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Leighton Meester enjoys a Christmas Day Jacuzzi. The former ‘Gossip Girl’ actress – who has Arlo, seven, and a three-year-old son with husband Adam Brody – prioritises spending quality time with her family and enjoying home “comforts” as well as “typical” Los Angeles pastimes during the festive season. Asked how she spends Christmas, she told Best magazine: “We’re usually in LA, so it’s never snowing! “A lot of times we will go to the beach. “The last couple of years – he’s a toddler now – I’ve had a baby in tow, so I don’t do a big meal. I usually order food but this time I feel like making a...
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Leighton Meester wants to make a sequel to ‘Exmas’. The 37-year-old actress stars in the new festive comedy as Ali, whose former fiancé Graham (Robbie Amell) travels home to surprise his family for Christmas, only to find them celebrating with his old flame, and she had such a good time making the movie, she’d love to do it all again. She told Best magazine: “The fun was constant! This is the most fun I’ve ever had on a set, which I think also comes across when you watch the movie… “I just want a sequel right away.” And Leighton thinks there are enough funny outtakes from the movie that would ...
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Adam Brody has blasted method acting as “f****** boring”. The 43-year-old ‘O.C.’ actor’s latest project was starring in Netflix’s remake of 1994 thriller ‘River Wild’ – that saw Meryl Streep’s rafting holiday take a deadly turn – but he said he didn’t use so-called immersive acting techniques in the movie reboot, like Jeremy Strong in ‘Succession’. Adam – who plays a heavily-tattooed ex-convict who will stop at nothing to make sure he never returns to prison and who terrorises a character played by his real-life wife Leighton Meester, 37 – told the Variety podcast about the prospect of going m...
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Adam Brody is adamant his "fast" marriage to Leighton Meester was an "easy decision". The couple met a few times over the years before working together on 2011 film 'The Oranges' but they didn't start dating until 2013 and they tied the knot just a year later in 2014 - and 'The O.C.' star admits walking down the aisle after 12 months together didn't scare him in the slightest. Speaking on SiriusXM's 'The Jess Cagle Show', Adam explained: "I was never scared of the idea of marriage or kids. It always seemed, you know, like a route I would go eventually, and I was excited to when it, you know, w...
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Adam Brody has learned to "swallow [his] ego" as a married man. The 43-year-old actor has been married to actress Leighton Meester since 2014, and Adam feels that "compromise" has been one of the keys to his relationship. He shared: "If I’ve learnt anything, you have to really swallow your ego and pride. You have to listen and accept the other’s perspective – and probably compromise." Despite this, Adam accepts that it's perfectly possible to feel content with life without being married. The actor - who is perhaps best known for playing Seth Cohen in 'The O.C.' - told The Independent: "You don...
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Leighton Meester, Adam Brody and Taran Killam are to star in a reimagining of 'The River Wild'. The original 1994 movie was directed by Curtis Hanson and told the story of a family forced to combat a pair of violent criminals on a whitewater rafting trip. Meryl Streep, Kevin Bacon and John C. Reilly all starred. The new project is being helmed by Ben Ketai and follows siblings (Killam and Meester) - who love but distrust each other as they set off on a rafting trip with a small group including a childhood friend (Brody), who is more dangerous than he seems. Ogden Gavanski is producing the flic...
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Leighton Meester still suffers from mom guilt. The 35-year-old star - who has Arlo, six, and a son who was born in 2020 - still feels guilty about spending time away from her kids. She shared: "It doesn't seem like it gets better. I've been thinking maybe it would, but it doesn't. And now I've really doubled up on this kid thing. So it's kind of, it's a double whammy of like, 'Well, there's a baby now and he seems like he needs me.'" Leighton loves her job and is keen to keep working. But the 'Gossip Girl' star admits it's tough to find a healthy balance as a working mom. Leighton - who hasn't...
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Leighton Meester will “hopefully soon” bring out new music. The ‘Gossip Girl’ star released the album ‘Heartstrings’ in 2014 and previously collaborated on other artists’ songs - such as Cobra Starship’s 2009 single ‘Good Girls Go Bad’ - but is aiming for something fresh by the end of “this year”. The 35-year-old actress told Cosmopolitan UK: "The short answer is yes. Hopefully soon. I have a bunch of stuff written and recorded and ready to go. It's just a matter of when I can release it and when I can make time for that. I had it ready and set to go, and then pandemic...And I've had another c...
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The 'Gossip Girl' reboot changed its approach to makeup. Lead makeup artist, Amy Tagliamonti - who worked on both the original 2007 set and its 2021 revival - opted for filled-in brows to show that beauty trends have changed over the past 14 years with the rise of social media. She said: "Our approach to eyebrows was really different this time around; we didn't want to tweeze the heck out them. "Instead of focusing on perfection, we used a lot of brow gels and waxes. Emily Lind who plays Audrey really loved the soap-brow look, so we did that. Of course, Glossier Boy Brow and Brow Flick were st...
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Rachel Bilson feels “grateful” for her relationship with ex-boyfriend Adam Brody, as they were able to “support” each other during their fame on ‘The O.C.’ The 39-year-old actress dated fellow actor Adam – who is now married to Leighton Meester – whilst they were acting together on the drama series, and has said dating someone who understood the “unique experience” of being on the show was “super helpful”. Looking back on her romance with Adam – who played her character Summer Roberts’ love interest Seth Cohen – she said: “Because of what the show was and how young we all were, going through i...
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