Gossip Girl to End After Season Six?
Get ready to say goodbye to Gossip Girl. Well, in a few years.
Leighton Meester tells E! News she knows when she's leaving.
"Two more years," she said at the Four Seasons in Beverly Hills, while promoting her new movie, Country Strong. "Because we're under contract until then."
Meester said she "obviously enjoys working on the show and living in New York," and she also explained that producers and the CW have all been rather amazing at accommodating her schedule and enabling her to pursue other projects, particularly movies.
"It allows you to be ready for when the show's over," she said.
So will Gossip Girl cease to exist after its sixth season? "I don't know," Meester said, "but I think there's that old saying about wanting to go out on top."
In Country Strong, Meester costars as Chiles Stanton, a singing beauty queen seen as a threat by Kelly Tanner (Gwyneth Paltrow), a rehabbing alcoholic country singer trying to make a comeback under the watchful eye of her manager husband (Tim McGraw).
"You know, it's good to look in the mirror and not totally recognize yourself," Meester said of playing the country cutie. "You know ... she's got big hair, big eyelashes, nails, lip liner, blue leather dresses. It was a lot of fun. It was like playing dress up Country Barbie."
Meester will also be seen in upcoming flicks like Monte Carlo opposite Selena Gomez and Glee star Cory Monteith, Oranges with Hugh Laurie and The Roommate, a thriller with Burlesque / Twilight hottie Cam Gigandet and Minka Kelly.
Will Gossip Girl mean the end to TV for Meester? "Um, I never say never," she said. "It'd have to be the right show, just like it would have the right movie."
What do you think? Should Gossip Girl "go out on top" after six seasons? We're currently in the middle of the fourth. Leave your comments!
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May 11th, 2012 8:52 PM
Josh stephaine gossip girls must be renewed for for a seson 7 don't let the cw network cancel your production unil gossip girls season 10
February 24th, 2012 11:27 PM
Good news. I love GG, but Gossip Girl is starting to get too weird now. End it while it's still a good show! And give us a good ending!
February 8th, 2012 1:09 PM
Gossip Girl is fantastic, I love the show and please DON,T STOP!!! I like all the characters!!! I LOVE GOSSIP GIRL AND I,M FROM SPAIN
January 17th, 2012 4:29 PM
There goes my life...I know. Sad. But this? This is even sadder:(
January 8th, 2012 7:40 PM
Gossip girl can't end Its my faverite show. It needs to go on forever. If it ends idk what I'm going to do. And chuck definitely can't die if so there isn't really a show he's the BEST character
January 6th, 2012 2:43 PM
It's way better to leave when there is an actual storyline. face it, the show will be boring after chuck and blair end up together. honestly, love the show but there have been some ridiculous storylines and the characters are more developed now so i would hate to see them become charicatures of themselves. let go guys.
January 2nd, 2012 4:06 PM
I love love love gossip girl!! Currently on season 5 I don't think a season and a half will be enough. I agree at least 10 seasons!!!!!!!! SOOOOOOO ADDICTED!
-Chuck lover
December 15th, 2011 6:23 AM
noooo.. way gossip girl can never end. its the most favourite show for everyone especially me.. i love nate alot and i think nate and serena should be togather again. i know chuck will survive and when blair will be aetting married so there will be a huge twist.. that maybe she will get back with chuck. this show atleast go on till season 10:)
December 1st, 2011 10:08 AM
OMG!!! Gossip Girl cannot end. NEVER!!! 10 seasons at least!!!haha. I just lovve them so freakin muchh!! i cant explain that. Ive read all the books. I watch every single episode. And everytime i do this i feel different. idk! GG changes my life. Today when a friend of mine told me GG might end on season 6 i cried. SO BAD!!!! it cant be true. This is what motives me to be who i am. My dream is to meet all the characters.. and the writer. Ive never met anybody as addicted as me... well. hope it doesnt end soo soon. Thats what i think ;)
July 4th, 2011 1:56 AM
Hey this is Rahel from ethiopia.nd love gossip girl so much,i fell like i knw the charachters(serena,dan,chac,blair nd specialy nate) 4 real,they r like my second family...pllllleeeece don't end it now