Posts Tagged ‘Gossip Girl’
Group Targets “Gossip Girl”
Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
Beware, fans of “Gossip Girl!” Censors want to stop you from seeing your show! The Parents Television Council, which describes itself as a “nonpartisan education group advocating responsible entertainment,” has asked CW affiliate stations to pre-empt this week’s episode, entitled “3SOME.”
The Huffington Post quotes PTC president Tim Winter as calling the show’s teen hook-up “reckless and irresponsible.” In a letter to the affiliates, Winter asked, “Will you now be complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage in behaviors heretofore associated primarily with adult films?” A spokesperson for the CW countered that the target audience for “Gossip Girl” is 18- to 34-year-old women, with a median viewer age of 27 years old.
While virtue vigilantes have succeeded in keeping shows off the air in the past, it seems like a waste of time today. What teen couldn’t find the show online within an hour after it airs?
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Leighton Denies Sex Tape
Wednesday, August 5th, 2009
“Gossip Girl” star Leighton Meester is on the cover of the September issue of Harper’s Bazaar, and the first thing she addresses in the interview is the rumored tape of her having sex at 18.
The actress insists, “[The tape] is not real, so it makes me sort of sad. It’s unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did. I definitely understand the nature of people better now and that the mere allegation of something like that could be headline news. People think it’s real because somebody says it is.”
Too bad she didn’t make such an emphatic statement at the time the tape surfaced. But she didn’t have a new season of “Gossip Girl” to promote then, did she?
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Kelly Works While Danny Plays
Tuesday, August 4th, 2009
“Gossip Girl” star Kelly Rutherford has settled her custody battle with ex Daniel Giersch for the meantime, but she doesn’t have him out of her life for good.
According to TMZ, the current settlement decrees that both Kelly and Daniel spend the filming schedule for “Gossip Gurl,” July 30 through April 5, in New York. Rutherford will reside in NYC while Giersch will live in the Hamptons. The pair will share joint legal and physical custody of their two children, and attend counseling sessions.
So Danny boy gets to live it up in the posh Hamptons while Kelly works to pay for it? I hope her freedom is worth it.
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Kelly Doesn’t Miss Her Ex
Wednesday, July 8th, 2009
“Gossip Girl” actress Kelly Rutherford doesn’t regret ending her marriage to the father of her two kids, and has no problem with raising them alone.
The CW star told Life & Style that she made the decision to leave Daniel Giersch while she was pregnant with their second child because “it was pretty obvious [they] weren’t getting along.” Hubby’s legal problems added to the tension between the pair.
After the divorce filing, Rutherford kept her ex away from the delivery room when she gave birth to baby Helena, saying “When you’re in labor, you don’t want the man you’re divorcing in there, especially someone who’s said cruel things about you.”
The soon-to-be-single new mom has no qualms about taking care or Helena and big brother Hermes without a dad around. “The most important thing is that children have love and stability in their lives, whether that comes from a mother or a father. [Alone], I can raise them to be much more peaceful.”
That “peace” may be awhile in coming, since Rutherford still has what promises to be a very nasty divorce ahead of her.
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Hilary’s A “Gossip Girl”
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Former Disney starlet Hilary Duff has taken another step in forging a grown-up career—she’s landed a guest-star gig on the next season of “Gossip Girl.”
The AP quotes a spokesperson for the CW series, who reveals Duff will play ”a movie star looking for a typical college experience.” Duff’s character, Olivia Burke, will enroll at New York University and wind up rooming with Jessica Szohr’s character, Vanessa.
It sounds like a pretty contrived plotline, but since that’s what Brooke Shields and Jodie Foster did in real life, maybe it will work for Duff.
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