Question: Please tell me the infamous video doesn’t sink Dan and Blair before they even get out of the harbor on Gossip Girl. That would be a lot of buildup with very little payoff. Say Dair isn’t DOA. –Leif
Ausiello: Dair is not DOA. In fact, they’ll be going strong long enough to encounter a brand new obstacle, one that is unrelated to (and potentially much more problematic than) the video. Guesses?! Hit the comments!

Question: What’s coming up for Serena on Gossip Girl? Hopefully something other than pining over D-Bag Humphrey! —@SB_Besties via Twitter
Ausiello: There’s something big brewing for S this spring, but it’s more professional than personal (though the latter will be impacted by the former, and vice versa).

Source: TV Line

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The CW and Warner Bros. have provided TV Fanatic an exclusive clip from Monday’s all-new Gossip Girl, and it’s a fun one. Blair shows up at Dan’s theater production of Inside, where and meets a familiar face.

Familiar to us, at least.

The Upright Citizens Brigade, a comedy-based New York City improvisational theater group, is performing excerpts from Dan’s book, which he’s apparently overseeing. One of the actresses? None other than Lola.

That’s the setting where B arrives, ostensibly to say hello to her “friend”, but clearly with other motives. Fawning over him awkwardly, she’s either smitten with Lonely Boy, looking to rub it in S’ face, or both.

Moments later, she unknowingly meets the real Charlotte Rhodes, Julliard student and aspiring actress, and promptly bashes her hideous headband and wardrobe, only to learn that Lola is playing Claire in Inside.

Ouch, B. Watch the sneak peek from “Cross Rhodes” and comment below!

I’ve added new filming photos of Leighton Meester goes behind the scenes of “Gossip Girl” Season 5 to the gallery.

I’ve added new filming photos of Leighton Meester onlocation of “Gossip Girl” on a rainy day in New York City on February 16, 2012.

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I have uploaded new promotional stills of Leighton Meester in “Gossip Girl” season 5×17, The Princess Dowry episode to the gallery.

BILLY BALDWIN (“WILLIAM VAN DER WOODSEN”) RETURNS/ANDREW MCCARTHY DIRECTS THE EPISODE — Blair (Leighton Meester) thinks Cyrus (Wallace Shawn, who does not appear in the episode) may have found a potential loophole in her prenup. Chuck (Ed Westwick) and Georgina (Michelle Trachtenberg) partner up in a scheme, but it has an unpredictable outcome.. Meanwhile, a family crisis brings William van der Woodsen (Baldwin) back to the Upper East Side. Blake Lively, Penn Badgley, Chace Crawford, Kaylee DeFer, Kelly Rutherford and Matthew Settle also star. Andrew McCarthy directed the episode written by Jake Coburn (##517).