Gossip Girl's Ed Westwick share a gay kiss with a male co-star in the new series, according to reports.

Westwick's character Chuck Bass is understood to passionately embrace a newcomer to the programme named Josh Ellis, a NYU freshman.

According to the New York Daily News, Ellis, played by Neal Bledose, meets Bass via his girlfriend Blair Waldorf.

Ed Westwick filming the third series of Gossip Girl in New York.

The third series of Gossip Girl is currently being filming at various locations across New York.

It is set to begin on CTV later this month.

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