Leighton Marissa Meester

Leighton is featured in a swedish magazine as this weeks style icon. I will add the scan when I get my scanner up and runing. The scan features some events images and the reporter tells us what she thinks about her style. I made a translation here down below:

New York May 13, 2008
What is more perfect at a party in New York than a kneelong flouncedress decorated with stones and transparent life?
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New York May 12, 2008
Here, Leighton proves that she knows fashion, wearing the latest favorite from Chloés srping- and summer-collection.
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Los Angeles May 29, 2008
When Chanel’s opening a new store, Leighton’s there to mingle. Of cource she’s wearing a hot dress from Chanel, decorated with jewellery.
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New York May 13, 2008
On a visit for MTV’s TRL wearing a “for everyday use” outfit. She’s matching her jeans with a nice purple blouse and high heels made by wood.
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“Consider yourself dethroned, Queen Bee.”

When last seen, New York teen socialite Blair Waldorf was feeling the sting of that sentence. Played by Leighton Meester, she’s in the eye of the gossip storm as the CW drama series “Gossip Girl” resumes its first year with new episodes Monday.

Blair has been ousted from her catty clique by Jenny (Taylor Momsen), sister of Dan (Penn Badgley), the current beau of Blair’s former best friend Serena (Blake Lively). It’s hardly Blair’s only problem: Her days-apart intimacy with both Chuck and Nate (Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford) left her with a pregnancy scare she’s still rattled by. With Serena’s support, she has decided not to flee from her many detractors.

“She was kind of on the precipice of a mental breakdown,” Meester says. “She was taken down a few notches by the other girls, and pretty much everything that could go wrong just blew up in her face. It was an interesting place to leave her. She has gone through so much with friends and men and school and her parents, I think she needs a bit of reflection.”

Quiet moments may be scarce for Blair, though, thanks also to heard-but-not-seen Gossip Girl (played vocally by “Veronica Mars” alumna Kristen Bell). Meester believes Serena, who has been a chatter target herself, “was the only person who could have convinced Blair to stay. Blair has a lot of insecurities, so all she needs to hear from Serena is, ‘You’re a Waldorf. You’re better than this.’ ”

Blair’s pregnancy-test crisis was, Meester reasons, “pretty much your worst nightmare if you’re juggling two guys — especially if they’re best friends — and if you’re sort of this popular, pristine figure in your school and your whole world is based on your image. That could ruin you, regardless of the outcome. I think she got what was coming to her, but at the same time, you don’t want to see her fall by losing all she has.”

To portray Blair’s desperation, “I have to put myself in the place of someone going through the hallways with everybody staring and whispering about her,” Meester says. “That wasn’t my personal childhood fear, but it wouldn’t be fun. It’s really sad for Blair to be spiraling out of control, but the worst thing is her pride being hurt. She’s been completely humiliated, and in that moment, you can’t imagine how to make things better.”

Already renewed for next season, “Gossip Girl” was kept on the air by the CW throughout the recent writers’ strike. “All we wanted to do was get back to work,” Meester says. “Personally, I wanted to see what was going to happen. I was champing at the bit to see where my character and the plot were going.” One guaranteed twist is the addition of Michelle Trachtenberg (“Buffy the Vampire Slayer”) as a troublemaker just out of rehab.

“There’s plenty of conflict coming,” Meester vows, “but that’s what this whole show is about. It would be really funny if we did an episode that was just ‘Blair and Serena go to lunch. Nate and Chuck go to the park. Jenny goes shopping.’ That would just be hilarious.”

Developed and executive-produced by “The O.C” mentor Josh Schwartz, “Gossip Girl” is based on Cecily von Ziegesar’s popular book series. Meester read the television version’s pilot script first, then checked out the novels: “Obviously, it’s a heightened reality, but the girls who come up to us and tell us they love the show are the ones we’re portraying. That’s what matters — that they feel, ‘It’s true to our lives. We go to these schools. We approve.’ ”

With year two guaranteed, “Gossip Girl” is Meester’s longest series job to date. Her previous roles have included a young minister’s love interest on “7th Heaven,” the sister of a boy harboring a sea creature -on “Surface” and a terrorist couple’s murder victim on “24.” She also guest-starred on “Veronica Mars,” so she’s crossed paths before with Bell, the voice behind Gossip Girl.

“She does her voice-overs from who knows where, because she’s always working on a million projects,” Meester says of Bell, who stars in the new movie “Forgetting Sarah Marshall.”

“We’ll watch the show sometimes before it’s finished, and there’s a temporary voice. When you hear the huge difference between the temp and Kristen, you realize how much she makes the show. She’s perfect for it, the exact example of what I think Cecily had in mind.”

