Always up for a fun shopping opportunity, “Gossip Girl” hotties Leighton Meester and Jessica Szohr were spotted at the 5th Annual Lucky Shops charity event last night (November 6).

Miss Meester was a paparazzi darling as usual, striking a plethora of poses in the arrivals area in her one-shoulder black and magenta floral print dress, along with a pair of Roman gladiator-style heels.

Meanwhile, Jessica had her own posedown going on, sporting a black v-neck top teamed with a pair of black loose-fitting trousers and matching black shoes.

The Lucky Shops event was sponsored by Lucky Magazine and held at the Metropolitan Pavilion in New York City. All proceeds go to the Robin Hood charity.

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Continuing to film scenes for their recently extended 25-episode season, the stars of “Gossip Girl” were hard at work in Brooklyn on Monday morning (November 3).

Chace Crawford, Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen and Ed Westwick were all on-hand at the cemetery, walking back and forth from their trailers as they shot a funeral scene.

Meanwhile, a brand new episode of the hit CW drama airs tonight at 8/7C, eerily titled “There Might Be Blood”.

Of the episode, the CW Web site tells, “Serena (Blake Lively) invites Aaron (guest star John Patrick Amedori) to be her guest at a charity gala honoring Lily and Bart (Kelly Rutherford and guest star Robert John Burke), but after discovering a secret that Aaron has been keeping from her she begins to question whether Aaron is the guy she thought he was. Hoping it will help her chances of getting into Yale, Blair (Leighton Meester) naively agrees to babysit the 15-year-old daughter of a prominent Yale donor, but the teenager proves to be more than a handful and Blair begins to suspect that the evening may actually wind up hurting her chances of getting into the college of her dreams. Meanwhile, Jenny (Taylor Momsen) and Agnes (guest star Willa Holland) plan a guerilla fashion show that will either launch Jenny’s star or ruin her chances of ever being accepted by the industry.”

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Fond of Jessica Alba but lukewarm on Leighton Meester?

Make a trade.

The actresses, along with the likes of Adam Brody, Kristen Bell, Hayden Panettiere, Scarlett Johannson, Giovanni Ribisi, Nick Cannon and Eva Mendes, are all to be featured on baseball-style trading cards.

The PopCardz series will include stats such as the celeb’s favorite song, book, food, even their fears. “I’m afraid of the dark,” admits Jessica Biel on the back of her card.

Benefiting charities like The Art of Elysium and Multiple Sclerosis Research Center of New York, the cards, which run about three dollars per pack of five, will launch the first week of November. Select retailers will be listed on popcardz.com.

Adds Biel: “When I was a child these types of cards were geared towards the boys, so it is refreshing to see that PopCardz will appeal to both boys and girls.”

• Reporting by MARISA LAUDADIO

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Blake Lively’s character may have trouble fitting into New York society in Gossip Girl, but she’s the toast of Hollywood in the August issue of Vanity Fair.

Along with Kristen Stewart, Emma Roberts and Amanda Seyfried, Lively’s crowned one of the most promising young stars in the era of YouTube and Gawker, where celebrity comes faster - and harder - than ever before.

“Boundaries dissolve everywhere they turn their pretty heads,” observes the magazine.

Others included in the pantheon of next-generation A-listers include the Jonas Brothers; Jonah Hill, Emma Stone and Christopher Mintz-Plasse of Superbad; Judd Apatow regularJay Baruchel; The 40-Year-Old Virgin’s Kat Dennings; Juno’s Olivia Thirlby; Transformers‘ Rachael Taylor; Weeds‘ Hunter Parrish; Z%26#246;e Kravitz; Rob Brown; Michael Angarano; Josh Peck; Summer Bishil; and Amber Heard. Also on the list: seemingly the entire cast of Gossip Girl, including Jessica Szohr, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen and Penn Badgley.
- Michael Y. Park

• Nicole Richie and Joel Madden, joining

Lindsay Lohan at a table in Los Angeles’s newest hot

spot, Crown Bar. (Lohan, recently back from Paris, was there with

BFF Samantha Ronson, who was deejaying at the club.) Richie sipped

on a glass of white wine, then danced up a storm with Lohan and some female

friends. Madden, meanwhile, chatted with his guy friends at the table. When

Ronson spun the New Kids on the Block’s “You Got It (The Right Stuff),”

Richie pointed at Lohan mid-dance.

• At one point, Lohan and Ronson took a smoke break on the patio, and

when Ronson was ready to go inside, Lohan leaned over and gave her a kiss on

the cheek as Lohan finished her smoke. Later in the night, Lohan, who was

cheering Ronson on all night, joined her pal behind the deejay booth.

• Around midnight, Lauren Conrad and Lauren Bosworth said “hi” to Richie by the bar - then ditched their table

(with Stephanie Pratt) to join her on the dance floor. Richie and

Conrad held hands as they got down to the mix of retro and new songs.

• Blake Lively and Leighton Meester, celebrating their Nylon magazine covers with their Gossip Girl costars during an Armani Exchange-hosted dinner at Amalia in New

York. The ladies were joined by their male counterparts, Penn Badgley and Chace Crawford, who sat at the dinner with

some male buddies. While real-life couple Lively and Badgley didn’t get too romantic at dinner,

they did arrive (and leave) together, and whispered in each other’s ears at

the table. Also there: Michelle Trachtenberg, Jamie-Lynn Sigler and

Zachary Levi.

