The official synopsis for the 6th and final season of Gossip Girl has been released. Gossip Girl will return in the Fall of 2012 and will be airing at a new time: Monday nights at 9:00PM.

Six years after the first Gossip Girl blast rocked the Upper East Side and viewers at home, GOSSIP GIRL, a one-hour drama about the scandalous lives of Manhattan’s elite, executive produced by Josh Schwartz (Chuck, The O.C.), Stephanie Savage (The O.C.), Sara Goodman, Bob Levy and Les Morgenstein, returns for an unforgettable final season. Season six opens with the Upper East Siders working together to find one of their own. Serena has gone off the grid, beyond even the reach of Gossip Girl. Her friends fear for the worst and hope for the best, but even they can’t imagine where they will ultimately find her. Meanwhile, Blair has offered Chuck her heart, but is her love enough to help him win back his empire? Lonely Boy Dan has written a new book that promises to make even more trouble than the first, and this time he has no desire to remain anonymous. Nate is determined to finally reveal the true identity of Gossip Girl, thereby making a name for The Spectator, and himself. Lily and Rufus turn on one another when Rufus makes a surprising new ally who threatens Lily and her family. Anywhere else it would be too much drama to handle, but this is the Upper East Side. And when Bart Bass, Jack Bass and Georgina Sparks show up to raise hell, it’s a fight to the spectacular series finale. Who comes out on top? That’s one secret I’ll never tell… xoxo, Gossip Girl.

The CW has renewed Gossip Girl and Nikita as well as freshman drama Hart of Dixie and ended the run of buzzy freshman dramas Ringer and The Secret Circle.

Gossip Girl’s sixth-season pickup doesn’t come as a surprise as there had been conversations about bringing back the Blake Lively-Leighton Meester hourlong for a final round because the actors’ contracts expire next year. In January, executive producer Stephanie Savage told reporters that the Gossip Girl writers were leaving the story open at the end of season five. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter later that month, she suggested that next season felt like “an organic ending point.” Savage will remain showrunner, while Sara Goodman has been promoted to executive producer.

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Leighton Meester has joined forces with Vera Wang to support bone marrow centre DKMS.

The Gossip Girl star – who is the face of the fashion house- is teaming up with the founder of DKMS Katharina Harf and Vera Wang to raise awareness on the need for bone marrow donors.

Vera Wang has designed a T-shirt with the words “Share the Love” for the campaign. The shirt comes as a gift with a $78 purchase from Vera Wang’s fragrance collection Lovestruck. The offer begins March 28 at Macy’s.

Leighton will feature in the campaign to promote the effort with Kerri Mullen, a 19-year-old leukaemia survivor who was saved by a bone marrow donation from a DKMS donor. DKMS is touted as the world’s largest marrow donor centre.

“‘Share the love’ is an altruistic idea of love – it’s about giving the gift of life to a stranger,” Leighton said, according to WWD.

Leighton is the face of Lovestruck and has previously told of her shock at being approached by Vera to be an ambassador for the product.

“I was at one of her shows and she mouthed to me across the runway, ‘I want to talk to you’ I was like, ‘OMG, what does Vera Wang want to talk to me about?’ I thought I’d done something wrong!” she said.

“The next day, I got a call asking if I wanted to represent her new fragrance.”

The beauty has said she is thrilled to be representing the scent.

“I love her clothes and obviously when I first smelt Lovestruck I loved it too! It’s got an edginess that really appealed to me,” she gushed.

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Blair Waldorf recently got married on “Gossip Girl,” but actress Leighton Meester, who portrays the New York socialite on TV, doesn’t know if she wants to walk down the aisle.

“I never had a boyfriend until I was 18,” Meester told the April issue of Marie Claire. “It’s nice, I guess – when you like them. But it isn’t the most important thing. I’m not sure I ever want to get married. The only time a relationship is good is when you really love them. I don’t want to hang out with some guy I just like.”

