Gossip Girl's Chuck Bass Has His Gay Kiss

Gossip Girl played its gay Chuck Bass kiss well last night.

Says the womanizing Bass (who apparently plays men as equally when it comes to being a cocktease): "Do you really think I've never kissed a guy before?"

Watch, AFTER THE JUMP...

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Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick takes his top off for the Winter/Spring issue of Arena Homme +. This was apparently shot before he acquired the massive amounts of ink on his arms.

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Ed Westwick Sports Some Major New Ink

Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick went out and got some big tattoos to celebrate his masculinity. One more (which, unfortunately, does not resemble Chace Crawford), AFTER THE JUMP...

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