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"Well, those Chuck and Blair fans will be feeling pretty pleased with themselves after this week&amp;#039;s episode of Gossip Girl, right? Things are starting to turn against Louis - who&amp;#039;s become a right meanie - and Chuck&amp;#039;s now all sweetness and light. Oh, and as if that wasn&amp;#039;t enough, Gossip Girl&amp;#039;s being sabotaged! Serena&amp;#039;s preparing for Blair&amp;#039;s bridal shower - goodie bags agogo - but there are two glaring omissions from the guest list: Chuck and Dan. Dan&amp;#039;s upset as it is considering his book&amp;#039;s shot off the bestseller list - he&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Banished Boy&amp;quot; now. The best thing to do? Spend the day with Chuck, wallowing in their own misery together. Chuck&amp;#039;s not convinced at first, but after seeing a photo of Blair and Louis in the paper, he agrees. Bizarrely, they end up eating canap\u00E9s, drinking (a lot), getting stoned and watching The Matrix. Chuck&amp;#039;s giving Dan advice, too - it&amp;#039;s his own fault, because he&amp;#039;s defined himself as an outsider. He needs to stop the &amp;quot;neurotic navel-gazing&amp;quot; and become more of a man of action. In fact, he&amp;#039;s arranged two lovely women to help Dan... While that&amp;#039;s all happening, he takes Monkey out for a walk. Of course. Elsewhere, Louis is back from his trip and apologising profusely to Blair. Still, it&amp;#039;s not long before they&amp;#039;re fighting again. He&amp;#039;s not sure Blair&amp;#039;s friends have her best interests at heart and thinks she should distance herself from them. And when Gossip Girl has a blast about Blair&amp;#039;s paternity test he suggests it&amp;#039;s from a friend of hers. Blair thinks it&amp;#039;s from Beatrice, and says her friends will always have her back. It&amp;#039;s all a bit tense. The thing is, Blair starts to wonder if Louis might just be right. After all, under Serena&amp;#039;s instructions, everyone&amp;#039;s feeding her false information about the bridal shower to keep her off the scent. Greek food? Jeans allowed? An evite? Before long, Blair&amp;#039;s pretty sure her friends don&amp;#039;t know her at all - she hardly even wants to go to the shower.  Meanwhile, Nate&amp;#039;s grandfather William - who&amp;#039;s scheming with Diana - turns up at the Spectator to praise his grandson. Diana&amp;#039;s shocked to see him there, and pulls him aside.  It turns out William&amp;#039;s not impressed that Diana&amp;#039;s stealing the spotlight - this whole plot was to raise Nate&amp;#039;s profile. In fact, William thinks Diana should step aside and give Nate the whole website - he&amp;#039;s a major investor and could sack her. He gives her three days to put her plan into action. Yikes! Diana tells Nate that she&amp;#039;ll be fired unless she finds some way to get more hits than Gossip Girl. Suddenly, though, Nate has a flash of inspiration and calls Eric. It turns out that Jonathan (remember him?) can hack into Gossip Girl and find every email she&amp;#039;s ever been sent. Nate compiles a searchable website (who knew Nate was a computer whizz?) but Serena begs him not to put it live. Serena points out that all of them will be hurt by the website - they&amp;#039;ve all sent stuff into Gossip Girl. Louis walks past and spots the website, by the way. But Nate agrees not to show Diana the site - unfortunately, Diana walks in at precisely that moment. Of course.  She&amp;#039;s keen to use the site, but Nate begs her not to and says it&amp;#039;s not even for selfish reasons - he has never sent a tip to Gossip Girl, and now he can prove it. Impressed, Diana agrees not to upload the information to the Spectator, but it&amp;#039;s too late - Louis does it for her! (I&amp;#039;m not sure how this is possible, but I&amp;#039;ll go with it.) Uh oh!  We&amp;#039;ll head back to that nightmare in a minute, but first let&amp;#039;s spend some time with Charlie/Ivy, who&amp;#039;s worried about Max showing up. On the phone, Carol refuses to let Charlie/Ivy leave New York - CeCe would cut off the trust fund - and threatens her. Nice. In fact, Max shows up at the Humphrey home brandishing a Gossip Girl printout and telling Lily he knows Charlie as Ivy. I&amp;#039;ll say one thing for Charlie/Ivy - she&amp;#039;s a good liar. She claims her mother made her change her name so people didn&amp;#039;t prejudge her by the Rhodes surname (seriously.) Everyone falls for it - Lily&amp;#039;s falling over herself to be nice and Max suggests they give their relationship another chance. What&amp;#039;s more, Charlie/Ivy offers to give him $50,000 to help him start a restaurant. Bit generous, eh?  The only thing is, when Max leaves Lily shows him a family portrait - and Charlie/Ivy&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;mother&amp;quot; Carol. The suspicion wheel begins spinning again and he goes to dig through some of Charlie/Ivy&amp;#039;s old stuff. In fact, he finds the programme from a play - starring both the real Charlie and Ivy. Uh oh... Bridal shower time! Blair is thrilled when she discovers that Serena&amp;#039;s actually thrown a beautiful, classy Tiffany&amp;#039;s party - complete with a diamond ring for one lucky female guest who opens the right box. Serena gives a beautiful speech - but it&amp;#039;s kind of overshadowed by the release of Gossip Girl&amp;#039;s sources. Nate insists he has nothing to do with it - must be Diana!  