Somehow, when Nate Archibald from Gossip Girl can't answer a question correctly about countries and uh, fashion, it somehow comes off adorable and charming. A certain governor from Alaska could have used this video of Chace Crawford answering a Grazia Guy Fashion Quiz as a template for how to field inquiries by Katie Couric.

P.S.: Everyone knows that Milan is a fashion capital. Chase is obviously feigning ignorance to try to dispel those gay rumors. Because, come on. Tokyo??

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Oh, the wit! Hoping to harness the awe-inspiring power of Gossip Girl, MoveOn.org today released this ad featuring Penn Badgley and Blake Lively, the telegenic stars of GG.

In the ad, the actors - and some other, nameless young folk - flip the script a bit and urge their parents to vote for against John McCain. "I found this in your room," says Bagdley, while another mop top admonishes, "Just because other people your age are doing it, doesn't make it cool." Wait, wait - isn't that exactly what MoveOn's doing with this ad? Oh well.

Lively, meanwhile, maintains a straight-face while delivering this knee-slapper, "If you're ever out somewhere and you're considering voting McCain, just call me, no questions asked." We'd laugh if that line weren't so predictable. Still, good hustle!

[via HuffPo]

The television show Gossip Girl is not all teenage sex in limousines, classy drinking at posh hotel bars, fashion internships with elite designers, and xoxo-ing.

Behind the scenes, a complex machine is at work, where diva personalities are "managed," drug abuse is "handled," and eating disorders are ignored. (No quotation marks on that one.)

And while the tense relationship between Leighton Meester (Blair) and Blake Lively (Serena) is played out in the press like their fictional frenemy relationship on the show's Gossip Girl blog, almost entirely ignored is the backstage backstabbing going on among the guys.

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Ed Westwick took some tabloid ribbing earlier this week for being inseparable from his Gossip Girl cast mate and roomie Chace Crawford. The innuendo, of course, was that the boys are more than just friends.

You know what that means - it's time for a straight sex tip:

Apparently, Ed Westwick can stand to be separated from close friend/roommate Chace Crawford… [He] was "seriously making out with some random chick" at Lit bar Wednesday night, says a spy. "When the two left together, Ed was leading her by the hand. He was moving quick, but he had time to wink at a hot brunette before slipping out."

Two for the price of one? Well played, "spy!"

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Gossip Girl costars and roommates Ed Westwick and Chace Crawford can't get enough of one another's company:

The twosome showed up at a recent show by Brit popsters The Ting Tings, and a spy says "they were never more than a foot apart. It was freaky. If one moved two feet to the left, so did the other." The duo also chose to ignore the hordes of flirty girls trying to get their attention, says our spy: "They were only interested in each other."

Awww, ain't young "straight" love grand?

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Are Gossip Girl cast mates - and real life roomies - Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick are secret gay lovers? That's the alleged word:

We've been contacted by entertainment reporters - within days of each other - from the NY Post and the NY Daily News.

They both wanted to share a juicy piece of info - too juicy to print, they said.

Seems like on-set sources, which the pubs tell us are reliable, have told each paper that Chace Crawford and Gossip Girl co-star and real-life roommate Ed Westwick are in a relationship and not trying to hide it, at least on set.

Both NY papers tell us that Chace and Ed were recently seen kissing, open-mouthed on set (in Chace's trailer).

OMG! We're overcome by the sudden smell of bullshit. And, also, boredom…

Gossip Girl actor and avowed heterosexual Chace Crawford sure can suck them down.

[ONTD via MG]

Answer: Him.

You're welcome.