I love Thanksgiving and Christmas episodes of shows. There is always a crisis and somehow it gets resolved in that hour. And in that time you might just laugh and cry many times. I just hate that in Canada we have to wait for another month and a half before we get to see the Thanksgiving episodes from the States. But we still appreciate it.

Episode eleven of the season is called, Treasure of Serena Madre, and it goes like this: It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side if there wasn’t a serving or two of some major drama for the holiday. Blair (Leighton Meester) suspects her mom (guest star Margaret Colin) has been keeping a big secret from her, but it turns out to be something else entirely. Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) is supposed to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, but has a fight with her mom (guest star Gina Torres) and shows up on Dan’s (Penn Badgley) doorstep. Rufus (Matthew Settle) learns that Lily (Kelly Rutherford) has been lying to him about her mother, Cece (guest star Caroline Lagerfelt). Chuck (Ed Westwick) tells Nate (Chace Crawford) that he has some potentially damaging information about one of their friends. Jenny (Taylor Momsen) learns that Eric (Connor Paolo) was behind her very public embarrassment at Cotillion and can’t pass up a chance to get even. Serena (Blake Lively) is put in a very awkward position when her mother invites Trip (guest star Aaron Tveit) and Maureen (guest star Holley Fain) to join them for Thanksgiving dinner..

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The People’s Choice nominations were announced today. I was one of those people who voted for my favorites so this was neat to see if my choices made it. Twilight, House, Vampire Diaries, Three Rivers and Gossip Girl made it. But Zachary Levi didn’t make the list. I think that I nominated him for every category. I guess it doesn’t work that way.

See the complete list after the jump>>>

TV Drama
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Grey’s Anatomy
House
Lost
NCIS

TV Comedy
Desperate Housewives
How I Met Your Mother
The Big Bang Theory
The Office
Two and a Half Men

TV drama Actor
Hugh Laurie
Kiefer Sutherland
Mark Harmon
Matthew Fox
Patrick Dempsey

TV drama Actress
Anna Paquin
Blake Lively
Jennifer Love Hewitt
Katherine Heigl
Mariska Hargitay

TV comedy Actor
Alex Baldwin
Charlie Sheen
Jim Parsons
Neil Patrick Harris
Steve Carell

TV comedy Actress
Alyson Hannigan
America Ferrera
Amy Poehler
Eva Longoria Parker
Tina Fey

TV Obsession
Dexter
Gossip Girl
The Hills
The Secret Life of the American Teenager
True Blood

TV talk show
Chelsea Lately
Live with Regis & Kelly
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Tyra Banks Show

TV sci-fi/fantasy
Heroes
Lost
Supernatural
The Vampire Diaries
True Blood

TV competition show
American Idol
Dancing With the Stars
Project Runway
So You Think You Can Dance
Survivor: Samoa

Animal show
Animal Cops
DogTown
Dog Whisperer
It’s Me or the Dog
Rescue Ink

New TV drama
Eastwick
FlashForward
Melrose Place
Mercy
The Forgotten
The Good Wife
The Vampire Diaries
Three Rivers
NCIS: Los Angeles
V

New TV comedy
Accidentally on Purpose
Brothers
Community
Cougar Town
Glee
Hank
The Cleveland Show
The Middle
Modern Family

Movie actor
Brad Pitt
Hugh Jackman
Johnny Depp
Robert Pattinson
Ryan Reynolds.

Movie actress
Anna Hathaway
Drew Barrymore
Jennifer Aniston
Kristen Stewart
Sandra Bullock

Action star
Christian Bale
Gerard Butler
Hugh Jackman
Shia LaBeouf
Vin Diesel

Comedic star
Adam Sandler
Ben Stiller
Jim Carrey
Ryan Reynolds
Vince Vaughn

Breakout movie actress
Anna Kendrick
Emily Osment
Ginnifer Goodwin
Miley Cyrus
Zoe Saldana

Breakout movie actor
Chris Pine
Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Sam Worthington
Taylor Lautner
Zachary Quinto

On-screen team
Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds, The Proposal
Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart and Taylor Lautner, The Twilight Saga
Shia LaBeouf and Megan Fox, Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Ryan Reynolds, will.i.am, Dominic Monaghan and Daniel Henney, X-Men Origins: Wolverine

