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Ah love! Or maybe it’s her intoxicating perfume…

Leighton Meester is the new face of Vera Wang‘s third fragrance, Lovestruck and the new commercial has a romantic, Romeo and Juliet feel to it.

The Gossip Girl fidgets on a New York City balcony while a very hot guy, who is so enchanted with her, climbs the fire escape to reach her, bringing her a bouquet of flowers that happen to match her dress perfectly!

Her tousled hair and plum colored mermaid style dress are fairy tale worthy and in the end, the two share a very romantic embrace as the flowers tumble to the ground. Radiant Leighton!

Check out the commercial below. Read more »

Ian Somerhalder gives you that sexy smirk on the latest promotional poster for The Vampire Diaries and Wow! What a stare!

The tagline for the shot: “Look out Damon. Your emotions are showing.”

What’s in store for everyone’s favorite HOT bad boy of the hit CW show when it (finally) returns on January 27th? Sounds like Damon Salvatore could be in for a rough ride for letting his feelings start to come forward.

Whatever is going to happen, that poster is just too good!

Lucy Hale is Teen Vogue’s cover girl for the Febraury 2011 issue.

The 21 year-old actress and the rest of Pretty Little Liars cast returned to ABC Family last night (after months of waiting!) with the new episode “Moments Later.” Hale is getting noticed as Aria on PLL and the star says she wasn’t even all that interested in acting at first. Hale says “I wanted to be a singer.”

She tells TVogue about how she got started in Hollywood, maybe music is in her future and the politics of show business:

On how she started out: “I’ve only been living here for a few years. I never thought about acting when I lived in Memphis—actually, pretty much the opposite. I wanted to be a singer. Someone randomly suggested I audition for a few things. I thought, Why not? And I got a role on [Nickelodeon's] Drake & Josh. It was literally just a sentence, but I was so excited to be an actress.”

Is she going to move into a music career? “All I can say is that if I ventured out into that world, it’d be a dream come true. I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn’t in it at the time, but I’m ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home—it’s a huge part of my life, especially since I’m from Tennessee. When I’m ready for it, I’m going to dive into it 100 percent.”

On how to handle the back-stabbing world, Hollywood or high school: “There’s jealousy everywhere and tons of politics. The problem is that people in L.A. never really have to grow up,” she says. “Everyone needs to chill out. There’s room for us all.” The solution she found (which, she adds, is “pretty much the same way you should deal with high school”) is simple. She says with a shrug, “Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world—you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.”

Check out Lucy’s behind-the-scenes video of her cover and photo shoot under:  Read more »

Justin Bieber thinks he’s a little bit insane. Bieber, who is kissed on the cover of Vanity Fair magazine for the February issue, says “I’m crazy. I’m nuts. It’s just the way my brain works.” Good thing for JB, he channels that into music.

The teen pop star gives insight into his life, how he tries to stay as normal as possible and how aware he is of other celebs who’ve ruined their careers:

On His Mental State: “I’m crazy, I’m nuts … Just the way my brain works. I’m not normal. I think differently—my mind is always racing. I’m just … nuts. But I think the best [musicians] probably are.”

On His Public Image: “It’s hard to really balance myself. A regular kid, if he catches the flu, he just gets to go home … But I can’t do that…. Everything is important. But, you know, my sanity is important, too. Even if I’m angry, I’ll just put a smile on my face and fake it. I don’t often fake it—what’s me is me….I know I have to give up a lot of myself, or a lot of a private life.”

On Keeping His Head On Straight: “Of course, I think that people are just waiting for that time when I make a mistake and they’re gonna jump on it….There’s gonna be haters … I know I’m not going to make a lifechanging bad decision, as some people have. I’ve seen it happen too many times. I could be my own worst enemy, but I don’t want to mess this up.”

I don’t think Justin is crazy, but the fans who send Selena Gomez death threats because she kissed him are (see those photos here.) He’s young and should be allowed to see who ever he wants without worrying some lunatic fanatics will make her life impossible.

The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn is so far away but director Bill Condon gave fans a Christmas treat with a simple photo.

Condon posted the holiday set picture on Christmas eve with a quick note:

“Happy holidays from the Swan home to yours” – Bill

Breaking Dawn part 1 is due in November 2011 but will this set end up in in that film or in part 2 in November 2012? Condon is filming both parts together and the ongoing mystery is exactly where he ends part 1.

