The CW soap Gossip Girl is planning a season-ending story line loosely inspired by Anne Hathaway’s infamous (and fizzled) romance with Rafaello Follieri.

Though she won’t confirm or deny the story’s Hathaway-esque twists, executive producer Stephanie Savage reveals that Serena’s beau is “very well traveled, part of the global elite. He’s not a brooding artist like Dan or Aaron Rose. He’s definitely a grown-up, and that’s something Serena is very attracted to.”

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Guess who Blair is kissing in this upcoming scene for Gossip Girl!?  Spoiler after the jump! (more…)

When word broke that a Gossip Girl spin-off was in the works, fans of the popular CW show were abuzz with speculation over which current cast members would leave the hit series for its new sister show.

A network insider says the spin-off will center around the younger lives of Blake Lively and Penn Badgely’s on-screen parents, played by Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle.

“The show will focus on the early romance between Lily and Rufus,” says the insider. “It begins when they first meet, during a time when Rufus and his band are at the height of their career. The show will follow the high society and rock ‘n’ roll lifestyle in New York.”

And GG fans need not worry! The source denies rumors that an original cast member will be leaving the show to join the spin-off. Instead, “two new actors will be hired to play the young Lily and Rufus. Producers are planning to introduce the new couple during a flashback scene in an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl.”

The insider adds the new show is slated to start filming in February.

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I watch Gossip Girl, and I love it.  It’s not going to win any awards any time soon, but I still like it.

Since rising to fame on CW’s Gossip Girl, Chace Crawford says he’s been slapped with lots of labels.

“Model turned actor, dime a dozen, eye candy, doesn’t know what he’s doing … and Perez Hilton says I have ‘gayface,’” Crawford, 23, says in November’s Details. “So on top of everything else, I have to overcome gayface.”

Growing up in the wealthy Dallas suburb of Plano, Crawford says he wasn’t anything like his Gossip character, the preppy Nate Archibald.

“I’m pretty sure I wasn’t having sex with any cougars,” he says, referring to his current storyline on the show.

The most “mind-blowingly inappropriate” thing he did in high school?

“An idiotic glass-punching thing” that left him with a scar on one wrist, he tells Details.

He moved on to college to study broadcast journalism at California’s Pepperdine University, but dropped out.

He briefly worked a valet (Suge Knight was a client!) before moving on to modeling. But being handled and positioned made him feel “like an animal,” he says.

When he signed on for Gossip, he says he wasn’t sure the show would last. So he asked co-star — and Drew Barrymore fling — Ed Westwick to be his roommate.

“I thought, ‘Let’s pool our money and get something good,’” Chace says. “I didn’t even know if the show was going to last.”

He has six more seasons to go under his contract.

“It never really gets frustrating,” he says. “Sure, sometimes you just want to have a scene where you’re drunk or having fun. I’m hoping for a fall from grace for Nate. Five years from now, I better have murdered someone!”

He says the show’s fans continue to amaze him.

“Once when we were on location on the Upper East Side,” he says, “these girls came up, you know, with the Blair headbands and their skirts hiked up higher than they should be, and I said to them, ‘So, are you looking at colleges?’ and they said, ‘No, we’re in seventh grade.’”

Says Crawford, “I was like, ‘What?! You shouldn’t even be watching our show!’”

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The gorgeous star of Gossip Girl has some serious secret family gossip that she’s hidden from the world!

In the Sept. 15 issue of Star, on sale Wednesday, we reveal that Leighton Meester, who plays the privileged Blair Waldorf in the hot TV series, was born while her mother was serving a federal prison sentence in Texas. The mom was allowed to stay in a halfway house for the birth, but had to return to prison on the day Leighton turned three months. The future star was raised by a relative while mom served out her sentence for her role in a major drug-running ring.

None of those details appear in the actress’ bio, which falsely lists the young star as being born in Marco Island, Fla., where her parents moved in the late ’80s.

And Leighton’s mom isn’t the only member of her family with a record — her father, grandfather and aunt all did hard time in federal prisons for drug dealing!

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GOSSIP GIRL NEWS!

Gossip Girl is picking up steam.

Monday’s season two premiere was up 6 percent from its premiere last year in the adult 18-49 demographic — and up 10 percent among the network’s key women and teen 18-34 demo.

Its overall viewers slipped a bit, though.

Around 3.37 million viewers tuned in last night, while the first season premiere attracted 3.5 million people.

Still, it managed to beat reruns of CBS’ Monday comedies Big Bang Theory and How I Met Your Mother in the 18-49 demo.

Speak Up: Did you watch Gossip Girl last night? I watched it, and while it’s totally cheesy – I enjoyed every minute of it! How about you?