Family movie
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs
Night at the Museum: Battle of the Smithsonian
Up
Where the Wild Things Are

Independent movie
(500) Days of Summer
District 9
Inglourious Basterds
Paranormal Activity
Tyler Perry’s Madea Goes to Jail

Franchise
Harry Potter
Star Trek
The Twilight Saga
Transformers
X-Men

Comedy movie
17 Again
Bride Wars
He’s Just Not That Into You
The Hangover
The Proposal

Favorite movie
Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
Star Trek
The Hangover
The Proposal
Twilight

Male artist
Eminem
Jason Mraz
John Mayer
Keith Urban
Tim McGraw

Female artist
Beyonce
Britney Spears
Carrie Underwood
Pink
Taylor Swift

Country artist
Brad Paisley
Carrie Underwood
Keith Urban
Rascal Flatts
Taylor Swift

Breakout Music Artist
Adam Lambert
Demi Lovato
Kris Allen
Lady Gaga
Susan Boyle

Hip-hop artist
Eminem,
Flo Rida
Jay-Z
Lil’ Wayne
T.I.

Rock band
Daughtry
Green Day
Kings of Leon
Muse
Paramore

Music collaboration
Cobra Starship & Leighton Meester, “Good Girls Go Bad”
Jason Mraz & Colbie Caillat, “Lucky”
Jay-Z, Rihanna & Kanye West, “Run This Town”
T.I. & Rihanna, “Live Your Life”
The Lonely Island & T-Pain, “I’m on a Boat.”

R&B artist
Alicia Keys
Beyonce
Jennifer Hudson
Mariah Carey
Usher

Pop artist
Britney Spears
Katy Perry
Lady Gaga
Taylor Swift
the Black Eyed Peas

Web celeb
Andy Samberg
Ashton Kutcher
Miley Cyrus
P. Diddy
Will Ferrell

You can vote for your favorites here. And be sure to watch the award show hosted by Queen Latifah on January 6th, 2010 on CBS.

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I have to say that Gossip Girl has really brought the guest stars this year,  Hilary Duff, Jimmy Fallon, Lady Gaga and one of my personal favorites, Kevin Zegers. I was going to write about Kevin before…he starred in the Air Bud movies and he grew up in Canada…right near where I lived in Ontario. We all know he has to be cool then!

The tenth episode of the season is called, The Last Days of Disco Suck, and it goes like this…Hoping to impress the elitist theater kids at NYU, Blair (Leighton Meester) sets her sights on landing a private concert with the hottest musical performer of the year, Lady Gaga. Dan (Penn Badgley) and Olivia (guest star Hilary Duff) sign up to write and star in a school play, based on an idea by Blair and directed by Vanessa (Jessica Szohr). With Blair out of the picture, Serena (Blake Lively) turns to Nate (Chace Crawford) to help her get through a difficult situation. As a favor to Chuck (Ed Westwick), Jenny (Taylor Momsen) agrees to hang out with Damien (guest star Kevin Zegers), the son of an ambassador who is staying at Chuck’s hotel, but the experience proves to be a lot more intriguing than she expected.

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Ed Westwick and Leighton Meester were seen on the set of Gossip Girl today, they were shooting a scene where they were visiting a homeless shelter. It seems like Chuck has become a lot more compassionate this season since he’s been with Blair. I guess they bring out the best in each other. MAJOR SPOILER!! When they are at the homeless shelter Chuck sees someone from his past. I know who it is…so do you have any guesses? I didn’t post the picture on purpose because I didn’t want to give it away.

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It seems like the day of the magazines, I always love the first of the month so I can see them all. Leighton Meester is on the cover of the December 2009 issue of Glamour magazine. Leighton always looks amazing in magazines.

I love the quote she gives at the end of the interview. I am sure many celebrities would like to be able to say the same thing she does.

“I’m proud of the work that I’ve done. I don’t care what people label me as. If they want to say I’m an actress, and I should never sing, that’s fine. If they know me for my music, because they don’t watch my show or my movies, that’s fine, too. I’m doing what I want with my life. I just do…me.”

I think she’s great at all she does…don’t stop Leighton.