That’s not the only way Meester, 25, differs from her “Gossip Girl” character, who grew up in a lavish lifestyle in Manhattan.

“I couldn’t relate to kid stuff — ‘Jimmy doesn’t like me!’ Who cares? I was worried we didn’t have gas money or food,” Meester revealed. “Those were my concerns.”

Meester said her family history is “probably the craziest” she’s ever heard.

Both Meester’s mother and father served time for drug-related offenses. She was born in a hospital (not in a jail as has been reported, she says) before being transferred to a halfway house for three months. Meester then moved in with her grandmother until her mother, Constance, was released from jail.

“I look back now and I see it in a nice light,” Meester told the upcoming issue of Marie Claire, which hits newsstands March 20. “It wasn’t uncomplicated. But I played outside. I went to the beach. There were happy, fun times.”

Meester continues to star on the CW’s “Gossip Girl,” and this summer, she hits the big screen in “That’s My Boy” with Adam Sandler, Andy Samberg and Susan Sarandon.

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Leighton Meester, best known for her indelible portrayal of rich-girl snobbery and capriciousness as Blair Waldorf on Gossip Girl, is getting her bowl on at Frames, a low-key alley abutting the Port Authority, Manhattan’s main bus terminal and one of the last vestiges of Times Square’s gritty past. She enjoys bowling — this is her second outing in a week. Which is not to say Meester is skilled at bowling. Because she is not.

“I never played sports,” she explains, before releasing her ball with an indifferent thump. “I wasn’t any good at them.” She watches the ball drop into the gutter with limp finality. Unfazed, she throws again, hurling it down the lane, knocking over a handful of pins. A second gutter shot follows. “I guess I need a bigger target,” she says flatly.

Meester is no stranger to such things. One of those rare children born with both full-blown ambition and the determination to avoid even the slightest derailment, Meester has been aiming at big game since grade school. Part of this is a rejoinder to circumstance. Meester’s mother, Constance, gave birth to her while serving federal prison time for drug trafficking. Meester was not, she has oft clarified, born in jail. She was delivered in a hospital, then transferred to a halfway house for three months, after which she was sent to live with her grandmother until Constance’s release. Her father, Doug, also served time for drug-related offenses. He and Constance would later divorce. The difficult facts of her childhood provided Meester with matchless perspective. Also, an ineffaceable blueprint of what not to do.

“My family has a crazy history,” she acknowledges. “Probably the craziest I’ve heard of.”

But it was not, she is quick to point out, Dickensian in its misery. “I look back now and I see it in a nice light,” Meester says of her youth in Marco Island, Florida. “It wasn’t uncomplicated. But I played outside. I went to the beach. There were happy, fun times.”

Meester, like many hard-knock kids, has little use for self-pity. “You can take what is handed to you and use it as an excuse to mess up. But I’ve always handled what was given to me by life. I consider myself lucky. I was never lied to. And I was loved.”

When Meester was 10, she attended a modeling convention in Atlanta during her Christmas break. An agent snapped her up on sight and took her to New York City. “I ended up staying. I never went back to Florida,” she explains. “That was that.”

She lived with her mother in dodgy rentals in the West Village, then in Inwood, at the northernmost tip of Manhattan. Meester booked commercials for Bloomingdale’s, Stern’s, the Limited Too. She flourished under pressure.

“I worked a lot, even though I was just a kid. It seemed normal to me,” she shrugs.

Building on her success, Meester left New York at 14 for Los Angeles for pilot season. She and her mother lived in an apartment at the corner of Hollywood and La Brea, steps from the Walk of Fame, surviving on modest checks from Meester’s grandfather and fees from Meester’s modeling gigs. When she could, she took acting classes. She preferred the ones with adults.

“I couldn’t relate to kid stuff. ‘Jimmy doesn’t like me!’ Who cares? I was worried we didn’t have gas money or food. Those were my concerns.”

