Happy Tuesday!

Sorry for the light posting and late start today. I am knee deep in my own version of Potty Training Boot Camp with Sam, my 3-year old. I'm bribing the child with a "Potty Basket," which is basically a huge basket I've filled with candy, Hot Wheels cars, Silly Putty, sunglasses and other random trinkets. Everytime he goes potty he gets something from the Potty Basket. And in an effort to get my older son to encourage Sam to go potty, everytime Sam goes, Jake also gets something from the Potty Basket. Only one accident yesterday - but it was a bad one. Ugh. I hate potty training. Honestly, it's the worst part about being a parent so far. So, I'm having a hard time focusing on gossip because literally every 30 minutes a timer goes off in my house and I'm asking, "Sammy, do you have to go potty? Are you sure? Let's just sit on the potty...." This week my life sucks.

Did you see Gossip Girl last night? How are you feeling about Chuck & Vanessa and Blair & Nate? I don't feel any chemistry between Blair and Nate - but I dunno, there's something very sweet about the coupling. But holy hormones, Chuck and V!! I totally don't buy a romance between the two characters - but they have great chemistry! I'm a Chuck-lover, tho....to me I think he could be boinking Dorota and it would be h-o-t.


Excited for American Idol tonight! I can't access my usual source to find out what this week's theme is. Anyone know? Tell me!

xoxo
Nikki

Taylor & Chace Smoochin'

I've been talking about them for awhile now - Taylor Momsen and Chace Crawford. It skeeves me because no matter how much black eyeliner she wears she STILL looks 15. And he still might be gay.

EVERYONE in the cast of "Gossip Girl" is hooking up with each other - and Chace Crawford and Taylor Momsen are at the center of the latest smooching session. A Page Six spy spotted the co-stars sneak away during their holiday party at Haven on East 51st Street to steal kisses in the corner, but Crawford's rep denies it. We reported last week Ed Westwick and Jessica Szohr were kissing in an airport, and original "GG" couple Blake Lively and Penn Badgley are still going strong.
(Source: Page Six)

Lindsay Lohan Crushing On Crawford?

As much as I have liked the LiLo/Sam Ronson pairing, it's probably just about run its course, right? Lindsay is what? 21? My guess is that time's up. Alot of other people think it's up. What does Chace Crawford think? My advice to Chace - your career would do better to be with Ed Westwick than LiLo.

Lindsay Lohan has a crush on Chace Crawford - and has been bombarding him with provocative text messages, according to British tabloid reports.

Although the Mean Girls star is said to be dating club DJ Samantha Ronson, Lohan has apparently taken quite a shine to Gossip Girl star Chace, 23.

A source tells the Daily Mirror newspaper, "Lindsay took a real shine to Chace and was pretty much throwing herself at him all night.

"She was standing in such a way that some part of her body was always touching him – at one point hip to hip.

"She was also giving him the filthiest looks, whispering in his ear, and turning everything he said into an innuendo.

"Everyone on the set of Gossip Girl has been teasing him mercilessly as Lindsay has been calling him three or four times a day and sending provocative text messages. Although she may just be having a laugh and not have any serious amorous intentions, everyone reckons Sam will go mad when she finds out.

"As a result Chace has been advised to stay well away from Lindsay and give the couple a very wide berth."

(Source: Showbiz Spy)

Hot New Couple: Drew and Chuck Bass!

Oh, ok - Ed Westwick. Who cares if he's maybe gaybe (see Laineygossip.com). This coupling is HOT!

New couple alert!

Drew Barrymore and Gossip Girl star Ed Westwick were spotted "in a full-on make-out session" at a NYC concert for alt-rockers Kings of Leon Tuesday night.

Westwick's co-star Chace Crawford was also with them in the V.I.P. area at Webster Hall, but contrary to blog reports, he was not kissing Barrymore.

After the concert, Barrymore, 33, and Westwick, 21, took their PDA to Bowery Electric, according to New York's Daily Intel.

It is the second time in a week that Barrymore and Westwick locked lips, another source tells Us.

They were spotted chatting this past weekend at a Saturday Night Live after-party, which The Kings of Leon also played.

"Chemistry was there!" a witness tells Us of the two.

They then headed to NYC's hip Fat Cat Billiards, where they stayed until 6 a.m., shooting pool with Gossip Girl cast members (including Crawford), actress Ellen Page and Emile Hirsch.

"Drew was hanging all over Ed!" a witness tells Us, denying more reports that she had also smooched Crawford. "They were full-on making out!"

Adds the witness, "They were definitely all over each other. It was on!"

Crawford's Publicist Busy This Week

Damage control. Damage control. Damage control.

WOMEN obviously don't believe that Chace Crawford had an on-set romance with "Gossip Girl" co-star Ed Westwick - a rumor Crawford denies. At a recent birthday party for talent manager Eric Podwall at the Motley Bird Nest in LA, both Rumer Willis and Brittny Gastineau were competing for Crawford's attention. "Rumer had the shortest jean shorts on and walked in and immediately looked for him. She hugged him and kept dancing near him," said our spy. "He wouldn't give her the time of day. Brittny was also dying to meet him. She told him they should hang out in New York."

(Source: Page Six)

Gossip Guys: Boyfriends?

Ooooh! Did you hear about Chace Crawford and Ed Westwick? Bet JC Chasez is jealous!

Something fishy is going on!

We've been contacted by entertainment reporters - within days of each other - from the NY Post and the NY Daily News.

They both wanted to share a juicy piece of info - too juicy to print, they said.

Seems like on-set sources, which the pubs tell us are reliable, have told each paper that Chace Crawford and Gossip Girl co-star and real-life roommate Ed Westwick are in a relationship and not trying to hide it, at least on set.

BOTH NY papers tell us that Chace and Ed were recently seen kissing, open-mouthed on set (in Chace's trailer).

Very interesting!

The Post and Daily News both declined to publish this item because they don't like to "out" people.

Uh huh. We find that quite hypocritical, as both papers have had no problem talking about Lindsay Lohan's relationship with saMAN Ronson.

So….

Are Chace and Ed dating????

Well, it's either true or someone(s) is/are trying to spread rumors to both New York papers about the Gossip Girl co-stars.

We hope it's true - they'd be a hot couple!
(Source: Perezhilton.com)

New PR Stunt Alert: Chace Crawford & Michelle Trachtenberg

This is a PR stunt.

Chace Crawford is rebounding with the show's newest cast member, Michelle Trachtenberg. Our spies saw Crawford and Trachtenberg at SoHo hideout Upstairs "flirting heavily" early Saturday. Said the onlooker, "They were all over each other. She was drinking a beer and snuggling up to him." (Source: Page Six)

Carrie to Chace: Peace Out!

Carrie Underwood revealed to TV's Extra that she and Chace Crawford broke up via text.

"It was completely mutual…We're both fine…We broke up over text so…It's like 'peace out. It just didn't work…And we both knew it didn't work and no hard feelings at all whatsoever."

I wonder if it was mutual due to his fondess for JC Chasez and rumor also has it - nosey things, too.