Ripe for the Picking

Actress-singer Leighton Meester is keeping busy.

Gossip Girl’s MVP will star opposite Hugh Laurie (TV’s House) in The Oranges, an independent dramedy to be directed by Julian Farino (HBO’s Entourage) about a middle-aged man who has an affair with his friend’s daughter.

Scandalous!

Meester is dead-set on being like, the new Jennifer Lopez, I think.

She’s in a hit TV show, she’s got a simmering music career going on – her latest, “Your Love’s a Drug” needs to be released on iTunes and a video pronto! – and her movie career is very much happening (she’s also working on a movie with Gwyneth Paltrow, and is set to fright audiences by going all Single White Female in The Roommate).

I’d say La Meester is going at it the right way.

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