HOLLYWOOD, Calif. — Having been propelled to fame overnight thanks to their hit CW series "Gossip Girl," Chace Crawford, Penn Badgley and Ed Westwick have plenty to be thankful for. Well, almost everything.
In a Details magazine interview, Crawford admits it's not always pretty out there in the real world.
"Model turned actor, dime a dozen, eye candy, doesn't know what he's doing ... and Perez Hilton says I have 'gayface,' " says the 23-year-old of the cards stacked against him. "So on top of everything else, I have to overcome gayface."
Crawford has heard all the rumors, including the ones that suggest that he and Westwick, who share a pad in New York's Chelsea neighborhood, are more than just co-stars and roommates.
"No, sorry, I've got nothing to educate you about," Crawford says of the gay rumors."What does 'bromance' even mean?"
"I thought, 'Let's pool our money and get something good,'" he reasons of the living situation. "I didn't even know if the show was going to last."
For his part, the now single Westwick doesn't plan to sit inside their shared home and hide from the paparazzi.
"I've never had a problem making friends," the 21-year-old U.K. native tells the magazine. "Put me in a bar and I'll make friends straightaway. And I'm at my most impressionable age. I need to meet new people, and soak up everything like a sponge."
Perhaps Badgley faces the toughest challenge with the tabloids, since he's dating co-star Blake Lively.
"You have to draw the line somewhere," he says of keeping his relationship with the blonde beauty, whom he's known since childhood, private. "I'm fine talking about my family and personal history, because it humanizes you. But I have to save some s*** for me."
While he describes Crawford as "one of the most positive guys I've ever met," the 21-year-old Badgley confesses people tend to misjudge him at first glance.
"People who don't know me that well often think I'm a bit of an a**hole and take myself too seriously," he says.
Whether it's his "positive" outlook or simply his looks, Crawford says there's no shortage of female fans, which is not always a good thing.
"Once when we were on location on the Upper East Side," he shares, "these girls came up, you know, with the Blair headbands and their skirts hiked up higher than they should be, and I said to them, 'So, are you looking at colleges?' and they said, 'No, we're in seventh grade.' I was like, 'What?! You shouldn't even be watching our show!' "
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