x012 2.13 O Brother, Where Bart Thou?

more x005 2.12 It’s a Wonderful Lie

x018 2.11 The Magnificent Archibalds

more x021 Gucci Launches the Tattoo Heart Collection to Benefit UNICEF

x021 36th International Emmy Awards Gala

x001 Leighton Rolling Stone Scans

x002 Blake Vogue UK

x007 Blake Seventeen Scans

x013 HQs Fashion PR agency Jack + Bill Open Casting Call

x007 11-23-2008: Filming Season 2

x039 HQs “Australia” Premiere

x031 11-21-2008: Filming Season 2

x076 11-20-2008: Filming Season 2

more x002 HQs 11-17-2008: Filming Season 2

x019 HQs Reebok Flash Launch Party in NYC

x010 HQs Taylor leaving the “Milk” screening afterparty

x020 HQs The Cinema Society & Details host the after party for MILK

x014 The Cinema Society and Details Hosts a Screening of “Milk”

x060 11-17-2008: Filming Season 2

x013 Gucci Launches the Tattoo Heart Collection to Benefit UNICEF

x020 HQs 2.09 There Might Be Blood

x035 5th Anniversary of the CFDA/Vogue Fashion Fund

x036 Shooting a print campaign for Reebok shoes

x012 HQs Pink Carpet At The Victoria’s Secret Fashion Show

x024 HQs 2.12 It’s a Wonderful Lie

x029 Jessica On the beach in Miami

x023 HQs Fontainebleau Miami Beach Grand Opening

x001 Photoshoot #009

x002 Seventeen

x002 Entertainment Weekly November 08

x014 Promoting “Gossip Girl” Soundtrack And DVD

x003 Glamour Magazine Hosts Dinner For Leona Lewis

x002 Agent Provocateur - The Pirate Provocateur Extravaganza

x006 Christmas lights on Oxford Street in London

x002 Monkey Journey To The West Arrivals

x054 Chace takes a walk around Soho

x010 Blake and Penn leaving restaurant in West Village

x002 Rodelio Astudillo Photoshoot

x007 Rodelio Astudillo Photoshoot

x004 Hilary Walsh Photoshoot

x008 Miko Lim Photoshoot

x014 Christopher Kilkus Photoshoot

x009 Tony Duranm Photoshoot

x115 11-12-2008: Filming Season 2

x007 “Quantum of Solace” 2008 Tribeca Film Institute Screening

x006 Darwin Exhibition

x002 Claridge’s Bar - 10th Anniversary Party

x001 Guy Aroch Photoshoot

more x086 11-10-2008: Filming Season 2

x004 L’Oreal Legends Gala to Benefit Ovarian Cancer Research

x021 18th Annual ‘A Magical Evening Gala’

x021 The 2008 World Music Awards

x003 Glamour (November 2008)

more x015 5th Annual Lucky Shops

x024 10-17-2008: Filming Season 2

x080 10-15-2008: Filming Season 2

x033 10-10-2008: Filming Season 2 Set 02

x175 10-08-2008: Filming Season 2

x182 10-10-2008: Filming Season 2

x018 HQs Leighton & Taylor at Tribeca Grand Hotel in NYC

x059 10-07-2008: Filming Season 2

x022 HQs CFDA New Members Party Hosted by Elie Tahari

x098 “Gossip Girl” Press Conference

x005 Details Magazine Scans

x014 10-02-2008: Leighton Meester Partners With Marshalls’ “Shop ‘Til It Stops”

more x001 Matthew Brookes Photoshoot

x014 Andy Ryan Photoshoot

Penn Badgley (the good boy), Chace Crawford (the cougar bait), and Ed Westwick (the arrogant rake) are ubiquitous on the Web and in the tabloids, and every hot young woman in America wants a piece of them. Maybe their preppy soap opera, Gossip Girl, will propel one or all of them to superstardom. Or maybe not.

You are on the streets of Manhattan, shooting on location. A dozen paparazzi and a dozen teenage girls come at you, screaming. The paps give you a little room. The girls give you none. They text and Twitter and suddenly there are many more of them. They would surround you, topple you, if it weren’t for security. They just want to touch you. Just for a second. Surely this must be what being famous feels like: being in your early twenties and good-looking, making money, and starring in the kind of TV show that makes fans want to consume you. People keep telling you something big is happening. The phrase window of opportunity is in the air. You could be the next George Clooney, joking with wry self-deprecation 20 years from now about your humble beginnings on a teen soap. Until you Google yourself one night and discover that someone has called you the new Spencer Pratt.

This is the joy, and the stab of anxiety, that comes with being one of the three guys on Gossip Girl, the CW’s melodrama about very rich, very beautiful, very stylish, very old students at a private high school on Manhattan’s Upper East Side. The show’s audience is a strange coalition: 14-year-old girls who dress age-inappropriately, 34-year-old women who dress age-inappropriately, gay men, straight guys who are soap-curious, entertainment-media people, and the Gawker/Defamer/TMZ circuit, which must continually manufacture fresh celebrities to stay alive. But together, they’ve given Gossip Girl the heat and flash and swagger of a smash (if not the ratings—it finished 150th out of 161 prime-time series last season). Even those who’ve never seen the show now know that Chace Crawford (Nate, the cougar-bedding heartthrob) and Penn Badgley (Dan, the good guy) and Ed Westwick (Chuck, the snake) are famous for something—at least right now. Which means that if you are Chace, Penn, or Ed (from now on we’re using first names, since “Crawford, Badgley, and Westwick” sounds like a Boston law firm), you have a problem: How do you play this moment—a moment for which, just as with virtually every scene in the show, you have had no time to rehearse, very little direction, and no information about what comes next?

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x009 Nicole Fiscella walking around Manhattan

x004 HQs Lucky Magazine - thanks to leighton_fans

x002 Vanity Fair

more x006 HQs The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2 Stills

x004 Jack Guy - Teen Magazine

x037 Ed Celebrating his 21st Birthday at TAO Las

x013 HQs 06-27-2008: Filming Season 2

more x219 06-26-2008: Filming Season 2

x013 HQs Season 1 - Photoshoot #008

x006 Jeremy Goldberg Photoshoot

x001 Andy Ryan Photoshoot

more x001 HQ Frank Ockenfels Photoshoot

x003 HQ People’s Most Beautiful People Magazine Scans