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Blake Lively is on all the covers of the magazines Robert Pattinson isn’t on for the month of December 2009. And here she is on the cover of Marie Claire. This issue hits news stands on November 10th.  Here are some of the highlights from the interview in the magazine.

On one of the remarkable things about you is your ability to imagine yourself in situations that are much bleaker than what you’ve experienced in your own life. As a character, I get to be this wild, outgoing person that I’m so not. I think it all comes from being the youngest of five. I was always observing my siblings and hearing stories about their lives that turned out to to be helpful as an actress.

Do you think of yourself as Southern, even though you grew up in L.A.? I grew up in L.A., but I was the only one in my family born there. I have a tight-knit Southern family, so whenever I tell people I’m from L.A., they say, “Yeah but you don’t count,” I guess because of the Southern values I was raised with , and the way I eat – the more sugary and cheesy and fried, the better.

The way you dress is so bold. You seem very comfortable with yourself right now. Living in New York, I feel stronger and more like a woman than ever before. In high school, it was like, what power do I have – I have long blonde hair, you know? But working as hard as I do now, I feel a sense of power and respect, too. And I’ve learned an incredible amount about fashion on Gossip Girl. Clothes are a personal expression, and my style is as ever-changing as I am: I’m growing, maturing, developing, I’m going through new things in my life, and with that, what I choose to wear changes.

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Blake Lively took a break on the set of her movie, The Town, in Boston yesterday. The caption on the picture said that she was showing off her characters lack of fashion sense. But I’m not so sure. I think she doesn’t look too bad.

I wonder if Blake gets her lines mixed up between Serena and this character. It might be hard to jump from one to another.

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Blake Lively is the cover girl for the November 2009 issue of Nylon magazine. In the issue she talks about her friends, riding elephants and how she’s like Serena.

On punking her friends: “I swipe my friends with, like, my phone or something, – I slide it in their butts. Like in middle school! You say ‘Visa! Mastercard!’ Just to give somebody a jump. I’m a prankster.”

On riding elephants on her recent vacation to Thailand, India and the Maldives: “Elephants are the most incredible creatures I’ve ever been around. You’re sitting in this water that they poop in, and somehow it’s not gross. You’re scrubbing the bottom of their feet and behind their ears…”

On her empathetic nature: “I feel a lot. I get really bad stomachaches all the time. So I went to a doctor, and he said, ‘You’re an feeler.’ I take on people’s pain a little too much.”

Is she completely different from Serena? “No, because I dress just like Serena! I own half her wardrobe, so it’s far too similar to the way I dress. I feel ridiculous at times with her – because I’m, you know, killing someone or marrying someone, but I look like me. I’m like, ‘Oh, this is absurd.’”

Blake on her new film, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee. “I had a leash around my neck, and Julianne Moore was taking pictures. I thought, What am I doing with my life? What is happening? How is this a good idea?”

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Can you believe we are already at episode 8 of the season? I think that’s crazy talk! I was caught up with Gossip Girl but now I’m lagging again. I just need to have time to watch all my shows.

Episode 8 is called, They Shoot Humphrey’s, Don’t They?, and it goes like this: Not satisfied with just being Queen of Constance Billard, Jenny (Taylor Momsen) sets her sights on becoming the Queen of all the Upper East Side by landing the hottest escort for Cotillion. Nate (Chace Crawford) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) plot to help Serena (Blake Lively) and Blair (Leighton Meester) repair their damaged friendship. Dan (Penn Badgley) is upset when Olivia (guest star Hilary Duff) contemplates leaving school for a movie project.

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I can’t believe we are already on Episode 8 of Gossip Girl this season. Time keeps on going so fast! I have to admit that I am finally catching up and with some shows not showing new shows until November I can at least try to catch up. Okay, maybe in a perfect world I could.

The eight episode is called, The Grandfather: Part II, and it goes like this: Olivia as a guest on the Jimmy Fallon’s talk show says something she regrets and tries to hide it from Dan. With elections coming up, Nate suspects his grandfather will do everything he has to get Trip on the congress. After another fight with Serena, Blair gets a new friend and takes her to an election night party at Chuck’s hotel, just to make Serena jealous

Jimmy Fallon on Gossip Girl? I can’t wait!

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