
There was a story we didn’t run about the OC’s Mischa Barton (who, keeping with the theme of the week, we posted naked pictures of) was circling a multi-episode part in the CW’s new minor soap-serial hit, Gossip Girl.
Gossip Girl is the based on books, which would make you think it’s semi-literate. The show, however, is about a whole bunch of spoiled Manhattanites around the teenage period who generally stab each other in the back socially.
We have friends who swear by it, and those friends are the kind of folks who are usually reading the New Yorker or trying to score tickets to the Pitchfork Music Festival. Regardless, there might be something to this particular serial, just something we haven’t discovered yet.
And we might have to start watching.
Writes the Hollywood Reporter:
Michelle Trachtenberg has snagged a multiepisode arc on the CW’s buzzworthy freshman drama “Gossip Girl.”
Trachtenberg will play Georgina Sparks, a character who appears in the novels on which the series is based. Georgina rolls into Manhattan from rehab, shaking up and torturing the life of Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively).
Mischa Barton was rumored to have been up for the role.
The arc will air for the May sweep.
Michelle Trachtenberg, people! We’ve loved her since we were into Harriet the Spy (she was too young, but so were we)!
The bad and ugly of this whole story is that Barton had been using the press of her “offered” role to bolster her public appearance since her DUI in December.
This will, no doubt, create some friction between the CW marketing folks and Barton, who has zero concept that the OC made and broke her, and she might as well just go away.
Yes. We are pro Trachtenberg, anti Barton. And pro Fritos, while anti-Lays. We are picky.
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