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Michelle Trachtenberg, the girl we are used to seeing play Georgina Sparks on Gossip Girl, is changing things up with a guest spot on Weeds.  If you don’t get HBO, get it!  This show is great!

She is set to play “Emma,” who is a sexy, intelligent, low-level, pot-dealing rival to Nancy (series star Mary-Louise Parker) who catches Silas’ (Hunter Parrish) eye in two episodes of the series.

Did you catch the premiere last night?  So good!!!

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Rapper Drake (real name Aubrey Graham) attended Bing’s Celebration of Creative Minds after party at BOA restaurant in Los Angeles last night.  Drake of course is coming off of his win and performance at the Much Music Video Awards that took place Sunday.

Word is he also took a liking to Jersey Shore’s Snooki which to say surprises me would be the understatement of the year. Drake is talented, young, hot and like 6’2″ or something and Snooki is 4’9″ I believe, and well you know as much as you need to know about her. I’m sure she’s nice and all and It’s not so much the height difference but more the ‘professional talent’ differences.

Apparently he was flirting with her backstage and even invited her to his after party. The door security turned her away from said party and Drake was not too pleased about that.  This ‘connection’ ranks right up there with the Eli Roth and Peaches Geldof relationship.  Seriously, WTF? I don’t get it.

Also at last night’s after party:

• Nicole Richie
• Michelle Trachtenberg
• Zoe Saldana
• Devon Aoki
• Maria Menounos
• Ryan Seacrest
• Elizabeth Banks

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Zac Posen celebrated the launch of his Zac Posen For Target collection yesterday in New York where Claire Danes, Selma Blair and Parker Posey wore outfits which retail for $70, $80 and $60 respectively.  Doesn’t it make a lot of sense to make outfits and price them to appeal to the masses as opposed to ‘designer’ prices that fewer can afford?

I believe a few of his guests (if not all) are wearing his collection.  To see some other items from his collection you can view them here.

Also attending the celebration:

• Olivia Palermo
• Mena Suvari
• Ginnifer Goodwin
• Maggie Gyllenhaal
• Michelle Trachtenberg
• Kelly Bensimon

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Jessica Simpson poses on the red carpet at last night’s Good Housekeeping’s ‘Shine On’ event in New York celebrating 125 Years of Women Making Their Mark.

Jessica certainly made her mark on Courtney Love who Tweeted her fondness for Jess after the two bonded Friday night:

“i saw HAWT AS HELL Jessica Simpson last night we chewed Nicorette and “BEST F**K IN THE WORLD” and “”Sexual Napam” BONDED!(sic)”

“your really hot and ive always thought you were a very hardworking pop singer who deserved success. thats primary(sic)”

“why the HE:LL do you chew Nicorette gum and are addicted to it yet have never smoked in yr life? Dude i do blonde things too.(sic)”

Also attending were the newly engaged Kristen Bell and Hilary Duff as well as Brooke Shields, Martha Stewart, Cheryl Tiegs, Marlee Matlin and many more

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Some of the cast of Gossip Girl came out to support their costume designer Eric Daman for the release of his book ‘You Know You Want It‘.  On hand supporting their friend:

• Jessica Szohr
• Leighton Meester
• Michelle Trachtenberg
• Olivia Palermo
• Blake Lively
• Joe Zee
• Ed Westwick

Blake Lively recently told Esquire magazine that she really hated shooting her love scenes with Ben Affleck in The Town (is she c-r-a-z-y?? ):

“I have a sex scene in this film and that’s never comfortable. You think, ‘Oh, that’s going to be so awkward’. But this scene isn’t supposed to be a steamy one – it’s sort of tragic… I’m pretty much crying in it.”

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Tori Spelling and Dean McDermott along with your favourite stars from various NBC shows got together for the NBC Universal Winter Press Tour cocktail party in Los Angeles last night to promote their shows.  I don’t like to be critical of women and their weight because I think we focus way too much on it in society, generally speaking.  However from a health perspective, I have to say that Tori looks scary skinny.  You can see her chest bones protruding out.  I sincerely hope that she is okay, health wise.

And if you’re wondering what happened to Dean, he told ET Online that he had a motorcycle mishap where he suffered a bruised scapula and a bruised bone during a practice session for the first race of the WERA season on Saturday:

“I crashed yesterday during a practice round and was rushed to hospital and got X-rays and everything… I’m fine, I did three races today and it hurts like hell but I wasn’t going to miss the first race of the season!”

And his wife’s reaction to his accident:

“In the new year I’m practicing not reacting to life! I’m usually a stress ball so I think I’m handling it pretty well!”

Some more celebs that attended:

• Michelle Trachtenberg
• Sarah Lancaster
• Lauren Graham
• Jerry Seinfeld
• Allison Sweeney
• Yvonne Strahovski
• China Chow
• Melanie Brown
• Rashida Jones
• Dax Shepard
• Joel McHale
• Taylor Kinney
• Matt Lauria
• Amy Poehler
• Brett Michaels
• Shawn Robinson
• Bonnie Bedelia

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