May 2008 News Archive

The inaugural Gossip Girl Insider Caption Contest yielded an even 100 replies, so we're guessing you enjoyed it. We'll make it a regular thing.

Now let's take a look at who won ...

You made it very hard to pick a winner with so many good submissions. Honorable mention goes to Gossip is my LIFE, but the winner this week is hellosunshine. Congratulations!

The winning entry appears below the photo. Scroll down the page for the full list of submitted captions this week! Thanks to all for playing the Caption Contest and good luck again this week!

Dan: (on phone) Hey Chuck, we need your help. Yes, Blair's here. No, I'm not telling you what she's wearing! Just be at Blair's in 10 minutes!

Dan: What do you see in that man?

Blair: He's Chuck Bass, duh.

Gossip Girl star and girlfriend of Penn Badgley, Blake Lively, kept a low profile underneath a hoodie as she films a new movie, entitled The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, on location in Fairfield, Conn., on Wednesday...

Blake Lively of Gossip Girl shoots her latest film.

Follow the jump for another shot of Blake filming in Connecticut, but this time wearing somewhat more familiar, preppy attire...

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Gossip Girl star Penn Badgley is featured in InStyle - and he talks about what "gets him in the mood." Breathe, ladies.

According to Penn Badgley, what really does it for him is slow, sultry music, sweat and chocolate-covered strawberries.

Follow the link to watch Penn's interview with InStyle, and follow the jump below to see a pic we dug up of Penn with long hair!

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Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford appeared on Rachael Ray's talk show recently, and was surprised to learn that his parents sent in old pictures of him from when he was a kid (and a cute one at that).

See sweet Chace Crawford mullet action below ...

Chace Crawford is forced to re-live his pre-Gossip Girl days.

Were you expecting a little more from last week's excellent, but mostly scandal-free, season finale of Gossip Girl?

Apparently, the original script had a completely different ending, according to Gossip Girl casting director Renee Godbout.

Below, Godbout described how Season 1 of Gossip Girl would have ended had they gone with the original script.

Serena & Dan

In the original script for the season finale, Serena (Blake Lively) does not catch Dan (Penn Badgley) hooking up with Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg), but Dan confesses it to Serena anyway.

Godbout thinks the way the events went down in the version that aired was a better, more dramatic choice - it allowed S to call her nemesis a "crazy, manipulative bitch."

More confrontation = more drama.

Blair & Chuck

The part of the "Much I Do About Nothing" script that was entirely rewritten involved Blair (Leighton Meester) and Chuck (Ed Westwick). They were supposed to rendezvous at the airport, not the helicopter pad.

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Gossip Girl costars Blake Lively and Penn Badgley are not shooting a scene for their hit show in the photo below. It's just them, dating in real life, and going more public with their relationship!

Below, the couple holds hands and takes a romantic stroll through downtown New York City on Monday, Memorial Day.

They are so cute, we can hardly stand it ...

Follow the jump for two more photos of Gossip Girl's sizzling real-life couple, Blake Lively and Penn Badgley ...

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For adults, romances are variable, and friendship is the constant.

Privileged Youth reverses the equation: Love affairs are constant, and it's the friendships that vary. And matter most.

That is the essence of Gossip Girl, the semi-satirical portrait of power and privilege in the private schools and penthouses of New York's ultra rich, the New York Times says in a think piece.

It's often said that Hollywood is "high school with money." On this glossy, glamour-soaked CW series, high school is better than Hollywood.

Gossip Girl, which had its Season 1 finale this past Monday, explores the un-navigability of friendships. Female bonding is punctuated by the joy and disappointments of dating, but the ruling passion is power.

The pride that comes with connecting with one's ilk and asserting control, as well as the scorching pain of rejection and ridicule.

Sex is easy; it's the cliques that take time and solicitude.

"You can tell us anything," Blair Waldorf coos to a distraught Serena van der Woodsen, hung over and harboring a shameful secret.

"We've seen you with vomit in your hair, making out with investment bankers in the men's room at P. J. Clarke's."

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Take that, Wall Street Journal.

On the same day the nation's leading business newspaper reported that time may be running out for the CW, the struggling network scored its biggest second best Monday night ratings. Ever.

The season finale of One Tree Hill and Gossip Girl provided the network with its most-watched Monday of the season, and its best Monday effort to date among its coveted adults ages 18-34.

Last week, the Wall Street Journal reported that advertisers had "cooled" on the network, that "at least" one of its owners was ready to bail on the operation, and that next season could be its last.

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The beautiful young Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen was at the 2008 Annual FiFi Awards at the Park Avenue Armory Tuesday in New York.

Here are some photos of Taylor Momsen, who of course plays the conflicted Jenny Humphrey (more can be found here).

Gossip Girl's Taylor Momsen shines in a beautiful yellow dress.

This week was another good one for Gossip Girl music fans.

Death Cab for Cutie took over music blog Stereogum today, and guitarist Chris Walla blogged about the show and the band's song that was played during the first season finale Monday night.

Follow the link above for Chris' blog. Here's a clip from "Much I Do About Nothing" featuring the song as Chuck and Blair dance ...

With Death Cab For Cutie's "The Ice is Getting Thinner" as their soundtrack, Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass make romantic overtures of sorts.