Gossip Girl: April 2008 Archives

Even though it was not revealed - as had been expected - on Monday night's episode of "Gossip Girl" which of the male teen characters is gay, we know that it is golden girl Serena's little brother, Eric van der Woodsen (played by Connor Paolo).

What I really love is how we are supposed to find out! According to several reports, the little cutie pie in gonna get caught making out with one of the other male characters on the show. This could be the best coming out since Andrew Van de Kamp (Shawn Pyfrom) was caught by Teri Hatcher's character kissing another boy in the swimming pool during the first season of "Desperate Housewives."

Anyway, read after the jump to see who Eric is gonna lock lips with!

I got a real kick out of the current New York Magazine cover piece about my favorite guilty pleasure "Gossip Girl" which returns to the CW tonight with an original episode. Here are a few excerpts from the article co-written by Jessica Pressler and Chris Rovzar:

One time we played hooky from work for an hour and skip-walked all the way from our offices in far west Soho to the East Village to catch a scene of the show being filmed. Technically, we're a little old for Gossip Girl--our own high-school experience was kind of a while ago. Like, 90210-was-still-on-the-air a while ago. But it's not just tweenage girls who are hooked on the show.

At first we cloaked our adoration in irony. "It's awesomely bad," we explained to friends. "You know, like Showgirls. Or a Bloomin' Onion." But before long we were covering the show pretty much exhaustively on the Daily Intelligencer, the blog we write on nymag.com. And then a funny thing happened: E-mails and texts from fans of all ages began filling our in-boxes. "S. at Cafe Gitane, not with Lonely Boy!" read one text, from a 28-year-old marketing executive. "OMG!" we texted back. "Is she cheating?" "No, he is a gay." (Translation: Blake Lively, who plays Serena van der Woodsen, was spotted with someone other than Penn Badgley, who plays her onscreen boyfriend and whom she's rumored to be dating in real life. The "he" who is "a gay" is just some guy who looked that way to the texter.) The more we wrote about Gossip Girl, the more its radically invested fan base began to reveal itself to us. We were like a support group for the fully grown, employed, non-pervert adult fans of the show.

But there should be no shame in a love of Gossip Girl. After all, it is (and we have come to this conclusion honestly) the most awesomely awesome show ever
Chace Crawford on after he started dating Carrie Underwood. "I wasn't ready for all that craziness," he admitted. "I didn't realize what that was going to entail." Chace and Carrie recently broke up--gloriously, by text message--but the damage had been done. Paparazzi began following him on errands, someone posted his home address in Chelsea, and every little photo op became a gossip story. Rumors that he was dating singer JC Chasez grew so insistent that the actor has been forced to deny his alleged gaydom. (They share a manager, he explains in exasperation, who occasionally arranges for them to appear at the same events.)

After Chace and Ed Westwick were spotted going to Best Buy to pick up movies together, Ed also had to deny to the Daily News that he was dating Chace. (Well, they did get Little Miss Sunshine.)

It's true: Ed and Chace aren't dating. It's better. They're roommates.

Here is a LINK to the entire article...Enjoy!

The return of new epidodes of "Gossip Girl" on Monday nights means the return of cutie pie Chace Crawford! I'm as happy as a clam at high tide...