Hal Jordan?s love interest in the film.

Per the script, Carol Ferris (27) is the daughter of aerospace mogul Carl Ferris. She works for her dad?s company FERRIS AIR, got an MBA, and has a lifetime crush on Hal Jordan.

According to my sources, the five candidates are:

1- Eva Green
2- Keri Russell
3- Diane Kruger
4- Blake Lively
5- Jennifer Garner

Little J’s Big Contract: Taylor Momsen in New Look Campaign?

It was only a matter of time until fashion-set fave, part-time rocker, and Gossip Girl actress Taylor Momsen roped herself a fat contract from a clothier. On top of her high visibility, the 16-year-old has had people waxing both good and ill about her wardrobe choices, a perfect reason for a canny company like New Look to sign the prodigy. Indeed, Nylon tells us that “Little J” might be shooting a campaign for the Brit retailer. Details are still unconfirmed at this time, but someone has to pick up this valuable free agent who, even at her tender age, has the makings of a media troublemaker without equal. Garter belts, tour buses, and night-club raging all before legal adulthood? You know some marketer is gonna jump on this ground-floor investment soon.

New TV To Talk About Promos

Just Jared’s New Year’s Bash — Details Revealed!

JustJared.com is throwing the sickest New Year’s party to ring in 2010. The fun-filled extravaganza kicks off on Tuesday (December 29) and runs through Friday (January 1).
New Year’s Eve will be hosted in Miami by Twilight stud Kellan Lutz and G4’s Attack of the Show host Olivia Munn!
Performances by: Boys Like Girls, Leighton Meester, Hey Monday, Kid Sister, Steel Panther (formerly Metal Skool), and many more to be announced!
Everyone’s invited!!!!! More details at JustJared.com/NYE!

Amy Astley to guest in Gossip Girl

ROLE CALL: Looks like Amy Astley is ready for her “Gossip Girl” close-up. The Teen Vogue editor in chief spent Tuesday with Blake Lively and company on location at the IAC building filming a scene for the CW soap that is tentatively slated to air in March. In it, Astley will appear as herself while attending a show for character Eleanor Waldorf’s new junior clothing line. (Astley tells Waldorf she’ll be giving the collection good ink in the magazine.) Real-life social fixture Helen Lee Schifter and Schifter’s 14-year-old daughter, Storey, also will make guest appearances in the episode. Astley joins a growing list of fashion personalities who have been featured on the series — including Michael Kors, Tory Burch, Tinsley Mortimer, Georgina Chapman and Nacho Figueras. A spokesman for Teen Vogue said Astley was initially approached by the show’s producers and has no plans to write about her experience in an upcoming issue.

Penn Badgley, Producer

This is SO major. Our good friend Hilton Carter has directed a short film called Moth. The film was done with the help of Evan Guidera under the umbrella of their production company Fresh Kill, which you’ve seen us mention on here before. They have been responsible for amazing videos by Shawn Jackson, The Mighty Underdogs and Iglu and Hartley just to name a few. And of course Hilton directed this little number. I can’t speak on the film because I haven’t seen it my self but you definitely want to be in the place for the premier. I’m so proud of these guys for their hustle and their amazing talents. The film was produced by Penn Badgley of Gossip Girl and The Stepfather fame.
Hope to see you Dec. 4th.
~E Major

Leighton Meester: New Year’s Week With Just Jared!

Scope out this sexy new shot of Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester, who will be spending New Year’s week with Just Jared.
Want to know more about the big announcement? Details tomorrow at noon. STAY TUNED!!!!!
“Yesterday’s show in Miami was incredible,” Leighton tweeted about her Y100 Jingle Ball performance on Saturday. “Thank you!!”
The 23-year-old singer/actress continued, “I’ll be returning later this month because I love you sooo much.”

Chace Crawford Covers WWD Beauty Biz

Chace Crawford looks white hot on the latest cover of WWD Beauty Biz, photographed by famed photographer Tony Duran.
Writer Nick Axelrod opens the cover piece by saying, “Like the Pussycat Dolls or Brad Pitt, Chace Crawford is the kind of perfect human specimen that should be freeze-dried and put in a time capsule so that, in several thousand years, whatever manlike species can get a sense of just how good we looked.”
WWD speaks the truth!

See more pictures here

New Gay Romance?

Serena’s younger brother Eric is to get a new boyfriend in an upcoming storyline, rumours suggest.




According to Entertainment Weekly, producers are currently casting for a new recurring character called Elliot, described as an “attractive, upscale, scruffy 16-year-old” who “lives in Eric’s building”.



Since coming out as gay in the first season, Eric has had an on-off relationship with classmate Jonathan Whitney.

Gossip Girl’s Josh Schwartz: Chuck and Jenny Moving to Forefront

In Part 2 of our interview with Chuck and Gossip Girl executive producer Josh Schwartz, we discovered that the big hubbub over the threesome is the least of Gossip’s worries. Schwartz tells TVGuide.com that there’s another story line that will cause quite a stir when the show returns and it involves one of the people pictured here. Get the scoop on that, the progression of Dan (Penn Badgley) and Vanessa’s (Jessica Szohr) relationship, Serena’s (Blake Lively) daddy issues and more …




TVGuide.com: What are you gearing towards in the season’s second half?

Josh Schwartz: You’re really going to see a real emotional arc from Chuck [Ed Westwick]. I think Jenny [Taylor Momsen] and Chuck are really going to be driving a lot of story as we move into the back half of the season.



TVGuide.com: Jenny and Eric (Connor Paolo) called a truce in the last episode. Will that actually stick?

Schwartz: They’ve called a truce with each other, but Jenny’s troubles are just beginning. She’s still very much a teenage girl, she’s grown up with these kids who are older than her and always wanted to be a part of that, but she’s going to find out that she’s not quite as adult and grown up as she thinks she is.



TVGuide.com: Blair (Leighton Meester) and Chuck’s relationship seems to be going smoothly this season.

Schwartz: Yeah, although there was that moment at the end of the episode where Chuck saw that mysterious woman at his father’s grave. That’s really going to be a big part of it. We really want to move Chuck back into the forefront of the ensemble for a portion of these back episodes. You’ll have to watch and see if it’s his mother.



TVGuide.com: Serena seems to be lost this season, with jumping from guy to guy and switching careers.

Schwartz: Well, she was trying to find her dad, and failing that, there’s certainly an issue she’s been dealing with in finding men in her life that will fill that void. She’s lurched from guy to guy as she’s trying to make sense of that missing figure in her life.



TVGuide.com: Will she be able to redeem herself?

