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Prepare your goodbyes: Gossip Girl is coming back next season for its final year on the CW. The show’s sixth and last season will have 11 episodes.
And the butt-kicker lives for another day! The CW gave a thumbs up to another season of Nikita, prompting excitement from star Maggie Q, who tweeted, “Holy S–T! Thank u Nikita supporters! We DID it!.” Hart of Dixie also earned a renewal for the fall.
The renewals come as the CW prepares for its upfront presentation on Thursday in New York. The network has already renewed returning favorites like Supernatural and The Vampire Diaries. Ringer and The Secret Circle have received the ax.
A who’s who of entertainers are looking to make it right for Brad Pitt.
The Moneyball actor has recruited an all-star lineup including Rihanna, Sheryl Crow, Dr. John and Snoop Dogg to perform at a charity gala he’s holding at the Hyatt Regency in New Orleans on March 10 to benefit his Make It Right foundation, formed in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
But that’s just the tip of the iceberg as far as the star quotient’s concerned.
While Pitt will cohost the event with Ellen DeGeneres, among his celebrity pals due to attend and are doubling as Host Committee members are Sean Penn, Kevin Spacey, Spike Lee, Blake Lively, Djimon Hounsou, Chris and Jada Paul, Bennett Miller and Randy Jackson and Drew Brees who will be co-emceeing the musical side of the fund-raiser, which is being sponsored by the Hyatt.
Parks and Recreation funnyman Aziz Ansari is on board to headline the afterparty, which will also feature performances from Seal and Kanye West. And a team of celebrity chefs including Emeril Lagasse will craft a dinner paying tribute to the Big Easy’s long culinary tradition.
The event will raise funds for the completion of 150 sustainable homes for low-income residents in the storm-ravaged Lower Ninth Ward as well as celebrate the achievements of the charity thus far.
Taylor Kitsch will forever be Tim Riggins to us, but the Friday Night Lights actor has moved from the small screen to the big screen big leagues — first with John Carter, followed by Savages and Battleship. In the forthcoming Savages, out this summer, Taylor falls in onscreen love with luminous Gossip Girlstar Blake Lively.
Blake plays O, and she gets kidnapped early in the Oliver Stone-directed flick, Taylor tells MTV. The rest of the movie is essentially a fast-paced love triangle, Taylor explains. “Basically, these two guys that are in love with this one girl in their own way and will truly do anything for her and to get her back.”
Oh, and the movie apparently opens with an “intense” sex scene between Taylor and Blake. The scene is so steamy Taylor is skeptical the director will keep it, musing, “That opening scene, if [Oliver] keeps it that way …”
Gossip Girl star Blake Lively wants to test her culinary and business skills by opening her own restaurant in New York City.
The food enthusiast has been busy shooting several films over the last few years but Lively insists she’s ready to take some time off and plan a new venture.
In an interview with Elle magazine, Lively admits she’s hoping to spend much of 2012 finding time to “relax and travel and cook and recuperate a bit”.
And The Town star, who recently completed a three-day course at famed culinary school Le Cordon Bleu, reveals she’s also eyeing “a brunch place”.
She tells the style publication it will be “Downtown” and feature her own recipes. She adds, “I want to be 100 per cent involved.”
WWW.PEOPLE.COM: Wednesday marked the beginning of New York Fashion Week, but last week, one of the city’s biggest fashionistas was already out and about. Speaking to PEOPLE Thursday at Godiva’s 2012 Valentine’s Day event at the Andaz 5th Avenue in New York, Blake Lively showed off a stunning Valentino ensemble, pairing the chic getup with — you guessed it — Christian Louboutin shoes.
The Gossip Girl star is known for her love of Louboutins — the designer even helps her decide which of his shoes to wear sometimes — but her latest interaction with him really takes their relationship to a new level. “My gosh, [the spring collection] was sent to my house today, and they’re so beautiful,” she revealed. “They’re amazing. I walked around my apartment wearing them.”
Her favorites? “These cage, crystal-encrusted shoes and one with a feather detail coming off of it.”
Lively, who doesn’t have a stylist, described her style muses as “women from times past: Katharine Hepburn, Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly. I love the sophistication. I love every single detail.” Sounds like she’d love to live among them, too. “I would love if I could wear little cut-off gloves every day,” she mused. “That would make me so happy. I’d go to a grocery store in a beautiful hat with lace dripping over the eye.”
But her handbag would certainly be current. “I do love my Chanel bags,” she said. “They come with me everywhere. That’s the truth.”
Really sorry to hear that! I’m sure Blake would’ve made a good job with this movie …
WWW.THISISFAKEDIY.CO.UK: In the recent news of Catherine Zeta-Jones’ casting in Side Effects came rumours of the financiers’ cold feet over Blake Lively as leading lady.
Well it seems director Steven Soderbergh has bowed to pressure, replacing the Green Lantern and The Town actress with red-hot Oscar nominee Rooney Mara.
Deadline report The (new) Girl with the Dragon Tattoo will take on the starring role of Emily Hawkins, a woman taking excessive amounts of prescription drugs to cope with the release of her convict husband (Channing Tatum). Jude Law is on board to play the psychiatrist she has a relationship with in the “Basic Instinct-type” thriller, while Zeta-Jones will play a fellow doctor.
