Sarah Michelle as Veronika

Now that Buffy’s little sister Michelle Trachtenberg is making a come back on Gossip Girl, I wondered what happened to Buffy herself, scream queen Sarah Michelle? Apart from marrying Freddie Prinze jr. she hasn’t been making waves much the last few years. 

Al that may be about to change as she’s starring in the Paulo Coelho adaptation Veronika decides to die. In the film, a young woman finds herself waking up after a failed suicide attempt. When she learns that she has only a few days to live, she gains a new lust for life.

It’s a bit of a leap for SMG, up to now the Buffy star has mostly kicked serious (vampire)ass, so a ’serious’ film is a change of pace. SMG will also be starring in the new HBO series The Wonderful Maladys.

Michelle Trachtenberg

Evil Georgina might be returning to the Upper East side!
Last year we met with Serena’s former friend and arch enemy Georgina. When Serena was still a party girl the two used to sleep around and do drugs, but now that Serena has gone goodie two Louboutins Georgina finds sick pleasure in tormentng her.

Hey, anyone tormenting Serena is ok with me and I must say I liked Trachtenberg. As Buffy’s sis (where IS Sarah Michelle Geller anyway? Off having babies? Rehab?) she was a bit too sweet to be true, I like the more curvy, adult version. And her clothes are much, much better.

As with many evil doers, you wonder why they make such a song and dance of being evil, it would be so much easier to just get along.   Or find new friends to go drinking with. But wehey, we need a bit of action in Gossip Girl. Rumors are flying that Georgina is Lily and Rufus’ love child. What do you think?

Of course Georgie could be having a love child of her own, after her fling with Dan? 

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Drew Barrymore

Drew Barrymore sure gets around in tvland! After a very public snogging session with Gossip Girl’s Ed Westwick, the blonde actress seems to have her heart set on another sitcom star: HIMYM’s Jason Segel aka Marshall Erikson.

Segel, also known for his role as an actor and a writer on the hit pic Forgetting Sarah Marshall, and Barrymore were spotted canoodling at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont. Not a very low key place, so they’re probably not keeping it a secret! They’d make a cute couple. Apparently, they’ve even karaoked in front of an audience together!

You think Lily’s ok with this?

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After all the drama of the Madonna-Ritchie divorce, I thought it’d be nice to focus on the Best Couples of 2008! Here’s to Scarlett& Ryan, Leighton& Sebastian, Nicole&Keith and many more!

Scarlett & Ryan

Scarlett & hubby Ryan Reynolds

Sexy Scarlett Johansson (23) married fellow actor Ryan Reynolds (31) in an intimate ceremony outside Vancouver this September. “I believe in finding a soul mate,” Scarlett said in an interview. “I’ve always been in monogamous relationships. I would never want to be in an open one. It’d be too awful.” That Ryan is one very lucky guy!

Leighton Meester & Stan Sebastian

The entire Gossip Girl cast.

First Blake Lively hooked up with Penn Badgely, then Leighton Meester got together with Sebastian Stan and now Taylor Momsen has been seen playing toncil hockey with Chace Crawford! What’s with this show? Personally, I liked Ed Westwick and Drew Barrymore best. Unfortunately that appears to have been a mere one night stand.

Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green

Megan Fox & Brian Austin Green
Aren’t they the cutest? The world’s sexiest lass hooked up with the tough Terminator slayer and the web just can’t get enough of these two! The power couple got engaged in November.

Nicole Kidman & Keith

Nicole Kidman & Keith Urban
Their marriage got off to a rocky start when Keith had to check himself into rehab mere months after Í do’. Cynics assumed they would never make it, but the star couple have wheathered the storm together and that’s what marriage is all about! They are also the proud parents of baby Sunday Rose.

Michelle & Barack Obama
Michelle and Barack may not be the most flashy couple but they sure make good candidates for celeb couple of the year 2008! Not only do they look like the perfect couple, together they won the 2008 elections: the first black couple in the White House!
Way to go!

Sarkozy & Bruni

French president Nicholas Sarkozy & Carla Bruni
More political lovebirds!
It sounds like the tagline of a movie: after Whirlwind romance the French president marries the model turned songstress and they live happily ever after, in spite of naked pics of her turning up. Carla even recorded an album with a song about having sex with her new husband. Somehow, she’s managed to turn the French president into something of a rockstar himself. Quite a feat, so:Go Carla!

Reese & Jake

Reese Witherspoone & Jake Gyllenhaal

Reese and Jake tried to keep their relationship a secret for quite a while, but now rumors of an engagement are rife. Then again, if two Hollywood stars share a cup of coffee twice there’s usually rumors flying about an engagement or a pregnancy, so who knows. They seem happy though! Last November they tried to have a romantic dinner, but when they tried to leave out the back door, droves of paperazzi were waiting for them. Luckily, the chef came to their rescue, egging te paperazzi and yelling at them to leave the couple alone.