Schwartz: That is her journey for the rest of the season. It’s a journey of redemption and maturity and understanding why she’s doing the things she’s doing and taking back control of that.



TVGuide.com: Will she continue to mess up along that journey?

Schwartz: Oh yeah, tons. It’s Gossip Girl.



TVGuide.com: Are we going to meet Mr. van der Woodsen this season?

Schwartz: We are going to continue to explore Serena’s quest for her father. Obviously he resurfaced in Lily’s [Kelly Rutherford] life and was in that letter that caused so much controversy at Christmas and Thanksgiving. That has definitely been set up.



TVGuide.com: Why did you decide to pursue the Dan and Vanessa story line this season? It can obviously become very complicated being friends.

Schwartz: Yeah, and that’s going to be something that they’re going to explore. They’ve been friends for so long. She had feelings for him awhile ago and then he discovers he has feelings for her. Can they have feelings for each other and still remain friends is going to be a big question that we’re going to tackle. I really like them together. I think you can bet on them exploring the complexities of their friendship.



TVGuide.com: There was a lot of controversy surrounding the threesome among Dan, Vanessa and Olivia (Hilary Duff). It wasn’t as crazy as people were making it out to be.

Schwartz: We were surprised when it generated as much controversy as it did. Especially in that first episode, it wasn’t so outrageous and a shock to the world. I actually really liked it because I thought it felt very, very real and tentative and it had big emotional repercussions for the characters. I like the way the writers designed it and it wasn’t just for shock value, but was actually being done to move story and explore these character dynamics.



TVGuide.com: Do you see any futures episodes of plot lines that will cause this kind of controversy again?

Schwartz: Keep your eye on little Jenny Humphrey.

WWK Spoilers

Maurice in Pittsburgh: What the what? I just read Josh Schwartz’s quote that Jenny and Chuck have something coming up on Gossip Girl. Please tell me Little J is not coming between Blair and Chuck. I’ll die!
Your life is spared. An inside source tells me that Jenny and Chuck don’t really have any big storylines together this season, so I’m assuming Josh meant Jenny will have a big storyline and Chuck will have a big storyline, but they are not the same storyline. Chuck’s story involves the possible surprise return of his believed-to-be-dead mother (and Jack Bass), and Jenny’s involves another couple she comes between…guesses?

Wanda Two Saints: Kristin, are you really not going to tell us who Jenny will be interfering with? That’s low, even for you!
Only because I like old friends with bad glasses, I will reveal that Jenny is going to “get in between Nate and Serena,” according to my rock-solid Gossip Girl source. We likey? We hatey? I’m thinking more of the latter…

Drew in St. Paul, Minn.: Has Serena’s father been cast yet on Gossip Girl?
Not yet. But he’s coming before the season ends.

What We Want For Christmas Is Exactly This Same Freaking Gift

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Leighton performing at the Jingle Bell Ball

The Making of Somebody to Love

Leighton playing at Playhouse Hollywood on Saturday

Promo

New Spoilers

eonline.com:
Noelle in Normal, Ill.: Gossip Girl Insider says that a new episode will be on Jan. 4. They are liars, right?
Perhaps misinformed? We’re told that after tonight’s episode, the next new one will be Monday, March 8, per the show’s CW rep. In other more exciting Gossip Girl news, I’m told Serena’s father will come back sometime toward the end of the season. And sadly, for all you who write in week after week asking if there will be some hot and steamy Chuck and Blair sex scenes coming up, I’m still not hearing of anything scantily clad or scandalous. Now you know what to ask for from Santa!
ew.com:
Question: Who was she the woman standing over Bart’s grave on Gossip Girl? Was it Chuck’s mom? –Randi
Ausiello: First off, the grave stalker has a name, and it’s Laura Harring (The Shield). Second, yes, she will reveal herself to be the Bass family matriarch when GG returns in March. Something about this makes my impostor antennae go up though. Call me a whore for stunt casting, but if and when Chuck’s mum returned from the dead, I always imagined producers would go for a big name. You know, like Michelle Forbes. Who’s with me?

A new video of Leighton singing at the Jingle Ball

Leighton Meester Says Album Will Drop In Early 2010

While Leighton Meester’s “Somebody to Love” single and its Robin Thicke-starring music video have been in heavy rotation, the “Gossip Girl” star isn’t quite ready to drop her debut album.




“You know, it’s weird — I’m still writing. I’m about to start a movie that’s all about country music, so I’m definitely trying to keep them separated ’cause I really am starting to grasp a hold of that and I really love it,” she told MTV News at KIIS-FM’s Jingle Ball concert in Los Angeles over the weekend, adding that she expects her long-simmering LP to drop in early 2010.



“I’m thinking maybe sometime in February or March just so that I have a really good time doing the movie and finishing up ‘Gossip Girl,’ ” she said. “And then I’ll have a little bit of time to tour and really get into it and do a live show.”



Meester, who recently worked with Lil Wayne on the track “Make It Rain,” reveals that there’s one song on the album for all those too-cool-for-school kids out there in the world.



“There’s one called ‘You’re Not as Cool as You Think You Are,’ ” she said. “It’s pretty much about anybody who thinks that the song isn’t about them, you know? And it’s really funny and it’s cute. It’s really poppy — it’s kind of like Katy Perry meets, like, Regina Spektor. It’s really cool production and very sassy.”

New DVD Offer

Online now, if you buy seasons 1 and 2 (together), you get an exclusive rhinstone GG travel mug free, so click here to purchase. It is $79.99 for the 2 seasons.

Adam Lambert To Host Y100’s Jingle Ball with Leighton Meester

American Idol vet Adam Lambert and Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester are set to co-host the Y100 Jingle Ball concert this Saturday (December 12) at the Atlantic Bank Center in Miami, Fla.




Lambert and Leighton will be introducing these hotly anticipated performing artists: Shakira, Timbaland, Jordin Sparks, The Fray, Flo Rida, LMFAO, 3OH!3, Colbie Caillat, Jason Derulo and iYaz. Tickets are available at Ticketmaster.com!

SNL Links

Thanks to Mel and all the lovely guys over at BlakeLivelyWeb, for letting us link to videos from Saturday night's SNL, which Blake Lively hosted.






Blake Lively on SNL – Clip #1 (Introduction)

Blake Lively on SNL – Clip #2 (ESPN Classic)

Blake Lively on SNL – Clip #3 (Tiger Woods accident parody)

Blake Lively on SNL – Clip #4 (Gossip Girl Staten Island)

Blake Lively on SNL – Clip #5

Blake Lively on SNL – Clip #6 (as Cher)

Blake Lively on SNL – Clip #7 (You shoulnd't Eat People's Chips!)

