Gossip Girl News (Page 3)

Looks like Dan Humphrey may have some serious competition.

E! Online reports that some new Gossip Girl characters have officially been cast, including former OC star Willa Holland, and even more significantly, a new love interest for one Miss Serena Van der Woodsen (Blake Lively).

According to insiders, John Patrick Amedori has been cast as Aaron Rose, who was a major character in the Gossip Girl book series.

John Patrick Amedori will play the character of Aaron Rose.

He's an artist who will serve as a love interest for Serena in Season 2, and he has a philanthropic side which gets "S" all aflutter.

Looks like storm clouds on the horizon for poor Dan.

Rufus had better start shopping around for a cute designer shock collar to place on unpredictable Jenny Humphrey, 'cause it looks like Little J is going to be dabbling even deeper into the dark side this season.

According to several inside sources, a deal closed a few hours ago for Willa Holland, best known as Kaitlin Cooper on The OC, to come on board the cast of Gossip Girl in Season 2 for three episodes.

She'll play Agnes, a 16-year-old model who meets Jenny while working for Blair Waldorf's badass fashion designer mother, Eleanor Waldorf, and is supposedly anything but a good influence. Thoughts?

After The CW's deadest of dead summers, the second season of Gossip Girl posted its highest ratings ever in all key demographics.

Aided by solid reviews, Gossip Girl (3.4 million viewers, 1.7 preliminary adults 18-49 rating, a 5 share and a 2.3 adults 18-34 rating) returned up 6 percent from its premiere last year and up 10 percent among the key 18-34 demographic.

With the second season premiere, "Summer, Kind of Wonderful," Gossip Girl lived up to all the hype and served as a strong lead-in for One Tree Hill (3.1 million, 1.6/4, 2.0), which also was up about the same amount.

The numbers show the network hasn't been stymied by a rerun-stuffed summer and set the stage for the big premiere of 90210.

Gossip Girl is back and one of our favorite pieces of media coverage of the show, the New York Magazine "realism scale," has returned as well.

This week's episode, "Summer, Kind of Wonderful," measured +10 overall! Here are some highlights from this unique Gossip Girl breakdown ...

• Gossip Girl's description of the Hamptons: "Think Park Avenue but with tennis whites and Bain de Soleil." Plus 1.
  

• Jay McInerney firing someone for not getting work done because they were sleeping around. Please. Dude invented that. Minus 1.
  

• When making out with Nate Archibald in the car at the beginning, Catherine makes nearly the exact same sex faces as Serena did when she and Nate were having sex on the bar at the Campbell Apartment. Plus 4.
  

• Re: Chuck Bass and the Portuguese triplets: Last time we checked, ladies can't take their tops off at any beach in New York. Minus 1.

• Of course Serena would wear silk while sitting in the sand. Plus 1.

• Does Dan not have one single male friend? And does he really call Rufus for advice on girls? It's kind of totally losery. Minus 1.

• Jenny, on dinner choices: "It's too hot for Indian, how about Popsicles?" Plus 3, because that is the most anorexic statement ever.
  

• At the White Party, Jenny gives her boss the bitch look. You never give your boss that look. Minus 1.
  

• Ordinarily we would say that no one would actually utter Blair Waldorf quotes such as "Damn that motherchucker!" and "All I could see was that Chuck Basstard," except that she probably thought of them in France and was waiting to say them all summer, which is so teenager. Plus 1.

Gossip Girl certainly has many fans in their teens and 20s. The Hills star Lauren Conrad counts herself among them - so much so that she says she would love to guest star on the show in its upcoming second season!

“I love Gossip Girl,” Conrad confessed in a recent interview. “I absolutely love it. It’s so gossipy and superficial. It’s amazing.”

Then again, LC says she’d rather watch than be on it.

“I probably wouldn’t want to see myself on there because it would ruin it for me. I like watching other people get gossiped about," she says.

"It makes me feel better.”

A big fan of Gossip Girl, Lauren Conrad sure is familiar with the sexy, scandalous territory. The SoCal cutie is no stranger to gossip herself.

MTV has chronicled her high school life since Laguna Beach. Now she’s ready for Season Four of The Hills, which returns Monday, August 18.

We doubt it'll ever happen - but would you like to see LC on Gossip Girl?

The names of the first seven Gossip Girl episodes of Season 2 have been unveiled, and the puns are getting worse and worse! See below, with air dates:

1. Summer Kind of Wonderful (September 1)
   
2. Never Been Marcused (September 8)
   
3. The Dark Night (September 15)
   
4. The Ex-Files (September 22)
   
5. The Serena Also Rises (September 29)
6. New Heaven Can Wait (TBA)
7. Chuck in Real Life (TBA)

We've received inquiries as to whether or not Michelle Trachtenberg (as the conniving Georgina Sparks) has been added to the Gossip Girl cast full time. Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly has the scoop on that:

"Nope, and I'm kind of okay with that," he writes. "I think Blair Waldorf probably put it best when she told off Georgina in the season finale with the classic quote: 'Haven't you heard? I'm the crazy bitch around here.'"

Don't look for Georgina's return anytime soon.

Also, EW writes that Gossip Girl is about to start production on a Season Two episode shot almost entirely at Yale University.

In actuality, of course, it will be filmed at a remote corner of Manhattan's Central Park dressed up to look like Yale University.

The whole gang (or at least Blair and Serena, Dan and Nate) will be there for their first round of college interviews. No word on Chuck

At last night's Teen Choice Awards in Los Angeles, Gossip Girl absolutely crushed its competition, winning honors in a half dozen categories.

Here's a breakdown of Gossip Girl's haul ...

1. Choice TV Show Drama
   
2. Choice TV Breakout Show
   
3. Choice TV Actress Drama: Blake Lively
   
4. Choice TV Breakout Star Female: Blake Lively
   
5. Choice TV Breakout Star Male: Chace Crawford
   
6. Choice TV Villain: Ed Westwick

A disheveled Ed Westwick (Chuck Bass) won best TV Villain.

Congratulations to the individual winners and to the whole cast. Click to enlarge more photos of our favorite stars (Ed Westwick, Blake Lively, Chace Crawford, Leighton Meester and Penn Badgley) at the Teen Choice Awards!

This isn't news to some of you die-hard Gossip Girl fans, but since we have not posted on it before, here's an exciting piece of sort-of-old news: The Gossip Girl Season 1 DVD will be released on August 19!

It retails for $59.98, but you can pre-order it on Amazon and get it for as little as $38.99. We've already pre-ordered our copy ...

XOXO: Relive all the wit, romance, drama, mystery and scandal of Gossip Girl's Season 1 over and over again with the complete first season on DVD.

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...