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The Golden Globes have confirmed on Twitter that Jennifer Lopez, Robert Pattinson and Leighton Meester will be among the celeb presenters at their 2011 awards show.

Matt Damon will also be on hand to present the Cecil B. DeMille Award to Robert DeNiro for lifetime achievement.

The 68th Annual Golden Globes will be hosted by Ricky Gervais and airs Jan. 16 on NBC.

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Plus, Russell Brand talks some serious smack about Justin Bieber.

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Fresh off a breakup with her boyfriend, Sebastian Stan, Meester has been named the Herbal Essences global ambassador.

“My first memory is those iconic [Herbal Essences] commercials back in the day. My mom used it, too,” Leighton tells Women’s Wear Daily.

As she gears up to become the new face (and hair!) for the brand, Leighton tells the mag her style is nothing like that of her alter-ego, Gossip Girl’s queen-bee, Blair Waldorf.

“I try different looks and I’m happy that I can achieve them and not look like a clown. I like to have fun with hair and makeup,” she says.

“I’m lucky because expressing my personal style is fun and I have fun with it. Everyone should love their own look. Don’t copy; do your own thing.”

The same day off-screen couple Jessica Szohr and Ed Westwick announced their split, fellow Gossip Girl cast mates and couple, Leighton Meester and Sebastian Stan are over too!

A friend of Leighton confirms the news to OK! Magazine, claiming the actress “doesn’t know how to be in a relationship and doesn’t really like them.”

The source adds Sebastian is “heartbroken” that Leighton ended the relationship.

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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.

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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.

The 23-year-old shed her Upper East Side image last month to cover Kim Carnes’ raspy old-school hit “Bette Davis Eyes.”

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Leighton Meester, better known to most as the Queen of the Upper East Side Blair Waldorf, admits she has a lot in common with her Gossip Girl character.

Like Blair, Leighton has a thing for bad boys like Chuck Bass. 

“I think guys who are rebels and make their own rules are appealing,” the 22-year-old actress tells the March issue of Seventeen. “I don’t want to tame anybody. I want them to be dark and bad.”

So what is Leighton’s idea of the perfect guy?

“[G]uys who are a little bad – and by bad, I mean they’re not like constantly around – I consider gold.

“Guys who are unavailable are actually a dream come true for me because I’m unavailable all the time. It’s great they’re not down your throat,” she says.

Although Leighton may be “unavailable” most of the time, she has made room to date fellow actor Sebastian Stam since ’07.

She says of her dating past, “I haven’t ever really relied on relationships with guys. … They come around and it’s cool, but it’s never been a big thing. I guess I’ve just been really distracted by work.”

While Leighton and Blair may both have had their share of a gossip-worthy past, (Meester was born while her mother was serving jail time), it has actually taught the actress a valuable lesson.

“I’ve noticed some people get very enthralled with people bashing,” she tells the mag.

“Sometimes people can’t help themselves. But I find a way [to] back out and not talk about other people.”

Looks like Leighton could teach Blair Waldorf a thing or two.

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“I am yeah,” she said when asked whether she would be cutting some tracks. “Technically, yeah I am. I mean, for real this time.”

The Gossip Girl star added in an interview with Access Hollywood that she’s “always done [music]” but that right now she’s “actually doing an album [she plans] to release.”

“It’s so cool because it’s a completely different creative process [than acting],” Meester added. “From beginning to end it’s yours and you make it… You can see the finished product.”

The 22-year-old actress is looking forward to branching out into music.

“It’s sometimes hard when you’re acting to be like, ‘Oh I see the finished product right before my eyes,’” she says. “So it’s cool you’re there from start to finish when you are writing.”

But Gossip Girl fans needn’t worry. Meester is one-hundred percent behind the sexually-charged teen soap.

“There’s so much drama it’s really crazy,” she said. “They’re just really taking it over the top, like juicy and scandalous because that’s Gossip Girl. That’s our show.”

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