Blake Lively says goodbye and thanks the cast of SNL.

‘Gossip Girl’ gets manga makeover

Yen Press has announced a manga adaptation of the popular teen fiction books and television show Gossip Girl.




HyeKyung Baek (Bring It On) will write and illustrate Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only, which re-imagines the senior year of characters Blair and Vanessa.



Cecily von Ziegesar’s 13-book series debuted in 2002, and has since spawned a successful television series from The O.C.’s Josh Schwartz.



Gossip Girl is the latest in a string of teen fiction adaptations including Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak and James Patterson’s Daniel X.



Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only debuts in the January 2010 issue of Yen Press’s manga anthology Yen Plus.
Yen Press has announced a manga adaptation of the popular teen fiction books and television show Gossip Girl.




HyeKyung Baek (Bring It On) will write and illustrate Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only, which re-imagines the senior year of characters Blair and Vanessa.



Cecily von Ziegesar’s 13-book series debuted in 2002, and has since spawned a successful television series from The O.C.’s Josh Schwartz.



Gossip Girl is the latest in a string of teen fiction adaptations including Darren Shan’s Cirque du Freak and James Patterson’s Daniel X.



Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only debuts in the January 2010 issue of Yen Press’s manga anthology Yen Plus.

‘Gossip Girl’s’ Leighton Meester cast in country music drama

The Upper East Side’s Blair Waldorf is trading her “Gossip Girl” headbands for a cowboy hat — Leighton Meester is headed to Nashville for “Love Don’t Let Me Down.”
“Love Don’t Let Me Down” is shaping up to have an all-star cast. Not only has Leighton Meester signed on, but so have Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw and Garrett Hedlund, according to the Hollywood Reporter.
The story is that a rising country star (Hedlund) teams up with a fallen country star (Paltrow). Their relationship is complicated by the fallen star’s manager-husband (McGraw) and a beauty-queen-turned-country-singer (Meester).
Production begins in 2010 in Nashville. Interestingly, though McGraw and Hedlund play romantic rivals in “Love Don’t Let Me Down,” they played father and son in the movie version of “Friday Night Lights.” McGraw can also currently be seen as Sandra Bullock’s husband in “The Blind Side.”
This is movie will undoubtedly help Leighton Meester’s burgeoning singing career and probably expose her talents to a different audience than the “Gossip Girl” set.

312 Web Clips

Taylor Momsen on Alexa Chung

MTV Shows

312 Extended Promo

312 Trailer

Blake's SNL Promo

New ONE Celebrity PSA Campaign

As individuals, communities and organizations across the globe get ready to mark World AIDS Day 2009, ONE is launching “Coming Together as ONE” — a new PSA campaign designed to mobilize young people to get involved in the fight against extreme poverty and preventable disease. The public service announcements, which debut online today and will first appear on TV during the Dec. 2 episode of Gossip Girl on The CW, feature young stars from some of the hottest entertainment properties.
The spots were created by filmmaker Jesse Dylan who is known for a variety of films, music videos and the Emmy Award-winning “Yes We Can” Barack Obama campaign video collaboration with will.i.am. The PSAs feature actors and actresses Leighton Meester, Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick from Gossip Girl; Ashley Greene, Kellan Lutz, Nikki Reed and Jackson Rathbone from Twilight; Hayden Panettiere from Heroes; Corbin Bleu from High School Musical; Tristan Wilds from 90210; John Cho from StarTrek and Brandon T. Jackson from Tropic Thunder. The :60 PSA is available online to watch and share at www.one.org/buzz. Read more here, visit the site and watch the video below:

Exclusive: “Tension” On Set Of Gossip Girl! Taylor Momsen Is Not Happy With Leighton Meester

What do you get when you take two young, hot starlets, put them on the same hit television show, but only give one of their albums play on that show? Lots of behind-the-scenes tension!




Gossip Girl stars Taylor Momsen, 16 and Leighton Meester, 23 are not only rivals on the show, their competing music is making them rival rock stars as well.



Sources tell HollywoodLife.com exclusively, “Taylor is not happy that Gossip Girl has been playing Leighton’s music on the show, and they have never asked to play any of her songs. It’s creating a lot of tension on set.”



Gossip Girl used Leighton’s songs “Good Girls Go Bad” and “Somebody To Love” during two episodes this season, and the CW show even premiered her music video for “Somebody To Love.” They have never used any of Taylor’s songs.



Taylor’s grunge band “The Pretty Reckless” has not yet released an album, but is signed to Interscope. Leighton’s solo album, with Universal Republic, includes songs with Cobra Starship and Robin Thicke, and is slated to debut in early 2010. Both girls have already released singles online and performed concerts in NYC in the past year.



So why the favoritism towards Leighton’s music? Our source doesn’t know for sure, but one insider said, “Leighton’s pop music fits the theme of Gossip Girl more than Taylor’s punk rock songs.”



A rep for the CW told HollywoodLife.com, “The show will support Taylor and her music when the time is right, but her music is not ready yet.”

Amanda in New York City: I know you said Gossip Girl is gonna get better, and thank god for that, because the show is really awful this season, but could you give us some good Blair and Chuck spoilers? I’m missing them having a big storyline together. I’m so tired of Blair’s NYU storyline. Are they gonna have more scenes together?


Nothing earth-shattering coming up on the Chuck and Blair front, sorry. As I told you here, there is going to be huge drama with Jack Bass returning and the possible return of Chuck’s possibly not-dead mother. (Say it with me now: Mother Chucker!) And Chuck will have a surprising encounter at his father’s graveside on the anniversary of his death. All that said, the good news I can share on Chair or Bluck or whatever clever name you call them is this: Chuck and Blair are not breaking up any time this season, according to my solid source. And they say TV love can’t last!

YRB Magazine: Jessica Szohr

Jessica Szohr really needs no introduction because, whether you’re an in-the-closet follower of Gossip Girl, an obsessed fan that stands outside of every NYC taping (yes, they do have them) or someone who adamantly insists you don’t watch “teen dramas,” she has become a New York City staple via her show, which became a hit almost the second it debuted. Most may know her as Vanessa and, though that’s not her real name, Jessica walks into a room exuding a personality just as down-to-earth and friendly as we see her on TV. The Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin native sat down to chat with YRB about her start in Hollywood, the domination of Gossip Girl and why she promises to never start a music career.




YRB: Was acting something you always wanted to pursue? How did you end up here coming from a village in Wisconsin?



