At an after-party for a screening of Step Brothers on the roof of the Empire Hotel in New York City, Matthew Settle, who plays the handsome Brooklyn Dad on Gossip Girl, spoke a little bit about his character - and his TV kids.

"Well, Rufus is probably going to run into some trouble with his daughter," he told the New York Observer. "The show is about kids finding their identities, and who they are. She begins to find hers through her designing."

"Jenny is going to have to choose between her trade and her schooling, for which Rufus has sacrificed so much."

Matthew Settle (Rufus Humphrey) is a handsome fella.

As for his male offspring?

"Oh, Dan gets a mentor. Jay McInerney will play him," Matthew Settle said.

McInerney was coincidentally at the Beatrice last night one night earlier this spring, chatting up Gossip Girl creator, Josh Schwartz.

A reporter overheard the writer talking to Schwartz about the private school boys on the show, saying, "In my day, our ties were skinnier."

McInerney is also married to publishing heiress Anne Hearst, aunt of Lydia Hearst, who appeared in the Season One finale of Gossip Girl.

But back to Matthew Settle. How does the soft-spoken actor feel about being the "Hot Dad" on the hit teen drama?

"It's weird when people start calling me a DILF at all the wrong times," he said. "The producers are standing there and my wife is usually standing right beside me, but she's pretty cool about it."

So what about Serena and Dan, and Blair and Chuck? Will Vanessa and Nate be an item this season?

That, he says, we'll have to wait and see about.

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