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"Blake Lively&amp;#039;s rep has played down reports that the actress has snubbed plans for a Gossip Girl movie. The 25-year-old was said to be &amp;quot;desperate to avoid&amp;quot; reprising her role as Serena Van Der Woodsen in a supposed big screen version of the show, &amp;#039;infuriating&amp;#039; her former co-stars.  &amp;quot;She&amp;#039;s being pressured on all sides to sign on,&amp;quot; a source told Star magazine. &amp;quot;She thinks it&amp;#039;s a terrible idea and is desperate to avoid the project.&amp;quot; Lively&amp;#039;s rep told Gossip Cop that the story is untrue, explaining that the star &amp;quot;was unaware there was even a Gossip Girl movie&amp;quot; in the works. Lively starred opposite Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick in The CW series, which ran for six seasons until December 2012. She was recently rumoured to be in talks to play Freddie Mercury&amp;#039;s girlfriend Mary Austin in the upcoming biopic starring Sacha Baron Cohen. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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