Just a few years after ditching journalism to become an actor, Gossip Girl hunk Chace Crawford is an object of fan adulation and big-time tabloid speculation.

The hunk graces the cover the new issue of VMan magazine. See below ...

“I never planned on being an actor,” says Chace Crawford.

“It sort of fell into my lap rather quickly.”

This may be the understatement of the year.

Crawford is, of course, one of the stars of Gossip Girl, the CW’s frothy nighttime soap about dirty, sexy, moneyed New York City teenagers. Since its debut last fall, the show has become an instant cultural flashpoint, adored by fansites, obsessed over by the tabloids, and even chewed over in a New York magazine cover story.

On TV, the 23-year-old actor is every parent’s nightmare (one of the taglines the CW uses to promote Gossip Girl) but in real life, he's every agent’s fantasy.

Follow the link to read Chace's complete interview with V Man ...

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