"If At First You Don't Succeed, Lie..."
— 01/31/11

Pretty Little Liars has a brand new episode on Monday January 31st. “If At First You Don’t Succeed, Lie, Lie Again” sees the super fabulous Lindsay Shaw start to shake things up at Rosewood High.

The official summary of the episode:

The Liars try to retain some normalcy in their lives, but even everyday activities are filled with drama. Emily (Shay Mitchell) is forced to deal with a teammate (guest star Lindsay Shaw) who is threatened by her return to swimming, while Aria (Lucy Hale) and Ezra (Ian Harding) make plans for their first date in public. Meanwhile, Hanna (Ashley Benson) is still being manipulated by “A”, and Spencer (Troian Bellisario) turns to Ali’s brother, Jason, for help.

Check out the clip below.

Now that we’re fairly certain A is not Noel (how creepy is he going to get, by the way? I wish they’d just let him be normal and look pretty. Alas.), it’s time to go back to the proverbial drawing board to re-evaulate old candidates and think of a few new ones.

When we caught up with three of the four “Pretty Little Liars,” Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell and Ashley Benson, we asked them an interesting question: If one of the four turned out to be A, which one would it most likely be?

“Spencer,” Ashley said without hesitation. “I think it’s Spencer.”

Shay scrunched her nose and shook her head, seeming to disagree with that bold statement, while Lucy countered it completely.

“I don’t know,” Lucy said. “What’s cool about watching the show is that you see each of these four girls and you’re like, ‘They’re a little suspicious.’ If you really pay attention, these girls each have a very dark past,” she explained.

“There are so many things we haven’t gotten into or unfolded yet,” she hinted. “Which is cool because I think in the second season we’re really going to get into the past of each of these girls’ lives and the past friendship while Alison was alive, so you get a deeper inside look, which is really cool.”

True, it will be cool to see a bit more of these suspicious ladies’ backstories, particularly their different friendships with Alison. What would be better is if we knew when A was going to be unveiled.

What do you think of Ashley placing blame on Spencer? Who do you think A is? Tell us in the comments and on Twitter!

Lucy Hale is sporty and ready to take on anything wearing Vans Girls clothing. The Pretty Little Liars star gets fashionable in the photo shoot for the clothing brand.

During the shoot, the 21 year-old spoke about her style. Lucy said “I never know how to describe it. For me, it’s all about being fashionable but still being really comfortable.”

Check out all the photos and the behind the scenes video below.

[images: Cambio]

For all of the “Pretty Little Liars” fans out there, the continuous, unsolved mystery and big question of the show is, “Who the heck is ‘A’?!?” As of now, Noel Kahn (Brant Daugherty) is the prime suspect. But then there’s that suspicious Ian fellow who just married Spencer’s sister. And we can never truly rule out Ali, can we? Naturally we’re not likely to get an official answer until A is unveiled on the show, but you can’t blame us for asking cast members Lucy Hale, Shay Mitchell and Ashley Benson when we see them.

Case in point: MTV News sat down with the three lovely ladies during their TCA appearance in Pasadena earlier this week. Here’s what they had to say about whether we’ll find out about A this season:

“What’s cool about the second part of the season is that we get a lot closer,” Lucy said. “And for awhile we, meaning the cast and the audience, we think we know who it is and we think we have it figured out, but of course the show is about twists and turns and cliffhangers so things change a little bit,” she explained. (So it’s not Noel?!)

“We definitely get a bit closer,” she continued. “But it is the driving force of the show, so who knows?”

Ashley added that she hopes that the cast and the audience find out A’s identity before the end of the series, but again, they know just as much as we do. Or at least that’s they’re story…and they’re sticking to it.

When do you think we’ll find out about A? Should it be in the next season or the end of the series? Tell us in the comments and on Twitter!

Lucy Hale is Teen Vogue’s cover girl for the Febraury 2011 issue.

The 21 year-old actress and the rest of Pretty Little Liars cast returned to ABC Family last night (after months of waiting!) with the new episode “Moments Later.” Hale is getting noticed as Aria on PLL and the star says she wasn’t even all that interested in acting at first. Hale says “I wanted to be a singer.”

She tells TVogue about how she got started in Hollywood, maybe music is in her future and the politics of show business:

On how she started out: “I’ve only been living here for a few years. I never thought about acting when I lived in Memphis—actually, pretty much the opposite. I wanted to be a singer. Someone randomly suggested I audition for a few things. I thought, Why not? And I got a role on [Nickelodeon's] Drake & Josh. It was literally just a sentence, but I was so excited to be an actress.”

Is she going to move into a music career? “All I can say is that if I ventured out into that world, it’d be a dream come true. I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn’t in it at the time, but I’m ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home—it’s a huge part of my life, especially since I’m from Tennessee. When I’m ready for it, I’m going to dive into it 100 percent.”

On how to handle the back-stabbing world, Hollywood or high school: “There’s jealousy everywhere and tons of politics. The problem is that people in L.A. never really have to grow up,” she says. “Everyone needs to chill out. There’s room for us all.” The solution she found (which, she adds, is “pretty much the same way you should deal with high school”) is simple. She says with a shrug, “Surround yourself with the right people, and realize your own worth. Honestly, there are enough bad people out there in the world—you don’t need to be your own worst enemy.”

Check out Lucy’s behind-the-scenes video of her cover and photo shoot under: 

It’s time for Prom magazines already!

Pretty Little Liars star Lucy Hale is the cover for the 2011 issue of Seventeen’s Teen Prom magazine in a black and white floral patterned gown.

The 21 year old Hale spilled a little bit of a PLL teaser to the mag saying:

“I want people to find out about Ezra and Aria. I definitely want my friends to know. I can’t say a lot, but I think it would add a whole new twist if more people knew about their relationship.”

Go behind the scenes of Lucy’s cover photo shoot and hear what Hale had to say about her own prom experience in the video below.

Ashley Benson has a cameo appareance in One Call’s music video for their first single, BlackLight. Both the song and music video are on iTunes so if you’re interested you can head over there and buy them! I’ll try to add HD captures of the video to the gallery soon.

Pretty Little Liars is ready to come back with more spooky surprises and more juicy mysteries with the winter premiere of episode 1.11 “Moments Later.”

Aria, Emily, Hanna and Spencer and those around them, must deal with the aftermath of what happened in Rosewood, PA one mysterious night, in “Moments Later,”.

Moments after Hanna is hit by a car, the girls’ world is turned upside down. “A” is no longer content to playing a game of cat and mouse – it has taken a far more precarious turn and now more than ever the four Pretty Little Liars have to turn to each other for support. With Hanna in the hospital and armed with the information of who “A” is, the girls are backtracking to figure out how they got to this point. How could this person know everything and want to use it against them?

Meanwhile, each girl has to also deal with a secret that is either found out, confessed or confronted – proving that secrets are still abound in Rosewood, PA.

Lucy Hale, Ashley Benson, Troian Avery Bellisario and Shay Mitchell bring it all back to ABC Family on Monday, January 3rd at 8PM.