New York, July 28, 2008 – We’d been wondering why we haven’t seen the Ugly Betty folks on red carpets around New York City since the show moved production east this summer.  Apparently they’ve been saving themselves for the premiere of America Ferrera’s Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, where the Betty gang hit the Zeigfeld Theatre in force.  

Becki Newton noted that shopping is not the only major distraction in the city. “Our whole cast is really into theater, so we’ve just been seeing as many shows as we can see”, Newton told us.  She loved In the Heights, and will be going to see Jersey Boys.  Mark Indelicato loves Broadway, just like his character Justin Suarez.  “I saw The Little Mermaid, my favorite movie of all time”, Indelicato told us.  “I want to go see Mary Poppins, Grease, Legally Blonde, Gypsy, all of them.  Get me tickets, I’ll be there”, he added.  Ana Ortiz thinks that Ugly Betty was meant to be in New York.  “It feels so right; it’s perfect”, she told us. 

Pants co-star Blake Lively’s Gossip Girl cast mates didn’t let her down.  Leighton Meester, Ed Westwick, Chace Crawford and Matthew Settle all checked out the flick.  Rumors of friction between Traveling Pants stars Ferrera and Lively may be fictitious – Ana Ortiz told us that Blake visited America on the Ugly Betty set – in Queens! 

Touted as an “eco-friendly” premiere, the stars drove to the red carpet in hybrid vehicles.  (Do hybrid Chevy Tahoe SUVs really get good mileage?)  But America Ferrera got the green message and walked to the theater.  “The invitation said to please try and not leave a carbon imprint on your way to this premiere, so I walked here”, she told us.