Soderbergh, who appears to have increased his output following a self-imposed hiatus, will shoot Scott Z. Burns’ script in April. His recent flm Haywire is in cinemas now, stripper drama Magic Mike is on the way, and he is to start work on Liberace biopic Behind the Candelabra later this year.
After TV bit parts, Mara got her break in the remake of Nightmare on Elm Street, before her small-but-vital role in The Social Network led David Fincher to cast her in the celebrated English-language reworking of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. Mara’s commitment to promoting the film meant she turned down a role in Kathryn Bigelow’s Bin Laden project, but she’s signed up for Terrence Malick’s latest film Lawless.
WWW.COLLIDER.COM: In Novemeber, we reported that Steven Soderbergh had left the adaptation of the 1960s spy TV series The Man from U.N.C.L.E. and turned his attention to The Bitter Pill with Scott Z. Burns (The Informant) writing the screenplay. The Playlist now reports that the film—now titled The Side Effects—has locked down financing and cast Blake Lively, Jude Law, and Channing Tatum in the lead roles. Lively will play, “Emily Hawkins, a woman who turns to prescription meds to cope with the anxiety of the upcoming release from prison of her husband.” Tatum will play the husband and Jude Law will play Hawkins’ new psychiatrist. This will be Lively’s first film with Soderbergh, but it will be Tatum’s third collaboration with the director (Haywire and Magic Mike) and Law’s second (Contagion).
According to The Playlist, “There’s several meaty supporting roles still to be cast,” and Soderbergh plans to shoot the movie in April for a 2013 release. The Side Effects will be Soderbergh’s penultimate movie before his retirement/sabbatical. His last movie will be the Liberace biopic, Behind the Candelabra starring Michael Douglas and Matt Damon, will shoot this summer and be released on HBO His latest film, Haywire, opens January 20th, and his next movie, Magic Mike, opens June 27th.
As for the casting on The Side Effects, Lively did a solid supporting turn in The Town and she has the potential to give a great lead performance if she gets the right role, so hopefully this will be the one. Law is fine casting and he did good work in Contagion. It’s Tatum with whom I continue to have a problem. I still haven’t found a movie where his screen presence isn’t overshadowed by furniture. I’m hoping that streak will end since the guy isn’t going away anytime soon.
WWW.USMAGAZINE.COM: Blake Lively may have a hot and heavy love life (she dated Leonardo DiCaprio this summer and is now connected to Ryan Reynolds), but one thing she can’t be bothered with is a stylist.
“I don’t work with a stylist,” the Gossip Girl actress told Us Weekly in NYC December 9. “I just like whatever I’m feeling. Sometimes things are really beautiful, but they just don’t photograph well, and that’s that. I don’t know, I don’t really look at pictures of me when I’m in public.”
But it’s no secret that whether she’s decked out in a whimsical Chanel creation or a sleek Michael Kors sheath, the blonde beauty has no problem working the gamut of the style spectrum — a trait that’s similar to her on-screen Gossip Girl character, Serena van der Woodsen. And adding to her low-maintenance flair? Her get-up-and-go hairstyle.
“What I literally do is I just get out of the shower, put it in a ballerina bun, I dry it a little, then put it back in a ballerina bun,” she explained. “Then I take it out and it’s just wavy. So, I’m lucky that it holds that, but some days, it doesn’t look so good!”
While many stars in Hollywood may look up to Lively and her head-turning looks, the actress says she admires a different blonde in tinseltown.
“Rosie Huntington-Whiteley is just perfect looking,” Lively, 24, mused. “Whether she’s walking down the street, she looks so regal and elegant all the time and I love that.”
But besides a knack for putting together eye-catching ensembles, the star describes herself as a “persnickety baker” too, so it makes sense that the actress partnered with Sprinkles bakery in NYC to create a special cupcake of which 100 percent of proceeds would benefit Somalia.
“They’re delicious and it goes to such an incredible cause. The news as of August was, in 90 days, 29,000 children had died and 649,000 were still endangered and dying at any moment, because it’s the worst famine in 60 years,” she said. “It’s so incredibly heartbreaking and I found that it’s hard to have people just sign a check unless they get something out of that, so this is a good way to inspire people and to give back.”
Blake Lively can now add baker to her list of achievements!
Earlier today, Dec. 9, the Gossip Girl star was spotted at the Lexington Avenue location of Sprinkles Cupcakes in NYC, creating her own cupcake for the brand.
“She came in with girlfriends to create it,” an eyewitness tells Life & Style.
“Blake helped design and add her own touches to it,” an insider tells Life & Style.
So what’s her cupcake going to entail?
“It’s a S’mores cupcake,” the insider reveals to Life & Style. “It features a graham cracker bottom, deep gooey chocolate, and a S’mores-like burned- marshmallowy top!”
In fact, the 24-year-old actress has even boasted about her kitchen skills.
“My real talent is cooking,” she’s said. “I’m a really incredible cook. I love to cook even more than I love to eat.”
But you’ll have to wait until January, when the cupcake makes its debut, to order Blake’s delectable treat. All proceeds go to charity and benefit Oxfam International Somalia, which helps feed children in that African nation.
www.artlog.com: Actress Blake Lively may be better known as a style icon than as an art collector, but she has assembled quite an inspiring personal collection. I recently had the privilege of interviewing Lively about her favorite pieces and what drives her passion for art. With a mix of contemporary art, vintage black and white photographs, and even a few prints from Urban Outfitters, her collection shows that art can be accessible at any age or budget.
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