As Gossip Girl ends, fan Sarah Hughes assesses the star potential of its cast

Jody and Simon Blake have spent the past couple of months showing off their twins, Reuben and Floren, to friends – and delighting in the looks of bemusement that greet them. Because while Reuben went back to school yesterday, his sister, Floren, will have to wait until 2017. The children were born five years apart, but technically they are twins because they were born from the same batch of embryos.

Liverpool's would-be slebs may be dull, but a film on wealth creation exposes a truly odious world

Taylor Momsen has quit acting.

Starring: Ryan Reynolds, Blake Lively

Gossip Girl made Blake Lively a star, and now the actress has made the show's location her home. She tells Kaleem Aftab about her new turn as a big-screen super-villain

Justin Bieber has been included on TIME magazine's annual 100 most influential people list.

Blake Lively has been named the world's most desirable woman.

We're off to market to see Diana Dors and getting an Edinburgh tour from Ian Rankin

Once your books have become a cultural phenomenon, what do you do next? If you're Cecily von Ziegesar, author of the Gossip Girl franchise, the answer is – leave high school behind and graduate to college. Nor is that the only thing she's graduating to. Von Ziegesar's newest novel, Cum Laude, is being marketed not to a teen audience, but to adults.

Golden Globe nominee Robin Wright Penn and Gossip Girl’s Blake Lively head an all-star cast including, Alan Arkin, Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder and Julianne Moore, in The Private Lives of Pippa Lee, available on DVD for the first time from 2 November.

World's best-known doll is coming to the big screen. But who can fill her shoes?

This sequel is just so 2006, despite its funny moments – and 'Borat' did it so much better

Blake Lively has graced the cover of American 'Vogue' and been voted one of America's 'most beautiful people'. In her new film, she acts alongside Keanu Reeves. So why does she still regard herself as shy? Gaynor Flynn meets a low-key star