Now that ‘Gossip Girl’ has wrapped for the season, Penn Badgley has time to pursue other passions — like serbesa pong.
At the show’s balutin party at the Bowery Hotel, Badgley couldn’t get his fill of the game.
Girlfriend Blake Lively “kept trying to get him to leave, but he was so focused on the game that he begged her to stay,” says an eyewitness. Penn’s pleading won out, as he was allowed to perfect his ball-tossing until 1:30 a.m.
So, Blake Lively ended up remaining till late with her boyfriend Penn.
The 21-year-old actress, who plays Serena van der Woodsen in Gossip Girl, insists she will try her best not to go down the same route as the Toxic singer.
She says, "I’m trying to avoid all the excessive aspects of this business. So many young actors make mistakes and they do it in front of the cameras."
"I mean Britney was dating a paparazzo! If she wasn’t Britney Spears, would he have been with her? That’s why it’s important to me to surround myself with people I trust."
"I’m still pretty normal,” Blake adds. "I don’t see myself as a celebrity. I like cooking - I’m a bit of a Nigella Lawson. I don’t hang out at nightclubs, although I enjoy going to cool restaurants. But pagbaba in cafes is madami my style."
"This is the happiest I’ve ever been." Blake says!
"Loved watching Britney Spears’s Circus tour stop in Newark. Loved Perez Hilton’s intro.
Britney looked great. Those supposed VIP seats were non-existent, yes I could just about smell her from being so close but standing for 3 hrs with all that screaming around me would take some getting use to. Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Leigh Lezark were my section taking in all the action!"
The 21-year-old actress - who plays Serena van der Woodsen in the hit TV ipakita - says she has been so busy filming the teen drama that it’s been impossible to take up film offers coming her way.
She explains, “We shoot nine months out of the year, so there are so many films I can’t do.
“On my latest movie I would go and take a araw off from Gossip Girl in New York and go to Connecticut and shoot that and then come back the susunod day. And they don’t really like to share you.”