July 2008 News Archive

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Earlier this week, we posted five promos of Gossip Girl's much-anticipated Season Two. That certainly got us pumped for the new season.

The Gossip Girl video below isn't anywhere near that good, but it's still a pretty fun clip of Chace Crawford (Nate), Jessica Szohr (Vanessa) and others taking us behind the scenes of our favorite show. Check it out ...

With its impossibly good-looking cast, candy-colored designer fashion and its racy, provocative ads, it'd be easy to dismiss Gossip Girl as just another sexed-up, youth-oriented product right off the TV assembly line.

There are certainly similarities with predecessors such as Beverly Hills: 90210. Gossip Girl is also set in an affluent area, and features an ensemble of archetypal characters like a social outcast and pretty-boy rebel with great hair.

Its female leads, Blake Lively, who plays reformed bad girl Serena van der Woodsen, and Leighton Meester, who plays conniving, catty socialite Blair Waldorf, even bear a strong resemblance - in both looks and character - to Jennie Garth's Kelly Taylor and Shannen Doherty's Brenda Walsh.

But Gossip Girl represents a distinct step beyond 90210 and the teen dramas before it, starting with the show's sophisticated point of view.

Its rarefied world of youthful excess and angst is observed through the eyes of a mysterious blogger, the unseen yet ubiquitous Gossip Girl. Continue Reading...

After a long day on the Gossip Girl set, lovebirds Blake Lively and Penn Badgley grabbed an early dinner in NYC's trendy Meatpacking District on Wednesday. Fortunately for us, they posed for a picture along the way ...

Gossip Girl's off-screen lovebirds are certainly cute together!

Easing into his Gossip Girl character as bad-boy prep-schooler Chuck Bass, a suave Ed Westwick looks for his latest conquest Tuesday. Wonder if the purple outfit serves a hindrance - or a boost - to his efforts ...

[Insert smarmy Chuck Bass quote / pickup line here]

Gossip Girl star Blake Lively strutted her stuff in one of Herver Leger’s signature style bandage dresses as she filmed scenes for the show at the trendy STK restaurant in New York City Tuesday morning.

Needless to say - perhaps even more needlessly than with most Gossip Girl fashion she models - Blake Lively looks pretty amazing ...

More stunning Gossip Girl fashion modeled by Blake Lively.

Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly has given us some interesting pieces of information this week on the Gossip Girl spoiler front ...

Q: Seems like forever since you scooped Gossip Girl.
A: Your eyes were not deceiving you. That hot new Season 2 promo does, in fact, show Nate and Serena sucking serious face in the Hamptons. And I assure you that it's not a fantasy sequence.

Q: Any more Gossip Girl spoilers?
A: This fall, the show will embark on its darkest plot to date. For more information on that ... we'll just have to wait and see.

Are you psyched about Nate and Serena? And what could this "dark" Gossip Girl spoiler mean? Leave a comment if you have a theory.

Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick of Gossip Girl attended the world premiere of The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2 - starring Gossip Girl leading lady Blake Lively - in New York City on Monday night!

Here's Blake, looking amazing in an orange dress ...

As in the original, Blake Lively's co-stars in The Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants 2 are Alexis Bledel (Gilmore Girls), Amber Tamblyn (Joan of Arcadia) and America Ferrera (Ugly Betty). A pretty fearsome acting foursome, for sure!

Click to enlarge these additional photos of Blake Lively, as well as her Gossip Girl co-stars Ed, Chace and Leighton, from the premiere ...

Nate Archibald and Chuck Bass play best friends on Gossip Girl.

It's only fitting, then, that co-stars, roommates and pals Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick are totally thisclose in real life as well!

The twosome showed up at a recent show by British pop stars The Ting Tings in New York, and the Daily News reports that they're inseparable.

"They were never more than a foot apart. It was freaky. If one moved two feet to the left, so did the other," said a fellow concert-goer.

The duo also chose to ignore the hordes of flirty girls trying to get their attention, says the spy: "They were only interested in each other."

Aww. Best buds. So cute!

In case you were wondering how Gossip Girl has become such a phenomenon, here's one pretty compelling reason ...