Former “Gossip Girl” star Taylor Momsen has no plans to return to acting as she prepares for a tour with Marilyn Manson.

Momsen, who played cute Cindy Lou Who in “The Grinch” and raccoon-eyed Jenny on “Gossip Girl,” fronts rock band The Pretty Reckless, and she insists that’s her priority these days after walking away from a lucrative TV acting gig.

And she’s determined to stay away from the big and small screens.

Asked if she’d ever consider a return, Momsen tells HollyScoop.com, “[Bleep] no! Never! I am done, done, done. … It’s good to finally be able to focus on music and not have to work on 10 jobs at once.”

Momsen’s Manson tour begins in April, and she can’t wait to hit the road with her hero: “I’m a big fan.”

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The Pretty Reckless singer – who found fame as Cindy Lou Who in ‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’ when she was just seven – says she has the kind of brain that never stops working.

She said: “I’m completely neurotic, totally anxious and high-strung all the time. I sleep for about four hours a night, or day, really. I go to bed at 9am, sleep for four hours, then get up and start the day again.”

The 18-year-old former ‘Gossip Girl’ star insists that when she has time off, she doesn’t know what to do with herself.

In an interview with British magazine FHM, she added: “To be honest, I don’t know what to do when I’m not working. I lose my mind if I’m not constantly doing something.”

Famed for her revealing outfits and for flashing on stage, she admits that when it comes to her footwear, the more stripper-like the better.

She explained: “I love stripper shoes and I always try to find the tallest ones. I’m always surprised no-one talks about my shoes.

“I’m, like, on stage in 15-inch heels but people talk more about my eye make-up, which has stayed the same forever. I always think that’s funny.”

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Taylor Momsen’s life as the lead singer of The Pretty Reckless is far too chaotic to allow for luxuries such as free time. She juggled a phone interview with College Times while trying to find quarters in her purse to do some last-minute laundry.

Momsen was only a few hours away from boarding a flight to Australia, where her band was set to perform for the first time there. Upon their return, she and her band will jump straight back into their next headlining tour.

Momsen, a child actress who was previously best known for her role as Jenny Humphrey in the CW Television Network’s “Gossip Girl,” was quick to shed her preppy school girl character. With The Pretty Reckless, she’s now known for fronting a rock band and sporting heavy eye makeup and grungy lingerie as she commands the stage.

The band’s first album, Light Me Up, was released in fall 2010. The band has been on tour ever since.

“It can definitely get tiring at times, and you get homesick,” Momsen said. “But overall I love playing every night and being able to do that every night and not stop is amazing.”

She mentions as she shuffles through her purse that packing and getting everything ready to actually get going is the hardest part of touring, adding that once she’s on the road, she never wants to leave. While most 18 year olds are dealing with school and planning their spring breaks, Momsen is traveling the world with her band members and crew.

“We’ve been touring together for almost three years and it’s very much a family – everyone on the bus, even our driver,” she said. “It’s like going on the road with an extended makeshift family.”

The Pretty Reckless has opened for some big name acts, including Evanescence and Guns N’ Roses.

“It was a great honor and privilege to be able play and open for great bands,” she said. “It’s really exciting to be able to watch those bands every night and learn things from them and steal things from them. That’s a really great blessing.”

In April she will be touring with Marilyn Mason – a treat for Momsen, who said she’s been a “huge fan forever.”

These days, Momsen doesn’t seem to follow teenage girl trends when it comes to music. She still enjoys listening to The Beatles and anything with Chris Cornell.

Momsen sings like someone beyond her years and surely acts much older. But she was still fairly young when she wrote the songs for Light Me Up. She credits growing up as one of the biggest differences on The Pretty Reckless’ new EP,Hit Me Like A Man.

“It’s very exciting and [we have] new songs and some live tracks we’re going to be playing on this tour to give the fans a taste of what’s to come,” she said.

However, she doesn’t have much to say about her new songs.

“I don’t like to talk about the music that much because I like to let it speak for itself and let people make their own judgments of it, but I think the biggest difference is that it’s grown,” she said. “My opinion of what is good has changed.”

Momsen said that after touring with so many great bands and watching them nightly, her standards are high and she has raised the bar for herself when it comes to writing songs.

“I’m older and that alone – and my experiences over the past couple of years – I think it’s reflected in the music,” she said.

When she’s not touring and not recording music, Momsen is still probably working. Days off are unheard of.

“I’m literally talking to you and last minute packing, and it’s like this pretty much all the time,” she said.

She did manage to sneak a visit into New York Fashion Week, but Momsen said she doesn’t have a style or any kind of aesthetic.

“I don’t really know,” she said. “Whatever’s clean that morning that’s what I’ll end up wearing. Literally.”

Her vague careless-yet-so-cool attitude extends to what she hopes her fans will feel about her new EP.

“I want them to feel whatever it makes them feel,” she said. “If it makes them feel anything, I’m happy.”

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The producers of Gossip Girl have really, truly, officially parted ways with wild child star Taylor Momsen, who won’t return for the teen drama’s fifth season.

Seventeen-year-old Taylor, who plays once-sweet and innocent teen Little J, was (suspended from the show at the end of 2010 — officially for creative reasons; unofficially for her apparent bad behaviour. Project Runway’s Tim Gunn labelled her a “diva” and a “brat” after he guest-starred on Gossip Girl!

It’s kind of ironic that a racy teen drama would ditch a teen actress for racy real-life behaviour?

Anyway, Taylor isn’t the only star to be dropped from Gossip Girl’s permanent line-up: Jessica Szohr, aka Vanessa, has also been let go. However, both actresses have been invited back as “guest stars”, so maybe you haven’t seen the last of their characters.

Blake Lively (Serena), Leighton Meester (Blair), Penn Badgley (Dan), Ed Westwick (Chuck) and Chace Crawford (Nate) are all confirmed to return for season five.

In regards to Taylor being dropped by Madonna, she had a interview with Grazia, where she admits she may be a bad influence. Here’s a snippet of the interview.

“I probably am a bad influence. The other day this reporter brought his 12-year-old daughter to an interview. She was looking at me, open-mouthed, like: ‘I want stripper shoes, Daddy!’ He hated me!
“I’m not saying, ‘Be like me. I hope girls read what I say in interviews – they should just be themselves. They wouldn’t want to be like me. I’m crazy. I’m [expletive] out of my mind. I’ve been told I was out of my mind since I was 11.”

This is the second version of the video, but Taylor looks stunning in it!

That’s right, Taylor’s band is going on their first headlining tour and we have the tour dates after the cut! Sadly they aren’t coming to my town, but hopefully some of you can go see them in concert!

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