Penn Badgely and his co-stars Amber Heard and Dylan Walsh, were joined by much of the Gossip Girl cast at the NYC premiere of their new film The Stepfather which took place at the SVA Theater here in NYC, NY last night. Here are a few photos from the red carpet arrivals:

I believe this is Penn’s first starring movie role so we will soon know if he’s got the chops to carry a film almost all by himself. I don’t know much about Amber Heard’s work but I’m a big fan of Dylan Walsh (who plays Dr. Sean McNamara on Nip/Tuck) and I have no doubt he’ll play a great bad guy in this film. Penn’s costars Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick have already featured in their own big screen flicks (The Covenant and S. Darko respectively) so now it’s Penn’s time to shine. I hope he doesn’t disappoint … David and I have high hopes that this film will be a fun time at the movies. The Stepfather opens on Friday … I guess we’ll know soon enough if Penn’s got what it takes to thrill an audience.

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Those of you who have been watching the new season of Gossip Girl surely must be aware of how much tail Dan Humphrey (played by Penn Badgley) is getting on the show … I mean … a lot. He’s already been there and done that with Serena (played by Blake Lively) and Vanessa (played by Jessica Szohr) and just this season he got bizzy with Georgina Sparks (played by Michelle Trachtenberg) and soon he’ll be gettin’ his freak on with Olivia Burke (played by Hilary Duff). I mean … WTF? Here are pics of Penn makin’ out with both Jessica and Hilary on the NYC set of GG this week:

HMMM. I guess now that Chace Crawford’s character has settled down with Joanna Garcia’s character and Ed Westwick’s character has settled down with Leigton Meester’s character … the field is wide open for Penn to get his mack on. I guess it’s gonna take me some time to get used to the idea of Dan Humphrey breakin’ hearts on GG but … that’s why they call it fiction, right?

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Gossip Girl co-stars and real life lovebirds Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr spent part of their afternoon yesterday in the company of Ed’s parents … presumably, the first time that Jessica got to meet the “in-laws”. Things must be gettin’ real serious if Ed is ready for Jessica to meet his folks:

I hope that Jessica was a good little pet and offered to take the Westwicks out for a nice dinner of Shepherd’s Pie or out for a pint of Guinness at their local pub … cuz if she tried to get them to eat McDonald’s and Starbucks, I don’t think that’s gonna put her in their good graces.

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Production continues on the third season of Gossip Girl which begins airing next month … earlier this month we saw photos of new castmember Hilary Duff filming her first scenes for the show and today we get to see another photo of her and her female GG cohorts making their way to the Manhattan set yesterday afternoon:

Oh yeah, Penn Badgley is featured in these pics as well but I’m sure he don’t mind gettin’ lumped in with the ladies. I’m really looking forward to the return of this show especially to see if Hil D. will enhance the show or not. Not for nothing but I haven’t actually seen Hilary Duff in anything before so I have nothing to base an early opinion on … I do trust the GG folks to make some great eps so … I’m hopeful. Shoot, no matter what Hilary’s role on the show will be I deffo know that I’ll be tuning in for Chuck Bass’s gay kiss :) Woot!!

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On the season finale of Gossip Girl last Spring many changes took place with the gang to set up the coming season (filming now in NYC). We saw that Blair Waldorf and Chuck Bass finally got together and we were introduced to the lovechild of Lily van der Woodsen and Rufus Humphrey. Here on the blog a few weeks ago, we learned that Joanna Garcia (formerly of The CW series Privileged) has joined the cast … and, of course, Michelle Trachtenberg is back as Georgina Sparks. Here are a few new pics of some of the cast on the NYC set of Gossip Girl this week:

I LOVE seeing Ed Westwick in fun t-shirt … clearly he was not in full Chuck Bass costume yet ‘cuz Chuck would never be seen in public wearing a t-shirt. I also love that Chace Crawford is carrying Joanna Garcia’s purse. Chace totally strikes me as the purse-carrying sort of fella. After the jump, check out with two characters will be getting into a new relationship in season 3 of Gossip Girl. Be warned, the photos are a bit spoilerish …

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How about we talk about some birthdays to offset all the death talk that has plagued us in the past few days … Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick celebrated his 22nd birthday at Lucky Strike bowling lanes in NYC last night with his girlfriend (and GG co-star) Jessica Szohr … here are a couple pics of sexy sexy making his way out of his bday party last night:

Oh yes, Mr. Westwick has been lookin’ migh-ty fine in the past few weeks or so (you may recall he was lookin’ pretty good at that recent K-Swiss event in NYC, too). It sounds like he had himself a pretty fun birthday party at Lucky Strike last night. We have Lucky Strike lanes here in SoCal and my friends and I had a great time bowling togther this past Winter. Let’s send out all of our birthday lurve to Ed and wish him many more happy birthdays to come!!

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Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer and other castmembers of HBO’s hit new vampire drama True Blood made their way to Paramount Studios lot here in Hollywood, CA for the premiere of season 2 of the show. The second season of True Blood debuts on HBO this Sunday night but the big celebratory party took place last night … here are a few photos from last night’s premiere party:

I quite enjoyed the first season of the show when it debuted on HBO last Summer so I am very much looking forward to season 2. I managed to rewatch the last few eps of the first season this week and was reminded how good the story is. I hear that the drama in the upcoming second season is not to be missed. I LOVE Michelle Forbes who plays the mysterious shapeshifter (?) Maryann on the show (I also loved her very much as Ensign Ro Laren on Star Trek: The Next Generation, Lynne Kresge on 24, Admiral Helena Cain on Battlestar Galactica and estranged wife Kate on In Treatment). Forbes is absolutely one of my favorite character actresses … she is really fantastic. I’m glad she was added to the cast of True Blood. I’ve refrained from watching any preview screeners of the show only cuz David and I love watching the eps as they air on a weekly basis. I must admit, I love that True Blood has more gritty bite than The Twilight Saga has … while the tweens can sink their teeth into Twilight, adults can much more enjoy the fun on True Blood. I’ll deffo be tuning in this Sunday night for the season premiere of True Blood … can’t wait!!

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