• Lauren Graham, chatting in an upbeat fashion after dinner

at West Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont with some friends. The former Gilmore Girls star wore her hair pulled back into a low, loose ponyta

and she sported a fitted cream blazer over dark pants and boots.

• Following New York Post reports that she recently

got “cozy” with a younger man at an upfronts party, Real Housewives of New York star LuAnn de Lesseps was spotted sitting with her husband, Alexandre Count de Lesseps, and causing a stir during dinner at Brio in New York. “They were loud; people were definitely looking,” an onlooker

tells us of the tense scene at the Italian restaurant. “The count looked

furious and she was leaning back in her chair.” Adds the onlooker: “He was

swearing and in a raised voice kept repeating to his wife, ‘You don’t

understand reality, you’re consumed by the show!’” But the couple denied any

strife on the red carpet at the American Image Awards. “Alex and I are very

happily married, and we’re very much together,” the countess tells us. And

her husband added: “I rarely speak about private matters, but I do agree

strongly with that.”

• By JENNIFER GARCIA, LIZA HAMM and JEFFREY SLONIM

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Thursday’s Caught in the Act .

Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester celebrated her 22nd birthday Saturday night in true Blair Waldorf fashion. The actress, dressed in a red, one-shoulder Armani mini-dress and Jill Stuart heels, partied with friends (including costars Nicole Fiscella and Sebastian Stan) at New York’s ultra-exclusive Bungalow 8. The birthday girl twirled and spun around the upstairs dance floor overlooking the club’s main room before being presented with a chocolate cake with vanilla icing by Fiscella and a club waitress. Meester sipped champagne as she continued to dance along to Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” and The Foundations’ “Build Me Up Buttercup,” until the wee hours of the morning.
- Tiffany Hopkins

• Leighton Meester, checking out her Gossip Girls‘ castmate Ed Westwick’s band, the Filthy Youth, performing at

the Annex on New York’s Lower East Side. Earlier in the day, the actress

brunched at hipster favorite Freemans along with costar (and concert date)

Dreama Walker and two other friends, and the group also did some shopping at Lolli by Reincarnation Boutique.

• Miley Cyrus, dining at Los Angeles’s famed Ivy

with mom Leticia and three girlfriends. The teen sensation seemed happy

to be there, pulling up in a white Range Rover, an observer tells us: “They

were smiling and laughing as %26#91;Cyrus%26#93; got out of the back seat.”

• It was a busy night for Cameron Diaz: After her

big win at Nickelodeon’s

Kid’s Choice Awards, the actress arrived at the Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel,

where she celebrated pal Lake Bell’s birthday at the Tropicana Bar.

The actress, her birthday gal pal and Robin Antin then moved their party to Teddy’s - also in the hotel - and Diaz danced, chatted and gracefully drank a glass of red wine on the dancefloor. At one point, America Ferrera and her boyfriend came over to say hello and kiss Diaz on the cheek before heading out. Later, the actress took a seat, chatting intimately with a mystery man in a two-person booth. Also spotted at Teddy’s that night: Lindsay Lohan, who hung out with deejay pal Samantha Ronson as she spun.

• File this one under unique pairings: Pamela Anderson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Billy Crystalcheered on the Los Angeles Dodgers at the Los Angeles Coliseum together.

“They sat in the front row,” says a fellow fan. “They’re all buds. it

seems.” Also in the stands: The Office’s John Krasinski,

with his parents and brother, and pal Will Arnett.

• Tobey Maguire, playing in Beverly Hills’ Coldwater Canyon

Park with Jennifer Meyer and their daughter Ruby, 16 months. The

happy parents chased their daughter around - before Maguire put her in

a swing.

• Prince, requesting that the lights be dimmed more while

sitting in the library room with his entourage at Hollywood’s Green Door

lounge.

• By REAGAN ALEXANDER, PERNILLA CEDENHEIM, JENNIFER GARCIA, MARY

MARGARET, ABBY STERN and SUSAN YARA

Celebrity Hot Spots.

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Leighton Meester’s show Gossip Girl is one big hit. But could the young starlet consider switching to a career as a rapper?

“I have a huge range of songs,” Meester, 22, told the blog Just Jared at a promotional event in New York Wednesday about her burgeoning musical career.

Explains the actress: “%26#91;On%26#93; some of them I just talk, I do a little - not rapping - but talking, sort of spoken word. It’s a little Fergie, a little like Gwen Stefani and M.I.A.”

When it comes to her career, though, Meester is content to be just a double (not triple) threat. “I don’t think I’m going to be dancing but I definitely could,” she says in the interview. “My nickname use to be Happy Feet. If I’m standing there and music is playing on set, I’ll be doing this. People used to be like, ‘Why are you Happy Feet? You need to stop that now.’ ”

Yes, he’s dreamy. But Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester is shooting down talk of a romance with costar Chace Crawford.

“For the record, not true!” she told PEOPLE at the Monday night at The Help Group’s Annual Teddy Bear Ball, where CW head honcho Dawn Ostroff was being honored.

But the brunette, 21, does admit that Crawford is one of her favorite costars. “I’m really close to Chace,” she said. “We’re really good friends. %26#91;Along with%26#93; Nicole %26#91;Fiscella%26#93;, who plays Isabel on the show. We’re all just really happy people. We have the same views on life.”

Lively, for one, says she’s sick of all the, well, gossip. “The biggest thing I’ve noticed is they kind of want everybody to be their character,” the 20-year-old said. “Like Leighton %26#91;dating%26#93; Chace, and me and Leighton hating each other. Those are our characters on the show - that’s not us in real life.”