It appears Leighton Meester’s taking this singing thing seriously after all. The CW showed a sneak peek of the actress’ new video “Somebody to Love” after last night’s installment of Gossip Girl. The full video will premiere next Monday night @ 9PM, immediately after Gossip Girl!

Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester has been busy working on her debut album, which is set to be released later this year or very early next year. She was previously featured on Cobra Starship’s “Good Girls Go Bad,” and now she’s branching off on her own. Check out this radio rip of Leighton’s first single, “Somebody To Love,” featuring R&B singer Robin Thicke. The uptempo track, produced by Mike Caren, will hit radio nationwide Oct. 27.

“I really wanted to make something completely different than anything that’s on the radio right now,” Leighton told Ryan Seacrest during his morning radio program on Tuesday. “I feel like it’s really dancey and fun, but still laid-back, relaxed and moody and sexy.”
Rock It or Drop It?

MTV is releasing a collection of promos they’re calling “VMA Side Story” to promote the 26th Annual Video Music Awards’ return to its roots in New York on Sunday, Sept. 13. Each ad features a contemporary take on the performance of “Tonight” from the movie musical West Side Story.

Here’s the first promo, which features Cobra Starship and Leighton Meester working their musical magic on the subway platform.

Leighton Meester may play a villain on TV, but in real life, the Gossip Girl star swears she’s got a heart of gold.

In the September issue of Harper Bazaar, Leighton sets the record straight for the first time about her reported sex tape, claiming it doesn’t exist. “[The tape] is not real,” she says. “So it makes me sort of sad. It’s unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did.”

In June, an adult film company released a dozen screencaps from a X-rated video that allegedly featured Leighton, then 18-years-old, performing various nude acts — including foot worship — with a former boyfriend.

“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,” she adds.

Leighton Meester’s still singing. Gossip Girl’s own Blair — who was most recently in the headlines after a vintage sex tape fell into the hands of a greedy porn broker — has released a new single just in time for the projected September 2009 release of her debut album.

What Are Your Thoughts On Leighton’s Pop/Rock-Inspired Single, “Body Control?”

Actress Leighton Meester is reportedly “devastated” over the recent leak of a sex tape, which allegedly features the 23-year-old star in the throws of passion with a former boyfriend. Read the rest of this entry »

Where’s that “You’re A Dumb Fuck” graphic when you need it?

Leighton Meester — perhaps best known to the teener and tweener set as Blair Waldorf on The CW series Gossip Girl — is the latest B-Lister to have shots of her vagina plastered all over the interwebs.

When will these people ever learn?

Early Thursday, TMZ.com claimed that California-based adult film website was working to release a sex tape featuring the young actress. The footage was reportedly shot a few years ago, and features Leighton in a boatload of “compromising positions” — Wink, Nudge, Wink – including one in which she uses her feet.

Don’t ask. Please.

Anywho, if these screencaps obtained by Bumpshack.com are indicative of the tape’s authenticity, then we have only one thing to say. In the words of the great Whoopi Goldberg: “Leighton, you in danger, girl!”

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Say it ain’t so, Blair!

Gossip Girl beauty — and normally strait-laced actress — Leighton Meester has found herself at the center of a sex tape scandal.

Word is a recording of the twentysomething star engaging in a variety of sex acts with a boyfriend is being shopped to various adult film studios around California.

We hear company called celebhotline.com is negotiating an deal to release the video.

“We’ve seen the tape and we’re hoping to close the deal,” say Kevin Blatt, a rep for the website.

TMZ.com writes: We’ve learned a Meester tape is being shopped around town. It was shot a few years back, and shows Leighton in mostly innocuous though nude scenes — with several big exceptions … one involving her very talented feet.

Leighton — who is best known for her role as Uptown Girl Blair on The CW’s cult hit Gossip Girl – will release her debut pop-rock LP in September.

Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester will release her long-awaited debut solo album this fall, and fans hoping to hear a taste of the star’s pipes are in luck.

On Friday, On Air With Ryan Seacrest debuted Leighton’s single “Good Girls Go Bad,” which features Cobra Starship and was co-written by American Idol judge Kara DioGuardi.

CLICK HERE TO LISTEN TO LEIGHTON MEESTER (FT. COBRA STARSHIP) “GOOD GIRLS GO BAD”

Let us know what you think.