Jean Park / 11th Harvard-Westlake School
The drama series "Gossip Girl" has been on many Californians' Monday schedules. The unidentified "Gossip Girl" who sends pieces of gossip to the students in the show is a vital character that holds the "juice of the show." Very popular with teenagers Gossip Girl has officially made its way into Harvard-Westlake School.
During her fourth period history class Tess Hatch feels her Blackberry buzz once then twice. As the teacher turns around to examine his PowerPoint Hatch unlocks her phone and reads the message that was sent to her. Mimicking a typical character in the Gossip Girl series who receives a message from the anonymous blogger Hatch reads the message in shock and whispers "Oh my God."
Class was dismissed and Hatch's classmates gather around her phone to read the message. It read "taken strait from the email: AS broke up with AK but no one knew because she begged him to stay with her.. has he cheated on her?"
The gossip is centered on the Senior class at Harvard-Westlake but students of all grades have sent their Twitter request to follow her "tweets." The Twitter page imitates the opening narration of each show as it proclaims that it is "your one and only source into the scandalous lives of H Dub's Elite."
Reaching almost 200 followers on her Twitter page students and even teachers are slowly becoming aware of this new phenomenon that is taking over the student body. The Chronicle which is the school's newspaper has even scrambled over getting more information about this new "Gossip Girl" to write an article about it.
The new gossip girl is steadily grasping the attention of the entire student body and although no one has yet claimed the accuracy of her gossip students are nevertheless intrigued and like Hatch many students have her updated "tweets" sent to their phones. Her last "tweet" as of October 9th reads "And that's a wrap. Happy almost Friday upper east siders. Tomorrow's just the start of a gossip worthy weekend. Xoxo Gossip Girl."