I found this article over at FameTastic.

Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively has revealed she’s got a bit of a thing for Chanel products.

She told OK magazine recently: “I love Chanel so much. It’s everything. It’s the epitome of what a lady should be. It’s class.”

“I have the shoes, the jewelry, it’s really a problem. They say it’s an addiction. Some people take drugs; I do stuff with Chanel.”

“The bags are [the biggest] problem. I just got one right before I came here. I just got this big, beautiful, leather clutch that says Chanel on it. It’s black. It’s actually written out Chanel instead of the CC, which you don’t see very often. That was really exciting.”

There sure must be a lot of mistletoe on the set of “Gossip Girl.”

We hear that toothsome twosome Blake Lively and Penn Badgley — whose uptown/downtown relationship keeps the hit show sizzling — have quietly started dating in real life.

“No one is really supposed to know that,” laughs an insider. “I was told by a friend of the family.”

The new tryst has meant Lively disentangling herself from her former boyfriend, and Burbank High School classmate, actor/model Kelly Blatz.

The co-stars were spotted shopping together Dec. 17 at ABC Carpet and Home on Broadway, looking every bit the couple.

Reps for the actors did not comment.

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Blake Lively says she’s not much like her Gossip Girl character, the socialite-in-training Serena van der Woodsen, except in one respect – she wants to be a good person amid all the drama of her situation.

“I think that I strive to do the right thing and not fall into the norm [like] so many young people in Hollywood who … get caught up in some of the nonsense,” the 20-year-old actress tells the Associated Press. “I really try to steer clear of that. So, you know, we’re like that in the same way.”

There may be a couple of other similarities, too. “We both giggle a lot. We look alike,” she adds.

Staying grounded is important now that Lively is beginning to get recognized on the streets – and not just by the stereotypical Gossip Girl demographic.

“One day these, like, thuggish guys were, like, coming out, rolling out of their Escalade, and they go – they’re like, ‘Man, that’s Gossip Girl!’ ” Lively says. “And they were, like, freaking out. It was so strange how many people would just get giddy over it. And it’s people that you would not expect at all.”

Some people even know her name, not just the character’s – “[everyone] from young girls, teenage girls, women in their 30s and 40s to, like, Guido-type guys, like frat boys.”

Still, though she’s quite becoming a star, Lively shares one particular passion with seemingly every other young person in America: She’s a “Guitar Hero” fanatic – so much so that the Gossip Girl writers had Serena play the video game on the show.

“The reason they wrote it in was because I’m such an amazing ‘Guitar Hero’ player,” Lively says. “I saw clips of it. It doesn’t really debut my skills so well, which I was very disappointed about.”