As if that wasn&amp;#039;t enough, Dan&amp;#039;s drunkenly decided it would be a good idea to go to the shower. Chuck is in pursuit - Louis is annoyed he&amp;#039;s there, but is mollified when Chuck explains he&amp;#039;s trying to stop drunk Dan. He almost manages it, but Dan brilliantly slides away to confront Blair about why he wasn&amp;#039;t invited.  Blair gets Louis to chuck out Dan and Chuck, and then confronts Serena - did she upload the site? Serena insists she didn&amp;#039;t - it must have been Diana. Only she, Nate and Louis saw it. Blair&amp;#039;s face as she realises it was Louis is superb. You go, Leighton Meester.  She goes to confront Louis, who admits that he was trying to show Blair what her friends were like. But Blair says he didn&amp;#039;t have to spoil the shower - oh, and she now has proof that Beatrice sent the paternity test blast. She realises that she and Louis are in a cycle of fighting and tells him to leave - she needs to think about the future of their relationship. Gosh.  Meanwhile, the Chuck-Dan bromance (which I want to call Duck, please) continues. Chuck even sits next to Dan on some steps outside to comfort him - he knows Dan is in love with Blair (despite Dan&amp;#039;s protests). But Blair chose Louis - at least this time Dan has someone outside with him. So ridiculously cute. Elsewhere, Diana wants to abandon the war against Gossip Girl and start a war with William now that she knows Nate is a good guy. But Nate shows up, still believing Diana released the Gossip Girl sources.  Diana claims she invited William to the office to ask if he would invest in the site and William agrees - if Diana hands in her resignation. Diana agrees to do just that, basically so Nate doesn&amp;#039;t find out that she&amp;#039;d been working for William. Nate&amp;#039;s handed the job as editor in chief (just ridiculous), while Diana issues William a warning - if Nate finds out the truth about her, he&amp;#039;ll find out the truth about William, too.  Meanwhile, Charlie/Ivy won the diamond ring at the shower (COINCIDENCE ALERT), but Max shows up to confront her - he knows she&amp;#039;s not the real Charlie. Desperately, Charlie/Ivy says she can still get him money and hands over the ring as a down payment. Max disappoints me by taking the money and turning evil. No, Max! You&amp;#039;re supposed to be a good one! In fact, he goes to see Serena to apologise for standing her up and ask for another chance. She agrees, telling him to use it wisely. &amp;quot;I plan to,&amp;quot; Max says - DUM DUM DUM. Then he calls Charlie/Ivy to say he&amp;#039;s going to stay in New York and wants some spending money - how about $500,000? Oh, Max. You&amp;#039;re making me sad. Meanwhile, Blair&amp;#039;s drowning her sorrows with ridiculously-coloured cake and Serena. She says she always knew Serena didn&amp;#039;t post the sources - it&amp;#039;s just that Louis put all those ideas in her head. She doesn&amp;#039;t know what to do about Louis - I don&amp;#039;t like seeing sad-Blair. But when Serena reveals that Chuck actually came to do her a favour, her whole face changes in shock. She goes to see Chuck, who tells her she shouldn&amp;#039;t be there. &amp;quot;I know,&amp;quot; she replies. &amp;quot;But I had to come. You&amp;#039;ve really been good this whole time, haven&amp;#039;t you?&amp;quot; OH MY GOD. You can&amp;#039;t leave us there in suspense! Oh wait, yes you can. XOXO... Gossip Girl   A Chuck and Monkey spinoff continues to get better and better in my mind. Especially Monkey&amp;#039;s apparent ability to scare off annoying teenage girls while remaining the cutest, least threatening dog in the world (if he is really trained to &amp;quot;go after fake Prada&amp;quot;, even better).  &amp;quot;I learned early on - never watch A Clockwork Orange when you&amp;#039;re stoned.&amp;quot; Sound advice.  &amp;quot;Just give me a hint as to the size of the gathering and the level of formality so I don&amp;#039;t show up overly fabulous, if there is such a thing.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Excuse me - I&amp;#039;ve got to go kill myself, or max out my credit card. Whichever comes first.&amp;quot;  Elizabeth Hurley saying &amp;quot;ass&amp;quot; was bizarre.  Enjoyed the scene with Dan babbling drunkenly in the lift. One of the male guests&amp;#039; faces was spectacular. &amp;quot;Must be friends of the groom.&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;You&amp;#039;ve all said more scandalous things than John Galliano.&amp;quot;  The Dan-Chuck bromance (Duck!) is ridiculously cute. I particularly enjoyed Chuck putting a drunken Dan on the sofa. Bless.  By the way, if anyone wants to throw me a Tiffany&amp;#039;s party, you are more than welcome. What did you think of the episode? Leave your comments below! "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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