Another major player in “Gossip Girl” is New York itself, thanks to on-location filming that uses as much of the city as possible.

“I can’t even begin to tell you how wonderful that’s been,” Meester says. “So often, you’ll read a great New York script that’s actually being shot in Los Angeles or Toronto, so I was so happy when I found out they were going to shoot it here. It’s freezing sometimes, but we don’t mind. Not too much.”

Leighton Meester is beautiful, successful, and, like all celebrities with an ounce of ambition, inseparable from her BlackBerry. These days, Meester can be seen personifying teen angst in the popular show ‘Gossip Girl’ where she plays Blair Waldorf, a young socialite with a healthy appetite for the spotlight.

Though primarily known for her aforementioned role, Meester has been around for years, having appeared in everything from ‘CSI Miami’ to last year’s indie flick ‘Flourish’ and the just-releasted ‘Remember the Daze,’ in which she plays a — surprise, surprise — a high-school student. When she isn’t on set or closing deals, she is recording music. Golly do we feel inadequate.

Okay, we get it, she is multi-talented and destined for greatness. There are, however, topics of extreme importance that must be discussed to realize the true depths of Leighton Meester. We tracked her down to find out what really makes her tick. And type.

What gadgets do you always bring with you to the set for down-time?

I bring my iPod and my BlackBerry. I listen to my iPod in my trailer while I’m getting my hair and makeup done.

What cell phone do you have right now and what do you love/hate about it?

I have a BlackBerry. I love it because I can get business done anywhere and anytime.

Who’s the last person you sent a text message to and what was it about?

The last message I sent was to my friend, Jess about answering these questions!

Where do you go pretty much every time you get online?

I go to CNN.com….Boring!

What annoys you most about your iPod, cell phone, or laptop (or any other gadget)?

My cell phone doesn’t get great service on both coasts, which is hard because I am constantly traveling back and forth from Los Angeles to New York.

Name one thing you wish your iPod/cellphone/laptop could do that it doesn’t do now?

I wish my phone had a button on it that could unlock my car door, because I usually have it in my hand then anyway.

What upcoming gadget can you not wait to get your hands on?

A cell phone that gets great service on both coasts.

You’re stranded on a desert island: What gadget do you bring?

If I were stranded on a desert island I would probably want a ham radio so that I could be rescued!

What’s the most-played song or artist on your iPod?

Technically, the most played song is ‘Girl from the North Country’ by Bob Dylan.

BlackBerry, Sidekick, or Treo?

BlackBerry

Do you have or are you planning to get an iPhone?

No

What’s the longest time you’ve ever spent playing a video game in one sitting and what game was it?

Recently, I have spent some long nights playing rock band.

Mac or PC?

Mac. Why not?

I have added the images from the shoot Blake and Leighton did together for Nylon Magazine. They both look amazing and I love the clothes they wear. Here are hightlights:

Blake on how she got her fashion sense: “My sister Robin was an actress, so she was always wearing wardrobe and certain things for events . . . my mom used to go to Urban Outfitters and get me vintage looking pieces, like tweed dresses and these argyle leggings and tops and she would just sew them up to fit me. So in school . . . the other kids would make fun of the way I dressed because it was so funky and outlandish, and not like anyone else . . . ”

Leighton on GG style: “Serena is more thrown together and effortless and doesn’t really care, and is just like, has this sexiness to her without trying, and Blair is really uptight and conservative and put together and everything has to be perfect, you know Chuck is kind of cocky and he’s just like, I don’t know, a prick.”

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- Nylon Magazine (2008)

“High school is the worst experience ever,” says Leighton Meester. A funny comment coming from an actress who attended the famed Beverly Hills High (alums include Angelina Jolie, Monica Lewinsky, Lil Romeo, and – natch – Alicia Silverstone and Tori Spelling), went on to star as Blair Waldorf on “Gossip Girl” and appears in the new high school movie Remember the Daze, out this weekend. “I’ve been playing 16 or 17 [year-olds] for quite a few years – everyone does that. Hopefully I’ll be playing that age for a few years. This is way more fun than high school.”

Of course, Blair Waldorf’s idea of fun – testing Jenny Humphrey, toying with Chuck Bass – is quite different from that of Meester’s latest character, valedictorian Tori, who lets loose on her last night of high school. So how much trouble did Meester get in during her teen years? “I’ve had a couple fender benders. And I’d always be out for one reason or another, sometimes working, sometimes ditching.” Read more…

Here are the hightlights:

On the Gossip Girl wardrobe:
Leighton Meester: “We like to joke because it’s such a fashiony show, like, ‘What are you wearing? I’m in Channel, or Valentine-o.”
Blake Lively: “It’s just made me hungry for beautiful clothes because I get to wear them on set every day, and then I go home and buy them. So it’s created a shopping problem. I must stop! where’s Chanel?”

