Let's get one thing clear—Gossip Girl's first season was just plain brilliant television. The series was enthralling, addictive and so much more than just a guilty pleasure. But like most programs that begin getting rave reviews and critical acclaim (we're looking at you, Glee), its second season found the entire shebang inserting its head up its own ass and becoming completely derailed from everything that made it good in the first place. Quite simply, the producers bought their own hype and didn't know what to do with it.
Anyway, Robyn graced the Upper East Side last night by "singing" (the boring version of) her Body Talk Pt. 2 single "Hang With Me" during a scene where Blair, Chuck and Serena decide to—yeah, I have no idea what the eff these characters do anymore. I haven't watched since the season 3 opener.
Gossip Girl Season 3 Episode 2 will be shown on Monday, September 21. Of course, the fans of this hugely popular CW TV show are now excited to know what's going to happen when the gang is now jump-starting their college years. For starters, Blai Waldorf (Leighton Meester) is now a freshman at NYU. It would not be all dandy for Queen B as she has to face a very serious matter -- her roommate is her old enemy Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg). I can just laugh my arse off seeing the look on Blair's face as Georgina beamed that they are "going to be roommates". Classic!
Joining Blair at NYU are Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) and Dan (Penn Badgley), who are two of the people that's not very supportive of Queen B's desire to reign supreme at their new campus. With Georgina on the side, Blair's going to have a fine time there doing her antics as she will make hell freeze over in order to stop Georgina into transforming her as an NYU social outcast.
On the other hand, Blair's BFF Serena (Blake Lively) is also on her way to Brown University. In Season 3, Serena and Chuck (Ed Westwick) will be at odds (again?) with each other. Serena is due to connive with Chuck's sworn enemy Carter so that she can get him to stop bugging her. Oh well, for those of you who can't wait for Monday, here's a sneak peek of Gossip Girl Season 3 Episode 2 entitled "Freshman":
Gossip Girl's Queen B Leighton Meester made Mother's Day her bikini day at a Los Angeles beach. Just Jared reported that the beauteous Leighton beach-bummed with Emmy Rossum and Justin Siegel.
Aside from being in Gossip Girl, the 23 year old Leighton Meester is due to appear in a film entitled The Roommate where she wlll play the role of Rebecca. Leighton is also due to release her yet-to-be titled album this fall. In one of her songs, Leighton teamed up with Cobra Starship entitled "Good Girls Gone Bad". Listen to it below and just ignore the guy in the video:
Below are more beach bikini pics of Leighton Meester from Just Jared (Credit: Varnedoe).
Gossip Girl hunks Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick are slated to atted President Barack Obama's annual White House Correspondents' Association dinner. Reportedly, Crawford, Westwick and Gossip Girl co-star Jessica Szohr were invited to the said event. The White House correspondent's dinner, which will be hosted by Wanda Sykes, will not be limited to Gossip Girl stars only as other celebrities are also gracing the event like Desperate Housewives' Eva Longoria, Jennifer Garner, Ben Affleck and John Cusack.
In an MTV article, Chace Crawford, in particular, was glad he was invited as guest by FOX News and he hopes to be seated next to Bill O'Reilly so that he can share with him "his pro-Obama beliefs". Chace Crawford is currently doing a film in New York entitled Twelve, which he will co-star with 50 Cent, Emma Roberts and 24's Kiefer Sutherland, who's now on the news via an alleged head-butting incident with a fashion designer. We wish Chace and Ed do a great job in the White House. We hope cameras won't catch them goofing around there like in this picture below:
Zac Efron's loss might just be Chace Crawford's gain. Yep, this Gossip Girl hunk has allegedly been offered the role emptied by Zac in the upcoming remake of Footloose. According to an E! Online report, Chace have auditioned last week to cop the role originally portrayed by Kevin Bacon and the source happily informed that "he did really well". Oh yeah, Chace can indeed dance and carry a tune! Does that mean he's giving Zac Efron a run for his money when this Footloose remake becomes a success?
Zac Efron backed out of the Paramount-produced Footloose remake Monday last week because the High School Musical heartthrob said he does not want to do another musical for the mean time. I guess if Nate Archibald can score this role, I believe his stellar status would be a thing we should all watch out for in late 2009.
