Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively and Leighton Meester can’t stand each other

**mrs.v** · August 27th, 2010, 07:02 PM

Enquirer: Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively and Leighton Meester can’t stand each other

There’s a pretty interesting piece in this week’s National Enquirer about how Gossip Girl co-stars Blake Lively and Leighton Meester are in a blood feud. Supposedly Leighton is jealous over the recognition and fame that Blakes has been getting lately. The most interesting part of this story is that Blake’s rep doesn’t deny this but merely says his client “has never been best friends” with Blake and just “goes to work and does her job” as if that’s enough to dispel the story that she can’t stand Lively. She tolerates her, and that’s about it. Here’s the Enquirer’s take:

“They don’t even acknowledge each other when they’re not in a scene together,” a set insider told the Enquirer.
“Leighton thinks Blake is an egomaniac who views her time on the TV set as slumming.
“And Blake feels stifled. She’s just ignoring her co-star because she knows bigger things are in store…”
When asked about the feud, Blake’s publicist told The Enquirer: “Blake and Leighton have never been best friends and never professed to be. Blake goes to work, does her job, and goes home.”

[From The National Enquirer, print edition, September 6, 2010]
The Enquirer goes on to say that Blake “asked Gossip Girl producers to kill off her character because of cast infighting.” (I hope that’s not a spoiler for our GG fans.)
Kaiser reminds me that while Lively has been on the cover of Vogue a head-shaking two times, Leighton is still struggling for recognition. It seems like we’re always talking about Blake’s fashion or boobs, while Leighton is barely mentioned at all in the press. I remember when she was hot sh*t too, and when it was all about how she was born in prison to a convict mom. She also had some sort of half-assed pop music career that went nowhere. Now it’s all about Blake and her upcoming role in The Town and maybe-fling with married Ben Affleck. No wonder these ladies are fighting. One’s career is on the rise while the other one is struggling. It’s not rocket science.

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**nancydrew** · August 27th, 2010, 07:14 PM

Well that is something I have in common with these two twats. I can't stand either one of them.

**Annika** · August 27th, 2010, 07:21 PM

neither of them look like anything special.

**Pinkii** · August 27th, 2010, 07:53 PM

if you watch GG bloopers they seem pretty friendly with each other and joking around.

also all this reminds me of Micsha Barton and Rachel Bilson from the OC. at the height of OC mania everyone said how Mischa had great things ahead of her and she was a 'fashionista' etc (all the things being said about Blake atm) and she went and left the OC and we saw what happened after that for her. Rachel may not be A list yet but at least she has a steady acting career still.

anyways I love Leighton, she seems cool and easy going and i think she is beautiful and she is very talented.

**Sorce** · August 27th, 2010, 08:07 PM

Leighton is very talented. Besides, from what I've observed, it is Leighton's character who is more of the fan favorite.

**KrisNine** · August 27th, 2010, 08:09 PM

Originally Posted by nancydrew

Well that is something I have in common with these two twats. I can't stand either one of them.

Funny, I was just about to post the same thing!

**immature** · August 27th, 2010, 08:14 PM

Every time you have female co-stars there are stories of how they don't get along. I haven't seen any sign of this so-called blood feud anywhere, and like Pinkii said, the blooper reels seem to show them getting along.

Leighton is still fairly new on the scene and has more than enough time to make her mark. She's done, what, one or two singles, and the one she did with Cobra Starship did fairly well. What's she got to be jealous about?

**SuriCruise** · August 28th, 2010, 01:38 AM

There's been strong rumours about them not getting along since GG first started. I can't stand Blake Lively, all she does is flash us her implants and act with her squinty eyes and whiny voice. Leighton Meester is more attractive and seems to be more talented, but Blake gets a lot more attention. I gave up on the show a while ago, but I remember when it first came out and Taylor Momsen was touted as being the next big thing lol.

**PoisonGirl** · August 28th, 2010, 01:49 AM

Yeah, cuz we haven't heard this story before. I don't like either of them.

**junctionalfunkie** · August 28th, 2010, 09:14 AM

I'd pay good money to see them tag team and beat Taylor Momsen up.

**stef** · August 28th, 2010, 09:32 AM

the show starts again in september so of course a story like this comes out now. regardless of whether it's true or not, i don't think leighton needs to be jealous of blake in any way because she and ed are the show's favorites and the reason why people still watch it.

on a side note, i really hate celebitchy "articles".