gossip girl (12 posts)

Blake Lively is not a socialite. She just plays one on TV.

"I once heard someone say that I'm similar to Paris Hilton—since I have a dog and blond hair, that must mean we're alike," the Gossip Girl star tells Seventeen. "It's a dumb thing to say. I don't think that makes Paris and me similar...I don't go to clubs, I don't party, I don't dance on tables, and I don't like sex tapes."

All of which explains why the magazine probably asked the grounded 20-year-old actress to appear on not one, not two, but three different covers for its August issue...

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She may not be the subject of a spinoff, but Taylor Momsen is definitely on her way to getting more camera time.

At just 14 years old, the Gossip Girl star has signed a deal to be repped by leading poseur agency IMG Models.

While Momsen has yet to endorse or front any products or brand, it's likely only a matter of time. IMG already has a healthy roster of star talent and is likely hoping to do for Momsen what it did for another teen TV star-turned-prolific spokesceleb (turned pot-possessing arrestee, but we'll forget about that part for now), Mischa Barton.

Momsen now joins fellow IMG talent Drew Barrymore, Heidi Klum, Liv Tyler, Selma Blair and Hilary Duff.

No, she's not audtioning for The Whiz! Gossip Girl star Blake Lively laughed off her pooch Penny's weak bladder blunder while en route to their morning walk. In defense of puppy Penny, If we got to take a walk with Blake Lively, we'd be pretty excited, too.

OMFG. Consider the Gossip Girl word sufficiently spread.

The CW hit received a leading—and whopping—14 nominations this morning for the Teen Choice 2008 Awards.

Chris Brown checked in with nine nods, Miley Cyrus (who will host the ceremony) scored four nods, and perpetual nominee Justin Timberlake racked up three.

Timberlake is the awards' winningest artist, having aggregated 21 surfboards—the event's laid-back hardware of choice—since 1999.

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Attention, Upper East Siders: "Little J" has not left the building.

This is the latest coming out of Camp Gossip Girl after the Hollywood Reporter reported this morning that executive producer Josh Schwartz and his crew are working on a Gossip spinoff, most likely surrounding Taylor Momsen's character, Jenny Humphrey (aka Li'l J), who was the subject of a spinoff series for the Gossip books.

But Schwartz himself says the rumors are not true.

"Not sure how this got out there, but no plans for spinoff at this moment," Schwartz tells me. "The books do have a spinoff, but we have nothing in the works right now other than making sure season two gets off to a great start."

Get all the details in the Watch With Kristin TV column.

Speculation about Blake Lively and Penn Badgley has been running thiiiiis high. Well, the cute couple isn't hiding it anymore.

First came the steamy pics from Mexico, and now the Gossip Girl costars are walking hand in hand around Manhattan. It's not usually a good idea to date a coworker, but since these two look pretty adorable together, we're pretty sure HR will let it slide.

Things are going well on the Gossip Girl set. Too well.

Apologizing for having nothing but “everything’s swell” news to report, Michelle Trachtenberg gives Yo on E!'s satellite radio show a juicy piece of girl gossip:

“I can officially say I am dating Blake Lively.”

Ha. Ha. Michelle’s coming out of the closet. Everyone has a good laugh over this bit of sarcasm. Until...

Perez reports there will be some girl-on-girl GG action on the upcoming show. And the lesbian lip-lockers are none other than (cue trumpets) Blake and Michelle!

OMG! 

Can President Bush possibly be more popular than Star Wars? Judging by last night's Deal or No Deal overall ratings: Yes.

A two-hour Chewbacca- and Carrie Fisher-graced episode of the NBC game show averaged 9.9 million viewers, per Nielsen Media Research estimates.

Last week, a President Bush-graced episode averaged 10.1 million for a 21st place finish in the Nielsen weekly rankings released today.

Bush, 61, is the widely unpopular commander in chief, who pulled a 69 percent disapproval rating in the latest USA Today/Gallup poll, per PollingReport.com.

Star Wars, 30, is the widely popular movie that spawned a multibillion-dollar franchise.

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This just in from the Upper East Side: Sources confirm exclusively that one of the main characters on Gossip Girl is gay—and the way it's revealed will leave your jaw on the floor. (Hint: Scandalous hookup! Yay!)

If you want to find out who is coming out, and who'll be dabbling in a little same-sex tonsil hockey very soon, get the full story in Watch with Kristin...

How awesome it must be to run a magazine and be able to get the nubile young stars of your favorite TV show to pose half-naked in a sexy orgylike eye feast under the headline “Best. Show. Ever.”

Good thing we don’t own a magazine. Our TV obsession is with Golden Girls reruns.

In the upcoming issue of New York Magazine, Penn Badgley, arguably the Bea Arthur of Gossip Girl, reveals that the cast’s sudden notoriety is strange.

“The psychology of celebrity is such a weird and new thing. I think the last time people treated anybody else like this was demigods like in the time of ancient Greece. That was absurd then, and it’s even more absurd now.”

Absurd to compare yourself to a Greek demigod? Yes. Yes, it is.

Maybe Blake Lively can take him down a notch. Here's how the actress describes actor Alan Arkin, with whom she has a kissing scene in an upcoming film:

“He’s a little bit of an upgrade from Chace and Penn.  So I’m looking forward to that.”

Ouch!

Hot dayum! The CW is trying a spankin' new campaign for the return of Gossip Girl (April 21) that's sure to get some attention—good, bad or naughty.

One midorgasm moment being promoted features Serena and Nate putting the F-factor in OMG, while the second one stars Blair and Chuck looking slightly less, uh, rapturous.

It's a brilliant marketing campaign. Heck, we'll be tuning in now. But how do you think the passion gonna play in less permissive markets, even if, as insiders say, the F in OMFG will only appear in select locations? 

First, Blake Lively brought her adorable puppy to the set of Gossip Girls, and now, it seems, costar Leighton Meester is showing off a pooch of her own.

As if Gossip Girls didn’t have enough bitches...