Here is the cast list and more details on the upcoming fall series Gossip Girl, in a CW press release.

The cast features:
Blake Lively (The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants)
Leighton Meester (Surface)
Connor Paolo (One Life to Live)
Chace Crawford (The Covenant)
Ed Westwick (Children of Men)
Penn Badgley (John Tucker Must Die)
Taylor Momsen (Spy Kids 2)
Kelly Rutherford (Melrose Place)
Sam Robards (The West Wing)
Matthew Settle (Brothers and Sisters),

The privileged prep school teens on Manhattan’s Upper East Side first learn that Serena Van Der Woodsen (Lively) is back in town the way they learn all the important news in their lives - from the blog of the all-knowing albeit ultra-secretive Gossip Girl. No one knows Gossip Girl’s identity, but everyone in this exclusive and complicated vicious circle relies on her text messages for the latest scoop. Serena’s closest friend, Blair (Meester), is just as surprised as everyone else to find that Serena has suddenly ended her self-imposed exile to boarding school and returned to Manhattan. The tension between Blair and Serena isn’t lost on Gossip Girl, who is determined to uncover and fuel any and all scandals. Does it involve Serena’s brother Eric (Paolo), Blair’s boyfriend Nate (Crawford) or Nate’s buddy Chuck (Westwick)? Maybe it has something to do with Dan (Badgley) and his sister Jenny (Momsen), whose middle-class background keeps them on the fringes of this exclusive clique. Even the parents - from Serena’s mother Lily (Rutherford), a former ballerina/rock-groupie, to Nate’s high-powered father Howie “The Captain” Archibald (Robards), to Dan and Jenny’s dad Rufus (Settle), a former rocker turned art gallery owner - are aware that their sons and daughters are constantly checking their Sidekicks to read Gossip Girl’s latest sightings and overheard tidbits. Overriding all the shifting friendships, jealousies and turmoil in this wealthy and complex world, the central mystery remains - Who Is Gossip Girl?

This spoiler posted on Thursday, May 31st, 2007 at 1:20 am.

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