● U2 and Jay-Z recording a song for Haiti that will so totally kick “We Are the World’s” ass. [BBC]
● Now instead of 'I Love You,' say 'Tweet Me' with your Valentine’s Day candy. Because that's better. [URLesque]
● Billy Baldwin has been cast on Gossip Girl as Serena’s erstwhile father. Stephen and Daniel continue looking for work. [E!]

According to a little bird that spoke to Nylon, Gossip Girl's Taylor Momsen is "shooting a campaign for a very big fashion brand today." And, the international brand that the actress and musician is playing muse to is none other than London's New Look. The choice isn't all that surprising given the brand has a thing for punk loving 'it' girls-cum-mannequins like Pixie Geldof, who designed a line and modeled it for the retailer back in 2008.

• Gossip Girl producers are apparently casting a new boyfriend for that character who looks like the younger brother of one of the Backstreet Boys. You know the one. [Digital Spy]
• How do you totally thwart a publicity stunt poorly disguised as a charity mission? Ask Lindsay Lohan. In one tweet, she's undone days (!) of hard work. [Telegraph]
• Holidays? More like Horror-days. Target's canceling Zhu Zhu Pet orders! [Consumerist]

Rumor has it Blake Lively -- the Gossip Girl star and former Vogue cover girl -- is extending her reach with regard to the fashion industry. Specifically, she may soon be playing muse to none other than Victoria Beckham. Whether it's the hair (which the New York Times claims is the new "Rachel") or maybe her unique style (she doesn't have a stylist and still has managed to land quite a bit of praise for her wardrobe choices), there's no doubt Lively's sartorial star is rising. As recently as October, Lively was seen sporting a VB design for SS10 on the red carpet; and, now, apparently Mrs. Beckham herself has taken notice.

Tonight on Gossip Girl, three turns out to be the loneliest number when the OM3 between Dan, Vanessa, and Lizzie McGuire turns out to be more complicated than their private parts originally expected. But let’s be honest -- we’ll go for the threesome, but we’re staying for the Gaga. On tonight’s episode, Leighton Meester’s Blair Waldorf continues in vain to impress her NYU classmates, this time by promising them a private Lady Gaga concert. The details of her guest appearance are cloudy at best: she wears a red gown with a 30-foot train. She performs her new single “Bad Romance.” She tells People, “It’s very performance art.”

Gossip Girl is a watchable program if you abandon the following luxuries: convincing actors, character development, plot construction, conflict resolution, and expectations of how children age 16-20 act in the real world. In fact, toss aside all those expectations and Gossip Girl is like The Wire: A gritty, true-to-life portrayal of a corrupt, sleazy city. A city where palms can be greased with hundred dollar bills and lives can be changed with the snap of well-manicured fingers. Where Polish maids can hold better tales than any of the pretty young things. Still, some of us are on a time-delay when it comes to GG and like the experience of watching the soap unsullied. So having the show's most critical reveal spoiled in a poorly written headline as we peruse the day's gossip is frustrating. Thanks a lot Tim Stack at Entertainment Weekly! Spoilers ahead, if you hadn't picked up on that yet.

Are threesomes the final taboo of network television? The CW sure seems to think so. Yesterday, The Wrap obtained a strongly worded letter from the Parents Television Council, who got all riled up over an upcoming episode of Gossip Girl in which three of the show's characters engage in an OM3. The PTC writes, “Television is profoundly influential in the lives of children, especially when it comes to sexual decision making -- it has even been described by one researcher as a 'sexual super-peer' -- signifying television's power to amplify, many times over, the peer-pressure teens are already feeling to engage in high-risk sexual behaviors." Maybe they're on to something.

Last week on Gossip Girl, many of the characters took a cue from the show's queen of manipulation, Blair Waldorf. Nate lied to Serena, Vanessa lied to Dan, Dan lied to Olivia, Olivia lied to Rufus and Lily. Most tragically of all, Blair lied to Chuck, her man and partner in crime. (She manipulated him into seducing a male NYU alum so she could give the freshman toast.) Last season of GG was dedicated to the tumultuous on and off, "I love you," "I don't love you." Every time Chuck changed his mind, Blair would cry, and I would too (a little). But this season promised to move past all that. They're finally in a committed relationship; we see Blair waking up in Chuck's bed while he strolls around in a silk robe. This is romance, people.

Maybe it's Chuck Bass' tortured histrionics (who could resist that pronounced pout!) or the chance to admonish Jenny Humphrey for her sartorial sins (such sloppy bangs!) More likely, it's The Hilary Duff Effect. That is, the trotting out of marquee-caliber guest stars the show has drawn (including Tyra Banks and Lady Gaga). But the social-climbery soap has ensnared a superstar, a feat her her former bandmates couldn't: Victoria Beckham.

As Dan Humphrey, Gossip Girl’s loveable leading man, Penn Badgley traipses through New York with a coterie of privileged prep-school coeds. But when the cameras aren’t rolling, the laid-back actor, star of this month’s thriller The Stepfather, prefers tacos and street trucks to STK.