Leighton Meester's Close Friends From Her 'Gossip Girl' Days Are Surprising

Leighton Meester only keeps in touch with a few of her former Gossip Girl castmates — and they’re so Blair Waldorf coded. “I keep in touch with quite a few people,” Meester, 39, shared during the Thursday, October 30, episode of “The World’s First Podcast,” hosted by Erin and Sara Foster. “There’s a couple people that I’m still very close with.” Meester named Amanda Setton, who played Penelope Shafai on the show. “My character had friends on the show that were kind of her underlings or whatever,” Meester explained. “They’re like minions, kind of. But these women in particular, we were always t