Writer Jessica Pressler talks to the 25-year-old Gossip Girl who everyone wants to dress.

You Know Her From: Gossip Girl. Next Projects: Movie: Date Night; And an Album out late 2010.

GLAMOUR: I’m friendly with Zuzanna, who plays Dorota, and she said you’re extremely loyal, especially to the Gossip Girl “family.”

LEIGHTON MEESTER: We’ve grown up together and we’re close. I mean, if I needed to, I would probably beat someone up for them.

GLAMOUR: Aww. Is it hard seeing yourself in tabloids?

LEIGHTON MEESTER: Just don’t go Googling yourself. But I think if you have haters, you [also] have triple the number of people who believe in you.

GLAMOUR: You enjoy fashion. Does [Gossip Girl costume designer] Eric Daman help you for events?

LEIGHTON MEESTER: Yes, I see what I like from the [runway], but it’s about mixing and matching. Daily life shouldn’t be a fashion show all the time.

GLAMOUR: As a singer, do you have an alter ego, like Beyoncé’s Sasha Fierce?

LEIGHTON MEESTER:To some extent. I’m inspired by fashion, sex, my friends. I love strong, awesome, hot women!

GLAMOUR: Will you ever want to get married?

LEIGHTON MEESTER: No. If it was important to somebody I loved, maybe I’d think about it, but I don’t think that I’m the type. It’s not for me. I believe in love, children and being a good person.

GLAMOUR: Like Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell!

LEIGHTON MEESTER: Yeah, I wouldn’t mind living together. [But] eventually I’ll have to get a separate house for my shoes!

Source: Glamour

Leighton Meester and 90210 sexpot Matt Lanter in a steamy sex scene? Now that’s something to gossip about!

The two CW stars get hot and heavy in the upcoming thriller The Roommate…

“It’s a really exciting love scene,” Lanter, 26, told us Thursday night at Mi-6 nightclub’s Battlefield Celebrity Bracket Challenge in West Hollywood. “It’s kind of kinky, I’ll tell you that. I think people will really enjoy it.”

We imagine filming a kinky love scene could be pretty uncomfortable, but Lanter insists that Meester kept everything at ease. “Leighton’s a really cool girl, so it wasn’t really awkward,” he said. “She’s pretty hot.”

And if those two aren’t hot enough for you, The Roommate also stars Twilight’s hunkiest dead vampire, Cam Gigandet.

Meanwhile, Lanter also filled us in on what’s coming up when 90210 returns on Mar. 9. “We get to see a lot more into Liam’s character and his family life,” Lanter said. “Naomi [AnnaLynne McCord] and Ivy [Gillian Zinser] end up getting into a fight over Liam. They’re literally rolling around on the beach.”

That’s not all for Naomi. “She gets into a big, big scandal that affects everyone at the school,” Lanter said. “It affects Liam. They go through some rough patches.”

Source: EOnline

Leighton Meester is listed as ‘25 Most Crushable Under 25′.

Leighton Meester, 23
If an Emmy was awarded to the television actress most unlike her small-screen persona, Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester just might take the prize. Unlike Blair Waldorf, who was born with a silver spoon in her mouth, it’s been reported that Leighton’s mother was in jail on pot charges when she gave birth to her daughter. Leighton is now on an upward trajectory, taking big screen roles in Date Night with Tina Fey and Steve Carell, The Roommate with Minka Kelly and Love Don’t Let Me Down with Gwyneth Paltrow. She also just released a new single, “Your Love’s a Drug,” off her upcoming pop album. But as far as we’re concerned, Leighton will always be Queen B.

Hugh Laurie is reportedly in discussions to play the lead role in Oranges, a dark dramatic comedy about an older man who has an affair with the daughter of a family friend.

Also said to be circling the project, according to The Los Angeles Times’ 24 Frames blog, are Leighton Meesterand Mila Kunis. If Meester were to play Laurie’s lover, it would be a fitting denouement to a role she had on an early episode of House, wherein she played a girl obsessed with Laurie’s curmudgeon/genius diagnostician.

24 Frames notes that the Oranges script, by Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer, landed at No. 2 on the Black List back in 2008. Produced by Anthony Bregman, the film is being financed by Glen Basner’s Film Nation and Leslie Urdang’s Olympus Pictures.

Laurie, little known to mass US audiences before becoming Dr. Gregory House on the Fox TV show, has had several supporting film roles and, contrary to the LAT blog’s contention that he has never carried a film, starred in UK cult favorite Maybe Baby opposite Joely Richardson in 2000 (OK, it wasn’t a “Hollywood” film…).

That project was written and directed by Ben Elton (with whom Laurie worked back in the Blackadder days) with some scenes directed by Laurie himself.

Meanwhile, both Meester and Kunis appear opposite each other in the upcoming comedy Date Night, which stars Steve Carell and Tina Fey.

