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New CW television series Gossip Girl set to begin September 19th

A great new television series called Gossip Girl will be premiering on Wednesday September, 19th (9 p.m./ 8 p.m. central time).

This new show is based on the novel series by Cecily von Ziegesar. The CW’s Gossip Girl is an exciting teen drama that takes place in New York’s Upper East Side. If you enjoyed the novels and like television series about young adults you’ll love Gossip Girl.

The cast of characters attend elite academic institutions while dealing with teenage issues such as sex, drugs and other problems faced by young adults. The main characters are best friends Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) and Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester). The pair are both romantically interested in Nate Archibald (Chace Crawford).

The group of friends learn of Serena’s return to town through the blog of the secretive Gossip Girl. The show is narrated by the secretive Gossip Girl (voiced by Kristen Bell). Serena, a notorious party girl, is different when she returns to the city and none of her friends understand just what’s going on.

You can see a pre-view of the new show on the CW’s Gossip Girl web page. You can also visit the MySpace Fan Page where you can hook up with others who are anticipating the start of this new show.

Don’t forget to tune into the CW network September 19th to catch the premiere.

Burning Man Festival gets a flaming start

by Tricia

Have you ever been to the Burning Man festival? It’s an eight day festival in the Nevada Desert and it takes place from August 27th to September 3rd this year.

One of the highlights of the festival is the burning of a huge 40 foot tall man statue. The statue wasn’t supposed to be set aflame until Saturday, but an arsonist lit the statue and made it a burning man on Tuesday.

There are reports that festival participants were heard chanting “Save the man, save the man!”.

Authorities have charged Paul Addis for torching the statue and have charged him with Arson and a misdemeanor possession of fireworks.

The wooden statue will be rebuilt in time for the scheduled burning at 9 pm Saturday September 1st.

Applegate’s divorce final

by Tricia

It’s been confirmed that Christina Applegate’s divorce from her husband Johnathon Schaech, actor, has been finalized.

The couple were married for four years, but were possibly not together that whole time as the decision to end their marriage took place in December 2005.

Schaech, 37, had cited irreconcilable differences. The split seems to have occurred without the usual divorce squabbles that we often hear about. Applegate is apparently worth about 6 million while Schaech is worth 2 million. They didn’t bicker over splitting property although he asked for custody of his cement Buddha.

Christina Applegate is set to appear in a new television show this fall called “Samantha Who?” on ABC. She’s most famous for her role as Kelly Bundy in Married with Children.

Naomi and Liev have a baby boy

by Tricia

Congrats to Naomi Watts and Liev Schreiber!

The couple are proud to announce the birth of their first child – a baby boy.

Alexander Pete Schreiber, who was born at 3:59 p.m. in Los Angeles, weighs 8 lbs., 4 oz, and is 22.5 inches long, according to a rep for Watts.

The couple first began dating in February 2005.

Liev stayed out of picking the babies name. All he wanted was for the baby not to be named after himself as he says his name, Liev, is probably the most mispronounced name in show-biz.

A brand new Celebrity Blog

by Tricia

If you can’t get enough Celebrity news you’ll be pleased to know that a new Celebrity Gossip blog is on the scene, and from the looks of the way it’s set up I think you’ll be bookmarking this site and visiting it regularly. On this new blog you’ll find not only all the latest celebrity gossip but general entertainment gossip, hip hop gossip and black celebrity gossip.

When you first visit the site you’ll find a selection of the hottest celebrity stories. Below each of the hot celebrity stories you’ll find links to related stories on the web.

If you register to become a member of Celebrity Gossip you’ll be able to rate each post on a scale from one to ten. You’ll also need to login in order to comment on any of the posts.

There are two other tabs at the top of the page that you can visit. One of the tabs will take you to the latest celebrity related stories. The other tab is marked Celebrities. You can search through the Celebrity section according to the alphabet in order to find every story about a particular star that’s been written on the Celebrity Gossip Blog.

The posts on the site haven’t been written by the site owner. They are composed of aggregated content from a selection of Celebrity blogs. The site is updated every five minutes in order to grab all the latest gossip from gossip blogs, gossip magazines, and and gossip websites. Content from sites such as MSNBC, Star Pulse, Perez Hilton, We Love Celebs, Celebitchy, ETOnline and many more make up the posts that you’ll find on Celebrity Gossip. Each post on the site is attributed to the original site that wrote the article.

Becoming a member of Celebrity Gossip not only allows you to comment and rate posts, but you’ll also earn points by participating. Just for registering for the site you’ll get 100 Bonus points. Commenting and rating posts is just one way that members can earn more bonus points, another way is to invite friends to join the community. When you’ve built up enough points you can use your points to get a free magazine subscription. There are 20 popular magazines to choose from at this time.

I do like that Celebrity Gossip rewards it’s members for their participation, and I think it’s a good way to motivate people to participate on the site.

Overall I do like this site. It certainly makes it easy to keep up with gossip and all the news about your favorite celebrities.

New CW television series Gossip Girl set to begin September 19th

Burning Man Festival gets a flaming start

Applegate’s divorce final

Naomi and Liev have a baby boy

A brand new Celebrity Blog

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