Chace Crawford (you’re welcome!) taking a hike on the Gossip Girl set in Queens Thursday (top photo), Sting performing, with Questlove on drums, at the Hope For Haiti Now benefit at Kaufman Studios in Queens Friday (middle photo), Kid Cudi rocking Irving Plaza Thursday night (bottom photo), Ivanka Trump catching one of the final performances of The Roundabout Theatre Company’s Bye Bye Birdie Tuesday, and Tyson Beckford hanging out at Amnesia while DJ Cassidy mans the turntables Thursday.
Gossip Girl‘s Jessica Szohr, Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Michelle Trachtenberg, Ed Westwick and Sebastian Stan celebrating the release of GG costume designer Eric Daman‘s new coffee table book You Know You Want It Tuesday at Henri Bendel’s (top photo), Project Runway‘s Tim Gunn, Nina Garcia, Michael Kors and season five alum Kenley Collins temporarily renaming 39th Street and Seventh Avenue “Project Runway Avenue” in celebration of the season seven premiere Wednesday morning (middle photo), American Idol season six finalist Melinda Dolittle tearing up Highline Ballroom Sunday night (bottom photo), and Suze Orman signing copies of new book With Women and Money: Owning the Power to Control Your Destiny at Barnes and Noble Union Square Thursday.
Tons of stars turned out for the Sherlock Holmes premiere at New York’s Lincoln Center Thursday, including director Guy Ritchie, actors Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law, leading lady Rachel McAdams, Gossip GirlBlake Lively (who must have been freezing), Eva Mendes,and Bruce Willis (with new wife Emma Heming).
Natalie Portman freezing on the set of Black Swan with costar Vincent Cassel at Lincoln Center Monday (top photo), Emeril Lagasse earning the Lifetime Achievement Award at 12th Annual Food Allergy Ball at the Waldorf Astoria Monday night (middle photo), Gossip Girl star Sebastian Stan at Bode Miller‘s Tennis Fusion Challenge Monday (bottom photo), Josh Madden spinning at the Eldridge Wednesday, Rihanna cheering on her New York Knicks Monday night, and Elton John playing a private American Express show at Beacon Theater Sunday night.
We knew Leighton Meester couldn’t sing. And now all of Manhattan knows it too!
The Gossip Girl delusionary performed a four-song set at the American Eagle store opening Tuesday night in Times Square, while castmates Sebastian Stan, Michelle Trachtenberg and Jessica Szohr cheered her on.
Cheered? Or laughed! Judging by Szohr’s face, we’re leaning towards the latter.
Also in the house were Pete Wentz on the turntable, Adrien Grenier and Adrienne Bailon.
Surely one of these people has the balls to tell Meester to quit while she’s ahead!
I’m a die-hard Gossip Girl fan. I have more respect for Blair Waldorf than a frat guy has for Tony Montana. But honestly, what I saw at New York’s Tenjune Monday night deeply traumatized me.
Leighton Meester took the stage at NYC’s Tenjune around one a.m. for a five-song performance – while castmates Ed Westwick, Michelle Trachtenberg and real-life boyfriend Sebastian Stan watched along in the wings. And I’m not sure if Meester had one too many beverages or hair perms or what – but it was a TRAINWRECK.
Meester was off-key, off-balance, and so drowned in makeup that she was barely recognizable! (Check her out in the middle of the top photo.) If she didn’t open the show with “Good Girls Go Bad,” I think the crowd would have legit not known who she was. Another highlight was her crowd banter in between songs, which included her introduction: “Everyone fucked up? Yeaaah!” and then her preface to song “Your Love’s a Drug”: “This song is about fucking! Readaay?”
She left the stage by blasting a warbly version of her new song with Lil Wayne, telling the crowd, “This is my new song. Listen up.”
Very nice.
Check out an eight-second clip of the “performance” above and see for yourself, but security made me turn off my camera so apologies for the Blair Witch Project-style footage. No pun intended.
P.S. I was at this venue two months ago for a Sean Kingston performance, and cameras were not only allowed, but encouraged! We’re guessing cameras were prohibited that night so people wouldn’t see how bad Meester sings live. Oops.
“This next song is about a bar in Brooklyn I used to live at,” says The Bravery frontman Sam Endicott, in between sips of Amstel Light.
The boys were back in their hometown of NYC Wednesday night, playing a Bloc Group concert at Webster Hall, and the song Endicott introduced was multi-platinum hit “Believe,” the song that soundtracked every television show from Gossip Girl to Prison Break back in 2007.
The band also played other hits – “Time Won’t Let Me Go,” “Swollen Summer,” “Fearless,” and a finale featuring our personal favorite, “Honest Mistake.”
“I’m not dating anyone right now, but I’ve had lots of relationships. My parents know that I’m not going to date someone who’s sixteen. Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is; there’s just no way— I would eat a boy my age alive.”
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