Source: Hollywood.com

Leighton Meester is a huge fan of being in love and likes nothing more than falling head-over-heels for someone.

Leighton Meester “f**king loves love”.

The actress-turned-singer likes nothing more than falling head-over-heels for someone, even though she admits she is a “cautious” partner.

The 23-year-old beauty’s recent track with Robin Thicke begins, “Is there somebody who still believes in love?” which, she admits, she does.

She explained: “I love love. I f**king love love. What’s weird is that, from a certain point of view, that song could be about someone who’s jaded, but it could also be someone who has every hope in the world. I think that I’m a little bit of both. I’m very cautious, but I still throw my heart into it.”

However, the ‘Gossip Girl’ star – who is dating her TV co-star Sebastian Stan – doesn’t want anyone to take her song lyrics literally.

She explained to Britain’s InStyle magazine: “I would never want anybody to associate my lyrics with how I am at this moment, because I draw from experiences that aren’t necessarily current. I love to say I live in the moment, but I have a past.”

Leighton is also not ashamed to admit she can be quite a “selfish, insensitive” lover.

She explained: “I can be selfish sometimes, that’s one of my flaws. In love I am selfish, insensitive, but I think love is complicated, more complicated than I’d like it to be. But maybe I’m just complicated.”

Source: Contact Music

Good news if you are a fan of Leighton Meester and Nina Dobrev: Their executive producer has promised to “work on” getting these real-life friends to guest star on each other’s CW shows.

Here’s what Vampire Diaries and Gossip Girl executive producer Bob Levy tells EOnline:

“I love that idea!” Levy said of having Nina guest star on Gossip Girl and Leighton guest star on Vampire Diaries some time in the future. The idea came up while I was chatting with Nina and Levy at a recent press event, and Levy said: “We’re gonna work on that. You have my word.”

Leighton and Nina became friends while shooting the upcoming big-screen movie The Roommate, set to come out later this year. And Nina told me she would jump at the chance to make a guest appearance on the Upper East Side. “Oh my god, I would love to be on Gossip Girl,” Nina said. “I feel like it’s hard to do because we’re both so busy. But I would love to, and I would for her to be on our show. Leighton would make a great vampire, I think!”

The hitch, of course, is working out the logistics, given that Vampire Diaries shoots in Atlanta andGossip Girl shoots in New York. “The trick is tearing Nina away from Atlanta,” Levy explained. “She’s in almost every scene of every episode. So it’s hard scheduling-wise to work that out. But I love that pitch! Good pitch. We’re gonna work to make it happen.”

Nina and Leighton, I usually charge 10 percent commission in such cases, but in this case you can pay us fans with some good crossover TV!

Source: E Online

Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Blair (Leighton Meester) are breaking up.

If you lurk on the right message boards, you’ve already heard this awful news, but I can tell you now that the rumors are true, confirmed and, well, killing me.

My sources at the CW aren’t even trying to make me feel better about this horrible twist. Insiders tell me, “It’s a bad, bad breakup.” Ugh!

Apparently, after almost a full season of near bliss between Upper East Side soul mates Chuck Bass and Blair Waldorf, when the happy romantic scenes are finally snatched away from us, the culprit will be Chuck. • Read full story…

GOSSIP Girl star Leighton Meester and some of her co-stars caused a restaurant row after they disturbed others with their foul language and F-word rant.

The New York Post reports that certain cast members of “Gossip Girl” behaved exactly like the obnoxious, ill-tempered rich kids they play on TV at Philippe. • Read full story…

Certain cast members of “Gossip Girl” behaved exactly like the obnoxious, ill-tempered rich kids they play on TV at Philippe Tuesday night, according to a fellow diner. Leighton Meester, Ed Westwick and a posse of their pampered pals barreled into the trendy East 60th Street eatery, cursing and talking so loudly that other customers complained, a source told The Post’s Jennifer Fermino.

When one man at a table of lawyers and investment bankers politely asked Meester to watch her language, she allegedly shouted, “f – - – you! How dare you tell us to keep it down?” The spy added, “Other girls in their party were being really nasty, too.” Finally, Westwick jumped in and pleaded for peace, saying, “Don’t worry about my friends,” and, “We should all be happy. Let’s hug it up, guys.” Our witness ended up hugging affable Westwick. Reps for the actors didn’t get back to us and Philippe staff declined to comment.

Source: NY Post

Leighton Meester and Blake Lively were among the Gossip Girl stars who hit the town in New York last night.

Cast members took a break from filming to attend the launch of Gossip Girl designer Eric Daman’s new book, You Know You Want It.

Understandably, competition was fierce on the red carpet as Blake showcased a pair of slim-fitting leather leggings complete with metal studs.

She finished off her outfit with a loose-fitting black jacket and white shirt. • Read full story…