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[ Meg]

Gossip Girl leads this year’s Teen Choice 2008 nominees with 14 nominations!!!

[Isabella]

Wow 14! Thats so loads!! But they do deseve it GG is Amazing!

[Xx-kristi-xX]

Yea, my second favourite show, after OTH ofcourse

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

Mine too!! haha
It's besides OTH even the ONLY show I watch and it's on dutch tv, surprise! haha

[ Meg]

The cast of CW’s cult hit Gossip Girl is featured in the August issue of Vanity Fair, which names “Hollywood’s New Wave” of stars.

Hollywood’s teen titans pictured left to right: Jessica Szhor, Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester and Taylor Momsen.

Notice how on-and-off-screen couple Blake and Penn have their arms tightly wrapped around each other!

Joining Blake on the latest cover of Vanity Fair are actresses Kristen Stewart, Emma Roberts and Amanda Seyfried.

When Penn was asked if he preferred Chuck Taylors or Nikes, he answered, “PF Flyers.”

Check out the rest of the bright young Hollywood stars at VanityFair.com.

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

I LOVE that photo!!
It's so great and fun!!
Thanks for sharing, Meg!!!
I'm glad that Penn and Blake are so close together!! They are so cute!

[Xx-kristi-xX]

I like Blake and Penn together in real life but i'm not such a Derena fan on the show. I prefer her with Nate i think.

I love Blair and Chuck both on screen and in real life

[ Meg]

Yeah I love Chair too, but I love Derena too!

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

Me too, Meg!!

[Xx-kristi-xX]

I'm just 100% in love with Chuck Bass, lol - what can i say i like the bad boys!

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

This is the article of Vanity Fair:

JESSICA SZOHR Age: 23. Hometown: Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin. Jimmy Choo or Christian Louboutin? Jimmy Choo. Chuck Taylors or Nikes? Chuck Taylors. Levi’s or J Brand? “Levi’s, I think!” Favorite designer? “Marc Jacobs, Chanel. And there is a new line called Rose—it’s really good. Just simple, sexy, really cute.” Eli Manning or Tom Brady? “I’m from Wisconsin, so the Packers!” BlackBerry or iPhone? “BlackBerry. iPhones are really hard to type on.” What’s on your iPod? MGMT, M.I.A., the Editors, the Virgins, Kenna. Last book you read? The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying. Xbox, Wii, or PlayStation? “I’m a huge fan of Rock Band. I may almost get carpal tunnel playing the drums.” Were people mean at your high school? “I did a shoot for a teen magazine, and some girls put photocopies of my picture everywhere and they drew on it. They also ketchup’d my driveway and they egged my dad’s car. But now it’s funny because we’re all friends.”

PENN BADGLEY Age: 21. Hometown: Baltimore. Upcoming film: The Stepfather. First “Hollywood” moment? “I got mobbed by 40 to 60 little girls. It took me 45 minutes to walk 20 yards. I feel like for the most part nobody cares about us and it doesn’t seem like a big deal, but every now and then that’ll happen.” Chuck Taylors or Nikes? PF Flyers. BlackBerry or iPhone? iPhone. What’s on your iPod? “D’Angelo, Common, Mos Def, and Talib Kweli’s first albums. I can’t stand all those indie ‘the’ bands.” Favorite book? One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest. Eli Manning or Tom Brady? “I’m a soccer fan. Arsenal is my team.” Who do you dream of working with one day? “Robert Downey Jr. in Iron Man 2.” Favorite drink? Reposado tequila. Girl crush? “Parker Posey. She is so sexy in Blade: Trinity.” High-school experience? “Strange to nonexistent. I graduated early. Everyone is just so painfully vulnerable and self-conscious.”

BLAKE LIVELY [See first photo.]

CHACE CRAWFORD Age: 23. Hometown: Plano, Texas. Upcoming film: The Haunting of Molly Hartley. First “Hollywood” moment? “Signing iPhones. I’m like, ‘Dude, I don’t want to ruin your phone!’ ” Chuck Taylors or Nikes? Puma. Levi’s or J Brand? Levi’s. BlackBerry or iPhone? iPhone. What’s on your iPod? “Ed [Westwick]’s band, MGMT, Bloc Party, Audioslave, A Tribe Called Quest.” Favorite movie? Cool Hand Luke, Jurassic Park. Favorite TV show? The Office, 30 Rock, Family Guy. Last book you read? Confessions of an Economic Hit Man. Eli Manning or Tom Brady? “Come on—Dallas Cowboys.” Favorite drink? Jack Daniel’s. Girl crush? Liz Lemon.

ED WESTWICK Age: 21. Hometown: Stevenage, England. Upcoming film: 100 Feet. First “Hollywood” moment? “The upfronts last year. No one knew who we were but still wanted photos with us.” Chuck Taylors or Nikes? Lacoste. Favorite designer? Michael Bastian. Who do you dream of working with one day? “Jude Law. He is a fantastic spirit and a gentleman.” Favorite movie? “Currently American Psycho.” BlackBerry or iPhone? BlackBerry. Eli Manning or Tom Brady? “Who?” What’s on your iPod? “My band, Filthy Youth. And the Rolling Stones.” Last book you read? No One Here Gets Out Alive, a biography of Jim Morrison. Xbox, Wii, or PlayStation? PS3. Favorite drink? Water.

