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While most of the ridiculously beautiful ‘Gossip Girl‘ cast is currently scattered to the four winds, the man behind the eponymous Chuck Bass, Ed Westwick, was in attendance at the CW’s presentation to TV critics. He was joined by ‘Gossip Girl’ executive producers Josh Schwartz, Stephanie Savage and Joshua Safran.
First up, a juicy sizzle reel treated us to the Upper East Siders’ exploits in Paris. It’s all play and no work for our naughty New Yorkers when ‘Gossip Girl‘ returns with two episodes set in Paris this fall.
More highlights follow after the jump …
The critics were treated to brief clips of Serena flirting her way through Paris, hopping a ride on a moped and getting into another legendary catfight with BFFrenemy Blair in which she ends up getting pushed into a fountain. Meanwhile, Dan was in NYC playing babysitter (or perhaps baby-daddy?) to Georgina’s shocking spawn back in Brooklyn, Nate canoodling with two girls at once, and the return of Chuck Bass. Expect an electric reunion between Chuck and Blair at a train station, with Blair in a stunning red dress. And, of course, enviable outfits galore.
On the spoiler front, Schwartz and Savage were happy to hint a little of what we can look forward to when ‘Gossip Girl’ makes its dramatic debut.
– Savage admitted that a trip to Paris has been a dream of hers since season one of the show, but they started laying the groundwork for the plan in January, lining up support from the network’s marketing division and financial help from other investors. She revealed that they were the first production to ever shoot inside the Musée d’Orsay, as well as hitting the Gare du Nord train terminal and in front of the Eiffel Tower. There will also be a “little village area that became Chuck’s world,” Savage said.
– Taylor Momsen’s divisive character, Jenny Humphrey, left on such dramatic terms, Savage said it would’ve been anticlimactic to bring her back immediately as though nothing had happened. Instead, expect her to return at some point during the first half of the season, with as much drama as possible.
– Katie Cassidy’s character “has a great arc,” Schwartz promised. “She’ll raise a lot of trouble, turn everyone on their heads and stir the pot.”
– New York’s Fashion’s Night Out will be featured in the third episode — you will see characters preparing for it and taking part. Because of the event, the show shot in Diane von Furstenburg’s store, and the designer herself showed up for it.
– Westwick said that he was “blown away” by the performance of Clemence Poesy, who will play his new love interest. “I had to catch myself a few times in the scene and remind myself that I was supposed to be acting,” he laughed.
– Chuck and Blair will be a driving force this season in terms of storylines. “Blair and Chuck seeing each other will have explosive consequences that will play out through the rest of the season,” Schwartz teased.
– On his character’s progression this season, Westwick said that Chuck will be in a dark place after being shot and left for dead “his world is crumbling around him; he’s trying to decide whether or not he wants to be Chuck Bass anymore.”
– “You will be seeing more of Georgina Sparks [Michelle Trachtenberg] in more ways than one,” Savage promised.
– When Gossip Girl comes back online this year, she’ll be “under construction,” Schwartz said. “She’ll be giving herself a face-lift, adding new features that she never had before.” Savage felt that they had fallen behind technology last season and want to get back ahead of the curve with new advances in gadgetry.
– Savage wants to go to Tokyo next — Warner Bros. willing.
– Shockingly, Savage and Schwartz were approached to produce original ‘Gossip Girl’ episodes for China, even though the show doesn’t even air on Chinese television. “They estimate that more people watch us online in China than all of America’s viewing audience combined,” Savage said.
Are Chuck and Blair going to be together on Gossip Girl this upcoming season? Maybe at some point? What about Dan and Serena when the show returns September 13?
E! Online offers the following updates on the two couples in its spoiler Q&A:
Q: Please, some good Gossip Girl
news! I heard that Clémence Poesy (Eva) is going to be a series regular now. Please say that’s not so! I want hope for Chuck and Blair.
A: Sources say Clémence Poésy is not a series regular for the coming season, and Blair does not have a new love interest in the works. So maybe that’s … something?!
While fans’ hopes for a Chair reconciliation should be tempered, at least in the early going, there is definitely hope, despite the addition of Mr. Bass’ new European lady love.
In other news, those photos of Dan and Vanessa pushing around a stroller? Rumor has it that’s Dan’s actual baby! Shocked they’re going through with that storyline. You?
Q: Will Dan and Serena be together when this season starts?
A: The latest is I’m hearing is no, they will not be. Can’t imagine what she doesn’t see in her sorta-kinda half brother soon to be with child!
As soon as the sun came out, the cast and crew of “Gossip Girl” commenced the filming of season 4 in New York City Wednesday, July 14 afternoon. They had braved the weather that day and had to wait a couple of hours for the rain to stop so they could film in the Upper East Side.
Leighton Meester and Blake Lively are two of the cast who were spotted on the set sharing a scene. Looking like the usual walking fashion, the on-screen BFFs discussed something seriously while heading somewhere down the West End Avenue.
These photos debunked the false story by Us Magazine’s source who said Meester and Lively were in fighting term. According to the source, the actresses who filmed the show in Paris last week had been feuding since last season and competing against each other on and off set. “Their rivalry stems from Leighton feeling left out of wardrobe decisions,” an insider said.
However, the report has also been denied by Gossip Cop’s source.
“Gossip Girl” returns for the new season on Monday, September 13.
It was just a matter of time before they find a new playground for Melrose Place vixen Katie Cassidy, and who would have thought it would be the Upper East Side?
