{"id":249469,"date":"2025-10-30T05:58:04","date_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:58:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249469\/"},"modified":"2025-10-30T05:58:04","modified_gmt":"2025-10-30T05:58:04","slug":"leighton-meester-on-return-to-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/249469\/","title":{"rendered":"Leighton Meester on Return to Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/leighton_meester\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Leighton Meester<\/a> is ready to pull on fans&#8217; heartstrings again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Gossip Girl alum hinted at the possibility of returning to music, over 11 years after she released her debut album, Heartstrings.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m just about ready,&#8221; Leighton exclusively told E! News The Rundown&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/erin_lim\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Erin Lim Rhodes<\/a> on the red carpet at the I Love LA premiere in Los Angeles Oct. 28. &#8220;But it&#8217;s a lot. It takes a lot, so I don&#8217;t know. I&#8217;ll do it eventually.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, Leighton is focusing on her TV projects, which include her recent appearance\u00a0on Netflix&#8217;s Nobody Wants This and her role as Alyssa in I Love LA, which premieres on HBO Max Nov. 2 costarring Rachel Sennott, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/josh_hutcherson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Josh Hutcherson<\/a>, Jordan Firstman and Odessa A&#8217;zion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>For the Country Strong actress, shooting the comedy series was a memorable experience from day one.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My first day of the first episode, we had a night shoot with a stripper,&#8221; Leighton recalled, quipping, &#8220;I got a long, long, all-night-long lap dance.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Leighton Meester is ready to pull on fans&#8217; heartstrings again.\u00a0 The Gossip Girl alum hinted at the possibility&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249470,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":["post-249469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}