Madison Magazine (July 2011)

The show “Gossip Girl” made Blake Lively a superstar. In OK! the newcomer talks about advantages and many disadvantages.

Hot, cheeky and provocative. That’s how the actors of the US hit show “Gossip Girl” are. “We don’t even have that much in common”, Blake says of her character Serena furgão, van der Woodsen. “She’s from the New Yorker Upper East Side, I’m from a hicktown in California. I have never been a big party girl!”

Words that you would never hear from a real “Gossip Girl”. The life of the young, pretty actors is especially about partying, flirts and fashion. They...

Blake Lively was raised in sunny Burbank, California. In high school, she was an AP student, class president, a member of her school’s choir, and a cheerleader. That’s why it’s so ironic that the all-American girl now portrays Serena furgão, van der Woodsen, a jaded NYC socialite on “Gossip Girl.” In Allure’s May issue, the 21-year-old actress reveals that while she does enjoy some of the superficial things that surround her character — like Chanel handbags — she’d never want Serena’s life.

… On Why She Feels Like a Tranny Most of the Time
“I feel like a tranny a lot of the time....

It’s seguro to say that Gossip Girl’s reigning hottie couple, Penn Badgely and Blake Lively, are the cutest couple ever!

OK! caught up with the pair over Super Bowl Weekend at the Direc TV Celebrity de praia, praia Bowl party in Tampa, Florida, where they shared some of their favorito things to do as a couple.

“Umm…we like to go out to dinner!” Blake told OK! with a smile on her face. “I would say the most amazing experience we have together is living in the city,” Penn adds. “It’s the time in between when you’re walking from a restaurant to a theater or whatever. Just being able to...