Entertainment Weekly
is reporting that Cassidy, who some say was the only thing memorable (in a good way) about the doomed reboot, just bagged a multi-episode guest spot on Gossip Girl, where she’ll play a student at Columbia who’ll take an interest in Nate (Chace Crawford).
EW adds that Cassidy’s character, set to jump right in with a debut on the season 4 opener, will “make trouble” for the others because – surprise, surprise, she is “not what she appears.” So she’s not a student after all?
Cassidy, 23, was last seen in A Nightmare on Elm Street and briefly on ill-fated Harper’s Island. She’s currently filming an upcoming American romantic comedy feature called Monte Carlo, where she’ll appear, coincidentally, with Gossip Girl mainstay Leighton Meester and Disney baby Selena Gomez.
Gossip Girl season 4 promises to be chockfull of new faces, with Harry Potter actress Clemence Poesy recently cast Chuck’s (Ed Westwick) new love interest, at least when he’s in Paris. Her character Eva was described as a “warm-hearted bombshell.”
“Warm-hearted bombshell?” Only on Gossip Girl!
Clemence Poesy: Gossip Girl’s New Star!
Harry Potter’s Clemence Poesy is set to guest star on Gossip Girl’s fourth season!
The 27-year-old French actress is best know for her role as Fleur Delacour in the Harry Potter films. The fourth season of GG, which premieres this fall, begins in Paris as Serena and Blair enjoy the summer across the pond.
The Wrap, who broke the story, could not confirm the number of episodes that Clemence will star in or which character she plays.
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Looks like the Gossip Girl
cast parties hard on and off set — while also carrying on the rich kid temperament of their on-screen counterparts. According to a new bit of gossip, the pack—led by Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick—acted rowdy on Tuesday night at Philippe restaurant in NYC.
The cast was loud, cursing and talking which led to customers complaints, a witness at the restaurant told the NY Post.
The situation heated up when one man at a table of lawyers and investment bankers politely asked Leighton to watch her language, and she responded brashly, “f – – – you! How dare you tell us to keep it down?”
“Other girls in their party were being really nasty, too,” the source continued.
To mediate the situation, Ed made a plea for peace.
“Don’t worry about my friends,” he said. “We should all be happy. Let’s hug it up, guys.”
The source took the opportunity to hug Ed.
The actors reps and Philippe staff declined to comment.
Earlier that evening, the cast joined together at Henri Bendel’s in NYC to celebrate the publication of You Know You Want It.
Eric Daman — costume designer for the hit CW show — wrote the book about style, inspiration and confidence. Leighton, whose on-screen character, Blair Waldorf, is always dressed in the latest and greatest, appropriately contributed the foreword.
Missing at the event were Chase Crawford and Penn Badgley, leaving Penn’s girlfriend Blake Lively to fly solo.
Gossip Girl
star Blake Lively will spend her post-Thanksgiving week with the cast of Saturday Night Live, which she is set to host on December 5.
Will Lively be a giggly, coasting-on-her-looks host like January Jones two weeks ago, an eager to please entertainer like last week’s Joseph Gordon Levitt, or something else entirely?
For that we’ll just have to wait and see–and it’s hard not to be curious, given Lively’s lack of acting experience in the comedy department. (Unless you count certain episodes of Gossip Girl
season 3…)
This won’t be the first time that Lively has appeared on Saturday Night Live, but we’re absolutely certain that, at some point during her program two weeks from now, it will be the funniest. Way back in September, she popped up during a digital short with then-host James Franco to deliver one, solitary “so expected and juvenile, I forgot to laugh” sort of line. But SNL‘s writing isn’t her fault, so let’s not hold it against the lovely Ms. Lively.
Tune in to see what the SNL folks can get Blake Lively to do, December 5 at 11:30 PM on NBC.
Lady GaGa revealed that she had the liberation to perform they way she wanted on “Gossip Girl“. The singer said in an interview with MTV News that the writers let her do “whatever the hell”. She called the cameo a “crazy performance-art piece.”
Her teen sister was actually the one who encouraged her to play a part on the show. She explained, “First of all, my sister’s a huge fan, and she’s 17 years old. So when I called her and said ‘Gossip Girl’ wants to put my whole new album on the show and have me perform, she was like ‘Oh my God, you have to do it. It’s an amazing show’. And I’d seen it. It’s a great show.”
The one thing that she wouldn’t do was to suddenly perform with no story entangled. “I hate TV series performances, because they kind of come in out of nowhere, and everyone’s, like, really into the story, and then all of a sudden somebody breaks into song,” she said.
GaGa thus literally sat down with the writers and expressed what she wanted to do with the show. On how it turned out, GaGa spilled, “I am the narrator behind what is going on with the characters and make the song part of the moment. We used these ladders, and I’m falling off ladders. Ladders are kind of a monster symbol about bad luck. And I have this 35-foot-long dress on and these X’s, very gothic-inspired. It was great.”
From another perspective, producer Stephanie Savage told Rolling Stone, “She was willing to stay on set and perform silently in the background of all of our shots so that she could stay a part of the scene and integrated into the action.” GaGa was performing her latest single “Bad Romance” on the cameo.
The synopsis for the episode called “The Last Days of Disco Stick” is “Hoping to impress the elitist theater kids at NYU, Blair calls in a favor to land a private concert with the hottest musical performer of the year, Lady Gaga.”
