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Blake Lively, Penn Badgely, and the Mystery RSVP

Who could be doing this terrible thing to us, Dan?” “I don’t know, Serena. I’ll have to investigate.”Photo: Getty Images, istockphoto


Something is rotten in the state of Gossip Girl! After Blake Lively and Penn Badgely didn’t show up for the Kick It to Malaria! soccer tournament Tuesday, Daily News gossip sleuths Rush and Molloy did some investigating and found that the stars didn’t deprive the 300 children of their glimpse of golden greatness on purpose or even because Blake was having a bad hair day — they are the victims of sabotage by a mystery RSVPer. “Blake is never allowed to be RSVPed for events during the week because she’s filming for Gossip Girl,” her rep tells the Daily News. “She would never lend her name if she wasn’t able to attend. There’s something fishy going on.” Our stars! We called former U.N. ambassador Richard Holbrooke at Malaria No More to see if he knew who left the RSVP, but strangely, he didn’t answer.

Could it be that:

• Leighton Meester did it to make her alleged rival look like a heartless diva who hates children.
•It is part of an elaborate plot concocted by Jenny Humphrey so that she may take over Constance Billard.

Or!
• Blake’s publicist lying about something.

Gosh, we have no idea. Meanwhile, Star mulls another Gossip Girl mystery: Did Blake Lively get a boob job? “She probably taped something like a silicon insert inside her bra,” says Michael Salzhauer, M.D. Well, at least that’s solved.

Side Dish: ‘Gossip’ duo’s RSVP mystery [NYDN]

Blake Lively, Penn Badgely, and the Mystery RSVP