America Ferrera Slams The Hills, Gossip Girl

Us Magazine - September 11, 2008 10:56 AM PDT
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America Ferrera isn't a fan of The Hills or Gossip Girl.

"Close, genuine female relationships are not what generally gets depicted in movies and TV shows," she says in the October issue of Seventeen.

"Like, if you're watching The Hills or 90210, all the backstabbing shapes the way we act you go to school, and you think your job is to find a sworn enemy and be jealous of each other," she goes on.

Adds Ferrera, 24: "I mean, I love Blake [Lively, her Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants co-star]; shes a wonderful friend of mine, but shows like Gossip Girl kind of condition us to be mean."

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The Ugly Betty star knows girls can be mean, she says, recalling how she has "worked with other girls before and it was pretty catty."

But working with Lively, Amber Tamblyn and Alexis Bledel in the Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants movies was "one of the most wonderful experiences I've had with girl relationships," she says.

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Before meeting them she says, "I was like, 'I'm just going to show up to work and be professional not their best friend.'"

"But a couple of weeks into shooting, Amber and I started talking," Ferrera tells Seventeen. "She's a hippie, and I thought we had nothing in common and now she's one of my closest friends!"

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  • kiwi8ice
    UGLY BETTY is amazing. You guys who say it sucks have NO idea what ur talking about. Sure it has a villian and some bad situations in it but what show doesn't. Ugly Betty is a show that is about inner beauty something that this shallow world has forgotten. So all you haters stop being so shallow!
    report abuseposted April 7, 2009 4:12 PM PDT
  • MICHELLE KITCHEN
    she shouldnt slam a show when hers isnt all that great.... its suck i watch on show and was like nope
    report abuseposted March 2, 2009 1:50 AM PST
  • leila c
    i love her i think she is really pretty and she has became so famous ................................
    report abuseposted September 24, 2008 12:18 PM PDT
  • Rasp
    I agree , alot of girls are fake or easy to manipulate so they live by shows like Gossip Girl and The Hills , I know alot of girls who follow and do everything that Lauren Conrad does like the way they talk, what they say and what they want to do in life and of course how they dress.
    report abuseposted September 13, 2008 10:43 PM PDT
  • Paularondo
    I think America Ferrera's comments are spot on...good for her and her honesty. It's nice to hear a big star tell the truth about fake girls and their god-awful T.V. programs.
    report abuseposted September 13, 2008 9:14 PM PDT
  • woah
    TO the media: don't try and take America's words and twist it into some BEEF thing....you guys would say UGLY BETTY STAR DISSES blah blah blah to get something started right?
    report abuseposted September 13, 2008 8:34 PM PDT
  • cool person
    we all wish we could live in a prefect world but!!! there is always back stabbing especially most likely in your family, as well as in your circle of friends sad to say!! who is the blame?
    report abuseposted September 13, 2008 8:15 PM PDT
  • Honey
    Gossip Girl is the best show ever! I haven't changed to worse after starting to watch it and neither did my friends. It's a perfectly balanced show and i believe it will not have negative effects on viewers, unless they are huge fans of "bad guy" characters. But every story has those.
    report abuseposted September 13, 2008 6:55 PM PDT
  • Karen
    People need to stop putting so much stock into shows, video games and movies. I'm not saying that they're completely faultless, but if young girls don't have kindness and respect already, they WILL be catty and mean, no matter what they watch. Maybe parents should concentrate more on how they raise their children and less on television.
    report abuseposted September 13, 2008 5:58 PM PDT
  • sorceress06
    America's own show, Ugly Betty, is about bullying. The characters just happen to be adults. Are you going to tell me that Vanessa William's character is the poster child for respect and friendship? What the hell? AF needs to sit down, seriously.
    report abuseposted September 13, 2008 5:20 PM PDT
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