Meester stayed laser-focused, eschewing boyfriends for work and study. She took a pass on prom. “It was a lot of money for a ticket. And I just didn’t care that much,” she says. Her eyes were fixed, as ever, on the prize.

“When you see how you react when you suffer,” she explains, “that’s when you know what you are made of.”

For several years, she was a prolific bit player, landing gigs on Law & Order, House, 24, and Entourage. The game changer came in 2006, when she landed Gossip Girl, an audacious, soapy drama adapted from the series of young-adult novels about the salacious lives of spoiled New York City prep schoolers. The show, a breakout hit, is now in its fifth season.

Meester is broadening her scope to film. This summer, she will appear in the Adam Sandler comedy That’s My Boy, in which she plays a neurotic bride who “starts out sweet, then gets crazier and crazier.” It is a familiar refrain. From her spoiled Machiavellian princess in Gossip Girl to the upstart underminer in Country Strong to the sapphic stalker in The Roommate, Meester specializes in elevating unsavory women above the “crazy bitch” stereotype. She doesn’t play the girl you love to hate. She does something far trickier: She makes you love the hateable girl. A quicksilver hybrid of Sharon Stone and Drew Barrymore, Meester has created something entirely new: the beyotch with a heart of gold.

For the full feature, pick up the April issue of Marie Claire when it hits newsstands on March 20.

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Leighton Meester doesn’t have to give her mother anything but coal this Christmas.

Constance Meester has dropped her $3 million lawsuit against her daughter, in which she stated that she “sacrificed her happiness” to help Leighton pursue acting and that the Gossip Girl star is legally bound to support her, E! News has confirmed.

But Leighton isn’t ready to stand down just yet…

The actress’ attorney tells E! that she is still seeking a judgment against Constance that will state, in black and white, that she does not owe her mother parental support.

“Leighton is still seeking declaratory relief from the court, which we hope to have wrapped up in the very near future,” says lawyer James Spertus. Leighton’s personal rep has not yet responded to a request for comment.

Constance’s now-former attorney, Robert Silverman, would only confirm that they decided to drop to their suit in October.

In a previous court filing, Leighton stated that Constance took money that she sent to the family for her sick brother’s care and spent it on plastic surgery and other comparatively frivolous things.

Constance counterfiled, claiming that she ponied up roughly $230,000 on private school and acting classes for Leighton over the years and that her daughter agreed to give her $10,000 a month after she was deemed a “dependant adult” per California’s Welfare and Institutions Code.

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Gossip Girl is #4 on Examiner’s TV’s Most Attractive Casts Currently on TV this year! Check it out below:

There are a lot of good looking people on TV these days (just look at this list!) and these people make up some pretty attractive casts (especially if the show’s on The CW!).

Here’s a look at the 25 best looking casts currently on TV (the parentheses include just some of the most attractive people in the cast) and then be sure to check out the slideshow to your left to see all of the pretty people:

1. The Vampire Diaries (Ian Somerhalder, Paul Wesley, Nina Dobrev, Michael Trevino, Steven R. Mcqueen, Candice Accola, Katerina Graham, Joseph Morgan, Zach Roerig and Matt Davis)

2. Supernatural (Jensen Ackles and Jared Padalecki)

3. 90210 (Matt Lanter, Jessica Lowndes, AnnaLynne McCord, Trevor Donovan, Tristan Wilds, Jessica Stroup, Michael Steger, Gillian Zinser, and Shenae Grimes)

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4. Gossip Girl (Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Ed Westwick, Matthew Settle, Kelly Rutherford, Kaylee Defer, and Penn Badgley)

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Jackie: Got any Gossip Girl goodies for us?
As you can see in the photo, Blair (Leighton Meester) gets into a bit of trouble at her bachelorette party after seemingly joking around with a cop. Yeah, not one of her best ideas. We’re hearing both Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Dan (Penn Badgley) are on the scene to try and help Queen B, but she’s still arrested anyway. We smell major drama! And it smells freaking delicious.

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