From the Post: "Newly single Chace Crawford isn't mourning the loss of his ex-girlfriend, Carrie Underwood. The 'Gossip Girl' heartthrob was all over town last weekend, drinking and flirting with gaggles of gals. On Saturday night, Crawford sat 'between two beautiful brunettes' at La Zarza in the East Village until 1 a.m. 'flirting and taking shots of Patron.' Then on Sunday, Crawford and his co-stars Penn Badgley and Ed Westwick had a boys' night at Stanton Social on the Lower East Side. Our spies there saw Crawford sipping blood orange margaritas and befriending his waitress."

As the days and months stumble on, it's hard to remember that long ago and faraway time when Gossip Girl, a television show about feelings, wasn't a part of our lives. Luckily for us, Us Weekly, a magazine about the daily sadnesses of not being rich and famous, has provided a photo album retrospective of our favorite bitchy, unfortunately acting Manhattan teens. So go look, and try to remember the kind of September, in 2003, when you didn't know who Chace Crawford was. Album is here, and the absolute best photo of the bunch is after the jump.

As readers have reminded us, Chace Crawford likes to work out at the Chelsea Equinox, and the gays and girls all swoon. A tipster has sent the additional details that the Gossip Girl star also shows up "almost every early evening during prime cruising hours" and often hangs out in the steam room. Proof of nothing, of course, and certainly very far from confirmation of the rumors that Crawford is gay. But someone made an "m4m" Craigslist "missed connections" post that sounds a lot like it's from Chace, but probably only because it's supposed to sound like it's from Chace.

Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester was spotted having dinner with a "hot male companion" at Lunetta on Broadway, according to Page Six. That's true, as far as it goes, but the report in the Post gossip column left out a few key facts: first, the actress' companion, Chris Rovzar, was a New York reporter working on the magazine cover story on the buzzed-about CW show; the delicate Rovzar, who used to date Patrick Healy of the New York Times, is gay, transparently gay; and the item was phoned in by a publicist for the show, as Rovzar revealed in the article.

Poor Chace Crawford. The Gossip Girl actor has been dragged through the rumor mill by his beautiful floppy hair of late, mostly because certain bloggers have accused him of having boy sex with JC Chasez. Now, he might actually be gay, or he may just be a pretty straight man. Either way, the rumors have firmly affixed themselves on his public persona, like a pink sparkly remora fish, and weak statements about what he looks for in a girl will not shake them off. So what's a possible breeder to do? Well, follow the lead of a Sex and the City character, of course.

• Rob Lowe sued two former nannies and a former chef after saying one nanny tried to extort $1.5 million from him. The nanny basically accused the movie and TV star of hitting on her, while Lowe denied it and said the nanny was stalky. The second nanny supposedly plotted to spread lies of some sort about Lowe and his wife. The chef allegedly stole drugs from the medicine cabinet and had sex in Lowe's bed. You know, there may be a remote possibility that Lowe is a poor judge of character. [People]

Chace Crawford, who may be a gay man who dates gay men, recently broke-up with his "girlfriend," Cracker Barrel waitress Carrie Underwood. Via text message. "Hold on Lance, let me use my Sidekick to send a quick text to Carrs. I can't see her anymore. She always smells like country ham n' grits. It's totes hilars. And disgusts. Wait, that's actually a word." [Us]

Emailed stalker sighting of Gossip Girl star: "Chase Crawford, Working out at Chelsea Equinox around 7:45PM tonight. When he walked in, collective gasp from all the girls (by 'girls' i mean gays and girls). He was dressed like a Cobra Kai, but less 80s and more smoldering."

On the soon-returning (falls over in odd mix of joy and misery) Gossip Girl, Jenny Humphrey will have a new love interest. From a different school. The young chippy will take up with a character played by Jesse Swenson (pictured, click for larger), an actor previously seen playing that gay kid in your English class. The character will attend a rival (lots of slapping wars and maid kidnapping!) tony New York City prep school, which will cause some trouble for rising social bee Jenny. No word yet on whether Chace Crawford has humped him silly yet, but we'll let you know as soon as we picture it in our heads. [NYP] Photo via INF

The Gossip Girl star kept a low profile waiting to meet with a mysterious friend in New York City. Crawford was reported to be humming the choruses of popular *NSYNC songs while killing time. After a half hour or so, Crawford had grown visibly impatient and decided to leave. Crawford told one of the photogs that if you're not going to be able to meet up for coffee, then you should at least hit somebody up on their beeper, so they can rearrange their life accordingly. Geez!

Oh poor JC Chasez. The complete nobody who has never done anything noteworthy except sing back-up for Justin Timberlake, says that the gay rumors, about him and Gossip Girl queen Chace Crawford, are "annoying". Leave him alone! He's allowed to have friends! Who he takes to Elton John parties and for poolside cabana romps! Being called gay is annoying! Though, JC, I'm curious as to what's more annoying: silly gay rumors (that you deal with obnoxiously), or dejectedly waiting in line at a Burbank unemployment office?

• Is 30 Rock the new Saturday Night Live? Tina Fey, SNL alum and 30 Rock creator, is talking about bringing onto the show that whore chick Ashley Dupre and also that less-insane-by-the-day singer Britney Spears. Alec Baldwin and Tracy Morgan don't bring enough crazy to the party? Really?

As rumors that JC Chasez and Gossip Girl star Chace Crawford are doing the naked pretzel reach a fever pitch—certainly prodded along by our own high-level informant's eyewitness account of the two sharing a poolside cabana at the Roosevelt—the second-most-talented NSYNC member called into Kiss FM 104.7 today to deny, deny, deny. (It happens about mid-way through this audio.) The Hollyscoop girls helpfully transcribed the exchange, which we excerpt below:

Chace Crawford, the Gossip Girl star so pretty that one bat of his lashes is enough to instantly knock crowds of his tweenage fanbase clear unconscious, has been linked quite a bit lately to former NSYNC member JC Chasez. Not even a suspiciously timed and worded Page Six item describing the actor as being "surrounded by women" seemed to quell the rumors regarding these frequent bunk buddies. Now, via cameraphone-equipped operative, we bring you this latest addition to the Defamer Citizen Paparazzi files. It's an eyewitness account of what Chase and J.C. (can we just give them a celebrity couple's name already? Chésee it is!) were up to over this unseasonably warm L.A. weekend:

Chace Crawford, the chiseled young actor who plays Nate on Gossip Girl, is, reportedly, moving in with former NSYNC boy band member (and current stupid dance show judge) JC Chasez. O ho! So either they're lovers (which is the scuttlebutt) or the pair just wants to save a little money on rent or something, what with this ever troubling economy and all. Maybe they're just each other's chick chasing "wingman" or whatever; an idea put forth, with convenient timing, by Page Six today. Our theory: "is he or isn't he" gay speculation is one of the cornerstones of success for a show like Gossip Girl, which will never openly court the gays, but always make winking nods in their direction. This is all just the CW manipulating their product and continually tweaking their floppy haired sex robot's hardwiring. Oh, and poor JC? Well, he's just grateful that people know he's alive. [Queerty] After the jump, Crawford talking about kissing girls.

[Mogul Richard Branson with Gossip Girls Leighton Meester and Chace Crawford at the opening of a Virgin Mega Store in Toronto today; image via Splash]

[Another Gossip Girl cast member, Chace Crawford, at the Prada store in SoHo last night, attending a Fashion Week party; image via Splash]