Taylor Momsen, who plays social climber Jenny Humphrey on Gossip Girl, has quickly becoming the breakout star of the CW show, according to the New York Observer. While her co-stars Chace Crawford and Blake Lively have their share of fans, the Observer says that Momsen’s portrayal of the manipulative Jenny Humphrey saved the show from an early death.

In the book series the show is based off of, Jenny is a “busty, curly-haired” social outcast “who is constantly getting trampled on.” But producers decided early on to take her character in a different direction.

“We wanted a character that in this journey of trying to fit in at school might actually succeed in her goal and even triumph over the other girls at some point,” said show writer Stephanie Savage.

So far Jenny has triumphed, briefly dethroning queen bee Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) in the middle of season one, and while she fell out of the in crowd, next season (which starts September 1) will bring some new drama for her.

Savage, who is the driving force behind the character, calls Jenny the new Eve Harrington, the scheming character from 1950’s movie All About Eve who inserts herself into Broadway star Margo Channing’s life and destroys Channing in the process.

Says Savage: “With Jenny, there’s that sense of a very intelligent, observant young girl looking around and going, ‘You know, I’m not as rich as these girls, and I don’t have that leg up because of my family, but I’m just as pretty and I think that I’m smarter, so if I play my cards right, I can win this game.’” –Emmet Sullivan

Tell us: Is Jenny the most compelling character on GG? Is Taylor Momsen the It Girl of the show?

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Since we are such awkwardly rabid fans of Gossip Girl, today’s Observer profile of Taylor Momsen doesn’t teach us much that we didn’t already know. It’s mostly a recap of the role that her character, Jenny, plays on the show. But we did appreciate this little tidbit about Lil J’s ten-foot-long legs (it’s true, we’ve seen them in person, they account for at least two-thirds of her body mass):

Her legs are epic, long and stretching out from here to forever — and, she pointed out, covered with nicks and cuts. “They take up most of my body, and I’m not used to coordinating them,” she said. (She did, in fact, later trip on the sidewalk, and she still seemed embarrassed when she told the story of her grand entrance her first day on the Gossip Girl set when she wiped out before she could even say her name.)

“Covered with nicks and cuts”? We don’t buy the “clumsy” cover-up — this is clearly a plot point. After last season’s dizzying highs and terrifying lows, it was inevitable that the Gossip Girl writers would have Jenny venture into that most patrician of teen girl practices: self-harm.

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I just added candids of Taylor and her mom. They make quite a pair

And a bunch more from yesterday’s shooting.

// Taylor and her mother Collette go for a stroll in Brooklyn x22 HQs
// Taylor Momsen films a scene for Gossip Girl in Brooklyn Heights x67 HQs

I just added a bunch of candids from today’s filming of Gossip Girl.

// Taylor Momsen films a scene for Gossip Girl in Brooklyn Heights x36 HQs

Tomorrow I’ll be adding HQ candids of Taylor and her mom strolling through Brooklyn.

I have added a picture from Taylor’s newest photoshoot (Thanks Michelle Moon for sent me it). Enjoy, Taylor is so gorgeous!

• Edit: More 14 pictures added!

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I just added 4 stills from the season 2 premiere of Gossip Girls.

// 2.01: Summer Kind of Wonderful + 4 HQs

Confession - I can tell you the plot of every Gilmore Girls episode before we even get to the credits, and it’s a good thing too, because I am always misplacing the episode guide in my DVD boxed sets with that handy chronological recap. For once my geekdom makes life a little easier.

However, for once Gilmore Girls is not the point, despite that opener there. Coming in two weeks - a TV season on DVD where the DVD menu itself includes plot recaps of each episode right next to the play function for each one! I tell you it’s a breakthrough in guilty pleasure engineering that will go unequaled in the annals of pop culture history.

Not to belittle the newer CW hit Gossip Girls, which is the series so well recapped in its DVD menu - first season out August 19th, just in time for the premiere of season 2. Well, maybe a little. Serena (Blake Lively) and Blair (Leighton Meester) are no Lorelai and Rory (Gilmore Girls title characters) - not even close.

But I’ll admit, along with the amazing DVD menu, the actual episodes are much better than their basic premise - a bunch of spoiled brat rich/troubled prep school kids work out their angst in the nightclubs and penthouses of Manhattan’s Upper East Side, all watched over by the elusive and snarky Gossip Girl. It all sounds very Mean Girls goes big city, picking up shades of daytime soaps on the way. However, if you ignore the fact that these are supposed to be high school kids (apparently if you have that much money you can pay all symptoms of puberty to stay away…or have an actor in their 20s play you on TV), you might actually catch yourself enjoying parts of the show.

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Our talented friend Guilherme made this amazing theme for the gallery! also we just want to thank you Gui for all of your support and friendship. Click here to skip to the gallery - Visit Guilherme’s livejournal - iphoenix (Livejournal Icons).

I just added a few more pics to the previous 2 albums and added a whole new set from August 6

// Taylor Momsen on set in Chinatown x14 HQs
// Taylor on set x32 HQs
// Taylor Momsen on set x12 HQs

I added 6 more pics to last night’s album and another set with 10 pics from the same day. Everything in HQ

// Set 1
// Set 2