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In her break out role as Dorota, Blair Waldorf's loyal maid and confidante on Gossip Girl, actress Zuzanna Szadkowski becomes the center of attention as she walks down the aisle to get married on an episode airing tonight (9 p.m. EST) on the CW.
"I'm the luckiest person in the world," Szadkowski tells PEOPLE on the set of Gossip Girl about her ever-expanding role, which originally had no lines when she started. "It's been a huge blessing and it's very exciting and fun to be part of the show."
Szadkowski, 31, a graduate from the Institute for Advanced Theater Training at Harvard, relishes her gig on the soapy drama and says she's inspired her character. "She's very compassionate and very devoted," she says. "Sometimes I find myself a little bit disheartened or complaining in my own life and Dorota would really make most of the moment, so I try to be positive like her. I really look up to her."
Talk about good girl gone bad! It looks like the queen bee formerly known as Little J (Taylor Momsen) is making her move on Nate (Chace Crawford) to get at Serena (Blake Lively).
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Matthew Settle has no qualms admitting that his Gossip Girl character Rufus Humphrey and Kelly Rutherford's Lily van der Woodsen make the picture perfect couple on television.
"Yeah we do. We're good-looking," he tells PEOPLE at a Pampers with Dry Max launch event in New York. "I'm kidding. Kelly's beautiful -- and I just had my toupee redone, so I should look OK."
Jokes aside, are the Gossip Girl costars feeling pressure to spark an off camera romance?
"I don't know. I guess. I haven't heard anything from the fans that we should date, but I don't know," Rutherford tells PEOPLE.
The two have been leaning on each other since Settle's separation from his wife and throughout Rutherford's ongoing divorce."He's been really supportive," she says. "He's a great friend and I really appreciate that."
Adds Settle: "We're good friends. Kelly and I have a lot in common because we are supporting each other at this time in our lives."
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The wait is almost over for Gossip Girl fans!
The show returns to the CW March 8 (9 p.m. EST) -- and PEOPLE has an exclusive look from the set of the first new episode in weeks.
Executive producer Stephanie Savage reveals the story behind these two revealing photos (but beware of spoilers!):
"We last saw Nate sleeping on a chair in Serena's hospital room. Gossip Girl called Serena 'Sleeping Beauty' and referred to Nate as her 'prince.' Now we get to see this fairy tale for real -- Serena and Nate, the golden couple, finally together. It was the reveal of S and N's fateful coupling that night at the Shepherd wedding that set in motion the dynamics of our entire series, so it's a big deal to finally have these two pair up. Blake Lively and Chace Crawford have amazing on-screen chemistry. Their scenes are some of the most fun and sexy we have ever shot."
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Gossip Girl star Matthew Settle and his wife, Naama Nativ have split.
"It's true and we are working on that," Settle told PEOPLE at Tuesday's G-Star Raw runway fashion show in New York. "Things happen in life and you just have to roll with it. I wish things could have been better but our focus is on our daughter."
Meanwhile, a source confirmed to PEOPLE, "They have been separated for a while now," and legal proceedings are still underway and no divorce papers between Settle, 40, and Nativ, 26, have been filed yet.
The couple, who lived together in Manhattan, where Settle was based for his role as family patriarch on Gossip Girl, welcomed a daughter, Aven Angelica Settle, last March.
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After plenty of vague references and a mysterious letter, reps from the CW confirm to PEOPLE that actor William Baldwin will play Blake Lively's estranged father on Gossip Girl.
Baldwin, 46, will guest-star as William van der Woodsen beginning with an episode to air April 26. Manhattan's Upper East Siders (and audiences) will finally find out the reasons why he abandoned his two children, played by Lively and Connor Paolo.
"I'm very excited," Paolo told PEOPLE Wednesday on the set of Gossip Girl in New York City about working with his onscreen dad. "I have a great amount of love for all the Baldwins. We work closely with Mr. Alec Baldwin and the cast of 30 Rock at Silvercup Studios, so I'm very excited to get to work with another Baldwin."
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Singer Adam Lambert took to Twitter Thursday night to quash reports claiming he’ll soon be appearing on Glee: "Glee guest star rumor: it’s a rumor. Sorry guys,” he wrote. But the American Idol alum still is keen to take to the small screen. "If I had to pick a show to guest star on I'd loooooooove to be on True Blood. Or Weeds...Oh yeah. I'd love to be on Gossip Girl too! Leighton Meester is amazing. I should be Blair's shopping buddy. Hahah."
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Andrew McCarthy, the star of some of the most iconic teen movies of the '80s (Pretty in Pink, Less Than Zero), is getting back to his roots by taking on the CW's sexy drama, Gossip Girl.
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