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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Aug 25, 2008 18:47:18 GMT
Happy Birthday, Blake Lively!Blake Lively celebrates her birthday today, shooting new scenes for Gossip Girl in New York City’s Brooklyn on Monday morning. The rising actress turns 21 today. HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BLAKE! Last night, her Gossip costar Leighton Meester was asked about Blake’s birthday. She sniffed to NY Mag, “We’re working together early in the morning, so, that’s kind of sad. I’m going to be there right when she’s turning 21.” And when asked what she’s going to give Blake, Leighton said with a wave of her hand, “That girl has everything.” Source: Just Jared
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Aug 27, 2008 17:55:10 GMT
Blake will be on David Letterman this Thursday.
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 1, 2008 10:22:52 GMT
Blake Lively is Letterman LeggyBlake Lively keeps it nice and short during her appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman at the Ed Sullivan Theater in New York City on Thursday afternoon. Her appearance will air tonight! The Gossip Girl star, who turned 21 this past Monday, dropped by to promote her hit CW drama. The second season of Gossip Girl kicks off @ 8PM ET/PT this Monday, September 1. The season opener may be hotter but the following two episodes after that are even hotter. Lots of drama, lots of twists, lots of not-to-be-missed moments! Watch the first four minutes of the premiere here. Source: Just Jared
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 3, 2008 19:15:38 GMT
NEW YORK — Blake Lively’s “Gossip Girl” character Serena van der Woodsen likes to wear Ralph Lauren, but in real live Blake is Chanel Girl! We ran into Blake while she was shopping at Chanel section at Saks Fifth Avenue. The 21-year-old actress was happy to take a break from her hectic shooting schedule to go shopping for her favorite brand. Blake was particularly interested in Chanel accessories and bags. Source and Photos: gossipgirlcentral.net/2008/09/03/blake-is-chanel-girl/
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 12, 2008 10:39:32 GMT
Blake Lively is Michael Kors CuteBlake Lively rubs shoulders with designer Michael Kors at his Spring 2009 fashion show during Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week at The Tent, Bryant Park on Wednesday in New York City. The 21-year-old Gossip Girl sweetheart, who brought her manager and sister to the show, was dress in head-to-toe in–who else–Michael Kors. Blake also celebrated her 21st birthday this past weekend in the city: “I had a wonderful birthday. I had lots of friends and family come in to celebrate with me. … Just getting to be around everyone was really incredible - everyone I don’t normally get to see working so much here in New York.” Source: JJ
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Post by Meg on Sept 12, 2008 13:15:08 GMT
Love the dress.
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 12, 2008 14:38:21 GMT
Me too!!
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 13, 2008 18:48:08 GMT
Blake Lively’s 21st Birthday Bash PicturesROARING TWENTIES Gossip Girl star Blake Lively celebrated her 21st birthday with a flapper-themed party at the New York Palace Hotel in NYC on Sept. 6. “I love to plan parties,” Blake tells Life & Style. “That would be my career if I weren’t an actress.” Blake’s high school friends and family were among the crowd, along with Gossip Girl co-stars Chace Crawford, Leighton Meester, Jessica Szohr, Ed Westwick, Connor Paolo and Michelle Trachtenberg. And of course, her boyfriend (and co-star) Penn Badgley was there too. James Franco was also on hand, and crooner Michael Bublé even sang “Happy Birthday” to Blake! “They were very cozy,” a partygoer reveals. “They seem as if they’ve known each other forever.” Source
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 17, 2008 16:41:09 GMT
Blake Lively is a New Yorker for Children
Gossip Girl starlet Blake Lively attends New Yorkers for Children’s Ninth Annual Fall Gala held at Cipriani 42nd Street on Tuesday in New York City.
The Fall Gala is NYFC’s major fundraising event which has raised significant funds to assist children in foster care in New York City. Last year’s Gala raised nearly $2 million, and this year’s event is nearly sold out. Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay was the Special Guest for the evening.
For more information on this cause, visit NewYorkersForChildren.org.
Source: JJ
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Post by Meg on Sept 19, 2008 20:04:11 GMT
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 20, 2008 8:41:58 GMT
Cute little dog!!!