Check out the full photo from Mr. Condon’s tweet and see why I think we’ve got a sneak peek at part 2! Let the guessing games begin! Read more »

Robert Pattinson and Reese Witherspoon are making eyes at each other in the new trailer for Water For Elephants. The plot: Family tragedy spurs a young veterinary student (Pattinson) to ditch his previous life and hop the rails only to end up joining the circus during The Great Depression. He meets Marlena (Witherspoon) who is in love with a very cruel animal trainer (Christopher Waltz.)

The movie is based on the novel by Sara Gruen and is due in theaters April 2011.

Watch the trailer below.

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Jackson Rathbone is always busy with multiple projects. The Twilight actor is starting work on Breaking Dawn, keeping a web diary of his band 100 Monkeys and is starring in a new web series “Aim High” with Aimee Teegarden. The photo above is Rathbone as Nick, a teenage spy posing as an ordinary high schooler:

The actor’s playing Nick Green, a high school student with a side job as an international spy. Nick is one of the US government’s 64 trained teenage operatives and just blew a hit he had on a Russian mercenary named Boris the Bear (Clancy Brown). He’s juggling the ripple effects of that with his secret love for Amanda Miles (“Friday Night Lights’” Aimee Teegarden). The major problem there is that she’s got a jealous boyfriend (Jonathan McDaniel) who just so happens to be the swim team captain.

The full series will released online and as a DVD sometime in 2011.

Jackson is still in high school in this? Well, I do happen to adore him so I will catch this anyway – but I have to admit, I’m getting tired of actors in their late 20s and early 30s playing high school students. I understand when you need an actor who won’t age significantly as a vampire but the rest of the time it’s ridiculous. Is it just me? What do you think?

Things have been all quiet on the Taylor Lautner front for a while but that is about to change. The Twilight Saga star is hitting every tabloid with rumors that he is dating his Abduction costar, Lily Collins and now there is a sneak peek at the movie.

First the dating rumors: They originally surfaced back in July as the two were filming together in Pennsylvania. Collins, 21, who is the daughter of Genesis drummer Phil Collins and starred in The Blind Side with Sandra Bullock, was reportedly dating a stuntman and left her then boyfriend after meeting Lautner. Lautner was thought to have ended his romance with on-again off-again girlfriend Sarah Hicks before he began filming and met Collins. Those reports were denied and no sightings of the two together so the story died down. Here we are in November and reports are flying again that the two are indeed, a twosome and that Collins and Lautner have been on the down low for 4 months. If true – well played, young friends!

Abduction - photo and new synopsis: Thanks to Collider.com the brand new image of Tay and Lily with her arms wrapped around him as they huddle in the corner, we have our first view at the John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) directed spy thriller. The new synopsis of the action film:

What would you do if you found your own picture on a missing persons website?  Teen Nathan Harper (Taylor Lautner) finds himself facing this very dilemma. Setting out to uncover his real identity, Nathan quickly learns his parents are far from who they say they are. When the police, government agents and shadowy figures start to pursue him, Nathan’s quest for the truth erupts into a full-blown “Bourne”-like man-on-the-run thriller.

The film still doesn’t have a release date (sometime in 2011) but has an amazing cast: Signourey Weaver, Jason Issacs, Danny Glover and Alfred Molina all costar with the young actors.

Lautner is currently in New Orleans filming the last two installments of the Twilight series: Breaking Dawn but are you ready to see Lautner portray someone other than Jacob Black? Does this initial photo make you want to watch him in Abduction?

AnnaSophia Robb’s upcoming film Soul Surfer, has just had a new photo released of her and her onscreen parents, Dennis Quaid and Helen Hunt. The actress is portraying teen surfer Bethany Hamilton, who lost her arm from a vicious shark attack but still forges ahead competing and winning in the sport she loves, surfing.

This film seems like it was shot a long time ago (although it was only this past winter.) Shot on location in Hawaii (see more photos here) the movie is getting released in time for spring break: April 15, 2011.

[image: Sony Pictures]

Kristen Stewart appeared on Live with Regis and Kelly this morning (October 19th) to promote her non-Twilight film, Welcome to The Rileys. The actress plays a stripper and there has been a lot of chatter about her possible pole dancing in the film (you won’t see it in the film, but she did take lessons for two weeks in prepping for the role.) The 20 year-old thespian told Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa that while she had fun learning how to, the physical results weren’t all that great:

“It hurts alot, actually. I had bruises all over my legs.”

She also mentions that she heads to New Orleans in November for the start of the Breaking Dawn shoot.

Check out the first part of her daytime talk show visit below: Read more »