Jessica: No, actually it wasn’t. I had done some catalogue modeling when I was little and then I started working in Chicago and had an agent in New York, and one of my agents along the way while I was in high school was like, “You should go try a pilot season.” But I’m the oldest of five kids, so my mom never could really take me; I wasn’t old enough to go on my own. So when I was old enough to do it on my own, I was like I might as well try it, so I graduated high school a semester early and I thought I was only gonna go to L.A. for five months. I was enrolled to Columbia in Chicago, and I’m like, “Ok, I’ll go have fun with it and start school when I’m supposed to.” And then I went to L.A. and I didn’t leave. I took an acting class with a really good acting coach named Howard Fine and that’s when I fell in love with acting.



YRB: Are there a lot of similarities between yourself and your Gossip Girl character, Vanessa?



Jessica: Um… I mean, yeah there are. Our styles are very different – I would say she’s very funkdafied, I’m much more simple than she is. For me, she’s the most relatable. She is the only one that has a normal job; she’s not growing up on the Upper East Side with $2000 handbags and limos taking her to school.





YRB: If you had the opportunity, is there anything you would change about Vanessa’s character?



Jessica: I’m excited because it’s happening this season, the third season. I was getting a little bit – not upset – but she’s a good loyal person, which is amazing, but I was kind of over her constantly being there for Nate and constantly being the good girlfriend and constantly helping these kids out and then always getting shitted on. So, I was like, she needs to step it up and be that girl from Brooklyn!



YRB: Have you ever had any real life Gossip Girl-like experiences?



Jessica: Yeah, I mean, I always think there’s drama in high school. Um, there was a group of girls that weren’t very nice and I got toilet papered and egged once, and it was like “Model my ass” in ketchup on my dad’s car. I don’t think it was as intense as Gossip Girl, but when that happened to me it was very hurtful.



YRB: Just reading the script for the show you can see how gossiping can spin out of control – how do you feel about finding yourself in the tabloids and as the center of real gossip now?



Jessica: Three things – I try not to look at them, I let things in one ear and out the other when I do hear about them, and I just take it day by day. You can’t take that stuff too seriously, and at the end of the day we’re all normal people. You know, it’s not the coolest thing that people like to put you under a magnifying glass and pick you apart, but if that’s what’s going on with us we just kinda gotta go with it. I love [acting] to tell a story, to give people a break, to be entertaining whether it’s for an hour on a TV show or a two-hour movie, so you never really expect this kind of situation with tabloids, with paparazzi, with photo shoots and all this craziness, ‘cause you’re just doing it to tell a story basically. So when a show does hit like this and becomes a pop culture show with fans all over, you don’t really know how to take it. You can’t really plan for something like this.



YRB: When you joined the cast of Gossip Girl, did you think it would become this influential with so many people? And why do you think it has?



Jessica: I remember seeing the pilot before I came out to do the show, and I remember thinking the music was on point, the energy of the city and all the fashion, and I thought all the actors were totally bringing their game. I was like, “Wow, I think that show’s gonna do well.” There was just something edgy, catchy, cool. And even though the lifestyle that they live is not so relatable to many people, the consequences and the problems and the relationships that everyone on the show goes through is what people go through – parents divorcing and passing away, your first love and breakups, best friends and getting in fights and backstabbing and all that kind of stuff.



YRB: The NY fashion and party scene is such an integral part of the show – is that something that tends to carry over into your personal lives?



Jessica: Um, definitely the fashion part has. In Wisconsin I’d go rummaging with my grandma and my mom and vintage shop and things like that, and coming here I definitely have opened my eyes to a lot more designers and focused a lot more on fashion than I ever have in the past. The parties…yeah, it’s different here with parties and stuff too, there’s a lot more events here than there are other places… You can be social in a lot of ways here.



YRB: You have a new movie coming out, Piranha 3-D. Tell us about that.



Jessica: I think it’s coming out March 10, [2010], and we filmed it in Lake Havasu, AZ for two months, which was ridiculously hot. It was cool to shoot on a boat and be able to be in and out of water, but working on a lake is eerie and dark and we were trying to, you know, get away from piranhas so it was a little creepy sometimes. It was fun; it was nice to get out of the cement jungle for a little bit. It went from, like, crazy NYC cabs and people everywhere to the middle of the desert, so that was kind of a big change. It’s the remake of the 1970’s [movie], and I think it’s gonna be pretty scary.



YRB: What would you say would be your ideal role?



Jessica: Oooo, lots of stuff, everything! I think to play a parent ‘cause I’d have to do so much research, a crazy drug addict would be fun. It’s fun just to do a back-story and figure out who a character is and become them. Playing someone in the political office would be cool. (Laughing) Playing Johnny Depp’s wife!



YRB: Are you working on any other projects? Do you see yourself headed into a music career like some of your other co-stars?



Jessica: We’ll see what happens with other projects when I have a break… To be completely honest, if I tried to do an album or sing I think they would stop music all together. I’m very into music; I’m into the whole indie rock band thing, going to see small shows. But it’s just not for me to try to be a singer by any means.



YRB: Being that this is our “Power” issue, who do you think are some of the most powerful women in the industry?



Jessica: As an actress, I would say Meryl Streep seems pretty powerful. She’s so amazing at what she does; she’s deserved every Oscar nomination that she’s had. I think in the fashion world, Anna Wintour – she runs the fashion world. Singing, I would say Madonna. She’s been in it for so long, she kills it…and brings something new to each album.



YRB: And what do you think it takes to get that powerful status?



Jessica: Hard work, faith. I think faith in life is just good, to have something to believe in and go for. Also, doing what makes you happy. There’s no point in living a life if you’re not going home every night with a smile on your face.

The Debarted Synopsis

On the anniversary of Bart Bass' death, Chuck (Ed Westwick) wrestles with an issue from the past and a serious car accident rocks the Upper East Side. Dan (Penn Badgley) and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) attempt to navigate their newly complicated friendship. When Jenny (Taylor Momsen) is accused of beating up one of her classmates, Eric (guest star Connor Paolo) is faced with a tough dilemma. Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star. Jason Ensler directed the episode written by executive producer Stephanie Savage.

Gossip Girl: A Big Shocker and Why the Show Will Get Good Again!

