Hugh à la TV et dans la presse

Meester picks 'Oranges'
'Gossip Girl' star joins Hugh Laurie in indie dramatic comedy
By DAVE MCNARY

Leighton Meester of "Gossip Girl" will star in indie dramatic comedy "The Oranges" opposite Hugh Laurie.

Production companies are Media Rights Capital, FilmNation and Olympus Pictures. Anthony Bregman, FilmNation's Glen Basner and Leslie Urdang of Olympus are producing.

Script by Jay Reiss and Ian Helfer centers on a man's romantic relationship with the daughter of a family friend, which turns their lives upside down. Julian Farino will direct, with shooting expected to begin in April in New York City. Catherine Keener's also been cast.

Meester will be seen next in Warner's "Date Night" and upcoming Screen Gems thriller "The Roommate." She's repped by WME and Leverage Entertainment.

Source: Variety

The 100 British celebrities who really matter by Piers Morgan

42 - HUGH LAURIE

I saw my first episode of House on a recent holiday in Thailand. As it was the only DVD box set the hotel had, I finally succumbed to a show I assumed I'd hate - what's to like about a bumbling old mate of Stephen Fry's doing a fake American accent?How wrong was I? He's brilliant as House, the sharpest, darkest, most compelling dramatic character I've seen in years.

And America agrees: the sensational ratings have made him the No 1 highest-paid scripted-drama star in the States, raking in £250,000 an episode. And even better, he recently admitted he hates Twitter. It's one of life's tragedies that after my feud with his best friend, I'll now never get to know Laurie better.

I'd love nothing more than to hang out with him in LA, as long as he spoke in that accent and didn't bring his pal Stephen. We met a couple of years ago backstage at a US chat show, and he couldn't have been more charming or perplexed about how well he's done.

Laurie's the most successful TV drama export this country's ever produced, and is still at the top of his game. It doesn't, in small-screen-acting terms, get bigger than that.

Age 50 Born Oxford Education Eton College (private); Cambridge University Homes London; LA

Source: Daily Mail

Hier soir, quelle ne fut pas ma surprise quand, en regardant cette grande émission culturelle qu'est "Les 100 plus grandes perles du direct" de C.Dechavanne, j'ai vu apparaitre Hugh en n°2 du classement

Nous avons eu droit à son discours de remerciement au 63ème (année ?) Golden Globes ! C'était bien drôle comme d'habitude, mais je sais toujours pas pourquoi c'est une perle

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