Penn Badgley (the good boy), Chace Crawford (the cougar bait), and Ed Westwick (the arrogant rake) are ubiquitous on the Web and in the tabloids, and every hot young woman in America wants a piece of them. Maybe their preppy soap opera, Gossip Girl, will propel one or all of them to superstardom. Or maybe not.

You are on the streets of Manhattan, shooting on location. A dozen paparazzi and a dozen teenage girls come at you, screaming. The paps give you a little room. The girls give you none. They text and Twitter and suddenly there are many more of them. They would surround you, topple you, if it weren’t for security. They just want to touch you. Just for a second. Surely this must be what being famous feels like: being in your early twenties and good-looking, making money, and starring in the kind of TV show that makes fans want to consume you. People keep telling you something big is happening. The phrase window of opportunity is in the air. You could be the next George Clooney, joking with wry self-deprecation 20 years from now about your humble beginnings on a teen soap. Until you Google yourself one night and discover that someone has called you the new Spencer Pratt.

This is the joy, and the stab of anxiety, that comes with being one of the three guys on Gossip Girl, the CW’s melodrama about very rich, very beautiful, very stylish, very old students at a private high school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The show’s audience is a strange coalition: 14-year-old girls who dress age-inappropriately, 34-year-old women who dress age-inappropriately, gay men, straight guys who are soap-curious, entertainment-media people, and the Gawker/Defamer/TMZ circuit, which must continually manufacture fresh celebrities to stay alive. But together, they’ve given Gossip Girl the heat and flash and swagger of a smash (if not the ratings—it finished 150th out of 161 prime-time series last season). Even those who’ve never seen the show now know that Chace Crawford (Nate, the cougar-bedding heartthrob) and Penn Badgley (Dan, the good guy) and Ed Westwick (Chuck, the snake) are famous for something—at least right now. Which means that if you are Chace, Penn, or Ed (from now on we’re using first names, since “Crawford, Badgley, and Westwick” sounds like a Boston law firm), you have a problem: How do you play this moment—a moment for which, just as with virtually every scene in the show, you have had no time to rehearse, very little direction, and no information about what comes next?

I’ve just added 5 High Quality stills from the 7th episode “Chuck In Real Life” courtesy of Andreas_ri @ Livejournal.com

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– 2×07 – Chuck In Real Life Episode Stills

Source #1:
OMFG. Last night at Webster Hall, the main event proved not to be the performance by Kings of Leon but the intense makeout sesh we witnessed between Drew Barrymore and Ed Westwick, a.k.a. Chuck Bass…

Following last night’s show, Westwick, wearing leather pants and pointed shoes, accompanied Barrymore to the after-party at Bowery Electric where the pair continued their PDA. Barrymore even straddled Bass — um, we mean Westwick — in a move not dissimilar to that time Serena did it with Nate on the bar. To be honest, the whole thing kind of hurt our eyes a bit, not least because at 33, Drew is definitely the Catharine to 21-year-old Westwick’s Marcus. Needless to say, he could barely conceal his smug satisfaction all night — and left wearing the same half-smile Chuck did after he bagged Blair that fateful night in season one.

Source #2:
Drew Barrymore and Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick were caught in a full-on make-out session at the Kings of Leon concert in Manhattan on Tuesday night. The pair was also seen together at the Saturday Night Live after-party which also had The Kings of Leon playing.

A possible future wedding with Drew and Ed MUST have The Kings of Leon play!

Ed, 21, had his BFF Chace Crawford at Webster Hall last night as well. Barrymore, 33, broke up with actor Justin Long back in July.

I’ve just added 2 High Quality stills from the 6th episode called “New Haven Can Wait” courtesy of Andreas_ri @ Livejournal.com

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– 2×06 – New Haven Can Wait Episode Stills

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- 09.22.08 – On The Set of Gossip Girl * updated *

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- 09.22.08 – On The Set of Gossip Girl
- 09.20.08 – Celebs outside the SNL afterparty

I just added over 350 DVD Captures of Ed’s role as Joey in the horror film 100 Feet. I have to admit the last scene he was in was a little disgusting but more so disturbing for me, despite being a horror film lover myself. Though I suppose it more than paid for itself with the shirtless scene and him sleeping. Can anyone say awe?

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– 100 Feet (2008) DVD Captures

Ed Westwick is usually the dapperest of all the Gossip Girl gentlemen – he likes risks, and we like him for that! Last night we caught a foto of Ed hanging around outside the Waverly Inn in New York City, New York. Ed was complaining about an infected finger that had apparently been bitten by a dog. Well, we’re complaining about Ed’s all too revealing tight leather pants. Yikes. His costume designer on GG would not approve, nor would his character, we think.

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- 09.20.08 – Ed outside The Waverly Inn in New York City