Connor Paolo News

At least as of this posting, we've heard of no plans to have any new Gossip Girl characters come out of the closet this fall.

Sources report that Eric van der Woodsen (Connor Paolo) will have a love interest or two in the second season of Gossip Girl.

Eric should be it for same-sex love, though if the book series is any indication, Gossip Girl could get even more gay with each season.

According to cast member Penn Badgley: "By the end of the series, I think they got so bored writing the same things for 12 years, they were like, 'Let's just make 'em all gay.' Chuck ends up gay and has a monkey on his shoulder that dresses in similar outfits."

Penn is just kidding... we think.

Connor Paolo made headlines and raised eyebrows on Gossip Girl when his character, Eric van der Woodsen, came out of the closet.

In a recent interview, the actor, 17 - who co-star Leighton Meester says is the biggest flirt on the set - talked a little bit about what it's like to star on Gossip Girl and to be a pseudo-celeb in general ...

Q: So a year ago would you have been at one of these things, and would you have imagined being introduced as Connor Paolo from Gossip Girl?

Connor Paolo: It's been an experience. To be a celebrity in New York City - I consider myself at the small end of that. So I'm shocked this stuff happens. There are many different aspects of the business. There are many different aspects of being an actor, and this is one of them.

Q: You guys are always getting spotted on the street too.

Connor Paolo: Well, Blake Lively, who is this big [he gestures very high], you know, like a towering moon goddess, and I have these highlights, and Chace Crawford you can spot from the moon, and Taylor towers over everyone. You've got a lot of people with really bright hair.

Q: Does it feel weird when people stare from the other side of the street?

Connor Paolo: No. Being a New Yorker makes you numb to thinks very, very quickly. So for the first day, sure.

Q: Do you have any hopes for the new season?

Connor Paolo: I'm hoping for some Eric-Chuck Bass time. And Eric gets badass. And I just hope it keeps going the way its going. I think it's great.

Q: Any other summer plans we should know about?

Connor Paolo: Being awesome.

We've said it before but we'll say it again - what a great episode!

In "All About My Brother," Georgina Sparks (Michelle Trachtenberg) outed Eric Van der Woodsen (Connor Paolo) at the dinner table, and threw us for a loop - but then she one-upped herself by blackmailing his sister, Serena (Blake Lively), threatening to reveal their dark secret.

Pushed to her limits, Serena confided in her friend Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) and revealed a truth more shocking than a sex tape.

"I killed someone," she said.

Gulp. Looks like Serena's in for a rough stretch.

As for Eric, maybe he can rest easy now that he's come out. In an interview with People, Connor Paolo, 17, talks about what's next.

People: How does it feel to be playing a gay character on a popular TV show?
Connor Paolo: I'm an actor and it's a part. Being gay is nothing but another way to live your life. It's just who he is.

People: A lot of gay teens will be excited to see someone gay on the show. Are you ready for that?
Connor Paolo: I guess it's a possibility that fans could take Eric's coming into his own as a source of inspiration. He does it with a degree of gentility and self-respect. He doesn't make apologies for who he is.

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Thanks to a slip from Kelly Rutherford, we already know which male Gossip Girl character will be revealed as gay in an upcoming episode.

The fact that it's Eric van der Woodsen (Connor Paolo) is not too shocking, given that of all the Gossip Girl characters pictured below, he's the only one without a steamy hookup or romance plot line so far.

But it's the way Eric is outed that is the true jaw-dropper in all of this, writes Kristin Veitch of E! Online. OMG. For the deets of this juicy Gossip Girl spoiler, you'll have to follow the jump ...

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Gossip Girl fan sites and celebrity news blogs have been abuzz that a male, gay character on the CW show will be revealed.

Well, star Kelly Rutherford (Lily van der Woodsen) — who plays the mother of Serena (Blake Lively) and Eric (Connor Paolo) — accidentally let that Gossip Girl cat out of its bag in an interview. It's Eric!

Kelly Rutherford ends any doubt about this Gossip Girl spoiler.

She let it slip to Us Weekly at a Sylvania event in New York City that it's "her son" (as unanimously predicted in our Round Table) who comes out of the closet - and that the story line is "very well done."

How do you think it will be revealed?

A trio of Gossip Girl co-stars - Blake Lively (Serena), Ed Westwick (Chuck) and Connor Paolo (Eric) have a little Gossip Girl reunion during a private screening of Elvis & Anabelle on Thursday in New York City.

Here's a cute picture of the actors who play the evil young Bass and the two van der Woodsen siblings on our favorite series ...

Gossip Girl's Connor Paolo (left), Blake Lively and Ed Westwick.

No word on the rumor from a few weeks back that Connor Paolo (Eric) is the show's currently anonymous title character, Gossip Girl.