Entertainment Weekly's Michael Ausiello just confirmed that Hilary Duff will be joining Gossip Girl for a multi-episode arc beginning October 5.
The former tween star and pop singer will play "Olivia Burke, a movie star who enrolls at NYU in search of a traditional college experience."
Well, if there's one thing she won't be getting with the crew on
Gossip Girl, it's "traditional."
Quips Ausiello, "She ends up rooming with Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) so it's safe to say she'll be majoring in Drama!"
He also reports that Gossip Girl producers approached Duff about the role after learning that NBC had passed on her comedy pilot,
Barely Legal.
The show just
started filming for the fall, and it looks like Season 3 will be CW-star-studded indeed, what with
Privileged star Joanna Garcia also joining the ranks of Manhattan's college elite.
Excited to see Hilary on the Upper East Side?
-Meghan Carlson, BuddyTV Staff Writer[Source:
EW]
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