This is the first of a few posts where I’ll be adding additional HQ’s to the gallery.

Arriving At Valentino Show - January 23 +19

Arriving at JFK Airport - August 02, 2008 + +7

Arriving at LAX Airport - August 02, 2008 +15

Filming Gossip Girl - June 26, 2008 +28

Filming Gossip Girl - July 15, 2008 +71

Filming Gossip Girl - July 28, 2008 +4

If you’re one of those people who think my job is all about attending fancy parties and going on cool business trips, then this week’s episode of Ausiello TV is for you!

This past weekend I journeyed out to the Hamptons to attend Gossip Girl’s second-season premiere bash, and, I won’t lie, it was as much fun as it sounds. Maybe more. But that’s not to say I didn’t work. All you have to do is push play on the embedded video player below to see that I worked my tail off grilling the cast about the show’s highly anticipated return on Sept. 1. Among the burning questions I got answers to:

* What was really going through the minds of Blake Lively and Leighton Meester when they were beating each other to a pulp on set last week?

* Does Chance Crawford realize just how freakishly handsome he is?
* Is Gossip Girl going there with Rufus and (yikes!) Vanessa?
* Does GG’s success prove once and for all that Penn Badgley show-killin’ days are behind him?
* Did I adequately adhere to the party’s strict “Hamptons chic” dress code?

Click here to watch the video

Thanks to Mich for the info.

Did Blake Lively and Leighton Meester have to do much acting for their buzzed/blogged-about fight scene in an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl?

The two are rumored to be less than friendly in real life, so maybe their characters’ on-camera catfight, complete with hair pulling, wasn’t too much of a stretch.

“Blake was coming at me and I was scared,” Leighton told E! News at the show’s second-season premiere party held in the Hamptons.

But for Blake, the scene was more funny than frightening. “We were laughing so hard…it was 1a.m. and it was rainy out,” she dished. “We were ad-libbing.”

We so believe you on that one, B.

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Daily Intel’s love of Gossip Girl, the most awesomely awesome show ever, is nothing if not devotional, and this weekend we trekked all the way to (horrors!) Bridgehampton for the show’s season-two launch party, hosted by Vitaminwater. Chace Crawford, Leighton Meester, and Penn Badgley, we’re happy to report, are still as flawless as ever (though Chace was wearing so much bronzer we were initially worried he’d just walked through a dust storm). Ed Westwick, on the other hand, seems to have realized he’s now famous enough that he can stop feigning humility. (The reporter in us found his one-word answers infuriating; the female in us found the bad-boy ‘tude more than a little hot.)

And then, of course, there’s Blake Lively. Blake, Blake, Blake. We really want to like the girl for the sake of Penn, whom she’s dating and whose taste we imagine to be impeccable…

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With a huge thanks to the always amazing Criss from JC Source. I’ve added 45 HQ’s and 35 MQ’s of Blake filming yesterday.

Filming Gossip Girl - August 18, 2008 +45 HQ + 35 MQ

“Extra” is in New York’s summer playground with the elite teens of the Upper East Side — the cast of “Gossip Girl!” The cast of the hit CW show is sounding off on rumors that season two is too racy — and dishes on the real-life romance that’s heating up off-screen!

Beauties Leighton Meester and Taylor Momsen blast the reports that the show — centered around Manhattan’s rich and scandalous — may be too risqué for teens. “I think if they have their parents’ permission they should watch it,” says Leighton. Taylor adds, “It’s a role, it’s a show, it’s everyone’s guilty pleasure.”

Co-stars Blake Lively and Penn Badgely may have broken up in the world of “Gossip Girl,” but recent pix of the twosome looking very cozy prove they are anything but over! Blake played coy when asked about the budding romance, saying only, “I’ll tell you about Dan and Serena.” Penn was more forthcoming when asked about dating a co-star, saying, “Yeah that’s true. It’s overwhelmingly good.”

Get ready to be pulled back into the Upper East Side drama when “Gossip Girl” premieres September 1.

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I’ve just added 6 new MQ candids:

Blake Lively at the TV Set of Gossip Girl in Columbia University +6

Lots of new pretty pictures have been added to the gallery:

Filming Gossip Girl - August 14, 2008 +65

CW Network’s Premiere Party - 2nd season of Gossip Girl +20

I’ve also added a new scan from OK! (it’s really old actually, from some months ago).