On meeting their fans:
BL: “It’s really amazing for me to come to these places and see the real-life people that we portray.”
LM: “I’ve had fifteen-year-olds come up to me carrying Hermes bags.”
BL: “One of them just walked up to Penn, put her arms around him, and gave him a hug. She was so confident!”

Leighton on playing Blair:
“If you’re playing a seventeen-year-old girl on TV, it’s rare that you can have a character that has more than one dimension. It’s weird because usually the bad girl is the b*tch, but my character’s a good girl, and shes a b*tch.”

On their audience:
BL: “I find it’s mostly adults I get stopped by. They always have to preface it by ‘I’m 35; I shouldn’t be watching the show..
‘”LM: “Then they’re like, with their boyfriend or their husband and they’re like, ‘Sorry, sorry, but I watch it, too.”
BL: “It’s funny how people feel like they have to confess it.”

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- Us Magazine

So, Leighton appeared in the Teen Magazine and I have added 6 scans from the spread. Leighton looks great. Too bad that the scans arn’t the greatest quality but I will hopefully be able to scan these myself. Enjoy guys.

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- Teen Magazine

Caught in the Act!

Leighton Meester, enjoying a family dinner at New York’s Kobe Club. Sitting with her mom, brother and a female friend, the Gossip Girls queen bee enjoyed a wedge salad, salmon with spinach and the Bee Hive Honeycomb dessert topped with, yep, a chocolate bumble bee.

“I’ve learned to let things roll off my back”

In the spring issue of Teen magazine , Leighton Meester says she’s learning to be less sensitive to hurtful gossip, US reports.

“I’ve learned to let things roll off my back. If people say negative things, I could care less,” “But I let it give me a boost of confidence if they’re saying nice things.”

Meester also talks about her hit show — and speculates about the identity of the enigmatic Gossip Girl blogger. “I have my suspicions,” she says. “If I had to guess, I was thinking it could be Chuck. He seems just evil enough to say those things.”

During a recent stop in Toronto, “Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester says she spent her time off during the strike recording an album.

“I’m figuring out everything, so I can’t tell you too much,” says Meester during an interview with eTalk.

“I probably should be finishing it within the next couple months, hopefully.”

Meester, who plays the deliciously catty Blair Waldorf on “Gossip Girl,” is no stranger to the music scene.

“I’ve been working on it my whole life, obviously,” says Meester.

“There’s a first time for everyone, and I really love it.”

The actress has previously mentioned in the media that she’s a big fan of Chris Cornell and Incubus, and has described her music as an electronic-rock hybrid that sounds like Gwen Stefani and MIA.

The pint-sized actress previously sang and starred in a film called “Drive-Thru,” in which her “Gossip Girl” co-star Penn Badgley also appeared. A clip of Meester singing in the flick can be found on YouTube.

There’s no word if Badgley, who told CTV.ca last year that he’s a fairly competent and prolific musician, is also going to appear on Meester’s as-yet-untitled album.

The show “Gossip Girl” is based on a best-selling series of novels, and was transformed into a television series last fall by the same producers responsible for the hit “The O.C.”

Leighton Meester’s show Gossip Girl is one big hit. But could the young starlet consider switching to a career as a rapper?

“I have a huge range of songs,” Meester, 22, told the blog Just Jared at a promotional event in New York Wednesday about her burgeoning musical career.

Explains the actress: “[On] some of them I just talk, I do a little – not rapping – but talking, sort of spoken word. It’s a little Fergie, a little like Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.”

Okay, so she’s not abandoning her hit TV show, but the actress is really into her “electronic-y” songs. “I write the lyrics and I collaborate with my friend and producer … Shahine Ezell,” she says. As for future collaborations, “I would want to work with a band. I’d love to meet my favorite artists, meet them, hang out with them and just jam.” Among Meester’s favorites: rockers Incubus and Chris Cornell. “He has such a powerful and beautiful voice,” she says.

When it comes to her career, though, Meester is content to be just a double (not triple) threat. “I don’t think I’m going to be dancing but I definitely could,” she says in the interview. “My nickname use to be Happy Feet. If I’m standing there and music is playing on set, I’ll be doing this. People used to be like, ‘Why are you Happy Feet? You need to stop that now.’ “