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Guess where one of the characters from Gossip Girl will be interning next season? W. WWD reports: "In a memo to staffers last week, managing editor Regan Solmo explained that the prime-time soap’s writers have penned W into an upcoming story arc that calls for an unnamed character to intern at the magazine. The episodes (there will be six to eight of them, according to the e-mail) won’t begin to air until the end of January, but the “Gossip Girl” crew was in the W office at 1166 Sixth Avenue on Monday for a one-day shoot. Set dressers stepped in on Friday to help ready the site for its close-up. Among other measures taken to help the office properly radiate its magazine-ness, the crew stocked empty bookshelves and added art to hallway walls. Staffers who chose to could serve as paid extras during the shoot, though producers asked those who were game not to wear all white, all black or “crazy stripes." [WWD]