“I can’t stand Gossip Girl this season! The storylines are boring, the chemistry is gone and even Chuck and Blair have lost their edge. Help! Is there any hope or should I stop watching?”
This email just in from Natalie in Portland, Ore., and Natalie, we have a sweet little Thanksgiving gift for you: It is getting good again. Hands off the delete button on your DVR!
It seems many of you fans aren’t feeling the same love for the Upper East Siders this year, and sources close to the series tell me the creative powers behind it are well aware.
“The producers had sort of a come-to-Jesus meeting where they realized the show was off track and decided to set it right,” one insider who works on GG tells me. “They’re bringing back the OMG.”
So how will they do it? And what major storyline was I—confession time!—dead wrong about?
Well, even though it is true that John Robert Burke (Bart Bass) will be coming back to Gossip Girl, my speculation that Bart might actually be alive is not true. “He’ll be a ghost,” one source tells me.
But, get this—Spoiler alert!—that doesn’t mean that Chuck doesn’t have a “dead” parent who might not be so dead after all!
“There’s a huge storyline later this season that is going to blow you away,” promises my source. “And it involves Chuck, Jack Bass and Chuck’s mother.”
Also making a comeback? Serena’s father. “We will see him this season,” says the source. “But he hasn’t been cast yet.”
Suggestions?
Whoever it is, he’s going to bring with him another major storyline arc and mucho trouble for Rufus Humphrey.
Also in the love department, thanks to Chuck’s newfound family dramarama, you can expect Chuck and Blair to heat up again.
And for you Olivia (Hilary Duff) haters, you’ll be happy to hear that she is off the series for good, leaving Dan all by his wonesome to get together with longtime special friend (with threesome benefits) Vanessa.
I’m also told that the long-held feelings Nate has had for Serena (don’t forget the triangle drama that started off the series) will add some pretty deep emotion to their upcoming pairing.
What do you think of Gossip Girl this season? Are you annoyed by the haters or do you agree the show has gone off track? And how does the new direction sound? Comment below!

New Spoilers

Question: Two weeks without any tips for my favorite show is way too long for me. What can you tell me that I don’t know about the remaining Gossip Girl episodes before the super-long three-month hiatus. And I already know Bart is coming back, so give me something new. —Sylvie
Ausiello: In next week’s eppy, it’s Thanksgiving Day! If you’re Serena, you’re especially thankful this year because you’ve had two not-so-bad-looking dudes pining after you. This Monday, she makes her choice and leaves her reject by the curb, literally.
Question: You’ve been really slacking on the Gossip Girl scoop, any exciting news? – JLa
Ausiello: Also in next Monday’s episode, someone finds out they’re pregnant. That’s considered “exciting news,” right?
Question: I need Gossip Girl info. —Jude
Ausiello: Hey, Jude, here’s what I got: You know the letter from Serena’s dad that Lily has been hiding? It’s going to fall into the wrong hands. (Hint: Said wrong hands belong to *a****n.)

The Performance: Blake Lively

Looking very much like the fashion plate celebrated in magazines, complete with stylishly unruly blond mane and plunging black leather-like jacket, Blake Lively sits semiformally on a couch in a suite at the Luxe Hotel. Piled on the table before her: posters of her new movie for signing. Piled on her lap: fruit and dark chocolate.
“Want some?” she asks, true to her last name. “It tastes like Easter.”
Heretofore known for teen-ish roles, Lively covers 10 turbulent years of the title character’s younger incarnation in “The Private Lives of Pippa Lee.” Rebecca Miller adapted and directed her own novel, which navigates the churning beneath an apparently ideal suburban wife’s placid surface. Mature Pippa (Robin Wright) accepts her stagnant marriage and daughter’s indifference with pretty stoicism; any other punches are met with homemade rolls. Young Pippa, in flashback, learns hard lessons on the way to that perceived perfection.
“Pippa’s mother is a drug addict,” says the 22-year-old Lively. “You see your mother as your mother; that’s all they are. But this realization that she’s a human being who makes mistakes, that is flawed, that is selfish, is really hard for her. And you’d think the last thing she would do would be to [make those same mistakes], but it’s really interesting to see how people repeat the cycle of abuse.”

Unlike Pippa, Lively remains very close to loved ones from her Los Angeles and Valley roots. But the newly minted New Yorker kept her enthusiasm for this project to herself, before the audition.
“I didn’t tell many people about it because I wanted this job so much and I knew everybody would just be so excited and so want me to get it, and be so disappointed if I didn’t. I was going to be disappointed enough in myself. All of the cast had signed on by the time I read the script, so I was able to imagine these actors playing the characters.”
Among those actors firing her imagination: Alan Arkin, Maria Bello, Monica Belucci, Zoe Kazan, Julianne Moore, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder.
“Rebecca, who’s just the most beautiful, intelligent, intuitive writer — to work with her and the cast, and have this role, this decade arc. . . . ,” says Lively, brightly. “And especially being a young female, the issues that we deal with [on-screen] are often so materialistic.”
To play the part — to get the part — Lively had to distance herself from those “young female” roles that made her famous.
“I’m sitting in the audition room and the casting director says, ‘Oh, Rebecca, she’s on “Gossip Girl,” you would love this show!’ Rebecca said, ‘Oh, actually, I’ve never seen it because I live on a farm in Ireland with my husband; we don’t have a TV.’ And I thought, ‘Goodness, somebody who lives on a farm in Ireland with Daniel Day-Lewis probably would not love “Gossip Girl.” ‘ ”
She seized the advantage of anonymity to tackle the audition scene, one of the script’s most demanding:
“I take my mother’s entire bottle of Dexedrine and I’m sitting in a 4-foot-by-4-foot room in front of Rebecca Miller, having to dance like I’m out of my mind on speed and screaming and crying, fight with this woman I’ve never met before who’s reading lines with me, and I’m shoving her and she’s pushing me. It was very intense. I just had to let go and do it.”
Lively and Wright didn’t have any scenes together, so they had to rely in part on each other’s dailies to understand their respective other halves. Mostly, they relied on Miller.
“Rebecca has been living with Pippa for like, seven years now. Robin and I didn’t get to spend much time together at all. So I just had to trust Rebecca 100%, and I did, that we were going to seem like the same person.
“Younger people’s problems are usually portrayed as juvenile and trivial, so this really was a dream project. I still can’t believe that I’m sitting here looking at this poster and promoting this movie. It’s so surreal and exciting.”

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

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Leighton Meester: Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)

Leighton Meester has already gotten into the holiday spirit, with her own rendition of the yuletide classic, “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)“. The song is currently available for digital download on iTunes as part of the collection, A Very Special Christmas 7.
Today, Leighton will stop by The Alexa Chung Show to give a special performance of her hit song “Somebody to Love”. Tune into MTV at 3:30pm EST!
Listen to “Christmas” below!

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A Very Special Chirstmas

You can now buy “A Very Special Christmas Volume 7″, which Leighton appears on singing “Christmas (Baby, Please Come Home)”. You can preview the song at amazon, were you can also buy the full album, or just Leighton’s song. You can also download the track from itunes.

