E! Online has some scoop on Hilary Duff's visit to Gossip Girl, the response to which can best be described as mixed from the comments we have read on our site since the move was announced. Here's the latest on that touchy subject and lots more ...

Q: So excited Gossip Girl is back in production! What can you tell us?!

A: Sorry, Hilary Duff haters, but Duff joins the Gossip Girl cast as Olivia, and she'll be getting her movie star cooties on the entire cast, not just Vanessa and Dan.

Also on Gossip Girl this season, Chuck and Blair are totally getting married and having a million babies. OK, not that, but they are staying tight. Yay!

And, believe it or not, the show really is trending away from "Dan and Serena are the one true pairing of Gossip Girl." Certainly, that arc might turn back sometime in the future, but for now the show is trying to establish their separate identities, apart from their on-again, off-again shenanigans.

Is that great news or the worst thing you've ever heard?

Q: Are we actually going to see Serena's dad on the third season of Gossip Girl?

A: It is decidedly so. We will finally meet Serena's dad this season on Gossip Girl.

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