'Gossip Girl': Kevin Zegers to play Taylor Momsen's love interest
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Hey, remember Jenny Humphrey, the blonde girl we only see in the promos for "Gossip Girl" when we aren't following the gang's college life?Well, Little J is finally going to get more screen time and she'll be heating it up with a romance, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Kevin Zegers will play Damien, Jenny's international love interest for a multiple-episode arc, and of course, he'll be a bad boy. Happy love stories don't happen often or they don't tend to last on "Gossip Girl."
We wonder if he'll play a much older guy as well. Zegers is 25 in real life, while Momsen is only 16. Yikes!
Regardless, we're just happy to get more on Jenny, who's been stuck back at Constance Billard while the others are seeking higher education and even greater social status.
Zegers is best known for starring opposite Felicity Huffman in "TransAmerica." He's also appeared in "The Jane Austen Book Club," "50 Dead Men Walking" and "The Narrows."
Rather coincidentally, he'll soon begin production on "The Story of Bonnie and Clyde," playing one half of the thieving due opposite Hilary Duff (Casting coup alert!), who gets her own guest arc on "Gossip Girl" starting Monday, Oct. 5. She'll play a former child star and Dan's (Penn Badgley) love interest, which is a relief from Georgina's (Michelle Trachtenberg) attentions. Or will she become territorial?
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I was just saying as I watched last night's episode that Jenny needs more screen time
Finally, something for the long-suffering Jenny. I'm excited about this.
I think it's kind of funny he's kind of Chace Crawford's doppleganger. LOL. I guess Jenny definitely has a type.
LOVED him in TransAmerica!!
Awww, I'm excited about a new love interest, but can't they find someone a little bit younger?? It really irks me. She's 16?!!! Didn't care too much for the Jenny and Nate hookup either because of this.
She had plenty of screen time last season (many would argue too much) and it's only been 3 episodes of this season so far. Loads of time left.
Also, the other actors (aside from Taylor) are getting up there in age and it's not common for actors to be the correct age for their parts. That said, the casting isn't surprising. What is unfortunate is that he'll be playing an "international bad boy"--something we've already seen.
J has had her storyline in only 2 or 3 out of the last 15 eps (i.e. since January). She just was important in a lot of the first half of last season.
Taylor Momsen is cool!
teendramawhore, do you just go from site to site, posting the exact same sour comments?
"the blonde girl we only see in the promos"
What, a few seconds every commercial break of every CW show where she's seen dressing like a whore and squatting like she's about to take a dump isn't enough for you people? Seriously, though, anything would be better than her last year storyline.