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Blake Lively shows off quite a bit of leg (even though it’s hidden underneath her dress) as leaves her trailer and walks to the Palace Hotel to film new scenes for her hit CW show, Gossip Girl, in New York City on Wednesday.

Costar and current beau Penn Badgley wasn’t far behind, texting away on his iPhone.

To get all of the Gossip Girl fashions from this past Monday’s episode (”The Dark Night”), visit InStyle.com.

Charlize Theron is pretty in plaid as she shakes hands with a fan outside the Regency Hotel in midtown Manhattan on Wednesday.

The 33-year-old Oscar-winning actress, who had just made a guest appearance on The View, wore a cute Vanessa Bruno dress with bow detail and Miu Miu sandals.

On the morning talk show, Charlize hyped up her new ensemble movie, Battle in Seattle, which opens in limited release this Friday. The film revolves around those who came to Seattle in 1999 challenged the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial summit in Seattle.

The action drama was the directorial debut of Charlize’s longtime boyfriend Stuart Townsend. For more information on the film, visit BattleInSeattleMovie.com.

Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to fight California’s Proposition 8, a ballot initiative that would ban same-sex marriage in the state.

“Because no one has the right to deny another their life even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn’t harm another, and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8,” the 44-year-old actor said in a statement.

Political strategist Chad Griffin, who is coordinating efforts in the entertainment industry to defeat the measure, added, “It is our hope that others in the entertainment industry will step up and match Brad Pitt’s heroic commitment to quality and defeating Prop. 8. This isn’t a special interest issue - this measure affects every business and every family. With California’s budget and the national economy in chaos, the last thing we need is an unnecessary measure that threatens health benefits and protections for children.”

For more information or to contribute, visit VoteNoOnProposition8.com.

The Jonas Brothers are one of three artists featured in an outdoor billboard campaign for MySpace Music in New York City’s Times Square. (MIA and Lil’ Wayne are the other two featured artists.)

If you see this billboard in Times Square, snap a photo of it and send it on over!

Other pictures include Nick Jonas and his pet pooch Elvis earlier today. The 16-year-old Jonas Brother reportedly took the pup to a Los Angeles vet surgery, after discovering the cute puppy had ticks.

Sienna Miller and a new male friend hang out in the SoHo neighborhood of New York City on Wednesday. The twosome shopped at Face Stockholm, American Apparel and Barney’s Co-op. They were also spotted by the restaurant Balthazar, appropriately enough. (Sienna was also seen smoking a cancer stick.)

Earlier this week, one of her fansites threatened to shut down, saying:

“We do not know the whole story behind this affair, and some may argue it is not our place to judge BUT when Sienna can cavort so publicly and so shamelessly with this man who IS married and does have 4 children (including a baby only a few months old) with his wife, my respect for her goes out of the window.

“One minute she says she wants to be taken seriously as an actress and she’s sick of all the false stories about her in the press … and the next she’s topless on a beach with a married man’s hands all over her - come on Sienna, you know the paparazzi are going to be around. If she was serious about being taken seriously she would, well, not display herself so publicly like this. “

Selena Gomez stops off at a family-friendly Mexican restaurant in the heart of Rockridge in North Oakland, Calif., on Wednesday afternoon.

The 16-year-old Wizards of Waverly Place star and her mom, Mandy, grabbed food at Cactus Taqueria and later washed their lunch down with Slurpees from 7-11.

Yesterday, Selena’s direct-to-DVD movie Another Cinderella Story hit stores.

“She’s a little different [from the original Cinderella] by the fact that she’s a dancer,” Selena told MTV about her character in the film. “I think that brings a whole new element to the movie. She’s an aspiring dancer, and she wants to go after her dreams. She sings as well. It’s her achieving her dreams in a different way.”

Selena added, “It’s crazy to see how big Disney can make people, and it’s wonderful. I feel blessed to be a part of the company, and they take care of their kids. I just think it has a good strong foundation to lean on.”

Tom Cruise carries baby Suri, 2, into their waiting SUV after arriving by helicopter in New York City on Tuesday night.

How cute is Suri holding her pink stuffed animal bunny?

The 46-year-old actor is in town to support his wife, Katie Holmes, who is making her Broadway debut in the Arthur Miller play All My Sons at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater TOMORROW, September 18 (Thursday). The play will officially open on October 16 and run through January 11, 2009.

Miley Cyrus will star in a new Disney film based on an upcoming Nicholas Sparks novel, reports Variety.

The 15-year-old Hannah Montana star hopes to create a movie like Mandy Moore’s A Walk to Remember. Miley won’t sing but only act in the drama that touches on family and romance. Her momager Tish will be act as executive producer.

Check out the video below of Miley hanging out with underwear model Justin Gaston last night at Universal City Walk in Hollywood. The pair was chaperoned by Tish.

Miley, 15, and Justin, 20, were first spotted at church together this past Saturday. On Monday, the twosome were spotted at L.A.’s Century City mall. According to E!, the happy couple got out at the valet stand on Santa Monica Boulevard and walked through the mall, “holding hands the whole time.”

Lynne Spears, the mother of Spears sisters Britney and Jamie Lynn, opened up to The Today Show earlier this morning to talk about her new book, “Through the Storm: A Real Story of Fame and Family in a Tabloid World.” She talked about how Britney is doing now and what it was like to find out Jamie Lynn was pregnant.

On why she wrote the book: “I have sat for hours thinking and thinking about everything that’s happened. It’s been a whirlwind. It’s been a wild ride for everybody. I think there was the tabloid version of our lives. I wanted people to see our family as we really are.”

On getting sucked into fame and fortune: “There’s the honeymoon phase at first. Everything is fabulous. Look at the wonderful trips she gets to go on. Look at the wonderful people she’s meeting. Then there’s the ugly side of things that turns, and we weren’t ready for that, either.”

On being a stage mom: “Britney pushed me, because I was a teacher… In Louisiana I had a preschool for 15 years and then I went into the public school. Of course I tried to be with Britney as much as I could, but when she was 15, 16 years old that’s when Felicia, a very good family friend, she traveled with Britney. I had to stay home, because Jamie Lynn was in school. I had another daughter. Another misconception was that I was always with Britney when I really wasn’t.”

On the 1999 Rolling Stone cover where Britney posed in her bra: “We were in shock at what was going on, and we were in awe. We didn’t have any choice in the pictures. We had no one that could tell us what we were supposed to be doing.”

On her darkest time when Britney was committed to a hospital for psychiatric problems and Jamie Lynn was 16 and pregnant: “It was so crazy at that time. I don’t think anybody was trying to sit and think what was going on. We were praying very hard, because it seemed like we were having no control over anything that was happening. We were trying.”