Gossip Girl Bart

The Big Bass is dead! Funerals are always good soap fodder, and this one doesn’t disappoint: Chuck runs around screaming insult and getting drunk. Blair tries to comfort him, but he resists her maternal side. Lily and Rufus want to be together and Rufus says he’ll wait for her.

I like that Blair and Cyrus are getting close, I think Blair is basically a family girl, who likes big thanksgivings and lavish Christmasses. Serena going all grieving daughter I thought a bit dodgy, because her mom was married to Bart for all of fifteen minutes and most of those minutes were rather unpleasant! Aaron has got to go. I thought Dan was a boring conceited, well, bore, but Aaron is much, much worse. Plus he desperately needs to shave. Who’d have thought I’d be longing for the days of Darena? I’m curious about the missing baby: would it be anyone we know? Could be Nate….. Or Aaron! Yikes. Jenny designing a bridal ensemble for the great Eleanor Waldorff I thought highly unlikely, silly even. But then I think the whole Jenny-story line should be scratched asap. Can’t she go and live with her boring mum?

I thought the final scene with Blair and Chuck was sweet, they really should get it together, though that would, of course, kill the series. Maybe in the very last episode?

btw: Chace and Taylor? Together? GG is starting to look a lot like a dating show for teens… That’s the third couple getting together!

oh well, no more GG til 5th of January!

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Ugly Betty

Betty tries to get into an editorial writing program and comes up against Mark. Both have to present concepts for a magazine, and only one of them can get in. Wilhelmina tries to get Connor in the sack, while Daniel has the hots for Connors fiance, Molly, the kindergarten teacher. Justin gets into trouble with his best friend.

I really like Hilda as a mom. For all her trashy talk and low cut dresses, she’s a model mom who always puts her kid first. Betty is an IDIOT for giving up on the stupid writing program just because she may have gotten special treatment. Why the hellll would she give it up just so Mark (!) could get in???? Other than that it is the usual Daniel screws up, Daniel fixes things in the end story line, but it was a feelgood episode.

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Bethany Joy Galeotti/Haley

One Tree Hill goes Casablanca, which basically means that all the story lines get played out in a forties setting. Ish. Brooke is in debt with Dan, Lucas is still trying to deal with Julian, Mouth is onto something big.

I must admit, I never much saw the point of Haley or her singing, she always had these highly forgettable ditties that seemed to consist of singing the same boring line over and over and over again, but wow! She blew me out of the water with that song she sang last night! And she looked GREAT! She should really be singing this kind of stuff, rather than the poppy nothingish crap she usually tackles. Loved the whole look of the ep, actually. Casablanca is a bit lame, are there no other movies to parody? Then again, it did give a nice twist to the characters and their relationships. And wonderful outfits. Luke should dress up like that more and I really want that dress Peyton was wearing. Anybody know where she got it?

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Blair and Serena

It’s Blair’s eighteenth birthday!
Blair’s mom has a new boyfriend, who is not at all like Queen B. expects (come on B, your dad was gay! Being straight probably makes him a better boyfriend for your mom!) because he’s tiny and, well, looks like something from Deep Space Nine.

Serena and boring artisty Aaron are doing utterly boring stuff with maps, Dan is selling out Chuck to get into Yale and Little J is getting into a cat fight with model Agnes.

I know, I know, I don’t like Serena, but couldn’t she be a lot more unhappy. A venereal disease, a train wreck, something?

Sad moment: Chuck buys his dad a box at the Rangers and all his dad can say is “Nice gesture, but misguided as usual. I don’t have time for hockey games.” Jerk!

Funny quotes:

Blair to Serena: “Who cares about plaque or pretentious artists when your best friend is having a melt down?” (so true!)

Blair to Serena: “A guy starts in his blue period and it’s all great, but then he gets into cubism and it’s some other girl’s eye coming out of her forehead!” (you go girl!)

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Shanae Grimes aka 90210 Annie

Mom and Pop come out with the ‘You have a half brother’ thing. The kids aren’t impressed. Dixon feels threatened, Annie is hurt. Ethan and Annie try to keep their ‘relationship’ a secret. Yeah, that’ll work!

Annie finally gets drunk, about time too!

Stupid bits:
Annie thinks Jimmy Choo is Chinese food? That’s not Kansas, that’s plain stupid. Did they ban all Sex and the City episodes in Kansas? Is it wall to wall Little house on the prairie? These writers seem pretty clueless. There must be hotter brands for teens out there? Jimmy Choo? Why don’t these writers check out the occasional Gossip Girl ep? Or simply read some gossip rag? Clueless!

Funny quote: Naomi: “Oh, no, there’s boys! Now I have to give a crap what I look like!”

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