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Gossip Girl stories: 24 news summaries

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 Pre-Lady Gaga Wowed NYU 

She used to be Stefani Germanotta, student

Nov 20, 09 2:40 AM CST
(Newser) - Before she was an over-the-top star dogged by rumors that she's intersex, Lady Gaga was babelicious Stefani Germanotta, a New York University student with a killer voice who wowed her classmates at a 2005 talent show. Gaga strutted her new stuff for fictional students of her near-alma-mater (she never graduated... More »

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transgender • New York University • singer • Gossip Girl • Lady Gaga • Tisch School of the Arts

Threesome Complaints
May Only Help Gossip Girl

Parents Television Council likely to boost racy episode's ratings

Nov 9, 09 11:14 AM CST
(Newser) - The CW might want to write a thank-you note to the Parents Television Council: All of its moaning about tonight’s Gossip Girl threesome is serving as free publicity for the show, which may just help boost its sagging ratings. No ads have been pulled and no affiliates are boycotting,... More »

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entertainment • sex • Parents Television Council • Gossip Girl • The CW

 Gossip Girl Puts Another 
 Nail in Speakeasy's Coffin 

A good cocktail is timeless; this trend is not

Nov 8, 09 6:39 AM CST
(Newser) - Not even a month after one mag wished for the speakeasy trend to die, Gossip Girl (yes, a show about high school and college kids, but that’s another topic) is pounding another nail in the cocktail conceit, Derek Brown writes. With one of the show’s characters opening a... More »

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entertainment • Prohibition • bars • cocktails • Gossip Girl • The CW • Jay-ZTV • speakeasy • Chuck Bass

Parents Council Freaks Over 
 Gossip Girl Threesome 

Urges local affiliates to preempt the program

Nov 4, 09 10:27 AM CST
(Newser) - The Parents Television Council is on the warpath, this time over news that the upcoming episode of Gossip Girl will feature a threesome. The group has sent a letter to CW affiliates warning that they’ll be “complicit in establishing a precedent and expectation that teenagers should engage... More »

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television • sex • Parents Television Council • teen sex • Gossip Girl

 Sex Tape 
 Is Fake: 
 Gossip Girl 
 Meester 

Gossip Girl actress says it's not her in racy video

Aug 5, 09 3:32 PM CDT
(Newser) - Leighton Meester says an alleged sex tape making the rounds is a phony. “It’s not real, so it makes me sort of sad,” the Gossip Girl actress tells Harper's Bazaar. “It's unfortunate that it got carried as far as it did. I definitely understand the nature... More »

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tabloids • sex tape • Gossip Girl • actress • Leighton Meester

GOSSIP ROUNDUP

 Jon's New Gig: 
 Fashion Designer 

Plus, Posh's new gig? Actress, and more

Jul 13, 09 11:34 AM CDT
(Newser) - Jon Gosselin will certainly need to find a new way to make money if his impending divorce ruins his reality show. And he has eight kids—so why not design children’s clothing? Christian Audigier, who hosted Gosselin and his latest galpal aboard his yacht Saturday, tells E! a line... More »

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entertainment • reality TV • fashion • Sex and the City • Victoria Beckham • celebrity • David Beckham • Target • Megan Fox • Gossip Girl • Jon Gosselin • designer fashion • Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen

(Newser) - Gossip Girl "mom" Kelly Rutherford was rushed late yesterday to a Los Angeles hospital where she gave birth to bouncing baby girl, reports Radar. The newborn will join big brother Hermes, 2. The new arrival comes just as Kelly is divorcing the kids' pop, business tycoon Daniel Giersch, for... More »

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parenting • single parenting • newborn • Gossip Girl • celebrity parents • Kelly Rutherford • David Giersch

(Newser) - And this generation's Kevin Bacon will be ... Chace Crawford of Gossip Girl. The 23-year-old heartthrob has been picked to star in the remake of Footloose, which launched Bacon's career 25 years ago. Crawford will portray the teenage I-just-want-to-dance rebel who shakes up a small town. So who will be his... More »

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movies • Gossip Girl • Chase Crawford • Footloose

(Newser) - No Doubt will kick off a reunion tour in May, but first the band is going to make a guest appearance on Gossip Girl, reports Rolling Stone. Because the show doesn’t feature a performance venue like the Peach Pit in the old 90210, the episode will... More »

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television • music • Gwen Stefani • reunion • reunion concert • Gossip Girl • No Doubt

(Newser) - Bravo is making a reality show focused on New York private school students that insiders are calling a “real-life Gossip Girl,” Broadcasting & Cable reports. The show will employ the format used in webisodes the network produced featuring kids from its hit The Real Housewives ... More »

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television • reality TV • Manhattan • Bravo • Gossip Girl

 Gossip Girl Spinoff Set for May 

New show will flash back to the '80s

Jan 15, 09 11:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Gossip Girl fans, rejoice. After denying the rumors for months, the show’s producers now tell the Hollywood Reporter a spinoff is in the works. The new show will be set in the 1980s and tell the story Lily van der Woodsen—mom of Serena—and how fast times in... More »

