Gossip Guys Share Some Details!

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The hunks of the CW's megahit show Gossip Girl sat down with Details to chat about their lives, their work and their relationships with one another. Chace Crawford is a humble guy who "wasn't having sex with any cougars," before he made the transition from college student to model to actor, while Ed Westwick and Penn Badgley both seem to show a bit of a naughty streak. Chace and Ed live together, and Penn seems to spend most of his time with his offscreen (and sometimes onscreen) lady love Blake Lively. It appears as though none of the actors had any idea that the teen drama would propel them to superstardom, or to making out with A-listers like Drew Barrymore!

Chace on his teenybopper fans:

"Once when we were on location on the Upper East Side, these girls came up, you know, with the Blair headbands and their skirts hiked up higher than they should be, and I said to them, 'So, are you looking at colleges?' and they said, 'No, we're in seventh grade.' I was like, 'What?! You shouldn't even be watching our show!'"

Chace on his character, Nate Archibald:

"Sometimes you just want to have a scene where you're drunk or having fun. I'm hoping for a fall from grace for Nate. Five years from now, I better have murdered someone!"

Penn on Chace (and himself):

"Chace is one of the most positive guys I've ever met, and you can see that in the way he walks around. I'm also like that - but you can't see it...People who don't know me that well often think I'm a bit of an asshole and take myself too seriously."

Penn on his relationship with co-star Blake Lively:

"[It's] wonderful and also something to grapple with [but] you have to draw the line somewhere. I'm fine talking about my family and personal history, because it humanizes you. But I have to save some sh*t for me."

Ed on Penn's chest hair (he was required to shave it for his role as Dan):

"Penn said he has to shave his chest hair because it's threatening? Reeeaallly...Well, I think Penn's chest hair may be more like a [scarf]. It actually comes out of his neck! So maybe that's why he has to cut it. Threatening? I don't know what threatening hair would look like. We'd have to get Penn here to see!"