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OMFG! "Gossip Girl" season 2 premieres September 1 (8 pm, CW) and we are so excited. The New York drama following a clutch of privileged Upper East Siders captivated us last year, which is why it survived our TV Premiere series to become a regular feature here on Jaunted.

We've been tracking the cast all summer, which is how we know the premiere episode takes place in the Hamptons. That's also where the season 2 premiere party took place last week at EMM Group's The Estate in Bridgehampton, where on-screen frenemies Blake Lively and Leighton Meester were happy to pose for photos. We weren't at the bash--guess our invites were lost in the mail!--but we're suspecting that with VitaminWater as a sponsor, there wasn't a lot of tippling.

Other leaked locations for Season 2 include Brooklyn Heights and Columbia University, as the gang attends high school and goes on college visits, with Columbia in this case standing in for Blair's first choice of Yale.

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Spotted: E. in a strange outfit looking rather... dramatic.

Filming for the second season of "Gossip Girl" has already started around New York, but at least one cast member is still living his alternate, non-Upper East Sider life. Through August 24, Connor Paolo, who plays Serena's brother Eric, is appearing in the Strain Theatre's production of "7 Stories," the tale of a man captivated by the inhabitants of a building he has chosen from which to commit suicide.

We caught the show this weekend, and we'll give Paolo this: The dual roles he takes in the play--as a British husband-to-be with a surprising secret and an energetic trend-watcher--are nothing like his turn as the recently out and step-brothered Van der Woodsen. After the show, he wasn't whisked away in a limo, but instead hoofed it down Bond Street with some friends. When was the last time a Waldorf walked anywhere?

The second season of "Gossip Girl" premieres September 1. You could go somewhere besides Jaunted for "GG" news and recaps, but why would you? You know you love us...

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Did we attend the "Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" premiere at the Ziegfeld Theatre in New York solely to catch a glimpse of Blake Lively and Penn Badgley? Well, we were hopeful! Their on-screen romance as Serena and Dan may be over, but Lively and Badgley are rumored to be more in love than ever when they're out of character. Lacking a "Gossip Girl" shooting schedule, we figured any boyfriend worth his salt would catch his girlfriend starring as the sporty one out of four best friends.

We were not disappointed! As Lively came up the aisle just before the movie started, Badgley stood in the middle of the orchestra section and watched her approach. He gallantly crawled over a whole row of seats clutching his popcorn to give her a kiss. The cheap seats squealed. And far be it from us to be homewreckers, but may we just say: The cheekbones are real, and they are spectacular!

We didn't see much of the red-carpet trawling, but Lively's costars Leighton Meester, Chace Crawford, Matthew Settle and Ed Westwick all showed up for the flick, whose prequel was made when "Gossip Girl" was still a book series and which was shot the July before the series premiere. Badgley was missing from the red-carpet photos, though, which suggests he snuck in to save Lively a good seat instead.

"Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" opens August 6, and if you liked the first one, you'll like this one.

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Ed Westwick recently got caught rocking some serious argyle on the Hamptons set of "Gossip Girl," currently shooting its second season.

While the shorty-shorts Westwick has been sporting in his off hours put off more than one of us, his fans can take comfort that the Brit will be hanging around New York for much of the summer as filming continues.

Catch Ed's band The Filthy Youth at Santos Party House, the new New York club co-owned by musician Andrew W. K. tomorrow.

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We spotted E getting cozy with his TV mom and Little J at the ballet, and now The CW Source reports the "Gossip Girl" cast is taking on more movie projects than their characters take expensive vacations.

Blake Lively has been filming in Connecticut with Robin Wright Penn, but on screen she's in Greece with her three best friends in "The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2" (out in August).

Matthew Settle, who plays her ex's dad, Rufus, is in Austin, Texas playing a bad ex-boyfriend to Joey Lauren Adams in the comedy "The Ex-Terminators."

And mysterious Chuck (Ed Westwick) is filming the dreaded sequel to "Donnie Darko," "S. Darko," in an undisclosed location. Hey, let's go look for him in our seersucker blimp! Martinis for everyone!

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You can tell that Connor "Eric Van Der Woodsen" Paolo and Kelly "Lily Bass" Rutherford aren't mother and son in real life, because he just doesn't look sheepish enough about accompanying her to the Step UP Women's Network Inspiration Awards in Beverly Hills this weekend. (Unexpected bonus: No awkward family dinners where your sister's friend tells Mom you're gay!)

Rutherford was being honored for her work with the charity, which funds women's health programs and professional development for underprivileged girls. So how is Eric spending his summer vacation? Well, given that he attends the Professional Performing Arts high school in Manhattan along with "GG" costar Taylor Momsen, maybe he deserves a break from studying and working. (The school counts Claire Danes and Alicia Keys among its alums.)

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Her character may have given up on being the queen bee of Constance Billard, but Taylor Momsen of "Gossip Girl" looked more glamorous than her 14 years at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on Monday night.

"Gossip Girl" may have ended its first season on Monday, but the cast-chasing will continue all summer long: We're just too used to tipping off our readers of the cast's whereabouts! You know you love us.

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