Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick lives normal life (from mosntersandcritics.com)
Ed Westwick doesn't get recognised by his fans.
The 'Gossip Girl' star - who plays lothario Chuck Bass in the popular US show - isn't approached by people in the street because they have no idea who he is.
He said: "Can I go out and buy a pint of milk? Yes, I can. After the first season, I could come back here and no one knew who I was. But now it's changing. It comes with the territory.
"When I'm doing press and in a hotel there are paparazzi around. But when I'm in my day-to-day life people don't know who I am and I'm left to my own devices."
But the 21-year-old British Actor is adamant he will never shy away from the limelight like some of Hollywood's biggest stars. He explained: "I'm always going to go out and do what I want to do. It doesn't pay to close yourself off. You see situations with certain people where it has literally become a frenzy. You look at people like Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie - people start to forget they are professional actors."
Gossip Girl: Chace Crawford Leaving Ed Westwick? Friday, May 01, 2009(from Buddytv)
Chace Crawford, who plays Nate Archibald on
Gossip Girl, has reportedly grown tired of living and working with
Ed Westwick, who portrays Chuck Bass on The CW series. According to the
New York Post, Crawford is moving out of the New York apartment he shares his
Gossip Girl co-star and he's on the lookout for his own bachelor pad.
Crawford and Westwick have been real-life roommates since moving to the Big Apple for
Gossip Girl, and have been living under one roof in Manhattan's Chelsea district since the series began airing in 2007.
Now, Crawford is looking for his own space.
"Chace wants to move out to a bachelor pad. He wants privacy and has told his agent to spare no expense in finding the perfect loft," a source told the New York Post, adding that Crawford wants to live "downtown, in a secure building with a doorman."
Reps for Westwick and Crawford have yet to comment on the news.
At present, Crawford is busy filming the movie
Twelve, a drama about a high school dropout-turned-drug dealer whose lucrative life takes a dramatic turn in the wake of his cousin's murder on an East Harlem playground while his best friend is arrested for the crime. The
Gossip Girl actor will star alongside Kiefer Sutherland, Emma Roberts and Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson.
Production for
Twelve already kicked off on April 20 in New York under the direction of Joel Schumacher.
Westwick can currently be seen in
S. Darko, a mystery thriller set seven years after the first
Donnie Darko film, when little sister Samantha Darko and her best friend Corey are now 18 and on a road trip to Los Angeles when they are plagued by bizarre visions.
Leighton Meester exclusive: In the studio with the 'Gossip Girl' star
by Tim Stack (from EW.com)
EW recently caught up with Gossip Girl star
Leighton Meester in the recording studio, where she’s working on her still-unnamed debut album, due this fall (her first single is slated for July). The actress, who's best known for her bitchy-one liners as Blair Waldorf, says the album will have an electro-pop sound, and she's working with producers like Kenna (Lupe Fiasco, JoJo) and Polow da Don (The Pussycat Dolls, Fergie). "It's very pop," she says. "You can listen to it on the radio. You can listen to it in your car. You can dance to it."
Meester offered us an exclusive listen to three of the album's potential tracks. “Push and Pull” is an elegant anthem about making a relationship work; she says the song “takes my breath away.” On “Almost Perfect,” she takes a break from electro-pop for a stripped-down ballad lamenting a lover’s lies. The song ends with Meester bluntly spitting, "F--- you." "That was what we call an adlib," she says. Then there’s the pulsing “Lights Out,” produced by J.R. Rotem (Britney Spears), which has her singing very un-CW things like, "Don’t turn the lights out/I bet you like to watch." Meester plays coy when it comes to the subject matter. "Who knows what I’m talking about? Everything is kinda in metaphors." Maybe, we ask, she simply wants someone to spoon with? "Or fork." Even so, "there is somewhat of a sexual undertone to a lot of songs," she says. "I’m a grown woman [laughs]."
The 23-year-old actress actually began recording her music without a major-label deal. Some of her early tracks, like a cover of "Bette Davis Eyes," leaked onto the web, but Meester isn’t sure if they’ll make the album. (
Click here to listen) "I’m still figuring it out," she says. "I loved the song and I loved the feel of it. That’s what the feel of the rest of the album is gonna be." One thing’s for certain: it will reveal some intimate details of Meester's love life. "I’ve been through a lot as far as love," she says. "When I’m singing a song, I picture somebody in particular. A lot of it is to a guy." Which guy? Nice try: Meester won't spill (the actress had reportedly been dating her GG co-star Sebastian Stan).
It turns out Meester has loved music from a very young age. "I remember I was in the grocery store with my mom when I was little and I heard 'I Will Always Love You,' " she says. "I must have been 3 or 4, and I went, 'Mom, that made my back tingle.' She was like, "That’s what music is supposed to do.' I loved it." Meester, who will also spend her summer hiatus shooting the Single White Female-esque thriller The Roommate, has been inspired by some musical giants. "I really love Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, and Debbie Harry," says the actress. "Gwen Stefani and Fergie, too. They’re very strong women and have a completely unique sound." Meester also says she’s been grooving to Ladyhawke and Australian band Empire of the Sun. "I was in Paris and I listened to [their single 'Walking on a Dream'] like 40 times a day. I love them." Cobra Starship is another band that Meester enjoys, and she actually recorded a song, co-written by American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi, with the rockers (they're also shooting a video together). One other person she really wants to work with? Her GG co-star Ed Westwick. "I would love that. I’ve thought about it a lot, so we’ll see. He’s very talented."
Showtime's 'Californication' adds Ed Westwick, Eva Amurri as season 3 guest stars
by Tanner Stransky (from EW.com)
Showtime has officially announced that
Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl), Eva Amurri (Saved!), and Embeth Davidtz (In Treatment) will guest star on David Duchovny-led Californication when the show returns for its third season this fall. The press announcement also included the news that Rick Springfield will also appear, but EW's Michael Ausiello exclusively broke that news on Tuesday. The four will join recently announced guest stars for season three, including Kathleen Turner, Diane Farr, and Peter Gallagher. Season three finds Hank (Duchovny) taking a position as a college professor. According to the release, "he'll attempt to shape the minds of the next generation of scribes while trying to hold down a 'regular' job and keep wild child daughter Becca (Madeleine Martin) on the straight and narrow."
As for the new guest stars, Westwick plays Balt, "a student of Hank's with a fascination for vampire lit" in episode 2. Amurri also plays a student, while Davidtz will appear as Felicia Koons -- wife of the school's dean (Gallagher) -- in 10 episodes. And as we already reported, Springfield will play himself in four episodes, although right now, Showtime is officially saying he will appear in "at least one episode."
