Tyra Banks to star in Gossip Girl

Supermodel Tyra Banks will play a self obsessed actress in a special cameo for the superhit TV series “Gossip Girl”. The model-turned TV show host will play a larger-than life-actress Ursula Nyquist, who gives a tough time to the show’s protagonist Serena, when she is assigned to help her during a movie premiere.

The supermodel who has graced the covers of magazines like “Vogue” and “Vanity Fair” was reportedly thrilled to be a part of the series which is touted as the successor of the cult series “Sex and the City”, albeit with a younger cast.

The series revolves around the lives of four young socialites in the city of New York.

The third season of “Gossip Girl” will be a star studded event with singer-actress Hilary Duff also roped in for a cameo.

Duff will play the role of Olivia Burke, a famous movie star who wants a normal college experience.

Joanna Garcia in ‘Gossip Girl’

‘Privileged’ star Joanna Garcia is all set to return to the CW with a recurring role on ‘Gossip Girl.’

She will play Bree Buckley, an evil Miss America-type blonde from a conservative Southern family but is politically progressive. Her story line is yet to be disclosed but it is expected that she will have to fling with a regular on the show.

Garcia had played Megan Smith, a Yale graduate-turned-private-tutor for spoiled teen heiresses in ‘Privileged’ which ran during the 2008/09 season on the CW. In 2001, Garcia had starred on the big screen in American Pie 2. Garcia had also starred in ‘spoof’ as a high school cheerleader.