What’s better than winning Olympic gold?
Being in the same room as Taylor Momsen, that’s what!
And Nastia Liukin will get to do just that, as she’s scored a guest spot on Gossip Girl through a very fortuitous series of events.
“I was in Los Angeles having dinner with a bunch of my friends and the producers of ‘Gossip Girl’ were sitting at the table next to me,” Liukin told reporters before being named Sportswoman of the Year by the Women’s Sports Foundation on Tuesday.
“So they sent over a note saying ‘Congratulations. Keep watching “Gossip Girl’. Then the next day they contacted my management and the next thing I know I have a guest role on ‘Gossip Girl.’
“I’m gonna get to film ‘Gossip Girl’ next time I’m here on October 21.”
“I was going to play myself and then they thought it would be cool to give me a character,” she said. “A bunch of my friends always watch, so to actually be on it, it’s really cool.”
Here’s a bunch of pics of Nastia and other female athletes, including Shawn Johnson, Michelle Kwan and Natalie Coughlin, at the 29th annual Salute to Women in Sports awards in New York yesterday.
Also there: Jill Hennessy, who needs to fire her hairstylist.
where’s alicia ?
you know how you’re always saying alicia sacramone looks much less attractive in normal-people clothes? well, i think they totally work for nastia liukin. she looks gorgeous.
@torie
i agree nastia looks just as great in normal clothes. shwan johnson looks a little weird in normal clothes but i think thats only because shes tiny.
and… YAY NASTIA!!! she might actually become an actress like she wanted if she does a good job on this
@Paige
Shawn Johnson looks weird because her upper body is shaped like a man’s. It’s those huge shoulder and arm muscles.