Gossip Girl: Season 2 debuts this Monday on The CW, and I recently had the chance to sit down with one of the show’s stars, Leighton Meester.

Meester and I discussed what it’s been like being part of the Gossip PR blitz this past year; what’s to come in Season 2 for her character Blair; and the actresses upcoming guest appearance on Entourage, reprising a role she played in Season 1 of that HBO series as a Britney Spears type pop-singer.

IGN TV: We last spoke right before the show debuted. I assume this has been a very interesting year for you. Obviously, you knew there was going to be some amount of press covering the show, but what was it like when the show premiered and suddenly it was everywhere?

Leighton Meester: You know, I think that we’re just doing what we set out to do, which is make our show. So, it’s really cool and it’s kind of a pleasant surprise, but we always believed in it and loved it, so you just hope for something like that to happen, you know what I mean? So part of me is pleasantly surprised, and part of me feels like it deserves it. • Read full story…