Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester’s hot lingerie photo shoot in Decemeber 2009’s GQ Magazine.
Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester’s hot lingerie photo shoot in Decemeber 2009’s GQ Magazine.
Gossip Girl is back. Well, not just yet.
Although the Upper East Side’s most scandalous crew doesn’t return to the small-screen until Sept. 14, the CW is giving us a little sneak peek about what to expect this season.
It looks like summer love got the best of everyone, including Chuck Bass who is spotted making out (not with Blair!) and Nate Archibald who has his hands on a new hottie. Oh, and Serena Van Der Woodsen--you can expect that wardrobe malfunction to wind up on the next GG blast.
Leighton Meester got a taste of her own medicine when she was the subject of sex tape rumors back in June.
The actress, who plays conniving Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, is finally setting the record about her real-life brush with some not so nice rumors.
“[The tape] is not real, so it makes me sort of sad. It’s unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did,” Meester tells the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar about reports she appeared in an X-rated video a few years ago.
But, the upside of the scandal is the lesson 23-year-old Leighton learned about the price of fame. She tells the mag, “I don’t want a lot of what comes along with all of this.”
“I definitely understand the nature of people better now and that the mere allegation of something like that could be headline news,” she added. “People think it’s real because somebody says it is.”
Sex tape or no sex tape, is Leighton anything like her on-screen character, Blair?
“I’ve never been crazy. I’m a very good girl, to be honest,” Meester tells Bazaar. “I don’t do anything to hurt anybody. Honestly, all I ever do is work.”
Leighton is currently filming season 3 of Gossip Girl, which returns Sept. 14 on the CW.

Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester has just landed herself a record deal, signing with Universal Republic Records, the label announced today.
The 23-year-old shed her Upper East Side image last month to cover Kim Carnes’ raspy old-school hit “Bette Davis Eyes.”
Get a sneak listen of Leighton’s electric/pop sound here: