Here’s Mike Ausiello’s coverage on whether Mischa Barton will really join Gossip Girl, at the moment it’s not looking good, but it would definitely been an amazing addition!
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UPDATE: US Weekly is reporting that Barton has turned down the role. Checking with my sources to see if that’s true. Please stand by…
Their ears didn’t deceive them: Those whispers that Gawker.com overheard about Mischa Barton being approached for a part on Gossip Girl, I can now report, are 100 percent true. What isn’t 100 percent is whether or not a deal will be struck for her to play the recurring role of Georgina Sparks, a scheme queen who brings Serena’s checkered past screaming into her present.
Guess if ever there was an ax to grind between Gossip monger Josh Schwartz, who killed Barton off of The O.C., and the starlet, that hatchet was buried along with the nubile body of Marissa Cooper. So what do you think, peeps? Will Barton fit in with the Girls? Or would the show be better off looking at a lesser-known actress? — Additional reporting by Ben Katner
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