and you are really proving her point. you guys will believe anything.

Let’s get it out of the way, then: In June, some provocative pictures of a rumored “18 years old!!” Leighton were splashed around the Web. While a sex tape can now conceivably be used as a marketing tool (hello, Paris Hilton), in Leighton’s case, the reaction was “Oh, no, she didn’t.”

And, according to Leighton, that would be correct. “[The tape] is not real,” she says bluntly, “so it makes me sort of sad. It’s unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did.” She pauses. “I definitely understand the nature of people better now and that the mere allegation of something like that could be headline news. People think it’s real because somebody says it is.” She takes a sip of her Coke. “By the way, [as for] me being 18 in those pictures, I don’t believe I was.

“Gossip Girl Leighton Meester is denying that the nude pics of her from an apparent sex tape floating around Hollywood is fake”

Saying she’s denying it’s fake means she’s stating they’re real. What you should have said is something more along the lines of;

“Gossip Girl Leighton Meester is denying that the nude pics of her from an apparent sex tape floating around Hollywood are real.”

Other than that, thanks for the post.