LEIGHTON MEESTER Age: 22. Hometown: Marco Island, Florida. Upcoming project: Season five of Entourage. Jimmy Choo or Christian Louboutin? Jimmy Choo. Favorite designer? “I’m more a normal person than, like, a fashion girl. For everyday, I like Fluxus—it’s really soft. I really like Foley & Corinna; they do a good mix of vintage and new.” BlackBerry or iPhone? “Why do you assume I don’t have a Nokia pay-and-go phone? No, I have a BlackBerry.” Justin Timberlake or John Mayer? Justin Timberlake. What’s on your iPod? “Gnarls Barkley, the Kooks, and Sean Lennon. I like fun music, too, like M.I.A. She has good things to say.” Last book you read? Madame Bovary. Favorite drink? SoBe Life Water. Hybrid or Escalade? “I don’t know. I used to drive a Volkswagen, a safe Volkswagen.” What were you like in high school? “I was nice. We didn’t have much when I was little.” Were people mean to you like Blair was? “There was always one little girl in each grade that was mean to me. But I was never mean to anyone. I was never like, ‘Ew!’ ”

TAYLOR MOMSEN Hometown: St. Louis. Age: 15. Number of shoes in your closet? “So many. My mom and I are the same size and share shoe closets, so it’s hard to keep count!” Levi’s or J Brand? “Rock & Republic and Earnest Sewn. Whatever fits. I have a really strange body—I’m tall, but I’m all legs, like three-fourths of my body.” Favorite designer? “Diesel for everyday. For dressing up, Valentino, and I love Miu Miu.” Favorite lip gloss? LipFusion. BlackBerry or iPhone? BlackBerry. Justin Timberlake or John Mayer? Justin Timberlake. What’s on your iPod? “Paramore is one of my favorite bands. I have such an eclectic mix of stuff. Garbage is my all-time favorite band. And then I love, like, Britney Spears. I have every one of her albums. Like, I’m a loyal fan.” Favorite movie? “Across the Universe. I saw it nine times.” Favorite TV show? “Law & Order: SVU. I can watch like six in a row, and my mom’s like, ‘You just watched six rape stories,’ but I love how it’s so dramatic, and then when they finally find the guy, it’s like, ‘Yes!’ ” Hybrid or Escalade? Subway.

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[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

Here is an other photo of Blake:


And the text from that article:
BLAKE LIVELY Age: 20. Hometown: Burbank, California. Breakthrough roles: Bridget in Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants, Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl. Upcoming film: Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2. First “Hollywood” moment? “I hope not ever.” Jimmy Choo or Christian Louboutin? “Jimmy Choo and Chanel. I can’t stand it: the security guards know me there.” Levi’s or J Brand? J Brand. BlackBerry or iPhone? iPhone. Favorite guy’s guy? “I’m dating Brad Pitt.” Favorite girl’s girl? Angelina Jolie. Favorite movie? Wizard of Oz, Moulin Rouge!, Romeo and Juliet. Xbox, Wii, or PlayStation? Wii. Madden or Halo? “Guitar Hero for Wii. I had them write it into the show. But I just bought the Rock Band for Xbox.” Favorite snack? “Whatever’s greasier and cheesier the better.” Hybrid or Escalade? “Hybrid. Even if anybody picked the Escalade they wouldn’t say it, ’cause it’d be, like, bombed.”

The rest of the article

[ Meg]

Thanks for the articles Anna.

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

You're welcome, Meg!!

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

This is the cover of the edition of Vanity Fair that has thoses articles in it:

[ Meg]

They all look so pretty!

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

Yeah, they really do!

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

Blake Lively - “Seventeen” August 2008



Blake Lively opens up in the August 2008 issue Seventeen and shares about the crazy things she does with friends, the hot gossip about her co-stars and what’s really going on between her and her GG boyfriend Penn Badgley.

Here are a few choice quotes from the article:

On her real-life high school compared to Gossip Girl: “Oh, my goodness, my real-life high school experience could not be more different than Gossip Girl. Burbank feels like a small town in the big city of L.A. So for a fun night out, we would go to school fund-raisers. I was very involved in school – I was class president! And all of my friends were good – nobody was too wild. The kids on Gossip Girl enjoy getting a great education, but they couldn’t care less about school itself. But I think at the core, everyone deals with similar things in high school: jealousy, people making up rumors, dating someone you shouldn’t, or wanting to be with someone who’s unattainable.”

On her most awkward moment on Gossip Girl: “Chace and I had to do that scene in the first episode when I’m sitting on his lap on the barstool. Then they call, ‘Cut!’ and I just have to sit on the lap of this guy I met two weeks before! And I’m like, ‘So, you want to get some pizza tonight or something?’ What do you even talk about?!? It’s not as romantic as people think it is.”

On playing Guitar Hero: “I play in tournaments in Brooklyn. I’ll cover myself in sailor tattoos and dress like a rock star. Everyone else dresses totally normally and must think I’m a complete freak!”

On being compared to a hotel heiress: “I once heard someone say that I’m similar to Paris Hilton – since I have a dog and blonde hair, that must mean we’re alike. “It’s a dumb thing to say. I dont 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.”

On her relationship with her on-and-off-screen boyfriend and how actors fall for each other: “Penn [Badgley]does these silly dance moves, and he’s very witty and quick, so it’s fun to have sharp banter with him… When you’re saying these words [from the script] that people are making you say to one another, nothing about it is real or genuine. So if two people connect outside their characters, then that’s how they get together.”

On being passionate: “When I care about somebody, whether it’s my best friend or somebody who I would date, I give them all of my heart. I’ve just been so loved, and I’m used to really loving people and trusting them.”

For more on Blake Lively, visit Seventeen.com. The August issue hits newsstands on Tuesday, July 8th. Bigger cover pic inside…

[~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~]

I don't really like that photo on the cover!
It's too fake for me.