Hairspray star Brittany Snow has been cast to play teenage Lily Van Der Woodsen on an upcoming spinoff of The CW's popular teen drama Gossip Girl.
The new show will chronicle Lily's young adulthood in 1980s Los Angeles.
"Brittany is thrilled," a friend of the actress reveals in the March 9 edition of Star. "She loves the original show and thinks the 1980's concept sets the spin-off apart from other series