Leighton and co-star Ed Westwick appear on one of three covers to the September 12 issue of Entertainment Weekly on news stands now. The other two covers feature their Gossip Girl co-stars Chace and Jessica (Nate and Vanessa) as well as Blake and Penn (Serena and Dan). Make sure to go out and buy yourself a copy! Thanks to the folks over at Entertainment Weekly we have a copy of Leighton & Ed’s cover in the gallery, enjoy!

[01] Entertainment Weekly Cover
[11] September 5 – Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – Jason Wu
[11] September 5 – Mercedes-Benz Fashion Week – Julie Haus
[20] September 5 – Fashion Rocks

Connie Meester, mother of Gossip Girl’s Leighton, is writing a memoir, according to E! The book will reportedly include details of Leighton’s birth while Connie was doing time for drug-related crimes, as first reported by Star magazine on Tuesday.

Connie initially wrote her life story as a screenplay, but will now convert it into a book, according to her manager, Loch Powell, with chapters describing her role in a family marijuana-trafficking ring that was busted by the Feds in 1985. Powell reports that mother and daughter are “very close.”

There is no release date for the book, as Connie has yet to secure a publisher. [Source]

Gossip Girl frenemies Leighton Meester and Blake Lively have closed a deal to guest-star in a November sweeps episode of NBC’s increasingly stunt-happy 30 Rock, sources confirm to me exclusively. The dynamic duo will play — prepare to laugh ’till you piddle — former high school classmates of Liz Lemon’s in a flashback sequence that reveals a shocking and deeply ironic truth about Tina Fey’s morally superior alter ego: She was a Mean Girl!

The Gossip-inspired flashback coincides with Liz’s 20-year high school reunion, which means we’re also going to meet the adult versions of Meester and Lively’s characters. (In a kicky twist, Rock execs are talking to Blake’s older sis, Robyn Lively, about playing the latter part.) [Source]

I will have more from the Entourage events soon.