I have uploaded a photoshoots & new scans of Leigthon from EW.

GALLERY LINKS:
- Scans in 2008: EW – December
- Photoshoots in 2009: Unknown

What will Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester’s upcoming debut album sound like?

“The music is very fun,” Meester, 22, tells February’s Teen Vogue. “It’s edgy, like electro-pop rather than bubblegum, and you can dance to it.”

The album — which she first talked about to Usmagazine.com in February — is due next spring.

Take a look at the Gossip Girl cast before they were famous.

Despite her new side gig, Meester has no plans to say bye to her hit CW show Gossip Girl. • Read full story…

Get the inside scoop on Teen Vogue’s cover shoot with Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester. Then flip through our behind the scenes photos and watch the videostraight from the set!

LOCATION, LOCATION: She may play one of Gossip Girl’s most infamous Upper East Siders, but Teen Vogue decided to capture Leighton in the city’s edgier downtown haunts. We snapped her at neighborhood spots like the Keith Haring Pop Art mural and the ax shop Ludlow Guitars. Before she was cast as Blair Waldorf, the Florida-raised actress actually spent part of her childhood in Manhattan. “I love this place,” she says.

TOP DOG: The star brought her terrier, Jack, to the shoot. The pooch, who frequently accompanies her to the set of Gossip Girl, has—like Leighton—become a fixture in the celebrity weeklies.

GAWKER STALKER: The Teen Vogue team was overwhelmed by the swarming crowd and their camera phones, but this was nothing new to Leighton. She has grown totally comfortable with shooting on the New York City streets—and with being Blair. “I don’t want to stop playing the character,” she says. “It would be like part of me going away.”

LEIGHTON, ON HER PARENTS’ HIGHLY PUBLICIZED PRISON PAST: “I wouldn’t have volunteered that information, but I’ve never kept it a secret either. It’s just not my past; it’s not my story to tell.”

LEIGHTON, ON HER CHILDHOOD: ”I wasn’t born in jail; I was born in a hospital. I lived with my mother for a few months in a halfway house, and then I went to stay with my grandmother for a few more before my mom got out. But I had a normal life.”

LEIGHTON, ON CO-STAR ED WESTWICK: “He’s my favorite actor to work with. We have really good chemistry.”

LEIGHTON, ON HER DEBUT ALBUM SHE HOPES TO RELEASE THIS SPRING: “The music is very fun. It’s edgy, like electropop rather than bubblegum and you can dance to it.”

LEIGHTON, ON HER GOSSIP GIRL CHARACTER BLAIR WALDORF’S STYLE SIGNATURE: “I don’t wear headbands, ever.”

Leighton has been seen filming onlocation of Gossip Girl on December 18, 2008. Can’t wait for the next epidsode!

GALLERY LINK:
- Gossip Girl: Season 2 > Filming: December 18, 2008

I’ve uploaded Gossip Girl New York Times shoot taken by Andrew Eccles to the gallery. Enjoy!

GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots in 2008: Andrew Eccles [New York Times]

Attention Upper East Siders: Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester is not engaged.

The New York Post had reported that she and beau Sebastian Stan announced on their “secret” Facebook pages that they’re getting hitched.

But Stan’s rep tells Usmagazine.com, “He is not engaged.”

Another source tells Us that the supposed Facebook pages are fake.

See what Gossip Girl stars looked like as kids. • Read full story…

Leighton Meester and her beau, Sebastian Stan, are taking the next step. A source close to the starlet told us the inseparable lovers are engaged – and they made the announcement on their “secret” Facebook pages. “Gossip Girl” star Meester and Stan have been dating since they met on the set of the show last year, when Sand played a character who was featured in two early episodes. Meester’s rep had “no comment.”

Source: Page Six

New photoshoots of Leighton taken by Jack Chuck for the Entertainment Weekly magazine has been uploaded to the galley.

GALLERY LINK:
- Photoshoots in 2007: Jack Chuck [Entertainment Weekly]

Updated Leighton film scenes onlocation for Gossip Girl on the upper east side on December 9, 2008.

GALLERY LINK:
- Gossip Girl: Season 2 > Filming: December 9, 2008