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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I am almost caught up with my Gossip Girl watching. I just saw Pret-A-Poor-Jenny. I have to admit I almost cried when I watched Chuck leave Blair. Why did they have to do that. They are so good together.

Episode 11 is called The Magnificent Archibalds and it goes down like this: Thanksgiving in the Waldorf household finds Blair (Leighton Meester) upset that her mom’s (Margaret Colin) new boyfriend, Cyrus (guest star Wallace Shawn), has decided to ruin all her favorite traditions, but that’s nothing compared to what’s coming next. Lily (Kelly Rutherford) finds herself trying to broker a peace treaty between Rufus (Matthew Settle) and Jenny (Taylor Momsen) who is prepared to cut off all communication with her father if she doesn’t get her way. Serena (Blake Lively) isn’t quite ready to come clean with Aaron (guest star John Patrick Amedori) about her complicated past, but Dan (Penn Badgley) ends up accidentally revealing a few tidbits of his own. Blair and Chuck (Ed Westwick) come to their friend’s aid when Nate (Chace Crawford) is once again forced to confront his father’s (guest star Sam Robards) abandonment. Finally, Eric (Connor Paolo) discovers a secret that Bart (Robert John Burke) has been keeping from Lily. Jessica Szohr also stars.

I love holiday shows…but am bummed everytime the Thanksgiving ones roll around since we already had Thanksgiving in Canada at the beginning of October. I will just have to celebrate it then too.

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Last weeks episode at Yale was hot. I think they are just going to push the button even more this season saying that it’s too hot for kids to watch. I already feel the heat…

Next Monday’s episode is, Pret-A-Poor-Jenny, and here’s how it goes down…

Jenny has a new young model friend, Agnes, who encourages Jenny to explore her wild side, and also to confront, Eleanor Waldorf, who is attempting to “borrow” Jenny’s designs. Meanwhile Serena and Dan attend Rufus art opening as friends, but then Serena meets an artist, Aaron Rose, and the evening gets a little uncomfortable. Blair attempts to seduce Chuck, but he proves to be tougher than she ever imagined.

It seems like everyone will be kissing people…but not the right people…except for Blair and Chuck that is.

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Jessica Szohr spilled a huge Gossip Girl secret this weekend to TV Guide. It’s really big so if you don’t want to read DO NOT READ ANY FURTHER…SPOILER AHEAD!

“There’s a lot going on,” said Szohr. “There’s a love triangle between Vanessa, Nate and Jenny, there’s a funeral….” Catching herself before she said too much, she then added, ”That’s all I can say. We can’t talk about it!”

There is a funeral?? I wonder who it could be? Jessica does give some hints on Vanessa’s love life…

“There’s some flirtation with Chuck Bass coming up — but I think she still misses someone else.”

Chuck??? Vanessa?? GROSS! She needs to be back with Nate! Who do you think is going to die?

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