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Monica in New Orleans: Anything good coming up on Gossip Girl?


Chuck is going to visit Bart’s grave on the anniversary of his death, and when he gets there, he won’t be the only one paying his respects. Any guesses on who’ll pop up? I’m hearing that not one but two family members could be making surprising returns.

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It wouldn't be Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side if there wasn't a serving or two of some major drama for the holiday. Blair (Leighton Meester) suspects her mom (guest star Margaret Colin) has been keeping a big secret from her, but it turns out to be something else entirely. Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) is supposed to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, but has a fight with her mom (guest star Gina Torres) and shows up on Dan's (Penn Badgley) doorstep. Rufus (Matthew Settle) learns that Lily (Kelly Rutherford) has been lying to him about her mother, Cece (guest star Caroline Lagerfelt). Chuck (Ed Westwick) tells Nate (Chace Crawford) that he has some potentially damaging information about one of their friends. Jenny (Taylor Momsen) learns that Eric (Connor Paolo) was behind her very public embarrassment at Cotillion and can't pass up a chance to get even. Serena (Blake Lively) is put in a very awkward position when her mother invites Trip (guest star Aaron Tveit) and Maureen (guest star Holley Fain) to join them for Thanksgiving dinner. The episode was directed by Mark Piznarski directed the episode written by Robert Hull & Joshua Safran.

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Monica in New Orleans: Anything good coming up on Gossip Girl?


Chuck is going to visit Bart’s grave on the anniversary of his death, and when he gets there, he won’t be the only one paying his respects. Any guesses on who’ll pop up? I’m hearing that not one but two family members could be making surprising returns.

Blake to present SNL

Saturday Night Live (SNL) has been on air since 1975 and is currently running in its 35th season. The current SNL update shows that the coming episodes will feature Blake Lively on Dec. 5, along with the music star Rihanna, TBA with Bon Jovi on Dec. 12 and Derek Jeter as the host on Dec. 19 with TBA as the music guest. The latest show on Nov. 21, marked the 665th episode of the show.

Leighton Meester Hooks Up With Lil Wayne To ‘Make It Rain’

NEW YORK — She already made “Good Girls Go Bad” with Cobra Starship and looked for “Somebody to Love” with Robin Thicke. Now Leighton Meester’s about to “Make It Rain” with Lil Wayne.
Yes, Lil Wayne.
The “Gossip Girl” star revealed her latest collaboration to MTV News before performing at the new American Eagle store in Times Square on Tuesday night, where she sang a medley of cuts off her yet-untitled album, including a remix of the Cobra Starship track.
“I met [Wayne] a few months ago, and he’s honestly — I don’t even know if he’ll want people to know that he’s incredibly polite and respectful,” she said about the hip-hop wunderkind, with whom she actually presented the award for Best Song From a Movie at the 2009 MTV Movie Awards. “He’s so talented and very funny. And really optimistic, and super supportive of me, which I’ve really, really appreciated so much.”
It seems that since their meeting a few months back, Wayne’s been a fan of Blair Waldorf’s budding discography — and even picked which track he’d be featured on. “I sent him a couple of my songs,” she said. “He’s been diggin’ on them for a while. Then he heard ['Make It Rain'], and he was like, ‘All right, I’m gonna kill it!’ ”
While many musical partnerships can be conducted without both artists being in the studio together, Meester and Weezy got some face time during the song’s recording — a feat for any artist, considering Wayne’s notorious nocturnal office hours.
“It was like, literally, 4 o’clock in the morning,” Meester said of the time she showed up at the studio to watch Wayne work himself into her song. “He was so sick — he didn’t even write anything down. He just, like, vibed to the music and dances. I don’t even know how he does it; he’s amazing.”

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Hilary Duff Is Gone From Gossip Girl; Find Out Who’s Hooking Up Next!

Ladies and gentlemen (and gentlemen who sleep with two ladies), Hilary Duff has left the building!
That’s what I’m hearing from Gossip Girl sources, that the Duffster (Olivia) is no longer a part of the CW series and there are no plans for her to return this season.
Will she be missed? The jury’s still out.
So now that things have gotten all messy on Gossip Girl thanks to that two-week-long threesome (talk about a workout!), what will happen next?
Are Nate and Serena really on?
Who’s gonna be smooching Dan?
And what does Jessica Szohr (Vanessa) have to dish about filming the threesome with Hilary and Penn Badgley?
According to sources, Dan and Vanessa are most definitely on. They will be getting together this season.
Ditto Nate and Serena, who will become a bona fide couple.
Rufus and Lily will have a major problem (Serena’s father).
And Chuck and Blair will be going strong.
We happy?
As for all that hullabaloo over the Dan-Vanessa-Olivia threesome, Szohr told us last night at the American Eagle Times Square store opening in New York City that she was shocked it was made into such a big controversy.
“We got emails from the network explaining how it was going to go down and what was up,” she explained of the threesome. “And I was a little nervous, but I didn’t think that it was going to be made into actually the deal that it was. They were very fun and professional to work with, both Penn and Hilary, and we had a fun time. We were simple and easy, and I hope people enjoyed watching it.”
Jessica showed up to support her friend Leighton Meester, who apparently also appears on the same show. (Anyone heard of her?) Leighton was performing to promote her new album, and when we asked Jessica if she might also be into cutting one soon, she replied:
“If I started to sing or tried to do a music career, they would stop all music, all labels, all everything. I cannot sing to save my life.”
Jessica be funny. Who knew?
Which Gossip Girl couple are you now rooting for? And will Hilary Duff be missed? Comment below.

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People's Sexiest Man Alive Issue

In case you haven't already seen it, Gossip Girl's Penn Badgley and Chace Crawford are in People's Sexiest Man Alive 2009 issue! The issue hits newsstands this Friday, Nov. 20.




The guys are in a section of People's annual Sexiest Man Alive issue called "Moments."
 
For more on People's Sexiest Man Alive 2009, go to http://www.people.com/people/package/article/0,,20315920_20320494,00.html?xid=111809-ecmail-sma or pick up a copy of People magazine, on newsstands Friday, November 20.




For more on who else made People's Sexiest Man Alive 2009 issue, go to http://www.people.com/people/package/gallery/0,,20315920_20320457,00.html?xid=111809-ecmail-sma

Early Morning for the GG Cast

Filming scenes for their hit CW show, the “Gossip Girl” gang was spotted in New York City early Wednesday morning (November 18).




Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, and Ed Westwick were all dressed to the nines and gathered on the streets of the Big Apple to begin shooting the early morning scenes.



