Ed Westwick’s scheming character Chuck Bass to lock lips with a guy this season on “Gossip Girl”

Since the actual gay character on Gossip Girl doesn’t seem to be getting much action, I guess they gotta give the same-sex action to somebody!

In this case, the somebody Ed Westwick’s legendary lothario character of Chuck Bass who kisses another man. Entertainment Weekly’s Michael Ausiello reports exclusively: Westwick’s “romantic” interest is up-and-comer Neal Bledsoe(CSI: NY, Guiding Light), who’s guest-starring in episode 6 as Josh Ellis, NYU’s head of freshman affairs. Since Josh is tasked with selecting an incoming student for the honor of delivering the freshman speech, he’s, shall we say, a person of interest to Blair. In fact, she’s so determined to snag the slot that she goes so far as to pimp out her boyfriend to the gay guy in charge .

We’d rather see Ed kiss his former real-life roommate Chace Crawford (pictured below with Ed and co-star Penn Badgley) but we’ll take what we can get! Now how about some romance for actual gay character Eric van der Woodsen (Connor Paolo)?