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 24, 2008 12:39:20 GMT
Blake Lively Captures ChelseaBlake Lively and Leighton Meester walk to and from their trailers on the set of Gossip Girl in the Chelsea district of Manhattan where they were filming scenes inside a club on Monday. Leighton Meester was recently named as FHM Online’s hottest star on TV this fall, while Blake Lively did not make the top 10 list. Following Leighton were Hayden Panettiere (Heroes), Madeline Zima (Californication), in the second and third spots, respectively. Click here for the photos!Source: JJ
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Sept 29, 2008 17:49:51 GMT
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Nov 2, 2008 16:36:02 GMT
Blake Lively is Cleopatra, Martha Stewart is MedusaBlake Lively does her best Queen of the Nile, dressing up as Cleopatra, for a special Halloween edition of The Martha Stewart Show telecast on Halloween, October 31, 2008. Martha dressed up as the Greek goddess Medusa with her intertwining snake hair. Together, the twosome were in the kitchen preparing pumpkin-chocolate marble cake. For the recipe, visit MarthaStewart.com. Watch the video of Blake’s appearance on the the talk show here! Source: JJ
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Nov 11, 2008 9:59:34 GMT
Blake Lively - “W Magazine” Dcember 2008 HAIL TO THE CHIC Blake Lively shows off the best new American Fashion in the December 2008 issue of W Magazine. Here’s an excerpt: “…Lively has two indies in the can. There’s Elvis and Anabelle, in which she plays a bulimic Texas beauty queen alongside Max Minghella, Keith Carradine, Mary Steenburgen and Joe Mantegna. And in June she wrapped The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, written and directed by Rebecca Miller. Lively plays young Pippa—a drug user–turned–stay-at-home mom—while Robin Wright Penn tackles the middle-aged version opposite Alan Arkin, Julianne Moore and Winona Ryder. The movie will be showing on the festival circuit starting early next year. “Along with braving a hideous spray tan and scary pageant hair, Lively shed serious weight from her “five nine and three-quarters” frame for Elvis and Anabelle. “I play a beauty queen who died of bulimia,” she says. “But beauty queens are still very toned. So I lost weight, but I got toned. It was the healthiest I’ve ever been. I just made chicken breasts from Whole Foods on a George Foreman Grill, with asparagus and broccoli.” Not an easy task for someone who describes food as ‘the No. 1 love of my life.’” Read the full article at WMagazine.com.Source: JJ, click here for more photos.
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Post by Meg on Nov 17, 2008 20:58:13 GMT
Five Fun Facts
1. Blake Lively revealed to In Style that her Gossip Girl character Serena van der Woodsen wore a $12,000 John Galliano jacket and a $10,000 Chanel coat for her first day of school.
2. Blake Lively was the only actual teenager in 2005's The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants with America Ferrera, Alexis Bledel and Amber Tamblyn.
3. If it weren't for Blake Lively's actor brothers, Eric and Jason, she wouldn't have taken the initiative to be an actress. "They set me up on some auditions and after a very short amount of time I got The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants," she told the Edmonton Journal.
4. At L.A.'s Burbank High School, Blake Lively was senior class president, a cheerleader, and a member of the championship choir.
5. Blake Lively's father Ernie played her onscreen dad in The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants. Of her showbiz family she told the Boston Herald, "I think it's great that they're all in it. I grew up on sets. They're very helpful and understanding."
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Nov 18, 2008 8:45:32 GMT
Funny facts!!! I can't believe that those clothes were so expensive!!
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Nov 25, 2008 8:34:45 GMT
Blake Lively Heads To ‘Australia’Gossip Girl actress Blake Lively works the red carpet at the NYC premiere of Australia at Ziegfeld Theater on Monday. The 21-year-old star’s on-and-off-screen boyfriend Penn Badgley skipped out on the red carpet but joined Blake inside the theater. The couple grabbed complimentary bottles of water and bags of popcorn to munch on during the movie. (JJ note: Blake looked extremely tall and gorgeous in person!) Source: JJ
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Nov 30, 2008 15:55:36 GMT
Blake Lively: Don’t believe the ‘Gossip’
Her name may be “Lively,” but actress Blake Lively insists that she’s anything but.
The 21-year-old star of television’s “Gossip Girl” and co-star of the “Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” movies has that same, miles-long blonde hair in real life, but as she sits down for an interview at a New York hotel, she’s wearing jeans and a green T-shirt that make her look like a laid-back college student, not a card-carrying member of Young Hollywood.
“I grew up with the mind set that, after work, you go to dinner and watch a movie,” says Lively, who grew up in Tarzana, Calif. “I don’t want to go to a club and not wear panties.”
All the same, she has heard some amazing rumors about herself.
“My makeup artist on ‘Gossip Girl’ actually put up this full-page story on the wall of our makeup trailer,” she says, dissolving in giggles. “One tabloid said that I’m really 5-foot-4 instead of 5-10, but I walk around on stilts on the show. The headline was: ‘Blake Tells a Tall Tale.’
“I’m also constantly reading that I’m making out with people and it’s just so not true,” adds the actress, who is reportedly dating “Gossip Girl” co-star Penn Badgley. “For too many people my age, stardom becomes a way of life. For me it’s just a job.”
