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Vanessa (Jessica Szohr), hoping to finally win her mother Gabriela's (guest star Gina Torres) approval, desperately vies with Blair (Leighton Meester) for the honor of delivering the freshman toast at NYU, but at what price? Dan (Penn Badgley) invites Olivia (guest star Hilary Duff) to meet Rufus (Matthew Settle) and Lily (Kelly Rutherford), which leads to all sorts of problems for the new couple. Serena (Blake Lively) and Nate (Chace Crawford) team up to help Carter Baizen (guest star Sebastian Stan).

As the summer is drawing to a close, Blair and Chuck are madly in love and adjusting to their new "in a relationship" status, breaking all the traditional rules of dating as would be expected. Serena returns from her European adventure with many secrets to hide and a complicated relationship with Carter Baizen. Nate returns from his travels with a mysterious brunette, Bree Buckley (guest star JoAnna Garcia).

l can hardly believe that the start of the Fall TV season is just about one month away (if you consider the start of September the start of the Fall season...). While we've made individual posts about different network and show premiere dates, wouldn't it be easier if all of the premiere dates were listed in a single place?

Blair has the perfect boyfriend and intends to follow Yale. She seems to have the perfect life, arousing her rivals' envy. While everyone is taken up with studies, Blair's best friend, Serena van der Woodsen, unexpectedly returns to New York after a long absence while she supposedly attended a boarding school in Connecticut. Step by step, Serena goes into her routine having a strong impact on Blair's perfect life. After all, if you are wealthy, you're not necessarily free from trouble. Excepting the Upper East Side elite, the show also focuses on Brooklyn outsiders Dan, Jenny and Rufus Humphrey and their ties to the rich. Maybe they are incomparably happy with their simple life, bare of exuberance. But' 'You're nobody until you're talked about.'

The project will be directed by Jess Manafort, who directed Remember the Daze which starred both actresses in 2007. Amber Heard can be seen in the latest horror retread, The Stepfather, where she plays somebody who presumably gets stabbed. Possibly twice. This week, Gossip Girl taught us the joys of telling the truth and the value of taking a leap. We watched Lily and Rufus fall apart (again) and come together (again), saw Little J embrace her Queen-dom (with Blair's approval), and gasped as Georgina Sparks unleashed the love-child secret.