With her dark hair and piercing hazel eyes, the Gossip Girl beauty is often asked, “What are you exactly?” While guesses range from Puerto Rican to Brazilian, for the record the Wisconsin native, 25, says with a laugh, “I’m Hungarian and a quarter Black, so I’m a mutt.”

Word is in and looks like we’ll be seeing Vanessa Abrams for another season as The CW Network has officially renewed Gossip Girl for another season making this their 4th season.

This just in: As my handy Bubble Show Scorecard correctly predicted, The CW has extended early renewals to Supernatural, Gossip Girl, 90210, The Vampire Diaries, and America’s Next Top Model.

Where would you like to see Jessica’s character Vanessa go plot wise? Share your thoughts

source: ausiello files

[MOVIE WEB] The Los Angeles Times is reporting that The Weinstein Company is delaying the premiere of Alexandre Aja’s Piranha 3D, moving the action thriller from April 16 to sometime in August at the earliest:

Weinstein Co. said it was relocating Piranha 3D, one of its more highly anticipated releases, to get out of the way of Lionsgate’s movie Kick-Ass, which also opens that weekend and may appeal to the same young demographics.

Piranha 3D stars Elisabeth Shue, Adam Scott, Ving Rhames, Richard Dreyfuss, Christopher Lloyd, Dina Meyer, Brooklynn Proulx, Quinn Lord, Riley Steele, Jessica Szohr, Jerry O’Connell, Cody Longo and Ricardo Chavira.

This is from AusielloFiles of EW.com. ABOUT TIME!

P.S. On-Set candids will be coming of Ms. Szohr!

Spotted: Thousands of unemployed actresses who look like Jessica Szohr (only 20 years older) racing to the Gossip Girl casting offices. Why? They’re introducing Vanessa’s mom! The deets…

Gabriela Abrams: An African-American female in her early 40s. She’s Vanessa’s attractive, warm, outgoing mother. Recurring potential.

Wooooo! Now if we can only see big sis Ruby as well!

Michael Ausiello of Entertainment Weekly has reported in his Ausiellofiles blog that Hillary Duff has joined the cast in a multi-episode arc! She joins ecently announced Joanna Garcia (of the now cancelled Privileged).

Is the Upper East Side big enough for Serena, Blair and the Duffster?! We’re about to find out because the onetime tween sensation is joining Gossip Girl for a multi-episode arc, sources confirm to me exclusively.

The actress-designer-pop chanteuse will play Olivia Burke, a movie star who enrolls at NYU in search of a traditional college experience. She ends up rooming with Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) so it’s safe to say she’ll be majoring in Drama!

Duff will debut in this season’s fourth episode, slated to air Oct. 5.

Gossip producers spotted an opening in Duff’s schedule after NBC passed on her comedy pilot Barely Legal.

What say you, Gossip gurus? Do you approve of Duff’s casting? Thoughts on who she’ll be paired with romantically? (My guess: Dan.)

People.com gives you the mini rundown of the event.

Saturday night Ed Westwick gathered a bunch of pals – including Gossip Girl costar Blake Lively and girlfriend Jessica Szhor, who flew in just to surprise him – for a 22nd birthday bash at New York’s Lucky Strike Lanes & Lounge.

“Ed and Jessica were close and cuddly all night,” says a guest. “Everyone was friendly, having a lot of fun and were in good spirits.”

Birthday cake consisted of cupcakes with “HB ED” on top of each: red velvet, cookie dough, M&Ms, peanut butter, sprinkles, cookies & cream, with a single candle in the center cupcake for the birthday boy.

“Everyone sang ‘Happy Birthday,’ ” says the source. “Ed thanked everyone for coming and kissed Jessica – they were adorable.” For recreation, “Everyone bowled casually throughout the night- no one really finished a game.”

The stylish party rocked out to Kings of Leon and Notorious B.I.G. among other tunes and sipped on cucumber martinis or Amstel Light and Bud Light. Blake and Jessica, however, stuck to water. [People]

As per People.com

• Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr, enjoying a romantic dinner date at Koi in West Hollywood. The couple entertained friends from their corner booth on the patio, and got especially cozy with each other. For dinner? Sushi, of course! And the two got a sweet start to their day, stopping at Sunset Plaza’s Buttercake Bakery for coffee and chocolate and vanilla cupcakes.

Jessica’s IMDb page has been updated with the film Walks and an ETA release for 2010. I wrote about this movie awhile back which will star Brittany Snow, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Rumer Willis, and Ryan Eggold (among others). Jessica is attached to the film as rumored. So it may not be as set in stone as we were told in the article beforehand. We hope that changes and shooting begins sometime this year to allow for the rellease next year.

Also, Jessica’s character in Piranha is Kelly! If you visited the gallery lately you will see that I added some candids of Jessica on the set and walking around with Ed & Friends. She looks beautiful! Let’s hope we see more!

I also have more scansto upload for you all.

Plus, THANK YOU from the bottom of my heart we have a new record in the gallery – 36 people! Ha you guys are going to rival my other sites!