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Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester (who plays Blair Waldorf) received a birthday surprise when she appeared on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Thursday, April 2.
As she walked into the studio, Fallon had the entire audience participate as tons of confetti were released. He wore a special birthday hat during the show. Leighton seemed surprised and thanked him for the nice thought. She officially celebrates her 23rd birthday on Thursday, April 9.
Fallon discussed the sexy ice cream cone Rolling Stone cover which features Meester and Blake Lively (Gossip Girl’s Serena).
Turns out Meester is lactose intolerant, which makes the whole photo shoot a little funny. She also explained to Fallon which character was with who using the Rolling Stone picture where the whole cast is lying under the sheets together.
Leighton also talked about how as “the bitch” of the show, fans at first didn’t want to have anything to do with her. But now days, she said it’s a lot better. Leighton did attempt to help an older lady the other day off the set, and the woman refused her help saying “trashy show, trashy program.”
Leighton off camera said she is a nice person, growing up in a small retirement community in South Florida.
She also discusses an incident when she took her parents out to a fancy restaurant which had a super-fancy restroom. Leighton accidentally caught her scarf on fire in the restroom by having it too close to a candle!
There’s also a clip of the next episode, 2.21 “Seder Anything” where Blair tells her mother and Cyrus her plans to be the perfect socialite wife to Nate (Chace Crawford) in the future, hoping to become the next Jackie O. Cyrus tells her he has connections at NYU, which Blair in her own unique way says “Hell, no!”
Follow the jump for the second part of Fallon’s interview with Leighton:
NBC Photo: Meghan Sinclair