With Vampire Diaries gone for a couple more weeks I seem kind of lost on what shows I usually have spoilers for. I know that I just happened to stumble on the spoilers for this episode of Gossip Girl. I mean the new shows look so good. And does Chuck finally meet his mom?

This episode, The Lady Vanished, goes like this: Rufus (Matthew Settle) and Lily (Kelly Rutherford) grow suspect of Jenny’s (Taylor Momsen) relationship with Damien (guest star Kevin Zeggers). Chuck (Ed Westwick) learns more about the woman (guest star Laura Harring) who may or may not be his mother. Dan (Penn Badgley) and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) struggle through the awkwardness of dating other people. Andrew McCarthy directed the episode.

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Jessica Szohr looks like she is ready for spring for the April 2010 issue of Lucky magazine. (She was also on the April 2009 issue too.) She has had a hot story line this year on Gossip Girl and I’m sure there are many that are cheering her on for her keep going that way. Here are the highlights from the interview in the magazine.

On being inspired by Old Hollywood: “The 1950 film All About Eve shows classic Old Hollywood, when women put so much detail into getting ready.”

On her fashion evolution: “I’m learning more and more about clothes and designers from being a part of Gossip Girl and living in New York. In fittings now, I’m like, ‘I love that Diane von Furstenberg skirt or this Rag & Bone jacket,’ whereas before, I wouldn’t have recognized the labels.”

On her love of menswear: “At Confederacy in L.A., it’s hard to know where to begin: It has great coffee-table books, an incredible shoe collection, and a men’s section that I shop in for myself.”

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Jessica Szohr, who stars in Gossip Girl, is the February 2010 cover girl for Teen Vogue. I am loving the cover photo and photo shoot they did with her…fun & flirty. In the interview with the magazine she talks about her co-stars and dating Ed Westwick. Here are the highlights:

On her Gossip Girl co-stars and double-dating with them: “I’ve heard horror stories form other actors about egos, people who don’t get along, but we’re all friends. There are people from this job who will be in my life for a very, very long time… Sometimes we double-date with Penn [Badgley] and Blake [Lively], or Leighton [Meester] and Sebastian [Stan]. We all hang out.”

On becoming more than just friends with co-star Ed Westwick: “It kind of just happened. We had fun together, and we were like, ‘All right, let’s see where this goes.’ He’s a really rad guy. He’s awesome and smart and talented and adorable, and we make each other laugh.”

I love Thanksgiving and Christmas episodes of shows. There is always a crisis and somehow it gets resolved in that hour. And in that time you might just laugh and cry many times. I just hate that in Canada we have to wait for another month and a half before we get to see the Thanksgiving episodes from the States. But we still appreciate it.

Episode eleven of the season is called, Treasure of Serena Madre, and it goes like this: It wouldn’t be Thanksgiving on the Upper East Side if there wasn’t a serving or two of some major drama for the holiday. Blair (Leighton Meester) suspects her mom (guest star Margaret Colin) has been keeping a big secret from her, but it turns out to be something else entirely. Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) is supposed to spend Thanksgiving with her parents, but has a fight with her mom (guest star Gina Torres) and shows up on Dan’s (Penn Badgley) doorstep. Rufus (Matthew Settle) learns that Lily (Kelly Rutherford) has been lying to him about her mother, Cece (guest star Caroline Lagerfelt). Chuck (Ed Westwick) tells Nate (Chace Crawford) that he has some potentially damaging information about one of their friends. Jenny (Taylor Momsen) learns that Eric (Connor Paolo) was behind her very public embarrassment at Cotillion and can’t pass up a chance to get even. Serena (Blake Lively) is put in a very awkward position when her mother invites Trip (guest star Aaron Tveit) and Maureen (guest star Holley Fain) to join them for Thanksgiving dinner..

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I saw this Star magazine scan floating around and finally I had to say something. I am a fan of Ed Westwick and it looks like this bride at the wedding Ed went to is a fan too. It says in the article that Jessica Szohr made Ed do a special dance for the bride.

I know I would have enjoyed that wedding!

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I have to say that Gossip Girl has really brought the guest stars this year,  Hilary Duff, Jimmy Fallon, Lady Gaga and one of my personal favorites, Kevin Zegers. I was going to write about Kevin before…he starred in the Air Bud movies and he grew up in Canada…right near where I lived in Ontario. We all know he has to be cool then!

The tenth episode of the season is called, The Last Days of Disco Suck, and it goes like this…Hoping to impress the elitist theater kids at NYU, Blair (Leighton Meester) sets her sights on landing a private concert with the hottest musical performer of the year, Lady Gaga. Dan (Penn Badgley) and Olivia (guest star Hilary Duff) sign up to write and star in a school play, based on an idea by Blair and directed by Vanessa (Jessica Szohr). With Blair out of the picture, Serena (Blake Lively) turns to Nate (Chace Crawford) to help her get through a difficult situation. As a favor to Chuck (Ed Westwick), Jenny (Taylor Momsen) agrees to hang out with Damien (guest star Kevin Zegers), the son of an ambassador who is staying at Chuck’s hotel, but the experience proves to be a lot more intriguing than she expected.

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More pictures from the Gossip Girl photo shoot here were released today. I have to say that I absolutely love these pictures. Especially the Chace Crawford ones. It’s too bad everyone is here except Blake Lively.

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I swear I miss one episode and everything seems to happen in it. (Ask me about the Vampire Diaries that I missed that had a reference to Twilight in it. I almost died!)

In the fifth episode of the season, Rufus Getting Married, Lily (Kelly Rutherford) and Rufus (Matthew Settle) decide to move up their wedding to the next day, but will someone or something come between them before they become man and wife? Blair (Leighton Meester) grows suspect of Bree (guest star JoAnna Garcia) and shares her concerns with Nate (Chace Crawford). Chuck (Ed Westwick) discovers a secret that Carter (guest star Sebastian Stan) has been keeping from Serena (Blake Lively). Dan (Penn Badgley) and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) are pulled into one of Georgina’s (Michelle Trachtenberg) schemes.

Now, this is Gossip Girl!

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I have been looking for spoilers for this episode for days. It’s all I have been doing, so I was finally to find something that I could post for next week’s episode, The Lost Boy.

The synopsis is this: It’s an Upper East Side face-off when Blair (Leighton Meester) and Chuck (Ed Westwick) both set their sights on a particular item up for bid at Sotheby’s and the personal stakes are high. Serena (Blake Lively) suspects that Carter (guest star Sebastian Stan) may be up to his old habits, Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg) takes an interest in Dan (Penn Badgley), and Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) begins to suspect that something isn’t quite right with Scott (guest star Chris Riggi).

If I can find stills I will update.

Ed Westwick and girlfriend, Jessica Szohr look like they are enjoying their time in Miami together. I am loving Jessica’s dress but Ed is so not how I pictured him shirtless. I thought somehow he would look like Penn Badgley. But, I guess you can’t always get what you want.

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