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'Gossip Girl' Spin-Off Under Way

Execs may tap co-star Taylor Momsen for leading role

By Elizabeth Wolff,  Newser User

Posted Jun 11, 2008 10:22 AM CDT

(Newser) – "Gossip Girl" producers are planning a spin-off series set at a girls' boarding school, Reuters reports. The CW drama’s Taylor Momsen or a new character to be introduced into the series this fall will likely land the leading role of the spin-off, inspired by the novel The It Girl, about an outsider who reinvents herself as the popular girl.

Gossip Girl execs are planning a spin-off of the hit show that stars Blake Lively, foreground; Leighton Meester and Chace Crawford, second row; Penn Badgley  Ed Westwick and Taylor Momsen, back.
"Gossip Girl" execs are planning a spin-off of the hit show that stars Blake Lively, foreground; Leighton Meester and Chace Crawford, second row; Penn Badgley Ed Westwick and Taylor Momsen, back.   (AP Photo/CW, Timothy White)
Actress Taylor Momsen may land the lead in the spinoff planned for her current show Gossip Girl.
Actress Taylor Momsen may land the lead in the spinoff planned for her current show "Gossip Girl."   (AP Photo/Henny Ray Abrams)
The attractive cast members of the CW series The Gossip Girl, from left, Blake Lively, Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester and Chace Crawford.
The attractive cast members of the CW series "The Gossip Girl," from left, Blake Lively, Ed Westwick, Leighton Meester and Chace Crawford.   (AP Photo/The CW, K.C. Bailey)
Actresses Leighton Meester, left, and Taylor Momsen star in the popular Gossip Girl drama on the CW.
Actresses Leighton Meester, left, and Taylor Momsen star in the popular "Gossip Girl" drama on the CW.   (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg)
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