Lively’s stardom comes courtesy of the CW hit “Gossip Girls,” in which she plays party girl Serena van der Woodsen, a troubled-yet-cool New York socialite. Last season her character was involved in a drunken incident in which a man died. This season Serena is simply trying to maintain her friendships with the jealous and calculating young socialites around her.
“A lot of the relationships that were set up last season were misleading,” Lively says. “Otherwise, everyone is dating everyone and sleeping with everyone. There’s a lot of scandal. There is so much happening that even I’m shocked. I’m expecting my sister to be my father.”
The new season will, needless to say, feature plenty of the show’s trademark love scenes.
“The worst to film,” Lively says. “I’m a shy person, so, if I’m even pretending to make out in front of a group of crew members and they’re just watching and not talking … Well, that’s not exactly an easy thing.”
The California native is enjoying living and working in New York, even though she doesn’t get to appreciate much of the city’s cultural life.
“I get up so early in the morning,” she explains. “But I think of the cool job I’m doing, and that’s how I wake up at 3 in the morning.
“New York City is a magical place to film and live. It’s actually a character in the show. Our show wouldn’t work if it wasn’t in New York. I can’t even describe what I love about the city, because it’s so many things - the people, the streets, the stores. It just makes me warm and fuzzy.”
The young actress grew up in a show-biz clan: Her mother, Elaine Lively, is a talent manager, while her father is actor/director Ernie Lively, who played her character’s father in “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″ (2008). He also directed “Sandman” (1998), in which Lively made her screen debut as Trixie the Tooth Fairy.
“I never really wanted to be an actress,” Lively admits. “But my dad is a great actor, and that’s what got me interested. I wanted to just be around him and see how he did this work he loved. I grew to love it too.”
Lively was a cheerleader, choir member and class president in high school, and thought that she was putting acting on the back burner awhile so she could go to college. Then she heard about an audition for a teen movie based on a popular book series: “The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants” (2005).
The young actress tried out for the role of Bridget, but wasn’t sure what was required at an audition for a major Warner Bros. production. So she ran in, plopped down a photo of herself on a table and left.
Everyone was charmed.
“It was a Bridget thing to do,” she says, giggling.
The film and its recent sequel brought Lively her first taste of celebrity - and, unlike “Gossip Girl,” gave her a chance to be something of a teen role model.
“These are real stories and girls identify with them,” Lively says. “I play a girl who runs away from her problems, and there is a lesson in that for girls who don’t want to deal with life. I get a lot of letters, and that’s very gratifying.”
She also came away from the films with three close friends in co-stars Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera and Amber Tamblyn, who she says help keep her down-to-earth.
“In real life I don’t dare to be ridiculous,” Lively says. “I’d get phone calls from my ‘Traveling Pants’ co-stars. It would be, ‘What are you doing? You’re grounded!’ ”
“The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2″ was also her strangest acting job, because it cast her real-life father as Bridget’s dad, with whom she doesn’t get along.
“My worst scenes in the film are with my father,” Lively says. “I had to yell at him in character, which still felt so strange. I can’t yell at my Dad! He gave me big teddy-bear hugs between takes.”
Next year the actress will have a choice role in Rebecca Miller’s drama “The Private Life of Pippa Lee,” starring Robin Wright Penn, Keanu Reeves and Winona Ryder.
“I play the teenage Pippa,” Lively says, “and Robin is Pippa later in life, when she marries a man who moves her to a retirement home.”
She has no plans to leave the small screen and concentrate entirely on movies, the actress says, because she appreciates both venues.
“With a TV show you find out what happens to your character every single week,” she says, “which is fun. It’s sort of this immediate gratification as the story rolls on. With a film you see an arc in two hours.
“It’s actually just as interesting for me to play my character on TV. My character has many dark secrets on TV, so she’s always changing. With movies it’s easier to plan where you start and end on your journey, because the movie is usually a finite thing. On TV we just make it up as we go along.”
And try to find time around the edges to see the people she cares about.
“It’s tough not being around family and friends when I work,” she says, “but you just try to make an effort to be with the people you really care about and spend time.”
One thing she won’t do with them, however, is sit down to watch the latest episode of “Gossip Girl.”
“Oh, never,” Lively says. “I’m much too shy.”
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Post by ~ ♥ Mariska ♥ ~ on Dec 17, 2008 6:46:00 GMT
Blake Lively’s Winter WonderlandGossip Girl actress Blake Lively enjoys the first major snowfall of the season in Brooklyn, New York on Tuesday afternoon. The 21-year-old star was in the borough to shoot scenes for Gossip Girl at Le Petite Oeuf cafe in Brooklyn. When it started snowing and sleeting, Lively ducked for cover under a huge umbrella and ran, laughing, to the wardrobe and makeup trailer to escape the paparazzi. Source: JJ
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