Gossip Girl hottie Penn Badgley was lookin’ pretty damn sharp on the Brooklyn, NY set of GG earlier today when he showed up at Green-Wood Cemetery where new scenes of the series were being filmed. You will note that Penn was proudly displaying a Yes We Can campaign button in support of Senator Barack Obama’s bid for the US presidency:

Folks, we are just one day way from deciding who our next President will be and by all accounts it will be a historical election for our country. Most people have decided who they will be voting for in tomorrow’s election, including myself and Penn Badgley here, but it is imperative that y’all get out and vote tomorrow. Our country works best when the people take an active role in determining who will lead our country … I cannot even stress how important every single vote is to the greater electoral process. I urge you to PAY NO ATTENTION TO POLLS, whether they seem favorable or not … GET OUT AND VOTE tomorrow as is your right as an American citizen. So many people feel that their vote doesn’t matter and I’m telling you that it does. Click HERE to find out where your polling place is if you haven’t already done so. This is one election you CANNOT afford to miss out on. Just vote, y’all!!!

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US Weekly is reporting that Gossip Girl star Taylor Momsen has just been released from Cedars-Sinai Hospital here in LA after being hospitalized for the past few days due to a “severe, potentially life threatening” bout with a throat infection. I am happy to report that Little J is now doing A-OK. Here are pics of the lass on the NYC set of GG earlier this month:

Taylor Momsen was released Wednesday afternoon from L.A.’s Cedars-Sinai Medical Center after battling a “severe, potentially life-threatening throat infection. “I have been treating Miss Taylor Momsen for the last few days,” Momsen’s doctor, Shawn Nasseri, tells Usmagazine.com. “She has been hospitalized for a severe, potentially life-threatening throat infection since Sunday. “She has been an excellent patient, and after aggressive antibiotics and medications, she is expected to make a full recovery in the next three to five days,” the doctor adds. Momsen, 15, was in L.A. to take a school exam when she “woke up with a sore throat,” a source close to the actress tells Us. “She thought it was just a common cold, but was advised to see an ear, nose & throat specialist before getting on a plane back to New York,” the source adds. After discovering how serious the situation was, “her mom flew out to get her, and is flying back [to NYC] with Taylor this week. “She’s in unbelievable spirits” despite the diagnosis, the source says.

Aww … sorry to hear that Tay Tay is feelin’ under the weather but I’m happy that her life is no longer “threatened” by her ailment. A few years ago I suffered a heinous bout of strep throat and, let me tell you, there were days when I prayed for death. I can totally sympathize with a painful ailment like a throat infection so I’m glad to know that Momsencita is on the upswing. Get better soon, Taylor … we need your cute as a buttonness back on GG soon!

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Chuck Bass, played by Ed Westwick, is featured very heavily in tonight’s new episode of Gossip Girl titled Chuck in Real Life … and to celebrate The CW has whipped up a fun little mash-up video to promote the ep using Britney Spears’s new single Womanizer:

What a brills way to capitalize on both a hot song and a hot TV show. Make sure you keep tuning into to Gossip Girl as the season rolls on because there are reports that one of the characters will be peacing the spork out very soon. I’ve been LOVING this season thus far … and I’m dying to see more. Any guesses on who might be peacing out on GG this season?

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Okay … so Blake Lively was snapped filming a pretty interesting scene for an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl where her character Serena van der Woodsen is filming a kissing scene with a boy in Times Square … but it surely isn’t the boy you’re prolly thinking it is:

So as not to spoil this future ep any further, I’ll keep all speculation and conjecture behind the cut. After the jump, see a bunch of photos from the filming of this scene and find out who Blake/Serena is swappin’ spit with … (more…)

Filming continues on the second season of Gossip Girl here in NYC and a few pics sparked my interest. But, in order to not spoil a potential plot development that has yet to air on the show, I’m keeping all the spoilery stuff behind the cut. Here’s a tease … can you guess which Gossip Girl character appears to be facing eviction/homelessness:

Yeah, I’m not entirely sure what is going on but by the look of these pics something drastic may be coming down the pipeline on the show. After the jump, check out the uncensored version of this photo (and a few others) to find out what drama may be comin’ our way … (more…)

Stephen Baldwin, who you may or may not know has converted into some manic crusader for religious morality, was on hand to speak at the Values Voter Summit in Washington DC yesterday in order to rail against the immoral values that he believes are promoted by the TV series Gossip Girl. Stephen, with GG ad posters in hand, spoke at the conservative summit of his outrage at Hollywood’s use of provocative images to lure audiences … here are a few pics:

I mean, I’m all for his right to have an opinion on matters like this, just like I can have my opinion … but it does worry me that conservative groups like this tend to rally together in order to work out an agenda that seeks to limit the free speech and expression of others … whether it be in the arts, in film or in television. I suspect, since Gossip Girl is based on a series of books, these conservative-minded people would also like to curtail books that promote, what they believe are, immoral values as well … which is kinda a short step away from book burning, in my opinion. I post my thoughts on this only because, as I said, it really worries me that social conservatives work so hard to curtail freedoms in this country. Just because they believe something is “immoral” or “sinful” then it should be taken away from other grown adults who might have a different viewpoint or may enjoy what they consider wrong. I would be much more comfortable if these folks got together to complain to one another and seek support in their beliefs in one another — and that was that. Make no mistake, these folks want to curtail the availability of things that they find “immoral” and I vehemently oppose their efforts. It’s scary, y’all … ever stop to think what other things these people might find “immoral” enough that they would like to take away from you? Things on the internet perhaps?

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