Connor Paolo

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If you look at Gossip Girl is a primetime soap, then Connor Paolo was well-trained for his role in it. The native New Yorker's early credits include roles on two daytime soaps—All My Children (he was nine at the time) and One Life to Live. Paulo has some serious film credits—he played the young Sean Penn in Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, and also had a role in Oliver Stone's World Trade Center. And—we're exhausted reporting all the accomplishments of his young life—he's got tons of stage credits, too, including one for the Broadway productions of The Full Monty. Though his character, Serena's troubled younger brother, Eric van der Woodsen, is still a high school student as the show enters Season 3, Paolo might have been the only actor to really live the GG life; he enrolled at NYU in the fall of 2008, but his busy schedule forced him to drop out. We're sure Blair, Dan, Vanessa and the other former Constance Billard–St. Jude's students enrolled at NYU will fill him in on what he's missing.

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The Revenge Cast Celebrates Ashley Madekwe's Birthday in Vegas (PHOTOS)

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ABC's hottest new stars banded together to celebrate the darling Ashley Madekwe's 30 birthday at LAVO in Vegas on Saturday. Gabriel Mann looks dapper in navy blue, Emily and Ashley show off high heels and long legs, and Nick Wechsler looks completely in character as Jack Porter.

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Is Eric Van Der Woodsen Gone From Gossip Girl For Good?

October 6 at 04:29PM EDT by Ashley Graham

Get used to life on the Upper East Side without the more lovable — and sane (relatively speaking) — member of the van der Woodsen clan! In an interview with E! Online, Connor Paolo, the artist formerly known as our dear Eric, talks about his new role on Revenge as Declan Porter... and how we probably won’t be seeing Eric on the streets of Manhattan (or Brooklyn, for that...

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Connor Paolo May Not Return to Gossip Girl

August 8, 2011 by Christopher Rosen

It looks like Eric van der Woodsen has seen the last of the Upper East Side. Speaking to the assembled journalists at the TCA press tour in Los Angeles over the weekend, Connor Paolo revealed that he won’t be able to appear on Gossip Girl next season due to commitments to his new show, Revenge.

"Eric's going to college and he's going to stay there," he said. "He's been trying to get out...

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Is Connor Paolo Leaving Gossip Girl for New ABC Show?

May 18, 2011 by Christopher Rosen

Perhaps this is why Connor Paolo (Eric) didnt want to become a regular on Gossip Girl. Paolo appears in a sneak peek clip from ABCs new series Revenge, in which he appears to play a somewhat major part... at least if that body hes standing over has anything to do with it.

The show, which stars Emily VanCamp (Brothers & Sisters) is about a young girl who comes back to the Hamptons to get...

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Connor Paolo is a Vampire Slayer in New Movie 'Stake Land'

April 25, 2011 by Semhar

This certainly isn't the timid Eric van der Woodsen we've come to know. Connor stars in this gruesome flick in which an "epidemic of vampirism strikes." In a search for safe ground, he encounters many a bloodsuckers that his group of stake-wielding travelers must take down. We must say, we are intrigued, even as struggle to keep our lunch down. Yeesh!

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