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Blake Lively and Penn Badgley. Leighton Meester and Ed Westwick. Both of the incredibly good-looking Gossip Girl couples both rock the cover Entertainment Weekly in alternate editions this week. Amazing PR for our favorite show.

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Entertainment Weekly's cover story this week deals with Gossip Girl rumors - most of which are untrue, but all of which are fun reading about. Follow the link for the full story, but here's the short version of the rumors ...

RUMOR: OMG! Not enough people are watching Gossip Girl and it's gonna be dunzo after this season.
REALITY: A world without Gossip Girl is about as unlikely as Blair Waldorf wearing body glitter.

RUMOR: Now that she's social anthrax at the Constance Billard School for Girls, Jenny Humphrey is leaving Gossip Girl for her very own spin-off series.
REALITY: Little J isn't going anywhere — except maybe to the local craft store for some sewing supplies.

RUMOR: Blake Lively and Leighton Meester totally hate each other and the set is a big hot mess of backstabbing and hookups.
REALITY: While we've never seen the leading ladies braid each other's hair, the set is hardly rife with tension.

RUMOR: This year Gossip Girl will be a smorgasbord of raunchy sex, male prostitution, and lots of rich people doing very bad things.
REALITY: Um... actually, that's true.

Two words: Awe. Some. Gossip Girl stars Leighton Meester and Blake Lively have agreed to guest star on NBC's 30 Rock in November!

If you haven't seen that show before, we highly recommend it - and with the Gossip Girl gals set to appear, you're totally out of excuses.

According to EW's Michael Ausiello, the dynamic duo will play former high school classmates of Liz Lemon's (Tina Fey) in a flashback sequence that reveals an ironic truth about morally superior Liz: She was a Mean Girl!

The Gossip Girl-inspired flashback coincides with Liz Lemon's 20-year high school reunion, which means we're also going to meet the adult versions of the characters portrayed in the flashbacks by Meester and Lively.

Oh, and get this - 30 Rock is talking to none other than Blake's older sister, Robyn Lively, 36, about playing the latter part! Hilarious!

Gossip Girl actress Leighton Meester looked absolutely amazing in a black Fendi dress at the Season Five premiere of HBO's Entourage at the Ziegfeld Theater in New York City on Wednesday. Check her out (it's not hard) ...

Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester is as fashionable as Blair Waldorf!

Nastia Liukin, the Olympic all-around gymnastics gold medalist, is seizing the moment. In addition to many lucrative endorsement deals and business opportunities, she's even lined up a cameo on Gossip Girl this season!

No word on whether Nastia Liukin will be playing herself or acting in some capacity, but this awesome athlete will certainly fit in with the gorgeous cast of Gossip Girl, which has become TV's hottest drama. She rocks.

Good afternoon, Upper East Siders (or Upper East Side watchers). Fresh from our early viewing of "Never Been Marcused," the Gossip Girl Insider staff has posted quotes and pictures from Monday's all-new episode.

Follow the links for a full list of pictures and Gossip Girl quotes from the episode!

For now, below are a few to get you excited for Monday (it's another good one, trust us). We'll have our official episode recap up soon ...

Marcus: No one's ever good enough. I've dated a lot of top-flight girls and she always sends them running. She gets inside their heads, figures out their worst fears and then ...
Chuck: ... ruthlessly exploits that fear. Sounds rough.

Blair: [sees Nate and Catherine on the floor] Oh my effing God!

Serena: Well, if you can't find common ground with a dictator, I don't know who can.
Blair: Dan likes soccer, right? Or football, as Marcus calls it? Think it would be too weird if he came?
Serena: Not... necessarily ...
Blair: Good, you'll call him?
Serena: Does this mean you actually think Dan has a redeeming quality?
Blair: As long as knows his arse from his Arsenal, I think he's aces.

Blair: [after being humiliated by Catherine] She made Waldorf rhyme with Spears! I may as well have gone commando and held my party at Nyla's Burger Basket.
Serena: Fine. While you stand here and feel sorry for yourself and denigrate the fine people of Kentwood, I'm gonna go find Dan.

Gossip Girl: What's this? Chuck's date and Blair's date are mother and son? And Nate and Blair are exes? And Nate and the mother are in a book club? Now there's a novel plot twist.

Blair: This party's a complete bust. My whole life's a bust.

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Below is a promo for next Monday's episode, "Never Been Marcused." It looks like another good Gossip Girl on tap - with somewhat of a shocker in store for us regarding the identity of both Marcus and Catherine. Check it out ...

Interesting! Follow the jump for another "Never Been Marcused" promo. It's a little shorter, basically the 20-second version instead of 30.

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Some brief Gossip Girl rumors (including what would have been a major one deunked) and news courtesy of TV Guide ...

Q: What does Season 2 have in store for Gossip Girl's Jenny and Chuck? I heard they might get together.
A: In the name of American Apparel, bite your tongue! Jenny Humphrey will be too busy toiling away at a dress form anyway, as Season 2 fleshes out her fashion-related ambitions, which may or may not include Blair's mom. The Basshole, on the other hand, will avenge the loss of the Victrola — that "classy" burlesque club in which he wanted his dad to invest — by turning his sights on an equally seedy Brooklyn venue, and with help from a very surprising ally.

Serena van der Woodsen would approve.

Smiling ear-to-ear and looking as beautiful as ever, Gossip Girl star Blake Lively gets her shopping fix (in the form of Chanel) while out and about Tuesday at the label's Saks Fifth Avenue boutique in New York City ...

Blake Lively pictures always brighten our day.