Ms Meester seemed to be bright eyed even though she was spotted out last night with co-star, Michelle Trachtenberg, at the American Eagle Outfitters flagship store preview party.



In related news, Leighton recently opened up about her newly-released video for “Somebody to Love” featuring Robin Thicke, saying, “It’s basically going through … a sexy day in my life. We start off in the car, we come in, I keep on fantasizing and dreaming that I’m with somebody I can love.”

Obsession of the Year

Right, we know, we hear you: the girl from Gossip Girl? There isn’t a single self-respecting male who watches the CW’s lusciously bitchy comic soap about juvenile stylistas navigating the social spiderweb of New York’s Upper East Side. Or at least that’s what we hear it’s about—because, of course, we have never seen this Gossip Girl, and honestly, we had to ask a young woman at work, because we’re always riveted by Ultimate Fighting and chain-saw competitions.




“Guys are like, ‘My girlfriend watches it, so I watch it,’ ” Meester says. “But sometimes they watch it on their own. Someone came up to me recently and said, ‘I’m a Washington, D.C., police officer, and I tell everybody I’m busy on Monday nights—but I’m really watching the show.’”



If you’re still pretending you don’t, Meester, 23, plays the decadent heiress Blair Waldorf, whose acid bons mots (”Haven’t you heard? I’m the crazy bitch around here”) float in the air like the cigarette smoke she’d surely exhale if the CW would let her. Gossip Girl is a showcase of unnatural beauty, but the delicate Meester stands out. In person, Meester is free of pretension, arriving for a breakfast interview at Manhattan’s Chelsea Piers wearing a pair of thick glasses that Tina Fey might reject as being too clunky. This is the paradox of the Meester-verse—”Blair is so controlling and such a worrier; Leighton is relaxed,” says co-star Ed Westwick—and it surely speaks to her un-Park Avenue origins. As the tabloids giddily reported last year, Meester was born to a mother who was incarcerated at the time on pot charges, and she has spent the better part of her life on earth shuttling, Gypsy-like, from cramped apartments to soul-sucking auditions. Gossip Girl is the first stable job she’s ever had.



“I’ve finally unpacked,” says Meester, who next year will appear as Steve Carell’s babysitter in the romantic comedy Date Night. “I didn’t expect anything. I’m always like, ‘Is the show going to get canceled?’ ‘Am I going to have to move?’ It’s hard to have any kind of luck in this business.”



Meester lunges for a strip of bacon. Another one of her Gossip co-stars, Chace Crawford, has declared she’s a “guy’s girl.” Meester allows that she’s “not high-maintenance,” and while she won’t bullshit you with a Super Bowl prediction, she can give you five detailed minutes on Ray Liotta in GoodFellas—well, maybe not the whole movie, but one very specific moment in Martin Scorsese’s Mob classic. “It’s the look Liotta gives Debi Mazar in the bedroom,” Meester says. “He’s just thrown his girlfriend onto the bed, and when she runs out, he gives this look to his girlfriend’s friend—Debi Mazar—as he’s coming off the bed….” Meester blushes and fans herself with her hand. “It’s the sexiest thing.”

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Drew in Walhalla, S.C.: I’m a freak for Chuck and Blair on Gossip Girl! Tell me they aren’t going to break up any time soon.


They aren’t. It’s actually Rufus and Lily’s relationship that will be in a very bad place until the end of the season. From what I understand, it all stems from a letter that Serena’s father is going to send her. And of course, it doesn’t help that Bart Bass is back in the mix!

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‘Gossip Girl’, ‘Tree Hill’ to go on hiatus

Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill will go on hiatus next year to make room for a new CW drama series, it has been announced.




Life UneXpected, which stars Britt Robertson, Kristoffer Polaha and ER’s Shiri Appleby, will arrive Monday, January 18 in a 9pm timeslot after a lead-in from One Tree Hill.



Tree Hill will then go on hiatus Monday, March 8, with UneXpected taking over its slot. The same night, Gossip Girl will return to its 9pm period.



From April 19, both One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl will resume their respective 8pm and 9pm slots and continue airing until their season finales in May.

Kiss and Tell

Pining after Dan Humphrey, making out with Nate Archibald, canoodling with Chuck Bass – most girls would kill for these opportunities, but it’s all in a day’s work for Gossip Girl’s Jessica Szohr. If there’s one thing the role of Vanessa Abrams has taught the Milwaukee-native, it’s not how to handle boys, “The show has given me a whole new perspective on fashion that I didn’t have before. I’ve always been interested in fashion, but I didn’t necessarily follow it – I’m a lot more aware of trends and designers now.” Szohr reveals that although her character gets some of the most interesting and colorful costumes on Gossip Girl, Szohr is, “more of a jeans and t-shirt girl” in her personal life.


Growing up in Wisconsin, acting was never part of Szohr’s plan; she began modeling at age six and scored her first national commercial when she was 10, but Szohr always intended to go to college, “I didn’t see one movie in particular or pay attention to a specific role or someone’s career and think, ‘I want to be that,’” the actress confesses. “But I already had an agent who kept telling me, ‘you need to go out to L.A. for pilot season, you need to go out to L.A. for pilot season.’ I graduated early from high school so I figured I’d go and give it a shot. I only intended to be out there for a couple of months and then go back to Chicago where I was enrolled for college, but here I am, still working!”



Taking a break from her duties as Dan’s outspoken best friend on Gossip Girl over summer hiatus, Szohr abandoned the drama of the Upper East Side to face a foe even more deadly than catty rich kids – a lake full of man-eating piranhas in Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D. “I play Kelly, the local girl who has a crush on Jake, one of the guys who is back from college and visiting the lake for spring break,” Szohr explains. “She’s kind of over the whole party scene, but she’s liked this guy for a long time, so she steps out of her comfort zone and on to one of these party boats to be close to him. But then the piranhas attack and it all goes a little crazy!”





Describing the challenges of filming on Lake Havasu in Arizona, Szohr admits it wasn’t all fun in the sun. “The heat was usually around 120 degrees every day, which was intense. And at night, on a lake in the dark, imagining there were hundreds of killer piranhas in the water – it was eerie. I learned a lot about myself from all the water scenes, working underwater was a real challenge for me.” Although the lure of spending a summer by a lake was part of the movie’s appeal, it wasn’t the location that attracted her to the role. “I like to be entertained,” she laughs. “I think that this is just a fun, entertaining movie where people can go and be scared.”



And what of her small-screen alter-ego? Szohr remains tight-lipped on the subject of spoilers, bound by strict confidentiality agreements to keep the show’s much-discussed plotlines a mystery, but she is eager to drop a couple of hints.



