Leighton Meester, one of the stars of ITV’s newest American drama, Gossip Girl, has revealed that she just loves to play the bad girl on the show!

Meester’s character, Blair Waldorf, got the crown of ‘miss popular’ when former best friend Serena moved out of town. But as the series starts, Serena returns and Blair finds herself unwilling to give up this crown or her boyfriend Nate.

Leighton explains what its like to play a bad character and how she researches for such a role…

“It’s wonderful and great fun play a bit of a baddie. I would say this is what she is essentially; Blair is just the bitch of the show I guess and goes deeper than just being bad. I think my character is really well written and the best thing about it is she was developed for so long in theseries of books; she has real dimension.”

“I think she has a lot that people can relate to – I can relate to her on some levels. It’s really fun to play that really catty, feisty girl, but it’s also really fulfilling and pleasing for me to be able to bring something else to it.”

Meester admits that she did read a few of the original Gossip Girl novels by Cecily Von Ziegesar that the show is based on for research purposes: Read more & comment »

Blake Lively is the young star of ITV2’s newest American drama, Gossip Girl. Blake plays one of the lead roles, Serena van der Woodsen. Serena was the coolest person to hang out with before she left town. The series starts with Serena’s return,but her reasons for departing and returning are unknown……intriguing!

Blake admits that gossiping is a past time close to all girls hearts, and that she herself can’t resist indulging when she gets chatting to her high school girl friends!

“Of course I love to gossip! I have my friends from high school that I keep in touch with. When you’re travelling and filming away on location I’m always in touch with them and when I’m on set, Read more & comment »

Based on the novels by Cecily von Ziegesar, GOSSIP GIRL is created by the makers of The O.C. - Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage.

This successful new US series welcomes you to Manhattan’s Upper East Side, where gossip rules and affluent prep-school students find themselves with the money, access and appetite to explore all the temptations New York City has to offer.

Based on the best-selling series of young-adult novels, Gossip Girl stars Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Penn Badgley, Chace
Crawford, Taylor Momsen, Ed Westwick with Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle.

The privileged prep school teens learn that Serena van der Woodsen (Lively) is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives: from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. No one knows Gossip Girl’s identity, but everyone in this exclusive and complicated vicious circle relies on her website and text messages for the latest scoop. Even Serena’s closest friend, Blair Waldorf (Meester), doesn’t welcome her mysterious return to Manhattan with open arms. Read more & comment »