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television • TV shows • TV series • spinoff • Gossip Girl • CW network

 Gossip Girl  
 Star's Divorce 
 Turns Ugly 

Kelly Rutherford, hubby David Giersch trade nasty allegations, legal documents

Jan 13, 09 11:34 AM CST
(Newser) - Sounds like something from her Gossip Girl script: Shortly after filing for divorce from her multi-millionaire hubby, 4-months-pregnant Kelly Rutherford, 40, fears he’ll fly the coop to his native Germany with their 2-year-old son Hermes, People reports. David Giersch, 34, has allegations of his own, claiming the actress is... More »

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divorce • celebrity • custody battle • celebrity divorces • Gossip Girl • celebrity parents • Kelly Rutherford • David Giersch • Hermes Giersch

 It's Splitsville 
 for Gossip Girl Mom 

Pregnant Rutherford divorcing millionaire hubby

Jan 4, 09 10:00 AM CST
(Newser) - In a case of reality following fiction, Gossip Girl "mom" Kelly Rutherford is divorcing her millionaire husband. Rutherford, pregnant with her second child, filed for divorce last week a day before her well-heeled hubby, German entrepreneur Daniel Giersch, filed for separation. Rutherford, who plays a serial companion to... More »

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divorce • celebrity divorces • Gossip Girl • kelly rutherford

OPINION

 Ladies, 
 Beware This 
 New Type 
 of Cad 

He's not your average womanizer—he's much worse

Dec 20, 08 5:00 PM CST
(Newser) - Traditional womanizers are easy to detect, but single girls have a new species of cad to watch out for—the Homme Fatale, writes Irina Aleksander in the Observer. They are smart, gentle, short of Hollywood good looks but confident in a self-deprecating way, "deceptively vulnerable," and conniving. Such... More »

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love • dating • Gossip Girl • Justin Long • womanizer • cad

opinion

 Obama Will Make 
 Adults 'Cool' on TV 

Prez-elect's calmness reflects rising popularity of adulthood

Nov 30, 08 9:14 PM CST
(Newser) - 60 Minutes is killing the competition, Mad Men is grittier by the episode, and even Gossip Girl's bimbos are growing up—thanks mostly to the adult air of Barack Obama, Mary McNamara writes in the Los Angeles Times. After 8 years of President Bush, whose folksiness and privilege inspired reality... More »

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television • Barack Obama • 60 Minutes • Gossip Girl • Mad Men • President Obama

GLOSSIES

 Lively Not Really That Gossipy 

Gossip Girl star waxes poetic on her career, clothes, co-stars

Nov 13, 08 2:45 PM CST
(Newser) - Blake Lively might be the "hottest senior ever to roam the halls" of hit show Gossip Girl, but the 21-year-old is a far cry from the "boozy party girl she plays on TV," writes Dana Wood in W. "I don't really like to go out,"... More »

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television • celebrity • interview • Gossip Girl • television personality • celebrity interview

LiLo a Lesbian? 'No.' Bisexual? 'Maybe. Yeah.'

Actress dishes on Sam, career; doesn't 'want to classify myself'

Nov 11, 08 12:37 PM CST
(Newser) - Lindsay Lohan appears to be growing up, discussing her wild-child image, her career, relationship, and family drama over a Shirley Temple with Harper’s Bazaar. The actress, who called her old life “not OK,” said she is happy and working toward new goals. She alluded to rumored girlfriend... More »

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Lindsay Lohan • Ugly Betty • celebrity • gossip • Chateau Marmont • Mark Ronson • Samantha Ronson • Gossip Girl

OPINION

 Betty's Ugly Charms Wear Thin 

Star Ferrera's rumored off-set cattiness isn't helping, either

Oct 31, 08 3:30 PM CDT
(Newser) - When she lost the poncho, she lost the charm: America Ferrera’s Ugly Betty character “seems to be losing her very Betty-ness,” lament the Fug Girls in New York. “Ferrera and her scrappy, brace-faced alter ego” once brought “surprising heart” to ABC’s show, but “... More »

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television • Tom Cruise • Lindsay Lohan • Ugly Betty • Katie Holmes • celebrity • Gossip Girl • America Ferrera • Dawson's Creek • James Van Der Beek

 Barrymore, 
 Gossip Boy 
 Go Public 

33-year-old actress pursues 21-year-old Westwick

Sep 25, 08 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Thirty-three-year-old Drew Barrymore has been pursuing 21-year-old Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick, Us Magazine reports. The pair was spotted in a clinch at a Kings of Leon concert Tuesday, their second New York rendezvous this week. The PDA continued until 6am, a witness reported, and "chemistry was there!"... More »

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New York City • Drew Barrymore • Gossip Girl • Ed Westwick

 Traveling Pants
 Fits Its Audience

Film is better than average at depicting female friendships

Aug 6, 08 12:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - The continuing story of four friends who share a tight bond and comfortable jeans, Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 is nothing “revolutionary,” critics agree. But it has something to offer for “tweens and teens,” they note. The film is “the equivalent of being patted... More »

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film • women • Ugly Betty • movie review • boyfriends • Gossip Girl • friendship

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