“Vanessa has gone to college and she’s starting a new chapter in her life – I think NYU is a really good fit for her,” the actress muses. “Hilary Duff is coming on as her roommate; she plays a movie star and because Vanessa is really into filmmaking and movies and she knows about directors and actors, it’s very interesting for her to have this movie star living with her. And some stuff happens with Hilary’s character and some of my friends…” When pressed for details, Szohr laughs apologetically, insisting, “I always want to spill everything and then I get in trouble – it’s really hard to keep secrets!”



Pictures have leaked online that reveal Duff locking lips with Penn Badgley, who plays Vanessa’s best friend, Dan Humphrey, but Szohr will neither confirm nor deny the rumors. Other special guests this season include Tyra Banks, who will be linked to Duff’s character through a movie they are shooting, while Gina Torres will make an appearance playing Vanessa’s mother, “I was really excited to see who they would cast,” Szohr enthuses. “Like, ‘yes, Vanessa’s finally gonna see what her mom looks like!’ And [Gina] was great to work with, she’s such a warm, wonderful person and it was so much fun.”



But why is the elusive Mrs. Abrams finally making her debut after two years of letting Vanessa do her own thing in New York? “Vanessa’s parents live in Vermont and they were okay with her going to the city a couple of years ago to declare her undying love for Dan Humphrey, but we find out that they’re not so approving of the whole college thing, they’re kind of super-hippies,” Szohr explains with a laugh. “Vanessa has to give the freshmen speech at NYU so she invites her mom to come support her; it’s like a really big deal for her to be giving this speech so it’s important that her mom is there to see it. But in true Gossip Girl fashion, things don’t go so smoothly.”



The hype around Gossip Girl has reached fever pitch, with magazines spending as much time dissecting the personal lives of the show’s stars as the eponymous titular character spends gossiping about Serena, Blair and Chuck. But Szohr hasn’t let fame change her routine, insisting, “I like going to shows, concerts, plays, really taking advantage of New York. I do yoga, I like to ride my bike around a lot…” At this, she pauses to laugh to herself before explaining, “It’s funny, I have this old bike which has this über big basket, so I’m riding around with this huge basket and I’m sure people who see me are like, ‘what is this girl doing?’ but my grandparents sent me this bike purposefully so I could put my dog in the basket, so I don’t care if I look ridiculous.”



Although fame may not have changed Szohr, the 24 year-old admits that it has certainly changed the way the world treats her, recounting a recent on-set encounter that left the actress considerably shaken. “I love Hello Kitty,” she explains with a self-deprecating laugh. “And I was coming out of the make-up trailer one day and there was this girl waiting outside the barriers, maybe around twenty, and she had this stuffed Hello Kitty for me. And of course I just took it without even thinking about it, but the security guard on set said ‘I need to see that’ and he started squeezing this toy. I was like, ‘what are you doing to Hello Kitty?!’ but he found something hard inside it. So we had to take it into the wardrobe trailer and ask the wardrobe girl to find the seam, which looked like it had been sewn up a little weirdly – and,” she pauses, sounding scandalized, “He ripped poor Hello Kitty’s head off! But we actually found a speaker inside, and I don’t know what that was about, whether it was an obsessed fan or something. I would’ve just taken this girl’s Hello Kitty home and never known – it was very weird.”



Steering the subject back to safer territory, Szohr evaluates her fashion sense, unable to find a description that fully defines her, “I wouldn’t necessarily say I have a particular style – I’m all about comfort,” she reflects. “I guess I’d say it’s kind of boho-chic? I always think that if an outfit is too put together it loses a little of its personality, I think if people can follow the trends, but put their own spin on it, that’s more important.”

People's Choice Awards 2010 Nominations Announced

The final nominations are in and here are the categories you should vote in for Gossip Girl/Cast:




TV Drama Actress: Anna Paquin, Blake Lively, Jennifer Love Hewitt, Katherine Heigl, Mariska Hargitay.

TV Obsession: “Dexter,” “Gossip Girl,” “The Hills,” “The Secret Life of the American Teenager,” “True Blood.”

Music Collaboration: Cobra Starship & Leighton Meester, “Good Girls Go Bad”; Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat, “Lucky”; Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West, “Run This Town”; T.I. & Rihanna, “Live Your Life”; The Lonely Island & T-Pain, “I’m on a Boat.”



To vote go to http://www.peopleschoice.com/.

Miley Cyrus Crushes on Penn Badgley

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On her current celebrity crush: “Penn Badgley from Gossip Girl. I just saw him in The Stepfather and I’m pretty obsessed with him. I actually didn’t know who he was and I went to see the movie as a joke, because the previews looked scary but I wasn’t sure if it was scary. It was actually a good movie.”

Blake Lively: Back for More “Gossip Girl” Action

Getting back to work on her hit CW show, Blake Lively was spotted on location for “Gossip Girl” in midtown Manhattan on Monday (November 9).




The Serena van der Woodsen actress looked stylish and in high spirits as she cheerfully laughed while shooting a few early morning scenes along the Big Apple streets.



The “Gossip Girl” duties come after a weekend of working in Boston, as Blake is also in the midst of filming the Ben Affleck directed movie “The Town”.



Meanwhile, you can catch Blake and her “Gossip Girl” co-stars in action in an all-new episode airing tonight at 9/8C on the CW.



Titled “They Shoot Humphrey’s, Don’t They”, the latest installment’s synopsis tells: “Not satisfied with just being Queen of Constance Billard, Jenny (Taylor Momsen) sets her sights on becoming the Queen of all the Upper East Side by landing the hottest escort for Cotillion. Nate (Chace Crawford) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) plot to help Serena (Blake Lively) and Blair (Leighton Meester) repair their damaged friendship. Dan (Penn Badgley) is upset when Olivia (guest star Hilary Duff) contemplates leaving school for a movie project.”

The Last Days of DSico Stick Synopsis

Hoping to impress the elitist theater kids at NYU, Blair (Leighton Meester) sets her sights on landing a private concert with the hottest musical performer of the year, Lady Gaga. Dan (Penn Badgley) and Olivia (guest star Hilary Duff) sign up to write and star in a school play, based on an idea by Blair and directed by Vanessa (Jessica Szohr). With Blair out of the picture, Serena (Blake Lively) turns to Nate (Chace Crawford) to help her get through a difficult situation. As a favor to Chuck (Ed Westwick), Jenny (Taylor Momsen) agrees to hang out with Damien (guest star Kevin Zegers), the son of an ambassador who is staying at Chuck's hotel, but the experience proves to be a lot more intriguing than she expected. Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star. Tony Wharmby directed the episode written by Leila Gerstein.