Early last month, Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly broke the news that Wallace Shawn would be guest starring on the CW’s Gossip Girl. And this week, TV Guide reported that Shawn will be playing a love interest for Blair’s mother Eleanor Waldorf. Shawn will appear on Gossip Girl for a multiple-episode arc beginning on November 11, to kick off November sweeps.

You may remember Wallace Shawn as the Sicilian criminal mastermind who was outwitted by Westley in The Princess Bride. He is memorable for his catchword: “Inconceivable!” Now, he’ll be joining the ranks of the Upper East Side as the father of Serena’s new beau, Aaron (guest star John Patrick Amedori).

There aren’t a whole lot of details about how Wallace Shawn’s arc will play out yet, but I have read the entire Gossip Girl book series so I do know that he’ll be playing a man named Cyrus Rose, a wealthy Jewish real estate tycoon. Approximately six months after he and Eleanor get married, Eleanor gives birth to a baby girl, whom Blair names Yale in honor of the college she most desires to attend. Blair is no fan of Cyrus because he is old and fat and has a taste for wearing the tackiest outfits. He has a son named Aaron, a hippie dippie vegan who smokes only herbal cigarettes, who does indeed have a relationship with book-verse Serena.

I hope that Gossip Girl the show will stick to its literary roots a bit with Shawn’s character. I would love to see him decked out in puce-colored suits and garish gold watches. I’m not sure whether the powers that be behind Gossip Girl will have him getting married to Eleanor, but that might be an interesting turn of events as well. That way, Eleanor and Lily van der Woodsen (Kelly Rutherford) can become the desperate housewives of the Upper East Side.

The next new episode of Gossip Girl, entitled “New Haven Can Wait,” will air on Monday, October 6, at 8pm on the CW.

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Dan who? There’s a new guy in town and Serena kissing him! The latest development on Gossip Girl is sure to have the entire Upper East Side buzzing. After all, Serena’s liplock with the mystery man was caught on a JumboTron in Times Square.

Here’s the scoop: John Patrick Amedori is set to appear in four episodes of the scandalous CW show (the first airs Oct. 27) as Aaron Rose, a new beau for Blake Lively’s Serena van der Woodsen. The Maryland native, 21, talked to PEOPLE about his new role, kissing Blake (he’s friends with her real-life boyfriend Penn Badgley!) and being in the middle of the the paparazzi-fan swirl called Gossip Girl.

Tell us about your character, Aaron Rose.
He’s definitely a part of that Upper East Side [world]. I think he’s got a lot of money. But he chooses not to be around that. He probably lives on the Lower East Side or in Greenwich Village.

How does he get involved with Serena?
He has an art show at Dan’s father’s gallery. Serena goes to see Dan. He takes notice of her and remembers her from camp. She doesn’t remember him at first. That’s pretty much how they start talking.

There are pictures of you kissing Blake Lively in Times Square with everyone watching. What was that like?
It was crazy. At first, I think Blake and me were nervous. When I walk in front of the camera, I kind of just block everything out and it’s just Blake and me doing the scene. [Then] you realize our faces are as large as possible on this JumboTron and then reality sets in. Read full article.

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IT’S bound to get tongues wagging!
Gossip Girl Blake Lively – who plays Serena van der Woodsen in the CW drama – was spotted locking lips with her character’s new love interest while filming the show in New York’s Times Square.

Gorgeous Blake got up close and personal with the scruffy-haired mystery man, played by actor John Patrick Amedori.

That’s not going to go down too well with Serena’s other man Dan, played by Penn Badgley.

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The Gossip Boys are on the cover of this months Details magazine. To read more on the interview click on the cover below:

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Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester has said she thinks her unconventional start to life has helped her be less judgemental as an adult.

Leighton’s mum Connie was pregnant with the now 22 year old actress when she was sent to a federal prison in Texas on drug smuggling charges. Leighton was born in a halfway house and raised by another relative while her mum and dad Doug, who was also involved in the marijuana transporting operation, served their sentences.

Leighton told Us Weekly: “[Starting out like that] makes me very nonjudgmental and open-minded. And I think it just makes me appreciate the things that I have now.”

She added that her mum, who was released after serving 16 months of a 10 year sentence, is now “always there for me no matter what. I swear, that woman knows everything.”

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